Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1937, Page 10

@he Foening Stat Spofls A—10 WASHI TON, Nats’ Failure at Bat Puzzles : Indiana Sparkles at Penn Meet STRONG ONPAPER, CLUB MISSES FIRE Attack Nets Only 21 Hits/| in 3 Games—A’s Again Upset Griffs. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. UST a bit bewildered at the turn of events Washington's base ball firm readied itself for a hectic week end at home today. The Athletics, who were supposed to be doormats a la 1936, twice have struck home now and the Griffs’ hopes of getting off to a flying start in the American League flag chase have gone a-dwindling One look at his 1937 batting order | convinced Bucky Harris long ago that | his hitters would “carry” a fair-to- | middling pitching staff into the first division. Now he is beginning to won- der if the Nats' batting power hasn't been overrated. The recapitulation | for three games now is 7 runs and 21 hits and & ball club can't go far at this kind of a pace. First it was Almon Williams, an unknown Athletic pitcher, who set back the Nats. He did that last Mon- day, which was opening day. The A's won, 4 to 3 To win their only victory in the derby to date the Nats got help from faulty Yankee outfielding and a gal- lant pitching performance by Monte | ‘Weaver. This game they won by 3 to 2. No club figures to win many games | from the Yanks by scoring only three runs. | Yesterday one George Caster, a | rookie right-hander, stopped the Griffs cold. Officially, the Washingtons were credited with four hits. Actually | they made only three—a gracious scoring gesture was no drawback— and dropped a 7-to-1 decision. No Early Drills Slated. \ JITH the sinking of their batting averages has followed a sin’ing of morale. The Griffs can't figure why they're not hitting. The two-day lay-off in New York didn't help, of course, but prior to the opening of the season the team had not been hitting. Manager Harris, who has been known to order such sessions in the past, refuses to consider morning bat- ting drills. “The team is getting plenty of hitting right now,” said Bucky today. “I don’t know what's wrong. They're not hitting, but I don’t think batting drills in the morn- ing and afternoon will help. Either the club will come around and start hitting, as expected, or else a lot of | people, including myself, have over- | rated its power.” Hoping for the typical luck of Buck Newsom to hold, Harris today was to send the “forgotten man” to the box in the second of the three-game series with the A’s. Newsom originally was booked to pitch fifth, but Harris be- lieves that holding him out of action | too long will hurt the big fellow's | control and so Buck was to work today and Jimmy DeShong will be held back until tomorrow when the A’s will be | met in the final game. Immediately | after this game the Nats will entrain | for Boston, where they will play a two-game series before returning to play host to the Yankees. Appleton Off to Slow Start. 'HE Griffs never were in yesterday's | game, which was witnessed by | approximately 15,000, chiefly women. ‘The tilt marked the first official “open- ing game” for women. With band music echoing and bunting flying, Miss Ruth Robinson, president of the Professional and Business Women's Club of the District, threw out the first ball and Owner Clark Griffith, elated at the feminine turnout, prom- | ises to stage such an “opening” every | year. Pete Appleton, the Nats' leading | percentage pitcher of 1936, was a vic- tim of his own wildness, lack of sup- | port and the A’s healthy hitting. In | the second inning the Philadelphias hopped on Pietro for three runs. They made it 4-0 in the sixth and wound up | by scoring three more runs in the | seventh when Bob Johnson hit a drive | out of the park with two mates on base. | The Griffs’ only run came in the sixth when Travis walked with two out and Buddy Myer tripled. Travis, with two hits, led the feeble local attack. Chapman was the only other | Nat, besides Myer, who hit safely. During the course of the afternoon | Caster fanned nine, which should give you an idea of how the Wash- ingtons are doing at the plate. AIR BOXING CHARGES Commission to Sift Complaints of Irregularities Here. Two specific charges, unsubstan- tiated by witnesses thus far, will be | sifted at the meeting of the District Boxing Commission next week. Both charges were made by boxers. Unless more definite proof is forth- | coming, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, chair- man of the commission, admitted the hearing merely will pitt the veracity | of one man against another’s. | The commission voted to reinstate | Teddy Loder on May 23. Loder was suspended for a runout on Match- | maker Goldie Ahearn. o EEISat e HRNODSOMOD Caster, p. Totals WASHINGTON. Chapman. cf. o> 3 *Mihalic Totals 1 “Biatted tor Appleion. m sevenths. Philadelphia 130 001 300—7 | Washington _ 000 001 000—1 Runs batted in—Cissell. Myer, Johnson. Two-base hit—Johnson. Three base hit— Myer. Home run—Johnson. Sacrifice Desn. Newsome. Double play—Newsome Lett on bases—Philadelphia. on, 11. First base on balls—Off 3 n| ._{ ommizass ?. Hits—Off Appleton, 7 Linke. 1n o innings. Losing | Apple Umpires — Messrs. Bwens, Hubbard and Dinneen. Time: 2.0, | Crowd Makes Total for Int Loop |able circuit that any star, | minor leaguer, might be proud to recall, Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Washington vs. Philadelphia, Griffith Stadium, 3. Maryland vs. Georgetown, Hill- top field, 3. Western Maryland vs. Catholic University, Brookland Stadium, 3. Baltimore City College vs. Roose- velt, Roosevelt Stadium, 2:30. Hagerstown High vs. Maryland Frosh, College Park, Md., 2:30. St. Albans vs. Gilman Country School, Baltimore, Md. Junior Horse Show. Landon School, 12:30. Hunt Race. Maryland Cup, Worthington Val- ley, Md,, 4. Lacrosse. Maryland vs. St. John's, Stadium, College Park, Md,, 3. Track. Local colleges and schools Penn Relays, Philadelphia, Pa. Bowling. | Washington City Duckpin Asso= ciation tournament, Lucky Strike, 7. Tennis. Hampden-Sydney vs. American University, Nebraska and Massa= chusetts avenues, 2:30. St. Albans vs. Gilman Country School, Baltimore, Md. Roosevelt vs. Maryland Frosh, College Park, \ld 2. JERSEY CITY’S 31 234 Byrd | in | burgh fans, SETS MINOR RECORD| Inaugurals 56,834—Buffalo, | Rochester Victors. By the Assoclated Press | IF THEY even come close to the | drawing power indicated by lhflr[ opening day crowd, the Jersey Giants | | should fulfill the fondest hopes of the International League bosses for a financially successful season. The all-time record crowd of 31, 234, which came out yesterday as the Jersey City club, back in the circuit after a three-year absence, got off to a day-late start, probably won't be equaled often if at all. It was the | product of a city-wide celebration | which included half holidays in public offices and schools and which was | backed by a concerted drive to get the fans out, regardless of the cold, raw weather. Jersey City is noted as a “red hot” | base ball town, however, and the | chances are the crowds will keep com- |ing large enough to make things | bright even in a league that plays be- | fore more than a million customers annually. The brand-new tesm was beaten in its fi start, but looked prcmising as it battled the Rochester Red Wings for 12 innings before going down, 4-3. Only about 2,000 chilled customers turned out at Syracuse to see the| Chiefs take a 6-to-1 licking from the | Buffalo Bisons in their opener. | | | that I fought—what's his name?—he | 11-9 victory over Landon at Garrett FISTSFLY AS BUCS ARE BEATING REDS Todd, Grissom Mix in Brief Brawl, With No Blows Believed Landed. By the Associated Press. ITTSBURGH, April 24.—A fight resembling a catch-as-catch- can contest between Al Todd, Pirates’ husky catcher, and Lee Grissom, lanky Cincinnati pitcher, enlivened the opening base ball game of the season for some 22,000 Pitts- The hustling Reds, straight defeats administered Louis’ Cardinals, were driving h overcome a 4-2 advantage held Pirates. Grissom mostly on plate. In Gus Suhr Brubaker, rankling at two by St d to y the was pitching his curves the inside corner of the | the sixth one ball grazed and another planked Bill Vaughan, Kampouris Edgy. 'I‘ODD came to bat and exchanged some words with the young pitcher, then singled and went to sec- ond as a play was made for Brubaker at third. | The word battle kept up until the third out The 195-pound, 6-foot 2-inch catcher walked up to the 200- pound, 6-foot hurler. Both threw their fists, then clinched | and tumbled to the ground, rolling | over each other. Players from each side rushed out, and for a time it ap- peared Arky Vaughan, Pirate short- stop, and Kampouris, Reds’ utiity in- fielder, would start a second fight Todd and Grissom were banished. Looked for Trouble—Got It. GRISSO\{ said later: | ‘Hell, T was wild all afternoon. I wasn't trying to brush Suhr or to hit Brubaker. But this other fellow was on me all afternoon. It was the | sort of thing you could take if you| wanted to—or not take. So when he came across the infield we got into it. “There really wasn't a fight. I don't think either of us hit the other.” ‘Tddd said: “I was on to him. I knew what he was doing. He kept shooting them in there against Suhr. Then he hit Bru- | baker. | “I went out there looking for trou- ble and got it.” PREP NINE THOROUGH Combining & home run with the bases fully populated in the first| inning with a triple play to retire | the side in the ninth inning, George- | town Prep vesterday recorded an | Park, Md. Trx Beaumont. 7; B Sia. 1, Gnh ‘Bentley Almost Glad He Lost Epic Ball Game to Big Train; Holds M lght} Minor Records BY ROD THOMAS. HAT a man achieves in the | big leagues determines his niche in base ball history, if his name be worthy of memory, so John Needles Bentley of nearby Sandy Spring, Md., is known best today as a star southpaw pitcher |of the New York Giants under Mc- Graw. He is almost a neighbor of Walter Johnson, to whom Bentley bowed— with only a slight pang, we learned to- |day—in the epic final game of the 1924 world serles between the Giants and Griffmen. Jack and Walter own big farms in Montgomery County. Ordinarily a ball player who wins lasting fame under the big top skips lightly over his minor league career, but Bentley, some recent figures on the International League reveal, may point to one whopping season in the vener- major or With Baltimore in the campaign of | 1921, Bentley not only cracked out two all-time batting records for the second | oldest base ball league extant, but set a pitching record. He batted .412 and made 246 hits for marks that still stand, and,in winning 12 games and losing 1 hung up an International record for percentage of victories— .923. He doubled in brass as pitcher and first baseman, so the willow records represented a full season. To be exact, he went to bat 597 times in 141 games. He pitched in 18 games, giving 11 complete performances. Baltimore Records Striking. N 20 years of minor and major league base ball, Bentley estimated today; he won 125 games and lost 50. From 1913 to 1916 he pitched for Washington, but without marked suc- cess. With McGraw, from 1923 to 1927, he won 40 games and lost 20, | but likes to remember a batting feat with the Giants quite as much as any diamond victory he won with them. In 1923 he whaled away for a mark of .427, which placed him among a handfull of major leaguers who have beaten .420, and Bentley's bingles that season for the most part were made under pressure. He was used extensively as a pinch hitter. ‘When one considers the age of the International League, Bentley’s rec- ords with Baltimore become striking. The league is just entering upon its ) | 54th season, only one behind the daddy of all diamond circuits, the National, and in 53 years untold hundreds of ball players, many of whom carried on to success in the majors, fell short of Bentley’s achieve- | ments. This morning Bentley recalled with | | & grin that world series drama of 1924. |Not a few among the thousands who |jammed Griffith Stadium forgot to cheer the triumphant Johnson while pitying the unlucky Bentley. How McNeely’s grounder, striking a pebble, hopped over Lindstrom’s head for a double scoring Ruel with the winning i of losing.” run is well known history. How Bent- ley felt about it 1s current news. r JACK BENTLEY. “You'd think that a pitcher losing the deciding game of a world series like that” said Bentley, “would be Just about heart-broken: “I would have been except for one thing—the man I lost to was Walter Johnson, Took Sting From Defeat. "Y'KNOW. Johnson to me was an idol. And here I am, standing there, with 40,000 people yelling their heads off for Walter, and the thought struck me how much he deserved it, not so much on account of that one game, but because of the great record behind him, as & pitcher and as a man. It sure took a lot of sting out We traded a bit of unwritten base ball history with Bentley. Two days before the epic wind-up of the 1924 series Johnson was beaten, 6 to 2. It was his second loss to the Giants, and gave them the lead, three games to two. The great Johnson, after 18 years of striving for the opportunity to pitch in a world serles, was a failure. Bentley, by the way, was the winning pitcher that day. After the game the Big Train ap- peared before Clark Griffith. There was nothing for old Barney to say— verbally. But the tears that streaked down his bony cheeks spoke eloquently. “Forget it, Walter,” said Griff, with an affectionate pat, and added: “Go get some rest. We may need you.” And sure enough the Griffs tied the series the next day and Johnson got another chance. No pitcher ever put more heart into a job than did Walter Johnson, when for four innings as s relief flinger, he held the Giants runless as the Griffs won the pay-off game in 12 innings. ‘Gosh,” sald Bentley, “you make me feel almost downright glad I lost that game.” Towns Goes to Town, as Usual, in Penn Relays Hurdle Race PHILADELPHIA, April 24 spectacled track star (extreme ?m hra[ m the 120- uard hz(/h —Forrest Towns, Georg right), here is shown capturing hurdles at the Pmm rrlm/s ves- terday in 14.4 seconds. 2-10 second slower time. Others He also annered Ihe final, althnuqh in shown here are, left to right, Tn[mzrh of Wayne, Dillingham of Columbia, Rossiter of Cornell and MCFarIand of Boston College Copynqh A. P. Wirephoto. HUBBELL MAKESTT “P OPPING SEVENTEENIN R[]W} Giants’ Ace Plcks Up Where He Left Off in ’36 to Whitewash Bees. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press bports Writer QUAREPANTS"” is back with all his stuff, so all's right with the Bronx, the Polo Grounds and the New York Giants. But it's not so hot for the rest of the National League. Squarepants, for the benefit of those who've missed the treat, is the Na- 14 ! tional League's leading pitcher, King Carl Hubbell. He got the nickname from his extra-leg-length base ball‘ jeans which stretch three-quarters of | the way down to his ankles and appear for all the world like two stovepipes painted white, when he’s out there on the mound. He also is noted for his portside pitching, his screw ball specialty and | his 16-game unfinished winning streak ; last season. Bill Terry threw King Carl at the usually throublesome Boston Bees yes- terday as the league champions made their debut at their own Polo Grounds. And Hubbell picked up where he left off in '36 Invincible in Crisis. IS screw ball did everything but sit up and laugh right in the Bees’ faces. The rest of his stuff fol- lowed suit, and Carl pitched himself a three-hit, 3-0 shutout for the Giants’ second straight win of the season and his own seventeenth | straight in league competition. He fanned five, walked three and the | only time he was threatened, he struck out two men in a row with the bases | loaded. Eubbell's top-flight flinging topped | a day of generally fine pitching along the big-league front. Right behind | him were Young George Caster of | Connie Mack’s Athletics and old Waite | Hoyt, opening his 20th year in the majors as relief pitcher extraordinary for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hoyt, picking up in the second in- ning when big Jim Weaver weakened, allowed three hits the rest of the way as the Bucs won their third straight, | nosing out the Roughhouse Reds from Cincinnati, 4-3, in a game marked by | the season’s first fist fight. Rookie Lee Grissom of the Reds and Catcher Al ‘Todd started it, and several others | Jjoined in before it was over. Feller Pitching Today. OY HENSHAW fanned nine in close to eight innings as the | Dodgers topped the Phillies 4-3 in the | Philadelphia National League opener. Roxie Lawson muffled the Chicago White Sox with half a dozen hits as the Detroit Tigers, headed by Hank Greenberg and his first homer, clubbed out a 10-2 conquest to remain unde- feated. Although touched for eight and ten hits, respectively, the Cardinals’ Lon Warneke and the Cleveland Indians’ Johnny Allen showed lots of stuff in the pinches. Warneke, pennant hope of the gas house gang, kept the Cards in the unbeaten column with a 5-4 victory, St. Louis’ third. Allen’s Indian mates did most of the work in the Cleveland home opener, banging five pitchers to wallop the already slipping St. Louis Browns, 9-2. The Yankees and Boston Red Sox were rained out. The Indians, tangling with the Browns again, are slated to present their rookie sensation, young Bob Feller, to the home folks in today’s tilt. Varied Sports COLLEGE BASE BALL. irginia. 5. Yarvoand: 8. Vidiikan Btate. 3 u ‘7. Dickinson. 3. Brovidence. 11 Holy Cross, 5: Princeton.'s Pennsylvania. Columbia. 0. Roanoke, 1% Emors and Henry. 7. Armour Tech, 11: Elmnurst. 5. W chizan. Cltaviis Adolous. 4° River Falls, 3. Hamline, 14; St. Thomas. 13. COLLEGE TENNI e Washington, 7: West Vir- ; Georgetown. 1, u Maryland. 0. aryland. 5: American Uni- Royne, 4: Erskine. 3. : Wo! COLLEGE GoLr. = : South Ourolins, 8%, 93.'1“;&. Jasiaca Raserve 7 OFF Utan. They Were the Apathetics. - e Y NOW it has become evident to the Washington base ball firm that poor old Connie Mack isn't so bad off, after all. Twice now he has led a hustling Athletic team to victory over the Nationals and it is beginning to hurt. A year ago the Nats won 16 of 22 games from the | A's, who were powerful first division. unwilling factors in Washington's finishing in the The Griffs took almost everything except Mack’s store teeth in 1936 and they don't relish the idea of things evening up so soon. There are some shrewd newspaper men traveling with the A’'s and when they said that Mack’s current entry was worth watching, earlier in the week, the tip seemed worthy of keeping in mind. any club in the league,” a lot of people. After that, after all, For one item, nobody is calling them the Apathetics any more, which was a name Mack inherited involuntarily | last season after he shipped most of | his big-name players to Boston for cash consideration. Secondly, Mack has taken two games from a highly touted Washington club and, in doing 80, used two pitchers the Nats didn't even know were in the American League until the games were won. “You should have seen the club in Mexico,” supplied this department’s informant. “Spirit? T never saw anything like it. This Werber, for one guy, has | done & lot. When a fellow fails to ! slide at the right time, the whole bench gives him a going-over. They call each other so-and-so's and cuss all over the joint. “And Connie . . . he just sits back and grins. He’s happier now than at any time since his last pennant win- ner was rolling over the rest of the pack.” A's Infield Has Class. A“IAL\ ZING the club, it isn't hard to see where it has Mack traded Frank Higgins for Werber last Winter and a lot of people said he lost power. Maybe he did. But where Higgins sulked, ‘Werber is a | veritable pepper-pot. Berwyn Bill passed from one of the richest clubs in base ball to probably the poorest and in doing so he looks as if he got the best break of his life. And maybe | he did | They'll never name little Lamar Newsome on the American League all-star team, probably, but just the same Mack has the best flelding short- stop in the circuit. Newsome never will hit a lot, but he adds class to the infield and so does Chalmers Cissell, at his present pace. Cissell, of course, is no youngster. He came up to the American League some years ago and the White Sox paid a pretty penny for him. But Chalmers was a Good-time Charley and he was sent to Boston and, from there, to the minors. When he stops being & playboy he can play base ball. Right now he seems to be playing ball. ‘When Mack picked up Lovill Dean apparently did the A's no harm. Last year the kid was neither fish nor fowl in the fleld, but he could hit. He proved it, too, when he led the pinch-hitters of the league. This year Connie installed him on first base and it is beginning to look as if he’s got one of the rising first basemen of modern times. Outfield One of Best. THE casual observer, his pitching staff is composed of a lot of guys named Joe. But Connie’s Finks, Kel- leys, Williamses, Smiths, Casters and Rosses are better than they've been given credit for being. Smith’s sup- port on opening day didn't help him, | Williams didn’t need much support, after he relieved him, to win, 4 to 3. And Caster, who held the Nats to four hits yesterday, owed no thanks to his supporting cast. In back of the plate the A's have Frank Hayes and Earl Brucker. The former is a kid who was rough as the queen of spades in a hearts game & year or so ago. But Hayes has acquired polish and he can hit. Brucker is a veteran minor leaguer who seems to be some- thing of an Appleton behind the bat, That is to say, he appar- 1 there is a chance of Philadelphia climbing out of the cellar. improved. | | some opponent last night as she won | from the Duke University campus, he | !She lost one semi-final match, but | Philadelphia tied for fifth. “They've got more hustle than one of the writing boys said, “and don’t believe that stuff about the A's not getting into condition in Mexico. He isn’t gonna finish last again, either. watching the A's for two games now Connie’s gonna fool Not even next to last.” you have to be convinced entl late. The A's outfield need apologize to none. Bob Johnson is always dangerous at the plate, pamcularly‘ in the Spring. In center field Lou Finney looks to be ready for the full- time test, at last, and there isn't anry‘ ball club in the league that couldn't | ready to blossom a little | use Wally Moses, the right flelder. May Attract Much Attention. THE A's of 1837 are likely to at- | tract a good deal of attention before they are finished. ‘They | haven't the power of the outfit that , had Simmons, Haas, Dykes, Cochrane, Grove, Walberg, et al. That team had experience and maturity. It was refreshing because of the sheer per- fection it attained, but once the gang began to slip the Quaker City fans began to grow tired of looking at them and they, in turn, began to tire of looking at the Philly customers. Mack then came up with a club that seemingly had stars but never went anywhere. These he happily sold to the Red Sox for fabulous sums, | tided the A's over a financial hurdle, | and began to develop a flock of barn- yard and college campi fugitives. 1t is this collection he proudly presents now . . . the collection which a majority of writers’ polls pick to finish last. Somehow, when you think of it, that seems a little too low. The A's| are better than that . . . or else the | Washingtons aren't what they're | cracked up to be. | MAYER AGAIN RULES FAIR U. S. FENCERS| Proves She Stands Almost Alone in Field by Taking Title for Third Time. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 24 —On the basis of the 1937 championship results, Helene Mayer, the Oakland, Calif., girl who won the 1928 Olympic wom- en's fencing title for Germany and competed for that nation again last Summer, stands almost alone in Amer- ican women’s foils play. Miss Mayer found only one trouble- | the title for the third time. Mrs.| Joanna De Tuscan of Detroit, who took | the 1936 championship when Miss| Mayer didn't compete after winning in 1934 and 1935, has become a pro- fessional. The No. 2 ranking fencer in America, Mrs. Marion Lloyd Vince, missed the championships because of a honeymoon. She recently was mar- ried to Joseph Vince, New York fencing Instructor. ‘That left only Carrol Alessandroni, member of another famous fencing family, to give Miss Mayer competition. was unbeaten in the final round robin until she met the Californian. She was defeated, 4-2. Behind Miss Allessandroni Mrs. Dolly Punke and Maria Cerra of New York | placed third and fourth. Madeline | g Dalton of New York, national junior | champion, and Madeline Sarvis of | Homer Standings By the Associated P: Homers yesterday—Greenberg, Tigers, 1; Rogell, Tigers, 1; R. Johnson, Athletics, 1; Demaree, Cubs, 1; Goodman, Reds, 1. The leaders—R. Johnson, Ath- letics, 3. League totals—American, 10; Na- tional ¢. Total, 14. ' | last season with a w 'GREENBERG SHOWS HES HIS OLD SELF l Big Day at Bat Makes Tiger Star Feel Due for Year Like He Had in '35, Es the Assoclated Press Greenberg ha: with the “experts’ said he was througt he can't make them eat t this season, he hopes they at least have to nibble on them The 6-foot 3-inch D baseman, forced out o w re, feel he is due for another season of his 1935 variety, when he hammered out 36 homers, batted .328 and was named the most valuable player in the Amer- ican League. Old Whip Back in Swing. HERE were plenty of r Summer that I'd never recover fully from that injury,” he said today as the Tigers faced the Chicago White Sox again. “But the fans who took them seriously were too pessi While I admit the wrist was ir shape, I never had the slightest that I'd get back in shape eventually “T like base ball too well to be kept out of it for good, and I think I'll get going again this year. T fel in Spring camp, and the wrist feels as strong as ever. I've got just as much whip in my swing as I ever h being just 26, I know I have good years ahead of me.” Has Field Day at Bat. REENBERG weighs 210 pounds and appears to be in great condi- tion. In yesterday's 10-to-2 Tiger vic- tory over the Sox his first hit, a screaming single through short, almost took a leg off Manager Mickey Coch- rane, who was heading for third base. His second hit was a double, slashed down the left-field line. In the ninth he caught one of Johnny Whitehead's fast balls and dropped it far up in the left-field stands. Hank hurt his wrist sliding into home plate in the second game of the 1935 world series and saw no more action in that championship duel, won by the Tigers. On April 28 of last sea- son he collided with Jake Powell, then | of the Washington Senators, and the resultant wrist frature ended his ac- tivity for the year. Mcnths of treat- ment followed, and when he reported to the Bengal camp this Spring he was working for a job, not having a definite contract understanding with the Tiger management. His training season showing soon won him a full- year contract. DOONIS IS SLAB DEMON Further evidence that Tommy Doonis figures to create trouble in the inter-| as | high series was forthcoming today, Tech chalked up another triumph at the expense of Mount St. Joseph, 3-2, yesterday, in Baltimore. Relieving Buddy Webb in the sec- ond inning, after the Baltimore bats- men had nicked the chubby right- | hander for 4 consecutive hits, Doonis dished up only 2 hits in 7!3 innings and struck out 8. League Statistics AMERICAN. L il 0 Pet 1.000 1.000 3 £87 i GB. Detroit Boston Philadelphi; Cleveland St. Louis Chicago Washington ~ New York 2 (S| ‘i 1 11 11 000 2 RESULTS YESTERDAY. Ehiladelphia. 7; Washington. 1. Cleveland. 9 St Betroi"G0: onicarg b New York-Boston, GAMES TODAY. Ehila, at Wash. 3. GAMES TOMORROW. Phila_at Wash. 3 New York at - New York at Boston. L Meactaod: L. at Cleveland. Betront st ‘Cnicaso Dezmn at Chicago. NA'I‘IOY\ AL. GB. Pittsburen St Louts York Bhadeionia ™ Brooklyn Cincinnati Chicazo Boston RESULTS Yrs'n:lu)lnA New York. 3: Bost Brookly, PRadelonia. 3. 4: Cincinnati, 3, 8t. Louls. 5: Chicago, 4. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. | Boston York. Boston at New York. Brool Brooklyn at Phila Cinct. at Pittsburgh. Cinci. at Pittsburgh :| Chicago st Bt. Louis. Chicago at St. Louls. CROWNS, RECORDS PREY OF HOOSIERS Two Bagged, Four More Are Sought Today—Woodruff, Lash Games’ Stars. der the leade bounds of the Hoc B3 the Associated Press ril 24 —Un- of Coach E. O. Haye ana is ex- Last week beyond the PHILADELP}{IA A tending its | third annu | into its second and final s crimson-shirted corn belt f two titles and two rec credit, were gunning for | three of the scrambles- mpic 800-met the P; besides the named, t} be won college relays, two p school SEVEN STAR PACERS ELIGIBLE FOR DERBY $4,500 Event Will Be Held for First Time During Grand Circuit Meeting. By the Assoc (GOSHEN, of the to the tlh”flf) a trotters, also to be raced at will be a s T miles ild Tiger ‘\w.l\ To R()zu‘ln By the Assoctated Press. LHICAGO April 24 early in the season to venture a guess on whether Gerald Walker has “reformed.” but he's making life miserable for npposing hurlers right now. Walker, the speedy Detroit Tiger outfielder, whose antics on the base paths have electrified the fans and put gray hairs in Manager Mickey Cochrane’s head, holds a two-game batting average of .777. In the Tiger win Tuesday over Cleveland he had a home run, triple, double and sin- gle in four trips. Yesterday he had a double and two singles in five offi- cial times at bat. ‘Walker, who has been known to smack a pinch triple and then be tagged out overrunning the bag, hit .353 last season Washington vs. Philadelphia AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomorrow—Philadelphia. 3 P.M. ALLVIEW GOLF COURSE The Finest Public Course in the East DRIVE OUT TODAY All Day $1.00 Sat. or Sun. Week Days, All Day