Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1937, Page 11

WASHINGTON, . O, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1937. @he Foening Stad Sporls »* Heads Up Again, Surprising Griffs Return for Long RAID ON BROWNIES AVERTS DISGRACE Flashy Wind-up of Western | Fling Eases Sting of | Losing Streak. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. N ROUTE FROM ST. LOUIS. July 25.—Roaring eastward and to home at long last. the Na- tionals arrive in the Capital tonight with deep sighs of relief and feeling fervently thankful fo. St fra in the American Thanks to the hapless Brownies the Griffs “got out from under” on a Western trip that promised to go down as one of the worst in the modern history of the firm. Going into the final lap of their tour the Nats held only one victory in eight Western starts, but four wins in five starts in 6t. Louis erased some of the sting Thus, instead of limping home as hopelessly as they limped out, the | Nats at least had the satisfaction of holding (1) a safe lead over the seventh-place Browns, (2) a four- game winning streak, and (3) a flock of freshlv-fattened batting averages &s a result of the 40 hits compiled in yesterday's twin bill. ‘What was done in St. Louis, how- ever, failed to prove much except that Washington can wallop the Browns regularly. he Nats have no real laurels upon which to rest, but, on the contrary, a severe test ahead of them | There remains the slight | at home. matter of facing theeWhite Sox and the Indians this week. and the Nats | have done nothing against them this | season to furnish much hope. Can't Win on Road. THIS much can be said for the | Griffs. Once they are at home they | ere a better bail club. The records | prove this contention. Despite their two double-header vic- tories in as many davs, the Griffs have won only 16 games on the road—East and West—all season. Against this| mark they have lost 28, for a feeble | .363 percentage. If a ball team can | climb into the first division at this rate it is performing quite a trick The silver lining for Manager Bucky Harris lies in the fact that with the season barely past the half-way mark for his outfit, only one more Western swing is scheduled. Most of the Griffs’ future campaigning will be done at home, with a few invasions of Boston, New York and Philadelphia slated. The Nats’' record of five wins as against eight defeats came as a pleasant surprise, in view of the poor start. They dropped their first seven games, extending a losing streak to 10 in a row. Not even the most opti- mistic Griffman foresaw five wins in | the last six games. Browns' Pitchers Are Tonic. THE St. Louis stand was a great tonic to some lagging batting averages. In getting 23 hits in the 16-10 victory that marked the first game of yester- day’'s double-header, the Harrismen set | a new hitting high for them. The | second tilt, which was won by 15 to | 5. did nothing to hurt the averages of most of them. Cecil Travis, Washington's candidate | for the league batting championship. | was the leading hi the trip. Buddy Lewis him, but Travis, unlike most of the others, did not fatten his average particularly against the Browns’ pitch- ers. He hit them all from the outset of the swing. Here's the way the hit- ters fared: Name. G. AB Avg 15 A 13 Blu W Simmons 1141 k (000 De Shong Topped the Pitchers. NONE of the pitchers helped them- selves much. Monte Weaver, who pitched the best game—a two-hitter against Detroit—failed to win a game, and was charged with two defeats, Wes | Ferrell won one and lost two. His Ancient Sport of Archery Occupies Stage for a Day in Capital o Some of the string-twange rs who turned out for the erhi- bition at the Potomac Park polo field yesterday showing, on extreme left, upper, Mrs. Glad, holder, next to Jean Ainsworth ys Hammer, 1936 women's title- h Tenney, current champ. Upper right: The 23-year-old Miss Tenney, removing arrows from target as Catherine Peebles (left) and Mary Acree enviously —Star Staff Photos. look on. Lower left:Robert R. Farrar gives his son, Robert, jr., close-up of the accepted technique of arrow shooting Lower right: Charming Violet Graham takes it easy under an umbrella between shots. ‘POPPING # LA \\‘“ OFF" tonuia Western Trip Log No. 3. Special Dispatch to The Star. N ROUTE FROM ST. LOUIS, July 26—July 13—Beaten three straight by Yanks, clan gathers at Uni paw and says, “Good luck!" know what for. victory, which came yesterday, was | anything but impressive. He gave up | 14 hits and 10 runs. | Jimmy De Shong, by all odds, wound up with the best mark, which was two wins in three starts. Carl Fischer, | since released, lost one game, and so | did Pete Appleton. Ed Linke and Ken | Chase, who won the others, cannot | take much credit. Both were out of | the game when the winning runs were made for them. Weaver, more rested than any of the hurlers, will open tomorrow's three-game set with the White Sox. He probably will draw Dietrich or Cain. NET CROWN TO D. C. BOY Turner Sweeps to Win in North Carolina Open Junior Meet. Srecial Dispatch to The Star. ASHEVILLE. N. C., July 26.—Billy ‘Turner, one of Washington, D. C. ranking junior tennis players, won the North Carolina open junior singles championship here yesterday when he defeated L. Boykin of Kingstone, S. C., 6—4, 6—2. ‘Turner had not dropped a set in his last three matches, defeating E. Hubbard in the quarter-finals, 6—2, 6—4, and John Henderson of Chapel Hill, 75, 6—2, in the semis. CARRS BAG BIG GAME Beat Crack Milwaukees for 30th Victory in 36 Starts. Carr Brothers and Boswell, Hyatts- ville soft ball team, today sported a record of .30 victories in 37 games fol- lowing & 3-1 triumph yesterday at Margruder Park over the crack Old Milwaukee team. It was only the sec- ond defeat handed the Milwaukees in 19 games this season. Paul Douglas held Old Milwaukee to two hits, forgets to inform him. boards trein with Nats anyway. July 14—Nats arrive in Cleveland. makes debut as “road mascot.” Carl Hill swallows prejudice against airplan on Station. Reporter grabs Jess Hill's Hill, wife and kiddie by side, wants to It develops he is sold to A's and Uncle Clark Griffith He also forgets to tell Manager Bucky Harris. . _Stanley Harris, jr., son of the skipper, Fischer is beaten, 11 to 3, by Indians. es and flies to Chicago to play with A's. July 15—Rookie Ken Chase (y’know me, Al, in the flesh) makes debut as starting pitcher. Folds at halfway Washington losing streak to five in a row. mark and Indians win, 6 to 2, running This loss hurts, for Earl Whitehill, whom Griff traded away, goes the route for the Tribe and takes third game from old mates. July 16—Wes Ferrell tries to break streak but Indians sweep series with 11-5 win. tion reveals Indians made 28 runs, 34 hits in three-game set. Griffs sigh relievedly as train heads for Detroit. July 17—Tommy Bridges beats Nats, 6-0, gives five hits and runs losing streak to seven in row. Harris looks out of 24th- story hotel window and odds of 8 to 5 are quoted that he jumps. July 18—Griffs hit abdsolute rock- bottom. Monte Weaver pitches two- hit game . . . and loses. Al Simmons, |hot as a firecracker, hits homer for Nats' only run in 3-1 beating. Check- up reveals losing streak ties modern record for Nats. De Shong Turns Ingrate. JULY 19—Ninth straight defeat comes as no surprise. Cletus El- wood Poffenberger outpitches Pete Appleton and Tigers take it, 8-4, de- spite another Simmons home run. Buddy Myer is back on second base for better or for worse. And so to Chicago. July 20—White Sox display monu- mental lack of sympathy and win 10-inning battle, 4 to 3. To this a silver lining is attached. Wes Ferrell pitches first good game in two weeks. Fly lost in sun by Johnny Stone beats him. Joe Kuhel hears word of be- coming papa, celebrates with singles last two times up. July 21—Lou Comiskey tosses “ corned beef and cabbage lunch- eon and Jimmy Dykes says nice things about Jimmy De Shong. Nat pitcher, with fine sense of ingratitude, beats Sox, 7-3. Wuxtra, wuxtra! Carl Fischer sold to Baltimore. Harris announces Mihalic as regular second baseman. Recapitula- L3 July 22—Griffs herded to St. Louis to spend off day. Scribes chuckle over Fischer's question, “What does a guy have to do to stick with this club?” Reminds of time when Joe Cascarella was announced as sold to Syracuse. “I'm a big league pitcher,” complained Joe. “Look up my rec- iord." Yeah, look it up. | | Thankful for Browns. iJULY 23—Monte Weaver, the one | guy who is expected to give the Browns a battle, is knocked out of box. It doesn’t make any difference. Elon Hogsett shuts out Griffs, 8 to 0. Harris looks out of hotel window again but decides it isn’t high enough to do & complete job. Asks waivers on Stanley, jr., as mascot. July 24—Oh, memorable day! Ken Chase and Ed Linke, the “desperation pitchers,” win a double-header against Browns, 6-5, 6-5. Wes Ferrell and Pete Appleton really win them, though. Wes, as pinch hitter for Ken and Ed, drives across winning runs. Pete protects slim leads in both games. July 25—Oh, memorable day, No. 2! Sweet indeed, are the fruits of victory, especially when 40 hits are divided over a double - header. Twenty - three are whacked up in the first game and 17 more in the night- cap. July 25—Griffs come home with four-game winning streak and strong appetites for home-cooked foods. All the customers have to forget is that sll four games in their streak were won from the Browns. Hill | RACE FANS CROWD SARATOGA HOMES Natives Move Out, at Good Prices, to Provide Room for Banner Season. By the Associated Press. ARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y., July 26.—Bag and baggage, residents of this elm-studded town moved out today and turned their | homes over to their August racing visitors. As thousands converged on Amer- |ica's Summertime racing capital for residents cleaned unused glassware and packed away unwanted clothing to make ready for them. By nightfall, one real estate man estimated, nearly 40 per cent of the population will have moved to other quarters, sent the dog away for the month and rented their homes, cleaned, furnished and with a tele- phone thrown in, for prices ranging between $200 and $5,000. “It's the biggest season for rentals we've had since 1929,” he declared. “Why, the more expensive places were | practically all gone early in June and many were already being lived in by early visitors.” Purely Saratoga Custom. THE practice of renting to the Au- gust visitor, he explained as the crowds began the mile jaunt out Union avenue to the staid old race course where the horses were ready to run again, is & custom peculiar to Saratoga. x It's all because Saratoga is the only track in the major Eastern circuit not immediately adjacent to a me- tropolis such as New York, Boston, Providence, R. I, or Baltimore, Md. Card Has 37 Features. THE two features are the first of 37 rich and coveted stakes which will be run before the season's close. As usual, the feature of the meeting is the battle for the 2-year-old cham- pionship of the year, climaxed by the $40,000 hopeful of the final day. Bharing the spotlight with the racers will be the annual yearling sales, conducted by the Fasig. Co. in its own arens. the opening of the 30-day seacon, its | -Tipton l WASHINGTON | Aimada, cf. Lewis. b, Travis. ss. | Simmons. Stone, rf Kuhel, 1b, Myer. 2 R Ferrell. ¢ W. Ferrell, p, _ Totals Knickerbocker, Hemsley. c. Strickland, p. Carey. 2b! Koupal. p. Hufiman. c. _ *Bottomley ‘Washington . | st. Louis Runs Kuhel Travis C3). R, Ferrell, n. Bell (3). batted Almada, Lewis. Davis, _Kuhel. Home' runs—west plays — Lipscomb. Davis. Washington_ 7; St balls—Off W.''Fel oft Trotter. 5 in ' inning WASHINGTON. Almada, cf Lewis. b - De Shong. p Totals en. ‘rf Knickerbocker, Totals Washington Davis. Stone, Lewis. run—Stone. Aimada, ble_play—Davis_unassis 7: St. Lo by Wi 1_inning. Hit (Lipscomb). in—TLewis Almada, West (4) Bottomley. Simmons. Three-base Stolen _ bases—Kuhel. Vosmik_to_Davis. Myer (2). Travis (4), Knickerbocker. Simmons Three-base hit—Simmons. Stolen base—Almada. Dou- i 3 Hogsett. ‘Walkup. 16 in'8 innings: off_Hogsett. 1 in by pitcher—By Wild _pitches—Walkup, De ftcher—Walkup. 8hong. lfllln& r yires—Messrs. Kolls. i'fis 98 Official Scores FIRST GAME AB. Sim—2 0 = > H 3 X 4 H. 1 i 3 1 1 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 o 0 0 0 a S E " T Sm sz SRNDO PO SRTr —szmsrsune 2ommouuasmos> b coweooms Totals a1 1 *Batted for Strickland in ninth - 346 021 000—16 042 000 207 ) Simmons, Stone, Myer Huff- Almada. Almada. Knickerbocker and Left on bases— Loujs. 8. _Bases on ;" off Trotter, 1: off Van inning: off Strickland. 7 ing pitcher—Koupal. Dineen. Kolls and Johnston. SECOND GAME. AB. R. 45 O 5 12 27 % *Batted for Walkup in_eighth, tBatted for Hogsett in ninth. 330 103 041—15 200 100 020— 5 s. Simmons (4), Stone (4). Bell (2). Two-base hits— Kuhel, West. Home ted. Left on bases uis, 15. Bases on 1. Hit e 8hong um- Johnston and Dmuflé. paid attendance— | game, notwithstanding the fact that SPORTS cop Time Changes Saratoga, But it Still Rates As Tops in Racing. BY WALLACE DUKE ARATOGA opens today for a| month of racing in which the best stables from the West will meet the cream of the East in the many stakes offered—and before stands boasting the elite of the turf world probably to a greater extent than any track in the country. New York's famous up-State spa,| a pioneer in the presentation of the | best racing has to offer, continues its proud position in the forefront of the the years have brought a great change | in the manners and customs of its hosts and guests. Gone are the days, for instance, when “Bet-You-a-Million” Gates and his partner, Drake; “Pittsburgh Phil” and Riley Grannan would saunter up | to & book and say “How much do you | want?”—meaning they would make any sized wager that the book cared to handle. Any one of the trio frequently would bet more in a day than the total mutuel play on tracks now oper- ating. ‘Taxis were unknown, but there were hundreds of phaetons and surreys and a ride to the track cost only 25 cents. After races there was Canfield’s, a show place where the sky was the limit, and for those who wished to dine there was a menu the like of which has not been seen since the gay | nineties. As an added feature a small | brook, stocked with trout of many | varieties and sizes. Your selection | promptly was fished out and wiggled to the chef. ARATOGA at that time had no competition to speak of. To horse- men and turf followers the month of August meant Saratoga. There was no other racing in the East.. Now Saratoga must compete with Suffolk Downs, which offers the $50,000 Mas- sachusetts Handicap as a Mid-August | & feature. Then Walter O'Hara will of racing stables from deducting their losses in the game known as “‘the sport of kings.” Should such a bill become & law it would hurt the farmers whom the New Deal has adopted, for not only the breeders who look to the wealthy to keep the game alive, but those who furnish the hay at $30 a ton for 50,000 registered thoroughbreds, straw at $20, and oats at $1 a bushel, would have to look for another market for the greater part of their crop. ARLINGTON PARK closes next Saturday with a twin stake bill, the Futurity and Arlington Handicap. Each of the feature races has $20.000 added. Arlington, since its purchase eight years ago, by a group of Chicago thoroughbred enthusiasts, has been committed to a non-profit policy, its earnings above operation costs going back, half into improvements and | operation costs, and half to charity. At Arlington moving pictures are taken of the starts. These motion pictures enable the stewards to detect any possible mishandling of a horse by an assistant starter. HAS SECOND NO-HITTER. Abe Rosenfield, generally conceded to be the District's speediest soft ball pitcher, today was credited with his second no-hit performance of the season. Twirling for Zupnik tossers yesterday, Rosenfield blanked Internal Revenue, 5-0, at Ballston, Va. Griffs’ Records BATTING. bring Narragansett into the limelight |y with a galaxy of stakes. FEW if any of the large racing stables make money. As a rule those who race for the thrill of see- ing their colors flash down the stretch ohen pay high for the privilege. This loss | ¢) always has been deducted when the income tax blanks were filled out. Now the Treasury Department, which has been conducting a publicity cam- paign as to how the wealthy escape paying sll that Uncle S8am claims to | oy, be his share, has asked Congress for leglalation that will prohibit owners R Ferrell nke Appleton o 0 PITCHING. H. BB. 80. IP. GS. 102746 "8 &% 0 0.000 aQ Q PRORSINE | coucan e o i 19, [ S comtinnH Jacobs __ MAD BEES WIN2 OF LAST 30 TILT Climax Drive by Beating Bucs Twice—Giants Cop, Yankees Divide. BY SID FEDER. Associated Press Sports Writer. HEY still were chasing after the Cubs on tr tional League merry d today, but the brass ring appeared to be ex- clusively in possession of Boston's be= lieve-it-or-not Bees With the National League's Weste ern and the American League's Easte ern divisions heading home agamn after an up-and-down swing through the rival sectors, the Bees were chuck= ling up their collective sleeve over & pitching staff that came out of no= where and 1s pure poison to the rest of the senior circuit And the pay-off is that although the Bees' big four flingers are worth their weight in pound sterling right now they didn't cost wily old Bob Quinn and cagy Bill McKechnie more than enough to keep a Sunday crowd in hot dogs. Grabbed Fwm Nowhere. DANNY MacFAYDEN landed in Boston on waivers. Every other club gave up on old Guy Bush. Lou Fette and Jim Turner. a couple 30- year-old rookies, couldn't have cost much to bring up from the minors this year, at an age when most others are on the way down azain Yet, this quartet, aided by a coupla of other “cheap” assistants. such as Johnny Lanning and Gabbo Gabler, and without the backing of any kind of batting punch. have burned up ths loop in a drive that has skyrocketed the Bees from eizhth place on Jun 127 t0 a spot where they o turn cver their graves They climaxed eir winning spres | ve erday by ing the Pittsburgh | Pirates in both ends of a doubles | header. 5-2 and 7-5, w Bush and | Fette doing the work. The twin win | stretched their victory streak to seven | straight over the high and mighty | Cardinals and Pirates, and stole the | Sunday diamond show from t usually featured pacemakers in both leagues. | Giants Turn on Cubs. iTHE Giants finally found a hurler able to go the route and salvaged the last game of their series from the | Cubs, 5-0. behind Harry Gumbert's | six-hit elbowing. The defeat aliced the Cubs’ lead to two games. | At the same time, the Yankees wound - up their Western whirl by | splitting with the Chicago White Sox, | thereby dropping their first series since June 7. They won the first game, 12-11, on Bill Dickey's two homers, but were nipped in the nightcap, 7-5, despite a pair of round-trip belts by young Tommy Henrich, all of which | left them with a five-game lead in the American League | Washington knocked the ears off seven St. Louis Browns' pitchers for | a twin win. Lefty Grove hurled a two- | hitter as the Red Sox socked the In- dians, 4-1, in a single game cut five innings by rain, and the Detro Tigers banged out four home whip the Athletics. 12-9, as their ] it was washed ot Dodgers in Dizzy BIIL 'HE Dodgers and Cardinals put o1 23 innings of dizzy base ball, wit Brooklyn winning the opener, 6 in 11 innings, and tying the nightcap at 7-all in 12. The Reds split with the Phillie- dropping the second game, 7-3, after taking the opener, 13-3. League Statistics JULY 26, 1937, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washincton 16—15: St. Lout: New York, 17-#: Chicago. oston. 4. Cleveland. 1 (5 innings. rain second ra roit adelphia, ® ings, rain fEst: second Taino ¢ (0 RRInES 34608 5 _ GAMES TOMORROW, Chi. at Wash., 3:18, Detroit at New York, Cleve. At Phi Louis at GAMES TODAY, Oven date. ila Boston, NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. 7 (first 11 innings: second 12 rk) Cincinnati. 13—3." Phila Pittshurgh, = -=== puiuag wuwep| GAMES TODAY. Oven date. GAMES TOMORROW, Chicago at N. Y, Bkin. Chicago, Phil. ‘at Pitrs Boston "t Ginc. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Kansas City. 10—0: Minneapolis. uisville. '11—3: " Columbus’ 10— Indianapolis. 4: Toledor 3> 207 "m”l—“' oxvilie, 88, iFeihehim 3oy, Little Rock. 5—3: Memph gGhatgnooss. g4 New Orleans.