Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1937, Page 13

AL SLUGS FOR 354 INLAST 23 GAMES His Hard Hitting Gets Nats Win Over Tribe, but His Homer Is Wasted. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staf Correspondent ot The Star. LEVELAND, June 7.—The long, < thin bat of Al Simmons, which crackled only spas- modically until the last six Weeks of the 1936 campaign, is pick- ing up where it left off months ahead of last year’s schedule. Called by critics a risky investment only a month ago, Simmons is hell bent, to put it bluntly, for the .300 batting class, where he belongs. This became increasingly evident today, in the wake of a smashing | triumph for Simmons over the Indians by an 8-to-7 score. Al also “won” the second game of a double-header, but this affair lacked little more than an #nning of becoming an official game, due to rain. Despite their reputation for howling in defeat, upward of 31,000 Cleve- landers swallowed their bitterness and | paid tribute to Simmons yesterday. Blasting singles, doubles, triples and & home run, the guy went berserk single-handedly to pull the Griffs from the brink of disaster. No Flash in the Pan. ITH a mighty double against the ) left-fleld barrier in Cleveland's | huge Municipal Stadium he drove across Johnny Stone to give Monte | Weaver a 1-0 lead in the second In-| ning. In the sixth he tripled and later acored to boost Weaver's lead to 4-2. | And after Monte lost a 5-3 lead in the | ninth and the game went overtime it was Simmons with a second double, | who launched the tenth-inning attack | that produced three runs and enabled | the Nats eventually to win by 8 to 7. | He was even more spectacular in the brief second game. With the bases loaded in the first inning, Al Tified a | terrific home run off Ivy Paul An- drews to give Syd Cohen a 4-0 lead. In the third he also singled, but the cruel hand of fate will not permit | these hits to go into the record books. Rain fell in the Cleveland third, while the Nats held the 4-0 lead, and | when the skies finally cleared the | fleld was too wet to permit further play. No flash In the pan was this dis- play, for Al has been banging the ball canstantly for the last month. During the first three weeks of the season he | couldn’t buy a base hit. His average hovered around .100, and even dropped below. Manager Bucky Harris benched Aim one day for not hitting. Simmons, with a lifetime average of .343, benched for not hitting? Pace Fast in Last 25 Games. PERHAPS Owner Clark Griffith had moments when he regretted buy- ing Al from Detroit, even at the ridiculous price of $7,500. Then, during the Griffs’ first invasion of the West, Simmons began to find his range, and he has been battering the | fences ever since. Maybe this will give you some idea. In the last 25 games the big outfielder | has batted at a .354 clip, driving across 21 runs, scoring 17 himself, and including eight doubles, three triples and three home runs among the total. Nor is he tailing off. Quite to the eontrary, Al has increased the tempo over the last 10 games, hitting at a | .410 pace and boosting his other columns proportionately. Left handers, right handers, slow ballers and fast ballers, Al has taken all pitchers in stride. The hitting slumps of Joe Kuhel and Ben Chap- man are not even noticed, so con- sistently has Simmons batted. And, thanks to Al, the blame for the Griffs’ inability to do better must be laid only to pitching. Nats Whip Tribe 8-7. LUCK never runs with a loser. Cohen got a tough break here, too, when rain deprived him of a victory in his first start of the season. Syd was fairly breezing along and establishing him- self as a cistinct threat to the current pitchers who are listed as starters. ‘Weaver pitched better ball than the score in the first game indicated. He gave up two hits in the first two in- nings and both happened to be home runs, Lary and Solters hitting them. The Griffs, however, keep plugging and held a 3-2 lead over Dennis Galehouse when the third inning rolled around. In the fifth the Indians tied it at 3-3, but the Nats scored a run in the sixth and another in the ninth and, apparently, Weaver was assured of wvictory. Solters, however, hit a looping triple to right field that Stone just missed and it scored Averill, who had walked. Simmons came to Monte's aid with an almost impossible catch of Hale's line drive, but So'ters also scored and it was tied up. Fischer Great as Relief. FTER the Griffs had scored three runs off Mel Harder in the tenth on Simmons’ double, an intentional pess to Kuhel, a single by Millies, a steal of home by Kuhel and Weaver's single it again seemed to be in the ‘sack. But again the Indians charged .in their half of the tenth and chased {the weakening Weaver. { With two on base and one out, Buck !Newsom was sent in to the box, but fthe first hitter to face him, Campbell, f{doubled the two nuns across and Harris waved Carl Fischer into the game. ; Fischer was great yes'.erdlz.ue With o game that didn't count, w leading off, opened with and Lewis followed. Kuhel and was aafe on an error. Stone popped out, Simmons hit Bis home run. Then came the rain. E MARYLANDS IN STREAK. Maryland A. C.’s nine won its fourth game in six starts yesterday when it trimmed the Bethesda American Le- pion team, 10-8. N ‘ - The Foening St Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1937. Simmons’ Vigor at Bat Renewed : D. C. Becomes Marathon Capital North-South Skeet ‘Championship Winds Up With a Bang at _ F. R. Kelly Of New Jersey, captain of the all-America skeet team, who won the all-bore title on the third shoot-off with D. W. Lied of Pennsylvania. Here's a portion of the gallery that witnessed the interesting program that yesterday wound up the two-day meet of the annual North-South event at the National Capital Skeet Club on Bradley boulevard, west of Wisconsin avenue. thrills. National Capital Club H > Here STARS OF NATION —A. P. and Star S The spectators did not lack for . Of this city, who taff Photos. MRS. ALBERT W. WALKER Junctioned as scorer in addition to competing to finish as runner-up in the women’s championship event held Saturday. LONGLAY-OFF DUE FORWARADMIRAL = Out Probably Until Fall, Loses Chance to Become Great Coin Winner. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, June 7.—Winner of American racing—one of the few feats his famous sire never achieved — War Admiral, Samuel Riddle's speedy little son of Man o' ‘War, probably has lost his chance to become one of the turf's great money winning 3-year-olds. ‘The colt proved his gameness and staying power in a record-smashing victory in the Belmont Stakes before & crowd of 35000 Saturday, but a stumble at the start left him with a leg injury that probably will keep him from racing again this season. Just as he broke from the barrier after nervously delaying the start, the “Admiral ‘“grabbed” his right foreleg and almost went down. He recovered and went on to win the gruelling mile and one-half race by an even wider margin than he had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. His time of 22835 equaled the American record for the distance, and broke Man o’ ‘War's Belmont' track mark of 2:2845, which the super horse made under a lighter impost in 1920. Trainer Is Pessimistic. HE American record was made first by Handy Mandy under only 109 pounds at Latonia in 1927. When he returned to the stable after finishing four lengths in front of Maxwell Howard's Sceneshifter and 14 ahead of an outsider, Harry F. Gug- genheim’s Vamoose, the colt was cov- ered with blood and had a wound the size of a half dollar on his right fore- leg. He barely was able to put a little weight on the leg yesterday and his trainer, 65-year-old George Conway, was fearful of infection. “I don’t see how he can be brought back to the races before Fall and even that is very doubtful,” Conway said. “T'll keep him here for a few weeks, probably then ship him to Saratogs. He's eligible for three stakes there, including the Travers and Saratoga Cup, but it'll take a le for him to be in condition. “It's a better guess to say he'll race in September at Belmont, if at all.” Pompoon Fails Master. Belmont victory was worth $38.020 to Owner Riddle and brought the colt's earnings to $144,- 620 this year and $159,420 for his two-year career. There was almost as much in the future for the Admiral if he had not been injured. Pompoon not only failed to race up to his earller form, finishing sixth behind Brocklyn and Flying Scot, but failed to win a side bet that his owner, J. H. Louchheim, ha@ held over from the Derby. Louchheim and E. R. Bradley, Brooklyn’s owner, had wagered $10,000 on the horse-against- horse showing in the Derby. It was declared off when Brooklyn was un- able to run at Churchill Downs, but renewed in the Belmont. the coveted “triple erown” of | H; Official Scor WASHINGTON. Travis. AB. R o Sl ooororGanrmo~ O L r ) SommmORSIm Do~ ooimommms | ceszzmonsowra > i » o ol ° g *Ran for Hogan in nint AB. ale. b _ Sullivan. ¢ _ Hughes. 3b_ Galehouse. iWeatherly Harder. p 1Heath Total Batted for Galehouse in eighth. iBatted for Harder in ninth, §Ran for Campbell in ninth. Washington -- 012 001 001 3—8 Cleveland__ —- 110 010 002 2—7 Runs batted in—Stoe. Simmons 25omomesmoou S-St somm 1t S500-mumnustN O OHON=OWIDIIOW > ol 5355555535520 0 bell. Home runs—Lary. Solters. hel. Sacrif Millies. hit—Weaver. lay—Travis to Myer to Kuhel Left_on bases—Washington, R: Cleveland. 3_ Pirst base on balls— alehouse. 1 Off Harder. 1: off Weaver. 4. Struck out— By Galehouse. 4: News, in no inning (one out in tenth): off Fischer. 0 in 2, inning. Winning pitcher— Weaver. _ Losing pitcher—Harder. pires—Messrs. Quinn, Hubbard and Dineen. Time of game—2:45. Attendance—:30.000. D.C. TEAM RULES NATION AT SKEET All-Gauge fitle to Rebels. Kelly of New Jersey Is Individual Champ. LOCAL skeet team held the national all-gauge champion- ship today, following a day of near-perfect firing which con- cluded the North-South shoot, 'yes- terday at the National Capital Skeet Club. J It was a group from the host club, known as the National Capital Rebels, that won the national title, scoring 478 to nose out the nearest com- petitor by 9 points. The runner-up was the Twin Pikes Gun Club of Phila- delphia. The new champions were led by H. Walters, who turned in a score of 98, the highest recorded all day. Walters’ teammates—George Deyoe, R. E. Stuart, Pred Ramsdell and V. A. Prank—each got a 95. Distriet of Columbia Team Feurth. ANOI'HIR local team, the National Capital Sure Shots, placed fourth with 459. The individual all-gauge champion- ship went to F. R. Xelly of New Jersey, who was forced to fire three shoot- offs with D. W. Lied of Denver, Pa, before he could win. Darkness nearly had covered the field whea the cham- pion was determined. A fellow-towns- man of Lied, C. R. Binkley, won the A. A. championship, beating Frank of Washington and R. E. Stuart of Alexandria; J. M. Culley of New York took the class A title and Tom Offutt of Towson, Md., class B. [NEDUPFORD.C | Washington Pros Tilt Local Schedule With Games in Dixie League. ROBABLY the most complete foot ball season Washington ever has witnessed will be un- raveled next Fall, with the Washington Pros of the Dixie League slated to play four home games, thus buoying & local schedule which finds the Washington Redskins of the Na- tional League and local colleges wag- ing a battle royal to attract customers. The Dixie League will be launched October 3, with the local eleven jour- neying to Baltimore to stack up against the Orioles, Portsmouth facing the Clancies at Norfolk and Alexan- dria meeting the Arrows at Richmond. Play at Griff Stadiom. ALPH BOYER, manager of the ‘Washington Pros, has completed arrangements for the use of Griffith Stadium while the Redskins are on the road. Negotiations also have been completed for & game between the Redskins and Clancies at Norfolk early in September. Dave Boyliss, former crack Vir- ginia and Alexandria Fraters player, has been taken in as a partner of Harry Pfaltigraff of the Alexandria Celtics. ‘Washington's home games will be played October 31, November 7, No- vember 21 and November 28. October 10 will be an open date for all clubs. Following is the complete schedule: October 3, Portsmouth at Norfolk, Washington at Baltimore, Alexandria at Richmond; October 17, Washing- ton at Portsmouth, Norfolk at Rich- mond, Alexandria at Baltimore; Oc- tober 24, Washington at Richmond, Alexandria at Norfolk, Portsmouth at Baltimore; October 31, Alexandria at Portsmouth, Norfolk at Washington, Baltimore at Richmond; November 7, Portsmouth at Richmond, Baltimore at Norfolk, Alexandria at Washing- ton; November 14, Norfolk at Alex- andria, Washington at Richmond, Baltimore at Portsmouth; November 21, Portsmouth at Washington, Nor- folk at Richmond, Baltimore at Alex- andria; November 28, Norfolk at Portsmouth, Baltimore at Washington, Alexandria at Richmond; December 4, Portsmouth at Alexandria, Wash- ington at Norfolk, Baltimore at Rich- mond; December 12, Portsmouth at Richmond, Norfolk at Baltimore, ‘Washington at Alexandris. Sports Mirror By the Assoclated Press. Today a year ago — William ‘Woodward's Granville won Belmont Stakes by nose from Mr. Bones. Dizsy Dean, Cards’ ace hurler, beat Giants, 6-3, for second time in three days. Three years ago— Wiffy Cox, Charles Lacey and Bobby Cruick- shank tied for lead with 71 in first round of United States open golf championship. Five years ago—Waite Hoyt given unconditional releass by Brookiyn Dodgers. BGYEARONGRD | "POPPIN G OFF i Champagne, Blue Noses and Thirty Grand. Special Dispatch to The Star. C athletic purism in this fair city. , June 7.—A fellow can lose his appreciative sense of rigid Probably the most spectacular swim- ming show in history runs twice nightly at the Great Lakes Exposition and it is interesting to note that little Miss Eleanor Holm (I don't like to think of her as Mrs. Art Jarrett), is dragging down $30,000 for her end of it. Eleanor, you know, used to swim for Olympic teams and was doing quite well until last Summer, when the Blue a glass of champagne. made little Eleanor go off the deep end. claimed she was made the “goat.” 1f she was, Eleanor made a most I Noses of the outfit caught her sipping With a loud hi-de-ho and a waving of badges, they I think Miss Holm, in striking back, ovely and prosperous “goat.” Eleanor went and turned pro after she was kicked off the Olympic team. Now, for 101 performances in what they call the Aquacade here, she will draw down 30 G's. She shares top billing in this< musical comedy in the water with such | as Johnny Weissmuller, Aileen Riggin, | Marshall Wayne, Dick Degener and a few others, but it is Eleanor who is collecting the heavy sugar, according to rumor. | 1t probably just goes to show | what a little scandal will do. | They say that Weissmuller, who swam and yodeled the Tarzan ery to fame and fortune, will get his unconditional release | from the Aquacade. He isn't ! needed. Mr. Weissmuller, unfortunately for his bank account, never was kicked off an Olympic team in midocean. He was always & well-behaved performer, content to train and fast for his medals and fanty ribbons. And now, because the Holm overhead is sup- posed to be too high, Mr. Billy Rose, who is running the big show here, is rumored ready to let his Tarzan go back to the Hollywood apes and Tar- zan's movie mate, Maureen O'Sullivan, Stage Floats on Lake. ‘T THAT, Mr. Weissmuller is com- paratively lucky. He is one of the celluloid Tarzans and is able to hold his own financially, Aquacade or ) € = Ly no Aquacade. His job in the Great Lakes show is even soft. It is people like Miss Riggin and Messrs. Wayne and Degener who put the goose pim- ples on your hide, who are not so lucky. This is unconfirmed by.Mr. Rose, who may be recalled as the old bur- lesque maestro, bul they say that all ‘Wayne and Degener and Riggin col- lect for their breath-taking dives and somersaults from the 30-foot boards into Lake FErie is something lake $40 per week. Maybe the show ought to be explained in more detall. It's definitely worth seeing, if only because you aren't likely to see anything like it again. Mr. Rose proudly boasts that he has Canada fer a backdrop, Lake Erie for a stage and the Cuya- hoga River for a stage door exit. ‘To & roll of drums the curtain goes New York Gains Reputation as Town of Bean Balls Griffs Put Hard-Boiled Guy in Charge at Charlotte—Schacht Signed for Movies. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, June 7.—This must be the “beaning-est” town in the country . . . No sooner does Mickey Cochrane leave the hospital than two other guys move in . . . Jo Jo Moore of the Giants (and the best 184-game outfielder in the league in this book) was plugged by Larry French as he slid into second . . . Two days later Fred Schulte, Pirate outfielder, got in the way of one of CUff “felton’s hard ones . , . Both are hospital cases. Al Schacht, base ball comedian, has been signed by Warner Bres. for three pictures and now is taking screen tests . . . Best race hoss of the year is—you said {t— War Admiral , , , If you haviivt already doffed that new Kelly, do 1t now. Ralph Trost, golf expert of the Brooklyn Eagle, advocates pari- mutuels for golf . . . And why not? -+ . Tol Farr, who beat Max Baer and who meets Walter Meusel June 15, sails the next day to see Braddock and Louis . . . Which shows you how seriously he is considering & “title” bout with Max Schmeling. Most forlorn guy in Americe is the journalist Hitler sent over to report the Braddock-Schmeling fitei. . . Ja Wohl . . . Jack Crawford, once yanked with Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines as the “greats” of tennis, 13 only a shadow of his old self . . . Those pre- liminary boys who were booked to fight on the itom card, will be paid off in full by Madison Square Garden - Easy money, wot? ‘Where does the reinstatement of Dizzy Dean leave President Ford Frick? . , . Are you asking us? ... ‘Well, we are asking you . . . Gene Tunney and Jack both will be on hand when Braddock Charlotte, N. C, where his baby son is seriously ill . . . Carl Hub- bell, who admits he is alipping, ssys 1933 was his pe~k year , . . Says he now more with his head than with his arm. Newton (Bucky) Jacohs, who . has huried three no-hitters for the University of Richmond this Season, may pass -up. offers from virtually every mjoxm club o return to Richmond as base ball coach. The Tigers have consigned Babe Herman to the car occupied by rookies and newspaper corre- spondents when the team is on the road . . . They like 'em tough down in the Pledmont League . . . Lee Head was too soft as manager of up on one of thase Hollywood musical comedy settings, and Miss Holm, dressed in s bathing suit, comes out as the leading gal. Miss Holm always was good to look at in a bathing suit, but now she is better than ever in one of those sparkling white suits they can wear on a stage and with music like Wayne King's making it all sort of pleasantly restful. Flu Serum Is Necessary. INFX‘EAD of dancing, the chorus swims in the black waters of the lake—the stage floats away—and the effect is quite startling. Eleanor and Weissmuller swim a duet with radium caps and gloves on and then the div- ing starts. The 40-buck-per-week guys and gals ge off the high beards in an amazing series of dives, but the customer doesn’t appre- clate who's doing what. In front of the huge place, Wayne and Degener and Miss Riggin get as much billing as Holm and Weiss- muller, but you would never know Riggin just made that spectacular dive because sh: is not announced and she appears in & comedy skit and clad in long, black woolen tights. It is not the most comfortable show in which to perform. Chill breezes sweep off the lake some nights and the inky waters into which the plung- ing and swimming is done are never warm. Now and then a gag line is missed when a steamboat blows its fog horn nearby. o Miss Holm is at the moment suffer- ing from a severe intestinal cold. The other evening, when came her turn to dive into the water, she told the pro- moter: “I'll go through with it if you insist, but I can hardly move one leg.” It developed she did go through with it. All the performers are forced to take pneumonia serum in the arm be- fore the show. The final scene in Mr. Rose’s show costs $22,000. This scene and Hoim get all the big dough, they say. In the case of the fair Eleanor’s col- lecting, it must be recalled that she has certain facial and other advan- tages, but these are only contributing factors in the young lady's income. She is cleaning up because of the Olympic Blue Noses and a couple of champagne cocktails, and, like Sally Rand at the Century of Progress Fair, she is the biggest lady in the show. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball Washington at Cleveland, 3. ‘TOMORROW. Base Ball. ‘Washington at 8t. Louis, 4. WEDNESDAY. Base Ball. ‘Whashington at 8t. Louis, 4. THURSDAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington at 8t. Louis, 4. Maryland va. Vermont, Burling- Ball Washington at Chicago, 3. Maryland vs, Vermont, Bur! ton, Vt. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Washington at Chicago, 9. Maryland vs. Darémouth, Han- over, N. K. P Associated Press Sports Writer. HEIR pitching is in a sorry Some say they're lucky; others con- tend it's Bill Terry's strategy of run- department they pay off on—the won- and-lost column. much to themselves alone as to the | kindly (though unwilling) help sup- nine games, which is hardly sen- sational. As a team they're batting has been belted out in his last two starts. Pace-Makers Only So-So at Plate, on Hill—Chisox Whirling Along. state; their hitting is nothing to write home about—but still those Giants are leading the making when it counts and the newly- found fight the Giants have un- covered. Whichever it is, the Terry To a large extent, the Giants’ sud- den rise to the loop lead, which they took with & 9-5 victory over Pitts- | plied at the right moment by the Pirates and Cardinals. Helped by Bucs' Slump. fifth in the league, just over .260. Only two of the pitchers show a bet- ter than .500 average, Carl Hubbell But when you figure that the Pirates have blown higher than the strato- sphere, and have obligingly dropped BY SID FEDER. National League today. terriers are doing all right in the one burgh yesterday, may not be due so EY'VE won five of their last and Slick Castleman. And Hubbell 9 of ‘their last 15 starts, the final 4 | nals are barely getting by on a woe- make sense. is shaky at best, largely because of the sudden skyrocketing of the Cubs. For, while the Giants have been chas- ing the Pirates, the Cubs have been right after both of them, and, at the moment, are only a game away from the Gaints and a slim percentage margin back of the Bucs, through their record of winning 8 of their last 10 games. ‘They kept right on coming yester- day by spliting a twin bill with the Bees, winning the nightcap, 7-2, after losing, 7-1, in the first game. White Sex Still Soar. OVER in the American League, the big-time’s “hottest” outfit, the ‘White Sox, boosted their winning streak to eight in a row by belting over Connje Mack’s pathetic Athletics twice, winning 6-1 behind Ted Lyons’ four-hit first-game pitching, and 6-5 in the nightcap . That double conquest left the Sox only & few percentage points off sec- ond-place Cleveland, since the In- dians dropped & 10-inning contest to the Nationals. A scheduled second game was rained out. The Yankees, leading the loop, also lost ground, fin- ishing on the short end of a 5-4 count to the Tigers. The Cardinals took both games from the Phillies, the opener, 7-2, and the nightcap, 9-0, the latter on a for- feit in 4!3 innings. Umpire Ziggy Sears handed the second game to the Gas House Gang because it seemed the Phils, hopelessly behind, stalled in the hope the 6 p.m. Sunday curfew would halt the battle before the legal |- five innings. Alex Kampouris contributed a homer with the bases loaded as the Reds walloped the Dodgers, 9-2. The Red Sox split with the Browns, win- ning, 6-5, and losing, 3-2. Records for Week In Major Leagues Standings for the week, showing @ames won and lost, runs, hits, errors, opponents’ runs and home runs for each club: AMERICAN LEAGUE. WL RTHTE - 69 lovel ashi n Bost. > a0 3 [ FNSTELHS o | | in succession, and that the Cardi- | ful pitching staff, the thing begins to | However, the success of the Giants | GALLOP SATURDAY Rios of Peru Under Way by Air—Porter Bent Upon Cracking Record. ITH Jose Rios of Peru starting a 4,000-mile race against time for the oppor- tunity to challenge them, the leading marathon runners of the United States look today to The Eve- ning Star race next Saturday for the National A. A. U. championship. Rios, a South American top-flighter, leaves Rio de Janeiro today by air- plane with a five-day sky ride and with no complete day on terra firma between him and the race. He is be- ing sponsored by the Pan-American Exposition which will open at Dallas, Tex., on the date of the Washington contest. One of the strongest flelds in re- cent years is expected to oppose the Peruvian who was the first South American to finish in the Olympic marathon at Berlin and who sprang to fame sensationally in 1935 by win= | ning the South American champion= ship after stowing away on the boat that carried the Peruvian track team to the continental games in Chile. The Peruvians believed him a bluff When he volunteered to represent them in the marathon, which he won to be a Merriwell hero. Champ Is Out of It. 'HE first three United States citi- 2ens to finish in Saturday's race Wwill carry the Yankee standard in the Pan - American Olympics at Dalias against the distance men of 21 other countries, the marathon being the climatic feature of the closing night of the games, July 18. Bill McMahon of Worcester, Mass., who won the national title here last year, will default it, having married and quit the sport. Among those who are expected to try for the crown and places on the United States pan-American team are: Johnny Kelley, 1936 winner of the Boston marathon and many other stiff races; Tarzan Brown of Rhode Island, the only runner who has won two marathons (26 miles 385 yards) on successive days; Mel Porter, Millrose A. C. star of New York; Pat Dengis of Baltimore, who won the national title in 1935, and a host of lesser stars, including Paul de Bruyn, former German champion. Komonen Coming Down. DAVE KOMONEN, sensational little Finn, who alone has won the Washington race twice—in 1933 and 1934—is coming down from Sudbury, Canada, 300 miles north of the border, to try again. With Komonen, from Sudbury, and Rios, from Peru, the gallop Saturday takes in a lot of territory. The finish of the Tace, starting at Mount Vernon, home of -George Washington, and ending at the White House, probably between 4:3% and 4:45 p.m. (Eastern standard time), will be broadcast by Station WMAL of the National Broadcasting Co. Dr. Leo S. Rowe, president of the Pane American Union, will speak briefly on the mike. One of the most popular entrants in the big race is Mel Porter of the | Millrose Athletic Club of New York, and he is one of the most feared. Porter Is Confident. “IDURING the last four years* writes Porter, “I've been the first three in your race :l;z;ng hope to make the grade again. Id like to win for a change and knock that course record for a loop. If I feel as good as I did on my last work- ‘nut. at 20 miles Wednesday, I believe I will do it.” Several years ago the old marathon | master, Clarence De Mar of Keene, [N. H., was reported as winding up his career. But the grand veteran, in a letter today, said he might take an- other turn over the Washington course. He finished second in a Memorial day run at Salisbury Beach, Although plans for the marathon have been complete for some time, a meeting of the Race Committee will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at The Star sports department to check details. League Statistics JUNE 7, 1937, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington. 8: Cleveland, 7. rain.) 5; New gg;’k.dt . iladeiphia, 1—8. st. Louss. 53, " (Becond | -—esequaorag $owve, ~TT puyee GAMES TODAY. Wash. at Cleve.. 3. N. Y. at Detroit Boston at St. Louis, Phila. at Chicago. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at 8t. L. 4. at Chicago. Boston at Cleveland. Phila. at Detrolt NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York, 9: Pittsburgh, 5. Gincinnat, uis. (8econd gam Boston, 7. 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