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8 PORTS. a HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, AUGUST 1, 1937—PART ONE. BPORTS. B—7 Ringer Aces Paired for Action : Carleton Stars, Cubs Boost Lead EVENING STAR TOURNEY WITH FEUDS BRISTLES Maryland Group Starts Virginia and McLean Invitation Events to Fill Week. IXTEEN of the keenest horse- shoe flippers in Maryland to- morrow night will fire the open- ing shots in the ninth annual Evening Star tournament for the championships of Washington, Vir- ginla and Maryland and for one of the most-prized ringer titles in the country—that of champion of Metro- politan Washington Fighting 1t out for the Metropoli- tan crown will be 16 top-flighters of the eliminations which open tomor- row night, on the attractive six-court, electric-lighted layout of the Munici- pal Plyground Department at McMil- lan Park, overlooking the McMillan Reservoir. Two State titles will be settled this week. The Maryland event will be played out to the final tomorrow and the championship scrap fought Tuesday night. On Thursday and Friday the Old Dominion pitchers will have it out. On Monday and Tuesday of the following week the Washington eliminations will be staged and on the succeeding Thurs- day and Friday the piece de resist- ance of the tournament, the Metro- politan play-offs, will take place. Play each evening will start at 7:30. Jarrell-Fleshman Feud Hot. HE semi-finalists of the sectional eliminations and the winners of a consolation play-off of defeated quarter finalists will be eligible for.the | Metropolitan. A sixteenth place, here- tofore occupied by the defending | champion, will be given the highest | kcorer in the qualifying round who doesn't make his into the big | &crap through the eliminations. Last year's Metropolitan winner, Bill Moore, has left the city. He also was the Washington champ. Temple Jarrell of Hyattsville, fending champion, and man of Rogers Heights. 1834, will go to post joint favorites | in the Maryland joust Jarrell is seeded at the top of the upper bracket and Fleshman at the bottom of the lower. so that if they meet it will be | in the final. In the qualifying round of 100 shoes, Jarrell tosed 57 ringe red 201 points and Fleshman 50 ringers and 192 points. howo are capable of much de- Lee Flesh- winner in me | Brown (i61-35) Firing Tomorrow, With carefully selected flippers. Henry Huschke, McLean tournament chair- man, lowing pairings for the event: Dead- pan Frye vs. Joe Merryman, Temple Jarrell vs. Joe Walsh, Lee Fleshman vs. Bill Woodfield and Harry Saunders vs. Boo Henson. Frye will be called upon to show his repertoire of fancy shots. He is saild to have developed recently into quite a wizard. Maryland, A Jarrell (201 st 2-3. 7),vs, R Kennard d Wi ) 85~ Waish T Bonane (164241 Lem Sales (190-3?) " vs. U. GriMith (143-3) C. Mullinix (161-74) vs. Clarence Stunkel (158-45). Wade broke (144-31) vs. Lee Fleshman (19 Virginia, August 5-6. (Ravmond L Five (237.74) vs. 8. Pet- 2 Swartz (140-38) vs. -51) vs, Ed_Henry (1 Danberser ] v 1322310, Red n (1 37), Charles ‘va. Clay- | ton’C. Henson (211-67). August 9-10. vs. G. Washinston Beyer Edgar 47) Vs, Woodfleld (183-54 H. Ronning 4 B. Heleker (183 Elvin_Shank (166:45), Harry (154-30) v, Mel Johnson (180-4X) vs €171-14). Tom Collina (1 Vs A Snvder (136-31). Francis Battiste (1A% 44) vs. P Pope (142-32). Douglas New- combe (164-40) Harry Baunders CRR-50). John Gourvenac BOSOX GAIN GROUND IN THIRD PLACE WAR Defeat Bengals, 12 to 1, to Come Within a Game of Victims. McNair Has Big Day. By the Associated Press. OSTON, July 31.—Pounding two | Detroit pitchers for 15 hits, the | Red Sox slugged out a 12-to-1 victory | today to climb within one game of the third-place Tigers. Fred “Lefty” Ostermueller held the | igers to six hits, three of them by | Pete Fox, who scored their only run with a homer in the sixth. Landing on “Lefty” Jake Wade with a barrage of hits, the Red Sox scored icularly Fleshman, won the championship Metropolitan Singles percentage of 62. | er tournament than | shot 50 per cent hed third behind e of Washington in League wit Sarrell, a far be league perfo ringers and Francis Batt the league. Between Frye and Henson ])A\(yEF‘Ol S rivals of Jarrell and | Fleshman are long Joe Merry- | man of Bladensburg, former State | champion: Lem Sales of Rogers | Heights, who qualified with 190-52 and Joe Walsh, University of Mary- | land student, who won the 1937 Dn-l trict intercollesiate title in a tourna- ment sponsored by The Star. Horseshoe interest is keener in Afarvland and Virginia, but it is likely that all seats will be taken, if standing room isn’t at a premium, when the Old Dominions g to it, for their tour- nament very 1y will bring together the famous Deadpan Raymond Frye of Orkney Springs and Calyton “Boo’ Henson of Arlington, defending title ! holder. | Prye. of world championship cali- ber, won all-tournament qualifying honors with a score of 237, a record | for this section of the country, which included 74 ringers. Henson ran gecond with 221 points and 67 ringers, proving that Boo, who has lain low | 0 during most of the season, competing | In no league or tournament, has no thought of giving up his title u)lhou(' a scrap. The Virginla party is so much a Frye-Henson affair that the entry fell three short of filling the! 16 places. | Henry's Return Pleases. PLEASANT surprise was the re- turn of Ed Henry to the Vir-| ginia tournament. This colorful pitcher, seriously ill a while back, was thought washed up for the sea- ®on. Henry and Hoot Danzberger, Washington-Lee High School athlete, are expected to give Frye and Hen- son their only competition. Many new faces will appear in the ‘Washington tournament, notable among them that of young Bill Wood- fleld, son of the secretary of the District Horseshoe Pitchers Associ- ation, who blossomed into a star in about a third the time it requires| usually to attain high proficiency in the game. He's been at it a year. Bill topped the Washington qualifiers with 205 points, including 59 ringers. ‘Two former District champions are | in the flield in the persons of John | Gourvenac and Harry Saunders. | p Gourvenac is seeded in the upper draw with Bill Woodfield and Saun- ders in the lower with Mel Johnson, who, like Bill, has come to the front | this Summer. The Maryland and Virginia play- offs this week promise entertainment in large measures for the hundreds of folk who draw a kick from the sport as spectators, but for sheer skill neither will approach generally the McLean, Va., carnival invitation tournament to be held next Wednesday night, starting at 7:30. Lots of Class Here. 'rm: class of The Star champion- ! ships will be gathered in this, | four runs in the first inning | & perfect day at bat, George Gill, tall young right-hander, came to Wade's rescue in the second with two men on base and none out, but | the Boston bombers continued their heavy hitting tactics against him. With three sinzles and a double for | Eric McNair led in their fourth consecutive and second in a row over the Sox victory Detroit. Mike Higgins, with three singles, drove in three runs. while lPld-ofl‘ man Buster Mills connected with a pair of doubles and a single In chalk- % last night announced the fol- | Homer Standings By the Associated Press. Yesterday's homers—Di Maggio, Yankees, 2; Dickey, Yankees, 1; West, Browns, 1; Clift, Browns, 1; Fox, Tigers, 1; Fletcher, Bees, 1; Jensen, Pirates, 1; Scarsella, Reds, 1. The leaders—Di Maggio, Yan- kees, 30; Foxx, Red Sox, 26; Tros- Ky, Indians, 23: Greenberg, Tigers, 23; Medwick, Cardinals, 21; Geh- rig, Yankees, 20; Ott, Giants, 20. League totals—American, 485; National, 412. Total, 897. BIG HOMER WASTED WHEN REDLEGS BOW Scarella Hits Four- Bag-ger With Two On in Late Rally, but Phils Cop by 10-8. ( July 31.--Scoring taree runs on Les Scarella’s | ninth-inning homer, a Cincinnati rally fell short today and the Reds lost a free-hitting contesi to the Phils, 10 to 8. The Quaker City cellar-dwellers garnered a total of 18 safeties off Red hurlers, knocking Bill Hallahan from the box after four of five runs had crossed the plate in the fourth Young Jake Mooty was touched for six and Gene Schott gave up the bal- ance. Bucky Walters, who started ing up only his second win of the sea- | son against five defeats, Ostermuelier contributed two singles, driving in three runs. Detroit Fox rf elbert < n hrir. n Boston. AB. 1 i 7 Laabs cf Tebbe's.c Wade.p Gillp B 1 3 3 i 4 q 0 01 Octerern 4 0 Totals 38515 27 14 000 001 00— 1 450 020 $0x 12 Fox. Mills (1), Cronin, Foxx. Hiz- | (1) Chanman Ostermuelier _Grlbert. Gehringer. Tebhe! i« Runs batted_in Totals 1 | Detroit Boston Run: 50415 Home riuns—Fox 1 ils McNair. Chapman Sacrifices-—Cramer. De Sautels_ Double plays —Gehringer o Gelbert to Greenbers ?). Hig2ins 10 MrNair to Foxx. MeNalr 1 Gronin to Foxx n bases—Detrojl on. X_Bases on b n\ —.0f Wade. 1 A BT o X By Wade 1 by Gil Hits-Off Wade n seeond ) off G Ing pitcher—Wade. Unpires—Mesers. § riarty Johnston and Owens. Attendance. 7.200. STRATTON PITCHES “Sto- Scores Fourteenth Victory of Sea- | son—Sewell Drives in Both Counters. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 31—Monte | Stratton, hurling a 7-hit game, | pitched the Chicago White Sox to a | 2-0 triumph in the opening clash of | & three-game serfes today. The victory was the fourteenth of | the year for the Sox right hander. Luke Sewell drove in both runs of the game with singles in the fourth and ninth innings. Cheo. Phila. A i 8 Moses.rf i Finnev.1b Werb'r. ohn'n i Hill.ef Peters.2b Parker.ss *Nelson Huston.ss Brucker.c 2 +Dean Conroy.c Kelevp Rothr'ck Totals 40 ) Tm,.]- E “Barted for Parker in el iBatted for Bricker In eianih. 'Bnned for Kelley in ninth. 000 100 001—0 Bhifndeionia 000 000 000, Runs—Radclifl. Appling. Error- Runs batted in—Sewell hits—Moses, Sumie—is Str'ton.p Bonura. Etolen bases—Sewell. Sacrifice—Kreevich Double plays—Werber to Parker to Fin- nes: Appling to Haves to Bonura on ‘bases—Chicago_ 15: Phil i Bases on balls—Off K, truck out— atton. 2 by Keliey. s Umbires o esurs. Dintseen. Koris e Philadelphia, d until he walked Cuyler to start the Reds’ ninth-in- | ning uprising. Sy Johnson replaced | him. Goodman's single and Scarel- ! la’s circuit clout into the right-field | bleachers followed. Hugh walked Kampouris, but Job by taking Mye:s' h AB. Cincin't Br Jaraan Yo finished the beunce. [ AB 1 if tarsa Tatey cf Afwood ¢ Waltersp 4 Johnson.p (1 Mulcah'p 0 Totals 47 1 *Ran for Lomh 7. D ed for Schot Phitadelohia Cincinnati Runs—Browne. harein : odman. S in ninth arsellu Hifey. worth. Mvers. Cuyler Norris. Atwood. Lomb. Runs batted in-—Browne Kamvot Camill Three-hase hits Homae run H'\Hun\n Mooty! Sch PLAY RUBBER CONTEST Carrs and Arts Clash Today in | Fifth Soft Ball Scrap. Carr Bros. & Boswell, Inc., crack soft ball team of Hyattsville, will en- tertein the Art's Diner ten, winner of the first-half flag in a two-out-of- three-game play-off with Carr Bros. several weeks ago, today in a crucial second-half contest. The game was scheduled for Ma- gruder Park at 2:45 pm. but due to the soft condition of the field, prob- ably will be shifted to the Hyattsville High School diamond. Art’s Diners and Carr Bros. have split four games with former winning 3102 2to1,and Carr Bros. prevailing 5to4and1to0. SEEKS UNLIMITED FOE. Movie Operators’ unlimited nine is seeking a strong opponent for a game to be played on their diamond today. the fleld consisting as usual of eight and Hubbard. Attendance—6,000. Time of game—1:45 Call Leone at Metropolitan 3984 before 1pm. Bosox Zip Gained From Griff Deal Wanes Bees Hit Too Puffily to Emulate Braves of '14—Medwick Tries for Stick Record. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 31—Dia- mond dribbles: Theyre still howling over the No. 1 boner Lou Gehrig pulled on the radio the other night. When asked what made him such a big strong “mans,” named the rival cereal. . .. The interviewer tried to patch it up in his next question, but Lou again missed the cue, like the sig- nal for a pitch out, and again gave the opposition cereal the plug . . . Wonder if he got the check? . . . " . .. the ex-all-America from Duke really is powdering that apple . . . Jim Winford has been placed on the voluntary retired list for the Cardinals . . . And those pitching woes are bothering Frankie Prisch more than ever. Hotter even than the argument over the relative ability of Ducky Medwick and Joe Di Maggio, is the talk of Medwick's chances of breaking Rogers Hornsby's .424 season batting record . . . which the Rajah set way back in '24. Those who think the Boston Looks as though Ace Parker will gtick with the Athletics this time ) Bees can make history repeat and duplicate the cellar-to-pennant drive of the 191¢ Braves are over- s looking the fact that the Bees haven't enough batting punch to dent a cream puff. The zip and pep the Red Sox were showing after that deal with the Senators is all gone again . .. They don't show enough fire now to light a cigarette . . . The grepevine says Tony Lazzeri will be managing a big league club no later than 1939, Major League scouts might take & gander at Bob Logan of In- dianapolis, Alta Cohen of Toledo and Forrest Pressnell of Milwau- kee . . . who are doing some classy flinging in the association . . . and is there any reaszon the Cardinals can't bring up Max Macon, who has won 13 games for Columbus? ) | Mulcahy | | dozen nits, Hot After District Title BILL WOODFIELD, Who. hardly more than a neophyte in the game, has risen this Summer to the top- flight. He will be one of the Javorites in the D. C. section of The Star’s championships, which open tomorrow night at McMillan Park. Woodfield will pitch in the McLean, Va., car- nival all-star event Wednes- dm/ —Star Slafl Ph()[n HAINES IS MASTER AS CARDS MOVE UP ¢ Hurls Gas House Crew to 4-to-3 Win Over Dodgers and Into Third-Place Tie. By the Associated Press. gT. LOUIS, July 31.—-Grandpa Jesse | O Haines and his venerable knuckle- | ball fooled the Dodgers in the pinches today and the Cardinals topped the | 4 to series opener. he comparer Brooklyns, 3, in their current Although was tagged for a to the eight the Gas House gang was able to collect | off fat Freddv zsimmons, Haines to preserve his lead and pitch the | Cards into a tie for third place in the National League The Cards scored two runs in the second on a pair of doubles by Ducky Medwick and Don Gutteridge and an infield out by Leo Durocher, and sewed up the game with another two-run in the sixth on a double by Moore and singles by Johnny wn Don Padgett and Gutteridge H St Lonis. AB.H O. A P IMorecta 1" 470 Dur'her ss 2 Owenc I Haines.p 1 for Fitzsimmons in seventh. for Henshaw in ninth a0 00 100 020007 00y Manush. Pheins Medwick. Guttes seito. " Runs batted Durocher. Dan:el. Manush, = Two-base hils ridge. Phelps 45 Gulterage. | Double plavs-—Gutteridge S. Martin to Mize Durocher to 8. Martin to Mize to S Marfin. Durocher to Mize kiyn X: St. Louis, —Off_ Fitzsimmonx. 1 Haines. Hi Lavazetto, to off 1 Struck out— Immons Off Fitzeim- mons. 7 in § innings: off Henshaw. 1 in innings. Losing _pitcher—Filzsimmons Umpires—Stewart. Barr and Stark. Time —1°45. Official puid attendance—3.317. TAKOMA TIGERS READY. ‘Takoma Tigers challeng> any strong unlimited nine to a game today. Call Grorgm 5499 HOPEFULS BATTLE Three Section B Clubs in D. C. League Have Tough Games on Today. HE championship aspirations of three clubs will assume more definite form following games today in section B of the Na- tional City Unlimited League, with Georgetown facing New Deal Men's Shop in the feeture tilt at Fairlawn No. 1, at 3 o'clock. Georgetown, tied with New Deal and Read's Pharmacy for the lead with two victories in as many starts in the second half, will employ Tommy Doonis, all-high Tech twirler, while New Deal will counter with James De Vers or Frank Anderson. Pigs Battle Gordons. "THE feature game in section A of the uniimited division will find Dixie Pig diamonders Gordon's Cafeteria on the Mount o'clock. Paul Moran will pitch for Dixie Pig, and Willie Silverman for Gordon’s. George's Radio nine, undefeated in second half comvetition, will stack up Jjunior division game on the South Ellipse at 1 o'clock, with Toby Bright flipping for the Radiomen and Dewey Poole hurling for No. 4. Following s the schedule: UNLIMITED. SECTION A Dixie Pigs v&. Gordon'a Cafeteria Rainicr High 8chool Rose Liquor vs. Anacostia Motors Mount East Heurich's Bouth Ellipse Klein's Ta. All games vs. Union Printers, n draws hye, rtatipm SECTION B. White Haven vs. H. B. poned 200th Const Guard Art Rainier Radio. Mount school. 1 R Cardinals, n Leary. post- 055 Jewelers Manument_Lot Read's Pharmacy v Turkey Thicket dia Randolph sireets no seoiietown A C lawn, No. 1. 4 pm JUNIORS. Boss ond and . Fair- Police vs. Georges . George Pharmacy Quincy and Vs, Petworth, FEast Club No. 5 vs. Nick Bom- bre. 1 pm MIDGETS. Georse Deoud Police Boys Police Bovs 1 BANKING ON PAUL DEAN Rickey Sure Pitcher 2 Needs Only Confidence to Be 0. K. ST. LOUIS, July 31 (#).—General | Manager Branch Rickey of the Cardi- | nals turned practical psychologist on | | Paul Dean today, wager it,” then efter losing a “because Dean wouldn't ecall said there is an excellent chance Paul will come back next year as good as ever. o let you pitch five balls to me,” | | was tightest with men on the bases Rickey suggested to young Dean dur- | speed ball se: ing & practice session, “and I'll catch | )ou with my bare hands. If I drop | | more than one of the five, I'll give you $100. If I catch four of the five, you give me $100” In other words Rickey offered to wager Paul couldn't “burn him out.” But the idea didn't work—Paul ex- plained he didn't want to throw that | hard | He has not yet shown the speed that was his when he was a great pitcher, but I think he can throw with his old speed whenever he gets back his confidence.” Rickey added. Griffs’ Re('ords BATTING. <) Kuhel Almada Blueze Mver Millies W. Ferrell | Weaver Abpleton Conen De Shong Chase a Jacobs _ 000 1 G8.CG.W. I \ i \ Jarah- tangling with | Rainier High School diamond at 3| against Police Boys' Club No. 4 in a | Tucei's Plumbers | | | BEN CANTWELL. me to do some infield chores. BLONDY RYAN. Both recently were brought up from minor league clubs. Cantwell to help relieve the pressure on the pitching staff and -—Wide World Photo. ASE BALL at Griffith Stadium swings slightly | side today when the Indians | send Rookie Bob Feller | against Washington's Rookie Bucky Jacobs in the final of a three-game series, Uncle Clark Griffith, Feller and may be pitching Jacobs. presumably to draw Richmend trade, but there is a sus- picion Manager Steve O'Neill may have stipulated that Jacobs must pitch 2gainst his Feller. This, however, is neither here nor there except from a circus standpoint Manager Bucky Harris intends to have Monte Weaver and Syd Cohen warmed up in the bull-pen should the going become too rough for Ja- cobs. Skipper Harris is eyeing fifth place. now held by the Tribe, and he is determined to sweep this series if | possible. who asked for stuck with him, is First Start for Feller Here. TODA\ S start will be Feller's first in the Capital since he came up to | the American League a year ago. Bob | has appeared in relief roles without distinguishing himself. This vear, as the highest paid rookie in | base ball history, he has been held | back by a sore arm and a brood of mothering Cleveland executives, So "|far the record of the 18-vear-old nsation, who makes $15,- 000 per season, is one victory as against four defeats | “This also will be Jacobs' first start | Bucky fs a skinny little right-hander | who came up from the Universi | Richmond. He has none of the s ! of Peller, but throws a fair college curve and shows a change of pace Game time is 3 o'clock, ICK FERRELL, his injured right hand swathed in bandages, watched the first half of the game vesterday from & box seat near the Washington dugout. Thereafter he seemed to have disappeared. If he changed his seat for luck it ceriainly worked. Travis' Streak Ended. | WWILLIS HUDLIN stopped Cevil Travis, end in doing so ruined Cece’s hitting streak of 12 straight games. Willis used both his head and Lhmh‘ to do the ck. In the fourth inning ‘Travis rammed a hard shot line to the box. It struck Hudlin high on the thigh and dropped at his feet, where he picked it up for an easy put- out at first base. & busy gent the first He threw out six | Nats. In fact, over this stretch, only |two balls were hit past the infleld 1bv the Nats. And Buddy Lewis, out on | two flies, produced both of them. UDLIN and Pete Appleton gave a | real exhibition of pitching those first four innings. in to the circus' on af Rookies Feller, Jacobs Clash Today as Tribe-Nat Set Ends; Hudlin Snaps Travis’ Streak BOB FELLER. BUCKY JACOBS SANDLOT PENNANT| Vet Called to Aid Giants 'PTCHER, AT PeA BEATS GIANTS, Chicago in Front by Five Games After Hubbell Is Soundly Drubbed, By the Associated Press, HICAGO. July 31 —Tex Carle- ton baffled the Giants like & Houdini today with a three- hit pitching masterpiece that, gave the Cubs a 7-to-1 victory over the New Yorkers and boosted their National League lead to five full games Hurling one of the best games of his career, Carleton pitched perfect ball from the end of the first to the start of the ninth inning. Not a man reached first base off him in that | stretch, and only two batters wers | able to get the ball out of the infield. While he was breaking the barks | of the Giant swingers, the Cubs landed | on Carl Hubbell for a dozen hits, and, after taking a 4-0 edge by the fif inning, never left any doubt as to th | outcome, Hartnett Leads to Win. "THE victory was the second in & vow for the Cubs in the ct series and their second straight over Hubbell. Only a week ago in New York they belted him to the showers, Led by Gabby Hartnett, who hit a three-run double and a single and drove in four runs, the Cubs had a | cinch against “King Carl Except | for Frank Demaree, every man hit safely at least once. The win turned the hitherto tight National League fight into a rout as the Cubs, at full strength and wih one of the best balanced pitching staffs in the circuit, headed down the stretch with a commanding lead. From the start, it was obvious that Hubbell was not right. and that Car | ton was at the top of his { The | Cubs' ace gave up a double to Join | Moore in the first inning, and from then on to the end of the e was the complete boss. In with the victory obviously he eased up and gave a pa bles to Blondy Ryvan and Whitehead for the Giants' on! Start on Hubbell Farly. IEA TIME, the Cubs found Hul bell for their fi second frame, when 3 tripled and came home on Hartnett's infield out. In the fifth. with bases loaded on Stan Hack's s & forceout and a pair of walks, Hart- nett stepped up and unloaded them Wwith a smashing double to center fleld. A walk to Billy Herman and con- secu singles by Hartnett and Bill Jurges added another run in the seve enth, and in the eighth they wound up with another pair of tallies on Carleton’s double, Augie Galan's bunt hit, Hack’s single to third, a sacrifice and a wild pitch Altogether, Hubbe was charged wit b wild pitch and fanned eight. ton walked only one man, ninth. and fanned five walked fou in the Hubbell.p ot Tota! B New York 000 000 001 Caicaso _ olu 030 12x Runs —Rvar [s Herman (i Hack ns Har Goetz Ofmcial paid PINCH HIT BY MAYO | BEATS BUCS IN 9TH them they faced only 25 batters, and | the only item that prevented perfec- tion was Lary's single to open the | game Appleton retired 12 of the first | 13 hitters and Hudlin all of the first | 12, FrES . NET TITLE FOR DIBBLE. DARLINGTON, S. C.. July 31 (#). —Wortham Dibble of Columbia de- feated Lykes Boykin, Presbyterian Col- lege ace, 6—2, 6—1, 6—4, today in the | men’'s singles finals of the annual South Carolina tennis tournanent, BLACK SOX PLAY FROGS. ‘Washington Black Sox, local colored | pro diamonders, clash with the Fred- ericksburg Frogs in a single game to- Be'ween | day at 2:30 p.m. in Fredericksburg, Va. Wild Men of Borneo Ancestors of Modern Southpaw Technical, Physiological, Anthropomorphblogical, Other Aspects of Fork-handers Explained. BY JOHN LARDNER. LETTER signed “Inquisitive” —which I believe, frankly, to be a phoney name—has come to hand, asking about the technical, physiological, anthro- pomorphological, clinical, and po= litical differences between a south= paw pitcher and a right-hander. “I always have been left-handed myself,” writes Inquisitive unblush- ingly, “and never thought much about it until I ba7an to read in the sports pages about the peculiarities of left-handed pitchers. Then I heard somewhere that Carl Hubbell was ‘a southpaw, just a right-Hand- er in his heart.’ Is there anything Hubbell can do about his condition? Is there anything I can do about mine, Is daffiness in left-handed people confined to pitchers? Is it cureable? Is it hereditary? How does it show itself? And what makes you right-handers think you are £0 smart? Answer these questions one at a time, sticking closely to the facts and using words of one syl- lable as much as possible.” This is a large order, but if any- body can fill it, I flatter myself that 1 am the guy. You may or may not know, Inquisitive, that I have stud- ied left-handedness in pitchers and other athletes (sinistralism, we ex- perts call it), for many years, tak- ing any number of college degrees for my pains, to ssy nothing of half a dozen well-directed punches to the jaw. T WILL never forget (and neither “ will people who know me. un- less they stuff their ears with a good grade of cotton) the time I led a safari into darkest Borneo to stalk the native left-handed pitcher of that region with gun and camera. These shaggy fellows are the di- rect ancestors of the modern south- paw and are to be found in their native state in only three parts of the world, namely: 1. Borneo. 2. The Plateau of Kurdestan, watered by the Greater and the Lesser Zab. 3. Duffy's chophouse, outside of Battle Creek, Mich. The Borneo southpaw has a good curve and fair speed, but being a right-handed hitter myself, T uld not anticipate much trouble, Un- faortunately, my chief gun-hearer, M'Bongu, was & left-handed bats- man and a sucker for a hook. He didn't get a loud foul off thoss Borneo primates, which shatered the morale of the whole ~xpedition. I did manage to make one strik- ing camera study of a Borneo tribe in the club house after a ball game, alibi-ing to the manager. One of them explained that the reason they got 17 hits off him was Le- cause he had been bitten by & make, the deadly , the day before. The manager was skeptical. “Why, there ain't a snake in the whole of\Borneo!” he said. “This snake was from cut of argued the left-hander. “How did you know that?" s the manager. “I could tell by his license plates,” said the pitcher, and they let it go at that. You mention the case of Carl Hubbell, Inquisitive. Hubbell has something very unusual, wnat we call an ambidextrous cardiac con- dition. There is right-handed blood in him somewhere, and the chances are that it came over on the May- flower, bottled in bond. America was inhabited largely by left-hand- ers and Indians at that time, as you probably know. It was nard to get right-handed blood into the country unless you knew somebody named Mike. Gradually, however, the south- paws were driven back. They were herded like cattle and placed in reservations. When you take a southpaw today, you still have to take him with reservations. This is known as the household consoli- dation law, or squatters’ rights. The story that the Indians sold Manhattan Island for $24 is false. The sale was made by a southpaw, and the price was $22.75, half in merchandise. Bducation for left-handed piteh- ers was made compulsory around 1876, and the eager fellows learned s0 fast that a southpaw today can outspell and outcipher a right- hander nine times out of 10. Right- handers are better at history and geography, but in Greek, calculus, and the care and feeding of the adult stoat, you have got to give the edge to the southpaws. Here are some important facts about left-hended pitchers, culled by a trained field-worker: (a). Slim Sallee never threw to first base when there was a runner there. Max Carey noticed this, and used to steal Slim’s chirt. (b). Rube Waddell chased fire engines. (c). Lee Grisson ght exclusively with catchers who weigh more than 200 pounds. (d). Lefty Gomez gives Di Mag-~ gio tips about hitting. T could supply you with one hun- dred and sixty-one further case histories, all fairly significant, but they don't prove much, because Shufflin’ Phil Douglas, who stuck his hand into an electric fan to see what would happen, was a right- hander. That evened up the score, and there is nothing more to be saild except that southpaws are fond of animals and subject to in- come tax. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americia Newspaper Alliance, Ine.) Single Made With Bases Loaded Gets Bees 9-to-7 Game—Nine Slabmen See Service. By the Associaied Press PIT’I’SB‘URGH July 31.—Eddie Mayo's pinch single in the ninth with the bases loaded lent a storv- book touch to a 9-7 triumph of the Boston Bees over Pittsburgh today. Mayo came up With two out and slashed a single into center, acoring Gene Moore, who had doubled, and Elbie Fletcher, who had been pur- posely passed. Fletcher banged a homer in the third inning with three men aboard ‘The ball got through Lioyd Waner and rolled to the fence in center. ‘Woody Jensen connected for Pirates with a four bagger in the fourth. Jim Weaver was on base Nine pitchers were used in the game, Boston. AB the 93333135505 O U Totals 30 1 *Batted for Gabler in eighth +Batted for Hutchinson in ninth iBatted for Brown in eighth Boston 104 000 Pittsburgh 203 200 0 Runs—Johnson. Warstler, Di Maggin, Moore (7). Fleicher (). Murller. L Jensen (). P, Warner Bow- jtier, Runs batied ). Fletcher Garms © I Sacrifices — Jenser, play English io Let Pittsburgh, 6. Bases nn Dalls O Bow- e oft ‘08 Huteninson ] Biriick “out—By 'Bowman by Gabler” 1: by Brow 5 in’ 2 innings innings: off Gabler off Hutchinson. 0 in Smith. 0 in 1 _inning Lanning 2 in 1’2 'innings, off Weaver in 4% innings. off Brown | in 23 inning. off Swift. 2in | inning Winning pitcher— Hutchinson. Losing pitcher —Swift. Um- Ballanfant and Attendance—4.116, i WEBB QUITS BASE BALL g KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 31 (#).— Earl Webb, once the terror of Ameri- can League pitchers, has retired to his farm near Crossville, Tenn., after 17 years of hawking flies in the major Jeagues and minor