Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1937, Page 14

@he Foening Stap SFporls Deal Talk Bobs Up With Browns : Jewish Gro HEMSLEY-TO-NATS | RUMOR IS REVIVED Griffith Awaits Report on' Riddle—Bosox Victims in First Series Win, BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ] HE Browns and a rumor de- scended upon Washington to- | day and there wasn't much change in either. The Browns | still are a second-division ball club, | lacking pitching, and the rumor is| that Hemsley-to-the-Nationals talk. | This time, however, the gossip in- | volving Rcllicking Rollie has what | the rumor mongers are pleased to re- | gard as a background. Owner Clark | Griffith of the local firm is undecided | as to the status of Catcher Johnny | Riddle. He still is waiting for the official report of the Wasliington club physician, who supervised some can-| did shots of John's bum whip with an X-ray. And Rogers Homsby, who manages the Browns, is painted as having all the catching one club needs. Of late Rogers has been using one Benny | Huffman, a recruit hailing from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In addition, he has Hemsley and Angelo| Giuliani. They say that Hornsby has all the catching he wants . . . and maybe he would be willing to part with some of it for, say, ®@itching. | Griff Would Buy Rollie. ‘ T'S ALL speculation at this point, | of course, but, mayhap, worthy of | consideration. Hornsby has a habl(; of popping into Griff's office for peri- | odic chats when he is in town. This time there is a possibility that trade talk may be made | “I haven't anybody to trade for v, the old gentleman ‘was last night. “We need every body we've got. Of course, if Hornsby | wants to sell Hemsley, maybe we can do business.” Hornsby, of course, isn't likely to sell Hemsley as long as he thinks there is & chance to get somebody in trade . and if he cares to part with Rollie at all. This is & very dis- | tinct possibility that everybody may be overlooking. | Anyway, not until late today at| the earliest will Riddle know definitely how he is regarded by the Nats. By then Griff will have received an offi- cial reading of Johnny's X-ray photos and if it is established that something tangible is gnawing at the elbow joint | the Hogan-and-cash-for-Riddle deal | will be dropped into the disciplinary lap of Judge K. M. Landis. Extry! Nats Win Series! IF’ IT is established that Riddle is| all right he undoubtedly will be | retained. Griff and Manager Bucky | Harris do not regard Johnny as much | of a hitter, but they like him because he is a plugger, sturdily built, and a fair receiver. | Meanwhile, pending what havoc the | Browns will create, if any, the Nats| today felicitated themselves on win- | ning their first series of 1937. This | happened vesterday when a two-run | rally was staged in the eighth inning against the Red Sox. The rally turned @ 3-2 deficit into a 4-3 victory. The victory did everything except | lift the Nats out of the American | League cellar. For one thing, it blew | up the longest winning streak of any ‘Washington pitcher, for James Brook- | lyn De Shong pitched for the Griffith A. C. and won his fourth game in a row. It also was the first time the ! Nats won a series. They won the Boston set, 2 to 1, and up to then a tie was the best they had been able ! to get. Thirdly, it was the first time ' they've been able to win on ladies’| day. Browns Bring New Faces. N INVASION of the Browns, in recent years, always has been re- | garded with huzzahs by the Griffs. This time they are not so sure. On| their recent Western swing the| WASHINGTON, DN UESDAY, MAY 18, 1937. up in Majors Sturdy . The A. E. F. veterans benefited as well as the smoke-eaters at Turner’'s Arena last night, Jor poppy vendors were right on the job. Here to Nap Proctor. Nettie Stuart is making a sale Their Draw, With Little Hot | Action, Keeps Both Out BY BURTON HAWKINS, ATCHMAKER GOLDIE | M fight on the police benefit | card today loomed as medi- | Hobo Williams and Buddy Scott were | erased from consideration and other tuted as possibilities. The winner of the Scott-Williams | you see, was to have been matched | with the ringworm Eddie Mader, but are brewing which involve other fight- ers, none of which calculate to create boxing populace. Bouts arranged thus far list Bob Stewart meeting Tom Chester and | Lou Gevinson colliding with Johnny fourth bout would be outstanding | enough to hoist the show above Present plans under discussion find | such embryonic encounters as Cow- Quarles, Joey Archibald vs. Ray In- | gram and Howard Scott or Quarles | Lew Feldman receiving serious | consideration. All fair tussles, per- Neither Gain by Draw. liams continue along their re- | spective pugilistic paths neither unveiled in their 10-round stalemate. The fight wasn't too interesting, for engagement and both knew the oth- er’s style too well to produce any customers. The fight did have its moments, | rounds with & concentrated mid- section attack and Buddy taking the | Hobo's bobbing noggin. Neither lad ever was in serious OFF POLICE CARD of Benefit Show. AHEARN'S fourth 10-round | ocre as the remainder of the show as | scrappers of dubious caliber substi- | argument last night at Turner’s Arena, | the boys fought to a draw. Now plans | much of a stir among Washington's Tow facing Sandy McDonald, Ossie Pena. It generally was agreed the mediocrity, but apparently it won't. boy Howard Scott vs. Norment Vs. ; haps, but nothing more than that. BIEANTIME, Buddy Scott and Wil- harmed nor buoyed by the action they the simple reason it was their third spine-tingling sensations among the | however, with Hobo winning the early | latter sessions with brisk punches to | trouble and the bout proved a night- "POPPI OFF Ytan. The so-called feature bout of the evening failed to impress the spec- tators nearly as much as the boosting of the tariffs for the occasion. This is an eighth-round shot of Buddy Scott (left) and Hobo Williams in the rocess of what officially was recorded as a draw. NG Y ; | Guy Who Can Take It. I away at a pitched ball. Washington ball firm paid $7,500 didn't HEY say the last thing a hitter loses is his punch and, proceeding on ' this time-honored theory, Mister Clark Griffith and Mister Bucky Harris have been content all Spring to watch Al Simmons whack And, until recently, the guy for whom the look worth 30 cents. Less ardent believers of the theory began to grow faint-hearted. Over x s mare to judge, as evidenced by the Browns were the only club to take a | - o series from the Nats, and this year, official scoresheets. Referee Charley in some ways, they resemble the Reynolds voted for Scott, while Judge Washington club much more than in | 172K Schuyler balloted a draw and one stretch Al couldn't get a ball out of the infield. He was hitting into double plays with regularity of Cleveland editorials against the reigning Indian chieftain. People began counting—and exaggerating—the number of ball games Washington would have won if Simmons had been hitting . . . or if Harris had yanked Simmons and played somebody else. The inevitable trade rumors began to appear. Griff and Bucky stuck by the guy and now he seems to have hit his stride. | The fellow who couldn’t hit .100 for nearly three weeks has batted .388 for the last four games. He has scored«————— = six runs, belted two doubles, rammed | g H the race and they each collected $6.000 out two home runs, and batted across | .v.o'in the world series. And in De- HtltiaNdozen runs, troit the guy was crucified. The But the guy who deserves the | o0 Soro robbed of Greenberg and credit isn't Griff. Nor Bucky, | conrane early in the chase and the cither. Even if he were so in- | (i Go¢ through, But misfortune clined, Griffith couldn’t give up | o iy the reason Detroit lost the pen- | on Simmons. quickly . . . mot |, "L e because that swell- after he had just bought him | p;40q, " swaggering Simmons was from the Tigers. Lt ) d 2 ng the boys who believed And Harris didn't give up on Sim- lin the spirit of amateuris and mons because Bucky is one of those yerent jnterested in winning for the gamblers who plays the percentages goye of what they could pick up In a and he figured that Al had a better (o4 cariog chance of delivering, sooner or later, ALl it was who|was theldeeps than any replacement on the club rooted weed that poisoned mo- ster had, | rale and spirit. o D L (e 1 TG Dl T i G D | v, ¥ his t poipfoncs iibrderathBipiematze start, he wound up with a .327 batting e AHCican ket average and he drove across 112 runs. | Millions of words were written about | Joe Di Maggio in 1936 and his feats | were lauded. ‘Well, Di Maggio drove | across 125 runs on a team that broke | | & score of batting records, including | 995 runs batted in, and on a club that | won the flag by 19!, games. mons batted across 112 runs for the Tigers, which wasn't a half-bad job | for a veteran facing the setting sun. | Still they sneered in Detroit. He Smashed Illusions. AL SMASHED a great many un- | | flattering illusions when he joined | | the Senators down South, just as Ben | Chapman did when he first reported to Washnigton. | was a very human sort of a guy, after all, and when he couldn't buy a base hit at the start of the season they found this fellow with a lifetime av- erage of .345 worrying as much as the veriest rookie. Couldn’t Hit For Sox. THE average conception of Simmons is misleading. Maybe it's because; he walks the way he walks . . . or does any of half a dozen things on the field. But, anyway, fans have been yelling “Big Head!” and “Swell Head!” at him for 10 years or so and probably thinking that anybody with his ego couldn't be hurt by anything oral. It was a woeful miscarriage of justice. Simmons isn’t a big head. He isn't marking time until his annuities begin paying off, as per recent report. He's just a regular guy with all the normal person’s sensitiveness ventured opinions as to what he was doing wrong. They found that Al The Griffs found he | Some of the Nats, after a while, | the past. They have two items in common—power and shaky pitching. In the next three days it will be a question of which team will squeeze ' more good pitching out of their | pitchers. There are several newcomers to St. Youis uniforms scheduled to make their debuts at the stadium this after- noon. Joe Vosmik, playing left field, is one. Washington fans have never seen Ethan Allen, a veteran National Leaguer, nor Bill Knickerbocker in| a St. Louey monkey suit. Huffman, the rookie catcher, also is likely to see action. | Huffman is a kid in whom Hornsby places a good deal of faith. He caught for Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah | Valley League last year and was a captain of a Bridgewater College base ball team. Last Winter the Luray boy went to Ray Doan’s base ball “school” | in Hot Springs, Ark., and it was there that Hornsby, as one of the “teach- | ers” became impressed and picked him up. He seems to be a pretty fair | hitter for a kid who has made a big | Jump. ! Same Old Wes Ferrell. Y TAKING that 4-3 decision yes- terday the Griffs captured one of the most thrilling series in recent years from the Red Sox. All three games were decided by one-run mar- gins. Al Simmons was the hero for the Nats. De Shong held the Sox to only seven hits, but wildness hurt him, and in the fifth inning the Bostons were in front, 2-0. Simmons tied up the game in the sixth inning. With Johnny Stone on first base, he banged a home run | into the left-field bleachers and tied the count at 2-2. In the eighth inning the Sox went ahead on a walk to Pinky Higgins and Mel Almada's segond triple of the game, but the Griffs went the an-, keymen one better in their half of | the eighth. | Jesse Hill led off with a scratch single and took second on Higgins’ | wild throw. Buddy Lewis then beat | out a bunt and Hill moved to third, from where he scored when Joe Kuhel pushed a single throu a drawn-in | infleld. Lewis scored oy Stone’s death, | Spangler’s right eye in the third | round when he connected with a left Judge Dr. O. U. Singer thought Wil- liams the winner. The Star's score- sheet showed Williams ahead by two points. Frankie Saia, 8 Miami mauler, com- bined grappling and street fighting to capture the decision over Joey Span- gler, Richmond welterweight, in a six- | rounder. Saia repeatedly wrestled | Spangler to the floor and through the ropes and actually tackled Joey in the fifth frame. Saia Also Fights Occasionally. SANDW!CHED between his rough- _house tactics, however, the olive- skinned Sala displayed a measure of | fighting ability. He completely closed to drop Joey for a nine count. In a semi-final scheduled for eight rounds, Joev Archibald, Providence eight, chilled Lawrence Gunn of Baltimore after 2 minutes and 50 seconds of the sixth round through the medium of a stiff right to the chin. Other arguments saw an improved Billy Bullock, local lightweight, grab & decision over Benny Kessler of Balti- ~—maybe more. He heard the grandstand wolves howl. He heard them in Chicago, where they disarranged the best-look- ing playing field in the American League so that left fleld would be 15 feet shorter and he could hit more home runs. Al gave his best, but he just couldn’t hit in Comiskey Park. His third year with the White Sox he slumped below the .300 mark for the first and only time in his long career, and there was a fearful to-do. Chicago had no alternative but to place him on the block and in the Winter of 1935 two bids were reported. One was from the Yankees; the other from the Tigers. Ended ’36 With Bang. 'HE story goes that Loole Comiskey called up Simmons and gave him his choice—New York or Detroit. There was a difference in the prices offered, it was said, but with Comiskey it made no difference. Simmons was given his choice and they say that Al went to Detroit because he chose the Tigers and his pal, Mickey Coch- rane, over the Yanks. Ouch! That was an ill choice. The Yanks in 1936 made & runaway of listened attentively and that he didn't resent a suggestion from some guys whose peak year produced only a .315 average. In the end Simmons kept swinging, and at press time he still was swinging . .. and with more success, thank you. Didn’t he, in the final analysis, win the Red Sox series? The Simmons of popular conception could have sulked from the moment he was sold from Detroit to Wash- ington. He could have gone into a double sulk when the sale price of $7,500 was announced. This was quite a let-down. And then he could have mustered a pout when some of the writing boys who weren't able to see him every day said in the public prints that he wasn’t hustling and was just walting for his annuities to ripen. But he didn't. Al can take it. . CELERYMEN CHALLENGE. Having walloped Boyd's Pharmacy yesterday, 9-1, the Deoudes Celery Co. nine is challenging the Takoma Tigers and other strong midget teams. Call Atlantic 1082 between 8 and 2 o'clock. show Firemen’s Convention Fund Gets Decision as Scott and Williams Fight Draw in goodly numbers. Officials of the District’s flame-battling forces attended their own In this ringside view are shown Sergt. C. S. Peterson, Charles W. Schafer and Battalion Chief Steve Porter. —Star Staff Photos. YANKS WELCOME SOPWITH'S YACHT Escort Guides Challenger to Newport to Receive Noisy Greeting. Bs the Associated Press. BOARD COAST GUARD C{T- TER FAUNCE, off Massachu- setts, May 18.—An American escort steamed east from New | Bedford, Mass., before dawn today to guide T. O. M. Sopwith's Endeavour | IT to a noisy welcome at Newport, R. I, scene of the British yachtsman's second challenge next August for the America’s Cup. | The Faunce expected to bring the Nation's first greetings to the slim in- | vader and her convoy, the Belgian | fishing trawler John. Back at Newport, where the chal- lenger's approach whipped up fresh | enthusiasm at the start of another international racing season, a sizable and noisy collection of private craft stood by to provide escort up Nar- ragansett Bay. | Will Go to Bristol. {ROM Newport the big racing sloop will go immediately to Bristol for 5 grooming at the Herreshoff shipyard. At the same yard was Harold S. Van derbilt'’s newly constructed Ranger, | dismasted Saturday off Gloucester, Mass., while under tow from Bath, Me., to Newport for preparation as a cup defense aspirant. While a new spar is being con- structed at the Bath Iron Works, where Ranger was launched last Tues- day, Ranger will use a mast formerly Sim- | ysed by Rainbow, Vanderbilt's success- | ful cup defender in 1934. Rainbow Being Prepared. RAINBOW, now fitting out at Bris- tol for her new owner, Chandler Hovey, will meet Ranger and Gerard B. Lambert'’s Yankee in trial races to determine which will race Sopwith's challenger, either Endeavour II or | Endeavour I. The British yachtsman will decide | which sloop he will use after a series of trials off Newport. Endeavor I still was on the ocean itodny. somewhere behind Endeavour II. Her departure from England was delayed by trouble with a towboat. A’S GET LEAD AGAIN WHEN DICKEY ERRS| Wild Throw Nets Runs That Beat Yanks—Cubs Stop Reds With Lee's Six-Hitter. By the Assoctated Press. HILE the Nationals were climbing | nearer the idle St. Louis Browns | and dropping the Red Sox into fourth place yesterday, the Athletics got an upward push in their first-place bat- tle with the Yanks. The winning runs clattered across the plate in the eighth inning when Bill Dickey, trying to catch Bob Johnson on a double steal, heaved the ball into left field. The A’s also got the benefit of seven- hit-seven-strikeout pitching by Lynn Nelson, one-time Cub flinger, while they brought the Yankee mound ace, | Lefty Gomez, down to the .500 level | with three victories and three defeats. Lee was the hurdle that kept the Reds from sweeping their three-game | series with Chicago, giving the Rhine- landers a meager six hits. | Spencer, Dodgers, Gets Pass, Never Reaches First e N e L Mate on Second Is Caught Stealing for Third Out—Loughran Succeeding in Business. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, May 18—Did you ever hear of a batter getting four balls and not getting to first? . . . Well, it happened on the Dodgers the other day . . . Catcher Roy Spen- cer walked . . . But before he could trot to first a guy on second (name on request) was caught trying to steal third . . . That made the third out . . . (No it couldn’t have happened anywhere except in Brooklyn). Tommy Loughran is doing all right in the restaurant business in Philadelphia . . . He took a run down place and is making it pay . . . Lew Tengdler is another ex-pug who is get! rich serving ‘em over the counter in Quaker- town. Y Dan Daniel, base ball expert of the New York World-Telegram, is the guy who really got Ruffing and the Yankees together . . . Ernie Quigley, National League umpire in chief, says half the time the umpires don’t know what the score is . . . He means they're so concentrated on their own job they haven't any time to pay at- tention to what goes on around them. Max Waxman, Jack Dempsey's man Friday, is back from Miami - . . Mike Jacobs got a fresh hair cut before taking off for Chi- cago . . . Which, means there is something doing the fight line . . . Two rookies—Gil Brack of the Dodgers and Johnny Dickshot of the Pirates, are burning up the National League. Connie Mack says Bill Werber is Just as much of a hustler as Mickey Cochrane, which is sort of pouring it on . .. The reason Glenn Cun- ningham is considering hanging up his spikes is because he has to earn a living for the wife and an expected Glenn, jr. ... The Amer- ican Association is honoring for- mer stars with courtesy cards good at all A. A. parks. ‘Wally Moses, Athletic outfielder, has a batting stance just as une orthodox as the ones made famous by Heinie Groh and Al Simmons + o . Gaghell Tinsiey, Loulsiana State’s all-America foot ball play- er, has been elected to the achool's hall of fame for his gridiron ex- ploits. ‘When they have to put in ground Tules at Pittsburgh, it can't mean anything but that the Pirates— and the fans—are red hot . . . Dave Oameron, Dartmouth foot bell star, is touring Europe . . . Pedro Montanez opens Dyckman oval here June 2. From now on our dough rides with Mr. Orlo (Hoof Beats) Rob- ertson, the A. P.’s racing expert . - . He called the first four Derby horses and followed it up with & one, two, three pick in the Preak- Dess . .A’Nioe going, Hoof Beats. Joe Cronin 0. K., | Plays Tomorrow JOE CRONIN, player-manager of the Boston Red Sox, was to get his release from Georgetown Hos= pital today and board a train for Boston, where he is expected to return to the line-up tomorrow. Cronin was removed to the hos- pital yesterday when he was struck in the face by a ball thrown by Pinky Higgins. It happened dur- ing practice and Cronin, felled instantly, was rushed for X-rays to determine whether he had sus- | tained a fractured cheekbone. | The photos failed to reveal any break but he was detained for observation. Outside of a painful swelling he was all right this morning and said that he expected to get back at shortstop for the Red Sox during their current series with Cleveland. Clicking BOSTON. DnH!SAndr(;.v Cramer. McNair F. 1. EFT PN 333 Doerr. 2b W. Ferrell, p. _ Totals ‘WASHINGTON. Hill ef, i ma sl omszezue 5 s >3 1303 De Shong, p. | Sl mm Totals Boston WASHINGTON 000 002 02x—4 Runs batted in—Almada (2). McNair. Simmons (). Kuhel. Stone.” Two-base hit—Dallesandro. Three-base hit mada (2). Home run—sSimmons it bases—Cramer. Simmons. _Sacrifice—Ri dle. ~ Double plays—Doerr to_McNair fo Foxx, R. Ferrell o Higgins to Doer:. Myer to Biuege to Kuhel, W. Ferrell to McNair to Foxx to Doerr to Foxx. Left on bases— Boston, 8: Washington. 5. Bases on balis— Off W.'Ferrell, 3: off De Shong. 1 out—>by W. Ferrell by De Hit by pitcher—BY Ferrell Winning _pitcher—De * Shong. pitcher—W. Ferrell. _ Umpires—>Me: Hubbard. Dinneen and Owens. Time—::1 N 3 Florsheim _Presents AIRFLO Bucksbin/ A | bocks for 2 mile | Ohio State's Negro high jump FASTEST HUMANS N B TEN GAVES |Lash Heads Great Field to Ce Compete in Title Meet Friday, Saturday. E3 the As: d Press. ARBOR. Mich Four of the “wi humans” over distances and two have hit the present high j urday in Big Ten historic | Ferry Field. Don Lash, Indiana distance star, who holds nearly every record in the also will be d ing his mile championship in the Western Conference. On his heels in both events will be his “shadow” Tommy Deckard, a Hoosier teammata Both were members of the 1936 Olym- pic team. As Lash tops the track entries, so star: Dave Albritton and Me! Walker, out- | shine the other luminaries in the field | esents. | record of 6 feet 9%, inches with Cor- Albritton shares the world nelius Johnson of Compton Jun College and placed second in the 1936 Olympics. Sammy Stoller, Michigan's Olympic ‘orphan,” shares Jess Owens’ world record of 6.1 seconds for the 60 yards indoors on dirt. The sixth outstanding s meet is another ar of the Buckeye, Charles half-miler on the basis of 1936 per- formances. PIEDMONT. Asheville. 8: Rocky M Norfolk. Portsmouth, 7 ARNOVICH BOOSTS RACE'S STAR LIST | Phils’ Rook, Greenberg and | Myer Among Fast-Growing Lot in Base Ball. BY CONNIE MACK. UZZLING over some way to check Detroit’s big threat, Hank Greenberg, recently had me busy, but I found time to read about Morris Arnovich, the Phil- lies' sensational rookie, and it oc- curred to me Jewish athletes finally | are an important group in the majors. | My od friend, the late John McGraw, was, so far as I know, the | first manager who ever definitely sent |out his scouts in search of Jewish players. John's many Jewish friends | often ventured the hope a star of faith would make the Polo [ three Jewi vear—Moz | Solomon, an outficlder; Jake Levey, a catcher, and Andy Cohen, a second | baseman, but only A: was any help. a group he could pick from | Il start with Arnovich. | In his first week he secutive hits for laverage. Of ¢ t I figure he bu Jewish Athletes Apt Students. }IE E all watched the devor as that od. old and now fade out. At 5 feet 10 and we Some Problems for Connie. JORTUNATELY, he problems. 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