Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1937, Page 11

Foening Stap Sport g WASHINGTO D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937. A—11 { - Fourth-Inning Hoodoo Hits Nats : Opportunity Raps for Hartnett LOSE NI—N—I—H—IN R[]W%_:f\ce Athlete Due to Disappoint Some 11 . INUNLUCKY FRAME Tigers, Keeping Up Hex, Use [ Round for 5 Runs—Open | Chicago Set Today. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. &iafl Correspondent of The Star, HICAGO, July 20.—The dolor- ous path of the Nationals car- ried into the belligerent baili- wick of the White Sox today and the Washingtonians, of all things, had a new complex—a “fourth-inning | hex." The jinx reached its peak in Detroit, from where the Griffs sneaked under cover of darkness last night. Sneak- ing with them was a nine-game losing streak, which represented the longest string of setbacks compiled by the Griffith A. C. in recent years. And they lost No. 9 in a row because——— Detroit, in the fourth inning, jumped on Peter Appleton and scored five runs. ‘The final score was 8 to 4 in favor the Tigers, who, like the Indians, registerad 8 clean sweep over Bucky Harris' stricken forces, The Nats’ Achilles Heel. JFOURTH-INNING uprisings by the opposition now Are becoming n- commonly common. In Cleveland last Priday the Indians hopped on Wes Perrell in the fourth inning, scoring four runs to take & big lead. Even- tually the Tribe won, 11 to 5. The day before, the Tribe missed rallying the fourth by one inning. In the fifth they scored five runs and won, | 6 to 2. but on July 14 the Tribe broke & tie by scoring three times in the fourth round, carrying on from there | to win, 11 to 3 On July 10 Wes Ferrell was doing | well enough against the Yankees unul | the fourth inning rolled around. Then, | striking suddenly, the Yanks scored | eight runs and won & 12-to-2 decision. | On July 9, Fischer was facing the | Yankees and it was quite & ball game | until round No. 4. Then, again, the | Rupperts rose and pushed across four runs. From then on they breezed to a 16-t0-2 decision. | The Athletics, in fact, even have | recognized that, if anv one inning is the Achilles heel of the Washington Club, it is the fourth. On July 5 th A's did their important scoring in this frame to get a 2-2 tie. It might Le added, the day before marked the last. time the Nats won a ball gamo. | That fourth-inning hex is beginning to | get on the Nats' nerves. " PEGLEG DYKES HISOX SPARKPLLC Veteran Playing Pilot Gives Sample of Grit, Skill in Beating Bosox. [ By the Associated Press. | HICAGO, July 20.—He's the dean of all American League | inflelders and “Ol' Pegleg” to | his mates, yet Jimmy Dykes, in his twentieth major league season, till is showing the youngsters a trick or two. The rotund little Chicago White Sox manager, who'll be 40 years old next November 10, isn't breaking into 85 many box scores as he used to. terday, fans and players alike realize the great job he is doing in keeping his club well up in the first division. Handicapped by a sore leg all year, | the scrappy Sox leader ever so oftn |coms up with a performance that | stamps him as one of the greatest expected to help, Even when the|competitive ball players in the game's Griffs were doing fairly well, they Quit | hjstory, eold when a Sox uniform appeared. | The defeat yesterday did nothing | fo enhance Mr. Appleton's position with the Washington club. Harris had a hunch that if he gave Pete another chance, after snubbing him | for weeks, it might wake up the gu It did not, however, A home run by Al the first inning, with Cecil Travis on base, gave Appleton a 2-0 lead | over Rookle Cletus Elwood Poffen- | tTiPle: Dykes, berger, the new fair-haired boy of of the first two frames, to tie the| 10 chunky pllot will taik about score, and then, in the fourth, they | ©'erything but where his club is “'ble| j ) g [to finish this season. He believes wild to clinch the verdict. | A ot MRl AT AR Ee | pennant talk will tighten up any club, | fourth when he walked Hayworth, with | 304 Prefers to go along, taking the one out. A wild throw by Millies put | §°0d With the bad, the wins with the Poffenberger on base. Then Pete Fox | 108%¢: singled and, after Rogell foreed Fox, & single by Charlie Gehringer and a home run by Hank Greenberg did the vest. Morale of Team Low. HE Harrismen move here with their morale as low as it is possible to | get it. They do nos look as if they ever will win another game and the sight of those White Sox umiforms scarcely are But when he does, as happened yes-{ | | His Bit Wins Game. terday at 4-all in the eighth, with two on base. Dykes, with his bad leg 50 sore he could not place all his | weight on it, went in to pinch hit and | lashed a double to right-center which | Simmons in | gon the ball game. | wincing with every step, actually hopped on one leg the | last few feet to second base. It was Popular With Players. | FI&'S popular with his hired hands. | He doesn't go in for rules and regulations or telling his employes when they should go to bed or where to spend their evenings. A player can make a dozen flelding mistakes and Whik Sox 1o the opener here w_iJlmm,v acts as though nothing has day . .. It may be recalled that when | N3PPened. A pitcher can get his ears Wes first pulled on & Washington uni- | knocked off and Jimmy will relieve form he faced Chicago and won a|Mim Without showing the siightest €-t0-2 decision . . . Rick Ferrell did |Sign of irritation. not catch yesterday, because after | Yet there's no lack of respect for infleld practice his right wrist be- | the Sox leader. Perhaps it's because came swollen . . . Rick has a hunch | D€ €an go into a ball game with cne that it is a development due to a | R00d leg and doa better job than most | broken finger sustained on his right | YOungsters with two solid pins. Old RS D e A | Connie Mack of the Philadelphia | As pinch-hitters, the Ferrell broth- | Athletics watched Jimmy early this| ers did not fare so poorly yester- | 5eason and then made a comment still day . . . Wes, batting for Appleton, | Femembered around Comisky Park: singled in the fifth . . . And Rick, | “That Dykes" said Connle, “still is| who picked up Chase's bat in the | the best third baseman in the league ninth, drew a base on balls . . . r\nx.!#ven if he has to play it from a whom Bucky Harris always wanted | Wheel chair.” on the Washington club, batted nearly .500 against the Nats in the Detroit neries . getting six hits in 13 trips to the plate Poffenberger’s victory yesterday was his sixth as against two defeats . . . Detroit, loves him . . . Thornton Lee | was due to face Washington here to- day . . . Last year, with Cleveland.l Rick's Wrist Acting Up. INOTES on the Nats: Wes Ferrell was to face the Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today & year axo—Mickey Cochrane, manager of Detroit Tigers. suffered s recurrence of thyroid illness and re- entered a hospital. Three vears ago—Jimmy Foxx hit his twenty-ninth homer of the season and went into the American League lead for four-baggers. &e won three games. Iv IS team was tied with Boston ves- | S| | A fast man could have made it a| (Copyright, A. DALLAS, Tex., July 19.—Bob Peoples (pictured above), ace 4——m P. Wirephoto.) Oklahoma City High School javelin tosser and Joot ball ace, admits 113 colleges are after him—but he’s modest about it. “I'm not so hot,” he told fellow competitors at the Pan- American games here, in which he finished second in the javelin throw. Bob rates such opinions partly because Classen High of Oklahoma City won unofficial rating as the best grid team in the State last year, and he, as a fullback, was a mainspring in that accomplishment. Then this Spring he returned to javelin throwing for his erercise. In the A. A. U. meet at Milwaukee he arched the javelin for 227 feet to beat out famed Alton Terry of Hardin- Simmons, who is the American record holder. Out of the welter of bids from schools Bob has not made a choice. But he admits he has a definite favorite—Stanford. But his mother wants him to go to Oklahoma University, near the family home. Major League Statistics JULY AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Detroir. R; Washingion. 4 New York. K. Cleveland., 5. Chicago. #. Boston. 4 Only ames scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Y | | | 10X MIN wmep ‘wigdppead |~~~ puleE 60110 715001141 | 4 ) Phl 1 L. 2313213] GAMES TODAY. Wash. at Chicago. N. York at St. L Boston at Detroit Phila. at Cleveland 2. Wash. a1 Chicago, 3 ©2). Phila. at Cleve « Boston at_Detro; Y. at St. Louis, 20, 1937, NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Louis. 3: New York. © . Brooklyn. ¢ #_ Philadelohia scheduled irgh 5. Only games . Chicago at Phila & Louis at Boston Pittsburgh at Rkin Pit a Chicago at Phila St. Louis at Boston YANK TRACK TEAM TO SAIL TOMORROW Two Groups to Tour in Europe. Another Contingent to Leave for Japan August 5. By the Associated Press. \"EW YORK, July 20.—Eighteen LN track and field athletes, compris- ing the first contingent of 33 national champions and near-champions who will tour Europe and Japan this Sum- mer, sail on the Berengaria tomor- row. The Japan-bound team of 15 will leave from San Francisco Au- gust 5. ‘The athletes sailing on the Beren- garia comprise two teams. One will tour England, France and Switzerland and the other will visit Sweden, Nor- way, Denmark, Finland and possibly Hungary, Holland and Italy. The for- mer has a meet scheduled for London August 2, three for Switzerland with dates to be announced and another in France August 22. ‘The smaller of the two groups, only eight athletes, will compete in Stock- holm August 4, 5 and 6: six meets in other Swedish cities, four in Finland and two in Denmark. Negotiations also are underway for meets in three other countries. NEW YORK-PENNSYLVANIA. Williamsport, 5: Wilkes-Barre, 1, Albany. o Hazleton, any. Trenton. 4: Binghamton, 3. Only games scheduled TEXAS. Beaumont. 4: Dallas, 3. Tulsa. 2: Houston. 1 alveston. 11: Oklahoma City. R. an Antonio. . Fort Worth. & | Gehringer, | Greenberg | Detroit Official Score WASHI! INGTON. Almada._cf. Batted for Appleton in fifth. tBatied for Chase in ninth. o £ o Py PR bs. cf. Hayworth.’ e. Poffenberger, Srtme s Totals 3271 WASHINGTON - 200 010 010—4 110 500 10x—8 Runs Batted in-—Greenberg (4): Simmons (2). Travis. Stone, Laabs Two-base’ hits—Fox (2). Rogell, Almada. ~ Home runs—Simmons Greenburg. Stolen base—Greenberg. Si rifices—Poffenberger (2). Double piay: Travis. Myer and Kuhel: Rogell and Gre berg. Left on bases—Detroit, 12; Wash ington. 6. Bases on balls—Of ' Poffen- berger. 3. off Appleton. 3: off Chase, 1. 8trikeouts—By Poffenberger. 3: by Ap- pleton, 1. Hits—Ofl Appleton. 7 in 4 in- nings:’ off Chase. 6 in 4 _innings. Hit by pitcher—By_ Appleton _ (Walker): by Pof- fenberger (Travis). Passed ball—Millies. pitcher — Appleton. Umpires— McGowan, Ormsby and Quinn. Time—1:46. ST — INTERNATIONAL. Newark. 3. Rochester, 2; Baltimore, 1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, 8t. Paul. 13 Columbus, & Louiaville, 9:" Toledo. 2 Minneapolis, 8: Milwaukee, 7. PIEDMONT. B, & Nolk, %, Lamot " H arlotte. 1. : Kansas City. 5. :_Indianapolis, 5. 3. -“Mystery” Montague Once Property of Boston Bees Was Promising Recruit—Yanks Due for Big Slump, Says Hornsby—Army Strong on Grid. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 20.—Boston reports John Montague, golf's mystery man (now in the news—and how) once ‘was the property of the Bees and showed real promiise . . . Rip Col- lins of the Cubs disagrees with Bill Terry's opinion that Ducky Wucky Medwick would hit .580 if he didn't go for bad balls . . . “He wouldn't hit .300,” contends Rip, “for most of his hits come on bad balls.” The Yankees have & jolt, or rather a bad siump, coming, if you want to take the word of smart old Rogers Hornsby of the Browns -+« “In all my years of base ball, I've never seen a club go through one full season without experienc- ing at Jeast one bad slump,” he £aid . .. “I don't care how power- ful they are.” Brooklyn Eagle’s sport pages, now eparkling under the brill; direction of Jimmy Woods, put . over a couple of scooperoos today . . They reported Eddie Butler, one-time Cornell quarterback, tried to buy the Dodgers for $1,500,000, and also printed a picture of Al Welll, manager of Lightweight Champ Lou Ambers, without his famous weskit . . . (So far as this column knows, this is the first time this feat ever was accomplished. Bobby Cruickshank, the Rich- mond pro, called his shots in both the United States and British opens by picking Ralph Guldahl and Henry Cotton . .. Bucky Harris would like to do & lot of experi- menting with his Washington team—if he had anything to ex- periment with. Mike Jacobs is scaling the Yan- kee Stadium for an $800,000 gate for Joe Louis and Tommy Farr . . . Cheering news: That Associated Press picture of Mickey Cochrane, showing him sitting in a wheel hair and looking great . . . Bob Quinn, president of the Bees, is back from a personally conducted scouting tour of the American As- sociation . . . Strain seems to be telling on both the Cubs and Giants . . . It will cost you ex- actly $7.50 to attend the opening of Benny Leonard's new eating Joint. You never know when you're through . . . Old King Saxon, boss of the milers two years ago, but never expected to run again be- cause of a bruised ankle, set a track record at Del Mar, in Cali- fornia, the other day R. S. B, Montreal, the big league club with eyes on Rabbit Maranville, is re- ported reliably to be Cleveland. Al Schacht, the base ball come- dian, will apply to the Boxing Commission for permission to in- vade the ring with his mimic box- ing match in which he knocks himself out in somethinggless than 7 minutes . . . Tomm ghran may get a late September bout with Joe Louis if Max Schmeling elects to “stood in Germany.” Don't be surprised if next sea- son's Army foot ball team is the strongest in 10 years . . . The American League may demand-at the December meeting that the visiting teams receive $1,000 for each playing day . . . Dr. Harry Martin, chairman of the California Boxing Commission, was a visitor the other day on his way to Europe. Collyer's eye, a widely read sports publication, gives Champion Lou Ambers no better than fourth place in its listing of the light- weights . . . Latest dope from Italy is that Primo Carnera aspires to be an artist . . . Tommy Farr, who arrives tomorrow to fight Joe Louis, got only $375 for the fight in which he won the British pire title » + » No wonder he nks Mike Jacobe is Banta Cla: ) | Dodgers, 1-0. Fox. Gehringer. | 2 Colleges | CARDS SEE RETURN 0 PENNANT FIGHT Dean Coming Back to Help Sensational Johnson, Who Wins 4th Straight. BY BILL BONI, Associated Press Sports Writer. T MUST be extremely cheering news to Manager Frankie Frisch | that Jerome (Big Toe) Dean is| hastening to Boston to rejoin his | fellow St. Louis Cardinals and help | put them back on the right, or pen- nant-winning, track For the dizzy one, if he sticks to| his principles and precedents of doing the unexpected, wouldn't surprise any | one by using his sore big toe as the | springboard to & new winning streak. Dean hasn't pitched a National| League ball game since the Fourth of y—hasn't pitched at all since the all-star game in Washington. That | was where he stuck his foot in the way of a line drive and wound up limping to the sidelines, - - Johnson Comes to Rescue. DILOT FRISCH, sorely pressed for pitching talent, has missed the Dean right arm no end. But, if he | hasn't missed it even more, it's due |to a recent discovery by the whip-| cracker of the Gas House Gang. | The discovery goes by the name n(i Silas Kenneth Johnson and has been | | for some 28 years. On the Cards’ | current road trip, the discovery has won four games, his latest a 3-2 de- feat of the Giants yesterday, while the Redbirds have lost three. Johnson, who up to then had ap- peared in 16 games for a record of | one won and three lost, went in against the Pirates in the seventh in- ning last Monday and came out a winner. He started against the Phils in the opener of a double-header on ! Friday, went the route to win again and came back in the ninth frame of the nightcap to win his third in a row. Yesterday he topped it all off by turning back the Giants on six hits, to save the Cards from a shut-out in the four-game series and drop the Terrymen to a full game behind the Cubs, who blanked the Brooklyn He had so much stuff that, after being clipped in the ninth for Wally Berger's eleventh homer of the year, he was able to choke the | rally under his own power with the tying run cn base. Cubs Defeat Dodgers. JITH Tex Carleton turning in & similar six-hit effort against the Dodgers to keep the Cubs out front, and the Pirates nosing out the Phillies, 6-5, with a run in the ninth, the Cards at least managed to keep up with the parade until Dean’s return to action. Meanwhile, the Yanks carried on their American League slaughter. Where sophomore Joe Di Maggio was the batting star on Sunday, Freshman ‘Tom Henrich took up the burden yes- terday against the Indlans. His homer, double and single furnished four runs in the 8-5 triumph, thirteenth of the year for Lefty Gomez. The White Sox kept their place, six games behind the Yanks, by edging out the Red Sox. 6-4, for a clean sweep of the series, and the Tigers mauled the Nationals for an 8-4 triumph. The Reds and Bees in the National and Athletics and Browns in the American League had open dates. Griffs’ Reco rds 0% Sosoarn S 1o i @ Soauras TSR DR 0 SR 195 -1o80n 531 SeR2RRRas s5335%s3 ©eDoo-2NSae S oD, o 3 csour-anad Weaver De Shong W. Ferrell a9 o Sttt oz suonsa ,,,_ putey o mIDaan SeLReIRES oM tnR EASTERN SHORE. Oambridge. 11: Pederalsburg SOUTH A’ TH Savannah. ¢: Columbus, TAKES BRUNREINS AT CRTGAL TAGE Grimm’s lliness Gives Him | Long-Sought Chance to | Become Manager. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. ITH Charlie Grimm inva- lided, perhaps for the re- mainder of the season, the Chicago Cubs’ pennant chances become rather cloudy, for al- though Manager Pro Tem ‘‘Gabby’ Hartnett is a great player and popular with his teammates, he is utterly un- tried as a leader and strategist. In my opinion, Grimm has shown | more real managerial ability this sea- son than any time since he succeeded Rogers Hornsby in 1932. His handling | of the Cubs during the early weeks of | the season when three-fifths of the regular pitching staff was incapaci- tated at one time, would have done credit to John McGraw or Connie Mack. Charlie has developed into a good percentage manager and some of his moves were uncannily successful Further, his own high spirits always were buoyant to players when the club was in a slump. Terry Formidable Strategiat. HARTNETT takes over at a time | when the Giants have caught | the Cubs and faces the hardest part | of the campaign. Terry's team is, in | some ways, stronger than last year, | Wwhen it won the pennant, and the | Glants always are hard finishers. The National race has become a duel be- tween the Cubs and Giants and in that duel Hartnett will find Terry one of the shrewdest minds in base ball As captain of the Cubs, Hartnett | has been quite active in handling the | team on the fleld and Grimm always | relied heavily upon the catcher's judg- ment of pitchers. There is no doubt that the Chicago players will give | Hartnett their best efforts, for he is a fellow whom every one likes. Still it is & difficult task for a player to as- sume overnight the necessary mana- gerial Viewpoint of men and problems. Hartnett long has had ambitions to | manage a major league ball club and | this is his great change in the event; that Grimm's illness should be more | lengthy than expected, or that P. K Wrigley should elect to make a change in the future. Wrigley always has been a stronz proponent of Grimm whenever any undercover opposition developed against the manager. Ailment Steadily Increases. 'HE younger Wrigley always had in mind the mistake his father made in letting Joe McCarthy get away | from the Cubs and insisted that Grimm be given a full chance to de- velop as a manager. This season Grimm gave indications of satisfying his owner's faith. There is r> evi- dence that Hartnett's tenure will be premanent, but should he do a good job it is & possibility. Complete rest may return Grimm rapidly to the Cubs, for his ailment has been aggravated by the incon- veniences of traveling. No definite diagnosis has been made of the ill- ness, although aciatica rheumatism is suspected and attributed to a colli- sion with Jack Seott, who pitched for the Giants years ago. The illness has been growing for several seasons, first driving Grimm off first base, then off the coaching lines and finally into at least temporary retirement. Char- lie's early return is the hope of thou- sands, for there never was a finer gen- tleman connected with the game. Hartnett takes over a club that is strong in every position but center fleld, where neither Marty, Cavaretta nor Stainback have been satisfactory, Cub scouts are combing the minors in search of a hard-hitting outfielder, but two of the best prospects, Rizzo and Slaughter of the Columbus, Amer- ican Association, team are Cardinal chattels. That is the difficulty every major club without extensive farm connections encounters. Most of the promising youngsters are the property of the Cardinals, Yankees, Red Sox or Reds and consequently off the open market. Sporté Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington at Chicago, 3. Boxing. Freddie Steele, world middle- weight champion, vs. Charles (Hobo) Williams, 10 rounds, non- title, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Polo. Fauquier-Loudoun vs. 110th Artillery, Stevenson, Md., 3. TOMORROW, Base Ball. ‘Washington at Chicago, 8. THURSDAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington at Chicago, 3. Tennis. Middle Atlantic men's doubles tourney, Army-Navy Country Club, 2. Pield Polo. Third Cavalry vs. Marines, Ste- venson, Md., 3. Wrestling. Bronko Nagurski vs. Cliff Olson, feature match, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Atlanta. 9: Chattanooga, 4. Little Rock, &: Birmingham, 7. Nasnville, 8: Knoxvile. 0. amies RACES TODAY DELAWARE PARK STANTON, DEL. EIGHT RACES DAILY Special Penna. train leaves Union Sarion 11:30 AM. " Bpecial B. & O trains leave 11:30 AM. a A.M.—direct to track. Eastern fime FIRST RACES)T 3:00 PM, E.5.T. POPP| # NG OFF Mianniz Trade Speciai Dispatch to The Btar. Talk. HICAGO. July 20.— Who got the better of it?" alwavs follows in tha wake of a base ball trade, but in a few words—days, weeks and even months the Ferrell exchange for Buck Newson and Ben Chapman is no exception ‘Washington obtained it is A query that rarely is answereq The trade whereby brothers and Mel Almada in The deal was made five weeks ago, and who is there to say he truthfully can answer “who got the better of it?” . At the outset both Wes Ferrell and Newsom, the pitchers, set giddy paces with their new clubs, Competi tors both their spirits were aroused, Wes won three games in a row for the Senators after, as Joe Cronin de- clared, “he had an earned run average of 11 runs per game for Boston' And Newsom was no less spectacular. He also won three straight and the stage was set for a Ferrell-Newsom duel They met in Griffith Stadium and Ferrell won, 6 to 4 jaws of & single game's result Ferrell fans, at least, regarded Ferrell's victory as more or less conclusive evidence that Clark Griffith had outfoxed Mr. Eddie Col- lins of Boston. This crowing was a trifle pre- mature and subsequent events have proved it. ‘The chances are that as far as this Red Sox-National deal is concerned, the query “who got the better of 1t2" will not be answered definitely until the 1938 season, at the earliest. For one item, Ferrell has been knocked out of the box in his last three starts and his own teammates are beginning to form secret opinions that one of the top-ranking pitchers of the last decade has just about reached the end of the trail. Harris Lured Wes Back. A SPADE may as well be called & | spade. Wes was to face the| White Sox today, and if he wins it wil be because of a fine competitive spir‘* | and brainwork. It may just as well | be estabiished that Wes has been | pitching on what the profession ealls | a “dead arm" for the last three or four years. | Ferrell was a great pitcher when he wore & Cleveland uniform. When he reared back and cut loose with his fast ball, the hitter was vaguely aware that something had slipped by, and nothing could be done about it. In addition, Wes had a fine curve, good control and a fight- ing heart. ‘Then he hurt his arm and no longer had a fast ball. He tried to play the outfield. and then quit base ball Bucky Harris, who managed Boston in thought 80, as theys- By the loota was the better pitcher. Washington Wes T« On the Spot. A FTER his victory over Newsom, 4} the Nat tried to beat the Yankees in Washington. He lasted three and two-thirds innings and retired with the score 6-0 against him In New York he faced the same club and this time lasted three and one-third ine ngs. When he was taken out fha Yanks were ahead, 11 to 0. The other day in Cleveland he went three and two-thirds innings and left the preme ises with an 8-2 deficit The fellow right now is Bucky Har- ris' No. 1 mystery man. The Oriffs can appreciate how he won threa straight games as soon as he jomed the club, for he is smart and game. But they cannot fathom his losing three games in & row and ! last as long as four innings of them The only way they can figura is that Ferrell's will to win car- ried him through the initial tests, and, thereafter, the per- centages caught up with him. If this is true, Wes is on the spot and the fruits of the deal are uncere tain. Bucky Harris would be well satis- by some fashion, Ferrell's ter ition, pride and desire for victory his Appletons and L perfectly good arms; Wes has everys thing but in any Tnjury Handicapped Rick. JPRIMARILY, according 1o Washinig= | ton club officials, the Boston deal ' Was made in order to get Rick Fere the catcher. e Nats got him, ger Harris, for one, sappointed. Rirk | 10 him. has slipped since his salad days with the Browns and Red Sox, it is felt. He is not the er or thrower he used to be. We would 1934, lured him back, negotiated his | purchase For a while Ferrell did all right. There was always that chance that his arm would become better. Now and then Ferrell cuts loose with a fair fast ball, but mostly he uses slow stuff, and the hitters are pretty “hep" | | not take Rick's failure too seriously. He came to the Nats while recovering from a broken bona in his right hand and this can cover a multitude of sins. You hear of a (See POPPING OFF, Page A-12) SALE ENTIRE STOCK 19.50-10/50-12.00 FLORSHEIM SPORTS SHOES 6.85 ALL OTHER STYLES IN' FLORSHEIMS NOW ° 8355885 SALE 1,500 PAIRS ‘575 & 675 HAHN TRI-WEAR SPORTS SHOES 345 An evant of importence. Including genuine buck with colf {rim, ventilated oxfords. The Knock-owt savings on the vary stylis you went most. INCLUDING ENTIRE STOCK: OF HAKN SPECIAL SPORTS STYLES NOW 345 “