Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1937, Page 43

SPORTS. THURSDAY JULY 8, 1937 - Terry Second Guessers’ Target : Expense of Yacht Racing Awes FANS WILL GROWL - OVERN. L LINEUP There’ll Be Squawks About Use of Mize, Not Collins; Omission of Jurges. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HE National League must think up some other method of pick- ing its team for the annual all-star game. It was at the insistence of the National that the choice of players was taken away from the fans and given to the re- spective managers. The National League contest rather than an but contest or exhibition the result was just the same. The American League had too much power, and the count on the all-star games | now is four to one in favor of the Junior major wheel. Second guessers likely will find fault with Bill Terry for playing the big, slow John Mize of the Cardinals at first when he had a more clever fielder available in Rip Collins of the Cubs. Mize was presumed to be a more dangeroms hitter, but the pre- sumption was as wrong as the Na- tional League's idea that the fans could not select a capable team. wanted a exhibition, Bill Had Only One Guess. ERRY also may be criticized for using Dick Bartell at short when Bill Jurges, a better fielder and a fellow who is batting .362 sat on the bench. However, Terry played his hands as he saw them and had only the one guess. The National League, that never has been particularly keen for the ali- star game, likely will be willing to turn the selection of players back to the fans of the country next Summer. The fans’ team could not fare much Wworse than the one Bill Terry offered. It must be admitted that neither Dizzy Dean nor Carl Hubbel were at their best. who blanked the Americans in his turn at Boston last season, nor the Hubbell who fanned such giants as Bimmons, Gehrig and Foxx at the Polo Grounds in 1934. Medwick Real Ball Player. THE one National League player who performed to all expectations was Ducky Meduwick, the Cardinal left flelder, who pounded out four hits, That fellow is the best left fielder in base ball, and when he's at the plate all any pitcher can do is throw and trust to luck. It was not the same Dean | Both teams played for keeps and | there was nothing to indicate game was an exhibition from eithe: The American League used only | 12 players, the starting line-up going the full route, except for the pitchers. Bill Terry employed 19 players, but 8 were pitchers and 4 pinch hitters, Gus Mancuso being the only one to break into the original line-up for any extended play. ORIOLES ON THE WING Demoralized Month Ago, Win 7 of Last 8 to Climb. Bs the Associated Press. Roosting in sixth place today. the | Baltimore Orioles, a cocky bunch of ball players compared to the jittery, | demoralized team of a month ago, are eyeing the International League's first ' division. i Not so long ago the Birds considered | & victory as a winning streak. Today | the Orioles ride the crest of a three- | game victory splurge and have won seven of their last eight games. They'’re in sixth place, a half game in front of the Rochester Red Wings, | whose place they took last night with | s double win over the Syracuse Chiefs, | and only six games behind the fourth- place Chiefs. BIG SOFT BALL EVENTS Junior, Colored Tourneys Added | to National Affair. CHICAGO, July 8 (#.—The Ama- teur Soft Ball Association of America has approved two big tournaments in addition to its national championship event at Soldier Field, Chicago, Sep- tember 10-13. A junior national title tournament Wwill be held in co-operation with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with the finals to be played at Buffalo, N. Y., during the annual encampment next | month. Eight survivors of sectional tournaments about the country will | compete at Buffalo. A Negro championship tournament will be played at Memphis, Tenn., the first week in October. League Statistics JULY 8, 1937, An-Star American League. me. ; National League, 3. AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Mo games scheduled. “sapenud, ~-asvjuIIg } Clel 41 4] 2| 61— Wnl 3[ 31 3] 5 BtLi2[ 3l 2 3] 2| Phil 11 41 4/ 0] 4] 4 L._122128129128131 GAMES TODAY. None scheduled. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at N. Y. Cleve. at Detroit §t. Louis at Chicago. Boston at Phila. NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Mo games scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. | ] = smot Jonien L. 12527130/30 GAMES TODAY. None scheduled. GAMES TOMORROW. Shidics at Bitte: icago & 3 Cinein. at 8t. Louis. FPhila. st Boston. YANKS THREATEN At top: General view of the stands at Griffith Stadium at the all-star game yesterday. Above: President Roosevelt throws out the first ball. In the photograph. left to right, are: Harry Hopkins, W. P. A. adminisfrator, the President, James Roosevelt. Clark Grif- fith, president of the Wash- ington club. and Bill Terry, manager of the National All- stars. TOMALK INAGAN | Big Leagues Resume Play Tomorrow After 3-Day All-Star Holiday. FTER a three-day holiday, dur- ing which the New York Yan- kees exhibited their strength in the all-star game, the firing will break out along the major league front again tomorrow, with the world | champions once more threatening to spread-eagle the American League and the National League staging its customary close race. With their well-oiled machine click- ing in every department, the Yanks open the second half of the season against the fifth-place Washington club, with a five-and-a-half-game lead over the Detroit Tigers, who trailed Jacob Ruppert's men across the finish line by 192 games in finishing sec- ond last year. Play Griffs Three Games. ‘HE Yanks, who have been employ- ing their blow-'em-down strategy whenever a rival gets dangerous, meet the Senators in a three-game series at the Yankee Stadium and then enter- tain the Athletics for one game be- fore traveling West next week to meet their most persistent pursuers. The Tigers return to action with! the Cleveland Indians as their oppo- nents for the next three days. At the| same time the White Sox, ousted from second place when they dropped two games to the Bengals last Mon- day, will attempt to regain their po- sition against the lowly Browns. The Rex Sox, crushed twice on Monday by the Yankees’ power house, travel to Philadelphia to resume action. Cubs and Pirates Tangle. ‘HE National League, again pre- senting a dog fight among the pace-setting Cubs, Giants, Pirates and Cardinals, features the game between the league leaders and the ever-dan- gerous Bucs at Pittsburgh. Base ball's favorite feudists, the Giants- and Dodgers, go into action on Ebbets Field, while the Phillies invade Bos- ton. In contrast with the Yanks’ wide margin, the Cubs hold only a two- game lead over the Giants, with the Pirates trailing by another three and a half games, and the Cards by just another half game. The real action in the senior circuit also astarts next The “magic eye” catches one of the thrills. After leaping into the air to grab a long throw from Joe Di Maggio, Catcher Bill Dickey of the Americans nips Burgess Whitehead of the Nationals just as he slides into home plate, cutting off a run that may have meant a rally for the losers. George Barr is shown saying most emphatically, “You're out!” ’ —Photos by Harris & Ewing, Associated Press and Star Staff. Umpire Popping Off (Continued From Page C-1.) to look as if the resemblance might well be broadened. Di Mag Throws Fast Ball. UT Cronin and Dickey came up | about this time and proceeded to spoil Mr. Grissom's All-Star debut with & pair of well-hit doubles and, presto, another run crossed, and another National pitcher had served as cannon fodder for the heavy Har- ridge howitzers. And 50 it went. Tommy Bridges of the Americans did not compare with Gomez, nor did Mel Harder, despite & most creditable performance. Cy Blanton just stopped to say hello, and Bucky Walters was no sensation. Van Lingle Mungo, the man in the green suit, was something less than a rousing success. He was batted in more or less fashionable style during a two-inning term, but it must be stated that Mr. Mungo was very fast. In fact, it might be said that he threw the second swiftest ball of the day, with top hon- ors going to the fast ball of Mr. Joe DI Maggio. Guiseppl, you know, is an outfielder, but in the Nationals’ sixth inning he found it feasible to throw a strike from deep right fleld and his pitch had whiskers on it. At the moment.| week when the Western clubs travel East. Burgess Whitehead was trying to|. score from second base on & per- fectly legitimate single. Di Maggio's throw drew a profoundly grateful sigh from Mr. Bridges, who had been struggling to make that third out ‘himself. Mr. Rolfe Was No Bum. SO IT went. Yanks to the left and Yanks to the right. No wonder people were pondering over the real identity of Mr. Medwick, who made four hits for the futile cause. There was a rumor out that Mr. Muscles, in realty, was a Yankee in disguise try- ing to get a first-hand line on the Cards for possible world series refer- ence. L It is true that Mr. Red Rolfe of the Yanks was charged with two errors afield, but both were hard chances, neither figured in the scor- ing, and Rolfe, during the course of the afternoon, walked, singled and tripled. In addition he found time to score two runs and drive across another pair. All-Star rookies have been known to fare worse. Mr. Joe McCarthy, who man- ages the Yanks, was rumored TFENDER BenT? - Booy DeNT?. See 5! Complete Molor Repairs Any Service for Any Car! CENTRAL JWoixs fv Qe v DI 616! to have promised the National Leaguers a more thorough dis- play of his club in the Fall. “You shauld see our Mr. Red Ruf- fing,” Marse Joe is reported to have remarked. “And we have some more nice chaps named Pearson, Selkirk, Crosetti and Lazzeri.” The National Leaguers staved off & swooning spell and left for home, but maybe you shouldn't feel sorry for them. Only one of their clubs faces the prospect of meeting the Yanks face to face in the Fall and then it is not necessary to prolong the introduction longer than four days. Think of the other seven American League clubs. They each have to stick out their chins 22 times s year, THE MARX BROS. ARE COMING IN *A DAY AT THE RACES*! | AL~ MOST DIED LAUGH- ING AND SO WiLLF It Was a Gala Occasion for More Than 30,000 Fans, Including F. D. R. VANDERBILT PUTS * Millions for Defense, Not a Cent Return, Is Story of BY TOM HORGAN, Associated Press Yachting Writer. lions for defense—not & cent for return. silver trophy of dubious artistry called the. America's Cup. better perhaps to let the torrent of bank notes pour through to the sea, Promoters of base ball, foot ball and boxing shake their heads in bewilder- not one cent return on an outlay which would support a thoroughbred | Even if grandstands could be built along the Rhode Island shore, there ocean course off Newport is too dis- tant forfi those who tarry on solid FORTUNE IN CRAFT * America’s Cup. EWPORT, R. I, July 8—Mil- N That is the story of a $50 It is battered and bottomless, the but it is the Holy Grail of yaching. ment and awe, for there is no “gate,” racing stable lavishly. would be no “take,” for the open earth to identify the competing sloops. Race TIs at Sea. 'HOSE who watch T. O. M. Sop- with’s Endeavour II challenge the’ American defender Ranger must make a day of it, and come in their own yacht or hire places on commer- cial craft. For the 30-mile course is well out beyond the unruly water where the Brentons Reef nghfishlpi stands guard, champing and tossing at | her mooring like an uneasy carnival flying horse. To determine how many millions of | dollars and pounds have been spent | on the America’s Cup, an auditor | would dig into yellowed records as far | back as 1851. That was the year the schooner yacht America led a big British fleet around the Isle of Wight and brough the cup to the United States. Since then there have been 15 invasions of American waters in | vain attempts to take the battered | old mug back to Merry England. A very hazy idea of the grand total | might be reached if it is understood | construction of Ranger cost Harold | S. Vanderbilt between $300,000 and | $400.000. Add the wages of profes- | sional crews, cost and operation of a power tender, boatyard bills for pe- | riodic overhauling, cost of new sails and gear and sundry other expenses— | and the total is nothing short of stu- pendous. Morgan on Yachts. F COURSE, Gerard B. Lambert's | Yankee was built in 1930 and Chandler Hovey's Rainbow four years later, so the original cost of those | boats long since has been met, bu?.i the expense of storage, new rigging and canvas and structural changes never ceases. As J. P. Morgan once told an in- quirer who was considering the pur- | chase of a yacht: “If you must con- | sider cost of operation, you cannot afford one.” Sports Mirror. By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Homers by ‘Trosky, Weatherly and Vosmik in one inning as Indians routed Yanks, 11-4, tied American League record; France voted $66,000 to send team to Olympics, $39,000 to send team to “Workers' Games” at Barcelona. Three years ago—Jack Medica of BSeattle set world record of 20:57.8 in winning national A. A. U. 1-mile swim title. Five years ago—California won Olympic rowing trial final by 2 feet over Penn A. C.; Harry Cooper won Canadian Open with 290 total. sports have called the international classic the world's worst sporting spectacle. Many lads who fancy themselves as experts of the bounding blue will admit, when their guard is down, that they often are unable dur- ing much of a close contest to say with certainty which of two yachts is ahead So it would be safe to assume many landlubbers who challenge mal de mer and follow the international classic frequently will be in doubt about its progress, except at the turning marks and the finish line. e Stan (Continued From Page C-1) would have given a slight percentage on offense but who might have weake ened the team defensively.” Players representing only five teams in the American League crashed Mc« Carthy's outfit. The White Sox's sols representative, Luke Sewell, did not get into the game, nor did Wally Moses of the Athletics. None of the Washington trio—Wes and Rick Fer- rell and Buddy Myer—broke into the game McCarthy used only 12 players. Hig eight starters remained in their posis tions until the end. He was forced ta use three pitchers, as per rules, and thus the only extra man was Jimmy Foxx of the Red Sox. It was found convenient to have Foxx pinch hit for Bridges. Game is Capital's Biggest Show. THE All-Star game probably was the most colorful one-day base ball show in the history of the Nation's Capital. Headed by President Roose« velt. an overflow crowd jammed every available inch in the park and. with the notable exception of Babe Ruth, stayed to the finish. Ruth left early, complaining that “it was no contest.” Griffith added immeasurably to his reputation as a host with the running off of the game. Veteran base ball observers went out of their way to congratulate the Old Fox on what was styled the smoothest of all the annual classics. For the American Leaguers it was a red letter day. For the National Leaguers it was a most dismal after- noon. But you can't sink a battleship with a BB. gun and with a bow to the normal ability of Messrs. Dean, Hubbell and Mungo this was no ex- With some justice, scribes of other Risking millions of dollars of arms and limbs, players of both all-star teams stage a mad scramble for the first ball pitched by President Roose- velt. Joe Moore, N. Y. Giants. outfielder, caught the much coveted s_guvenir. 'THREE MINOR CLUBS 5 GIVE UP FRANCHISES Rock Island Quits in Western, Terre Haute, Bloomington Out of Three-Eye. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July | country’s older minor leagues, the Class A Western League and the Class | B Three-Eye circuit, limped along to- day minus a total of three teams which started the season. Rock Island, IIl, relinquished its franchise in the Western League yes- terday, due to poor attendance and financial woes, leaving five Towa cities, Des Moines, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City and Waterloo to carry on. A week ago Terre Haute, Ind., and E3 club Three-Eye League, folded up for the same reasons. The remaining four clubs, Peoria, Decatur and Moline, all in Tllinois, and Clinton, Iowa, split the season, closing with July 3 games, and started over again, the winner of the second half to meet Moline, easy winner in the first half, in a play-off series, provided the strong Plows do not repeat. WANT WEEK-END GAMES. Takoma A. C. wants diamond oppo- nents for Saturday and Sunday, with a double-header on the Sabbath. Ta- koma has a diamond. 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