Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1937, Page 26

INSTARS TOURNEY Most of 50 Entries Start Play Today—Mary Cootes Gets Women’s Crown. BY BILL DISMER, JR. ITH Mary Cootes crowned queen of the .women and the title doubles match of the fair racketers await- ing the recovery of her partner, Mary Greason, The Star’s City of Washington tennis tournament today sent its most comprehensive field into action—for the men's championship. On two fronts, the Sixteenth Street Reservoir and the Edgemoor Club courts, all but a scant half-dozen of the 80 contestants were to play first and second round matches starting at 2 o'clock with the expectation that the large group will be reduced to quarter-final proportions by tomorrow night. The fleld was headed by Barney Welsh, fifteenth national ranking plaver of the country, No. 1 of the District of Columbia and defender of The Star's perpetual trophy. The cup was placed in competition last year for the first time, never to be won outright, but held by the cham- plon for the ensuing 12 months after he wins the city championship. The champion receives a minature of the 72-inch trophy for permanent pos- session, however. Battles to Women's Title. MEANWHILE. official completion of the women's tournament rests upon Miss Greason's health. Utterly exhausted after three hard matches in as many days after nearly eight months of inactivity, the pretty George Washington post-graduate student from Honolulu collapsed after her three-set semi-finals match with Miss Cootes on Wednesday and has not left her bed since. She said today, how- ever, that she hoped to play either Monday or Tuesday and the oppo- nents of Miss Cootes—Edith Clarke end Margaret Robinson—sportingly egreed to a postponement until her condition warranted. A fighting heart, plus a timely ap- pearance of Jupiter Pluvius, brought Miss Cootes the city title yesterday to edd to her women's District cham- plonship, won last season. Behind 3—1 in the final set, after she had taken a 6—2 trimming in the middle encounter, the dark-haired Alexan- drian broke Miss Clarke’s service three times in a row to win five of the last six games and the match. It was almost a parallel of the first set, which found the eventual winner taking four of the last five games to win 7—S5. Not many in the crowd, though, would have given a nickel for Miss Cootes' chances in the third set had not rain fallen just after completion of the second set. Final Rally Brilliant. APPAR!NTLY having rid herself of the costly double faults in her system, Miss Clarke romped through the second set with more ease than either girl enjoyed all afternoon. Miss Cootes broke her service in the third game, and her only double fault of the eight games cost Miss Clarke the fifth, but with those exceptions, it was all Clarke. ‘Thoroughly warmed up now, Miss Clarke saw her chances for victory | washed away by the downpour, which contrastingly affected her and the new | champion. She didn't need & rest; Miss Cootes did, and the hour and a half delay that was required probably Aaccounted for the final result. ‘There was no denying Mary’s zeal for | Nictory, however, exemplified in the Rast game when, at deuce, after losing $wo match points, she burned over the only service ace of the match for advantage and forced her opponent to drive out for the all-important point. . PORTER TOPS BATTERS Paces Int Loop Regulars With | «411—Keller Fourth. NEW YORK, May 29 (#).—The In- ternational League batting race was ell tangled up today, with Gene Kel- Jeher, Newark slugger, still regarded 8s the leader, although he has been benched for & week. Technically, Kelleher's .469 average was considered the loop's pace. Dick Porter of Syracuse, although dropping 25 points to .411, ended Wed- nesday’s game as the best of the reg- ulars, since Charley Kelier, another Newark clouter, fell from second to Jourth with .378. Between them were Newark's Will Hershberger, with an even .400. MONK MEYER'S LAST FLING. ANNAPOLIS, May 29 (Special).— After three years of competition in foot bell, basket ball and lacrosse, Monk Meyer, the diminutive, but bril- lant, Army athlete, takes his last erack at Navy in the lacrosse game which was to be played here today. Mayer graduates from the Army Bchool next month. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Cronin. Red Sox, .404; Lary. Indians. .400. Runs—Greenbers. Tigers, 31; Walk- er. Tigers. 2R. uns batted in—Greenbers, Tigers, 40: Bon! White Sox. 38. Hits— er. Tigers, 51; Bell Browns. 50. Doubles—Bell, Browns, 17: Vosmik, Browns. 15. Triples—Kuhel, Senators, 6; Stone, Senators. 5. !‘lr‘lonk:e Juhs_—Qreenbers. Tigers, and irk. Yankees. 8. len basds—Appling. White Sox. 7: avan. rs; Pytlak, Indians, Yankees. and Chapman. Senato! Pitchi Mudlin. Indians. 4-0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—Medwick. Cardinals. .430; Hassett. Dodgers. .397. Rune_Medwick, Cardinals, 32; Ga- n. Cubs. Runs batted in—Medwick, Cardinals, 6; Demaree. Cubs, 34 Hits—Medwick. Cardinals. 52; Has- fett: Dodsers. “and - Amovich.” Phil- fes. Doubies—Medwick, Oardinals, 14; Hassett. Dodgers. 13. ‘Triples—Vaughan ‘and Handley, Pi- Tuns—Bartell, T me Giants, 10; Cardinals, 8. bases—J. ome’ M en E :ac'imn. Cardinals, B R ineobbell Glante b0, War- ‘egl. Gatiinaia. and Bowman. Pirates, he Foening Stad Sporls WASHINGTO! oAUl (B SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1937. Men Tilting for City Net Glory : Newsom Too Unsteady WELSHTOPSFIELD | Mary Cootes Bests Edith Clarke for The Star’s City of Washington Net Title A section of the gallery at Edgemoor Club which yesterday witnessed the singles champion- ship final in which Edith Clarke (left) bowed to Mary Cootes (right). also is shown in the inset. Rain, which interrupted the match after the second set, caused post- A likeness of the victor AUSSIES GAMBLE ON QUIST AT NET |Name Ailing Player to Go Into Davis Cup Battle Against U. S. Team. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, May 29.—Aus- tralia’s ‘Davis Cup team, hoping for a few more good “breaks” to offset the bad ones in the past month or so, called today on the players who won at German- town a year ago to oppose the United States in the North American zone finals. Clifford Sproule, Aussie captain, hesitatingly named Adrian Quist, who has been ill during the past week, and the 29-year-old “veteran,” Jack Craw- ford, to play the opening singles matches against California’s Don Budge and Atlanta’s Bryan (Bitsy) Grant in the big stadium of the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, Draw Favors Australians. ALTHOUGH his condition remained uncertain, Quist was well along the road to recovery from an attack of intestinal flu when Sproule decided yesterday to nominate him. The cap- tain could name a substitute today, if Quist were too ill to play, but in that case the substitute would have to finish out the series Monday. The draw favored the Australians to the extent that Crawford was pitted against Budge in today's first match, at 1 p.m., while Quist drew the dimin- utive Grant. The tall, red-haired Californian is rated as at least a match for either of the Australians, while Grant, although picked over Frankie Parker for the No. 2 berth, is considered a gamble as a grass-court player. Should Quist be unable to play, either Vivian McGrath or young Jack Bromwich, both noted for their two- handed strokes, would replace him. McGrath was taken sick during the Australians’ first-round matches at Mexico City and his preparations re- tarded. Bromwich is inexperienced in international play. Visiting Doubles Withheld. WAL’I‘ER L. PATE, American cap- tain, indicated that Budge and Gene Mako would form the United States doubles team for tomorrow's match, but Sproule withheld his for- mal announcement until today. The final singles matches will be played Monday, reversing the order of today’s encounter. Indications were that fair weather today would bring out & capacity crowd of close to 14,000. WOODRUFF IS KEEN IN TRACK PRELIMS Qualifies in Two Events, Lifts Pitt's Title Hope—Johnson of Columbia Co-Stars. By the Associated Press. NIIW YORK, May 29.—John Wood- ruff, the University of Pittsburgh’s long-striding Negro, one of the great- est middle-distance rumners in the world, doesn’'t care what race he runs as long as he can run. Perhaps that's why Long John may lead Pitt to its first intercollegiate A. A A A title today. Woodruff led Pitt’s asquad in the trials yesterday with a brilliantly run quarter mile of 48.1, and also qualified in the half mile. The Panthers placed six entries in the finals and four in the semi- finals. Dartmouth, Cornell and Yale put eight men each in today’s finals and semi-finals and Columbia’s indoor I. C. 4-A. Titlists, co-favorites with Pitt to take the title, their first outdoors since 1879, sent six to the finals and one to the semi-finals. Ben Johnson, Columbia’s great Ne- gro sprinter, won his heat and semi- final in the century, took his 200-heat and qualified in the broad jump. His times of 9.9 for the 100 and 21.8 in the 220 were the fastest of a day marked by comparatively poor performances. Chief surprises were the failure of Marty Glickman, Syracuse Olympic sprinter, and of Yale's speedsters, Easton Burlingame and Gardner Mil- lett, to qualify in the 100, - = RIS == By BURTON HAWKINS ILMER BORTZ, the pitch- er who might have meant a championship to Wil- son’s ball club had he not been declared scholastically in- eligible, actually was eligible for competition . . . Bortz passed make-up examinations in two sub- Jects, but Principal Norman Nel- son ruled him out . . . because too much publicity was given the mat- ter and he feared other coaches would protest. Dinty Moore, Navy lacrosse coach, heads the Maryland Col- lege for Women at Lutherville, Md. . . . he married a graduate of that school . . . three teams will fly down from Boston to com- pete in the annual North-South skeet shoot at the National Capi- tal Skeet Club June 5 and 6 . . . at the age of 8, Bob Nestell, the fighter, knocked out a Mexican lad of the same age . . . according to Nestell's dad. Bob Pastor, who fought Nestell last night at Los Angeles, is a nephew of the late Rose Pastor Stokes, who was a famed social- istic agitator many years ago . . . Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker says no less than a 112-mile-per-hour av- erage will win the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race Monday . . . Louis Meyer established the rec- ord last year with 109.60. Lou Gevinson, local feather- weight, has scored 56 knockouts in 78 fights, including his record as an amateur . . . but his first two pro fights should be ruled off . . . the opposition, so-called, offered by Al Schaeffer and Benny Wittler was too feeble . ., . Bobby Gold- stein, who twice was trimmed by Norment Quarles, will second Cowboy Howard Scott against his former collegiate rival on the police benefit boxing card June 2. Scott, who now is 26, has been flinging fists since he was 18 . . . Johnny Pena, the veteran New York fighter, is not a former world featherweight champion, as has been reported in some quarters . .. five years ago he was whipped by Tommy Paul in the final of an elimination tourney staged by the National Boxing Association to determine a title holder after Bat Battalino outgrew the 126-pound class. Ray Ingram and Lou Gevinson, acoording to Collyer's Eye, will meet on the police fight card . .. that was banned by the District Boxing Commission some weeks 8g0 . . . the same sheet rates Fred Apostoli over Ken Overlin in the middleweight division, despite the fact Ken trimmed him several months ago . . . Eddie Pierce and Al Hostak must be awfully good to their mammas to be ranked seventh and eighth in the same ratings . . . because nobody's ever heard of 'em. BATTING LEADERS HAVE TOUGH WEEK DiMaggio, Greenberg Among Few to Step Up Pace as Pitchers Jar Down. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, May 29.—The pitchers turned on the heat in the big leagues this week, and, although they failed to dislodge the current batting leaders, they had a lot of fun turning the first-ten set in each loop upside down. Even Ducky Medwick of the Cardi- nals and Joe Cronin of the Red Sox, who still are in first place in their respective circuits, found the going tough during the seven-day span ended with yesterday's games, Medwick dropped three points to .430, while Cronin, getting only five hits in 20 times at bat, fell 39 points to .404. Di Maggio Week’s Loader. OF THE few batters who escaped the general let-down in averages, Jarring Joe Di Maggio of the world champion Yankees easily was the top clouter of the week. He collected 15 hits in 28 chances, something better than a .500 clip, to boost his average 68 points to .364 and climb from 30th place to fifth. Big Hank Greenberg of Detroit climbed from .317 to .349. Standings of the first 10 in each AMERICAN LEAGUE. Player. f.lllb‘.\ g0 -2 30 Gehringer, Detroft___ 27 NATIONAL LEAGUE, Medwick, St. Louis___ Hassett. Brooklyn P. Waner, Pittsburgh” Mize. 8t. Louis Arnovich. Philadelphis Todd. Pittsburgh _ 30 Vaughan. Pittsburgh” 31 Brack. Brooklyn ___ 26 Barteil. New York ~ 33 Goodman, Cincinnat! e e ] SIRIFERRS A1 19 Z Five years ago—Herman Brix tossed 16-pound shot 52 feet 8% inches to better world record. College Base Ball Pennsylvania, 11; Harvard, 4. Northwestern, 8; Wisconsin, 7. Purdue, 3-7; Minnesota, 1-8. 0 | GAMES TODAY. League Statistics SATURDAY. MAY 29, 1937, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. ston, 7: Washington. 0. troit, : 8t. Louis, 5—2. Chicago, 3: Cleveiand. 2 (10 innings). New ° York-Philadelphis, threatening weather. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. | --——pomea wom 1907 ~o293u9019d [ 3 £ 2 || --- -~ uoysog _uorupuses sinoT IS 2| & Ll " S " i ‘S jqaEpeITad -=== puiueg sowep) | GAMES TODAY. at Boston, 2. GAMES TOMORROW. a: Wash. at Boston. 2. Phila. at New York Phila. at New York. 8t. Louis at Detroit. 8t. Louis at Detroit, Chicago at Cleve. Ohicago at Cleve. NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Pittsburgh, 10; St. Louls, 3. icago, 1 ncinnati, 3. 1y games scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ponement of the doubles final which and Miss Cootes against Miss Clarke and Margaret Robinson. LAWSON, MARCUN | “POPPING OFF Put Tigers, Bosox in Thick of Fight—Bucs Trounce Cards, Boost Lead. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE base ball folk in Detroit and Boston should be thankful that Roxie Lawson and Foot- sie Marcum chose this Spring to do their comebacking. If those two hurling hopefuls hadn't started like a couple of houses afire, the Tigers would be out of the first division, and the Red Sox would | be nearly out of the American| League, s0 far as the standings are concerned. As it is, Lawson already has won s many games as he took all last| year, and has been the No. 1 finger in the Tigers' trek to second place. And Marcum, with five victories to his credit, is the only Red Sox starter with a better than .500 average. Both of them were disappointing flops a year ago. * Lawson Is “Workhorse.” AT THE moment, Lawson is the “workhorse” of the league, with | 79 innings on the mound in nine games. He won the only game he failed to finish, and allowed only six hits in the single decision he lost. He has fanned 29 and walked only | 33. Yesterday, he never was in trou- ble as he hurled the Tigers to a 7-2 | victory over the St. Louis Browns in the nightcap of a double-header. Detroit also won the first game, 6-5, on a homer by Hank Greenberg to climb back into second place. Marcum has seen 62 innings of ac- tion in nine games, and has walked only 17 batters while fanning 23. He muffled Washington with six hits yes- terday to put the Red Sox over the 500 mark for the first time in two weeks, Buos Stretch Loop Ledd. T}mm work featured a curtailed program in both leagues. Other- wise, the high light was a 14-hit bom- bardment the Pittsburgh Pirates ex- ploded on the 8t. Louis Cardinals for 8 10-3 win, thereby stretching the Bucs’ National League lead to a game and a half over the idle Giants. The Chicago Cubs found Cincinnati pitch- ing easy and clubbed out a 12-3 de- cision behind Charley Root's steady tossing. The rest of the league had an open date. The Chicago White Sox outlasted the Cleveland Indians and came through with & 3-2 win on Zeke Bo- nura’s timely two-bagger in the tenth inning. The start of the Yankees- Athletic series was delayed a day by Tain and was carried over to a double- header today. d 4 i) om 2 @ g u EHA9 g HE E BEE: EEHEE AR AR R Pit |—| 1| 3] 31 2] 4| 3| 4/20/101.667 _ NY| 3l—I 3| 3( 3| 3| _11_4I20113/.6081 StL|_2| 21— 2| 2] 2] 3] 4/17/141.548| 1| 2| 3i—I| 2 31 4| 21171161.515] 2 21 11 3| 2i—| 0l 3] 3/14(15/.483| 6% 11 31 20 11 21—I 2| 2]13/16].448] 6% 1/_21_0l_21 3| 3I—_2(131f --peunou o *1qaRpe| g H i -'e39judd3ad. L._110/13{14/16 GAMES TOMORROW. New York at Phila. New York at Phila. Bostor. at_Brooklyn. Boston at Brooklyn. Cinc. at Chicago. ~ Cinc. at Chicago. Pittsburgh at 5t. L. Pittsburgh at 8t. L. Stars Yesterday By tue Associated Press, Hank; Greenberg, Tigers —Hit homer in opener and drove in two runs with single and double in nightcap as Tigers topped Browns, 6-5 and 7-2. Charley Root, Cubs—Muffled Reds with eight hits, fanning five, in 12-3 win. Zeke Bonura, White Sox—His two-bagger in tenth drove in win- ning run for 3-2 victory over In- dians, Paul Waner, Pirates—Hit two doubles and single, driving in two runs, and scored two others in 10-3 win over Cardinals. Johnny Marcum, Red Sox— Blanked Senatora, 7-0, with six . COCHRANE ON MEND, CHATS OF BENGALS Definite Improvement Is Noted, Signs Are Encouraging, Say Cautious Doctors. Ey the Associated Press. EW YORK, May 29.—Definite im- provement was noted today in the condition of Mickey Cochrane, manager of the Detroit Tigers, who suffered a skull fracture when he was struck by a ball pitched by Bump Hadley of the Yankees. In their final bulletin last night Drs. Robert Emmet Walsh and Bryon Stoo- key said: “The signs are encouraging.” That hopeful statement from the physicians who previously had en- deavored to avold saying anything that might raise false hopes was received as & good sign by Cochrane’s admirers. Mrs. Cochrane and Walter O, Briggs, ir., son of the Detroit club owner, were permitted a brief chat with Cochrane yesterday. They reported he seemed cheerful and mentally alert and showed considerable interest in hear- ing how the Tigers were doing. WILL WED TENNIS STAR DUNDEE, Scotland, May 29 ().— Ronald Ellis, 24, of Inder-Gowie has announced his engagement to Anita Lisana, Chilean tennis star. No date 2x e wadding was - | the American League who like the | | chances of the Athletics over the Red | Sox. probably will be played Monday and will pit Mary Greason —Star Staff Photos. # 4 \\i fans: Back Bay Apprehension. Special Dispatch to The Star. B ‘Yawkey-men and make some people 0ol of the Red Sox, and, according OSTON, May 29.—According to latest dispatches, the amazing Athletics of Connie Mack still are running in the first division, a stride ahead to latest whisperings in Boston, there is genuine fear here that Philadelphia will finish ahead of the| k very foolish indeed. ‘When Mack broke up his great ball club of only a few years back the Red Sox, backed by the Yawkey millions, saw fit to grab all available talent. In Boston the fans cried out in glee and the management freely predicted a pennant winner. After Mack had sold Al Simmons and Jimmy Dykes and Mule Haas to the White Sox, the Boston club eagerly bought up Lefty Grove, Rube Walberg, Max Bishop and one or two minor figures from the A's. This was the time when Tom Yawkey also bought Joe Cronin for $250,000, plus Shortstop Lyn Lary. The Sox didn't win with these stars, but when Mack, in the Winter of 1936, als Roger Cramer and Eric McNair, thes joy in Back Bay knew no bounds. But Boston didn't win ir 1936 either, and the Red Sox were established as flops. | This year finds the Red Sox doing better and expectations in Boston somewhat lower. Under ordinary circumstances, with the Sox running fifth, every- body would be well satisfied. But “ordinary circumstances” do not embrace the Athletics in the first division—ahead of the Red Sox. If Mack can sell hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ball players to a rival team and still beat out that club, there is something screwy, indeed, figure Boston fans. Ross No Help Yet. 'HE current major league campaign approximately is only one-sixth finished but there are many critics in They like, of course, the dash and hustle of the Macks and, while winning games requires some ability, in addition, there is no denying the value of these ingredients. In the past there have been ball clubs that have been rated as low as the Philadelphia outfit and yet have done surprisingly well. On paper, the T4-year-old Mack hasn't & great team but he has fine team play and spirit and there is a depth of ability running through it. If his Lamar Newsome- N Bill Cissell combination around sec- ond base holds up, and Earle Brucker and Frank Hayes continue their work behind the bat, Comnie conceivably could finish in the first division. He _has, for instance, a promising, youngish pitching staff which has yet to receive the benefits of Buck Ross, who has been rated by no less a personage than Mack himself as the best prospect of all his kid hurlers. Ross has been suffering with a sore arm from the start of the season. ‘When he returns to augment George Caster, Lynn Nelson, Bud Thomas, Almon Williams, Edgar Smith and Harry Kelley, the A's ought to have & staff that compares favorably with any in point of ability and rates at the top in sheer richness of promise. Master at Judging Talent. HOW Mack is doing the trick puzzles most fans, but base ball men are not surprised. Connie has no elaborate “farm systems”” In fact, now that Clark Griffith of Washington and Don Barnes of St. Louis have branched out and established bigger and better “farms,” the A’s trail the rest of the league in this respect. Philadelphia’s working agreement with Atlanta of the Southern Association is its most important link with the minors. But Connie, his eyes un- dimmed at 74 and his mind as active as ever, possibly holds an edge in judgment over the rest ct the field. Connie always has been a past master at judging diamond flesh. When a star begins to slip, the old gentleman sees it before the rest of the world and uually manages to get & price at what he considers sale time. And when he needs replace- ments, it matters not whether the player in question be young or old. Almost uncannily he hes been pick- ing up players who can help. Ross, Chubby Dean, Thomas and Williams are kids , , . But kids with whuel promise, * Bach baa poise 4 0 sold Jimmy Foxx, Johnny Marcum, | that is strange in players so young. Cissell, Kelley, Brucker and Nelson are no kids. They are old in base | ball but out of them Connie has con- | trived to wring an equal amount of dash and spirit. “Sailer” Pitch Made Nelson. IN YE Olde Redde Soxe Inne, beer and Scotch oasis of local and vis- iting newspaper men, it is interest- ing to hear a tale of how Mack picked up Nelson, whose relief work, as well as starting performances, has done much to keep the A's in the limelight. Nelson is no newcomer to the ma- /i or Nals jors. In fact he was with the Na- tional League long enough for the | managers to get what they considered | the right dope on him and waive him | out of the circuit. Lynn slipped back to the Southern Association, just as Kelley slipped back years ago. after the Nationals let him go in 1925. There, so the story goes, he learned how to pitch a “sailer.” Mack learned of this progress and shipped a quartet of strictly minor league players to Mem- phis in exchange. Nelson hasn't faced the Nats yet, but nobody on the Washington Club is anxious for this formal introduction. Not long also Nelson did a great relief Job against the Yanks, and the world champions are hollering yet. They oouldn’t fathom his delivery and squawked long and loudly that Nel- son was tampering with the ball. The umpires inspected the ball time after time and gave Lynn a clean bill. Tony Lazzeri still was suspicious but even while casting an aspersion that couldn't be proved, he provided & tip-off on Mack. “That guy must be fooling with the ball,” said Tony, referring to Nelson. ‘“Any pitcher that makes a ball do the things he makes it do has to be doing tricks. Otherwise, what was he doing in the Southern Association?” Blanket.y‘]%nk ‘WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. i M RO A 200209000022 Newsom, *Mihalic Linke, p Totals *Batted for Newsom in fif AB. =3 4 Soomswssouen O SonommHOoARD B H25200MD DI > £y 1 3 ® th. Ed R Mills. Gaffke, Cramer, Cronin. - 1o on wouDRBE® O Marcum, | al orronsnms 5l soumnnoss > 5 000 000 000—0 201 300 10x—7 —Mills (2). Gaftke, Cro- gL T Washington Boston Runs batted in. nin. MeNair hits—8immons, base—Higgins. 3. Hits—Off : off Linke, 4 in 4 innings. Losing oitcher—Newsom. Um- ires—Messrs. Owens and Ormsby. ‘ime—2:03. Homer Standings By the Associated Press. Yesterday's homers—Greenberg, ‘Tigers, 1; Trosky, Indians, 1; Bell, Browns, 1; Kampouris, Reds, 1. The leaders—Bartell, Giants, 10; Medwick, Cardinals, 9; Selkirk, ‘Yankees, 8; Greenberg, Tigers, 8; Foxx, Red Box, 7; Ott, Giants, 7; Kampouris, Reds, 7; Johnson, Ath- letics, 7. League totals— National, 1329; Aperican, 134 totala, 350. «. Or| BUCK IS NO HELP AS 500 SLABMAN Beating Taken From Bosox Proof He Is Ordinary “In-and-OQuter.” BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Stafl Correspondent of The Star, OSTON, May 29.—Buck New- som remains the enigma of the Washington ball club's pitching. Or, if you prefer, more territory possibly can be em- braced. Newsom still is the pitching enigma of the American League. Rogers Hornsby always used to wonder why the big fellow could not become a winning pitcher when he was with the Browns. This is not to say that Buck did not win. He won and won often, but, by the same token, he lost and lost often. Finally Hornsby sold him in 1935 and Bucky Harris undertook to solve the puzzle that stumped Hornsby. Newsom, handicapped by injuries, did not fare too well in 1935. Last year he was too close to that .500 mark to be highly ranked and this season, which was to have been Buck's greatest as a big leaguer, finds him exactly even in games won and lost to date. There has been no definite in= dication as yet that Newsom will live up to all the promise based on his physical equipment and willingness to work. Prior to the dismal opener of the Red Box series here yesterday, New- som held three victories as against two defeats. Today, after a four- inning bombardment and a 7-to-0 licking, his mark was a .500 again. Is Confirmed In-and-Outer. BY THIS time it has been estabe lished that Buck is no great pitcher. He is too wild ever to be a standout and his curve is not a fisting mate to his fast ball. But Buck should fare better than he has. He should fare better, f'rinstance, than he did yesterday when he gave up five earned runs to the Red Sox in four innings and finally retreated while the Bostons held a 6-to-0 lead. Buck has been a definite in-ande outer this year. He lost to the A's in his first start and came back to whip the Yanks. Cleveland knocked him out, but he was not credited with & victory nor charged with a defeat. Then he defeated Detroit but was knocked out by Chicago and Boston, | although his record did not change. He then won over the Browns but in his last two starts he was soundly whipped by the Tigers and the Red Sox. Figures interest few, but for those who seek to draw facts from them, Buck, in 612; innings this year, has given up 40 earned runs, allowed 67 hits, walked 41 batters and hit two other batsmen. Marcum Inflicts First Shutout. THIS is not a good pitching record but, at the same time, Newsom cannot be condemned too harshly, especially when the company with which he s running in is considered. One redeeming virtue of Buck is that he is one Washington pitcher who always is ready to go out and pitch, whether or no. If his record is not 5o hot, it certainly isn't the worst. Monte Weaver and Jimmy De Shong have done better as starters, and Syd Cohen's relief record is more im- pressive, but Buck is paled by no others. If the 40 earned runs off him in 612; innings is considered strictly n. g, he has plenty of come pany. Joe Cascarella, for instance, has allowed 21 earned runs in 21 ine nings pitched—or an average of one run per inning, nine per game. At this point, however, Newsom holds a more important key to the Nationals' fate than Cascarella, or any of the others who have disap- pointed. Harris’ pitching is in bad shape now. He has Jimmy De Shong and Monte Weaver to start and Bucky hopes that Carl Fischer will flll the bill. For a fourth, Newsom is the logical man, now that Pete Appleton is an uncertain quality. Only a perfectly pitched game by Buck yesterday, however, could pose sibly have rewarded him with a vice tory . . . And he would have been forced to pitch into extra innings. While the Sox were pounding him and getting bases on balls, Johnny Marcum was holding the Nats to six measly hits and inflicting the first shutout of the year on the Washe ington firm. One Nat Reaches Third. NLY in one inning, the third, were the Griffs able to get more than one hit. In that frame, Chapman and Lewis singled in succession, with one out, but Myer and Stone left them stranded. Al Simmons was the only Nat to reach third base. He doubled in the second and advanced on a wild piteh. Meanwhile, thanks to two hits and three walks, the Sox got off to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. In the third they boosted the score to 3-0 and in the fourth they reached Newsom for three more runs on two walks and two doubles. That was enough for Buck, and Ed Linke finished the game, doing & good job. Linke was nicked for only & single run, that coming in the seve enth whan Foxx walked, moved up on an infleld out and scored on & single by Pinky Higgins. Griffs’ Records BATTING. . H. 2b. 3b. HR. RBIL. Pe. 0 500 ety ] i3 BN BS S PR S DB S D PR AR ) 25 23=5 00505500~ HBO AR DAD D ERREDER I CONOHHB O I eI ©5c0200035NONHSBINOENS D ©35050-000WIHIO-HIOHOS Gray Cohen___ SOOI HOOm TN 4 ;QQ-»—M i W‘W.a 2 C [N S 2522232785 anaar~vwcl @ouw-ward e mri10cs woedteRa? Getorsis oS8 & »