Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1937, Page 14

@he Foening Shd Sporls A4 WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1937. L Di Maggio A. L. Squad’s Mainstay : Mack Backs All-Star Pick Plan Power-Plus Is Packed by National Leaguers Invading Capltal for All-Star Tilt Here Tomorrow GABBY HARTNETT (.384). BILLY H. JES BATFGURED ot s TOMKNLOB Yank, Who Failed Last Year, Now Regarded “Hottest” Hitter in League BY FRANCIS E. STA T PHILAD Fiane PiilA De Rol hro of t experts 020 003 o League 000 100 110 FA prevailing odds on the favored e tional Leaguers. The tip is out that Joe Di Maggio of the Yank hottest article in the majors, at moment, and that 1936's all-star *goat” may well be 18 hero. C Di Maggio's most husiastic | BY,Caster a,dQ,.’,T,"’ boosters currently are the Senators, who came from Philadelphia night to be on hand for the game. | Most of the Griffmen pu I no punches in criticizing I American Lea they are shari; lief that Di N head of a lo: that will wreck t “As far as I'm Outfielder Johnny gio’s the hottest right now.” This is praise, indeed. bum at the plate himself. Many critics, as a matter of fact, thought | that'Johnny should have been on the all-star team selected by Joe Mc- Carthy. Stone, moreover, nrfie of game—1-44 last | (SECOND GAME.) TON. will be the spe: bambardment con quoth Stone, Mag- hitter in our league |F Stone is no should be in a| position to know whereof he speaks | on Di Maggio. He spent three of the last four days watching the Yankee's thunderous drives go over his head in left field and sail into the bleachers. | 200000 000 000 100 001 . Singion, Joe Flopped in 1936 “] HAVE to marvel at that Di Mag- ’ Stone was telling | Bucky Harris today. “You know how it is when you are going to sacrifice? You square away at the plate, flat- footed, and the ball looks like a bal-.T“"‘S loon coming up. Well, that's how it | Alsda " must look to Di Maggio all the time, | 531 “He has no stride, to speak of, | Weaver when he's taking a full swing. He just 2,‘“,2.,, €tands flatfooted and puts all shoul ders and wrists into the ball. And, Sier believe me, it rides. He must be one | W Ferrell - of the most powerful men in the c'o'L’é”f majors.” Harris had no counter argument, | Bucky is another who thinks that|$ Di Maggio will wipe away the stigma | of 1936 tomorrow at Griffith Stadium. Di Maggio did nothing to injure the National Leaguers’ cause last year in Boston. He became the first recruit ever to play on an all-star team and it was a most disastrous experience. In right field he butchered a single by Billy Herman of the Cubs and it went for a triple, allowing a run to |° gcore in a 4-to-3 battle. At bat he went hitless. On his last appearance *the bases were loaded when he lined to Shortstop Leo Durocher. It was a well-hit ball. Had it been hit directly elsewhere than straight into an infielder’s hands it would have been a big blow and made him the 10 | Umpires—Messie icGowan iin Grifis’ i{;ords it 306 0 npleton Fischer De Shong 2 108 Jucobs 0000 In'ss G.Cp Piedmont. 4-4: Charlotte, 3-3. Mount. 11-4: Winston-Salem, 2-3: Norfolk, 1-8. Asheville, 7-3. Durham. 10-1. Portsmouth Richmond. Eastern Shore. Crisfield. 7: Pocomoke. 3. s Ml]di All-Star Game Lay-off Is | “Break”—Linke Surprises in Tie With A’s. S E. STAN, BY FRAN end of the week, except maybe to take a gander at the all-star game, the Na- tionals were back home today. All cxcept the Ferrells and Buddy Myer probably will sit in the Griffith Stadium pews with the rest of the fans tomorrow. | The battle of the All-Stars, falling as | is not making the Nationals Despite that 5-to-3 victory over the Athletics yesterday in Philadel- phia. Manager Bucky Harris is re- garding the whole “dream game" busi- ness as a personal bonanza. His pitch- ers need that rest. Wes Ferrell has been worked hard | and too often since he has come to the Nats, but there was no other way | for Harris. Wes was winning, as was nobody else, except Monte Weaver. Lately Jimmy De Shong has joined the ranks of the winning pitchers, and De Shong can be worked \nlhout four days of rest | away Weaver, Wes and De Shong will | find their work cut At the end of the week the Griffs will make their first invasion of New York since April, and from there they will head West for their third swing of the year. Linke Delivers as Starter. {DDIE LINKE'S performance in item and may me: that Griff's round man may muscle his way into the picture, after all. Hard pressed for pitching, the nightcap and was rewarded when roly-poly Ed worked 10 fine innings against Southpaw Edgar Smith in a 2-2 tie. Linke held the Athletics to only seven hits and thereby climaxed a series of recent performances which have been consistently high grade. All of the others, however, were de- livered as a relief pitcher. Bucky and President Clark @riffith always have liked to look back to the last few weeks of the 1935- season, when Linke won eight straight starts. Up to then he had been just another pitcher, promising but not very suc- cessful. Last year Ed was regarded as a starter in the Spring, but before the season was very old he was down in Chattanooga. A sore arm kept him from doing much there and he finally returned near the end of the year. He was retained this Spring chiefly be- cause Harris did not have much choice in the way of pitchers. Sington’s Fielding Hurts. 'HAT was only Linke's second start yesterday, and a logical theory of some of his mates is that Rick Ferrell may mean the difference between the Linke 01717936 and a pitcher who can (See NATS, Page A-15) NATS HOSHOSHEN VL ENIOY RES ITH nothing to do until the but none of the trio of Ferrell. Weaver | Once the all-star excitement dies B out for them. | Philly yesterday was a pleasant | Harris started Linke in | ”nrinrwvmd MAN (.352), Wide World Phnln JOE MEDWICK (.404). Fy JOHNNY MIZE (.363). ARKY VAUGHAN (.361). | Lc;! rue Statistics Jot Detroit. A Cleveland GAMES TODAY. No games scheduled. GAMES TOMORROW. All-Star same. 1:30. | NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Chicago, 13—9: St New York, ti—*: Boston Pittsbureh’ Philadeiphia GAMES TODAY. No games scheduled. TOMORROW. All-Star game. 1:30. WAR ADMIRAL AT SEA Banker Asks Yacht Race Result, Gets Belmont Finish. On the day of the Belmont Handi- cap, the new America's Cup defense candidate, Ranger, was racing at Newport against Yankee and Rain- bow. A banker of nautical enthusi- asm called up his club, the New York Yacht Club, in the late afternoon. “Can you tell me who won the race?” he asked. “War Admiral,” replied the club telephone operator without hesitation. COAST WANTS ZUPPKE Illinois Coach Sought as Pacific Loop Commissioner. More than any other name, that of Robert Zuppke, foot ball coach at Il- linois, is heard on the West Coast as the man the Pacific Coast Conference ‘wants as occupant of the office of ath- letic commissioner, a job analogous to that of Maj. John L. Griffith of the MAKE FIREWORKS WITH SHILLALAHS Big League Hitters Refute Prophets Who Saw Big Year for Hurlers. BY DREW MIDDLETON, Associated Press Sports Writer. I ball apparently is in the same class with the boys who picked Custer over the Indians. ‘The major league teams scored the | awesome total of 184 runs, an average | of more than 10 a game, to the delight | of 218.336 fans,who saw 16 games yes- terday. The cannonading was at its heaviest in Chicago, where 41 runs were scored as the Cubs beat the Cards twice and lengthened their lead over | the Giants to two full games. | The Cubs won both games of their | long and violent double duel with the Cards, the 14-inning opener 13-12 and and the nightcap 9-7, before a jubi- | lant crowd of 39,240, record for the | season. HE gent who said this was going | to be a pitchers' year in base | Demaree Nails Apple. HERO of the six hours and 23 min- utes of base ball was Frank Demaregq, Cub outfielder, who collected | six for seven in the opener and got two more hits and scored the winning run in the second contest. His bag in the first game included three doubles. Lone pitcher to salvage glory from this hitters’ fiesta was the ancient Charlie Root, who halted the Cards in the ninth inning of the second game and won his fourth relief victory in eight days. The defeats dropped the Gas Housers to fourth place. The Giants lost a game to the Cubs in the standings when the rejuvenated | Bees rallied to win the nightcap, 8-6. after having been frustrated by Cliff Melton's hurling in the opener, 6-2. It was the Bees' tenth victory in 12 games. Only slightly less virnlent than the Chicago slugging was the show put on by the Yankees in their double win over the Red Sox. The Yanks took both ends from Boston, 15 t0 0, 8 to 4, with Charlie Ruffing and Spud Chan- dler supplying the hurling. Joe Di Maggio's twentieth homer with three aboard, which won the second game; two circuit clouts by Capt. Lou Gehrig and one by Bill Dickey made the 61,~ 146 fans forget the hurlers. Tribe Is Merciless. 'HE St. Louis Browns took a grue- some double beating from the In- dians, 14 to 4, 15 to 4. The Tribe's artillery found the hapless Brown mound staff for 38 hits, with Hal Trosky smacking three over the wall in the opener and Roy Weatherly anc ‘Western Conference. o Texas. ¢ Oklahoma City. 3-7 San Antc Galveston. 1-0. Fort Worth, Beaumont. 4.7 Houston. 0-5. Coastal Plains. :_Tarboro. 0-7, Kinston. -5, Goldsboro, 1-3. i Avden, 2 ] » Willigmston, Greenville, Julius Solters hitting for four in the nightcap. Home runs were in the fore in De- troit, where Rudy York and Hank Greenberg contributed circuit drives to Detroit’s clean sweep over Chicago, 8 to 4 and 7 to 4, and annexation of second place in the American League. York’s drive with two on in the tenth won the nightcap. hero instead of the flop. As it was Di Maggio left Boston with “goat” ringing in his ears. Amerks Loaded With Center Fielders. HAT has been puzzling most y critics in connection with the American League team's personnel is Joe McCarthy’s outfield set-up. With Gerald Walker out and Sammy West named in his place, McCarthy has four center fielders and two right fielders. At least, that is where these men play for their own clubs. He has not a single left fielder. ‘West, Roger Cramer, Earl Averill and Di Maggio play center for the Browns, Red Sox, Indians and Yank- ees, respectively. Jack Bell and Wally Moses are right fielders and Moses played center prior to this year. “If McCarthy plays anybody but Di Maggio in left for the whole game,” claimed one of the Senators, “he's not the manager I think he is. Di Maggio is the only outfielder in the bunch qualified to play left field in Griffith’l Stadium.” Most ball players cannot get over the selection of & team (the American League's) whereby three first basemen (Foxxz, Gehrig and Greenberg) are (Bee DI MAGGIO, Page A-15.) & BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 6.—At the Speedway: The surprise of the race was Richard Sea- man, the Englishman . . . "The hero was Rex Mays of Cali- fornia . . . Seaman, in his Mer- cedes, was & factor from the start - At times, near the end, he was less than 10 seconds behind the roaring Rosemeyer , . Mays drove a terrific race ., . . He was in an old, broken-down crate which had been used by Tazio Nuvolari, last year's champ, as a tune-up job . .. Just the same, Mays was up there all the time . .. Smart driving on the treacherous curves more than made up for the advan- tage the high-speed German cars had on the straightaway . . . Mays did a swell job of piloting and rates three cheers in every American hook. The dolls went for Nuvolari in a big way . . . He was easily the swankiest guy on the track . . .He raced in a get-up of green coat, yellow sweater and blue pants But the real reason for his popu- larity was that he never turned down an autograph hunter, partic- ularly & woman . .~ That Mercedes team—Seaman and Rudolf Carac- ciola—made it a point to get all its signals on the second straight- away, so the other teams couldn't see them. The speedy Germans were im- pressed that the smaller, lower- powered American machines stood up so well . .. At that, the Amer- ican-made cars appeared like mules out there . . . Even such a fine driving job as Rex Mays turned in would have been out of the question it he hadn't been behind the wheel of a foreign car. y Driving Made-Over Car, Mays Captivates Auto Fans Young Californian Brilliant on Turns in Vanderbilt Cup Race—Press Gets Break. Not a driver took a drink after being relieved . . . First request of Guiseppe Farina, one of the Ital- ian aces, was for an apple . . . Nuvolari sat’ in his racer and ate ice cream after faulty wiring forced him to the sidelines . . . Carac- ciola, the German with the Italian name, asked for cigarettes. - Rosemeyer was the crowd’s man, for he drove & swell and daring racing car, but Rex Mays was the drivers’ driver . . . The German and Italian contingent watched him with open mouths as the Cali- fornia kid stayed in there with his second-hand job . . . Rex made monkeys of them all on'the turns. . . . Had he been driving & car as fast as either Rosemeyer’s or Sea- man’s,. he would have been an odds-on choice to win after the first 75 miles. From the standpoint of the work- ing press it was the best-handled major sporting event in years . . . Steve Hannagan ought to take a few bows for himself . .. All a re- porter had to do was get there . . . The rest, if not handed him on a silver platter, certainly was dished up in big league style on automatic tickers. Next on the program for the Speedsters is the Grand Prix in Paris late this month . . . The Germans will collect their prize money and depart tonight . . . Nuvolari goes on the Queen Mary tomorrow . . ..All will be back for the September 3 race ... In the meantime, your agent is rush- ing to catch a quick train for Washington and the all-star game. + + « See you on Pennsylvania ave- boys. B | all-star game. viewing the affair as a test of supremacy and not as a pageant. National Leaguers insist that McGraw had the correct and honorable | "POPP| NG; OFF"% Brushing Up on t ANDS blaring, flags waving. crow It is 1933 and old-timers get a and Connije Mack sitting in the the American League ballyards . he Background. ds pushing in the best looking of all . Comiskey Park in Chicago. | thrill at the sight of John McGraw | opposing dugouts . . . Connie with his | inevitable scorecard in his hands and Muggsy fondling an equally inevitable ! bat. Let's see ... subtract 1913 from long it had been since Mack and McGraw last matched wits. was the world championship. Bill Hallahan and Lefty Gomez are starting and the Americans takc | about one feat 1933 and it is 20 vears. That is how The stake then 'mmmm& - VET PILOT HOLD Connie Believes Managers Responsible for Play De- serve Free Hand. BY CONNIE MACK. OME of my best friends among the newspaper men and a sprinkling of other fans I know well have complained ure of this year's all- 8 1-0 lead in the second inning. Then a fat man named Ruth hits a home | | star game here tomorrow. They feel run in the next inning. A teammate is on first base. Hallahan's rescue, but it is too late. margin. The final score is 4 to 2. National Leaguers take an immedi: They accuse Mack of idea . .. and was stuck with it. Jawn Mack uses only half of his squad. New. crash game. Joe Cronin plays a fines shortstop but Gen. Crowder gives up both National runs. Later they drive Washington to 1933 pennant. Happy days for the American Leaguers and Uncle Clark Griffith . . . until the Giants are played in the world series. Bands blaring, flags waving, crowds pushing and it is 1934. The scene is the Polo Grounds in New York. The Great Umpire has called Mc- Graw out. Mack isn't present either. It is decided to let the world series managers automatically fall heir to the all-star piloting and so it is boy- | ish Joe Cronin instead of the ancient Mack, and Bill Terry instead of Mc- Graw. National Leaguers Turn on Joe. BASE hits are sprayed to all fields. A new slugging sensation named Medwick hits a home run. So does an | old favorite named Frisch. The Na- tionals take a 4-0 lead, but eventually the Americans win, 9 to 7, by over- powering Dean, Warneke and Mungo. It is a queer game. A scoring record is set when the Americans cross the plate six times in the fifth inning, but the game goes down in history for a pitching performance. That is the year, you see, that Hubbell successively fanned a few batting nonenities—Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin. National Leaguers deplore Cronin's methods, as they did Mack's. Terry uses 20 of his players; Cronin only 15. They set up such a howl that a movement is started to take the vote away from the fans. The rival man- agers are named to select the teams. Mr. Heinsley Goes to Town. ANDS blaring, flags waving. crowds pushing. It is 1935 and the scene is Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium. The record all-star game crowd of 69,812 shells out nearly $94,- 000 and the teams that take the field are chosen by Managers Mickey Coch- rane and Frankie Frisch. Cochrane surprises everybody by sitting on the bench and letting Rol- lie Hemsley catch the entire game. Once upon a time Hemsley was waived out of the National League and now he turns up as the Americans’ all-star catcher. Well, that's base ball. Prisch uses 18 players; Cochrane, 15. The Americans take an early lead against Bill Walker of St. Louis and win, 4 to 1. Foxx is the big star with & home run and a big single. American and National Leaguers squawk. The Nationals dig up their old gripe and say that Cochrane was unfair in playing only & few of his stars. American League fans in New York point with disfavor to the box score, which shows that Cochrane used Vernon Gomes for six innings and Mel Harder for the rest of the dis- tance. Mickey is accused of trying to hurt the Yanks' flag chances by overworking Gomez. Fans from all over the country pro- test the vote taken from them and & compromise is effected for the next year. Fans will pick the squads and the managers will select the line-ups. | Philly player, Pinky Hubbell is rushed to | Ruth’s drive provides the winning | ate dislike to the idea of plaving the crossing them up. They say he is uses 17 players, representing all clubs. | spaper men take sides. Two Senators Griff Seizes Opportunity. ANDS blaring. flags waving, but no | crowds pushing. It is 1936 in the | Bees' park, in Boston. The all-star | game strikes bottom in the pool of | interest. Only 26,000 turn out. It is the smallest crowd in the game's history and the blame is placed on the Bees’ management for neglecting | to reserve all seats. A sell-out report | is rumored to have kept the customers away. Rabid American Leaguer Clark Grif- } fith seizes upon the opportunity, bids for 1937 game. He gets it and a year ahead of time launches plans in order to show up National Leaguers. Meanwhile, Ford Frick becomes tired of defeats. Gives Manager Charlie| Grimm the word to go out and win. | And Grimm does. His starting line-up is-composed of four Cards, four Cubs and a lone Whitney. The | National Leaguers take an early lead and never are headed, although the Americans staged a three-run rally | in the eighth. The final score is 4 to 3. Now the American Leaguers publicly wonder if the all-star game is designed to be a contest or a pageant. National Leaguers begin to take more interest in it, regardless. It is June of 1937 and the pageant or contest angle is cleared up by the big-wigs. They say it is to be strictly a contest and, as a result, the vote of the fans again is stricken out. Bands blaring, flags waving, Roose- velt grinning, crowds pushing. rest is to be seen tomorrow. 1,000 May Stand At ‘Dream Game’ TANDING room for 1,000 per- sons, plus a few reserved bleacher seats for the all-star game tomorrow, still are available. 1t has been announced by Griffith Stadium officials. The bleachers were to be sold today, while the standing room will not go on sale until 1:15 p.m. tomorrow, day of the game. Salient facts connected with the all-star game follow: 10:30 a.m.—Gates open. 10:30 am. to 1 p.m.—Concert by Goldman's Band. 12 noon—Start of batting prac- tice by National Leaguers, to be followed by Americans. 1 pm—Entertainment by Al Schacht and arrival of United States Army Band. 1:15 p.m.—Arrival of President Roosevelt. 1:15 p.m—Opening of ticket booths at upper Georgia avenue runway for sale of 1,000 standing room tickets. No holders of re- served seats will be admitted on this runway. Holders of grand- stand, box and pavilion seats must use main entrance. Holders of bleacher tickets must use Fifth street entrance. Capacity of Griffith Stadium— 31,300 spectators, excluding mem- bers of the working press and te- legraphers. ‘Time of game—1:30 p.m. Probable batteries—Vernon Go- mez and Bill Dickey (American League); Dizzy Dean and Gabby Hartnett (National League). Hotel headquarters—Shoreham and Willard. A The | | 12 a fan poll rather than managerial selections should determine the line- ups of the two teams. I don't agree with them True, base ball belongs to the fans. I've spent the best part of a long life trying to give them what they wanted. 2 Unless I'm still wrong., they want the best possible kind of base ball any day they happen to come to the parks. I feel managerial selections come as close as is humanly possible to that ideal. Game Is No “Exhibition.” IT HAS been discussed from all angles. Fans often vote weeks in | advance of the game. The man they like for a certain position on his early play may have slumped, thereby endangering his league's hopes. Remember, while tomorrow’s game presents “dream” line-ups, there will be no day-dreaming out there. It is (See FAN POLL, Page A-15.) * 37100 Blatz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Distributed by District Wholesale Corp. Phone No., POtomac 1104 52 O St. N.W., Washington, D. C, A