Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1937, Page 14

A Ailing Ch BEN, CRACKED P NOT FITFOR LAY Has to Give Way to Pinch- Runner as Browns Take Second of Series. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, 8tafl Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, May 11.—The woes of Bucky Harris took a turn for the worse today. Ben Chap- man, it develops, ought to be on the hospital list. Instead, he insists on playing despite a variety of ailments. Ben emerged from the second battle of St. Louis yesterday with any num- ber of wounds. One of his knees is what the boys called “jammed.” left shoulder is stiff and sore. His right elbow is so painful he hardly can swing a bat. In short, Chappie's in no shape to play the ball he is capable of playing. Chapman insisted on remaining in the line-up today, but his shoulder hasn't been right since the season opened. As the days go by his elbow becomes more and more painful. In the opener of the series with the Browns he jammed his knee. Trying to play yesterday with all ailments bothering him at once, Ben was use- less. In the ninth inning, when he reached base on a walk, Chapman, of all people, had to be replaced by a base runner! Ben's elbow ailment is the most serious and it is nicely described by officials of the club as “one of those things.” They leave the rest for you to figure out. At any rate, he was ready for & physician’s care last night. Ben Blames Fault at Plate. CHAPMAN thinks he is doing some- thing wrong at the plate to make his elbow sore. Sammy West once chipped a bone in his elbow while bat- ting and prospects of a repetition have the Griffs grave-faced with concern. “I can go out to the park and throw s hard as anybody,” claims Ben. *“Then, after I hit once, I'm through. T can't get the ball back to the infield. All T've got to do is swing a bat and then I'm washed up as far as throw- ing is concerned. I can't explain it. I must hurt my elbow in some way while batting.” According to observers with a flair for physical condition, Chapman ought to be out of the game for at least four days. Ben himself has a hunch that & lay-off will help. Then, after resting a few days, he would like to bat against Manager Harris, himself. “It's just like golf,” maintains Ben. “You start doing something wrong and you have a hard time curing the habit. Last year, when I came to Washington from the Yanks, I was hitting .260. I was doing something wrong and Harris started to pitch to Mme in the mornings. While pitching he found out what was the trouble, just like a golf pro would. The fact that I finished with a .315 average showed that Bucky was on the right track. “Maybe that would be the cure for | me now, but T still think I can correct the fault myself and I intend to try.” Bonetti Stops Nats, 6 to 3. 'JESSE HILL was nominated tenta- tively last night to play center field for the rest of the Western tour, but when Chapman insisted on stick- ing in the game Harris decided to keep using him. Ben's punch, at its best, seems to be needed, especially in view of the defeat that was sustained yes- terday when one Julius Bonetti gave up only five hits—three in the last inning—and won a 6-to-3 decision. All the Nats’ runs were scored in the ninth inning Carcarella started for the Nats and between his side's defensive miscues and his own lack of effectiveness Joe never was in the game. The Browns got Ave runs in the first two frames ard when the Washington's third Inning rolled around Fred Sington batted for Cascarella. Linke went the rest of the route for the Griffs and did a pretty good job, giving up only one run when Bell and Clift bunched hits with two down in the seventh. Bonett{, in the meantime, had a no-hitter for five innings. In the sixth Linke reached him for a hit and Kuhel got another in the seventh. ‘Then, in the ninth, the Griffs cut loose with a rally that was too late and too short to be of any use. Linke started this one, too, leading off with a single. Chapman then ‘walked and Lewis singled to fill the bases. Kuhel popped up but Johnny Stone doubled to score two runs gnd put Lewis on third, from where Buddy scored on Al Simmons’ long fly. Myer ended the game by tapping in front of the plate. The Nats were to wind up the series with the Browns today and ‘head tonight for Chicago, where they’ll play & two-game set that will finish the first invasion of the West. Rooked ‘WASHINGTON. His | She can reach for the high ones . . @hfi Foening Stad Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY (Star Staff MAY 11, Photos.) Gather in the hot bounders . . . hook slide on the paths .. e ] N ) commpowIsInS B co00moH~ooo~ M c © » _ 30 3 srella in third. man in ninth. - SwnHHoe O Carey = 2I Bonettl, Totals_. ‘WABHING' 8t. SRR B HI-B0000 > olescosccsc M 000 003—3 000 10x—8 inke. off .3, Bonetti.' 4; by Linke. 1. Hits—Oft Cascarella. 4 in’ 2 innings: off Linke. 5 in 6_innings. Losing pitcher— arella. Umpires—Messrs. Dinneen. Owen and Hubbard. Time—1:38. ~ That Man’s Bpectal Dispatch to The Star, T. LOUIS, May 11.—Seven full of Carl William Fischer finds trying to squeeze out of the pitching he figures to produce. Carl from Newark, paying $15,000 in ball players. At the time, Fischer was "POPPING 73 Here Again! years following the original purchase the Washington base ball firm again kinky-haired southpaw the kind of Back in 1930 Clark Griffith bought cash and giving up, in addition, two touted as one of the swiftest southpaws in the business. He was strikeout king of the International League. He never lived up to expectations. He was a sort of a broken promise and when Griff saw a chance to grab Earl Whitehill in 1932 he swapped Fischer and Fred Marberry to Detroit. ‘Whitehill helped the Griffs to win the Now Fischer is back, via the waivers. The Washingtons ‘plid $7.500 | to get him from Cleveland, bringing over $30,000. value of the two players turned over to Newark. Walter Johnson was managing Washington when Fischer first came to the Griffs. Now Bucky Harris is at the helm and in spite of the seven mediocre seasons Carl has spent in the majors, Bucky likes him; plans to make him a starting pitcher. Harris is not grasping at any straw, as yet. For instance, when the Yanks put big Walter Brown on the block and asked waivers, Bucky did not claim him. He thought Walter had plenty of stuff on the ball, but too much waistline. So Brown slipped to the minors. Fischer is a pitcher Harris always liked. Anyway, he claimed him twice before he finally got him the third time. If Carl is any help Bucky can thank Tony Lazzeri, who stole third on Fischer last week in Cleveland. May Ape Kelley, Appleton. AF'I‘ER the game Steve O'Neill, goaded into a veritable fire-spit- ting mood by Cleveland newspapers, said to Fischer: “Get dressed and get out. You're through.” Fischer did 80 and now he is with Wash- ington. Carl has not always been a foul ball in the major leagues. In 1935 he had a no-hit game against Wash- ington for eight innings but in the ninth Ossie Bluege singled "o spoil it. He was pitching for the White Sox then, after having been traded by Detroit. It looked as if he might make the grade with the Sox, but eventually Jimmy Dykes let him slip into the minors. Last year, pitching for Buffalo, he won 13 out of 15 games during the regular season and four in a row in the play-off series. Surely he deserved another chance, and Cleveland, prob- ably having the best pitching staff in the American League, gave it to him. Fischer is 32 years old now. Many pitchers lose some of their effective- ness when they reach this age, but not all of them. Pete Appletorl was an exception. So was Harry Kelley of the A’s. Fischer may not have the sheer “stuff” he had on the ball when he first came up but he may have learned the habit ef winning, O'Neill's opinion to the contrary. Harris thinks he rate. to be a starter. “He doesn't have to be very good to strengthen our pitching staff,” observed Bucky, with a wry grin. “Seriously, though, he's fast and he ought to win. If we can get four of our pitchers clicking we’ll have to be figured in the race yet.” Starting Quartet Undetermined. ISCHER'S purchase, plus the esteem in which Harris holds him, means that a sharp revision in the Much Sought Grid Star Casts Lot With Old Miss Dodson Coveted by Colleges All Over Country—Ambers Anxious to Fight Montanez. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Bports Writer. EW YORK, May 11.—It's & bit early for foot ball, but you can chalk up a victory for the University of Mis- sissippi . . . Down at Oxford they’re celebrating because Leslie Dodson of Columbus, one of the best backs ever turned out by a Mississippi high school, has voted to cast his lot with Coach Ed Walker’s Rebels . . . Colleges from Maine to Ouli- fornia were angling for the kid, among them Mississippi State, Louisiana State and Alabama . . . Lou Ambers wants Pedro Montanes and will cancel that European Jaunt if they oan get Pedro for an outdoor shot here. This is estimating thes . It proved a most strategic move, for pennant in 1933. the total outlay for Carl to something pitching plans of Bucky is possible. Joe Cascarella has been a disappoint- ment to date, as a starting pitcher, !and he may have to start all over as |a relief worker. Buck Newsom and |Jimmy De Shong, off their recent form, are sure to be starters. Harris | likes the way Monte Weaver has been pitching and is counting on him. That leaves Pete Appleton, Fischer |and Ed Linke. Nobody seriously con- sidered Linke until recently but Ed | has been notably effective as a finisher | and there is a chance that he may get | his chance to start. Appleton has | pitched fairly well but he has yet to win and in three starts. One thing is somewhat cer- tain—Fischer will create no great disturbance for a while. “He isn't in real shape to pitch,” is Harris’ opinion. “He hasn't worked enough to be in shape. Before he o /A starts I intend to make sure he's done enough pitching, either in the bull pen or as a relief pitcher, to give a good account of himself.” In short, for a guy who has been kicked around so much, Fischer enjoys surprising esteem on the Washington club. This is a help in the battle, but the rest is up to Carl. Hill Corps Inconsistent. ASE BALL is an unfathomable sort of a game, when you try to look into the future. In February, if you had to pick Washington’s four start- ing pitchers, you would have to say Newsom, Appleton, De Shong and, off his Pacific Coast League record, Jack Salveson. i In March Cascarella made deep inroads and replaced Sal- veson. In April the surprising Mr. Weaver stepped into the picture and Harris had five starters. On May 1 De 8hong did not look the part of a starter and Bucky rele- gated him to the bull pen. Jimmy stayed there part of one afternoon for he was called to relieve and did such a bang-up job that he reinstated himself and has won two games since. Now, on May 11, it's Newsom, Fischer, De Shong and you can write your own ticket for the other guy. ‘Wonder who'll be the four starters on June 1? —— HILLCRESTS CHALLENGED. A challenge to the Hillcrest A. C. Midgets has been made by the Field A. C. Fields also is looking for a catcher. Call Atlantic 0514. An old familiar headline appeared in an Ogden, Utah, paper the other day . . . It read: “Mathew- son turns in fine game” . . . The kid tossed for the Lewis Junior High School nine at Ogden . . . Sure, they call him “Christy” . . , Those Dodgers—players and direc- tors—continue to pull fast ones -+ + A day or 50 ago the front office announced Outfielder Eddie Wilson had been shipped to Jersey City . . . Three hours later Wilson was sent in to pinch hit against the Cubs . . . (Yeah, same old Dodgers) North Carolina’s new gym, seat- ing 5000, will be ready when the New York University cagers open the season against the Tar Heels Jenuary 15, A3 | 8lso are credited to Almon Williams, but Win 0ften—Bucs Hold to Terrific Pace. Associated Press Bports Writer. LL but one of their winning | A major leagues; in only 3 of their 14 games has a starting delphia Athletics, frequently lampooned this season as ragged-trousered uchins main deadlocked with the Cleveland Indians at the head of the American While the Indians were winning their fifth straight yesterday, 6-5, be- Red Sox heaved a double play ball wild in the eleventh inning, the A's Tigers, 9-5. The victory was the second for Execuée ‘a Rookies Finish Few Games, BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR,, pitchers are strangers to the | pitcher finished—yet today the Phila- clinging to Connie Mack’s hand, re- League. cause Manager Joe Croning of the kept step by’ turning back the Detroit Luther Thomas. Two victories each George Caster and Harry Kelley. Of the foursome, only Kelley has big league background. He won 15 games for Mack last year, a 30-year-old “rookie” who is a minor league veteran. Yanks Give Pearson Help. DE’F’EAT for the Tigers, their third in a row, though Gerald Walker extended his hitting streak to 16 games, combined with the Yanks' 7-0 shutout of the White Sox as Monte Pearson hurled the first one-hit game of the season brought the two into’ @ tie for third place. Pearson got able assistance from Joe Di Maggio, with his first two Homers of the year; and George Selkirk, with his fifth. The only disturbing note to the Yankee cause was an injury to Catch- er Bill Dickey. Hit in the arm by a pitched ball, the hard-hitting re- ceiver may be out for two weeks. The Pirates kept up their terrific pace in the National League. Bill Swift's eight-hit, six-strikeout, no- bases-on-balls pitching set back the Bees, 4 to 1, made it three straight for the Bucs and four successive whalings for Boston. Handsome pitching also marked the other National League battles. Van Mungo stopped the Cardinals dead with four hits and so inspired his Dodger mates that they played error- less ball for the first time this season and stole five bases to win, 8 to 2. Buckey Walters tamed the Reds with four hits as the Phillies came out of a four-game losing streak with & 10-to-3 triumph over Cincinnati. Clyde- Shoun, with home-run as- sistance from Augie Galan and Ripper Collins, pitched the Cubs to a 4-to-3 i | New to Slugging. | in cold figures, but the major | Are Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx, beans, setting the pace? | ‘The names of Gehrig and Foxx didn't to their credit. trailing the National, or “pitchers’ | finished last season with a grand 0id Standbys Shoved From Long-Hit Scene by Group | By the Assoctated Press. HICAGO, May 11.—It's there league home run picture doesn't look right these days. names as closely associated with the | home run business as pork and Today i was Dick Bartell, the New York Giants’ shortstop, and | Alex Kampouris, the Cincinnati Reds’ | little second baseman, with six apiece. even appear in the list of sluggers | with four or more round-trip belts | Not only that, but the American League—the “hitters' league'—was | league,” in total homer output for the season. The junior circuit, which total of 758 homers to 607 for the | | National, was trailing today, 54 to 68. | Selkirk, Walker Shine. ‘IN THE American League, Gehrig, | who ed both leagues with 49 ky of Cleveland, who had 42, and Foxx, third in 1936 with 41, were looking up at George (Twinkletoes) | Selkirk, the man who patrols Babe Ruth's old right field territory for the Yankees, and Gerald Walker, the De- troit Tiger who has been a ball of fire at bat this season after being balled up on the base lines most of | { his previous years in big-time base ih]l. Each had five homers. Sel- kirk's 1936 collection was 18. Walker had 16. Hank Greenberg. another Tiger and & big home run hitter in 1935, but out of action most of last season, and Bob Johnson of Connie Mack's Athletics, who knocked 25 homers last season, ‘were up among the leaders, however, | with four each. ‘Two in Rarified Atmosphere. ARTELL and Kampouris were in rarified atmosphere, indeed, by comparison with their 1936 home run accomplishments. Bartell made only eight all last season. Kampouris, never regarded as a pitchers’ nightmare, col- lected only five a year ago, one less than he had today. Of the onal League's “big four” of last year—Mel Ott of the Giants, 33; Dolph Camilli of the Phillies, 28; Chuck Klein of the Phillies, 25, and Boston's Wally Berger, 25—only Ott, with his four homers, was represented in the list of leaders. decision over the Giants. EASY FOR WILSON Coasts en Early Lead to 15-9 Vie- tory Over Landon. Despite a six-run rally in the ninth, Landon bowed to Wilson yesterday, 15-9. The newest member of the interhigh series rolled up an early lead on the suburban team, and although held by Relief Pitcher Eaton in the later innings, was able to coast in with the victory. Johnny Randall topped off Landon's futile rally with a home run, but he was the last man to score. College Sports BASE BALL. Georgetown, 9: Temple. 7. Manfiatean. 2: Brooklvn College, 0. . 5: Willia) i So 10. ‘man. 8, i Bridgewater, 6 (10 in- nings). Purdue. 11: Louisiana Tech. 0. Oklahoma, ‘9. Nebraska, 6. NIS. ...8: Lynchbure. Washington & 8: 8t. John's, 1. :Hlinois. GOLF. 3l2: Delaware, 3%. uesne. 1. 5Y2: Tows, 27 ; Ohicago. 2 Northwestern. H%: Michiss John Henry Lewis began train- ing for Patsy Perroni yesterday at Doc Bier's camp at Pompton %es, N. J. . . . They're trying to sh up big Jack Torrance at the -ne spot . . . John Simonaitis, who captains the Syracuse foot ballers and base ballers, wears spectacles when he performs at first base and on the court. New York writers say the old Gas House Gang ain’t what it used to be .. . Only Joe Medwick, Prisch, Durocher ‘and Pepper Martin re- main of the original cast . . . The Danville Leafs of the Bi-State League got hot with the open- ing gong and won 10 in a row . . . Five of the regulars are under 20 yoars oid. i ‘That tonsil operation didn’t help the Joe Di Maggio situstion much « . . He's hitting hard but still hav- ing throwing trouble, and the Yankess are worried . , . Russ Pe- ters, young infielder, who made the Athletics via Washington and Lee and wayside stops, is draw- ing kind words from Cosch Lena Blackburne. In seven years of high school, college and A. A. U. , Eu- 1ace Peacock, Temple star, figures he has run more than 75 miles in regular meets and broad-jumped more than 2 miles . . . Lloyd Lewis, sports editor of the Chicago Daily 1937, apman Nats’ New Worry : Preakness May Be Fam * | had the team’s funds attached. News, must think pretty well of the Cards’ chances . . . He's got & staff man traveling with the elub. ) * 'Loqal Lass Gets Money as Semi-Pro First Base Guardian—And Earns It Wield a hit-potent bludgeon . And peg that pellet. 'Evelyn Lynch, 23, Capital’s Only Girl Professional Base Baller, Is Real .300 Hitter |did not hit winning form until last BY JOHN B. KELLER. WEEK with Sundays only would be great to Evelyn Lynch, Washington girl whose hobby—and avocation, too—is base ball For Evelyn gains her main support from a position as a telephone opera- tor at one of the Capital's hotels, and only on a Sunday does her job permit her to enjoy base ball—and get paid for playing the game. The 23-year-old lass. played on boys’ teams since she was 9. recently signed to take over the first-basing task with the Young Men's Sports Club of Baltimore a semi-pro | team playing Sunday double-headers in the Maryland metropolis, and she is confident of making the grade. A Bloomer Girl at 15. EMI-PRO base ball is nothing new to Evelyn. When 15 she went to Bowie with her dad to see the New York Bloomer Girls in a game. “I'm a8 good & ball player as any of them,” Evelyn told the girls’ manager, and her assurance won a tryout. That day she was signed and for five years she played with the team, traveling through 28 States, Canada and Mexico. “It was great,” she says. “We had a lovely woman manager, and were paid off every week. was done in private cars. We stopped in good hotels and the management round-trippers last year: Hal Tros- | gave us the money to eat where we | desired. “But it wasn't so good with the next girls’ touring team I joined,” she ad- mits. “The manager proved a crook, and when we were stranded in Louis- ville he didn't pay us off. “He didn't get the better of an- other girl and me, though.” she sna! “We hunted up the sheriff and final We got enough to get home.” « Evelyn's first team was the Lin- | worth Insects, a boys' team in South- west Washington. She was 9 when she joined it. “They used to give me 50 cents every Saturday for catching a game,” she says. “Reckon I've been & pro a long while.” Evelyn comes of & base ball family. Her father, John Lynch, who died re- cently, was a well-known southpaw pitcher on Washington sandlots at the turn of the century, and both her brothers have managed and played with teams here. She has an older sister who never took to athletics. “When I was little I had to play games with the boys,” she says. Throws Hard, Bats Well. FIVE feet seven tall and weighing around 150, Evelyn is not of the masculine type as are so many wom- an athletes. But she throws with a man’s motion, not the choppy toss of 8 girl, and puts plenty into the throw. ILD DANIEL LOUGHRAN CO,, Inc., 402 11th St. S.W.,, Washington, D. C. | said about her golf and tennis th who has | She knows the fielding technique and takes a healthy cut at the ball at bat. | Evelyn throws right-handed, but | bats left. Her scrap-book records show | she averaged over .300 as a batter with | the Bloomer Girls. Base ball is not her only sport. She is & good swimmer and fancy diver and won & cup at the latter sport hete several years ago. She also is & | horsewoman, but admits that the less | better. I used to try tennis,” she says, “but my swing was too husky for it.” | She'll be playing the game on Sun- | days in the Summer, but when the Nationals are home ladies’ days will find her at Griffith Stadium. “I'm off the phone board on Pridays, ults, “and what a break that is.” League Statistics AMERICAN. VITAAN'BVING OF THE CLUBS. 2 “erudpead $10K MON aanuadig | Our traveling | »| uorsurusem Wn_1 RESULTS YESTERDAY. 8t. Louis. 6: Washington, 3. New York. 7: Chicago. 0. Philadelphia.’ 9: Detroit. 5. Cleveland. 6. Boston. 5 (11 innings). GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. WASH at St L. 4. WASH. at Chicago, 3. New York at Chi New York at St. L. | Boston at Cleveland. Boston at Detroit Phila, at Detroit. Phila. at Cleveland. NATIONAL. w uki00Ig uo3soq 0wy NY| [ 1i— 13 | Chil 13l 1i—I ol BEI_1 11 11 21— Bos| 0 11 3| PhI[ 0l [0l 13 3i—I 11 Cini 0l 0] 21 11 [ 11 1i—} L_1 31 6/ 8 811010(10/10 & 2000 RESULTS YEST! Chicago. 4: New York. Brooklyn. & St Louis. 2. Pittsburgh, 4: Bosion. 1. Philadelphia. 10 Cincinnat!, 8. GAMES TODAY. Chi. at New York. Pittsburgh at N. Y. St L. aU Brookiyn. Chicago at Boston. its GAMES TOMORROW. | § ily Duel MATEY TP RIVAL OF WAR ADMIRAL ‘Man o’ War Colts to Clash First Time in Pimlico By the Associated Press. ALTIMORE, May 11 —Two a Kentucky Derby cham- pion, the other a winner of Preakness a family affair in the fort seventh running of the Eastern rac Samuel D. Riddle’s War Admi 1L fresh from triumph in the Derby, and the Futurity last Fall, both sired oy the Great Man o' War, will meet for War Admiral already is the public choice to take the $50,000 feature of sixth horse in history to win both Derby and Preakness. Sir Barton, Classic Saturday. speedy Man o' War colts, one the Pimlico Futurity. may make the classic Saturday. Walter M. Jeffords’ Matey. winner of the first time in the Prezkness the season at Pimlico and become the Galant Fox, Burgoo King, Omaha and | Bold Venture turned the trick Pompoon Also a Threat. E IS sure to be the odds-on favor- ite, but some look to Matey and to J. H. Loucheim's Pompoon, second to the Admiral in the Churchill Downs classic, to give the little brown colt a race. By running the second fastest Derby in history, War Admiral left no ques- tion as to his speed. At the same time, however, Pompoon. two lengths behind him, proved he could B0 the mile and a quarter. The Preakness is a sixteenth shorter. Matey, off to a bad start this season week. Trainer Preston Burch has been bringing him along slowly for the Preakness, however, and he mayv pos- sibly give his famous half brother a run for the money. Field May Be Small. IN’DICATIONS are the Preakness field will not be more than half as large as was the Derby field of 20 and that not more than three or four of the Derby entries will start. It may prove a more interesting contest than the Derby. War Admiral, Pompoon and Miss E. G. Rand's Merry Maker arrived from Louisville vesterday in good shape to begin working out for the Preakness. Matey was already on the scene. | Wheatley Stable's Melodist was due today. BREWERS RUINING RACE Have Won 12 in Row to Lead A. A. Field by Six Games. CHICAGO, May 11 (#) —Something will have to be done about the Mil- waukee Brewers soon. or the Amere ican Association race will be over by the Fourth of July. | Riding on the crest of a home win- | ning streak that had reached 12 straight and winners of their last | eight starts in a row, including road | business, Allan Sothoron’s club was | leading the league by six full games | over Toledo. Minneapolis and Colum« bus. which were tied for second place. 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