Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1937, Page 34

C-2 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, () D. C, JUNE 9, WEDNESDAY, 1937. SPORTS. Dengis Plans ‘Greatest’ Comeback : Bucky Retains Hope for Griffs “NTERS MARATHON JESPITE ALMENT Champion of 1935, Trailed by Curious Medicos, Out to Regain Title. BY ROD THOMAS. HE most determined athlete in these United States, we be- lieve, is Frank (Pat) Dengis of Baltimore, transplanted Welsh- nan, Americanized citizen, former 1ational marathon champion and per- >mbulating laboratory of medical <ience. “I'm going to win The Washington Star's marathon next Saturday,” crame by mail from Dengis today, “if i have to run myself into the grave- vard.” And it's possible that these be true words spoken in jest for Dengis, Vic- ‘im of a rare ailment, will be the ubject of study of Johns Hopkins 1edicos before, du g and after the g race Saturday for the national \. A. U. championship, a title that >at won here in 1935 Medicos Check Him. ENGIS spent a in Balti- more’s famous hospital undergo- 1 & variety check-ups, following in the Boston rathon in April. It nce of a disorder, ap- sed by extreme exertion, esulting in a discharge of blood from he Kkidneys. “The Johns Hopkins doctors quickly iagnosed the trouble,” says Pat, xactly what causes it is a mys nd every test they could devise to uperinduce a’ recurrence failed. They alled it ‘paroxysmal hemoglobinuria.’ The hemorrhages occur immediately fter a race, and at no other time. The thing hit me first in 1933 in the 3oston marathon, and again in 1936 ind 1937 in the same race.” Dr. John F. Preston of The Evening Star clinic, heart specialist and chief medical ekaminer of the marathon, aid today that Dengis would be per- mitted to run if he passed the usual est given all contestants, but inti- mated he might confer with the Johns Hopkins medicos. week Pat Off Twelve Pounds D NG ane mechanic and expert tool maker, is “as thin as a quote h weighing only an when he won Training has been difficult, but I believe I can beat anybody in is year's gallop I have a special incentive this me. My birthday is July 18, and on that day will be run the mara- ‘hon of the Pan-American games at Dallas, Tex. With the first three Americans to finish at Washington to represent the United States in the Pan-American race, I'm counting on a trip to Dallas as a birthday pres- ent.” Now An American Citizen. ENGIS was naturalzed in 1935, the year in which, two years be- fore, he announced he would win the national mpionship. He made good But he guessed wrong in 1936, in Thi r contest was the final ou! Dengis made ar- months ahead to go to the United States track dent was he that he would retain his title. But Pat, in spite of a gritty performance, lost out, Bill McMahon and Johnny Kelley winning the two Olympic assignments at stake. Pat went to the games any- way, but as a spectator, accompanied by his com wife. You can get out the big type" concluded Den “for the greatest comeback story in athletics.” WOODSIDE LOFT SCORES Birds Fight Heat, Heavy Wind in 610-Mile Contest. Battling extreme heat and head winds for the entire 610 miles, a pig- { eon from the Woodside Loft won the | eighth race of the old-bird series spon- sored by the National Capital Racing Pigeon Concourse from Attalla, Ala. The Woodside entry flew at the rate of 1.046.73 yards per minute to beat | 185 other contestants from 28 lofts, Figeons from the Dismer & McGann | and Eaton lofts put on a spirited bid | for second place, the former entry | flying at a fraction of a yard a min- | ute faster to get the runner-up posi- tion Following is the average speed in yards per minute of the first return to | each loft, the first six being diploma winners: Woodside Gann, 1,017 1.046.72; Dismer & Me- D) 1.016.70; 8y Dismer & McGann, 1.007.5 & Duckett. 1 Moore & Venning, 60! no report. BEARS SHAKING FIELD Beven Games Ahead, Making Oth- ers in I. L. Glad for Play-Offs. Br the Assoclated Press When, a team like the Newark Bears of today comes steaming along ta run wild through the opposition, Interna- tional League magnates begin shaking hands all around that the Shaugnessy play-off plan is in effect. While none of the moguls has given up hopes for the championship, the red-hot play of the Bears has put wide gaps between them and the field. The Bruins were seven games in front of the second-place Montreal Royals today, who in turn were 115 more in the van of the Buffalo Bisons. From there on, however, the fleld trailed from the 11, games of the fourth-place Toronto Leafs to the 21- game defiicit of the last place Balti- more Orioles. NOT REAL GAS HOUSER. ST. LOUIS (#).—Terry Moore, St. Louis Cardinal center flelder, doesn't quite fit in the Gashouse Gang pic- ture. He plans to study oil painting seriously. RENEW OLD RIVALRY. LAFAYETTE, Ind. (/).—One of the oldest rivalries in foot ball will be renewed next Fall when Purdue opens its schedule against Butler. \J DONT’S FOR MARATHON FANS. i G YEP, IT5 “FAINTIN' PHIL PHLOPF, HE'S KEELED OVER IN EVERY CITY IN T U.S 5 To (T, AND ALWAYS BOUNCE DON'T THINK THE OFFICIALS ARE “MEAN MEN"-- THEY JUST "ENCOURAGE A BOY ONCE INAWHILE. ... DPON'T BE ALARMED WHEN SOME OF “THEM TAKE NOSE-DIVES, THEY'RE USED BACK!.... C'MON, MORPHEUS, STEPON IT! YOU'RE S§'POSED T'FINISH TH' SAME DAY, Y'KNOW ! L-L-LITTLE SHRIMP IS P-P-PASSING HORACE HoTFoorT! (SMIFF, SNIFF), JDON'T BE MISLED BY FINE FORM AND PHYSIQUE =+THE DECREPIT ——SSSSEERe | TTLE FELLOWS USUALLY FINISH STRONG. ... s WHOOP -EEE ! GIT A LOAD O THAT BIRD, WILLYUH! HE LOOKS LIKE A WINDMILL WITH A COUPLA LOOSE BEARINGS ! HAR-HAR --SO, HE'S A RUNNER!--WHY HE 7\ AIN'T EVEN IN TH’ & » LISSEN, GAL, L X TOLD YUH NOT T 'FIGGER ON THOSE HANDSOME PUNKS --- THEY JUST DON'T WIN THESE “MAN-KILLERS” ! TWIN CARD, GIANT BILL LURES FANS |Hubbell, Dean Meet in One Game of Offering That Needs No Ballyhoo. . BY BILL BONT, - KBESBAIA Press Sports Writer. T'S A press agent's dream, that| double-header the New York | Giants and St. Louis Cardinals | are scheduled to play today at | the Polo Grounds, in the shadow of | Coogans BIuff. It’s a return engage- | ment of the pitchers’ battle of the cens | tury—Carl (Screwball) Hubbell vs. J. Herman (I Ain't Signin’ Nuthin’) | Dean. The meek man from Meeker, Okla., | and the pop-off ex-cotton picker are | slated to tangle in one game of this afternoon’s bargain bill, a set-up “bmught about when yesterday's game was rained out. If anything, the build-up has been even better than for the original. Of | course, Hubbell no longer is trying to | extend that fabulous winning streak, | as he was back on May 19, when last | | they met in St. Louis. Hubbell walked | off with a 4-1 decision that day and | | Dean lost the ball game, his temper and $50. BackGround Is Luring. THE $50 was the fine assessed by National League prexy Ford Frick for Dean's actions in projecting a minor riot. Jimmy Ripple, the Giants’ outfielder, suffered similar punishment as the principal party of the second part. On top of that riotous precedent, there also is Dean’s recent run-in| with Frick, in which Dizzy stuck to his “sign-nuthin’” principles, to lend glamour to this occasion. Jerome Her= man’s reception by New York fans, who haven't seen him since the two Dean-propelled disturbances, forms another vital and interesting part of the picture. To top it all off, there is the ques- tion of how long it will take Hubbell to resume his winning ways. The Dodgers broke his 24-game, twe- season streak on May 31 and belted him off the mound. Since then he's appeared twice, being knocked out once again by the Cubs, though he wasn't charged with a defeat, and doing a ninth-inning relief job to save a game for Hal Schumacher. Chisox Continue Streak. THE prospect of the Dean-Hubbell | clash cast the events of yester- day into the shade, even the facts that the Chicago White Sox ran their winning streak to 10 straight to tie the Yankees for the American League lead and that the Pirates cut their losing string short at five to move in behind the Glants and ahead of the rained-out Cubs. The Sox now have completed a climb from the cellar that began on May 8 and required exactly & month. The final step was their 5-4¢ trim- ming of the Yanks yesterday, accom- plished despite Joe Di Maggio’s ninth homer and fourth in four days and Lou Gehrig’s eighth. The Pirates, on Russ Bauer's six- hit pitching, routed the Phils, 8-1. Lefty Lee Grissom, with a four-hit- ter, blanked the Bees, 4-0, while in the American League Hank Green- berg’s fifteenth homer and Elden Au- ker's one-hit hurling stopped the A's, 6-0, and the Red Sox put over eight runs in the ninth to edge out the Indians, 10-8. RIS REGRET BRINGS NONE. Regret, the filly bred and raced by the Whitney farm and the only mem- ber of her sex to win the Kentucky Derby, was the 2-year-old champion of 1914. ', Griffs’ Records “3b. HR RBI Pe. ) 0 4G {mmons Mihalic Chapm'n ? PP 1 Casca'lla Sington_ Appieton Fischer Hozan Newsom . 13 DeShong Cohen __ EEIP 9 soomm ] Weaver _ Fischer 5 De Shong 505 4 Linke 1 4 Newsom Appleton Cohen 0 Cascar'la 5| | | F WEST POINT CADETi Maryland's Great Athlete Also Is Selected to Toss Javelin in Title Meet on Coast. JOHN WILLIAM (BILL) GUCKEY- | SON, one of the finest athletic | specimens ever produced at the Uni- | versity of Maryland, today prepared‘ to enter West Point with the plebe class July 1. With announcement of his Army | appointment also came notice of his | selection to participate in the na- tional collegiate track and field meet | at Berkeley, Calif., June 18-19. Guc- keyson will toss the javelin in the | Coast competition. Guckeyson earned his greatest meas- ure of fame at Maryland in sports, | which he never participated prior to | enrollment there, foot ball and javelin flipping. He also was awarded letters in basket ball and base ball and was | a crack performer in shot put and discus events. Bill, who received all-State, all- Southern Conference and all-Southern gridiron honors, and who was given honorable mention on all-America elevens, also is an outstanding student who has received three coveted awards, the Silvester watch, the Byrd watch and the Linhardt ring, in addition to | having been elected president of the senior class. B.-C. C. GIVES AWARDS Thirty-Seven Letters in Four Sports Are Distributed. Thirty-seven letters have been | awarded athletes and managers of four | grow them.” BASE BALL FARMS CRIEF T0 GRIFFITH Game Would Be Better Off Without Them, He Says. ’Nooga Is Liability. By the Associated Press. HATTANQOGA, Tean, Junel” 9.—Farm systems are a nec- essary evil of base ball, Clark Griffith, owner of the Wash- ington Senators and Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association, declared today. The floundering last-place Lookouts are causing an acute ache in the white-thatched head of the veteran American League mogul. “My honest opinion is that base ball in general would be far better off without farms,” he said in an inter- view. “Interest in the minor leagues would be much keener.” Farm Not Profitable. “BU'I" he deplored, “we can't get away from them now.” “Because the rich major league clubs have built up extensive systems, | the other clubs are forced to maintain what farms they can for protection. I don't believe the game ever will out- He lamented that “we just can't get out of a farm what we put into it.” “About the only exceptional ball players we ever got from Chattanooga are Buddy Lewis and Cecil Travis,” he said. “And what we have put into it— oh!” he grimaced. Griffith thinks the depression was the father of the farming system. Help for Minors Necessary. ‘VIINOR league clubs simply had to have help from the majors if they were to continue in existence,” he said. “When I came into Chatta- nooga in 1930 the club had to have help or give up its franchise. That was only one of a hundred similar tases.” “However,” he added, “some of these connections are very pleasant. We have been happy here in Chattanooga and hope to remain so. Also, we have a good stand in Charlotte, N. C.” “These are the only two teams owned by Washington,” Griffith said, although the club has “connections” at Sanford and Jacksonville, Fla.; Trenton, N. J., and Salisbury, N. C. CARRIES RABBIT'S FOOT. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (#).—Charlie sports at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase | Holm, high scorer on the Alabama High School with Leon Vannais, gu-;track and field team, wears a rabbit around athlete, getting three. He won | foot around his neck on the days of his letter in basket ball, base ball and | track meets. track. | Five others, Larry Schneider, Bill | Fuller, Bud Day, Charles Sullivan and Bob Fast, won two letters. Those receiving awards were: Basket ball—Larry Schneider. Leon Van- nais, Grail Dawson. Bill Fuller. Pete Kim- mel, Bud Day. Charles Sullivan, Bob Fast and Mansger Norman Barrett. Base ball—Henry Keene. Larry Schneider, William Morrell. Don MacLeod, Pete Smith: Pred Mizell, Bob Fast. Bill Fuller, Leon Vannais. Bud Day. Albert Meeks and Man- ager George Suser. ack—Howard Mizell, Russel Mizell, Leon Vannais, Norman ' Barrett. Grege Smith. Pete 8mith. Bill ‘Barnsly, Dick Barersteld. 8pringe Moore and James Tay- g:fiolr—lm 8Skinker. Devid Ross, Charles v RESUMES BASE BALL. NEW ORLEANS (). — Intercol- legiate base ball, dropped at Tulane University in 1930, has* been renewed. WILL START HOCKEY. BERKELEY, Calif. (#)—University of California will have an ice hockey team next season. van, Ernest Lord. Frank Loftus and Burgess. AUTO TROUBLE? Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. _Elden Auker. Tigers—Pitched one- hit ball. retiring last 17 batters in or- der. to turn back Athletics. 6 to 0. Fabian = Gaffke. Red Sox—Clouted pair of doubles and single. drove in three runs and scored another and fiole & ‘base In 10-to-8 victory over ndians. Bauers, Pirates—His six-hit. seven-strikeout pitching broke ve- game Pittsburgh losing streak with 8-to-1 trimming of Phillies. Radcliff and Mike Kreevich, rmer hit double a. two triple and single in Yankees. Buui o s four hits and {1 ed six: Jordan paced Attack with single. double and. tribies ! Ca DIST- 2775 L l Jordan. to 0. on —By JIM BERRYMAN. NOW JUST A MOMENT MY FRAN, DO You KNOW WHO HE IS2--H-MM, I THROUGHT NOT ! THAT'S THE GREAT " TOOTSIE” TWINKLETOES, ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S HUMAN RACE ! - o 5% SesTeles S //',. DON'T SHOW YOUR IGNORANCE BY RIDICULING RUNNING TECHNIQUES-** SOME OF THE WORST ARE EMPLOYET BY SOME OF THE BEST....... | fellows with a chance to w | pitchers 0.K.’s Two-Hamied Net Stroke Joel Hunt Sees Power and Accuracy in Shot Pioneered by Austrian Stars. By the Associated Press. Davis Cup players, Jack Bromwich ASHVILLE, Tenn., June 9 — and Vivian McGrath, he said. Joel Hunt, 18-year-old Cal- “I think it has possibilities. The ifornfan, is_working on a Australians were good at it and I two handed forehand and said today he may test it against don't see why any one else can't master it tennis opponents this season two-handed The tow-headed Los Angeles shots more power and ac- youngster, seeded second in the acy. Too, the shot has decep- current Southern amateur meet, much more than the regular faced Billy Westerfield of New Orleans in a third-round match after breezing through Marvin Bacon, Nashville, yesterday, 6—3, 6—2. “I have been practicing the two- handed shot only about two weeks,” he said. He decided to give it a try after watching the Australian forehand gives Hunt was joined in the third round by top-seeded Bobby Riggs of Los Angeles, who trimmed two opponents easily, Art Hendrix, Lakeland, Fla., seeded third, Walter Senior of San Francisco and Ernie Sutter. the Tulant University star, defending champion. Hornshy Booster for John ¢ Bs a Btaff C. STILL ONLODKOUT FORSLABTALENT 7= | interviews, would like to see Out- fielder Johnny Stone of the Na- tionals in a St. Louis uniform. Rogers weighed In with a big hoost for the rangy W hington fly-chaser yesterday and if he seemed to say, between £ he would like to have Johr intimated only managers prob with the B; is impossible pitchers and proba tone spondent of The Star Two Capable Hurlers Would Put Team in Running, Declares Pilot. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, 8taff Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, June 9.—The innate optimism of Manager Bucky Harris, which somehow has managed to emerge from this | Western swing scarred but sincere so | far, burst forth again today with | renewed depth. “ ” Maybe the sight of the lowly-rated | HONORS IVY LEAGUE ‘White Sox jointly holding first place et " in the American League with the | Stuhldreher Names Grid Practice Yankees inspired the National mana- | ger but, anyway, Bucky professes to | foresee better things for the flounder- | ing firm of Griffith & Co. In a remark of possibly some significance he said: “Glve us just two fairish pitchers— | — and we Teams for Them. a delicate compliment to the Ea “Ivy squad Princeto would be in the running.” Bystander« who heard, remarke effect, that indeed it was too bad Harris did not have those two “fairish when the season opened And it developed they misconstrued the remark. “I meant if we were to get them now,” said Bucky. “We're not com- pletely out of everything. We might bob up with somebody yet."” Inasmuch as only si before the major lea line, Harris' statement migh: to mean that Washington some irons in the fire. All course, the Nats have been make a deal but many t happen before the whistle is blown on midnight of June 15. Bail game: blown and managers make decisions. Sox, Tigers Chief Hopes. ARRIS had said, away the failure of t win so far, that “its 1 racing. You can't put se {in stake races and expe: | He was referring, of col pitchers. 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