Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1937, Page 31

The Foening Stad Sporls WASHINGTON, D. ¢ SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1937. * Nats’ Feuds Help Club Coffers : Laziness Wins Job for Grissom BATTLING TIVELY ASPLAY WEAKENS Kuhel-Powell Fight Means | Crowds That Plain Yank | Tilts Wouldn’t Get. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, = aff Correspondent of The Stal EW YORK. July 10.—Maybe | the Nats cannot play a great deal of base ball, but Mr. Clark Griffith, who owns them, | certainly cannot fail to appreciate their most pleasant knack of getting | into fist fights when only a good old- | fashioned brawl will bring people to | see them. With big week end crowds in pros- < pect when the Nais play the Yanks a single game today and a double-header | tomorrow, their feud with Jake Powell of the Yankees is flaming with fresh | fuel piled on. Powell and Joe Kuhel | locked in & grim hand-to-hand fight on first base yesterday and when it was over Walter Millies was bearing the Griffs’ standard and Bucky Harris | looked as if he was trying to get Mil- lies to trade places with him. ! The fights proved nothing more | than to show that Washington's ball club was still alive. If it wasn't for the fistic display a person would never | have suspected it yesterday as the Yanks won a lopsided 16-2 decision. | The fist fights were not planned, of | course, but they could not have been | timed better had Griffith himself | drawn a blue print. There should be no trouble getting New Yorkers to| watch the remainder of this series with keen interest, even if the Nats don't belong on the same ball field with the Yankees All Fights Well Timed. 'HAT was the Nats fourth fracas| in the last three weeks and each | came at a moment when a tonic was | needed at the box office. The Nats were not gettinz anvwhere in particu- lar as late as June 18, when the Browns came to tow ‘Then Oral Hil- debrand Dbroke Al ymons’ finger | with a pitched ball and Simmons | tried to break the heads of Hildebrand aad Bill Knickerbocker with his one good fist to-do. and lo ifith saw people ket windo Not nt item, incidentally, was that Wachineton won the next five games following the fight Then came the White Sox and Mr. Tony Piet ran into Johnnyv Mihalic at first base. knocking him down and winning a ball game for the Chi- cagoans. There was Harris trying to take a punch at Piet and it was all exciting. and behold M rushing to the the least plea Powell Fend Week Old Now. ’I‘HEN_ a weck ago today, the Yanks in town and Powell ran Kuhel down. According to the Griffs’ version, he autonraphed Joey's chest < went to work fter that he hied base and from there of showers for Powell—showers of pop bottles thrown from the bleachers. None of the throwers scored a direct hit, which was fortunate, It was fortunate for the box office, too, that upward of 20,000 turned out in Washington the day after the fizht. Yesterday's trouble occurred in the gixth inning, after the Nats were hope- lessly beaten. Di Maggio had just! hit his second home run of the day and Gehrig followed with another. ‘Then Dicker flied out and Powell grounded to Lewis Lewis threw him out with plenty to spare. Kulwl touched the bag| and then waited for Powell to run by. As Jake did so it looked as if Kuhel tried to give him the elbow. Millies Steps Into Picture. ACCOUN'I‘S vary on this point. Some say that Powell again ran | into Kuhel: hers that Kuhel went | ont of his way to hit Jake. Anyway, with the play completed, Kuhel began | to throw the ball around the infield, apparently giving Jake no further thought. Millies gave & warning yell as' Powell turned and bore down on Kuhel. The first baseman turned and they started to swing. Millies, in a flash, was on the spot and, wearing all the catching paraphernalia except & mask, the littie fellow jumped on Powell. Kuhel seemed to drop out of the picture. The straining figures of Powell and Little Millies were in the spotlight. Then, as Jake flung Millies | to the ground, Harris appeared on the scene and grabbed Powell by the front of his uniform, twisting it hard. Order finally was restored and both Kuhel and Powell ejected from the game. Umpire Cal Hubbard turned his report in to President Will Har- ridge but’ not until noon today were Powell and Kuhel expected to learn ‘whether they had been punished. “Myer After Him"—Powell. N THE dressing room Kuhel denied | gige o he had tried to punch Powell as he | ;-{4 “I didn't even | know anything was wrong until Millies | Hi! ran out his grounder, yelled, ‘look out behind you.’” Powell clalmed that earlier in the game Buddy Myer had kicked at him ‘when he was forced at second base. “Then Kuhel tried to slug me,” he said. “And I went for him.” Millies was hailed by the Nats as the big little fighting man. ‘“Some day,” somebody cracked “you’ll find - yourself answering the bells on street | cars.” “Well, it won't be because of Powell,” snapped back, Walt. “He won't do anything.” Later Millies ®ot a great kick out of the affair as he recalled how he let Powell have “a couple behind the ear.” Harris, as usual, was prominently in the scene. He grabbed Powell and Frankie Crosetti grabbed Bucky. Bomebody stepped on Coach Earle Combs’ foot. “I hope I did,” said Millies. Di Maggio Goes on Rampage. AND .« . .oh, yes, there was a ball game. That is, it was a ball game for three innings. Then the Yanks overhauled a 1-0 lead taken by the Griffs and forged on to win a lop- sided - contest. They belted Carl | half-mile finale It was no love tap that Mr. Powell of the Yanks nlanted athwart the mandible of Mr. Kuhel of the Nationals in the sirth inning of yesterday's skirmish at Yankee Stadium. photo indicates. as this “ringside” action promised to involve all the me umpires restored order and banished both combatants. was a renewal of a ON TRACK METTLE Attack on 880 Record Is Featured in Meet With | Oxford-Cambridge. By the Associated Press. AMBRIDGE, Mass., July 10.— A finely trained force of 22 Oxford-Cambridge tracksters today had two obiectives in the thirtecnth resumption of the in- ternational mect with the combined Harvard-Yale team at the stadium. The Britisher. their first victery over the Crimson- Blue team on Amcrican soil in 38 years and the other w to have their em- pire’s greatest runner, Godfrey Brown the Cambridge captain, wipe out Ben Eastman’s world mark of 46.4 secon’'s fo rthe quartci-mile. chances of attaining g both bright. appeared Brown May Run Half. runner-up to the U. 8. A's rchie Williams in the Olvmpic . also will compete in the if the Englishmen need another viciory to clinch the meet, which will be decided by first places onl. Another visitor counted upon for a “double” was Alan Pennington, the { Oxford sprinter, and the British col- legians also appeared to have more than enough for victory with Jack Emery of Cambridge, in the mile; Ali | Irfan, the Turkish cantab, in the shot- put, and Henry Askew of Cambridge in the broad jump. Concede Three Events. "HE Americans, however, concede their visitors only Brown's double in the “440” and “880” and Irfan's victory in the shot, which he tosses better than 49 feet. The home-bred hurdlers expect to account for the two timber races: Easton Burlingame and | Gardner Mjllett, both of Yale, and John Callaway of Harvard rate them- selves as faster than Pennington and Maurice Scarr, the other Cambridg sprinter; and Wilbur Woodland o Yale is regarded as invincible in the | 2-miles, as are Bob Haydock of Har- | vard, in the high jump, and Bill Hard- ing of Yale, in the pole vault. Gr;ffs’—i{ecords BATTING. souss Bluege Simmons Py PENT Anpleton scher De Shong _ Jacobs ____ PPPSEPY PITCHING. H. BB. 80. IP. 90”5 5% Tos 0% 15 473 coummmmnd Sizpmmnzt’ : Fischer and Eddie Linke for 17 hits, including 5 by Joe Di Maggio. The hard-hitting Yank outfielder belted two home runs, a triple, a double and & single, in addition to | getting & base on balls. He drove across seven runs and scored four himself. Gehrig and & few other guys joined lustily in the attgck. New York scored at least one run in every inning except the second. The Nats made 11 hits off Monte Pearson, who finally returned to the wars, but they were a licked crew in the face of those long distance wal- | lops. Mel Almada and Cecil Travis each made three hits. Millies col- lected two hits, not counting those to Powell's hesd. Jakie Jars Joie on Jaw feud that had its inception herc a week ago today. Round three may be staged this afterncon. HARVARD AND YALE CREAT FIELD SFT (of A, A U. handicaps | the next world record pole vault, Bill 0 ' Varoft ;3 | Denis Shore, the speedy South African, 08 | supplies the international touch, fac- Vew York, The fist-slinging mbers of both teams until the This —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | FORLABOREANES Smashing Stccess Is Seen for Meet That Flopped I as Olympics Rival. | By the Associated Pross. | EW YOR July 10—A track T meet which began as a falure l last year has every prospect of becoming a howling suc- cess when the return engagement of the World Ath'etic Carnival is held at the Randalls Island Stadium to- morrow., The mect vecr when was inaugurated last battle over whether es should send a team Borlin Olvmpics was at its Tt was hoved to attract a of stars away from the Olvm- pc team. There's no record, however, cf any onc giving up the Berlin trip to n at Randalls Island. t turned out to be j lively meet among the boys who 't g0 anyway. As A counter attraction it was a complete flop. Woodrrff to Run Mile. "T"OMORROW, with no Oiymp. com- petition, the pick of America’s track and field stars are listed to run and jump in 11 invitation events. A special East vs. West mile relay, aimed directly at a new world record. a flock and events losed to labor unions members of round out t rogram. s are the mile, in which s Kansans, Glenn Cunning- | Archie San Romani, are | ame their riva, with | John Woodruil, lanky University of Pittsbuigh Negro who won the Olympic 80C-metor tiile last year. as the dark horse the field. Gene Venzke of New Yotk and Jimmy Smith of Indiana University also are in the field. Two other Olympic champions, Forrest (Spec) Towns, the Georgia hurdler, and Cornelius Johnson, high jumper from Compton, Calif., as well in as a flock of the National A. A. U.| hampions crowned last week, are | lound on the entry list. Towns Meets Conquerer. 7TOWNS, beaten last week for the | first time in two years, will face his conqueror, Allan Tolmich of Wayne | University, Detroit, in the 120-yard | high timber event. Bob Osgood, who | was timed in 14 seconds, better than | the Georgian's world record, this | Spring, is another entrant. The high | | Jump pits Johnson against the man | | who beat him last week, Dave Al-| britton of Ohio State, as well as Mel | | Walker, Albritton’s teammate, and | Al Threadgill of Temple. Three of the leading candidates for | Sefton of Southern California, George of Oregon and Cornelius Warmerdam of Fresno (Calif.) State College, will vie in their specialty. ing Ray Malott and Bob Young, the Californians; Jimmy Herbert of New York and Dick Gill of Boston College in the quarter mile. TOLEDO GETS MARBERRY | Signed by Mud Hens After His . Release From Dallas. TOLEDO, Ohlo, July 10 (#).—Fred Marberry, once rated as one of the major league's greatest relief hurlers, was the newest member of the Toledo | Club of the American Association to- | day. Marberry, recently released as man- ager of Dallas in the Texas League, was signed by the Mud Iiens last night. Marberry starred in relief roles for Washington, later pitched for Detroit, umpired briefly in the American League and then tried pitching again for the New York Giants before going to Dallas IADRS MAKE 12 RUNSINBATFEST Eight Games Bring to Slab | 38 Pitchers, Who Yield Total of 203 Hits. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE much-pummeled pitching fraternity still huddled in the storm cellars today, while base ball’s war-club swingers shout- ed for more three-day layoffs and hotter heat waves. . Except for a slim few, notably Luke Hamlin, Jim Turner and Joe Bowman of the National League, and Monte Pearson of the American, the schell- shocked pitchers were inquiring tim- idly if the war was over. They probably will be having night- mares for a month over the clubbing they took on yesterday's program. The three-day vacation caused by the all-star game, as well as the heat that melted pitchers down like so many frying snowballs, made a hitting holiday out of virtually all yesterday's eight games, and put the elbowers generally in the dime-a-dozen class. Fans See 128 Runs, 203 Hits. NLY those four already named managed to survive the slaughter that saw 38 flingers led to the block | in the eight contests, and clouters in | both leagues holding the upper hand | to such an extent that 128 runs were | scored and 203 hits hammered out. Leading this cannonading was the 12-11 decision the Boston Red Sox pulled out over the Athletics in 12 innings, with the two clubs piling up a total of 36 hits. But for plain and fancy flailing that knocked the ears off pitchers as fast as they served them the New York Yankees, Pitts- Pirates and (believe it or not) B do-or-die Dodgers took ce and show. Joe Di Maggio served as executioner No. 1 for the Yanks and smashed out a pair of homers, a triple, double and single as murderers’ row ganeed up on Washington for & 16-2 victory. Giants Pummeled. THE Pirates, given effective flinging support by Joe (Poy Fly) Bowman climbed all over three Cubs' pitchers for a 13-1 win, with Big Poison Paul Waner doing the chief damage. This sctback, however, didn't cut into the Cubs two-game National League lead. since the second-place New York Giants also were running into particularly heavy weather. Their feuding partners, the Dodgers, turned in the biggest single-club hit total, banging 20 safe blows all over the lot and walloped the Giants 15-2 as Rookie Hamlin hurled five-hit ball. | Probably the “sanest” game of the day was the Boston Bees' 5-0 victory over the Phillies, behind Rookie Jim Turner’s five-hit whitewash twirling. Otherwise, Cleveland Indians 10-8 and the Car- dinals eonguered the Reds 8-7 in a battle of homers, PRINCETON TEAMS | IN STEADY DECLINE. Lose More Than Half of Matches During Heaviest Sport Year in School's History. PRINCETON. N. J., July 10—The steady decline in the percentage gained by Princeton athletic teams, which has prevailed since 1934, when it stood at an all-time high of 656, culminated during the last college year with an average of .496, a sur- vey released by the university ath-| letic association -eveals. During the last nine months 57 Tiger teams engaged in 423 contests, the most extensive program ever ar- ranged for Nassau athletes. The various squads recorded 201 victories, sustained 204 defeats and were car- ried to deadlocks 18 times The university's 20 v provided the best record. They emerged triumphant 109 times, dropped 94 decisions and tied on | eight_occasions. only the va sity units | ity wrestling unit and the cub tennis players subdued all comers. By halting seven Eastern rivals in order, the mat squad ran its string of dual victories to 13, for it was undefeated in 1935-6. Varsity records: 3 Base ball ____ 1 Basket ball ___ Boxing : Crew 5 Cross-country _ Fencing Foot ball _ Golf Gymnastics __ Hockey. Lacrosse = Polo (indoor) Polo_(outdoor) _ Rugby 2 FETS 209000 290 6 Soccer Sauas| Swimming Tennis VDR D BB ABE TR Track Wrestling | will BATTING PICKS UP IN BOTH LEAGUES Medwick, Gehrig Tilt Leads, but Others Continue to Close In on Them. B3 the Associatea Press. EW YORK, July 10.—Ducky Medwick and Lou Gehrig boosted their respective league-leading batting aver- ages this week, but the opposition continued to close in on them. Paul Waner of the Pirates batted an even 500 for the week to boost his average nine points to .394 in second place in the National League, thereby trailing Medwick's 409 by only 15 points. That is the closest any batter has come to the Cardinal belter in weeks. Gehrig hit 9-for-19 during the week to climb to 378 at the head of the American League parade, but his Yankee teammate, Joe Di Maggio, stole the loop show. Deadpan Joe clubbed out 12 hits in 18 chances to climb 23 points to .359, and march into third place, after being eighth last week. Radcliff Moves Up. i IP RACCLIFF, of the White Sox, also turned on the heat during v span ended with yester- day's games, getting 15 hits in 29 chances for a 349 season average, an increase of 22 points, Standing of the 10 leading batters in each league: AMERICAN LEAGUF. Genris New v Campheli. Clevel Bell, St Lotis NATIONAL 5t Lo age sburgh Chicigo Caicago Philad phi Louis Chicago Brooklyn NEWARK'S BIG LEAD ENDS INT. LOOP RACE Only Play-off Positions Leoft to Other Clubs With Bears 181, | Games in Front. Ey the Associatea Pre. WHITH the mughty Newark Bears | strutting in front of the Im#r-[ national League parade with an 1814« | game lead at the scason’s half-way mark, the rest of the clubs virtually | have conceded the Yankee farmhands | the pennant and anly hope the Bears aren’t so hot in the second part of | the race. | While the Bears go along at a pace that rarely sees them drop more than one game a week, the seven other clubs have settled down in a rut that seldom sees anything of the sensa- tional. The way the league shapes up now, it appears to be the Bears all | alone at the top. Montreal and Buffalo in a battle for the place position, and | Syracuse, Toronto, Baltimore and | Rochester fighting for the remaining playofl position, with Jersey out of the running entirely, CUBS ENLARGE ST.ANDS City New to Give Park! 38,000 Seat Total by October 1, | CHICAGO, July 10 (#).—Workmen | took over Wrigley Field today and by | October 1 the Chicago Cubs’ home | park will have an_enlarged" bleacher seating section which will raise the park's capacity from 36,000 to 38,000, | The new section, which will almost Bleachers | completely encircle the outfield, will replace two divided bleacher sections At the top rear of the new stands be built a new steel score- board. Cub officials said the cost of | the improvements will total $20,000 and that the work would not inter- fere with the team's home schedule. League Statistics JULY 10, 19 AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York. 16: Washington, 2, Ghicago. I1: St. Louls, ’ .10 OF THE CLUBS. uoBUysTM |-~ puspansio “*a3wu0g | El Total _ ____108 94 Official Sé:re AB. R. H. w0 1wz S R Linke p__ Totals o 2 WS UR BB oo oag Pearson, Totals WASHINGTON _ New York bt 000 010— 2 412 14x—16 Runs batted in—Travis. DI _Maggio (7). Rolfe. Gehrig (4), Crosetti. Linke. Pear- (e base hits—Pearson, Maggio. ~ Three-base hits—Roife Maggio, _Home runs—Di Maggio Gehrie. _Sacrifice—Lewis. New York. 10: Washington 14, balls—Off’ Fischer. 2; P 5 Strikeouts—Pearson s Linke 1. Hit ischer. 3 5 Linke. 10 in 4 1-3 innings. Hit by pitcher— | GAMES ToDAY. | Wash. at N. Y. 2. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at N. Y. 2. Gleve at Detrolt. - Gleve: at Detzoft, K s af cago. St. Louis at Chicago. Boston at Phila. Boston at Phila. NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Boston. 5: Fhiladelphia, 0. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. wudppEnud eawjued1ag s—off hi 3 ). her—Placher. By Linke (g‘z&"'m““‘am. e) seer. Skyrockets to Slab Fame LEE GRISSOM. A year ago the lanky. 200-pound 1exan, practically was un- heard of as a pitcher for Nashville in the Southern Association. Today he is known around the National League circuit as the “one-man” pitching staff of the Cincinnati Red. appear in the box score in less than three days it's an event. 'BASE BALL BETTER THANWORK TO RED Lee Loafed When He Could Not Play, Hitch-Hiking His Way Around. BY RUSS NEWLAN Associated Press Sports Writer. AN FRANCISCO.—Left Lee Grissom of the Cincinnati Reds, the bulky California farmer boy Who is the outstanding rookie pitcher of the major leagues this year, is playing base ball be- cause he was too lazy to work. is discoverer, Gene Valla, is the authority for the statement. Valla, former San Francisco Seals' out- ‘flelder and more recently manager of various semi-pro teams, should know something of Grissom's habits. He had the big fellow with him here for 16 months, during 1932 and For nearly a year and a half Valla coached ~Grissom, employed | him and fed him Grissom hails from Los Molinos, |2 tiny community in Nortnern Cali- | fornia, where his folks have a small ranch Although he learned most of his pitching from Valla during his stay in the bay area, not many ball fans of this section even know him, If Lee doesn’t —Wide World Photo. Passed hy Ivory Hunters. "POPPING OF F i Stuffing the Ballot Box for Joe. Special Dispatch to The Star, July 10.—There is a growing suspecion among the boys who Clark Griffith that Mr ball plaver m the American League today. Grifimen were undecided between Charlie Gehringer and Lou Gehrig Bul up to now Di Maggio never really was given much consideration by ts. Last year, you sce, Washingt ee Guisseppi thing or anot He was hurt at 1im ty much the same thing happened this season. did not play against the Griffs, which, as it develops, was fine They are only sorry he ever plays against them, for for the Washingtons, the newest of the Yankee sluggers. as far as they are concerned, is by all odds, the toughest to get out | Only a few days ago, it is | recalled, Bucky Harris was speaking of Gehringer and say- ing: “In my 13 years as a big league manager he was the greatest player I ever had.” In the big, glistening visitors’ club | house under Yankee Stadium yester- | day Bucky was talking of Di Maggio, who drove across seven runs in the Yanks’ 16-to-2 victory. Somebody said that Joe was the best plaver in the American League. “Well, it's be- ginning to look that way,” admitted Buckyv. Then Gehringer was men- tioned and a comparison suggested Harris wouldn't commit himself but id “I don't know. In the last week or so, all T have seen is a lot of extra base hitting by Di Mazgio. H='s got more power and . . . well, one's an infielder and the other's an outfielder. I'd like to have both." Griffs Ho'd Him in Awe. JFELLOWS like Cecil Travis and| Johnny Stone are beginning to hold Di Maggio in awe. Travis prob- ably will have a higher batting average over a 10-year stretch of major league ball than DIM aggio. The young short stop is a natural hitter. But when he speaks of the Yankee, it is with almost the start ter, it was midseason pefore Bucky Harris and his guys had 1o | the bases loaded and one out 'KELLEHER TUMBLES { Drops 49 Points, Sinks to Ninth reverential awe. “I don't see how he does it,” drawled Travis, pointing to the spot where the first of Di Maggio's two home runs landed yesterday. “How can a man | who doesn't take a single stride at bat hit that far?” Nobody seemed to have the answer for that one. Nor have they the formula for getting the guy out. For the sake of the rec- ord, let's look back over what Di Maggio has done against Wash- ington. The Griffs got their first real peek at him little more than a week ago. Earlier in the season, it is recalled, Di Maggio pinch-batted against Wash- ington. He had just walked out of a hospital, where his tonsils had been yanked, and he was weak and wabbly and out of shape. So he only got a single. One Way to Stop Him. UT the first time the Nats saw him as a regular was in Washington eight days ago. He hit a home run, which was No. 17. The following day he banged No. 18, plus a double to Major Leaders By the Associated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yankees, 378, . Tigers. 360, 5—Di_ Maggio, Tigers, 65. ted in—Greenbers, Tigers, gio. Yankees. 74. lker, Tigers, 96; Bell Browns. ubles—Lary, Indians, and Vos- mik. Browns 24 White Sox, Yankees, and | who's been leading the International Triples—Kreevich, : Stone_and Kuhel, Senators, and’ Av- Yankees, erill. Home Magglo, 2. Greenberg. Tigers. 18. Stolen bases—Chapman, Red Sox. 1 Appling. White Sox. 11. Pitching—Lawson, Tigers, 11—2; Ruffing, Yankees. §-—2. N, AL LEAGUE. Batting—Medwick 'Cardinals. .409; P. Waner,_Pirates. 104 Runs—Galan, Cubs. Cardinals, 64, Runs ‘batled in—Medwick, Cardi- Hits—P. 110: Med- wizk, Cardinals bles—Medwick _ Cardinals. 10 Kok Dodeers. and J. Martin. Cardi- Pirates, 10; 65: Medwick, I _let?YI?thlg rates. e Medwick, Cardinals, s, .s":—anlxun. Cubs, 13: J. artin. cardinals, tching—Bryant. . Car A S ALLA was 50 50ld on his protege’s potentialities, he signed him to & contract, agreeing to act as his manager-coach He offered to sell the husky southpaw to his old club, the Seals. but the management turned him down because Valla stipulated he was to get a percentage of the purchase price when Grissom was sold to the majors Joe Devine and Bill Essik, New York Yankee scouts, also turned Grissom down, according to Va a, | because of the contract he requested, giving him a piece of the purchass money Says Valla: | “The first I heard of Grissom was from a bush ball player I had gotten a job for. This fellow, Al Williams, had scen Grissom playing first ba in the country league. He sent hi to me in the hope I could get a job for him with some semi-pro outfi:. “When I saw him throw the ball, I knew he had the makings of a great pitcher. had played with Rube Marquard, Larry French and Jackie May and knew what they had on the ball They were in the majors and this Grissom had mo: Stuff than they had when I knew them. Joseph Di Maggio is the best Up to now most of the on was the last club in the league to of the season and, what with one Di Maggio was hurt 1 keep the home run company. On the third day he collected No. 19, but the next day he failed to hurt the Nats—they were at Philly. So Joseph made No. 20 against the Red Sox that afternoon, After his great day at bat yesterday Joseph has an inter- esting record to show against Makes Ball Smoke. ‘JIE WAS big, good-natured, never exting res earned more than $1.50 & day T8 7V g hes he hasitaado 10 ilte b 1 DIEIite and 1At watic to-wark: in 17 trips to the plate. which is an | $° '® Was meant to be a ball player. average of 588, He has driven across | 1 €Ut get him a job. because hs 11 runs and scored 7 himself. He hit b (S8SCE 10 iwork. He 5 home runs, a triple and two doubles N Gire Shop) In two weak moments he stooped to g Lithink hitting singles, which the Griffs Cheuien BuL T : W ould make }:fi:fim was downright decent of the g00d T ..ept him in board and room. If guys like Travis hold him in awe, ”'} Clli,d" o How o) piEfori W how do you suppose the Washington fil* A0 & bunt or do anthing but pitchers hold him? That's correct, L0 the ba fhmaxe i they don't. In fact, Eddie Linke pro e ably made the four smartest pitches i e e R 0o e Yeneudaylwhen DEMAe o viT il Himgin Tolpites e walked up in the fourth inning with (& §, "L i 10 to piten th Ed was not passing Di Maggio 1o ‘flda“:(::“ f,m a,dnlLo;f"filmm” { PUFpOsely, ot at loast he wasn't | it cover nim i sone sud supposed to. But they had all “Thero hiens e e Rl | ere were laughs when he went iently placed pitches. | ?;:Em\tflon[iiu:?:\?'d px'(“i';:s ?‘?:rb h: “"‘A(h{cho.\ can't hit what he can't didn't want to step up to the plate : He began to show improvement in 1933, but the big-time scouts wouldn't give him & tumble because of mv percentage demand. By this time his keep had cost me around $450. FROM BATTING LEAD Valla Gets $1.250 in Deal, “'I‘HEN Prof. C. E. Chapman of the University of California, who has a sideline hobby of scouting for Cincinnati, saw him pitch a game. He recommended him to the Reds. I got $1250 in the deal, sn everybody was happy. Sticking with Grissom helped me out. When he made good I got a job scouting for Detroit.” Being in the base ball money hasn't changed Grissom's traveling habits any. Valla said the 26-year-old south- | paw, when he wanted to come to Ban Francisco from Los Molinos last Win- ter for a visit, hitch-hiked his way here with 50 cents in his pocket. in International League. Keller Hits .355. NEW YORK, July 10 (#)—Geae + N Kelleher, the clouting Newarker League batters, took & terrific nose dive during the last week and started a wholesale shake-up among the lead- ers, in which Buddy Rosar, his New- ark teammate, took over the top. Kelleher connected for only four safeties in 25 trips to the plate in the week ended with Wednesday's games, to drop 49 points from his average and fall from first to ninth, with a .333 mark. While the general trend was up- ward with Kelleher's teammates, Ro- sar, who replaced him at the top with .398, and Bill Hershberger, in second place with .361, the biggest gainers, several other contenders fell off bacly. Dick Porter, the Syracuse Chiefs’ clouting picket-liner, fell from .353 to .333, sinking from third to tenth. | George McQuinn, Bears' first base- | man, dropped five points and fell out of the big 10. Don Ross, Toronto third sacker, gained 12 points, to reach eighth place. Rosar, who returned to action after suffering & split finger, smashed out 10 hits in 16 trips to the plate, to boost his average 42 points. Hersh- berger, who teams with Rosar to do 3 the league leaders’ backstopping, | Homer Slalldlllgs gained 23 points. | By the Associated Press. Behind Rosar and Hershberger | yoesterday's | homers—Di came Johnny Hopp, Rochester, .360; ankees. 2 ¢ > Charlle Keller, Newark, former Uni-| o indlans <" nnlte Box. 1 versity of Maryland star, .355; Irv * s, 1: V. Di Jeffries, Montreal, .344; Gus Dugas, Montreal, .339; Jack Juelich, Roches- ter, .338; Ross, Toronto, .337; Kelle- her and Porter. Stars Yester(lay By the Associated Press, Joe Di Maggio. Yankees—Hit fwo homers. triple. double and single. driv- ing in seven runs in 18-2 win over Senators Jim Turner. Bees—Blanked Phillies, 5-0. with five hits. Joe Cronin. Red Sox Drove in four runs with four hits. including winning run in twelfth on a double. in 12-11 victory over Athletics Dodgers — Stopped Luke ~ Hamlin Giants with five hits for win Rudy York, Tigers—Hit homer with two on base in 10-8 victory over In- dians Paul Waner. Pirates—His triple and three singles drove in four runs in 13-1 win_over Cubs Dixie Walker. White Sox—Hit homer. triple “and single. sending_ four runs across to top Browns. 11- Ducky Medwick two~ runs and le in 8-7 win over Red: Masgsio Gehrig, Yankees, 1 i 8o~ M Reds, | Reds.” 1 Yankees. Medwick Yankees. 17; is Lombard!. k. Cardinals, 1. The " leaders—Di Maggio Greenberg, Tigers, 1% Cardinals. 1K: Selkirk, Ot:. Glants, 7. s, 7. fotals—American, 332; Na- RACES TODAY = DELAWARE PARK STANTON, DEL. The DIAMOND STATE $7.500_ADDED SEVEN OTHER RACES Special Penna_ train leaves Union Station 11:20 A M. Special B. & 1 and 11 gadirect 1o track. Easter tandard _time. TRST RACE AT 3:00 PM.. E. 8. 7. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Joe Humphreys. veteran fight announcer. died at f4 atter long illness: Chuck Kiein, Phil lies. hit_four homers in one game against Pirates. tying big league rec- ord and becoming fourth player to ac- complish feat. Three years ago—After being shut out by Hubbell for three innings American League _All-8tars _pounded Warneke and Mungo to win. Five years ago—Ed Rommel pitched 17 innings as A's beat Indians, 18- 8 my Foxx R G, TohAnY Berners Eors ohnn? . olve i 1B 4