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A_ I el @he Foening Stae Sporl WASHINGTON, D. C.,, WEDN ESDAY, JULY 28, 1937, Appleton Again Is Slab Regular : Budge Key to Golden Tennis Era PETE NOW RATED LATE SEASON ACE Saves Third Game in Row as Chisox Are Beaten, 6-5. Run in Ninth Tells. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HERE is a strong suspicion around Griffith Stadium today that it is just about Appleton | blossom time. Thrice in the last three playing days Peter Appleton has rushed from the bull pen to the rescue of Manager Bucky Harris' faltering pitchers, and thrice the man who tagged as a prize floperoo has delivered. | Today, in the wake of his 6-to-5 victory over the White Sox, Pete was back in good standing with Boss Bucky and his more blatant critics, of several weeks agh are beginning to wonder if the veteran is not one of | those pitchers who does his best work in the stretch run It will be recalled that Peter was no great shucks in the early part of the 1936 campaign, after having been bought in the draft from Montreal He was s0-50 as & relief pitcher and no improvement as a starter until mid- eeason. Then he came through. De- epite his slow start, he finished with 14 victories as against 9 defeats, Stars Twice Against Browns. THE background of the right-handed curve ball specialist, woven with hix iast three performances, lends cre- dence to the current theory that Ap- pleton blossom time is mid-season Harris figures it is worth looking into, enyway, and the chances are th: Appleton now will take a regular t on the slab along with Wes Ferre! Jimmy De Shong and Monte Weaver. | Pete began to blossom for 1937 when the Nats were in St. Louis last Sat- urday. He was ng in the bull pen when Wes Ferrell, Linke, drove a game of a doub ington & 6 r to give Wash- Appleton walked and score- nings to protect the margm. | e Browr he time, were as | hot as the wea They had just | €cored their five runs off Linke in the | two previous innings Pete went back to the bull pen for | the second game of that twin bill, | but Wes P . agan pinch-hitting, | @rove across a run to create another | 6-5 lead. Wes had batted for Ken | Chase and to Pete agamn was called to protect the lead. He did so with a fine three-inning stretch. Wins, 6-5, Over Sox. IT ‘WAS Monte Weaver who needed help vesterday. Overcoming a 2-0 lead taken by the Sox. the Nats scored four runs in the first inning to give Monte a lead But the frail veteran, who prob- ebly is feeling the strain of working every four davs, gave no promise of bolding it. In the Chicago second snning he filled the bases with none out and Appleton grabbed his fire helmet. In brilliant fashion he ended the inning with only a single run scored. That, of course, was charged to Weaver. Pete pitched eight innings yester- | day and gave up only three hits to one of the league's better-hitting teams. As a matter of fact, the Sox invaded the stadium as the hottest team in the league. The two runs Chicago made off Ap- pleton might have been avoided. In the sixth, with the score 5 to 3 against | them, Jimmy Dykes' gang tied it up in & way that did not reflect on Pete. Myer Breaks Up Game. "APPLING. first up, walked. Then | Berger hit to Lewis, who threw | %00 late to force Appling at second A single by Luke Sewell, a sacrifice by Relief Pitcher John Rigney, and en infleld out by Hayes scored the runs Not until the ninth did the Nats shove across the winning run for Appleton and thus give him his first victory since May 30, when he de- feated the Red Sox. It was only Pete's fourth win of the season, al- though he deserved credit for both of those games in St. Louis. Buddy Lewis, whose four hits in five times At bat yesterday gave him 8 record of 12 safeties in his last 15 tries, opened the ninth with a single. HMe took second as Cecil Travis was retired and moved to third on Al Bimmons’ infield out. Then Rigney, after getting into a hole against Stone, purposely passed both Johnny and Joe Kuhel in order to pitch to Buddy Myer. This was a fatal move. Myer poked the second pitch between Berger and | Appling for a single, breaking up the | game. DUMP SECRETARIES. Behind the four-hit pitching of Robert Hughes, Trash and Hauling captured an 11-4 decision over Mount Pleasant School for Secretaries yes- terday in an insect base ball game "I‘HAT was last Spring. on the North Ellipse diamond. L "POPPI NG/ OFFSianxsd Dissecting the Bees. STRANGE quiet seems to have settled in the workshops of the major league club owners and the tip is out that Mr. Bill McKechnie's Boston Bees, who have been doing so Fette, Fette well of late (get it?) are furnishing the reason. Up to a few weeks ago there was | much mourning and weeping and gnashing of teeth on the part of the swivel-chair brigade because, said the club owners, there were no pitchers in the minor leagues who were capable of winning ball games in the big| show. where he was singing the blues. Even Mr. Clark Griffith of the Washington firm reached the point “Lookit this,” he was heard exclaiming some time ago, pointing to a letter written by an irate customer. step out and buy some minor league pi by sin. who have a crance.” Griffitn since has maintained a d - Pitching for a ball club whose batters couldn't aren't any pitcher It migint be & silence on this topic. ded that Mr, “This bird wants to know why I con't tchers, Sure I'd buy them—but t: dome of the Capitol if it was wheeled s, across the plate, the Bees' pitchers not only have contrived to win games, but the National Ieague currently is re- garding the Bees as first division threats. And with what kind of material? It is recalled that one of the Nats took a long look at the Bees last Spring during an on game at Gastonia, N. and said: “How does Mc- Kechnie keep that gang outta sight of the glue factories?” He was nodding in the direction of Mr. Guy Bush, who happened to be pitching in batting practice. Mr. Bush is 35 years old. And he em- braced, in his question, such gentle- men as Louis Henry Fette, 30: Danny MacFayden, 31: James Riley Turner, 31, and Bob Smith, who was born| in 1898. Fette Is Fette Hot, It now is Midsummer and the afore- mentioned gentlemen never Wwere farther away from the glue factory. Fette, the new star of the staff, has won 13 games and lost only three for a ball el which only re- cently moved as high as fifth place. He has scored four shuiouts and to win half of these he was forced to| pitch 13 innings before the Bees got him a run. One of his defeats was a game he lost to Dizzy Dean, 1 to 0. In 10 of his games, he has given no more than one run. Fette pitched for St. Paul last year, winning 25 and losing 8 games. That should have earned him a shot with several major league clubs. But all| except the poverty-stricken Bees were unwilling to gamble on a 30-year-old Tookie. And then there is Turner, a vear older than Fette and also an American Association graduate. Turner was (3 with Indianapolis last year, winning 18 games and losing 13. So far this season, he has won 10 of 16 games for the Bees, including two shutouts. In eight of his victorious starts, he has held the opposition to two runs or less. which practically is necessary to win with the Bees. He lost a game in which he allowed one run. | Old Man Bush, Too. | well-intentioned but poorly aimed (or | vice versa) pop bottle, there’s nothing | THE trick is to get more than three runs off the Bostons'and it is | difficult to do. Bush, who has been | pitching professionally for 15 years, | and who was believed to be washed | up years ago, has hurled 10 games in | which the opposition has been held | to three runs or less. With a better ball club, he would have a far better record than six wins and four defeats. | He lost two 2-to-1 games, a 2-0 affair | and a 3-to-1 decision. MacFayden, who was shunted out of the Amel n League on - grounds of incompetence, staged a great comeback last year and still is going great guns. ‘The bespectacled right-hander, has | won six games in which he has allowed three runs or less, and he lost three | when the Bees twice were shut out and once limited to a single run. John Lanning. who did nothing better than win 13 and lose 13 with Knoxville's last-place Southern League club in 1936, has pitched three games in which he has allowed three runs or le: Frank Gabler, who was traded by the Giants to Boston, has pitched two of this variety and Ira Hutchinson has worked one such game. A Little Scouting May Help. 'HIS, it may be recalled, is happen- ing during a day of a ball that is reckoned as too lively by a majority of base ball people. who have taken steps to build a new, deader ball for 1938 use. Too lively or no, the Bees’ pitchers can step forth with new proof that good pitching will stop good hitters any day. When a slab staff that can pitch 48 games without allowing the opposition more than three runs, and with only "half the season gone, it needs no deacer ball. Maybe what the other club owners should do is forget about manu- | facturing a new “mush” ball and make | & tour of the country's minor leagues. Maybe there are more pitchers where Mr. McKechnie's came from. MERRIWELL STUFF FLLS MAJOR PLAY Late Home Runs by Med- wick, Rolfe, Scarella Win for Cards, Yanks, Reds. BY BILL BONI, A-sociatea Press Sports Writer. UTSIDE of a fist-swinging, | bat-waving free-for-all, in which he can take remnte- control part by heaving a the base ball fan loves more than the good old Merriwell finish. The home run that zooms over a 510 PLAY PROS Five All-Americas in Squad. Francis Leads in Vote of 5,036,466. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, July 28.—More than 5,000,000 gridiron fans, around 75,000 of whom will be here tnesses, have picked the college aces they expect prefessional champion Paciers in the fourth an- - game at Soldier Field L. e the big spectacle was intro- by the Chicago Tribune in no team of collezians has been 10 conquer tae professional stand- ard Learer, the Chicago Bears the first two years and Detroit’s Lions a year ago, but the fans—5,036,466 of them—have called on 65 stars, 5 | of them members of the all-America, to prove fandom can't be wrong four times in a row. Francis First Choice. 'I‘HE all-America stars who will be in the starting line-up in the | battle under the floodlights are big Sam Francis, Nebraska fullback and the leading vote-getter with 1,104,372; Louisiana State end; s Ed Widseth of Minnesota and Il Daniell of Pittsburgh and tarcevich, Washington guard. others of the all-America, | Yy Kelley, Yale's brillians end; Center Mike Basrak of Duquesne and Ray Buivid, prize halfback from Mar- quette will be on the squad. The other starting end will be Merle Wendt of Ohio State. Steve Reid, captain of Northwestern's Big Ten champions, will start at the other guard, Bud Svendsen of Minnesota was selected to start at center, com- pleting the line. The quarterback at kick-off time will be Vernon Huffman of Indiana, with Bobby La Rue of Pittsburgh and Purdue's John Drake at the halfback positions. distant fence with the score tied and | two out in the last half of the ninth, | or the relief pitcher who, a la Grover Cleveland Alexander, strolls in from | the bullpen to fan the heavy hitter | with three men on—that's the kind of story book ending that keeps conversa- tion alive on homeward-bound street cars and subways. There was enough fruit for conver- sation tieaq up in yesterday’s big league show to bore half the country's wives to distraction as they waited for friend husband to calm down and eat his din- ner. Four of the eight games weren't decided until the last half of the final | inning. Some Spectacular Blows. | ]\1051‘ spectacular of the blows | > struck in winning causes were those delivered by Joseph Mickael Medwick of the Cardinals, Robert “Red"” Rolfe of the Yankees and Leslie George Scarsella of the Reds. Joseph Mickael, the pride of Car- teret, N. J., who has been leading the | National League batting parade for so | long it's a habit, waited for the truly psychological moment to uncork his twenty-first homer of the year. The Giants had rallied to tie the score 8-all after the Gas House Gang's eight-run blast had knocked Carl Hubbell loose from his props. | Third Giant pitcher, Al Smith, had retired the first two men to face him in the ninth. Then up came Ducky- ‘Wucky and plastered one against the left field bleacher rail to win the ball game, 9-8, and drop the Giants three games behind the Cubs, who won a 5-2 decision over the Dodgers with- out any particular fireworks. Scarsella’s four - master, which | scored Ival Goodman ahead of him, | saved the day and his tenth victory for Lefty Lee Grissom. The Reds’ rookie had given up only one hit for eight innings, then was clipped for three and two runs in the ninth. Scarsella’s blow made the final score 3-2 for Cincinnati. Rolfe Waits Until Eleventh. OLFE, the old Dartmouth alumnus, delayed his K. O. punch until the eleventh. The Tigers, having put over a run on Red Ruffing in their half of that frame, were leading by 5-4. But Rolfe’s circuit clout, with Frank Crosetti scoring ahead of him, made it 6-5 in favor of the Yanks and stretched their American League lead to six games. Less showy but equally effective were Buddy Meyer's ninth-inning sin- gle that drove in the run that gave Washington a 6-5 victory over the White Sox and Philadelphia Bill Werber's eight-inning double that brought in two runs and halted the Indians, 4-3. In the other games Red Lucas pinned a six-hitter on the Phillies to give Pittsburgh a 4-1 triumph, and the Browns’ 15-hit attack topped the Fed Sox, 8-5, and gave Manager Jim Bottomley his first triumph on the road. One Defeat, Two Ties. \‘YITHOUT having been able to achieve a victory in the three previous battles, all of which at- tractéd crowds of more than 60,000, the collegians have two ties in the account book. The 1934 aggregation | held the Bears to a scoreless stand- off, and last year's boys gained a 7-to-7 tie with the Lions. The Bears gave the pros the edge in 1935, how- ever, by winning, 5 to 0. The rest of the squad: Ends—Bil O'Neill Antil, Minnesoia: Leo Deutsch dict: ' Charles Galatka. Misss. Woodrow Strombere. Army: Mat A aekien, Nelson. Tlinois ashington University ( ) and John Zitko Northwestern, o OIS TacklesBill nkamper' and Frank Noire Dame: John Golemzeske Charles Hamrick. Ohio State Skstra Tlinois: Gerry Dennerlsin. St Mary's: Hal Carson. De Paul: Delpert Biork._Oregon, and Nestor Henrion, Car- negie Tech Guards Kuhn. 1l nwoo ith “Ohin State: Dick Base| Santa Clara_ Gordon Dahigren. Michisan State: Sam Galovich, Knox, and Joe Baia ,Centers—Georgs Bell. Purdus: _ John Wiatrax Washineton, and Gil Kuhn, South- ern California Bud Wilkinson. Minne- Texas Christian: Nello Art Gueps Mar- Southern California: qton State ! Dye_ Ohio Siate Buivid. Marauette: Bob Wilke. Juliis Alfonse Minnecota Washineton: Tlovd Card- » Charles (Monk) Me. i Tom Gibbane "¢ Viator: Willje Phillips. De Pavl: Jimmy Cain. Washineton: Al Ageit. Michizan State. and Joe Riley. Alahama Fullbacks—Larrs Danbom, Notry Fddie dankowsk Wreeonen: Bog 20 . Northwestern, Bill Glassford. Pittsburgh: € 'S Join Lautar. Notre Dams Quarterbacks- ta: Sam_Baugh Falaschi_ Santa Cl ouette: David Davi Fd Goddard. Wa: liam Harrison (T: fbacks | 2nd Steva Tarh, Wilson. Tlinof andiTom MRS. MARS HOPEFUL Sends Three Horses in Quest of Rich Futurity Purse. CHICAGO., July 28 (#).—Mrs. Ethel V. Mars will send out three 2-year- olds, for which she paid a tota] of $32.300, to try to get some of her money back in the $55.000 Futurity at Arlington Park Saturday. Her hopes will be Tiger, which cost $4.500. C-Note. for which she paid $14,300, and Skv Larking. a $13.500 investment, all at the Saratoga year- ling auction last year. No Fracture, Toe Broken, Says Diz By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 28—Dizzy (Big Toe) Dean, grimacing at the pain. limped into Trainer Harrison J. Weaver's quarters in the Cardi- nal club house today. “Jerome, you must let me do something for that toe,” Weaver in- sisted solicitiously. “You know, I've been treating post-fracture cases for 25 years, and I'm sure I can help you. ‘Doc, this ain't no fracture,” Diz- Zy moaned in reply. This doggone toe of mine is broken.” _l;eelllans Signs to Play With Grid Giants Again Schmeling Declared Ready to Fight Louis in October if Joe Elim inates Farr. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 28-+The Yankees are back in town with a fine case of the Jitters. . . . Tommy Farr has Mike Jacobs talking to himself because the Welshman refuses to wear a headgear while training. « . . The Western trip starting will determine if the Giants are going down the stretch with the ram- paging Cubs. Tuffy Leemans, former George Washington backfield star, has signed to do his stuff with the New York foot ball Giants again next season. . . . How about some good, spiey notes, boys. . . . Ceferino Garcia, who has been yelling his head off for a chance at the welterweight title, passed it up ¢+ When Mike Jacobs offered him only ’ $5,000. title. The reason the Yanks were able to make such a fine deal for the Kansas City Blues was because doctors ordered Owner Johnny Kling, the old Cub catcher, to get out of base ball entirely. « Thought he wanted the Steve Markiewicz of Worcester, Mass., wants to be the first to nominate Joe Di Maggio and Lou Fette of the Bees as the most valuable players in the two majors. ... 0. K. butch. . . . Back in April a St. Louis base ball writer bet Prexy Don Barnes of the Browns, Rogers Hornsby wouldn't last out the seasop as manager. Barnes fired Hornsby the other day and paid up. Gunnar Barlund, the Finnish heavy, who was making a name for himself in New York when flu eut hom down last Winter, will be back in January to try it again. . . . The Giant squad now playing in St. Louis is the smallest, numeri- cally, ever to invade the West. . . . guesses as to who'll be the next big league manager to go. Latest from Max Schmeling is he’ll be over in October to fight Louls if Joe' trims Farr . . . Zach Wheat, the old Brooklyn swatter, now runs a fishing camp at Chinquepan Springs, Mo. . . . Zach was a cop in Kansas City until an auto accident laid him out some time back ... Paul Damski, the fight manager, has just completed his fifteenth Atlantic crossing in & little more than two years. Jack Dempsey keeps popping off on how badly the boxing game needs a czar . . . The Hon. George Herman Ruth is having consider= sble trouble with his putting, and he doesn't mesn magbe , , , Btill thinks the Cubs are & cinch in the National, Art Fletcher, Yankee coach, is doing the best job of jockeying in the American League He had young Bob Feller s0 high the um- pires had to go out and ask Art to lay off. Red-face dept.: In Chicago late Baturday night, Postmaster Gene eral Farley called Joe McCarthy and asked for a ticket to Sunday's double-header . . . McCarthy, half asleep, thought he was being ribbed by a base ball writer and told the Postmaster General where to get off . .. Imagine his surprise when Mr. Farley visited the ' Yankee bench the next afternoon and apol- ogized for calling up so late . . . It Mike Jacobs really wants an opponent for Hemry Armstrong, Jackie Wilson of Pittsburgh is evalabia, Don Gover | NU this pic i 3 s LEY, N. J., July 28—Tony Galento of Newark ture was snapped in the fourth round of their bout here last night. survived this storm, but finally was kayoed in the eighth. (left) had Al Ettore on the ropes when The Philadelphian —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. BRITISHERS GLUM OVERNET FUTURE !Invaders, Washed Up at Sea Bright, Bemoan Lack of Davis Cup Talent. EA BRIGHT, N. J, July 28— England has relinquished its grip on the Davis Cup. and it may be some time before Brit- ish hands hold again the coveted tro- | phy symbolic of world tennis su-| premacy That is the opinion of the nomadic Oxford-Cambridge net s=quad, which stopped off here to participate in the fiftieth annual invitation tennis tour- nament of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club. ‘While top-seeded pl: rs in both the men's and women's divisions ad- vanced to the quarter-finals yester-| | day, the Britons received glumly the | news that Frankie Parker of Spring| Lake, N. J, had clinched the Davis | Cup with a straight-set triumph over Charles E. Hare. “Well, we're all washed up.” com- mented tow-headed J. D. Anderson of Cambridge as a report of Parker's success overseas reached the locker room. Four Show Promise. "AND I'm afraid we're washed up for some time.” added George | T. M. Zarifl, the serious Oxford stu- dent and doubles partner of Anderson “England’s prospects are none too bright,” Zarifi continued. “At the present time there are only four young players who show promise of becom- ing Davis Cup material. | “They are E. J. Filby, C. M. Jones, | Marvin Deleford and Roland Shayes. The four are about on a par with Hare.” Anderson and Zarif lost to Don Mc- Neill of Oklahoma City and Charles Mattmann of New York in first-round doubles. Jirio Yamagishl, the acrobatic Jap- anese champion, apparently was head- ed for a semi-final battle with top- seeded Bobby Riggs of Los Angeles. Cheerful Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, the sensational Polish net star, carried the lone foreign banner in the wom- en's division, and her game indicated an easy advance to the finals and a possible fourth meeting with blond Alice Marble, the United States na- tional champion. Yamagishi Meets Mulloy. YAMAGXSHI, lone male foreigner left, was scheduled to meet Gard- ner Mulloy of Miami, as the quarter- finals got under way. Riggs was paired with Frank D. Guernsay, jr., of Or- lando, Fla. Wilmer L. Allison of Aus- tin, Tex., former national champion, drew Joseph R. Hunt of Los Angeles, ninth ranking United States star. J. Gilbert Hall, the New York veteran, was slated to clash with Frank X. Shields, former Davis Cup star. Miss Jedrzejowska's quarter-final test brought her face to face with Carolin Babcock, fifth ranking United States player. Other matches in the round of eight pitted Miss Marble against Helen Pedersen of Stamford, Conn.; Gracyn Wheeler of Santa Monica, Calif., against Mrs. Marjorie G. Van Ryn of Austin, Tex, and Marilynn McRae of Little Rock, Ark., against stocky Dor- othy Bundy of Los Angeles. In yesterday's only upset, John Mc- Diarmid of Chicago, winner here in 1936, was erased by Hall, 6—0, 3—8. 6—4. Griffs’ Records BATTING. B.R. H. 2| > 3 o & . H1 'z o 291134300 D10 S0 b S0} O CoOMHBRD D= DL BRI B 300" - 190 A DI, EEETRETRCEIPCRE T REe D e B BRI O i bt o o el 0052001 A DI ARD DB o e 23190100 b i e USRS SO0 BA RGBS TGS D R BRE AR A A D DR D o ©229520200300@mR WS 5 £l ] Sl 3 5o 35% T e..‘.. PR con i - L2 gl ooucals e ootma3d ©omoa 3w 8 BY BURTON HAWKINS. CARCELY out of amateur ranks, Lou Gevinson, this sector’s only current hope of traveling an: where in particular along fisti- ana’s bumpy trail, apparently merely is one step from a world championship | featherweight fight with Petey Sarron. | Unless Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn's brand of humor suddenly has soured. | the rotund pairer-offer wasn't kidding when he cabled Jimmy Erwin, Sarron's manager, an offer of $6.500 for the | swarthy Sarron to jeopardize his crown | CTTen som T aTra g against the winner of the Gevinson- Joey Archibald 10-round scrap Monday night at Griffith Stadium. Although Erwin is apt to request a | boost in his end of the gate, there is more than a sneakirg suspicion he will be in a receptive mood for Ahearn's offer. Even Erwin must have realized it is about time Petey was doing something about defending that title, And when you can put yvour champ in the ring against a fighter who, on | the basis of his five professional ap- pearances, is the most overrated ever League Statistics JULY 28, 1937, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 6: Chicago, 5 New York. f: Detroit. 5 (11 _innings), ia d, 3. Phlladeint 1la ph 8t. Lo 2 -——-qponaq -==- uowsoq -~ *puviaaly o830 uosmasTM --320x mIN ===~ pujuek wwsp —7 6107 81 9 T GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Chi. at Wash.. 3:15. Chi. at Wash. 3:15 Drtroit at New York. Detroit at New York. Louis at Boston. Cleve. t " Cleve. at Phila. T ab e 8t. Louis at Boston. NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. 8t. Louis. : New York, 8. 4: Philadeiphia, 1. Cincinnati, 3; Boston, 2. STANDING OF THE CLI T S B | mudeperny, wwep| C-usanagig ===~ puiuem TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. New York at 8t. L. New York at 8t. L. L Bkin. at Chicago. inc. Boston at_ Cinc. Phila. at Pitts. Phila. at Pitts. to swing here, and stand an excellent chance of drawing a $25,000 gate, it's excellent business. Just a Chance to Climb. PHO\"IDING Lou trims Archibal and there is some doubt along that line. he still would not rate a crack at the championship. He actual- 1y has had three fizhts, losing one and winning two against fellows who don't comprise the elite of the feather- weight division. Toss out his arguments with Al Schaeffer and Benny Wittler. because the first was opposition of the most feeble dype and the second had all the earmarks of a rehearsal splash. His record, therefore, shows a decision over Joe Temes, a loss to Johnny Pena and a knockout conquest of the same Pena. Add Archibald to that list, if Lou does, and you would have a con- tender with only four professional fights behind him, one of which went the wrong way. Gevinson, and a.more modest. like- | "nble fellow in the boxing business is hard to locate, has been overestimated. | Local ringworms revised their opinion of his punching prowess when h'i failed to drop Temes and further altered their viewpoint when Pena, a good fighter, but far removed from anything approaching greatness, weathered Lou's most potent punches to capture a decision. Lou’s popularity is based chief- Iy on the dynamite he packs in each fist. If he lands solidly, there is reason to believe almost any featherweight in the game will collapse. Lou hasn't been connecting frequently enough to warrant a crack at the crown, There is some reason to believe g Gevinson's popularity isn't what it was a few months ago. He was booed heartily when he stepped into the ring to be introduced at the last show here, | but he could remedy that with a vic- | tory over Archibald, a pompadored s Providence bantamweight who has| wormed his way into the collective | My heart of local fandom with five suc- | cessive sensational performances, Difficult to Erase. OU could restore his popularity by trimming Joey. but that record still will stand some expert doctoring | before he can enter a title match| without blushing. As an amateur fighter he was tops. As a professional | he still must prove he is even a prom- ising prospect. Archibald may erase Lou's vision of GRID FANSELECT |Al Got Up Here, But Later Went Down to Stany. Y SAFE“UNI_ESS PROSLURE STAR Don, Parker and Mako, Who ‘ Regained Cup, Have Yet . to Reach Peak. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Bports Writer. WIMBLEDON, England, July 28 — Another golden era for American ten nis such as it enjoyed during the Til- den dynasty seemed virtually assured today if J. Donald Budge doesn't hearken to the blandishments of pro= fessional tennis promoters, The tall, 22-year-old Californian, who was primarily responsible for the United States regaining custody of the Davis Cup, said he isn't going to re- linquish his amateur status and has but one desire—to keep the famous trophy in the land that donated it The cup, symbol of world team tene nis supremacy, remained in the United States seven years after the two Bills— Tilden and Johnston—wrested it from Australia’s possession, and if Budge, now sitting atop the tennis heap, o, tinues to defend it there's no apparent reason why it shouldn't remain for another seven, Germany Biggest Threat. "THE trio of Budge, his fellow Cali- fornian, Gene Mako, and slightly built Frankie Parker of Mii- waukee, who took the away from Great Britain, are comparative young- sters, still to reach tne peak of tncir tennis powers, and there’s nobody in sight to vanquish them Their sternest opposition next year undoubtedly will come from Germany's p: Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Heinrich Henkel, whom they finally subdued in the interzone final after an old-fashioned bear fight, Von Cramm played probably the greatest tennis of his life last week against Budge, but he lost. He won't ever beat Budge again, now. Henkel ranks with Parker as a fine player— but not with Budge. The history of the Davis Cup shows it belongs to the country that has its Budge. All a nation has to do to hold the Cup is to win two singles and one doubles match. Budge from now until he loses his present game or turns pro- fessional can win two singles. One Weakness Protected. UDGE'S only weakness is a racing drive td his forehand that makes him reach far out. But it takes a superlative player to feed him that sort of ball consistenly. Mako gave him admirable doubles support in beating Germany and En land, but the notion persists the Budge right now could take almost ar serviceable player as his partner an lick any doubles pair in the world It remains to be seen whether Budg appetite for amateur tennis will rc main keen in the face of all t conversation he is bound to hear ab money in tennis in the coming mor Official Score CHICAGO. H £ e Totals *Two out when winning run ‘WASHINGTON. Almada, cf. - b, > | 5355050m0m v [ 52300 Totals __ Chicago = 210 002 000 WASHINGTON 41 000 00 Runs batted in—Bonura (2). Simmo (2). Stome. Myer (21 Hives (2), K Sewell Two-base hit—Simmons ' Three- base hit—Appling. Home run—Bon Sacrifices—Stone. 'Rieney. Berger, Ap: t EY 5in & championship scrap and Freddie | o Miller, who meets Sarron Saturday in South Africa, may jam the machinery also. The Archibald-Gevinson match is the finest matural in many months, but still it strictly is local. Ahearn may argue, and rightly so, that Hobo Williams' record was no more impressive, yet he performed rather capably against Freddie Steele, world middleweight - champ, before being dropped in the eighth round. We don’t begrudge Gevinson his ap- portunity. We merely are saying he doesn't deserve the chance, despite the fact the match probably would draw a good gate. . EW YORK-PENN. Scranton, 11—5: Trenton. 2—4. Wilkes-Barre, 5—2: Hazelton, 4—0. Only games scheduied. PIEDMONT. Portsmouth, 8: Winston-Salem, 7. rham. 7. Norfolk. 3 Richmond. 7: Rocky Mount. 6. | mers and Ba Stars Yesterda By the Associated Press. Red Rolfe and Red Ruffing. Yan) —former's eleventh-inning homer ® man on whipped Tigers. 6-5. la went route for_thirteenth win Red Lucas, Pirates—Held Phillles aix_hits for 4-1 victory Joe Medwick. Cardinals—Ninth-in ning homer gave Kt. Louis #-8 tr umph over Giants. Prank Demaree. Cubs—Led nine-rit attack with single and two doubles 2- Dodgers were beaten. 5-2. Bill Werber. Athletics—Hix double i1 eighth drove in two runs that whipped Indians, 4-3. Lou Koupal, Browns. and JMmm? Foxx. Red Sox—former scattered nine hits to check Sox. R-5. latter had perfect day at bat with four-bagser and pair of doubles. Lee Grissom and kl Scarseily. Rede —Crissom fanned 10. gave up walk and only 4 hits to _halt Bees. 3. lat- ter's dn]é\':l';"":‘hl homer with man en Fovided winnine marein P Buddy "Myer. Senators—singled tn ninth to drive in run that beat White 8ox. 6-5. Buddy Lewis Breaks Hitting Streak Bat Maker of 12 Safeties in 15 Times Up Goes to Plate Today With Borrowed Stick. OHN KELLY LEWIS, 20-year- old third baseman of the Nats, began today with mixed emotions . . . He woke up to find himself hailed as the hottest hitter in all base ball at the mo- ment, with 12 hits in his last 15 times at bat . . .and he reported to the ball park wondering what fortune was to befall him when he steps to the plate against the White Sox with s borrowed bat . . . for yesterday, in getting his fourth hit of the day to start the ninth-inning rally, he broke his favorite (and only) bat. Buddy, it develops, infermed the ball club office that he needed bats before the last Western trip was begun , . . but his order was not placed and he went through the ’ was that he broke yesterday . .. “Anyway,” grinned Buddy, “it doesn't owe me anything. 've been using that same bat for two years now” . . . He doesn’t know whose bat he will borrow . . . and not until yesterday did the ball club place his order for his own type of stick. Local base ball writers stepped into the press box yesterday, after the Western swing, and were pleas- antly surprised . . . The manage- ment built & new wooden floor, which now enables the scribes to actually see the game without hav- ing to sit on a splintery soft-drink box . . . Thanks, Mr. G. Vice President Jack Garner, the No. 1 Nat fan, was out to greet the lal Umpire Harry Geisel pulled s new one when Mel Almada lifted & foul in the sixth inning and a customer sitting in & box near the plats obligingly got out of the way so that Luke Sewell could lean over the concrete barrier and catch it .« . Geisel walked over and handed the well-behaved gent a ball as a reward for not trying to snatch it. F.E.B. BASE BALL Washington vs. Chicago AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomerrew—Chioage, 3:15 P.M. TODAY 3:15 PM.