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) runls, I HE SUNDAY STAR WASHI NGTON D. C, JULY 25, 1937—PART ONE. SPORTS. B—7 Travis Only Point Off Batting Lead : Base Ball Now v Widespread NATSOARS T0.374 A Couple of Shots in Warfare Between New York and Chicago Teams ONWESTERNTOLR Cecil Presses Gehrig, Goes by Di Maggio With His St. Louis Splurge. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. Btafl Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, July 24—Gangling Cecil Travis, the battle-scarred 23-year-old veteran of the Na- tionals, today served notice upon the Yankees' Lou Gehrig and Di Maggio that he must be considered in the race for the American League batting leadership. He surged to within a point of the top spot in shooting his average to .374. Climaxing a fruitful tour of the Western cities, Travis moved up on Gehrig and passed Di Maggio wit} a batting spree against the Browns in the first three games of the current series. In the series opener yesterday he gingled twice in four trips. Today, the first game of a double-header, singled twice and doubled in five times at bat. In the second game he dupli- cated this total in four tries. No thunderous drives come off Travis’ bat, but he is getting his daily singles gnd as far as averages go they count as much as the home runs of Gehrig and Di Maggio. De Shong, Ferrell Hurl IMMY DE SHONG and Wesley Ferrell will do the pitching for the Nats tomorrow, when they wind up their Western swing with another double-hea'der against the Browns. They will be opposed by Lou Koupal and Jim Walkup CHARLES (GABBY) STREET, one- time Washington catcher and battery mate of Walter Johnson, re- ported todav for his new duties as Brewns' coach was fired his Charley O'Leary, also got Jim Bottomley, who Hornsby, chose Street first lieutenant first assistant the sack succeeded as his new Nat, hit safely run his co streak to 20 AMMY WEST, the ex- in both games to gecutive game batting straig the first game and led off the nighteap with a scratch hit He received some scorer on this blow. It to Al Simmons, who got plenty of glove on ball, but dropped it. Al was credited with an error, but two innings later a revision was made. help from the Davis' Streak Ended. TP UNTIL today Harry Davis had tied West in consecutive hitting. He also was shooting for his nineteenth straight game in the opener, but was held hitless by Linke and Appleton. 'OMMY HEATH, the Browns' second-string catcher. caught & wild pitch in the groin early in the second game and dropped to the ground for a long count. He con- tinued to play. however, and on his first trip to the plate pounded a home run. UDDY game afield and was no palooka at bat, but he was caught napping on the base paths in the second game. | The kid walked with two out in the fourth and strayed off first base. A quick throw from Julio Bonetti Davis nailed him. club house bov, who was “fired” along with Hornsby and O'Leary, has been reinstated. President Donald Barnes originally decided to let him go because he was running Hornsby's race bets to the bookmakers. “HE Browns' Takes Nats to Do This. N THE fifth inning of the second | game the Nats made four singles and a triple and scored only | two runs! It is quite a trick. AL SIMMONS' hot batting streak had to be ended by, of all people, the Browns' pitchers. Al went hit- | less the first two games and not until his bounder struck Travis as Cece was running the bases in the ffth | inning of the nightcap today was he | able to pick up a blow. MORROW will be Jim Bottom- ley day at Sportsman's Park. To 'h! new Brownie manager “day are an old story. He made his “fare- well" visit in every city in the Ameri- can League last vear and several of them held “Bottomley days.”” Here thev gave him a Jersey cow for a “retirement present,” but now he not only is back with the Browns, but also | their manager as well. COLORED TITLE IS GOAL All-Star Nines Will Battle Chicago August 8. CHICAGO, annual East-West Negro professional base ball championship game will ne plaved August 8 at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. ‘The Eastern team will be selected from the Negro National League clubs, the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Homestead. Pa., Grays, New York Black Yankees, Newark Eagles, Philadelphia Stars and ‘Washington Elites. ‘The Western squad will be picked from the Chicago American Giants, Kansas City Monarchs, Cincinnati ‘Tigers, Detroit Titus Stars, Birming- ham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox, Indianapolis A. B. C's and the St. Louls Stars, members of the Negro American League. Both clubs will be selected through a newspaper poll. PITT TO START EARLY West Virginia First Foe on Grid Schedule of 10 Games. PITTSBURGH, July 24 (A).—The Pitt Panthers will open the gridiron season in 1938 against West Virginia at Pittsburgh on September 24. ‘The remainder of the 10-game schedule released by James Hagan, new director of athletics, follows: October 1, Temple at Philadelphia: Duquesne: 15, Bouihemn Methodist. S0, November 5. Carnegie, Tech: braska, away; 10. Penn Btate: 2 away. in | b YOUNGSTERS SEEK FOE. ‘Takoma Tiger diamonders want a Junior or midget game for today. When Rog Hornsby | Coach | West, collected three hits in ! was a drive | |to be a piece of luck for the Cubs. | Stan Hack injured a leg during bat- LEWIS played a grand | m‘ July 24 () —The fifth | | Chicago Linus Frey, shoved into t two runs. s i B he game when Stan Hack, regt lar third-sacker was shelved by an injured leg, proved the hero of the Cubs’ win over the Giants in Gotham yesterday. He is shown here tagging the plate on a homer and he later singled across Ripper Collins is congratulating him on his four-baser. GUBS GO THREE UP BYNICKING GIANTS “Undependable” Sub, Linus | Frey, Is Hero of 10-5 Win for Leaders. By the Associated Press EW YORK, July 24.—Pitchers came a dime a dozen at the | Polo Grounds today — and weren’t worth much more— but the Chicago Cubs backed up their | ineffective defense with heavier hit- | ting and walloped the Giants, 10 to 5, to stretch their National League lead | to three full games. They made it two in a row over the crippled New Yorkers by clubbing out | 13 hits to the Giants’ 11, and bunch- ing their blows to make runs when they counted. A pre-game bad break turned out ting practice and had to be replaced at third base by the fielding undepend- | able, Linus Frey. But Linus played errorless ball afield and was the No. | 1 man on the defense. Eight Pitchers in Battle. E TOUCHED off the winning three-run rally in the seventh | BY SID FEDER. Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK. July 24.—Dia- mond dribbles For those who are get- ting into this Ducky Med- wick vs. Joe Di Maggio argument don't overlook the fact that Duc Wucky has made Just one error 50 far in 82 games this season . . . and Deadpan Di Mag has fum- bled nine of ‘em . . . One report says Rogers (Parlay) Hornsby wili wind up running the Cincinnati Reds but the odds arg against 9 t it. big deal between the Giants and Cardinals is supposed to be all sealed, signed and ready for Winter delive . Af the __erapevine has it u;.m Dizzy Dean Medwick Outclass Card Errs Only Once as Yank Makes Nine—Giants Plan to Get Diz Dean. will call the Polo Grounds home next yvear Gabby Street is the No. 1 man to get the St. Louis Bro managership in ‘38 . . . Don't be surprised if Lou Gehrig loses the American League batting lead some day this week . . . with Di Maggio as the likely lad to take over . . . Oh, well, it's all in the Yankee family. Cards, The crying for pitchers, might take another gander at Lefty Bill Walker, whom they exiled to Rochester . . . He's won nine and lost but five for a sixth- place club . .. and he couldn't do any worse than some of those pitch-and-pray guys Frankie Frisch has been throwing in there . . Charley Grimm gets back to his Red Rolfe of the Yankees sli with which the Chisox won in Chicago yesterday, 6 to 5, innings. Bozie Berger is covering the bag. The victory gave the Chisor a 7-to-5 edge over the Yanks for the season. * GAME FLOURISHES |China, Argentine Taking Up IN JAPAN, MEXICO American Pastime—Liked by English Workers. BY DREW MIDDLETON, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 24—The American base ball fan, who | considers the game as native to the United States as corn on the cob or Thanksgiving, today can visit Tientsin, China, or Orizaba, Mexico, and find his favorite sport | flourishing under. exotic conditions. Probable Hurlers In Majors Today By the Associated Press I\EW YORK, July 25.—Probable pitchers in the major leagues tomorrow: American (All Double-Headers). Washington &t 8t. Louis—De Shong and Ferrell vs. Walkup and Koupal. New York at Chicago—Pearson and Malone vs. Lyons and Stratton Boston at Cleveland—Grove and Marcum vs. Harder and Whitehill, Philadelphia at Detroit—Caster and Turbeville vs. Poffenberger and Bridges. National. Chicago at New York—Lee vs. Gumbert. St. Louis at Brapklyn (2) —We; land and Dean vs. Frankhouse and Fitzsimmons, For the brainchild of Abner | Doubleday, born and bred in the| American tradition, has, 92 vears after | its birth, reached across the Pacific | into Japan and China, spread south- | ward in the Western Hemisphere to | Cuba, Mexico and the Argentine, and crossed the Atlantic to England, where it's nearest relative “rounders” was once & widely-played sport. In none of the base ball colonies has the game approached the techni- des into third base in the game mn 10 »Copyrzght AP Wzrephnros' Di Mag in Field Chicago Cubs today after a stretch in the hospital Since the Giants bought Hy Van- denberg and Bill Lohrman from the Baltimore . (International League) Orioles, neither has lasted nine innings . . . Incidentally, the Giants might take & look at their lowly Jersey City farm, where Ben Cantwell, the ex-Boston elbower, is doing a neat job of serving them up. The Boston Bees not only rounded up the pick of the pitch- ing rookie crop this season but old Bob Quinn is on another of those personal scouting tours of the American Association which usually wind up paying divi- dends—to old Bob BEES BLANK BUCS, LENGTHEN STREAK Make It Five Straight Wins, 9-0. Moore of Victors Hammers 425-Foot Home Run. BY the Associated Press. BOSTON July 24 —The Boston Bees today combined a long-distance hitting attack with five-hit pitching | by Jim Turner to lambast the Pitts- with a homer. and clubbed out a single in the ninth to bring in the final two runs Each club sent four pitchers to the wars, and not one of them could do ar\thxr;z in the way of muffling the opposition. The Cubs staked their starter, Roy Parmelee. to a five-run | edge in the fifth, and he promptly | blew it in the sixth as the Giants tied the score. Curt Davis helped him | kick the lead away in this frame. and Larry French finally was called on | to stop it. French later was replaced by Clay Bryant, but received credit for the win. Rookie CLiff Melton opened for the Giants and was tagged for the first five Cub runs in the fifth. He was followed by Dick Coffman, Hal Schu- | macher and Tom Baker, with Schu- | macher losing the ball game. Frey's Productive. "HE Cubs’ first rally, in the fifth, started with a walk to Gabby Hart- | nett. Successive singles by Bill Jurges, | Joe Marty and Parmelee sent two runs in. An error scored another, and | Frank Demaree’s hit produced the | other two. In the seventh, Frey | opened with his homer. Singles by | Billy Herman and Hartnett, a double | | by Jurges and two walks added two more runs. Frey's single in the ninth | brought in runners from third and | second. Ghicaro, AB.H.0.A Galanif "6 ( Hack Frevin Collins 1 Dema e.r N. York. AB. Chioz a. Whit'd %b, Moore.if Berger.cf T Lesiie.1b Haslin ss Danning.c Melton.p iDavis iRipple 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 Marty.cf Parme'e.p CDavis.p French.p O'Dea Schum'r.p 0 EMcCart'y Baker.p Totals 37 Bryant.p 5 1 i 0 1 0 1 0 Totals 38 1327 7 *Batted TBatted iBatied Batted for French in seventh. for Melton in fifth for Coffman in sixth for Schumacher in’seventh, 000 050 302—10 000 005 000— 5 Herman New York Runs—Galan. Frey Hartnet () Judges. Marty armeiee. Bryant. Berger. Ott. Leslie. Hn(lm Ripple. Errors 5:Chiozza. ‘Runs batted in—Parmelea (2 Demaree ). Haslin. Ripple Moore. Frey (3). Jurgi (o} hn;lunes' Plays_—Danning to Haslin, Fre to CG\HY‘H Leslie lo Dmmnl l(' on_basesNew off ‘Par " off Schumacher, 3- %, of Brynn‘( Struck ‘out By armelee, Schumlcher |‘ by Bryant. H“.S—ofl Melton. 7 in 5 hfllnl! off Coffman. 1 in 1 innin Schu 4 in1 Tonineoft Baker: rmelee " Tn" in Sxth ol Davie” 1 m’"x':"f:f ning: off French. 2 in 2: inning: off Bryant, 1 _in 3 innings. Hit by nllcher—Mrlton (Collins): Bryant (Leslie) ‘Winning pitcher gohsench. . Losing “piicher. "Schtmacher. <Srs Barr. Star 7 55. Attendance, 0t e seTars MAT WINNERS TO CLASH Ernie Dusek, Jack Hader Head Card Here Thursday. Ernie Dusek, meanest member of matdom’'s fussy family, will tangle with Jack Hader, a villain in his own right, Thursday night in the feature of the weekly grapple show at Graffith Stadium. Dusek, in his last appearance here, pinned Joe Cox. while Hader last week disposed of Jack Donovan. Promoter Joe Turner is arranging four prelimi- naries for the card, a portion of the proceeds of which will be turned over Call Jack at Georgia 2000. to the District Soft Ball Association. | sending the ball | the Bees and ended Swift's term on | the hurling duties for the Pirates and b | Swirtp burgh Pirates, 9 to 0, for the Bees' Ring Czar Urgent, Dempsey Asserts By the Associated Press. OS ANGELES, July 24.—What “ this country needs is a good, touch boxing czar, Jack Dempsey said here today. “There’s too much politics and phenagling going on in boxing these days,” said the New York restauranteur and former heawy- weight champion. “Every State fifth consecutive victory. In twirling his tenth win of the| season, Turner registered the second | straight shutout for the home club and ran its record to 20 triumphs in 28 games. Turner and Lou Fette, Boston's re- | markable 30-year-old rookies, have | accounted for 22 victories this season. | Home runs by Gene Moore and Tony Cuccinello accounted for four of he Bees' runs. Moore tagged Bill Sm.'u | in the second inning for one of the | longest drives ever made in this park, 427 feet into the center field bleachers. Cuccinello’s homer in the third with two aboard clinched the game for the mound. Mace Brown took over | was nicked for four consecutive hits. Russ Bauers, rookie Pirate right-| hander who followed him, silenced the | Boston barrage. Pitts AB, L -Wercf 4 Jensenf 3 P. Werrf 4 Sunrib - 3 Todd ¢ Padden.c” 1 B Dake Ha'ley. English. b Fl'cher ib Mueller.c Turner.p ) Brown.p Bauers.p Totals 000000 000—0 014 300 00x— D Maggle (2 Pittsburgh Boston Runs—Garms, Warstler Cuccinello. Moore (2). Turner, Errors—Cuccinello, Garms. Runs has its own champion and its own rules. “Take the recent Braddock- Schemling-Louis mixup. for ex- ample. Take the featherweight division. Bellois is the world champion in New York, Armstrong is champion in California and Sar- ron is champion of the N. B. A. It's killing the game.” PHILLIES CONQUER BATTLING REDLEGS in 13-11 Game—Losers Get Four Runs in Ninth. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA July 24.—Led by vich, the Phillies scored 10 runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth in- nings today to hand the Cincinnati ond game of the series The Reds put on & last-ditch rally in the ninth inning to score four runs, but Wavne la Master finally came | | in and got Myers for the third out. Klein walloped his seventh homer | of the season for the Phils and also connected for another safety. Arno- vich collected four hits in four trips | batted in—Cuccinello (4). Warstler (). English. oore. Hame runs—Moore Cuccinello. crifices—Jensen. Turner. Doubl —English to Cuccinello to Fletcher; to Handley to Suhr ft on bases —Pitts burgh, 6 Bosion, 5. Bases on balls—Off Switt.” 2 Struek out—By 4 in Swift 1: by Turner. s 223 in- nings: off Brown. 5 in 2i inning: off Bauers. innings. ~ Wild _pitches—Swifs Losing pitcher—Swift. Umpires Parker Moran, Magerkurth. Time Attendance— INDIANAPOLIS FUEL RESTRICTION IS OFF New Regulations Are Designed to Make Auto Race Fair for Foreign Pilots. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLXS July 24—The door to the 1938 Speedway 500- mile race here was wide open today for foreign drivers and automobiles after the Indianapolis Motor Speed- way Corp. lifted fuel restrictions and revised other regulations. Capt. E. V. Rickenbacker, corpo- ration president, said “there has been some complaint that foreign cars have been handicapped under our rules, 50 we are changing them to allow any car which wishes to compete at In- dianapolis an even chance. The new rules provide that any fuel mixture may be used, single-seat speedsters may be entered and per- mit superchargers on cars with 183 cubic inches piston displacement. The maximum limit on all motors will be 274 cubic inches, without super- chargers. This year all cars were required to use stock gasoline, thus eliminating foreign speedsters not built to attain high speed with stock fuel. Since 1930 all cars in the Speedway classic have been two-seaters. 1:55., to the plate. Cinn. AB, H Phila | Jordan 1b 5 Norris.2h AB. H.O.A 0 0 | Hafev.ct Lo'bardi.c 4 Riges b K'ouris.2b Meyer.ss Der'ger.p Schott.p *Walker | Mooty.p 3 i 1 0 Joraensp #Moore Kelleher.p iBrowne Passeau.p La'aster.n Totals 41 Totals 42 16 TBatizd’ for "Sehott in GHhih. iBatted for Jorgens in sixth. tBaited for Kelleher in seventh Cincinnati 00 Philadelphia Runs—Jordan, Lombardi (21 Klein (?). Arnovich Whitney " (2)." Atwood Errors—Jor- dan. Scarsella.” Kampouris. Norris. Klein. Camull Runs ‘batted in-—Hafey. ), Kampouris (4), Lombardi. Scharein. Whitney (4). Browne, Norris, Kleln. . Two-base hite— . Riggs. Atwood. Whitney (2). Ca- milli, ' _Home _runs—Klein. Kampouris Double plays—Norrls to Camilli. - Left on bases—Cincinnati, 6: Philadelphia. 9. Bases on balls—-Off Mooty. 2: off Jorgens Schoot, 1: au 1: suuck om—ny Derringer. uleahy. 2: by Jorgens. 1: by Mooy. RUSOH Mulcany. B i A R A i i W A Kelleher. 1 in 1 inning: off P-flselx d'ln n n- Scarsella. iRgs (3). (&))" cammre Mooty Mombaren. (Lombard ning pitcher.—Kelleher. Derringer. . Umpires—Mess and Ballanfant, Time- ance—3.500. Wild_pitch—Mulcahy, Losing plicher— Kiem. Sears Attend- Homer Standings By the Associated Press. Yesterday's homers—Gehrig, Yan- kees, 2; Bell, Browns, 2; Heath, Browns, 1; Padgett, Cards, 1; Lava- getto, Dodgers, 1; Frey, Cubs, 1; Kilein, Phillies, 1; Kampouris, Reds, 1; Moore, Bees, 1; Cuccinello, Bees, 1; ‘The leaders—Di Maggio, Yankees, 26; Foxx, Red Sox, 23; Trosky, In- dians, 23; Greenberg, Tigers, 22: Med- wick, Cardinals, 20; Ott, Giants, 19. League totals—American, 436; Na- tional, 386. Total, 822. Klein and Arnovich Lead Attack | Chuck Klein and Morrie Arno- | 1am Reds a 13-to-11 setback in the sec- | | Milis ‘FELLER IS FAILURE, BUT TRIBE PREVAILS Bob. Behind, Replaced in Seventh. Newsom Retires in Ninth. Bosox Bow in 11th. By the Associated Press. LEVELAND, Ohio, July “ | Cleveland Indians defeated the Boston Red Sox here today, 6 to 5, |in the eleventh inning to even their | | series when Roy Hughes, running | | for Pitcher Joe Heving, slid across | the plate after a fly by Roy Weath- erly. Frankie Pytlak started the winning {rally with a single but was forced on Heving's bunt. Lyn Lary doubled against the right field wall, sending Heving to third. Then Weatherly | came through with a fly to center that sent Heving's substitute home. F Bob Feller was the Indians’ starting pitcher but was replaced by Heving | in the seventh with the score 5 to 4 | |against him. Feller fanned seven | and allowed seven hits. Buck Newsom, on the hill for Bos- ton, retired in favor of Wilson the ninth after Pytlak singled and was sacrificed to second. Wilson cut | loose a wild pitch on which Pytlak | tied the score Boston. AB H.O A Mills.if 30 24 —The Clev. Lary ss Kroner AB.H o 1 4 i 3 3 Vilson.p tHughes o score 000 00—5 %05 101 001 01— Higgins, Cramer, Desau- | Kroner. Averill,’_Solters ak. Hughe Runs batte ak. Chapman "), Newsom ‘wo-ba se | Campbell 2\ Lary. Three-base | Cramer _ Solters,” Averill Stolen Mills, Chapman’ (7). _Sacrifices—Cronin, Heving._ Doub! | Cronin “and ~ Foxx Troskv: Hale "Lary McNair and Foxx. Left on bases #: Cleveland. 9. Bases on balls. som, 3: off Wilson, Totals “Two out when winning run | Boston | Cleveland Runs—Foxx, tels. Newsom Campbel] Kroner. Tros v. Hale. Py | | 4| out——By Newsom. Heving nings innings | (Ml Wild pitches—Ne: nine pitcher—Hevine, Losine pitcher —Wiison. Umbires—Messrs. McGowan Ormsby and Quinn. Attend- Ance—15.000. DROP TITLES QUICKLY. Only two heavyweight fight cham- plons since the reign of Gene Tunney have defended their title successfully —Schmeling against Stribling at Cleveland, in 1931, and Carhera against Loughran in Miami, in 1934. Time—: | more in | YANKS AGAINBOW |- 10 JINX SLABBIST Ten-Inning Victory Is Fifth Over Champs This Year for Lee of Chisox. By the Associated Press. cal perfection enjoyed in the major leagues of the United States, but it has at least in Japan and Cuba, become a part of the national life. If anything, base ball is nearer to | being the national sport in Japan than |t is in the United States It does not face the competition of golf, foot bal and tennis and the popular appeal is tremendous. Crowds of 90000, tc ping all big league attendance reco have packed the Koshien Stadium | near Osaka, for championship games. Pro Clubs Few in Japan. HE sport is almost teur in Japan Since in duction in the 1870s by American teachers in Japanese schools, base b has been the property of colleg junior colleges and high schools. The best base ball is found in the Univer- sity League of Tokio. The teams play series for Spring and | Autumn championships and attend- ance at these games seldom falls be- low 25.000. The crucial series usualy | Is the Meiji Shrine Stadium, which | holds 65.000. The largest crowds, however, are wholly ama- its HICAGO, July 24 —The White Sox called on their Yankee jinx, Lefty Thornton Lee, to- | day and Lefty came through | with a 10-inning 6-to-5 victor: the New Yorkers Chalking up his fifth victory murderers’ row this season. Lee made | it two straight for the Sox over the | Yanks. three straight setbacks for the New Yorkers, and cut the Yankees' | American League lead to five games. | y over | Fails to Stop Gehrig. | NLY Lou Gehrig, who accounted for all five Yankee runs w homers, was able to do any to Lee. Gehrig's first circuit blow, | his 17th of the year, came with two | aboard in the first inning. His sec- | ond was clouted out of the lot with @ mate on base in the seventh Lee bested Lefty Gomez in a tight mound duel when Rip Radcliff’s sin- | gle brought in Dixie Walker with the winning run in the tenth. Gomez was tagged for 11 hits by the Sox The Yanks collected 10 off Lee. | After the Yanks got away to a three-run lead in the first frame, the | Sox came back in their half to score iwo on singles by Jack Hayes and Mike Kreevich, Walker's double, a walk and Luke Appling’s grounder, two damage Radcliff Makes Deciding Hit. "THEY tied it up in the second with & run on Luke Sewell's single, Go- mez's error and Hayes' grounder, and went ahead in the sixth with two Tuns on successive singles by Zeke Bonura, Radcliff and Appling, and Lou Berger's fly After Gehrig tied it up again with | his homer in the seventh, things went along smoothly until the tenth when Walker opened with a single, Bonura sacrificed him along, and Radclift | broke up the game. ;I‘:)‘:u(l(:h ABH o. A“P'”:,:' o Kr'veh.cf ia 1 0 Rolfe. b \\llkflr 5 1DiMag . cf 1 O Genig1b % | | AB.H.O. A. 503 3 Apping.ss Berger. b Sewell.c Leep - Totals 38 10U8 O New York | Chicako Runs nura, 2 oo 1 Walker, | Runs batted m-—Gehrig ( | pling (), Hayes, Berger, base hits—Walker, Rolfe. | base hit—Di Maggio. Secrifices—Pow plays—HefIner to Cros elti to Heffner to Gehrig. Ly New York. 7: Chicago, 7. Bases on Off Gomez, : off Lee, J. Struck out- Gomez. ti: by Lee, :#. Wild pit rh—!w | Umpires—Messrs. Owens. Hubb S e S R 500. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR 'HE Griffmen still are holding down sixth place, 211, games behind the league-leading White Sox. Dave Burgess, Jim Spencer, How- ard Beckett and Fred McLeod will stage an exhibition golf match on the Washington Golf and Country Club course. ‘The war has claimed another vic- tim from the ranks of boxers in Gunner Hewitt, the famous English heavyweight. Talks Himself Convincing Self By the Associated Press. HATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 24—A little psy- chology, a lot of sinew, a good ball—a home run. It was as simple as that to Chat- tanooga’s pitcher, Kit Sauerbrun, who for a time was better known as Prof. Sauerbrun, psychology instructor at Washington and Lee. The slim, young hurler who throws from the wrong side won his own game Thursday from the Atlanta Crackers, 8 to 7, with an eleventh inning home run. “I told the boys that it takes as much effort to lose a ball game as it does to win it,” said Sauer- brun. “In a kidding sort of way I told them I was going to get up and 1 Pitcher Psychology Expert Wins Own Game After Into a Homer That He Could. hit one. Well, I convinced myself I was, and I did.” Sauerbrun, 24 years old, was graduated from Washington and Lee in 1934 after specializing in psychology. He taught for a time at the university and has written numerous articles and papers on his favorite subject. “Psychology helps me a lot in my pitching,” he said. “Every bat- ter is a different individual, over- confident, shy or afraid. I usually can classify them by their expres- sion or how they walk to the plate. Then I know in & manner how to pitch to them.” | interc | from cities |do in America. those which attend the high school tournaments. These may last for a week. morning and afternoons. An tor it draws a empire and its ia and nal There base ball is 1n its in- is & professional eigk with teams in leading cities, but the teams do not have the foliowing of the university teams Pro base ball got its inspiration a visit of big leaguers in the F 1934, when Babe Ruth, Lou Ge and & dozen others played to capacity crowds for five games. Base ball is played all over the country and the kids start in playing in the primary schools, just as they The familiar sandlot games of the United States have their counterparts all over Japan. fancy. club league Service Teams in China. MERICAN residents fur h China with almost all the base ball ¢ the games make what they lack in pop the M e Guard tates Embassy at Peipi the United States Marine at Shanghai all have team compete with teams of Japanese re dents. The same on exist the Philippines, where Arn and Marine n vie with teams from the big schools. the Ph pine Scouts and the native stabulary. Cuba and Mexico American strongholds The game has been since 1876, when Emilio Sabourein founded the Habanas. In the 59 years since then base ball has become the national sport Cuba, frequently visited by Ameri- can big league teams and birthplace of Mike Gonzales of the St. Louis Cardinals and Adolfo Luque of the of are the La of base ball yved in Cuba | tention to the fortunes of major league teams in the United States as it ! does to local teams. Despite this, fessional league, 2 semi-pro leagues with a total of 20 teams and 2 amateur leagues with 19 teams, well as hundreds of local amateur and semi-pro. = Few Cubans Reach Majors. JIRST big league team to visit Cuba was the Cincinnati Reds, brought | there in 1908 by the astute Clark ‘Gnmzh The world champion Ath- lFUN arrived in 1909 and 1910, and | the New York Giants trained in Ha- vana last Spring. Outside of Luque and Gonzales, few | Cubans have become fixtures in the big leagues. Manuel Cueto played | with the Reds for three years and ‘R{\bfl'ln Estalella had a tryout with | Washington two years ago. Usually | Cuban players are too small to make | the big time and spend their profes- | sional careers in the minors. States, playing local prides in the | whistling-stop towns. Much of the disgust of veteran de- | votees of bullfighting, the bull pen is replacing the bull ring in Mexico. The “Liga Mexican” has 12 teams in widely separated cities and plays on Satur- days and Sundays to crowds up to 5,- 000. Ernesto Carmona, president of the Mexican Federation of Base Ball, puts at 1,000 or more the number of players in organized base ball and be- lieves the game is the coming sport of | the nation. In addition to the there are several minor leagues, encouragement for Mexican base ball in recent years was the Spring train- ing visit of Connie Mack's Athletics this Spring and the tour of major league stars in 1936. IN ARGENTINA base ball is spon- sored by large Buenos Aires ath- letic clubs as the ideal Summer sport and the club teams compete with REPAIRING SPEEDOMETERS AMMETERS, etc. “Liga Mexican” Argentine Youths Like Game. On a last-place club Sauerbrun has won six and lost nine games. > | more teams | o there is a 4-club pro- as teams, Yearly | | Cuban teams barnstorm the United | Chief | Pittsburgh vs, Boston (2)——Blan- ton and Brandt vs. Fette and Bush. Cincinnati Philadelphia (2)— Hollingsworth and Davis vs. Lamas- ter and Johnson. at Japanese o T game on the adu to socce th thits in amateur leagues made little impression . Which is addicted le youngsters are en- 7 base ball in Europe rely in the hands of te Americans in Italy and Eng- In It ident priests from America play on the grounds of the Missionary Training School on the Janiculum Hill, Rome, and near the Pope’s Summer palace at Castel Gan- fo, where the North American col- lege has its Summer headquarters, is almost unknown to Ital- dnd attempts to introduce it have th the criticism that base ball is & foreign spor Base bail in and has become popular in the last few years &nd is now plaved to some extent in turing centers and in Lon- don. Cricket, traditional bat and ball game of England, has always been re- served for the aristocratie and upper middle classes and the working people are beginning to appreciate the Amer- ican game. CARDS PILE UP GRID SCORE ON DODGERS Brooklyn Makes Seven Errors in Most Humiliating Defeat of Season, 20 to 2. the A ated Press BHOOKLx July 24 —The St. Louis Cardinals knocked the ears off r and walloped the most hu- the big-league sea was alm expatr land From game Dod a Brook tandpoint the Was & comedy of errors, the committing seven to help the cause along. although it > help, since every mem- ber of the Gas House Gang hit safely at least once and drove in at least one Lon Warneke, backed up by Brook- Iyn fumbling and St. Louls larruping, breezed alonz to his eleventh win of the year, allowing only six hits Don Padgett hit a homer for the Cards with two mates aboard in the &nd Cookie Lavagetto belted one with the bases empty in the same frame It was only year that he second time this a team had hit the 20 mark Brown Englich, Mize. Padi Three-base Padeett Lavagetio New York Giants, pays as much at- | 215, Attendance CRACK TEAMS BATTLE | Carrs Hosts to Milwaukees in Soft Ball Gamle Today. The Carr Bros. & Boswell soft ball | team of Hyattsville will entertain the | Old Milwaukee team today at Ma- gruder Park at 2:45 o'clock. Old Milwaukee is considered the best all- round team in the District, possessing a record of 17 victories against a lone setback. the latter at the hands of the District soft ball champions, Ehrlick Poultry. by a score of 2 to 1. | Carr Bros. also has a fine record with 28 wins in 35 games and is the first- half champion of the Sherwood Play- ground League. The game will follow the Art's Diner-Harvey Dairy Prince Georges County League contest at 1:30. |PRIZE FOR MONTGOMERY Scores P. B. C. No. 5 Win in Box- ing Y. M. C. A. Takes, 8-1. James Montgomery, Police Boys Club flyweight, has been awarded the | trophy &s being the best performer |on the card when the Police Boys' Club No. 2 boxing team suffered its second defeat, 3 to 1, at the hands of the crack Y. M. C. A. mittmen. In the other bouts Johnny John- | son decisioned L. Thomas in the | 135-pound class, Tony Kelly defeated Henry Jefferson in the middleweight set-to and in the 175-pound battle Henry Johnson scqred a technical knockout over Bill Gordan to sc- count for the three Y. M. C. A. vice tories. OLDSMOBILE N WE NEED USED CARS Largest Oldsmobile L. P. STEUART, INC. Washington's 1811 Mth ST N. W . DEcarur 4230 14th & R. 1 Ave N.W.