Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1937, Page 12

Foening Stap Sporls WASHINGTON, D ¢, = 1937. SATURDAY, JULY 24, - O Third Basing Virtually Lost Art : Puny Batting Marks Nats’ Slump LIVELY BALL NPS HOT CORNER PLAY Importance of Post Wanes as Modern Hitting Game Changes Defense. BY GRANTLAND RICE. EW YORK, July 24 —The third T baseman began to fade about 7 or 18 years ago—and he hasn't returned to importance as vet. Consequent both major leagues there is o outstanding player at the turn That's Red Rolfe of the Y es who still has to hit his peak as a ball plaver. For the all-star game of recent memory, Bill Terry had to use A Vaughan of the Pirates, a shortstop, | at third base on the National League's | team. True, he passed over Pinkey Whitney of the Phillies, thereby stir- ring up some bitter comment, part of it justified. But Whitney, a veteran, | fsn't s0o good as he used to be and| certainly never ranked with a whole | handful of third baseman that could | have been plucked out of either | league a few years ago. | Meanwhile, new stars have risen m! other positions. Lou Gehrig, Bill Terry, Hank Greenberg and Jimmy Foxx at first base, Charley Gehringer and Tony Lazzeri at second base, Vaughan, Joe Cronin and Leo Du-| rocher at shortstop, Al Simmons, Joe Medwick and Joe Di Maggio in the outfield, Mickey Cochrane and Gabby Hartnett back of the plate, Lefty Gomez, Carl Hubbell and Dizzy Dean in the box—these are just a few of the players who, in the span of 17 or 18 years, have come up to challenge the old-timers in the matter of sheer greatness. Against these, how many thn'd basemen can you name who would have even an outside chance of crash- ing an all-time, all-star team? Pie ‘Traynor, of course. And after Pie? Nobody. one No Accident. 'HE answer is plain. The situation is mo part of an accident. The| third baseman receded in importance when the magnates tossed into play & ball that could be hit farther and with less effort than the so-called | dead ball—which became very dead, | indeed, with the first flush of thv Ruthian era. The lively ball was introduced m\n the American League in 1920, and into the National League in 1921. It was just at this time that Traynor was poking his head up out of the minor leagues. He had a trial with the Pirates in 1920, was farmed out to Birmingham in 1921, and recalled in the Fall of that year, making his start as a regular in Pittsburgh in 1922 For years, Pie was the best third baseman in the National League, with | only Freddie Lindstrom, who came up | with the Giants in 1924, to rival him. | But Lindstrom lacked the stability of Traynor, and so missed greatness. Moreover, Lindstrom’s history was in itself an indication of what had hap- pened to the third baseman. In the Spring of 1931, when he Sll'l ranked right next to Traynor, John McGraw shunted him to the outfield. McGraw's explanation for this move was that he was bringing Johnny Vergez up from Oakland to play third base, sight unseen, confident that | while he knew no more of Vergez than what he had heard about him, he could play third base well enough end that Lindstrom, because of his | speed and the power of his arm, would be more useful to the Giants in the outfield. This, mind you, from & man who had been one of the great third base- | men of his time and, as the greatest of all managers, was conceded to know exactly what he was talking sbout! | Only Blightly Far-Fetched. | AT same Spring Joe McCarthy taking over the management of the Yankees. took Ben Chapman ¢T third base and posted him in the out- fleld. Commenting on the change, Joe said: “Chapman is too good a ball player to waste on third base. The way base ball is played today the third baseman ought to have to pay to get into the Tt Was alhouzn act splendidly. Sewel creaked, remained until Rolfe, i mouth of when he sai ball &c have 1o 1 but he wasn't chief value tr to his team nowa he can muste kclence of tr the art of stealing largely 1 other ex: Fuch & game In the days for & work his way around to third baseman was ar ure on the de skiliful at guard against He had to be al rd base ecessary ach man on second ner coming down frc ball hit to the shortstoy has it been s you saw field a bunt o his right wi on second base and wr e third to nail the runr g down from second’ Or since saw a shortstop throw a man out at third? Nowadays, most balls handled by the third basemen are hard smacks right off the bat. Do or don't ba the ball players call them. If the third baseman get it of them, they are putouts nd if he does) they're base hits. Broadly speaking snybody can play third base. All he has to do to make the team is to be able to hit (Copyright, 1437, by Newspaper second on How a pitcher a man long ball to he North American COASTAL PLA m_ 7. Green o Bern, 7. Kinston 5 boro. b ow Bl 5 Golasboro. 4. a | League Statistics JULY 24, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. 81 Louss, 8. Washington. 0. 1937, " Detroit, 4—8 (sec- ond game 11 innings) STANDING OF THE CLUBS. -asvquaorag i‘“ - purued sawmrp | NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. STANDING OF -] Bfio | Cubs in the next two games of the GAMES TOMORROW. hicago at N, Louis at B a1 Bosto) In. Eincinmatt 2t B RAIAH AMICABLE LEAVING BROWNS Hints Gambling Caused His Removal—Club Bosses Wish Him Well, By the Associated Press T. LOUIS, 24 —Without | “hard feelings,” Rogers Horns- bid a final farewell to the | St. Louis Browns today and looked to his future, a good-sized quit- claim payment in his jeans. The Rajah, discharged manager of the Browns, accepted a sum estimated | from $7,500 to $10.000 for surrender- ing his contract which the club man- agement terminated because of “dif- ferences.” Donald L. Barnes, Browns president. issued a statement in which he evinced the kindliest of feelings towards Rog- ers success in his future activities.” Frowned on Rajah’s Gambling. UST what those activities might be continued the subject of specula- tion in base ball circles here Hornsby's own statement, issued at the end of an all-day conference, last night, intimated Barnes and William O. De Witt, vice president of the club, had been displeased with his betting on races “While my contract did not forbid betting on races.” Hornsby said, “both Mr. Barnes and Mr. De Witt have ob- Jected to my doing so.” Defeat of Griffs a Tonic. ARNES and Hornsby shook hands and smiled as they parted, Barnes with & grin for the Browns' 8-0 victory over Washington, and Hornsby with | an eye to the future. Gabby Street, newly-appointed coach of the Browns, forgot his abruptly terminated California vaca- tion today and prepared to “talk things over" tomley, who succeeded Hornsby eel, who recently resigned man- agership of St Association, piloted the Cardinals to two pennants and one world cham- pionship when he managed them from Jam to 1933 sted Pr | Giants and proceeded to “wish him every with Manager Jim Bot- | Paul in the American | (UBS ARE TOUGH, NEW YORKERS FND Hubbell Pounded as Giants Are Routed—Chisox Out- slug Powerful Yanks. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports ATiter. ILL TERRY picked the wrong restaurant to use his meal ticket this time. That's why the kidding Cubs are sporting | two-game lead over the groaning in the National League race has grown so used to -osslmq * | meal-ticket Carl Hubbel anywhere in | the National League lunch wagons | and finding him as good as money in the bank, that it's become a habit. | Just send old “Squarepants” out there, | and he'll bring home the groceries, he figured. But all that was before the Cubs| set up in business—and especially | before they held their bargain day| on base hits at Hubbell's expense yes- terday. In pre-game calculations. the faith- ful and “experts” alike about con- ceded the opener of the “crooshal” | series to the Giants. With Hubbell | in there, the belief went, the Cubs| didn't have a chance. The Giants| would win and go into a tie for the | loop lead. putting the burden on the! series to get it back Hubbefl Is Hit Hard. ND for a time yesterday it looked | as though the thing was cut and dried along those lines. Anyway. it | | looked that way in the first inning. ' when the Giants belted Davis out ‘\um a 2-run barrage hen, however, the Cubs called on Luem\or Charley ROQL and backed up his 8';-inning 5-hit relief pitching | \\uh an 18-hit attack of their own | that punched Mr. Mealticket Hubbell | fuli 8f holes They wound up with a lop-sided 11-3 decision, and now are in a fine spot to finish up the series with a | commanding edge in the red hot fight | for the league pace. Today, Tex Carle- ton, riding along on a personal two- game winning streak, is the betting favorite tn take the second game from the Giant flinger, whether its the undependable Harry Gumbert or the big rookie southpaw, Cliff Melton The Cubs, however, weren't the only | pebbles on the Chicago Beach yester- ‘da) The White Sox, chasing after the American League lead, did big things against the Yankees to make it & Windy City holiday. Homers Don't Stop Chisox. ESPITE Joe Di Maggio's twenty- sixth homer and a couple of other four-base wallops, the Sox slugged | Murderers’ Row, 9-6, to cut the Yanks’ | lead to six games, and with Thornton | (Yankee jinx) Lee slated to serve | them up today, the Sox figure to fol- low along with the Cubs in the feud- ing | Otherwise, there wasn't any cause | | for cheers along the big league front. | The Cardinals sent Papa Jesse Haines | to the wars, and he turned up a six- hitter to whip the Dodgers, 4-1, show- ing there's life in the old boy yet. Elon Hogsett made it two in a row for the Browns under Jim Bottomley | by blanking the Nationals. The Ath letics trampled the Tigers, 16-4, in the opener of their double header and then lost the nightcap, 9-8, in 11 innings. The Red Sox scored early 1o topple the Indians, 6-2. The Reds | trounced the Phillies, 6-3. The Pirates | and Bees were idle. MIDGETS WANT GAME. Chevy Chase Cards want a game to- | day with a midget or junior team to be played on their diamond. | Cleveland 1878. Official Score WASHINGTON. Almada. of. Lewis. 3b. | Simmons_ 11 AB R H. O A E 00 o ol o ) o o 0 0 o o o o "o £ o 0 0 Knickerbocker | Hemsley C are Tert"on A Bases Strike- er. & lihe! ngton. Hogsett 1 Hits—Off We, off ‘Jacobs. 4 in in'4 nnings. " Passed Losing nitcher Weaver Dinneen. Kolls and paid atiendance, KR2 off Jacobs By Hogsett. | rrell Messre Official | Umpires Johnston Time—"1 30 | | 1o keep his season average at Call | Here's a grandstand slant on the general uproar that at- tended the ninth-inning rumpus in the game at Brooklyn yesterday in which the Dodgers went down by a count of Babe Phelps, hefty Dodger catcher, was chased out of the game after taking a poke at Infielder Brown of the Cardinals 4 to 1. following a play at the plate. push-and-shove act are Phelps (A), and player: side by his mates. Others are Phelps; 2, Haines, Card pitche; came out from the bench: 4, Pinelli; 6, Terry Moore of Card (‘rvr(is:,stramzna Brown; 9. Um Among those present in the being restrained by police while Brow n /B; is being crmlad ofl at the other 1, Umpire Goetz, who chased B Mxmqo Dodger pitcher, who Bordagray of Cnrds 5, Umpire Sy 75Dt ; 8, Durocher of pire Reardon: 10, Mrmaacr Frisch of Cards; 11, Mize, Card first baseman, 12, Stu Martin of Cards, and 13, Lon Warneke, Cards’ pitcher. —_C‘opvnghf A. P Wtrephol‘o TRAVIS AND DIMAG TIE WITH WILLOW |Bat .362 to Trail Gehrig by Seven Points—Medwick Boosts N. L. Lead. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 24—Ducky Medwick's National League batting lead stretched larger than ever today, while Lou | Gehrig's hold on the American League | pace seemed shaky, at best, as the re- | sult of their respective performances | this week. Medwick collected 13 hits in 34 times | stage he was slipped a new contract to sign. at bat during the week ended yesterday | 410, a slight drop from his 413 of the pre- vious week. His pace-setting margin was increased, however, since the second-place rivals, Paul Waner of the Pirates and Gabby Hartnett of the | Cubs, changed places, the former tak- | ing the runner-up spot. Di Maggio Catches Travis. WWANER, although slumping points, retained a .377 average, while Hartnett dropped 12 points to 6. As a result, Medwick's margin was stretched to 33 points over his nearest rival. In the American League, Joe Di Maggio continued his clouting, getting 14 hits in 38 chances to hold a .362 pace and climb from third place to a | tie for second with Cecil Travis of the Senators, who lost ground. Gehrig, | meantime, went into a mild slump and lost 8 points during the week, falling o 369. Heaviest hitter of the week was Earl Averill of Cleveland, who traveled at a .500 clip, getting 15 for 32, to take over tenth place ir the American League with a 340 mark Season records of the 10 leading batters in each league: American Yeague Plaver. Club Gehnig. New vork D1 Mugslo Louis Detroit & Detroit Seikirk: Rew York Radchfl. Chicago | Averill, Cleveland National St Louis K3 Pittsb reh Chicago 5 Pitisburgh 7 Chict Medwick P. Waner Hartnet Vaughan Herman Mize. St Lo Jurees. Chicago Klein. Philadelphia | Whitnev. Phil'delphia X2 Demaree. Chicago 1 2 - . PIEDMONT. Asheville 7: Winston-Saiem. 8. | Portsmouth, & Durham. ' Richmond. 15 Charlotte Norfolk. 5 Rocky Mount 8. 4 10| | Rajah | often s: | and the seat of the pants and directed {to the nearest door. | were emphatic in declining. | estate owned the club Mr. "POPPING OFF" Utan Airing the Hornsby Case. | Shectal Dispaten to The Star. T. LOUIS. July 24—t develops that Mr. Rogers Hornsby, who used to be quite a hitter in his day, is something less than a howling success at fathoming legal curves, swifties and changes of pace. He bit on a fast one last December, when he signed his contract amid much | feteing and back-slapping. and the other day they threw up a real “outside” pitch. Rog went down swinging. To be blunt about it, he was fired, canned, | given the sack, or made the bitter recipient of the old heave-ho. All of that banqueting last Winter must have caught Mr. off guard. In December, when the Phil Ball estate unloaded the Browns with a great sigh of relief the new owners began a big pep-talk campaign. Headed by Mr. Donald L. Barnes, who is the president, Rogers was herded | hither and yon for luncheons, and somewhere between the soup and dessert | He must have failed to read 1t carefully. Maybe he was too busy wrestling with one of those filet mignons to bother with it at all. If 50, it was an expensive bit of reading that Mr. Hornsby did not do. He had & contract all the time and. incidentally, a very good one. It called | for his services as manager of the Browns not only for 1937, but also for | 1938. And the salary> Every other | manager in the American League with | the exception of Messrs McCarthy, ! Cronin and Cochrane would like to have it This contract was ironclad. The new one, it seems, was not. 1t also called for two years, but there was an ominous clause in it In effect, it stated that if Mr. Horns- by indulged in any act unbecoming to a base ball manager he could be| grasped simultaneously by the neck gambler,” was against Hornsby. have that sort going on.” Landis listened attentively. Tt was rumored the Jedge had little love for Hornsby. Base ball people leaned forward expectantly. the “We of charge can’t, thing Good Luck May Have Been Bad. UT when Landis was given Horns- by's old contract to read he drew hat, and went out to get his annual hair cut, or something. Anyway, nothing came 6f the case. tract was that ironclad. That is exactly what Mr. Barnes did. betting on horses was the reason why Rog Armed With Lawyer. N FIRING Rog the Browns' man- agement proposed to give him $5.000. Local critics regarded this gesture as a bit of bone-throwing. Hornsby did not want a bone. He wanted $30,000—$10,000 for the rest of this year and $20,000 for his salary in 1938. Mr. Barnes and cohorts Finally Mr. Hornsby on advice of attorney de- cided to cali everVthing square for a | sum reported to be from $7,500 to $10.000. The Browns' bosses patted on the shoulder and Rajah, ving a few nice things about the Browns, began to plan for the future. Except for that trick clause in the! contract, though, Rog would have had the Browns' owners by the throat. It| may be recalled that when the Ball Louis Von Weis worked up a peeve against Rogers and took Mr. Hornsby's old contract to Judge Landis, the high commis- sioner of base ball “He is a confirmed race horse fused to state definitely why Rogers it was for “cause” he intimated that betting was the reason. And apparently the Browns’ bosses played that clause in the new contract for all it was worth, It may be that a fabulous stroke of racing luck cost Rogers his base ball Jjob. Shortly before he was fired, the American League's grapevine route | carried the news that Mr. Hornsby | had scored a better coup. It was re- ported that he collected $16,000 and stuffed it into his pocket. Club Owners Frown on Betters. of Mr. Barnes and he decided that if a man had that much do-re-mi his mind on base ball. know what happened. Several other American Leaguers | who play along the same racing string | with Hornsby are reported to have Anyway, you Coach and C lub House Boy Fired With Hornsb) Five Big League Pilots Apprehensive—Gol fer Plays 1,615 Courses All Over World. BY EDDIE BRIE Associated Press Sports Writer EW YORK, July 24 —Along with Rogers Hornsby, the Browns fired Coach Charlie O'Leary and the club house y the club house way was wondering sses have caught up h the Rajah again . .. Anyway, more than one T squirming on passing leaves league our own ticket, iys we have in the American in the National Remember that when you make your Winter base ball book. two ree This corner's nomination for the champion long-distance golfer goes to Ralph Anderson Kennedy of | New York ... In 27 years of goif- ing he has played 1615 courses all over the world . The guy has been in the rough in 41 American States, in eight provinces of Canada and in seven other countries. He's still going strong and hopes to hit every country in the world before he’s through . . . He looks forward to dropping dead on a golf course . . . His only tip to golfers is “Don't play golf with your wife” . incidentally, Kennedy has a signed card for every course he has plaved. Old-time readers will recall Al Ludwig as a promising lLightweight back in 191 . Well, today he is better known as Dr. Jerome V. Kaufman, & Broadway dentist and a favorite of the sports and the- atrical professions. Rip Collins, who has been doing plenty of taliding since he left the Cards, says the vaudeville antics of the Gas House Gang are more of a liability than an asset . . . Chicago Daily News prints a pic- ture of Joe Cronin in a huddle with a bevy of his stars and cap- tions it “Cronin is moaning. We gotta get goin For 11 straight years, starting in 1900, the team that was leading on July 4 won the National League pennant . . . but its happened only twice in the last eight years—the Cardinals in 1931 and the Giants in 1933. The middle name of Jimmy Bucher of the Dodgers is Quinter in Latin that means “five times" . Just to prove it. Jimmy won his chance in the National League by copping five batting prizes in the Piedmont . . . His .369 led the Joop and he was first in the cashed in on this coup. A Boston pitcher was one. It was said that he collected $2,500 for his end of it. for betting. “I've always bet,” he de- clares, “and Mr. Barnes knew it. What's the difference? I used to bet larger sums when I was a player— | a good player—than I bet now. But that never interferred with my hit- ting, did it?" In as much as the guy won the batting championship six times during his career there cannot be much choice in an- swers. number of base hits, two-baggers, homers and total bases. It was homesickness—nothing else—that caused Bobby Mattick, Los Angeles shortstop, to jump the club and rush to see his mother in St. Louis . . . Reports he was bitten by the W. K. love bug turned out to be just bunk. Minor league ball players no longer live like normal humans . . . Night base ball has 'em getting up at noon, breakfasting at 1 o'clock, eating a light snack at 6, dinner at midnight and to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning. All a lot of major league stars like about the night game is the hours . . . So far nothing has oc- curred to make us change our opinion that the Hambletonian will be a two-hoss race between twilight song and Despite the absence of any penalty subscribed by the rules, most club owners frown upon the sight of a ball player or manger eating breakfast sheet. Not many years ago a coach on the Washington club lost his job, ap- | stead of that in the major league box scores. Mr. Clark Griffith probably was afraid that some day he would direct a guy like Shanty Hogan to score from second base on a short single when he had Calvacade on his mind. Hornsby | a deep sigh, reached for his 1902 felt | The con- | | cians who have treated Rowe much | Hornsby admitted that his love for | | Confessing he was often in tears | he was given the sack. Mr. Barnes re- | was shown the door, but when he said | MAYBE the tale reached the ears | riding on a horse he could not hu\'P: Hornsby does not deny his penchant | with his nose stuck in a racing form | parently because he studied the agate | type of the National Scratch Sheet in- | Operation Planned on Arm of Tiger Hurler Sent Home by Cochrane. Bs the Associated Press. ETROIT, July 24—A mourn- ful Lynwood (Schoolboy) most admired pitchers, hung rest of this season. The schoolboy, who somehow didn't know his lessons at all this year, is going back home to Eldorado, Ark., and let a sore arm rest a long time. Rowe, former ace of the Detroit Tigers' staff, met his Waterlool against the Philadelphia Athletics yesterday, when he was punched around for five runs in one inning and wept in the | process. Arm Operation Planned. IRECTLY, Manager Mickey Coch- | rane decided Rowe had had enough for this season, and, pending final word from Owner Walter O. | Briggs, free to return home. An operation on his arm, which had helped the Tigers to two American | League pennants and a world cham- | plonship, is contemplated. Briggs and | Cochrane plan to confer with physi- of this season as the Athletics thumped his pitches, | Rowe said he had a “hard time” rais- ing his arm above his head. He fled { into the club house after the inning. Has Nothing, Says Cochrane. AT THE start of Spring training, 25 games. He has won one. time the Tiger management dropped him from the pay roll, but when he | was readmitted the arm still was dad, “He didn't have a thing, so far as I could see, except a desire to pitch” | Cochrane said. *He must have been | in great pain and I pitied him when some of the fans booed him as he left the fleld.” The absence of Rowe will leave the Tigers searching for another pitcher. but Manager Cochrane said he lacked | any plans. | PLAY ALL-STAR GAME Legion and Boys’' Leagues Match | Aces at Ball Park Today. The American Legion Juhior Base Ball League was to sponsor an all-star junior game between a nine from the | Legion Junior League and the Metro- ! politan Boys' Club at Griffith Stadium at 3 o'clock today. | The Legion team will be composed ‘nX the best available players now per- | forming in the Legion League, while the Boys' Club nine will be made up of stars from that league. Admission is 40 cents and the profits will be divided evenly between the two leagues. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Pre Charley Root, Cub: with one run. five relief trick for 11-3 win Elon Hogsett. Browns— Blanked Sen- | ators. 8-0. with five hits, also hit | homer with mate on base | Jesse Haines. Cardinals — | Stopped Giants in’ &'s-inning Fanned seven and allowed six hits to whip Dodgers, 4 Gene De Sautels, Red Sox | singles. driving in' two runs, | win over Indians Buck Jordan. Reds- | two singles and_ drove in 6-3 win over Phillies Mike Kreevich, White triple _ with bases loaded drove three runs in 9-6 win over Yan Harry Kelley. Athletics. and Gerry Walker. Tigers—Former stopped Ti- gers with six hits, fanning five for lfl 4 opening & win: Walker drove in -mmn run with single in night- cap. aiso hit double and another singie, Hit two in 62 Hit_homer and in two runs Sox——His n ) AILING ROWE TOLD 10 QUIT FOR YEAR Rowe, once one of base ball's | up his glove today for apparently the | if he follows the advice of his boss, | the big right-hander will be | Rowe had promised he would win | At one | Yep, It’s St. Louis’ Old Gas House Gang in Action Again []NI_YZ“”S W[]N OVER 22-DAY SPAN Shutout at Start of Set With Browns Is Third Since July 4. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. Bifl Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, y 24.—Off tragic start in their Western series and hol | a single victory in nine starts for the tour, the Nationals today had resigned themselves to another dolor- ous road record. At home, the Wash- ington firm is far from excellent, but on the road it simply is hope The Browns helped to m point emphatic yesterday when swept to an 8-10-0 victory in the opener of a five-game set that will wind up with double-headers today and tomorrow. Elon Hogsett, who had lost 10 of 13 games, left-handed the Griffs into submission. with & five-hit performance Bucky Harris’ pitching this year has been anything but star g but these days the Washington h rs can hold their heads up with the hitters. With the exception of Al Simmons, none of the Nats has done much at bat during a losing stretch which has embraced only two viciories in the last 22 days Cecil Travis is getting a lot of base hits, of course, but here has been a case of all foam and little beer. In other words, Cecil's hits have not meant much. The others have no: even represented foam. to s final g only they tlin Third Shut-Out of Month. O GET to the core of things, yes- terda was the third shut-out of the Griffmen since July 4, when | things suddenly went from bad to | worse for Mr. Clark Griffith's firm | In Washington, the Nats were shut out by Lefty Gomez. In Detroit it * was done by Tommy Bridges, And now Hogsett. The last 17 games, which embrace all since the Fourth of July, have found the Washington hitting sink- ing below the level of even the pitch- lnl In short, the Nats have scored only 49 runs over this stretch, which is less than 3 runs per game Compare this total with the 118 runs scored by the opposition and it is not difficult to see why the Harrismen cannot win. The most runs made by the Nats over this stretch were the seven gaine for Jimmy De Shong the other day in Chicago, when a 7-t0-3 victory wa recorded. Four times the Nats scored five runs, winning once, tieing onc and losing twice. They made fou runs once, three runs thrice, two run on four occasions, and were shut o in the rest of the games. Hogsett Too Good in 8-0 Win. | ITH Eddie Linke and Ken Chas: « working in the box today (f the first innings anyway), the Na! were to resume warfare with tha Browns in a twin bill. Tomorrow De Shong and Wesley Ferrell will try their luck. The latest defeat found Monte Wea- | ver pitching one of his rare bad ball games. The Professor had nothing on the ball yesterday. In the second in- ning the Browns drove him from the box with a five-run rally, which found the side batting around. Bucky Jacobs, the rookie, tried his hand next, but was something less than a success. Jacobs' record of never having been scored upon by a major league team was broken the first full inning he pitched. The Browns got two runs off him and an- | other off Syd Cohen before the game Wwas over. Hogsett was too much for the Nat hitters. The closest Washington came to scoring was in the first inning, when Buddy Lewis was thrown out at the plate after doubling. 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