Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1937, Page 12

5] e The Foening Stad Fpols A—12 WASHINGTON, ;G MONDAY, b ) AUGUST 1937, Line on Gevinson Due Tonight : RCHIBALD CHOICE FORFEATHER FRAY Prancing Puncher to Give D. C. Boy First Real Test in Pro Ranks. BY BURTON HAWKINS ASHINGTON'S fistic colony, usually served toasted hum- ingbird wings when it starving, tonigh® nto & mauling meal which, pattorned after the fashion of tts fangs if previous performances, should develop | strictly | inta one of the most vicious local brawls this sector has viewed in many months Joey Archibald, & minature Provi- deace featherweight, who has caught on here Like a guy tossing away 85 bills, fusses with Lou Gevinson, & promising local prospect whose caliber will be more appraisable after the 10- round argument at Griffith Stadium, At stake will be enough to whip the lads into a frothing-at-the-mouth stage, for the winner probably will meet Petey Sarron for the world featherweight crown here late next month. Both will be as dangerous as mixing apricot brandy and cham- pagne from the standpoint their respective styles and ambitions. £ of Both Unorthodox Fighters. GE\'INSON will boast an edge in heigith, weigit, reach and punch- ing prowess. but Archibald offsets that with experience and a relentless attack which has pumped four of five opponents here into the resin. Lou can belt you out with one crisp blow delivered with either hand. Joey usually carves you up and then dumps you Both are unorthodox in their man- ner of pushing gloves. Gevinson swings from the southpaw side and naturally is annoying to right-hand- ers, while Archibald is a jumping, bouncing fighter who is difficult to drop for the simple reason a moving target is hard to hit Installed as a 2-1 favorite by Wash- ington’s anemic gambling gentry, Archibold actually is stepping out of his class to meet Gevinson, having been ranked fifth in the bantamweight division recently by the National Box- ing Association. although Joey has confined most of his campaigning in latter months to featherweigh! Will Give Line on Gevinson. OU'S weight advantage is not ex- | pected to be a determining factor in the outcome. however, since Joey has built himself up to 124 pounds, | while Gevinson was forced by contract to weigh in at not more than 126 pounds today. The fight, to local ringworms, means gaining a more definite line on the ability of Gevinson, who was & gensation in amateur ranks locally and nationally, but who still is on trial after five engagements in pro- fessional circies. He has won four of these, losing a decision to Johnny Pena, whom he later kayoed. Archibald, on the other started as a preliminary boy here ganing a decision over Buddy Grimes in his debut. Since then he succes- sively has mowed down Lawrence | Gunn, Ray Ingram, Nicky Jerome and Harry Gentile. Joey may alter his style against Gevinson, preferring to allow Lou to force the issue. He is a talented body | puncher and, since Gevinson has | #hown little or no defense against a | midsection attack. it is likely he w)ll; concentrate his counter-punching on | Lou's frame. Dean in Preliminary. IRISH JOHNNY DEAN, favorite at Turner's Arena two years ago, re- | turns to stack up against Al Dunbar, | Brooklyn lightweight, in an eight-| round semi-final, while another eight. | rounder lists Jimmy Fox of Lynch- | burg, Va, against Johnny Campo,| Connecticut featherweight. George Abrams, local middleweight, | will meet Charley Rondo of Balti- more; Carroll Dell, Albany welter- | weight, will battle Sam Bracala ‘of Leonardtown, and Johnny Cooper and ‘Willie McBride. local colored feather- weights, will clash in four-rounders. The first match will be launched at 8:30 o'clock. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Lou Yankees—Hit triple and single. driving three runs in 14-5 win over Browns Larry French and Tuck Stainback Cubs—Former's hitless relief pitching in four-inning stretch saved 5-4 vic- tory over Giants: Stainback's single in eleventh with bases loaded drove in winning run Dixie Walker and Luke White Sox—Former hit homer in eleventh to beal Athletics 13-4 in + Appling hit homer and single 5-3 nightcap win Lee Grissom. Reds. and Claude Passeau. Phillfes—Divided double- header. Gritsom allowing six hits and fanning five in opener. Passeau allow- ing five and fannine five in nizhicap Bob Feller. Indians—Fanned nine and held Senators to seven hits for 11- 3 win: also drove in two runs Heinie Manus| and Lon Warneke. Cardinale—Manush hit three singles, driving in_three runs. in 7 opener victory: Warneke not only itched 7-1 win in nightcap. but drove n two runs with two singles. Jack Wilson. Red Sox—Stopped Tigers. 11-4. with seven hits, fanning four. uss Bauers, Pirates—His two-hit Appline Dodgers is | will sink | hand, | | nial pushovers, the Brooklyn Dodgers. | | and Giants don't stand & chance of Providence Puncher Stout Choice to Win Here Tonight | Here Archey is shown | Treiner Finkel for the fight | choice at 2 to 1. wins here, four by kayoes getting his final rubdown at Griffith Stadium from He's the Finkel has seconded Arch through five straight THREE SLAB STARS TAKE B TUNBES |Failure of Hubbell, Mungo ; and Dean Overshadows Cubs’ Flag Sprint. BY SII FEDER, | Associated Press Sports Writer UBBELL, Dean and Mungo. A few weeks ago each of them could’ have attracted | bids in six figures on the ivory trading market as possessors of base ball's currently greatest “soup- bones”: today they look as washed up. at least temporarily, as the week's | laundry. Representing half a million dollars or more in pitching arms to the Giants, Cardinals and Dodgers. Dizzy (Sore Toe) Dean, Carl (Meal Ticket) Hubbell and the tonsil-less Van Mungo are as sour as a barrel of pickles right now in the National | League, where they used to knock ‘em | dead. The recent failures of this set of flingers, touted far and wide as the absolute tops and chief point in the argument that the National League has it all over the American in pitch- | | ing, was the big talking point of the | base ball business today. Overshadows Cubs’ Showing. J T OVERSHADOWED even the run- away the Cubs, who, with a six- game lead, are starting to make of the National League chase and the impending Yankee-White Sox series | for the American League laurels. Mungo, ailing since just before the all-star game, hasn't pitched since July 18. In the hopes it would help, | he has had his tonsils yanked. Hub- bell hasn't won a game since July 18. | In his last three starts he lasted just | six innings against the Cubs and three | against the Cards, and. on Friday, was belted again by the Cubs. ! Dean’s disma) doings date also to the all-star game. A batted drive | bounced off one of Dizzy's big toes | that day and the great on#® now is a well-liked “cousin” to opposition batters. He hasn't won a game since July 4. Yesterday. against his peren- | he lasted only through the sixth and | was tagged with a 7-3 whipping in a | double-header opener. The Cards came back to take the nighteap, 7-1, behind Lon Warneke, but that didn't make Dean look any better. Diz Complains of Sore Arm. “T'M NOT right” he wailed aft- erward. “I shouldn't be pitching. My arm's sore and I can't follow through at all.” Without him and Hubbell, the Cards catching the red-hot Cubs, who made it three straight over the Giants yes- terday with a 5-4 win in 11 innings, thereby stretching their lead to six gamers The Yankees tuned up for tomor- | row’s start of their White Sox series by pounding the Browns, 14-5, with Joe Di "Maggio hitting homer No. 31 and going out in front of Babe Ruth's 1927 record for the same period. The White Sox squeezed out a 4-3 and 5-3 twin win over the Athletics, the first game going 11 innings. Bos- ton’s rip-snorting Red Sox clipped the Tigers, 11-4, in the opener of their double bill and then battled to a 10-inning, 2-all tie {n the nightcap, R lief pitching for 43-inning stretch eat Bees R-4 to take third place in the American League. Millies, Game, to Catch, Despite Battered Finger Foul Tears Nail Off Nat Receiver’s Digit—Umpire Merciful With Petulant Simmons. ALTER MILLIES, the little Washington catch- er who was forced to leave yesterday's game after being struck on the finger by a foul tip off Earl Averill's bat, will be in shape for the opener with the Browns tomorrow the ball struck him on the little finger of his right hand, but did not break the digit, according to Trainer Mike Martin . . the fingernail was whisked off, but it will take more than this to keep Millies down. The entire Washington bench shivered, though, when Walt wrung his paw in pain in the Cleveland eighth . . . the Nats just lost Rick Ferrell in the opener of the Tribe series when a foul off Frankie Pytlak’s bat. split his thumb . . . and if Millies had been hurt seri- ously. the only available catcher would have been Alex Sabo, re- cently brought up from Trenton . . . Sabo caught the last inning yesterday, making his debut, and his inexperience was plainly evident. Averill always is bad news to the Nats . .. He broke Buck New- som's kneecap in 1935 with a line drive . . . also Jack Russell’s thumb . . . then it was Millies, and he almost beheaded Linke yesterday with a drive straight at his head. Both Al Simmons and Umpire Harry Geisel were hot under the collar after the ump ealled Al out | contests. AS GUBS DASH ON Ace as Leader, Catcher and Hitter, Gabby Is Put on Pedestal by Fans. By the Associated Press. | HICAGO, August 2—OIld man river hasn't a thing on Gabby Hartnett The rotund Chicago Cubs’ catcher, who'll be 37 next December and who is serving his sixteenth sea- son in the big time, is pulling them out of their seats at Wrigley Field as th> Bruins—with Gabby snapping the reins—go driving toward the National league championship. And do they like him? Don't say anything against Gabby on Chicago's North Side—it's | dangerous. | A roar of applause greets him every | time he comes to bat. The fans love the way he comes out of the dugout— | the famous Hartnett grin flashing from ear to ear. They love that short, cocky stride and the way he carries his bat to the plate, gives it one sharp knock and invites the pitcher to * it in there.” Needs Triple to Reach Second. GABBY'S been missing a lot of triples this season—and the fans don’t mind it a bit. He needs a good triple to reach second. He puffs and he grunts and he sweats as he goes roaring into the bag with the speed of an old tractor, and one almost can hear him say “whewww . as he squats on the sack and grins at the | stands. But while he's grinning and taking his ease for & moment there usually are two or three runners scampering | across the plate on his timely hit— of which there have been many this season. His batting average of .391 tops his team, and through Sunday's game he had hit safely in 22 straight He doubled with the bases loaded against the New York Giants Saturday and on Sunday drove in two more runs with a double and a single. After Schalk's Record. T TAKES Gabby usually a half hour to work his way from the dug- out to the dressing room. It's “Hello Gabby,” here, handshakes there and autographs all along the line. And after him floats the comment of kids and grown-ups alike, “Gee, ain't he a swell guy?” Frankly, Gabby would like to be- come a manager, but not before he breaks the 1.721 total-games-played mhrk of Ray Schalk, White Sox “iron man” backstop. Gabby, having just passed the 1500 mark, has a long way to go, but he keeps rolling along so steadily that many fans are giving him two more seasons of action. In his entire career he's dropped only three pop flies. It happened once in the 1932 world series. The other miscues occurred in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, where, Charles Leo Hartnett grins—"anything can hap- pen.” YOU}}G DEMS TAKE TWO. ‘The Young Democratic Club of Southern Maryland nine trounced an all-star team of Charles County, 17-5, at Bryantown, and in a second game defeated Capital Transit, 8-6, at Shady Oak. Pete Phelps won the first game as a relief twirler and the second going the route. on a close play in the sixth inning . Simmons and the crowd thought he had beaten Hughes' throw to Trosky . . . later, after losing the argument, as usual, Simmons flung a resin bag at Geisel from the dugout and this started a mild pop bottle shower from the upper deck of the right-fleld stands . . Al was lucky he was allowed to stay in the game. Feller is a “Sunday pitcher” for fair, and are the Cleveland base ball ‘writers harping on it? . Bob has started six games this season, four on Sundays, in Detroit (twice), Cleveland and Washington, and two on Saturdays, facing the Browns and Red 8Sox . . . the scribes main. tain the Cleveland management | and that sort of stuft.” | Hughes, 2b. | Millies, Mike Jolson emulates Broth amusement of Joey Archibald at the Jewish Community Center as some of “the gang” look on. | Secondly, Griffs Eager to Greet Browns N IN 4TH SERIES | N ROV EXPEETED Nats Relish Lay-off After Feller Beats Jacobs in Final With Tribe. BY FRANC TAN. OR a ball club that was trying to | ¢ forget an 11-t0-2 pasting the | Washingtons were a strange! cheerful troupe today. First, they had the day off to rest weary backs that had swung mightily and | futilely Bob Feller's fast ball they held their third straight series victory and were looking | forward to another when the Browns invade tomorrow. And, thirdly, they are glad now that young Mr. Feller r and one-half in the Amer- gue before he was sent against a starter. ts hope it is another year and a half before he pitches to them again. Limiting the local firm to at seven hits and striking out nine, Feller coasted to that 11-2 victory yesterday | as nearly 25000 customers witnessed | the first bona fide unveiling of the | Indians’ pitching prodigy. | Meanwhile, Feller on with their Tribe and the the way to Boston, | Nats were looking forward with relish to the invasion of the Browns for a three-game series, It was against Jim Bottomley's crew in St. Louis that Washington acquired its habit of winning lately. It was a week ago that 1t returned from St. Louis with a four-game winning streak, which later was to be increased to six in a row. | This helped mightily in achieving | 9 s in the last 13 games and | reviving hopes of yet finishing in the first division. | Jacobs, Linke Are Blasted. “HE forthcoming visit of the Browns | will represent the half-way mark | of the Western clubs’ third invasion of er Al's mammy-singing for the Recognize any of 'em? —Star Staff Photos. "POPPI OFF Feller C HERE is a suspicion afoot in t Robert William Feller is a spoiled base ball brat and pretty much of a | green pea in the box as yet, but the Nationals are willing to give the voung devil his-dues. He can yanking off their sweaty diamond armor they were paying tribute to the 18- year-old kid who had just beaten them, Of course. it had been pretty much established all along that Feller could | pitch a little bit, but the Nats had no they had only seen him twice . . . and their first look at him as a starter yesterday and now you have it on the Griffs' authority that he is quite a pit “What's his fast ball like?” repeate on a little white stool while cooling out. One time it takes off and the next time it goes down. I wouldn't know about that but, shucks, same twice running. No, he didn’t throw me a single curve. he doesn't need a curve .. . vet. All% he has to do is learn how to pitch He can be beaten in a close game now because he can't hold men on base “If Linke holds those In- dians,” mused Mr. Bucky Har- ris, “we're in the ball game un- til the end for that reason. We probably would have had Feller out of there. Official Score CLEVELAND. Lary. ss. > (] £ [} e Averill.’ cf Trosky. 1b. Solters. If. Weatherly, Hale. 3b. Pytlak, c. Feller, p. Totals ‘WASHINGTON. Almada. cf. Lewis. 3b. Travis, s Simmons, Stone. rf. Kuhel, 1b. Myer.’ 2b. c. Sabo, ¢ tW. Ferrell Jacobs, p. Cohen NOuh BB A A S-S | sesnnomns > wlo 1625 PECTHR SN B A e wams e 2355933 55333350-3 skooom03 Totals .. *Batted for Cohen in fifth. +Batted for Sabo in ninth. Batted for Chase in ninth. Oleveland 000 404 003—11 Washington 000 010 001— 2 Runs batted in—Weatherly. Hale (2), Pytlak, Feller (). Lary. Averill Trosky. Myer. ‘Two-base hits—Lary, Pytlak. Bacri- fice—Averill. Left on bases—Cleveiand. &; ‘Washineton. 8 Bases on balls—Off Feller. 3; off Cohen. 1: off Chase. 4. Strikeouts By Feller. 8: by Jacobs. 2: by Linke, 1; by Chase. 3. Hits—Oft Jacobs, 7 in 4 & nings: off Cohen. 1 in 1 inning: off Linke. 5 in 1 nning: off Chase. 1 in 3 innings. Wild Balk—Feiler. Losing pitcher—Jacobs. mpires_—Messrs. Basil. Geisel and Sum- mers. me—2 Attendance—25.000. only is making it tougher for the kid to learn how to pitch and relax . . . huge crowds turn out to bewilder Bob, they say, and he always is pitching under pressure + .. “Why don’t they let him pitch on a Wednesday or Thursday, when only 3,500 people are in the stands, and let him get used to pitching | game, was combing his hair and say- | to them.” " \\i‘*\ ) tan-sL olumn. NG he Washington club house that Mr. | fire a fast ball and in the process of | 11 to 2, before a crowd of nearly 25,000 ng his praises very loudly. both times in relief roles After all, | That was cher. d Mr. Charles Solomon Myer, squatting “Well, it doesn’t seem to look the “When we had the bases loaded in the ninth and Wes Ferrell at bat we | could have let Wes take a crack at one of those ‘cripples’ when the count | was three balls and no strikes. If he had tagged one it would have been | bye-bye Feller. But, as it was, we were so far behind I had to give Wes the ‘take’ sign and he finally went| down swinging on that three-and-two pitch. Ball Hops 5 Inches. HES got a bush-league wind-up, hasn't he?” continued Harris, | “but, boy, how he can fog them in to | the plate. I wish.” he sighed, wist- fully, “that we had him. He's going to be great when he learns how to pitch.” Joey Kuhel, who collected two hits off Feller but who whiffed with the bases loaded at one stage of the ing, “That fast ball of his jumps a foot when he throws it shoulder high. You simply can't hit it. The pitches that I got hold of were down about waist high. They're awfully fast, too, but they don't have the same hop A bystander who took Joe literally asked him if a pitched ball really can “take off” a foot. “Naw, I just said a foot. I guess 4 or 5 inches is the most I've ever seen‘a fast ball jump, one way or the other. But that's puh-lenty when you consider how fast it is coming and how small the hit area on your bat is.” “Whose ball jumps 5 inches?” he was asked. “Feller,'s” said Joe. & more ‘live’ fast ball.” “He is the greatest kid pitcher I've ever seen,” contributed Myer. Suspect Bob of “Babying” Himself. JOHNNY STONE, for another, took part in waving Peller's banner. “He's awfully quick,” agreed Johnny, “and how about that crowd? Imagine how he has captured the fancy of people.” Harris doesn't think tiat Feller can come back next Sundey and draw 25,000 people in Washington. *“He's good, but there is nothing beautifal to watch yet about him. He's too clumsy right now. Of course, if he gets hot and strikes out 16 or 17 bat- ters, that's something else.” The Griffs apparently doubt 've never seen major league ball?” asks Gordon Cobbledick, one of the key bangers . . . Gordon has something there, but s0 has the Indian front office « .. they want the almighty dollar. Hal Trosky's legs look s0 funny because he wears shin guards under his stockings . . . the reason is that Hal used to bang up his shins something awful with those fouls be hits into the dirt. FRS £, Feller on only one score. They suspect him of babying him- self. He allowed a counle of easy rollers to get by him and if he had stuck out his paws he«ould have knocked them down and made easy putouts. There also was a lifting of eyebrows on the Nat bench when Feller walked off the fleld at the end of the sixth inning (Bes J 1 the season. After the Browns will | come the Tigers and thereafter the Nats will turn their attention for the next couple weeks to battling other Eastern foes The Indians’ only victory in the | three-game series again gave them a | four-game pull over the Nats in the z the | | Washingtons are looking forward to scramble for fifth place. but making an adjustment. The Tribe, | rarely successful in Boston, is ex- pected to encounter rougher going than the Griffs are likely to have with the Browns. The much-publicized Feller-Bucky Jacobs duel was just that }‘es!erda_v! ... for three innings. Then, falling | upon the Nat rookie in the fourth | inning. Cleveland took a 4-0 lead that grew fatter as the frames dragged by. Syd Cohen followed Jacobs and then came Eddie Linke. And with the fat boy's appear#nce the Griffs' hopes of coming from behind ex- ploded for Linke was bombarded for four more runs in the sixth, boosting the count to 8-1. Ken Chase, fourth of the Washing- ton throwers to see action, was nicked for the other three Cleveland runs in the ninth inning, but it did not| matter by then, although the Nats| launched a last-inning rally of their own that might have chased Feller had the game been closer. Feller Whiffs Pinch Hitters. | THE amazing drawing power of the | 18-year-old speed ball sensation | of the Indians was evidenced by nn?! of Mr. C. C. Griffith's banner crowds * e | up until the ninth. SELTZER Makes you geel fit FASTER/ League Statistics g AUGUST 2, 1937, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Cleveland, 11: Washington. 2. New York. 14: St. Louis. b, Boston, 11 Detroit, 4—2 (10 innings second: Sunday law) Chicago. 4-—5. Philadelphia, 3—3 (first ®ame, 11 innings) STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 2 g | & g 5 il RNGER CHAMPION FEARS MERRYMAR Late Invalid Out to Take ° Away Jarrell’s Title in Maryland Event. ONG JOE MERRYMAN of Bladensburg who, a year ago, was thought washed up as & E horseshoe star when he nearly 415 _1lost a leg or two, is the flipper most i, | feared by Temp Jarrell of Hyattsville !las the State champion goes to the | defense of his title tonight in the opening matches of the ninth annual Evening Star tournament on the ipal Playground courts overlook= Millan Reservoir, Action will at 7:30 After a near-miraculous recovery from in s received when struck ¢ an auto, Merryman is back in his old swing and, what Worries Jarrell, drawn in the upper bracket with the champ. -“X10X_MoN o8vauo ‘38vqu19d wwro |77 puueg 64181150 915 9151 | ®604344 1004 5048 20 GAMES TODAY None scheduled. Chicako < and Fleshman, Walsh Seeded, 2 THEY wil meet if both reach the semi-final, and it'’s almost a cinch | they will s first opponent will | be R. Ker who qualified w 147 per cent Merryman will start witk iller, who got e in with 29 per cent P P Seeded in the lower bracket are ra 11~ | Lee Fleshman of Rogers Heights, for- mer State title holder, and Joe Walsh, | University of Maryland student who | wears the District intercollegiate crown. Their strongest rival is Lem | Sales of Rogers Heights, who is | capable of soaring well above 50 per ringers vland tournament will be played out to the semi-finals and v the final tonight, and the will be decided tomorrow night, Ja G100 0N GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. N. Y : None scheduled. Records for Week In Major Leagues Standings for the week, showing games won and lost, runs, hits, errors, opponents’ runs and home runs for each club AMERICAN LEAGUE. L Stars on Display at McLean. VWEDNESDAY evening the McLean, Va, carnival tournament will hold the horseshroe stage, with eight of the foremost flippers of Washing- ton. Maryland #nd the Old Dominion engaged. and on Thursday and Fri- day nights at McMillan the Virginia championship will be decided Following are the pairings for toe night Temple Jarrell vs. R. Kennard, Ed | Kruse vs. Ed Walsh, Frank Fleshman | vs. C. Barber. E. Brailler vs. Joe 4| Merryman, Joe Walsh vs. J Donahue, Lem Sales vs. P. Griffith, C. Mullinix V8. Clarence Stunkle and Wade Pem- broke vs. Lee Flsshman, R 30 g & s 5 | of the year and Feller did not wholly | disappoint the assembled multitude. | He struck out seven of the Nats in| the first four innings and then eased FUTURE G. W. FULLBACK A George Washington foot ball prospect today was two days old and :nN‘de considerable more heft before becoming a Colon candidate, but, acording to his pop, Otts Kriemel- r, former G. W. fullback, he'll be t material some day. and Mrs. Kriemelmeyer are the proud parents of 8-pound 7-ounce Arthur, who was born Saturday afternoos Kriemelmeyer also was an |all-high backfield man under Hap Hardell at Tech and now is director | of Takoma Park playground. In this frame the Griffs loaded the bases with none out and Feller walked Buddy Mver, forcing across the sec- ond Washington run. But when Manager Bucky Harris sent up Wes Ferrell to bat for Alex Sabo and Fred Sington to hit for Chase, keen delight in fanning b made Almada fiy out to end it. Jacobs’ undoing was promoted by Hal Trosky with one out in the fourth inning. Hal singled and Solters, Weatherly, Hale and Pytlak followed suit. A foul fly by Feller drove across another run before Bucky finally got the side out Linke, entering in the sixth inning. also departed in this round. Ed could not get three out and required the assistance of Chase. But it was all over by this time. Rackets Restrung, $2.00 1019 15th St. N.W. 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