Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1937, Page 14

The Foening Shee Sporls WASHINGTON, D. ( Griffs Rust From Too Muc CLUB NOT HITTING. | Left by Ruffing. A pick-up—weather permitting— won their only American League vic- nothing especially sunny for them, at | and nobody is kidding himself now batthng his first major slump. Joe | the Red Sox in two innings, has in 12 days, has worked seven Yanks Here for Three Days. Gomez Takes Up Slack BY FRANCIS E. STAN. S FAR from top shape as ever, Washington's moaning Nation- als returned home today to the thread of their spasmodic cam- paigning. Invading the lair of the Griffith A. C. these three days will be the Yankees, over whom the Nats have | tory. The Griffs vacated gray, frigid | Boston last night. after playing one | game of a series, but here there was least in outlook. In the nine full days that have elapsed since the American League season started the Sriffs have plaved only five games that laying off hasn't had its effects. With few exceptions, nobody is hit- ting. Shanty Hogan can't get a ball | out of tne infield. Buddy Lewis is| ¥ el and Al Simmons aren't mn-‘: sistent off the tee, yet, and the pitch- ers are getting out of shape rapidly. | Jimmy De Shong, knocked out by worked only that total since April 17, | which was 11 days ago. Buck New- fom has pitched e more than | eight innings in 15 days. Pete Apple- and Monte Weaver's winning | against tie Yanks more than a | < ago has represented all his ef- s 1n the last two weeks. Yanks Loom Team to Beat. I\‘O\'\" unable to win a game from the A’s or the Red Sox, Bucky Harris today faced the uninviting task of try ¥ to get his club squared away against the Yankees. The Yanks, for the most part, are the same club which Washington fans saw romp to the pennant by a 1915- game margin last year. Ever since Spring training started a lot of the experts have been trying to tout them- selves off the New Yorkers, but logical | reasoning still makes the Yanks th| team to beat, with or without Recd Ruffing The big pitcher still is holding out in Chicago and his absence, if per- manent, is bound to have its effect. | The Yankee pitching staff is weakened { considerably without Ruffing, but | Lefty Gomez has looked better than at any time since he sailed off to| Japan and Johnny Broaca pitched to | & 7-1 win over the A's the other day | and looked fine. With Johnny Murphy, | Bump Hadley, Pat Malone, Walter | Brown, Monte Pearson rounding out the first-string crew, Joe McCarthy ceems to have enough hurling to carry | on with the help of all that power. | Di Maggio Out Temporarily. BILL DICKEY still is holding forth | behind the plate and is ade- | quately provided with understudies. Lou Gehrig needs no understudies and Tony Lazzeri still seems to be hold- | ing up. Crosetti and Rolfe round out | the infield, which was the best in !hel American League last year. Joe Di Maggio currently is out of the line-up. Still convalescing from a tonsilectomy, Di Maggio probably won't return for a week but, in the meantime, the Yanks are going along | 8ll right with Selkirk, Johnson and Hoag. In reserve they have Jake Powell and Tommy Henrich. The latter is the only newcomer to | attain any major league notoriety as yet, and Henrich can thank Judge Landis for most of that. The Yanks, you know, bought him as a free agent and handed over the announced sum | of $20.000. Despite Ruffing’s absence and Di- Maggio's temporary shelving, the Yanks are still the Yanks. They prob- ably won't win by 19!, games, and it is conceivable that they won't win at all. But they're still the team to beat. Cascarella to Open Set. JOE CASCARELLA, a leftover starter | *" in Boston, was to open the three- game series today. He will be fol- lowed by Monte Weaver, whose 3-2 Wwin in the Yankee Stadium last week represents the only headway made to date by the Griffs. Pete Appleton will wind up the series. The cold of yesterday in Boston gave the Nats no opportunity to get what they need, which chiefly seems to be batting practice. The teams reported at the ball park, dressed and did some light working out. When the game finally was called they wasted no time getting into their civies and getting out of there. It was too cold and damp to do anybody any good. HAS DIAMOND, NEEDS FOES. ‘Young Democratic Club of Southern Maryland has a diamond and wants Sunday games with crack unlimited local nines, the tilts to be played at Forestville, Md. Call Manager Purdy at Capitol Heights 28-F-2 after 6 p.m. | town athletes, the banquet also is a WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937. STAUNCHLY STANDS THE IRON HORSE. AW, HE CAN'T LAST TH' SEASON out! “HE'S BUILT WHADDYUH L MEAN! -- why TLAST FREVER i) e HESNOTS YOURE JIsT TPULL THIS SAYIN' THAT | 'CAUSE RUTH DID ) 5 . BUT __)\ DON’ FERGIT, 7 TH'BABE WUZ 7 PROPPED UP L\oN Yoomru:xs . BUT THEY JUST CAN'T KEEP HiM THE MIGHTY MAN... HAS WEATHERED ALL THE BASE BALL STORMS TO PILE UP AN AMAZING TOTAL OF 1814 CONSECUTIVE GAMES WITH THE NLY. —= .~ YANKEES --AND STILL GOING STRONG ! —By JIM BERRYMAN. X HE'S BATTED FOR A .344 AVERAGE | | eR OUT OF THAT LINE-UP.. ANDOV! A 12-YEAR STRETCH IN THE MAJORS NOTED MEN HONOR HILLTOP ATHLETES |Outstanding Leaders From | Many Fields to Attend Banquet Tonight. UTSTANDING leaders culled from virtually every field will | be guests tonight at George- | town University's tenth an- nual Varsity G banquet when the| Hoyas desert the training table for choice tidbits at the Willard Hotel | at 6:30 o'clock. i Staged primarily to honor George- | good-will gesture, with Harvey Har- | man, Pennsylvania foot ball coach, | delivering one of three principal ad- dresses. The Hoyas meet the Quakers next Fall at Philadelphia. Other speeches will be delivered by | Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, S. J., presi- dent of the university, and J. F. T. O’Connor. controller of currency. Be- | cause of the illness of the father of Elwood Seal, which necessitates the corporation counsel’s absence from the | city, Joseph A. Carey, prominent local lawyer, will serve as toastmaster. Rev. John J. Kehoe, S. J,, faculty director of athletes and one of the men credited with the comeback of Georgetown in foot ball circles, will present letter awards to various var- sity team members. Minor Leagues INTERNATIONAL. All games postponed, rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Milwaukee, 9: Minneapolis, 3. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Memphis. 8: Atlanta. 5. Little Rock. Chattanooga, 1. Birmingham, 3: Nashville. 0. New Orleans. 10; Knoxville, 0. PACIFIC COAST. San Diego. 1 Los Angeles, Sacramento, H 5. Galveston, 9: Tul Oklahoma City, 4; PIEDMONT. Durham. 8: Richmond, 6. Not Even Broken BonesiCan Keep Gehrig Out of Line-Up; Playing Now Despite Injury VINES, PERRY TOP BY FRANCIS E: STAN, If Henry Louis Gehrig were an ordinary ball player, and not a ma- | for the Yankees today. One of the | fingers on his right hand, which wears the glove, has been the color of a chine superior to such human {rail- ties, he might not be playing first base | |regular first baseman from now on.” Not even the farsighted Huggins knew how literally his statement was to be taken by Gehrig. He was a big. awkward kid when Hug shelved Wally Pipp as his first baseman and put Gehrig on the bag. But from the first time that Gehrig warmed-over green sausage ever since stepped to the plate in a Yankee the American League season opened. | yniform there was a star next to his But if the sun is shining and the | name, On June 1 the star was an Yanks and Nationals can play ball | asterisk in the box score, calling at- these three days and you have an idea | tention to the tiny agate line of type yowd like to see Lou Gehrig again, | that said: “Gehrig batted for Wan- he'll be on first base. He always has | ninger.” The following day the tiny been. star in the box score was gone. His sore finger? ped. So what? chipped left elbow. It was operated Asterisks weren't needed thereafter. on. But he played ball the next day. The little finger on his right hand has been broken four times. Half a dozen other fingers have been broken one or more times. He has been hit on the head with a pitched ball three times. The toe of his right foot has been broken. Leg muscles have been torn. A shoulder has been wrenched. And {lumbago? He's a chronc sufferer. That is, if a mechanical man suf- fers. Some are inclined to doubt it. | Gehrig, you see, has never missed | | June of 1925. | years ago. 1,814 games since then. And Gehrig has been in every one. Nobody in all That was nearly 12 the record of the iron horse, Prob- ably nobody ever will. Started Streak in Capital. EHRIG won't be able to celebrate his twelfth anniversary as base ball’s rippling brook as it should be celebrated. He probably will be play- ing on that anniversary day, but the Yanks will be in Cleveland when, to make it complete, they ought to be in Washington. It was here, you see, where Gehrig's record was started. That's why the Yanks’ current in- vasion of Griffith Stadium can be looked upon as a sort of an event. Even if June 2 was the day that Miller Huggins wrote “Gehrig” in the Yankee line-up and said, “He's my playing a ball game since that day in | The Yanks have played | base ball history has ever approached | | He has broken records and he has | dashed hopes to little pieces in those | 12 years. | young first basemen bought by the | Yanks as insurance. | said as far back as five or six years | ago, Gehrig will wear out. Col. Jacob | Ruppert, to play safe, bought under- | studies. There were George McQuinn, | John McCarthy and half a dozen others, He's Had Close Calls. 'HEY lingered for a while and then were sent away. Some went back to the bushes, their futures hurt by | idling while Gehrig played. A few were fortunate to land with another major league club. Currently Babe Dahlgreen is sitting on the bench, pondering the fate which cast him in the role of lead pony to an iron horse. Gehrig probably is the greatest ball player in the world. Yes, Joe Kuhel can field better than Lou. Sure, Ruth used to hit more home runs. But day in and day out Gehrig was there on first base, doing an acceptable job, and then he would step up to the plate and in the twilight of Ruth's career American League pitchers pre- ferred to pitch to the Babe than to Gehrig. He has come close to missing ball games. “Little” casualties like broken bones never threatened his consecu- (See GEHRIG, Page A-16.) Leemans’ Home Town Always Has Hero to Worship Arnovich, Phil Outfielder Who Made Seven Hits in a Row, Is Latest Pride of Superior, Wis. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associatea Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, April 28.—It's second down and 23 to go for Dizzy Dean, who prom- ised the Cardinals 25 wins this season. . . . Just in case you overlooked the dispatches, old Ty Cobb won himself a golf tourna- ment out on the coast the other day. . . . Mike Jacobs is sporting & new green overcoat that positively is the last word in Spring toggery. Superior, Wis,, has a sports fa- vorite to follow and root for in every season . . . last Fall it was Alphonse (Tuffy) Leemans, the former George Washington foot ball star, who starred with the New York Giants. . . . In the Winter Buperior fan: brag about their ’, powerful basket ball teams or Bess Earhardt, America's sweetheart of the ice. . . . Now they are all steamed up over the doing of Morrie (Snooker) Arnovich, young Philly outfielder, whose seven con- secutive hits didn’t hurt his chances of making the grade as a regular. No matter what his earlier oppo- nents may have been, they can’t say Big Jack Torrence is getting & set-up in Abe Simon tonight. . . . Lou Chiozza of the Giants is a crack spaghetti cooker. . . . During one of the frequent showers in Portland, Oreg., young Bobby Mat~ tick, Los Angeles outfielder, ob- : “Gosh, it sure rains easy Verdun, Quebec, i3 going to make a cop out of unemployed Walter Young, who won the Boston mara- thon last week. . . . Tulane thinks it has a good chance to grab na- tional honors in both golf and tennis this season. Cleveland writers are urging the Indian moguls to do some serious thinking about the case of Paul Dean, who they say was worked too hard at too early an age, and not make the same mistake with Bob Feller . . . seems odd to read of ball games in the Southern As- sociation being called off because of cold weather . . . it happened at Little Rock the other day. Here's another expert, who knows what he's experting about: Jack [ 4 ‘Tucker, golf editor of the Roches- ter Democrat and Chronicle, shoots consistently in the 70s . . . he has played in several national amateur tournaments and at Brookline in 1934 gave Lawson Little his tough- est match. The Los Angeles Times has dis- covered why Roy Riegels ran the wrong way in his history-making dash in the California-Georgia Tech Rose Bowl game in 1929 . .. (California lost, 8-7) ... the Times says it has discovered the north side of the Rose Bowl field, the route Riegels ran, is five inches lower than the south side . .. in other words, says the Times, “he ran down hill and just couldn't stop” . . . come on home, Roy, all is forgiven. The hopes were those of | Some day, it was | THREE NET TILTS Oppose, Then Pair to Play | Lott-Barnes Tonight at | College Park. WIVEL-NECK patrons of profes- sional tennis will journey to Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, tonight to witness a return en- gagement, in fact the fifty-first repeti= tion, of Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines | smacking a ball over the net as fast Fo | and expertly as you would expect from r | Maybe it's chip- | that day, June 2, he started at first | Once he had a base and has never been replnced.‘g‘_flpplmg atch once fand are it the world's foremost players. Like those who have seen a circus or | fied nothing new will be unveiled, fans | who saw the polite pill pasters last time have displayed a studied indif- | ference to the return engagement. | More than 700 were unable to gain ad- | mission to the spacious plant in Janu- | ary, when 4,000 fans shelled out ap- proximately $5,500 to see Ellie whip | Freddy. Perry’s Last Season. | SINCE the lynx-eyed Englishman has said he will retire after this season, | local court devotees very probably will witness him in action for the last time tonight. Perry and Vines wind up their lengthy tour Monday at New | York, where it all started, and then will embark for a European tour. ‘Without too much color, but simply on their skill at slamming that elusive ball, Vines and Perry have enjoyed capacity crowds at nearly every stop. Bruce Barnes and George Lott round out the troupe and inject a relieving note of comedy into the proceedings occasionally. | Barnes and Lott will clash in a singles match, to be followed by the royal racketers. After Vines and Perry have unveiled their repertoire of shots, they will team against Barnes and Lott, who still is rated the No. 1 doubles player of the world. The loose-limbed Vines now is lead- ing in the matter of victories, having amassed 26 to Perry's 24. Mangan Will Referee. TOM MANGAN, president of the Middle Atlantic Tennis Associa- tion, will umpire the feature match, | with linesmen being culled from the | ranks of Washington's top-notch players, such as Barney Welsh, Gene Herman, Allie and Nate Ritzenberg, | Tony Latona and Hugh Lynch. | Members of local college and scho- | lastic tennis teams will be admitted to | the matches for half price. Seats are | priced at $1.10 and $1.65. YANKEE CYCLISTS WIN Walthour, Jr.,, and Juner Show Way in Six-Day Competition. LOS ANGELES, April 28 (#).—The American team of Bobby Walthour, jr., | and Oscar Juner won the 6-day | bicycle race ending early today, scor- ing 1,182 points. ‘The Itallan team of Andy Devito and Frank Turano duplicated the lap- stealing stunt of Walthour and Juner in the final minutes and finished on even terms in laps, but took second place with a point score of 848. r | into putouts. | plays CLUBTRISTUTORS | 3-TIME CHAMPION BY CONNIE MACK. | tressing accident. Mention center | longed to differ- in the twentieth. just as Speaker had the sure in- I Connie Rates Former Aide | ’ as Century’s Greatest Center Fielder. ILLIONS of fans who admired | Tris Speaker's amazing ar- | tistry feel a personal interest in his recovery from a dis- fielders and his image instantly comes to mind. I remember back before most of you. To me, the two mightiest center fielders be- % ent centuries— Jimmy McAleer in the nine- teenth, Speaker At fielding his post, nobody in his century equaled McAleer, topped his cen- tury. McAleer turned triples He stinct to go to the proper path for a line drive as soon as it was hit, and the speed to run it down | Connie Mack. In fact, he helped make Cy Youn; great pitching fame. Both were with Cleveland, then in the National League. Hitting Gives Speaker Edge. “‘HEN McAleer retired to manage the St. Louis Browns there was a lull in classic center fielding until Speaker came to the Red Sox. Oddly enough, he was later to play for Cleveland, thereby giving that city the two greatest men of all time at center. I really couldn't choose between them as fielders, but Tris had one edge—he was much the better hitter. Digging into my old files I find Mc- Aleer hit .288 in 1896, about par for | him. Speaker, with a lifetime .344 average covering 23 American League seasons —his last, 1928, with me on the Ath- | letics—also ranked among the great hitters. And Tris did one extra special stunt McAleer never managed. On April 18 and 29, 1918, Speaker made double unassisted. Another typical trick of his was sneaking in to second and taking a surprise throw from the catcher to tag any runner who un- | wisely had eyes only for the shortstop and second baseman. Stars Kept as Coaches. SPEAKER and Ty Cobb often have been linked as the greatest out- | fielders of the century and. by another coincidence, they closed their careers as teammates for me in 1928 I thought my outfield of Simmons, | left; Speaker, center, and Cobb, right, | was about the hottest thing ever of- | | fered by one team. But when the sea- | son advanced and the ground hard- ened, neither Tris nor Ty could cover ground. Their legs were going; slipping. Everybody knew i themselves. I sent George Haas to center and Bing Miller to right, providing an odd situation. On the bench were two fading stars drawing two to three times what Haas and Miller got. | Some fans wondered why I didn't| release them. I had two reasons.| First. they had signed as free agents, | veteran Washington marksman, will |be held at Oakton, Va. Saturday. There will be both skeet and trap events, with firing from 11 am. to 6 pm. ©Oakton is 112 miles this side of Fair- fax on the Chain Bridge road. they were t, including | and I didn’t think it fair to let them out in midseason in view of their long | and fine service to base ball. ‘ The second was they were coach- | ing my young players. Got Him Flags, Says Mack. SPEAKER schooled Haas into a star. Cobb proved a shrewd bat- ting tutor to Simmons and both helped other players. My two bench | stars earned their big salaries, all| right. We were within a straw of the 1928 pennant won by the Yanks. year later we took the first of three successive flags. Speaker and Cobb were no longer with us, but their work was. They had helped me build another cham- | pionship team. (Copyright, 1937.) TULANE VISITS WILDCATS. EVANSTON, IIl, April 28 (®)— | Tulane's tennis team, headed by | Ernie Sutter, 1936 national intercol- | legiate singles title winner, was North- western'’s foe today in the first match | of the Wildcat home season. Out of Danger BOBBY DOERR, Red Sox second baseman, struck in the head with one of Pitcher Ed Linke’s fast balls in Monday’s game against the Nationals, reports that he erpects to leave the hospital at Boston today, fully recovered. | Cincinnatt = h Rest : Speaker Flag-Winner for Mack League Statistics AMERICAN. New York __ Detroit Philadelphia Cleveland - Chicago Boston 8t.’ Louis = WASHINGTON RESULTS YESTERDAY. All games postponed, rain, GAMES TOMORROW. 5.N. Y. at Wash., 3:15. . 'St. L at Chicago! Detroit at Cleveland. Phila. at Boston, FeaSEHen] cl 5 Phiia. at Boston. NATIONAL. St. Louis Pittshurgh New York Philadelphia rooklyn Bostol Chicago L. 1 1 1 3 4 4 1600 RESULTS YESTERDAY. St. Louis. 3: Pittsburgh, 1 Other games postponed, rain. GAMES TODAY. Brooklyn at N. Y. Cinci, at Chicago Pitts” at St. Louls. Boston at Phila. Cinci. at St. Lo Chicago at Pitt Boston at Ph LATE START TOUEH BREAK FORMAJORS |Weather Good Week Before Piles Up Twin Bills. Nature, whom the major day over 29 bargain days she has ar- better as Springtime wears on, with their grand openings a week later than After behaving itself for a weck be- League had 16 double-headers piled up. Openings, Becomes Sour, By the Associated Press HICAGO, April 28.—O0ld Mother ‘ league magnates tried to out- smart this yegr, chuckled to- ranged for the fans. On the theory that the weather gets fewer postponements as the logical re- sult, the club owners decided to stage usual this year, but the weather was not to be outmaneuvered. fore the inaugural day, it sudden turned sour. Today, the American and National League fans had 13 com- ing. Difficult to Figure. “ A FTER delaying the opening of the season a week to get better weather we have run smack into an unusual run of rain and cold postpone- ments,” Harridge said. “The ironical part of it is that our Eastern clubs could have played ev day during the week before the season opened The West wasn't quite that good, but it was better than the past week “It was just a gamble, though,” he added optimistically, “and the weather probably will square things later, per- haps at world series time. I'l take a little bad weather in the Spring in ex- change for perfect world series weather any time.” The fans won't have to wait quite 50 long this year for those two-games- for-the-price-of-one Sunday bargains | Instead of withholding Sunday dou- | ble-headers until after June 15, the | majors this year will permit them as soon as each club has had three Sun- day dates at home, which will have been accomplished by June 6. SHOOT HONORS MORGAN Skeet and Trap Events to Be Held at Oakton Saturday. A shoot in honor of R. D. Morgan, | YOUR INDIVIDUALI made just for you. BOLTS AND BOLTS WILNER CLOTHES TAILORED IN OUR TO YOUR FIGURE. CORNER 8TH —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ~ ONEVICTORY NETS . FRISCH MUCK J0Y jWeiland Appears as Needed Hurler in Beating Bucs, to Give Cards Lead. BY BILL BONI, Associated Press Sports Writer, F YOU catch Manager Frankie Frisch smiling today, don't blame the man. It's a wonder he isn't laughing out loud—or is he? For one thing, his St. Louis Cardi- nals are leading the National League, | a trick accomplished by blackjac the Pirates into 3-1 submission y terday as rain washed out every other major league game. | But that's not all. In pre-season ratings, experts summed up the Cards' pitching staff with a “Dean, Warnek May Plug Gap. "THE sters | southpaw and W the Pirates’ fo with a six-hit National League debut, looks like that man He has size. He rst in the majors v in 1928, since the the Red . left-handed pitcher. a capable y at the He served recruit lo. a home-run The Cards tied added another game. score in in the fc the fifth, Hitting Fast Pac BUT even that was that pl Frisch—his Cardinals are running riot in all departments of the game Jerome Herman (the one and only) Dean is heading th with Wayne Lamaster at two t hs e Then there's second in the bles at five. d Pepper Martin are -neck for driving apiece. 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