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@he Foening Star Fporis WASHINGTO. Mihalic Ousts Indolent Myer DECLINE OF BUDDY 1S BLOW T0 GRIFFS _Former Ace Is Slow Afoot, Weak With Flail and Lackadaisical. * BY FRANCIS E. STAN, |iaf Correspondent of The Star. -ETROIT, July 17.--Barring another of Bucky Harris' typ- ical changes of mind, the new regular second baseman of the Nationals, if anybody still cares, 4 Johnny Mihalic The dark-skinned graduate of Cleve- kna's sandlots, who led the Washing- ton Club in batting in Spring training and thus threw his hat into the ring with Buddy Myer’s, today was handed the post, according to Harris. | Obvinusly dissatisfied with Mver's | work, Bucky said: “Mihalic is on sec- | end to stay now. T think that he will | help us more.” The recruit started | yesterday’s game against the Indians | and conducted himself well, getting | two singles and & double off Mel Har- | der. The Griffs, however, lost their | third straight to the Tribe, 11 to 5. Myer's decline this season was the biow of blows to the Nats and their hopes of going places in the Ameri- | ean League derbv. It was conceded Jast vear that illness kept him from atarring but he recovered from his stomach ailment in the Winter. This vear hax found Buddy slow afoot, weak At bat and generally lackadaisi- eal. | Mihalic Stars in Defeat. i ’]‘Hv‘. popular infielder, who only {wo yePars ago was winning the Amer- fean League bgtting championship, has been a pitiful figure at bat during the last month or so. Mihalic, while not quite Harris' idea of a major league second baseman, is given & ehance of helping the Nats at that post. His debut did nothing to alter the odds in his favor. From the start of the 1937 season # wps ewdent that Myer had lost his spark. Once one of the most peppery plavers ever to wear a Washington | uniform, Buddy lost his fire and it | was suspected that he had thoughts other than base ball foremost in his mind. When his playing days are over Mever, it is said, will divert full time to promoting an air-cooling en- | terprise in New Orleans. He owns AN interest in the business. | For all of Mihalic’s herculean hit- | ting, the Nats never were in the game that Cleveland won in handy fashion. | Calvin Griffith Pilots Lookouts By the Associated Press, YHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 4 17.Calvin Griffith, 25-year- old president of the Chattanooga Lookouts, today was named as manager of the club and will pilot the team for the remainder of the season, it was announced by Clark Griffith, president of the Washing- ton base ball team. Young Griffith replaces Rill (Raw Meat) Rodgers, who will manage the Sanford, Fla. team, also Griffith property. Lee Head, former Sanford manager, will be given his outright release. Rodgers came from the Char- lotte, N. C., club of the Piedmont League June 9 to replace the vet- eran Clyde Milan, who had re- signed due to {11 health TRAVIS NEARS TOP IN DRIVE AT PLATE Presses Gehrig for Lead. Medwick Splurges. Ry the Associated Press, EW ORK. July 17.—Cecil Travis is making his comeback so hot these days that he's threatening to take over the | American League batting leadership. The Washington shortstop, out for several weeks early in the season with & broken bone in his ankle, climbed from fourth place to second in the hitting race this week, and by boost- ing his average 13 points, raised his mark to .368, thereby coming within nine points of Lou Gehrig's pace. While Gehrig was dropping one point to .377 during the week ended with yesterday's games, Travis and Gehrig's Yankee teammate, jolting Joe Di Maggio, continued their chase after him for the second seven-day period. Travis, with this week's in- crease, made a gain of 23 points in the Iast two weeks. Di Maggio, boosting his mark to .362 for third place in the league, raised his average 26 points in the last two weeks. Medwick Increases Lead. MEANTIME. the National League race found Ducky Medwick of the Cardinals more firmly entrenched than ever. He bonsted his mark four points to 413, while Gabby Hartnett | MAJORS GO BACK 10 SANDLOT PLAY Cubs, Giants, Yanks Beaten in Dizzy Offerings of - Bush Base Ball. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE national pastime had a somewhat screwy slant today. Base ball's alleged big-time looked like the bushiest bush league and as whacky as a padded cell. | I it was base ball most of the 16 major league clubs put on for the en- tertainment of the faithful yesterday, then there ought to be more bull fights +and piano throwing contests. | The National League gave signs of falling apart in vital spots like & 1910 model car; the Yankees and Tigers put on a burlesque that mayv have been | entertaining in a circus sideshow, but {rpnmnl_v not to any fan who paid to see R ball game; 43 pitchers paraded | from bull pen to mound to showers in nine games; 126 runs were scored and 224 hits banged out; there were more daffier finishes than a jig-saw puzzle. | Out of the merry-go-round. the Cubs | staggered with their same 3-percent- | Age-point margin over the Giants in the National League race, although both nose-dived to defeat. The Yanks, soundly whipped in the freakiest fenagling of the year, had their Amer- ican League lead cut to 6'; games, | Cubs, Giants Again Upset. i BOTH the Giants and the Cubs, by their performances of the last few | days, seem to be out to out-lose each | other in their close fight for the Na- tional League lead. The Cubs were crippled by Lou Fette's three-hit pitch- ing vesterday and lost a 6-1 decision to the Boston Bees. It was their fourth beating in six games. The Giants, given a chance to climb back into the driver's seat, threw it away by handing the Pittsburgh Pirates an unearned run in the eleventh inning. and a 4-3 decision. That set- back was the Giants' second in four starts. As & result, the Bucs and St. Louis’ Ras-house gang of Cardinals are back within shooting distance of the pace- setters again. The Cards knocked the | Stuffing out of eight pitchers vesterday and clubbed the Phillies, 10-3 and 18-10, in a double-header to move back | into & third-place tie with the Pirates, | Si Johnson was the winning pitcher in | both ends, going the route in the opener And the last two frames of the | Recuperating Tiger . D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1937. Connie Happy Over Slab Staff l [ Win or lose now District Girls’ Playground Tennis Title Event Speeds Up .Y[]UNGS]'ERS YEAR BEYOND HIS PLANS Thinks He Can Land Stick Talent Next Winter to Make a Winner. BY CONNTE MACK. T. LOUIS, July 17.—Righ! now the policies of the big-lea managers are as far apart, as their standinzs. The onlv plan | & leader of a pennant contender has is today's game. “Win today!” iz his cry and his team’s. It's different with & manager packed down in the second division, with poor prospects. He's thinking of tomorrow: and tomorrow, to him, is next season. By now ha knows the truth about his men I don't mean he fsn't just as anxious to win today, but his proh- iem is deeper It's up to him new team, to build almast a 50 he’s thinking ahead, is secondary, Pitching Most Tmportant. AST Winter I planned to hufld & pitching ataft this T said §f I could put together a aer of young men who would stand up I could go out next Winter and ger the necessary power in other depart- ments to have a chance for the 1933 vear. | pennant. I reasoned the quickest wav to bujld | &n Athletics team my city would he | exceeded all my dreams LUCILLE McDOWELL. Miss Mataja of Burroughs Playground. the only left-handed play in the annual net tournament, was one of the first\to reach the quarter-finals, this feat being accomplished yester: day by her 6—1, 6—2 defeat of Miss Deane. Miss McDowell, CHARLOTTE MATAJA. also of Burroughs, was a favorite to reach the quarter-finals today when she played Katherin Miss McDowell was a finalist last year, losing to Willie O'Steen, who is beyond the age limit this year. ROWES WEAKNESS STUMPS COCHRANE Opines Club Will Retain "POPP| - OFF Pilot | &pacial Dispaich 1o The Star. ETROIT, Mich., July 17 he is & judge of baze ball flesh, NG N N 28 Pot Pourri. ~Lott Gehrig may be a better baill plaver than . but few men are in a position to say £ ERMA DEANE. e Stevens of Hoover Playground. —Star Staff Photos. | | | BURROUGHS IS HOT INTENNIS TOURNEY | Doped as Only Playground With Two Players in proud of was to get “he pitehing first That's always been the short cut to success. 80 I'm glad to sav my staff has In base hall Ianguage, theyre a “vear ahead” nf where I'd figured they'd be by now. If our hitting hadn't sagged. we wouldn't have fallen so far from first place. Mavbe vou'd like tn know how we ripened these young pitchers® Even if you're a youngster pitching for A town or piayeround team. there's & lot here to help vou if you can member it out there, Blameless in Defeat. IN THOMAS, Caster, Turbeville, Kelley, Nelson, righthanders, lefthander, I bhave nine men turn- ing in well-pitched games. Theyre blamelexs in defeat. The beauty of it i& only Kellev and Nelson have passed 30; the rest, average around 24. Of course, young pitchers ars mnre work. You must be patient and Ross, Pink, Gumport and and Smith. a : ! : vigilant: they're easily - In the first inning the Griffs took a | of the Cubs took over second place | 1o inning nighteap. The Cards seore | Faltering Pitcher. more reasonably than Lou how the 1937 Yankees compare with Col 5 Yiwpeetiandic 1-0 Jead in an apologetic sort of a‘ fashion but they quickly lost it and | the Tribe banged its way to victory. | Tribe Sweeps Series. ! *['HE defeat saw Wesley Ferrell fail | again. The handsome hurler was pretty pitiful out in the box. They took an 8-t0-2 lead off him in the | first four innings and thereafter it was & breese for Harder. The slim Hght-hander of the Indians granted 13 hits but when a club gets 11 runs for a guy he is & sure shot to go the route and that is what Harder did for his seventh victory of the sea- son After tiring the score at 1-1 in their | half of the first ining the Indians | made four doubles in the second frame and scored three runs. In the fourth they drove Ferrell from the box and before Ed Linke could retire the side had shoved across four more Funs. In the end it developed that Bucky Jacobs, the rookie with hay seeds in | his hair, Was the best pitcher used by the Nats. Jacobs pitched the Jast two | fnnings and retired six men in a row. | Stone’s Tliness Is Hurting. | ()PENING n three-game series here taday, the Nats honestly can see no signs of an about-face. One of the developments that is hurting the | Griffith A. C. is Johnny Stone's ill- ress. The hard-hitting outfielder | was on the shelf again yesterday with his cold, and Harris had to use Fred Sington, who again went notably | Jess and, in addition, hit into his ninth 1 doubleplay in the last 18 games he has played 1 Stone is & doubtful starter today. He xtill was weak when the Nats ar- rived in Detroit last night and it is | not. likely he will return until tomor- | row. at the earliest. Meanwhile, with | Tommy Bridges scheduled to face them | today, the Nats arec expecting the worst. | Jimmy De Shong was to seek his| ninth win of the year today. Tomorrow Harris plans to use Monte Weaver. | although, as he terms it, “pitching Weaver is something like suicide. They (the Tigers) call every pitch on ] him.” | Monte, it seems. never has learned | how to completely disguise his fast | ball and curve from the alert, eyes of | Del Baker, acting manager of the | Bengals. : . COARTAL PLAINS, A Snow Hill. a Williamston, Tarborn 9: Kinston, & Goldsharn A. Greanvilis, 8 en B T . from Paul Waner. with .388 to .387. ! Through this development, Medwick's league lead was raised to 25 points. | Standings of the first 10 in each league: AMERICAN LEAGUE. ew York 1z, Travis. Washingion Radcliffe. Chicarn Selkirk, New York ronin. Boston Genringer. Beil, St. Lou St Louis Chicazo P Vaughan Mize St Herma ne. Jurees. Chicago Manush.~ Brooklvn 31 2 Kiein, Philadeiphia 54 181 334 CANADIANS CLEAN UP 51 35 Sweep First Seven Contests of In- ternational Oar Meet. ST. PAUL, July 17 (#).—Canadian oarsmen took complete charge of the first day’s races of the International Rowing Association regatta yester- day by winning all seven events. The Fort William, Ontario, club gained a commanding lead of 69 points to the 47.25 piled up by its closest chal- lenger. the Winnipeg Rowing Club. | The Minnesota Boat Club, St. Paul's | representative in the two-day meet which is being held on the Mississippi | § River failed to gain a point. ne. ardinals, 413; 38K ck, Cardinals, 67; Ga- —-Medwick, Cubs. 58 Cardinals, 119; P. Doubles-—Medwick. Bartell Giants. o Tripie: ughan, Pirates, 10; Handley, = Home runs_—Medwick, Cardinals. and Ot! Giants, Stolen _bases-—Gal Cubx, 14; J. Martin. Cardinals. Pitching (10 or more dacisions) Fette. Bees, 11-3; Hubbell, Giants, 13-4 American Le Batting -—Gehrig. R oo Travis. Senators, a8 o lns—Greenber gers, 71 Maggin, Yaniees. S0 Rups batted in—Greenberg. Tigsrs, Medw . 66 Cardl- Cardinals, 37; n. ex, 82 DI Maggio. Yankees, 71 Hi zio, Yan- Bell. Browns. 10: and Lary, Tndians. ? Triples—Kreevicl Home rtuns—Di Maggio, Yankees, 23 Greenberg. Tigers. 20, a1 Appling, White Sox. Piiching—Ruffing | eight. runs in the extra frame of the | afterpiece. Tigers Get Much With Little, SCREWIEST of all, however, was the show put on by the Yanks and Tigers before the Detroits came | through with & 14-7 win. Shut out, for five innings, the Tigers exploded in the sixth and scored seven runs. But the payoff was that they collected just one safe hit, during the rally. Seven walks and a pair of errors were handed then on a platter in the farce. Odd feature: Gerry Walker striking out | twice during the inning to tie the big | league mark. Brooklyn's fans, who get queer base ball at best, were still dazed over the 6-5 thumping their Dodgers handed the Reds. Although they knocked 19 hits all over the lot, the Brooklyn beauties had to put on a three-run rally in the ninth to win. Pinkey Higgins' homer gave the Red Sox & 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Browns. The Chicago White Sox breezed in with a 9-¢ win over the Athletics. The Indians cuffed the Na- tionals again, 11-5, — - - - - - ~ —_— - ~ - = - ~ - — n ‘WASHINGTON, Almada. Lewis, Kihel Travis. 25— Ce (313D SO > 5 > B T 1 | 55255t smmname 2 | oms Totals & —~Batted for Linke in Tth xx—Batted for Jacobs in Sth. Cleveland Lary. ss. = ] 2 2 I | rorosretmaisg Totals WASHINGTON Cleveland 130 Runs batted in—Trosky (2), Solters (2), Campbell (2). Hughes. Averill. Hale, Sull van. Harder. Kuhel (2)_Lewis, Travis, . _Two-base hits—Kuhel. Hughes. Sol- . Campbell. Sullivan, Mihplic, Hale, R. Ferrell. hits—Solters. _Kuhel. " Sacrifice—Hale. Double plays—Lary to Hughes to Troskyi Hale to Hughes to Trosky. ~Left on bases— Washington, &: Cleveland. b. DallsOff Harder. ' off W. Ferrels Linke, 2. "Strikeouts By Harder. 3. by W. 1 3; by Jacobs, 1. Hits—Off W. Ferrell. 9 in'3% innings: off Linke, 5 in 2's innings: off Jacobs. none in 3 innnings. Balk—Linke. Losing pitche Mesars. Summers, 2 s - 100 . Ferrel Umpires— Basil and Geisel. At- D(vuhl‘:—fi-fiehfll. Yankee: Kuhel Senators. g it Sox, 10: Btolen "bases—Chapm Lawson, Tigers. 1]-2 sach tendanes—6.000." Time -2:1R | By the Axsociated Pross | ETROIT, July 17.—The inef- fective pitching of Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe has Mickey Cochrane mystified “The schoolboy is & mystery to me, sid the Detroit. Tiger manager, who is recovering from the skull fracture suffered in the Yankee Stadium, May 26, when one of Bump Hadley’s pitches hit him. “Of course, T haven't seen Rowe for a long time.” he added. Mike, cheerful and looking well, said he did not know of any plans to ! of recent years whose few appearances this season because of a sore arm and other aflments have been fruitless He expressed the opinion the club “wili | hang onto to him.” Eager to See Tigers Play. \'OST of Cochrane’s thoughts cen- | “*% ter on base ball, but he is look- ling forward to fishing and playing golf. He plans to leave his city resi- dence soon for his farm, but first he intends. to “sneak unnoticed” into Navin Field to see his mates play. fomewhere in the stands. Within a month, however, Black Mike said, he expects to don uniform and resume his managerial duties. He won't catch any this season, and | whether he ever will remains to be | determined. “I've spent & lot of years behind the plate,” he sald reminizcently, “and it may not be easy to take if I can't | play any more. Short Walks Only Exercise. “INEXT Spring Tl sce whether I have the right confidence and mental attitude toward playing again. It's too soon to tell this season. Right now I just feel lucky that I'm here.” He mentioned that at his age—34— he should be able to play several more years, commenting that most non- | playing managers were past the normal ball-plaving period. Just now Mickey'’s only exercise is short walks. He reads, listens occa- sionally to Tiger games on the radio— “but I get excited after a few innings” —and i8 enjoying & new candid camera. Cochrane praised Coach Del Baker's handling of the Bengals and said De- troit “is doing well considering all the bad luck its had.” . PIFDMONT. Charlotis. 10: Durham. 2. Asheville. A Winston-Salem. 2 Richmond. 11: Racky Mnunt, 7. Schacht Too Expensive Clown for Coast Loop Farr Mark for Louis, Says Loughran—Paul Dean’s Arm Still Puzzles—Venzke Golf Star. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Assaeiated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK. July 17.—A cer- tain big league club has its eve on Rabbit Maranville for manager . ’ . Three guesses . . . The Yankee winning streak of nine straight is the rich- eat since 1933, when the club won nine in & row . . . Hope the report that Mickey Cochrane isn't getting well quite as fast as the doctors hoped is all wet . .. Mark Hellinger, the columnist, and Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red Sox, look so much alike they eould pass as brothers n any league. Mule Haas of the White Sox is one of the world's worst, base steal- ers . . . Hin average over a nine- ear stretch s one per season ., . Reason Pacific Coast League fans aren't howling at Al Schacht's capers is that Al demanded & $7,500 guarantee for eight appear- ances . . . Tommy Loughran (who fought Farr) says if Joe Louis is in a hurry to get away from there the night he fights the English- man, it won't go a round . . . Billy Evans, boss of the Red Sox farm system, hit the daily double at Thistle Down the other day for $670 . . . Nice going, Billy. Old Babe Herman is having one “L” of & time hitting .300 for To- ledo in the American Associa- tion Attention, Messrs. Frick and Harridge: The Red Sox played an exhibition at Cumberland, Md.,, the other day ., .. The umpire was Herb Bailey, a 23-year-old dye » worker . . . The Sox are unani- mous in saying he has the makings of a really fine arbiter . . . Dr. Mal Stevens, New York U. foot ball coach, says you'll see more for- ward passing next season than ever before . . . Paul Dean's arm still puzzles the Cardinals. Mrs. Pedro Montanez, wife of the lightweight star, wants a di- vorce . . . Gene Venzke, the run- ner, shoots golf in the lows 708 and plans to enter the big tour- naments from now on . . . Mike Jacobs says that blast from the District of Columbia Boxing Com- mission is just an effort to club him into signing for a James J. Braddock-Jorge Brescia match in the Capital . . . Smart base ball writers say Tony Lasseri of the N ‘Yanks, Luke Sewell of the White Sox and Buddy Myer of the Na- tionals are the three best mana- gerial bets in the ranks of Ameri- can League players. They've about run out of ideas on how to head off the Newark Bears in the International League . . . Jack Ogden, Baltimore busi- ness manager, put a black cat in the Bears’ dressing room, but the hex didn’t pan out Henry Cotton announced at Carnoustie before a shot had been played that he would take care of the Americans single handed . . . and did he? . .. “Good Time” Charley Friedman, New York fight mana- ger, who pleads guilty to import- ing both Primo Carnera and Jack Doyle, is enjoying life in Los Angeles. ) | and asked to give his version replace Rowe, the Tigers' hurling star | He won't watch the diamond from | the dugout, but hopes to sit unobserved | Just before Lou grabbed a | American League's so-called race. Lou, | vou know, has been plaving first base for the Yanks 12 years now. Since the dav he stepped into the job in June of 1925 he has not missed L single game. i Gehrig had no alternative but 1o include himself in the infield, since he was the Yanks' only | first baseman over this stretch. | Joe Dugan at third, Frankie Cro- setti at short and Tony Larveri ‘ at second rounded it out. In the outfield he placed Ruth, Earle | Combs and Joe Di Maggio. Behind the bat his choice, of course, was Bill | Dickey. For pitchers he named Lety Gomez, Red Rufing, Waite Hoyt and Herb Pennock. | Of the 12 players named, seven | are members of the 1937 cast. Or doesn’t it mean anything? | Oh Well, 1t All Evens Up. IT 18 interesting to note that on the very day that Jack Curley was laid to rest, the rassling trust offered Joe | Louis & guarantee of $75.000 to meet | | Bronko Nagurski in a mixed match. The Bronko now is one of the mat champions. It may be strictly eoincidental, but, by the same token, rassling has made a habit of issuing challenges when the | going has become rough. And, with| Curley gone, the racket indeed is de- prived of its one real champion. Back when Dempeey was in heyday and boxing was in the million-dollar gate ers, the mat trust tried in vain to get Jack in the ring with Strangler Lewis. A atimulus was needed and the oauliflower crowd figured and probably rightly . . . that Mr. Lewis would have made short work of | Dempsey. Any rassier figures to beat | & boxer close to his own weight. Later, when rassling made s great oomeback around 1930, boxing became more susceptible to a mixed match. Fellows like Schmeling, who was “sit- ting down” then, Sharkey and Car- nera were breaking no gate records and ring promoters even encouraged & match with Jim Londos facing Carners, a reformed eircus rasler, but the mat gang snickered and would have none of it. Now it's a different story. Figures That Den't Lie. (;mmo back to the Yankees, and this is no great task, reminds that with season not yet half over, they al- ready have compiled a few records | with which you can play tricks. In- asmuch as they still pay off on runs, | take the runs-batted-in columns, f'instance, and see what there is to be seen. Four of the Yanks . half of the regular team . . . ean show & com- posite record of 258 runs driven across at this stage of the campaign. Di Maggio has 76, Dickey has 70, Gehrig has 58, and the injured, Selkirk, who has not played for some time, has 54. Now take a gander at the Nationals’ runs-driven-in column. The entire Washington team, all eight and at full strength, can show only 220. This, if our arithmetic serves, is 38 less than the number of runs batied across by half of the Yanks. Here they are: Stone, 43; Simmons, 36; Kuhel, 32; Lewis, 31; Myer, 3 ‘Travis, 21 Rick Ferrell, 14, and Al- mada, 13. Total, 220. If you care t5 carry the compari- Jacob Ruppert's great 1927 team. Many contend that New York's 1927 club was the greatest of all Yankee teams, but the amazing feats of the present outfit have won many disciples. train out of Detroit last night. he was cornered | of the all-Yankee tesm from 1927-37. .| doing 30 he cast a probably unconscious vote for the current team that is | | threatening to make a runaway of the ¢ 8 son farther, take & peek at the pitche | & ing records. Gomes, Ruffing and N And in | Pearson, among them, have won 20 | and lost 9. And Pearson missed sev- | eral weeks with a bad arm. The! entire Washington staff—Weaver, De Shong, Wee Ferrell, Linke, Fischer, | Cohen, Appleton, Chase and Jacobs— | has won 30 and lost 29. | Quarter-Finals. URROUGHS figured to be the only playground to have two representatives in the quarter- | finals of the girls’ tennis tournament today, all the four quarter- | finalists so far established. represent- ' ing ax many playgrounds., namely, Twin Oaks, Rosedale, Takoma and Chevy Chase. With Charlotte Mataja. the only surviving left-handed player from the large entry, having become Burroughs' first quarter-finalist yesterday, Lucille McDowell was a heavy favorite to Want to be a Club Owner? ( newer of the Cleveland rumors say that a big shake-up of the In- dians ix impending and thiz time it will start at the top, far above the player ranks. It is said that Mr. Cyril Slapnicka, the fence for “hot” base ball talent, will be sent back to the farm for more seasoning, or some- thing. One of the more definite angles to | the report is that one-fourth of the stock In. the Indians son will change hands. A bank now is trying to un- load it for $100,000. This is reasonable enough for 25 per eent of a ball elub's stock and now all the bank directors have to do is find somebody with 100 “grand” and aspirations to shoulder the cares of a elub owner. Maybe they ought to throw in a free swivel ehair and cotton for the eardrums to entice would-be pur- chasers. There is quite a pack of wolves in Cleveland, you know, and the acoustics at League Park are too, too good. That eotton will come in League Statistics JULY 17, 1987, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. 2 41”41 41 3/—|21(511.292 .L, v;mzma:zm 141/49|51|—|—/ ] GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at Detroit, 3. Wash. a¢ Detrolt, 8. . N. Y. at CI N. Y. at Cle . Y. Phil Phila. at Bt. Lot . at St Louls. t Boston at Chicago, Boston at Chie NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. ‘e1vjueIng | -~ puaea! wasp 51_5]_81461201.613] _ |71 7147(301.610/___ 7 b110] 5/411331.554] €% {I—I 9| b|_7/10141/331.554] 4% 2l—1_81_6_6I351421.455112 Bkl 5/ 31 6 1 6l 6i32141 Cin[ 31 S| _4I—1_7[2914: i Phil 4| 41 51 11 71 6| 3/—I291481.377/18 GAMES TOMORROW. it. L. at N. Y. Shicana s Brookivn, at_Phila. Cin. st Boston. __| twirl for Procurement. Fischer-O’Neill Feud Flares make it two for that same playground NE of the more persistent and|When she tackled Katherine Stevens ST of Hoover this morning. The morn- ing’s other match found Dorothy Haislup of Virginia Avenue meeting Katherine Keyes of Hoover, neither playground as yet being represented in the round of eight. Miss Gray Surprises. 1 RY GRAY of Twin Oaks, whose game is improving right along. sprang a real surprise yesterd with | the ease of her conquest of Irma ‘Williard of Takoma Park, 6—1, 6—4. The loser was ranked as one of the | playgrounds’ best last season, but | Miss Gray's steadiness and fine service wrought her downfall. I Miss Mataja sent Burroughs into the quarters with a 6—1, 6—2 victory |over Erma Deane of Garfield, while Mary Simmonds of Rosedale advanced with & 6—0, 6—0 whitewash of Ida | | Burns of Potomac. . Takoma and Cheyvy Chase already were represented in the quarters by the presence of Hazel (Jimmy) Bishopp and Helen Miller. Miss Bishopp has justified her choice as one of the tournament favorites and now remains ss an outstanding threat | for the title vacated by Willie O'Steen. | M* | | | RISX;EOFT BALL RECORD. Undefeated in 17 games, Old Mil- waukee's soft ball team will riak its clean slate against the crack Procure- ment Club tomorrow at 11 o'clock on diamond No. 15, Lincoln Memorial Grounds. Bob Plaisted will pitch for | | Old Milwaukee, while Tom Stefles will | couraged. I always remind a young pitcher that a batter won't average mora than one hit in three times up. Walks help him to beat .333 No one hits 500 through a seaxon. An extra high average ix 390, but. Wwith passes thrown in, thata not much more than one out of three, Remember that. This way I show my young pitchers they always have the edge over the batter. Any batter is more apt to be retired than to hit safely. Every Hitter Catalouged. NCE camp I've called battervmen together for talks twice a week. We have every league batter cata- logued and keep revising. A man will suddenly start hitting pitchers he could never get before. So we keep a young pitcher from just aimlessly releasing the ball, which is his ruin. He must never Jet, himself be “lost” in a game. He must have a purpose behind every pitch. Once he starts throwing “any old thing” he's on his way out. I often tell them of Eddie Plank, who Jooked hopeless his first seaton with me and was & star on his way to lasting fame the next He got there by learning the magir formula in “thinking with everv pitch.” If youre learning ta pitch paste that in your hat; if you're a fan, watch the pitcher do his thinkins, (Copyrizht, 1937.) Sports Mirror By the Associ Today & year ago—All United States Olympic teams worked out on deck for first time while en route to Berlin. Three years ago—Bob Johnson, Jimmy Foxx and Frank Higgine of Athletics hit successive homers to tie Major League record. Jan Jusocinski of Poiand ran 2 miles in fast time of 9:00.4 at Cologne. Five ysars ag>—United States Olympic track and field team selectad following completion of triale at Palo Alto. ed Press. Tries to Finish By & 8tsff Correapondent of The Star. ETROIT, Mich,, July 17— To the list of various feuds and vendetias en- joyed by the Nationals was added today a Oarl Fiacher- Steve O'Neill tiff. Prior to leaving Cleveland yes- terday, the Washington pitcher and the Tribe's manager became involved in one of those choicely- worded hold-me-back-here-I-come things. Flscher, who was “fired” by O'Neill esrlier in the season, was alleged to have made an in- audible remark as O'Neill was walking down the runway to the playing field before game time. O'Nelll turned and said: “If you are trying to ride me, I will tear you to pieces.” Fischer, who was purchased by ‘Washington for the waiver price after O'Neill had told him onesday to “get dressed and never come to the Cleveland club house,” an- swered: “You had better do it now be- fore they get wise to you and fire you.”" Inflelder Johnny Mihalie atepped between them as they sdvanced Nats’ Pitcher Starts Fuss Tribe’s Manager Vainly in Clubhouse. toward each other, and with the aid of several other playsrs, suc- ceeded in breaking them wp. Later O'Neill barged into the Washington club house snd, ax Piacher was sitting on the rubbing table, he sald: “Stand uwp and fight, you eheap The Nate standing nearby hustied the burly Tribal chleftain out of the room. O'Neill, incidentally, i recog- nized as one of the better rough- snd-tumble fighters in base ball. RACES TODAY DELAWARE PARK STANTON, DEL. SUSSEX HANDICAP $10,000 ADDED SEVEN OTHER RACES Special Penna. train_ leaves Union Station 11:20 AM. Special B. & O. trains leave 11:30 AM. .and’ 11:43 AM.--direct ~ to track, Pastern aiandard time. FTRST RACE AT 2:00 PM_, F.5.T.