Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1937, Page 41

s vews | @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0y Ok TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1937. * Features and Classified C PAGE C—1 Nats Seek Upper Bracket in West : Men’s Net Tourney at Keen Stage Youthful Budd y Lewis Displays the Finesse of an Old Master in the Art of Bu nfing a Base Ball PITCHERS INGREAT TRIMFOR JOURNEY in Double Bill. N ROUTE TO DETROIT, June E seemingly rejuvenated base grip by the middle of the month the Athletics yesterday in the Memo- | in Boston, ran their streak to three Fischer, Weaver Show Good | y Form as A’s Are Beaten BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent ot The Star. 1.—Holding a three-game win- ning streak, Washington's ball firm roared toward the West to- day with its goal a firm first-division The Griffs felicitated themselves for geveral items, notably a sweep over rial day double-header by 6-3 and 6-1 | counts. This, coupled with a victory | games in a row and enabled them to climb ahead of the A's in the Amer- As they surveyved the rest of the | fleld today the Nats foynd themselves | closer to the .500 mark than at any | time in recent weeks, only two games out of the first division, and only three out of third place. Moreover—and this is a development of vital importance—the Washingtons are finding they finally are getting some pitching help. Five of Manager Bucky Harris’ last starting pitchers | have gone the route and turned in per- | formances ranging from adequate to | downright brilliant. Weaver Hot in Nightcap. HE latest slab heroes are Carl Fischer and Monte Weaver. The former pitched to yesterday's 6-to-3 victory in the opener of the holiday bill that was witnessed by 24,000. Carl was not great, but he distributed 10 hits in far better fashion than Phila- delphia's George Caster and he won pretty much as he pleased. Weaver's performance was better. Monte finally was given some runs by his mates in the nightcap and he fairly breezed to a 6-to-1 triumph, holding the A's to only half a dozen | hits. Prior to this double dose of joy, Pete Appleton had rounded into some- thing resembling his 1936 form in Boston, when he won an 11-to-4 vic- tory. Jimmy De Shong, the day previous, turned in a five-hit game | against the Red Sox, although he lost, and over this stretch which was started by Weaver last Wednesday in Wash- ington only a single effort has been . Page C-4.) —we O BN SohHEOHHCRS B tHaves - Totals_ *Batted for Newsome in ninth inning. +Batted for Caster in ninth inning. ‘WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. Millies. c. Fischer. p Mihalic. 2b. Totals Philade'phia ‘Washington Runs batted eters. hree-base - hil—Kunel. Stolen = bases— tone. Chapman, Kuhel. Double plays— \ihel to Travis. Johnson to Cissell. Left on bases—Philadelphia. 0 Washington, 4. balls—Off Caster. 2; off Fischer, 4 passed ball—Brucker. = Umpires— assrs. McGowan and Morfarty. ~ Time— r. Rothrock. Two Rothrock. Hayes. Second Game. PHILADELPHIA. Rothrock issell, 2b. AB. R. HOHIIOR O ss05000ms omommsoH o H9oHooRs > csscoorco M Nelson. Totalss oo ‘WASHINGTON. S g T T Simmgns. 1f. _ Kuhel, 1b Weaver, p.- 13 000 100 000—1 Z 000 006 00x—6 Runs batted in—Johnson. Simmons, Travis. Hogan. Weaver (2). Chapman. "wo-base hits—Hogan o o Totals Philadelphia _ Washington & on Washington. 7. Bases on balls—Off Nel- son. 1; off Wi 3. _Struck out-—By . Umpires—Messrs. Time—2:06. 4 E | even Ball Players’ Ball Game. Special Dispatch to The Star. N ROUTE TO DETROIT, June 1.—It is & free rein that has been given the 16 major league managers in choosing the American and National League All-Star teams, and any number of surprising things are ex- pected to happen. It is quite likely that Outfielder Butch Klutz, whose batting average is .350, will be left out, for instance, and somebody with a .220 average chosen in his stead. The fans won't know why, and there are bound to be murmurs of disapproval, but after all managers and fans are bound to have different ideas, and the chances are that managers know better, because base ball is their business. In the meantime the all-star game, which will be played in Griffith Stadium on July 7, is a natural topic of discussion among the Nationals. ‘When Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis and League Presidents Will Har- ridge and Ford Frick met in Washington a few days ago they failed to men- tion whether it was necessary for at least one player to be drafted from every team in the two big leagues. sentation is not necessary, and there is a chance that none of the Nationals will be chosen. That chance, however, is slim. The 1937 All-Star game promises to be a ball player’'s ball game for ball players’ ball players, if you get it. Ana that brings up the subject of Johnnys——— = Stone. If the fans had their say, Johnny probably wouldn't stand a chance. Johnny Stone is one | of those fellows who keeps \ walking up to the plate and swinging, and then walks to his ] place in the outfield and keeps catching fly balls and throwing out base runners. | agers are more likely to cast a vote for either of this pair even if they don't think Rolfe and Higgins will be able to carry Buddy's glove between them a couple of years hence. Shortstop Voting Promises Slant. 'HE shortstop balloting among the oh f N " American League pilots is likely e customer has a vague notion | N . that Stone is out there. Generally |!® De interesting and provide quite the trade lets it go at that . .. and | 8n angle. There is Frankie Crosetti to concentrates on the Deans and Fellers | be figured, of course, and none of the g;“iofi‘;“'s"m and fellows with a lot | boys has anything on him as a fielder. 5 | But the real battle is likely to be be- tween Joe Cronin of the Red Sox and JOHNNY STONE doesn’t have a lot i Lyn Lary, who now is with the Indians. of color, but he does have ability | Here, indeed, would be a twist of and that's why he is called a ball | fape 1 the Fall of 1934 the Bostons player's ball player. If any National | had to be nominated at this date as|83Ve @ quarter of a million dollars in | the most likely candidate for an All-| ¢8h and Lary for Cronin. In 1933 Star appointment he would have to be [ 8nd 1936 the guy wasn't worth a lead | Stone. quarter. Neither was Lary until he Johnny, who came to Washington in | W8$ traded by the Nats to the Browns. the Winter of 1933 in a trade for| Their difficulties were contrasting. Goose Goslin, batted .315 in his first | Cronin could not get started because | year as a Senator. In 1935, his second | Of the responsibility on his shoulders. season up, he again batted .315, and He heard $250,000 every time last year Stoney bobbed up with a he went to bat, and greenbacks b instead of grounders danced in front of his eyes in the field. Lary did not have enough respon- sibility. He was hail-fellow-well-met with the Griffs until he landed in St. So He Can't Hit Lefties? as a sort of purgatory. There he took a new grip on himself and, now that he has been traded to the Indians, they haven't been able to get the guy out. There isn’t a $250,000 difference be- tween Lary and Cronin today, but it isn't because Cronin isn't a fine ball player. .341 average, which led all the Wash- ington hitters. John's 1936 average was only eight points lower than Buddy Myer's mark of 1935, which topped the American League, but few people realized how high he batted last season. Some who did called attention to the fact that Stone chiefly faced right-handed pitchers and doubted if Rocky would do so ‘well if he played every day, come what may from the box. This year Stone has been out of only one game. He has taken the Go- mezes and the Whitehills in stride, and today his average is around the 330 mark. He always was an all right fielder and probably no out- fielder in the American League has a better throwing arm. After Johnny, who ranks as All- Star material? Well, there is Buddy Myer. Even with second basemen like Charley Gehringer and Tony Lazzeri around Buddy might get a’ tumble. He's another ball players’ ball player. And there is Buddy Lewis, too. Sl s League Statistics TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1987, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 6—8. Philadelphia, 3—1, lew York, _4 23 8. Boston. 3—! Cleveland. 7—¢ it Detrof Chicago. 5—9: 8t. Louis, _STANDING OF THE g —8. CLUBS. “ai0x_ Mo uonugses ‘srqarepenad -aaqua0rd ---smot g ey StLI 0l 2[ 31 0/ 1/ Lewis’ Day Still Ahead. 2L L. 11214117/1511712018124|—I—1 'ROM the lofty heights of a cham- pion batsman in 1935, Myer drop- ped to a .260 hitter last year, due to illness. This season he has battled his way back toward the top and at press time Gehringer boasted no great edge over him, if any, and Myer is outpacing Lazzeri. The Lewis kid probably will have to wait for his appointment. If all the third basemen in the American League were lined up, and the eight guys who make a living by managing were given a choice, Lewis would be the fair- haired boy, in all probability, because all the pilots would have the future in the back of their minds. Buddy, at 20, really hasn't gotten under way. He's the third baseman they’d take for the rest of the season or for 1938 and 1939 and plenty of years thereafter. As it is, with the All-Star game an event today and forgotten tomorrow, it is more likely that Red Rolfe of the Yankees or Pinky Higgins of the Red Sox will get the nomination. They have more experience, and the man- v GAMES TODAY. ‘GAMES TOMORROW. St. L. at Ohicago. Wash. at Detroit. 3. Detroit at Cleve. . Y. at Cleveland, Only games sched- Boston at_Chicago. uled. Phila. at St. Louis. NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. 10—4; New York, 3—35. ta, 6—9: Boston. 3—86. Brooklyn, Ph!lnde]n‘h STANDING OF THE us[x001g sowep)| - uamasnid “yi0x MaN = oawoo --nruuPuUD -=-7 puiued| el == PitI—I 11 31 b] ¢ 4l—[ 2[ 2/15/19(.4411 7% 2(16/211.432] 8 Cinl 1( 21 3 0 11 1] 3i—I11i251.306112% L. [12(15116118[18[191211251—I—| 1 Gdll TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Bosts it Phils. I at N. York. whed- R ein at "Rt Fh. - $ Thus it is taken for granted that repre- : For the benefit of you, you as Ed Linke starts his delivery first with his discarded bat sti —Movie Pho man of the Nationals, termed by Manager Harris “the best bunter I ever saw, bar none,” gave an exhibition of his wizardry | yesterday at Griffith Stadium prior to the double defeat of the | Athletics before a holiday throng of 24,000. With his bat poised from the time he lays it down until he starts on the lam for and you the brilliant third base- every move of Lewis is pictured 1l in the air. tos by Elwood Baker, Star Staff. 1—Checks ' | | | BEATEN HUBBELL SHEDS NO TEARS ‘Luck Ran Out,” Says Hurler of Record Streak—Tribe Tops Tigers Twice. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. T JUST had to be the Dodgers. ! It was in the cards that the daffi- ness boys from Brooklyn—the jinx outfit that has hoodooed the Giants more times than Bill Terry cares to remember—should be the club to catch up with Carl Hubbell's win- ning streak and smash his record- making run. But even though the Hub's 24-game Louis, which is regarded by ball players | | | Wins Fastest, Hottest and Closest Grind—Hepburn Two Second Back. By the Assoctated Press NDIANAPOLIS, June totaling more than $30,000 were held today for Wilbur Shaw, a dapper voung Hoosier who gam- bled on his tires and gasoline supply and won a 500-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway race after seven attempts. Shaw, along with other drivers in vesterday's race—the fastest, the | closest and the hottest in history—will attend the annual dinner for pilots to- = | night to get the money he and they string, longest in all base ball history won. |over a two-season stretch, is ended, For Shaw there will be a $20,000 theres no one who can say Old check for winning the race. He will | Squarepants isn't just as good a loser get others, amounting to $5,500, for lap | 25 he is a winner and isn't still & prize money, and a flock of others will | Pretty fair country flinger. | be awarded by automobile accessory | and gasoline companies. Shaw, -a native of Indianapolis, built and owns shortly before 3 o'clock | yesterday afternoon, with Ralph Hep- | burn, the Los Angeles veteran, only two ‘roared to victory in a car he designed, | | seconds behind him. Hepburn came just that close to putting an end to the old Speedway idea that a car never wins two races. He was driving the | same job that Louis Meyer drove to victory last year. Four Beat Old Mark. THE speed of 113.580 miles an hour was the fastest ever made in a 500-mile race. In fact, the first four finishers all broke the previous speed record of 109.069 miles an hour set last year by Meyer. The last 90 miles of the race were as thrilling as any one of the 170,000 spectators could want to see. At 409 Swanson of Los Angeles who had been driving for Hepburn. Ralph got back in his own car and took out after the far* flying Indianapolis boy. At that time he was more than 2! laps back, but he knew he was through with pit stops. With Shaw, Hepburn pulled up. When Shaw went into his next-to-last lap he was 28 seconds ahead of Hepburn. At the start of the last lap he was only 14 seconds out in front and at the finish he was slightly more than two sec- onds to the good. Meyer Finishes Fourth. 'ED HORN of Los Angeles, who won second last year, was the third- place winner. Meyer wound up in fourth place after a masterful bit of driving in the latter stages of the race. Clff Berger of Hollywood, Calif., was fifth: Fred Frame of Los Angeles, driving relief for Bill Cummings of In- Kansas City was seventh; Tony Gu- lotta of Kansas City was eighth; George Connor of San Bernardino, Calif., was ninth and Louis Tomei of Portland, Oreg., was tenth. There wasn’t a single serious acci- dent until after the first six cars had finished. Then Floyd Davis of Spring- field, Il1, cracked into the wall on the northwest turn while battling to get in the money. He and his mechanic, Dee Toran of San Diego, Calif., were thrown on to the track and were un- conscious when picked up. They were however. * The blistering héat and the high speed put 14 of the 33 starters out of the race before the finish. The drivers went back to the track today, but 1t was just for the job of tearing down their cars. town were getting ready to go on to the next race or back home. Varied Sports Collese Base Ball. Minnesota. &; Iows. . Fordham. 17: N. Y. rd. le, . ; Onio State, 5. L, Wilisms. 2. Michigan State. 0: tate. 7: Indiana. 6. Collere Polo. Areo, ZR Marvard. 3. ,Brown. 4: Harva Trinity. 11: Yal Michigan. Ball N miles Shaw seized the lead from Bob it was a question of whether the gas | supply and tires would last. Gradually | dianapolis, was sixth; Billy Devore of reported to be in good shape today, Those who live out of | Just after the Dodgers belted him out in three and one-third innings vesterday and went on to an 18-hit, | 10-3 win in the opening game of the | holiday double bill, Hubbell showed | definitely that he can “take it.” “It had to come,” he said in the club house after the long walk from | the mound in front of the 60,000 crowd that jammed the polo grounds. Luck Ran Out, Says Hubbell. T WAS great while it lasted, but N0 one can go on winning forever. | I had a lot of luck. It just ran out on me. There was even a chuckle in his voice. “Now that the heat's off, maybe I can do a little real pitch- The rest of the Memorial day pro- gram made little difference to the dia- mond world. The base ball faithful didn’t care so much that the Giants came back to take the second game, | 5-4, or that the Cleveland Indians drubbed the Tigers twice, or that the Cubs, winning a double bill from the Cardinals, clouted Dizzy Dean for 15 hits in the opener. | The big thing was that Hubbell's streak, begun last July 17, was put| |in cold storage—and by the always- bewildering Brooklyns, at that. However, it was logical that the 10,00 PAY CASH SAVE 257, to 507, ALL YA SIZES Il sTAN 4.50x21 4.75x19 5.25x17 5.25x18 5.50x17 4.40x21 4.50x20 450021 4.75x19 5.00x19 5.00x20 5.25x17 525x18 5.25x19 5.25x21 5.50x16 5.50x17 ’ Unconditional Guarantee TIRES MOUNTED FREE TRUCK TIRES 2801 GEORGIA AVE. 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Then, when I saw Bobby Estalella doing so well at third I wondered what they wanted with me.” President Clark Griffith also doubted the wisdom of bringing Buddy, then 18, up from Chattanooga. was with semi-regret that he viewed his protege, who was well worn from playing his first season in organized ball. B broke into eight gam the Nats and batted for the retiring total of .107. but. as developed, bringing up Lewis in the Fall of 1935 was a most fortunate move. For that lowly Dodgers took the villian role. They alone have beaten Hubbell more times than he has topped them throughout his career. And the; been the perennial jinx for an of the Giants—ever since Terry’s his- toric crack (“Are the Dodgers still in | this league?”) which cost the Giants | | the pennant in 1934. Indians Drub Tigers. | OR the rest of the program, the | double whipping the Indians handed the Tigers, 7-1 and 6-5 (the latter going 11 innings). was outstand- ing. The Indians took second place in the American League, dropping the | Tigers to third. Pittsburgh's Pirates maintained a 11,-zame National League lead by splitting with Cincinnati, taking the 7-5. after dropping the | opener, 8-3. The American League pace-setters, the Yanks, came from | behind to win the first game from the Red Sox, 4-3, and then fell, 8-2, in the second. Bill Lee and Clay Bryant each| pitched six-hitters as the Cubs con- | quered the Cards, 4-2 and 6-3. The| Phillies knocked off the Boston Bees, | 6-3 and 9-6. Washington walloped | | the sinking Athletics twice and the | the St. Louis Browns, 5-2 and 9-8. WIN THIRD IN ROW. | e Takoma Tigers Midgets, by de- feating the Spano A. C. and Bethesda Post teams, both by 9-3, made it three straight diamond victories. All Firsts. Two complete floors of the most diver: fled stocks ever assembled. 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This year, in the opinion of many base ball men. he ranks abso- lute “tops” at the art of bunting | The remarkable angle to Lewis’ de- velopment as a bunter is that prior, * CARD TILL FINISH Singles Final Due Saturday, With Doubles Title Tilt | Likely on Sunday. | BY BILL DISMER, Jr. AVING profited from the dou= ble break of a holiday week end and perfect weather, The Star’s City of Washington to watching Myer in 1935 and trying| tennis tournament today faced a rous= | the trick himself in 1936 he never had ' bunted in his life with intention to beat it out! “I tried it once at Chattanooga, confesses Buddy. “I stuck out my bat and I missed the ball and it was a strike. I never tried it again.” Now Buddy has American League pitchers and infielders jittery wt he steps up, and little wonder. crowd of 24,000 that witnessed the Nats’ double victory over the A's were treated to a prize example yesterday. | when, with Washington trailing hteap, Lewis led off t sixth inning with a bunt and beat it | out with ease. It touched off a six- run rally that won, 6 to 1. Buddy so far has made 46 hits this | vear and of these 14 were bunts that he beat out. one-third of his base hit output. | 0-1 in the nij How many times has he failed? The | answer is twice. Once he bunted too | hard to a third baseman and was flagged. The other time his bunt struck the corner of the plate and rolled di- rectly into the pi hands. Four- teen hits on bunts in 16 tries is Buddy's record Lewis was a barefooted kid when the bunt was something besides a lost art in base ball and now t never was ta picked it up by himself a counl sons ago bids fair to revive the p! Your correspondent, seeking a re- liable estimate on Buddy's proficiency, | asked Manager Bucky Harris of the Washingtons who was the best bunter in the American League. “Lewis by far,” answered Bucky, simplv. “There’s nobody close.” When you sought a comparison with all the bunters of Bucky's time, which spans 15 years of major league cam- paigning, you received none. For, | Chicago White Sox did the same to | When you asked who was the greatest | bunter Bucky ever saw the answer was: a “Lewis—and again nobody close This is approximately | | ing finish, with outstanding matches | scheduled daily at the Edgemoor Club ; until the final round on Sunday. As a result of the completion of preliminary rounds in both singles possible to lows: -final doubles morrow—Four quarter-final sine gles matches. Thursday—Two semi-final doubles matches. Friday — Two semi - final matches. singles " Finals on Saturday, Sunday. FULFILLMENT of such a schedule would bring the annual classic to its close over the week end and the probability today was that the chame pionship singles matches would be played on Saturday and the doubles final encounter on Sunday. The departure from the customary practice 2 plavers to “double up” on and doubles matches the same day not only not over= work contestants, but give spectators the opportunity to center their attene tion on choice matches on separate day At present, the doubles team of Dooly Mitchell and Bill Howard con= stitutes the only entrant ahead of its field. They are awaiting the winner !of today's match between Joe Baker “ and Fred Doyle and the David John= | sen-Harry Heffner combination. Four | other teams in the lower bracket clash this afternoon for the right to meet in the other doubles semi-final. 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