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he Foening Sfar Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937. A—I15 Cubs Hold Pennant Halyard Taut : Nat Hurling at Peak for Browns SETTOLOFT FLAG AFTER GIANT ROUT No Other Real Opposition to Powerful Chicagos Seen in Old League. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, August 3.—Unless the Powers patented predictor is running another hot box, nett doubled off Carl Hubbell with the bases filled. <> Broken POPPING % - OFF i Bubble. 'HEN you walked into Grifith Stadium last night Lou Gevinson was J sleeping and when you started to walk out he was sleeping again. i That's the way boxing folk say it, anyway. Lou was draped in a half-sitting, half-squatting position on the ropes, his face bloody i and swollen and his eyes looking unseeingly into the mob that was roaring the praises of little Joey Archibald, the winner by a knockout. Lou, the local lad, wasn't able to defend himself when Referee Denny Hughes stopped the fight after he had hit the canvas the second time in the the National League race was | eighth round. He instinctively protested to Hughes, but it was just as well settled Saturday when Gabby Hart- |that Denny didn't allow Lou to get up and walk into the storm of fists that were waiting for him. Because Gevinson, scarcely out of the amateurs, thinks that fighting is fun . . . or at least he thought so when he entered the ring. As a matter of form and tradition, | That was the first bad beating he ever took. | Gevinson was saying it was fun after Manager Matt Twomey woke the National will finish out its sched- ule, but if Ford Frick went by the Powers patented predictor instead of the farmer’'s almanac he would realize the Chicago Cubs had the pennant won without monkeying around until October 3 The Cubs have the New York Giants whipped, and that's all they needed to cinch the championship. Pitts- burgh and St. Louis ceased being pen- nant possibilities weeks ago and the others never mattered. A series of injuries to key players overtook the Giants at a most unfortunate time, but that only terminated the race a few weeks earlier. At full force New York did not seem to have the power necessary to halt tige flying Cubs. Last Nail Put in Penna-t. CHICAGO put the last nail in the pennant when Tex Carleton beat Carl Hubbell. It had been so long since the Giants saw the slender Texan, who came into the majors by way of St. Louis, they thought he was some new pitcher Charley Grimm had imported from Oshkosh. For the last two years Carleton has operated .mainly against Boston, Brooklyn, Cin- einnati and Philadelphia. There was an idea prevalent that Texas couldn't do much against first division teams. 80 when he held the Giants to one hit and no count for eight innings, it was conceded the New Yorkers had Tun out of the race. Carleton, who really has plenty stout heart, is one reason why the Cubs are flving their burgee far out in front, and Pappy Charley Root is a second. Texas has won nine games azainst three defeats and now that he has lassoed the Giants there'll be no &topping the man. Root has tethered 10 for the team, mainly by relief pitching, and it's & maiter of history that when Charley is having good luck the Cubs win. Roy Parmelee is the only Chicago pitcher lacking a win- ning percentage, but it is Carleton and Root who are furnishing the balm that cools Charley Grimm's miseries Cubs’ Punch Powerful. JIRST in fielding and first in bat- ting, the Cubs are hard to beat when the pitching is respectable. Hit- ting past Collins, Herman, Jurges and Hack is like throwing paper wads through Gibraltar. It has been years &ince the National saw such a de- fensive infield and maybe the league never saw the likes. I'm old enough to know that. Grimm proved him- relf & horse trader when he swapped Branch Rickey out of Jim Collins, for the Ripper has made the infield and his hits have been tremendously timely 1f not too frequent. There is an almighty punch along the middle of the Cubs’ batting order. After a pitcher—any pitcher—gets past Galan, Hack and Collins, who are dangerous if not gigantic with a €lub, he runs into Frank Demaree, .351; Billy Herman, .358; Gabby Hart- nett, 386, or Jimmy O'Dea, .324, and Bill Jurges, .347. Any one of those five can ruin a tight game in a flicker, Just as Hartnett aid against Hubbell Baturday, after it had been nip and tuck and vice versa for four innings. Club for Yanks to Watch. JURGBS_ batting almost 100 points better than any time in his career, & =tll another reason for the Cubs’ rampage. in case you need any more reasons at this time. Now that Bill has gone into August among the league's leading hitters, he can be voted the most improved batter in either major league. On most clubs he'd be swinging nearer the top of the batting line-up, but with Chicago he atill is & seventh-place hitter. 80 if Mr. Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees has nothing more im- portant to do, he might start casting sbout for the pitcher to face Chicago in the opening game of the world series. This Cub up and it's well to advise Mr. Mc- Carthy it's a much tougher combi- nation than the one his Yankees took in four straight for the 1932 world ehampionship. When the Cubs make the championship mathematically eertain, remember it was announced through the Powers patented predictor 8s of Auguat 3. (Terms on the P, P, P. quoted to reliable agents upon re- quest.) Coastal Plains, Snow Rill. 15: Greenville. 1. Goldsboro, 4.’ New Bern, 0. Tarboro. 3. Williamston, 2 team won't crack | him up 10 minutes before the fight. He was lying on his dressing room table with a cloth over his eyes and gently snoring. Not many fighters can do this . . . drop off to sleep while the crowd is howling outside and managers and handlers are pacing the room. Archibald, for instance, was dressed for battle nearly two hours | before ring time and the little bundle of nerves roamed all over the park |in his red bath robe “He always sleeps like this,” murmured Twomey. “He's a great kid. There isn't a nerve in his system. Guess I'll have to wake him now.” Lou sat up and began pulling on his trunks. This was his biggest fight and he said he thought he |would win. “He isn't cockv.” added | Twomey. ““but. he honestly thinks he'll stop Archibald. Then,” and he winked Gevinson, “we'll be ready for Sarron. He Can't Hurt Us, Lou. HINGS are looking up,” con- | tinued Twomey. If Lou looks good against Archibald, that'll be in our favor with the Sarron fight e | T2 N L 8 = | coming up. A NG Archibald is very similar to Petey, in case you've never seen Archie. The best way to describe him is to call him & “busy fighter.” He never stops moving. “He can’t punch very hard, Lou.” contributed somebody. *“ You don't have to be afraid of his punches.” | “He's a showy puncher.” explained Twomey. “He never punches styaight from the shoulder, like Lou. He throws 'em . . . well, as I said, very much like Sarron. | “But he isn’t as big and strong as Sarron. He can't wrestle Lou around like Pete might in the clinches.” *’'Nother good sign,” put in one of the handlers, “was Sarron getting iknof’k?d off by Freddie Miller the | other night. Miller's a lefty. So's | Lou. See?" Gevinson smiled, shyly. and some- | body wanted to know how he liked pro boxing. “Fine,” said Lou, “it's fun, Just like amateur boxing. Of course, | the rounds are a little longer and some- Gy ————— = times they seem a lot longer. And the guys you fight are a little tougher. I mean, when I was in the amateurs and tagged a fellow solidly with my left, I expected him to go down. The pros don't drop like that.” i He Couldn’t Hit That Homer. ‘ACROSS the ball players’ ramp, in the visiting team’s dressing room, Archibald’'s manager had succeeded in cornering little Joey after his boy had circled the infield half a dozen times and watched the preliminaries from various vantage points. Joey was chased to a bench and made to lie down, but he couldn't relax. He kept opening and closing his taped hands and, anyway, it was only a couple min- utes before he had to go out and walk | into Gevinson's high-powered left hand. Buzzer Ryan, who was to work in Archibald’s corner, was stand- | ing nearby and giving an opinion. “It's a tough fight to figure,” said Buzz. “I like Archibald's pull in ex- perience and smartness, but you've got a home-run hitter in the other corner. | If Lou can tag a fellow a couple times it's lights out. I don’t know how to pick it. They're both pretty good.” ‘The boxing commission inspectors were chasing the hangers-on out of the dressing rooms then and Archibald and Gevinson were getting greased up around their faces when Kid Sullivan, the old lightweight. stuck his head in the doorway to Gevinson's dressing room and said, “Good luck, Lou. Go down swinging.” i 6This brought a laugh from ‘ everybody in the room and when | the Kid walked away, Twomey { said, “He's all right. The Kid meant well. He meant go in swinging, I guess.” Lou nodded and smiled. But he wasn't smiling when he came back half an hour later, give or -take a few stray seconds. Lou was a badly | beaten boy, with one eve almost closed | and cut, his nose swollen and his ears | ringing. He was never given a going- | over like that in the amateurs, but it | was sort of out of order to ask Lou| if he still thought that fighting was fun. Lou did go down swinging. ENGEL'S 1AZZ AIS CLUB-BUYING DRIVE : |Success Seen for Unusual |} Campaign to Purchase ‘Nooga From Griff. | By the Associated Press. | HATTANOOGA. Tenn., ‘August 3.—Joe Engel, the master | showman of base ball, has be- | come a master backed by bankers, newsboys, laundry women and industrialists. Engel and 125 volunteers are striving to sell $125.000 worth of stock in the Chattanooga base ball club, which Engel proposes to purchase from Major League Magnate Clark Griffith. Suc- cess seems assured as the Engel-in- stilled enthusiasm soars. From a building at one of Chat- tanooga’s busiest corners hangs a huge electrically lighted picture of “Genial Joe.” Inside the building is Joe's corps of workers and his “sympathy sym- phony,” a five-piece Negro jug band. $5 Shares Sell Rapidly. “VE DON'T know just how much of this $5-a-share stock we have sold as yet,” said Engel, “but it's been going like ice water would in the middle of the Sahara. “Saturday we sold about 1,000 shares. Those shares went to people on the street—my real backers. Believe me, they've been tossing in all their blue chips. Why some of them have even wanted to buy on terms, $1 down and 25 cents a week.” At every town and hamlet within a 50-mile radius of Chattanooga, Engel salesman | Griffs’ Records [prrens O L O Z 22708 ssom —eSmelan SERBEIART cosssusse-niiasx 2 Chase W_Ferrell Appleton | Cohen Jacobs 1309 =1203Q) PUSSIETAET [EENTIEE Y'Y GBRRDIDB! EEPEIEE S Semr [OIPPIe ) has more of his volunteer workers. Engel’s plan is to buy a third of the stock himself, sell a third to “my people on the streets” and another third to Chattanooga business men. “When the option 1s up August 16,” Engel explained, “we expect to have enough money to pay Mr. Griffith $50,000 in cash and keep $25,000 for operating expenses. We will give him & mortgage for $75,000, payable in 10 years.” Engel already is promising a “win- ning team” next year. ! Kid Sullivan meant something | else, but what he said came to pass. | CHISOXAIMTOGAIN INSET WITH YANKS Hope for Flying Start in Twin Bill Today—Gehrig in 1,900th Straight. BY DREW MIDDLETON, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE White 8ox, who claim to be base ball's best apple-cart kickers, are in New York to meet the Yankees and teach them there’s more than one club in the American League. Only grandpappy remembers when the American League first and second ‘nlau- clubs were running closer than the National League leaders at this | stage of the game. That's the situation today as, after a day's rest, the big- league teams reopen hostilities with the White Sox-Yankee double bill heading the list. } Trail by Five Games. "I"HE Sox are trailing the Yankees by five games while the Cubs top the National League and the Giants by six. | The first game of the double bill will be Lou Gehrig's 1.900th straight at first base for the Yanks. Lou will be presented a watch for having won the American League's most valuable player award in 1936 The Sox have won 8 of their 14 games with the champions, and they were very hot when the Yanks last visited Chicago, taking three out of four from the world champlons Chief offensive weapon in Jimmy Dykes' locker is an outfield of Mike Kreevich, Dixie Walker, ex-Yank, and Rip Radcliff. hitting 315, .305 and .338, respectively. With Zeke Bonura, the first baseman, clouting the ball at & .332 clip the Sox have a large order of offensive power to match Yankee slugging. Lee Hurls One Game. “HORNTON LEE, who has five deci- sions over the Yanks this year, will pitch one of the games for the Sox today. Offensive as Mr. Lee has been to the New Yorkers, their own sophomore prize, Joe Di Maggio, has done pretty well against the Sox to balance the equation. Joe has hurling for six of his 31 homers. The Cubs will try to add to their lead in a three-game series with the Phillies, which opens today, while | the Giants move on to the more hope- | full precincts of Cincinnati and a series with the Reds. The Dodgers meet the Pirates in a double-header, and the Bees and Cards open at St. Louis. In | the other American League games to- day Cleveland plays at Boston, the | Athletics entertain Detroit and the | Browns invade Washington. 'A. A. RACE STAYS TORRID | Columbus Leading, Minneapolis and Toledo Pressing. CHICAGO, August 3 (#).—American Association fans—especially those who follow Columbus, Minneapolis Toledo—are getting their money's worth in thrills this season. The pennant race, which shows no signs of easing up from its torrid pace, today found Columbus leading the parade by only a half game, with | Minneapolis only a game ahead of the third-place Toledo Mud Hens, . ROMP FOR GREENBELTS. Agriculture Greenbelts pounded out 14 hits yesterday to rout G. P. O., 8-1, n a Departmental League game. mith led the attack with a double and two singles. ENDS SWIMMING LESSONS. No more free swimming lessons will be given in Glen Echo’s Crystal Pool this year, it was announced today. More than 1,200 took advantage of the | instruction during last month alone. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. AMERICAN LEAGU Batting—Gehrig. Yankees, .378: Di Maggio. Yankees, .373. Runs—Dj, Yankees, 93: Greenberg. 88 s, Runs batted in—Greenberg, Tigers, 103: Di Maggio. Yankees, 89, Hits—Di_Maggio, Yankees, and Bell, Browns, 134, Doubles—Bonura. White Sox. 34: Gehrig. Yankees, and Vosmik, Browns, Triples—Kreevich. White Sox. 12: Di Magkio, Yankees: Greenberg, Tigers, and Stone and Kuhel. Senators, 10. Home runs—Di Maggio, Yankees, 31; Foxx. Red Sox, 26, Stolen bases—Chapman, Red 8ox, 26 Walker. Tigers. 14, Mng 13-3; <hin; u Yankees, Murphs. Yankees, & Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today & vear ago—Jesse Owens won 100-meter ‘dash final at Olympies. with Ralph Metcalfe. second; Helen Stephens broke women's 100-meter record twice with 11.4 in firet trial and 11.5 in semi-finais, Three years ago—T. O. M. Bopwith arrived ‘to prepare Endeavour for America’'s Cup race. vears ago—Eddie Tolan takes eter dash at Los Angeles to be- Olympie sprint champion. i 200-; col NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—Medwick, Cardinals, .309: P. Waner. Pirates. Run: edwick, Cardinals, R0: Ga- Runs batied in—Medwick. Cardinals, <©9: Demaree. Cubs, 7. Hits—Medwick, Cardinals. 144: P. Doubl c ELH Cugcinello, Bees. 5. TriplesVaughar and Handier. ra : o FOm PineOU. Giants. 22: Med- ck, Cardinals, 2 Shoien %-s‘u‘-—c]n‘hm Oubs. 15: Lae ‘ette, Bees, 13-3; Oarleton, Cubs. 9- Cardinals. Mike Jacobs, Contract in Han d, Will Meet Don Budge Farr Due to Fight His Manager—Kid Pitcher Wins Two Double-Headers in Five Days. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press 8ports Writer. EW YORK, August 3 —At- tention, Messrs. Bill Tilden and Bill O'Brien: When Don Budge, the tennis star, arrives on the Manhattan next Sunday, he'll be met at the pier by Mike Jacobs, who will have & contract already filled out . . . (better go down the bay, gents) .. . Tommy Farr may have two fights before he leaves the country . . . one Wwith Manager Broadribb (due any day now) and the other with Joe Louis . . . Lou Gehrig'’s face still 8 red from his now famous fox Paw on the radio. ‘What has happened to what Bill Yerry tagged “the greatest pitch- ing staff I've ever had? . . . take A a tip from A. B. McGinley, smart sports editor of the Hartford Times: “Nathan Mann of New Haven seems almost certain to be in the heavy- weight title picture by 1938” . . Lou Gehrig passes his 1,900th con- secutive game milestone today, and Mayor La Guardia will present him with a watch . ... Al Jolson tried to buy the race hoss, Caballero II, at Saratoga, but Trainer Hirsch Ja- cobs turned him down . . . Bill Margolis, who made a name for himself as publicity director of Jimmy Braddock’s Grand Beach Camp, is back on the Chicago Eve- ning American, Correction: Norman Almond didn’t pitch two shutouts in five days for the Richmond American Legion junior base ball team .’ all he did was pitch and win two double-headers in five days . . . nice going, kid . . . Dan Mulvey of the New Haven Register says Al Gainer, New Haven light-heavy- weight, is having managerial trou- bles with the redoubtable Al Weill .« . Gainer claims Wetll is devoting too much time to his lightweight champion, Lou Ambers, and not enough to Gainer. Says Jim Bottomley, new man- ager of the St. Louis Browns: “When I was a player, I always thought two coaches were super- fluous. Now I wish I had four assistants.” ’ Jack Torrance, the former shot- put champion, keeps trying to make good as & fighter on the small-time circuits . . . Al Schacht, the base ball comedian, will have to take that screen test all over again . . . all the plates showed was Al's beak « + . Moe Berg, Red 8ox catcher (and a close pal of Al's), says his nose is bigger than any Hollywood producer’s. A lot of folks think the best 3-year-old trotter in America will not run in the Hambletonian at Goshen this month . . . it is Mr. ‘Watts, who recently broke the world Tecord over a half-mile track . . . his owners (Hanover Farms) for- g0t to nominate him for the rich- est of all trotting stakes . . . a business concern is thinking of sponsoring the richest of all golf tournaments . . . first money wduld u:xo,ow.,.mmmaycn wait. ARMHURT SERIOUS, DIZZY DEAN FEARS Hurler Only Lobs Ballin Loss to Dodgers—Cards Hit by Lapse. By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, August 3.—Things are looking pretty gldomy these days for the great Dizsy Dean— and Dizzy knows it. Alling with a sore big toe and trouble with his valuable pitching arm, he has won just an even dozen games as against nine defeats. On the same date last year he had won 18 and lost eight. Dizzy clearly was not himself as he Burleigh Grimes Sunday. Most of the 16,000 spectators were astonished to see the famous hurler lobbing the ball toward the plate before he was lam- basted from the fleld in the seventh Inning. Dean'’s “Hardest Day's Work.” AS INNING by inning went by it became clear he just had nothing and was depending entirely on slow stuff and occasionally a half-speed curve. Sitting in the club house after the defeat, ole Diz dropped his head into his big hands and sald, “It was the hardest day's work I have ever done.” “I was misery out there,” he con- tinued. "I just couldn't put anything | on the ball. I couldn't follow through | with my pitches and my shoulder hurt every time I threw. They say it's nothing serious the matter with my jarm—but I am afraid it is. “It started in Boston after I re- | joined the club following the all-star game (his toe was injured in the all- star game) and I just ean't get over | it. although I have been taking treat- ments every day.” Lapre Hurts Carda. bombarded Sox | and | | {UNLESS Dimy quickly regains hir | season form he is going to | early fall far short of the victory totals he | has compiled in five eventful aeasons | with the Cardinals. He won 18 in | and 24 last year | Dean's backward slide is one of the reasons the Cards now are in fourth | place, 11 full games behind the league- leading Cubs. As the season turned into August last year they were second. two games behind the Cube. They had won 58, lost 39 for .598. Now they have won 48, lost 43 for .527. | BEER NINES TO BATTLE Milwaukee, Heurich Matched. | Grill and Coffee Teams Tie. Old Milwaukee and Heurich were to meet in another Industrial League | kame on the West Ellipse at 5 o'clock this afternoon, continuing the week's schedule of the loop. begun vesterday when ODonnell's Sea Grill and Coffey Screen Co. played s 2-2 tie. Willie Silverman was to pitch for Heurich's and Jim Murdock for Old Milwaukee. Although Charlie Booker held Coffey to four hits yesterday, his O'Donnell's teammates were forced to rally to win | A two-run splurge in the seventh by Coffey wiped out a 1-0 lead. but O'Donnell's got the tying run in their half of the inning. SEEKS SOFTY LOOP TIE Carr-Boswell Nine Must Defeat Diners to Share Lead. Carr Brothers & Boswell can tie for the leadership of the Prince Georges Post Soft Ball League today by de- feating Art's Diner on the Hyattsville High School diamond. Although un- defeated, Carr Brothers have won one less game than Harvey's Dairy, which has a record of four straight victories. . KNOCKDOWN BATTLE Fighters in 'Nooga Bout Land on Floor 19 Times. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., August 3 (). — Nineteen knockdowns were acored last night as Joe Dundee of Beaumont, Tex., outpointed Charley Jerome of Memphis in a 10-round bout. Dundee, 164, registered 11 knock- downs, and Jerome, 165, scored 8. League Statistics AUGUST 3, 1937, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. No games scheduled, TANDING OF THE CLUBS. TEEEEEREES I HHEHEE NYI—I 8] 1111 &1 7/12] A160/201.674] ] 8/—1 71 3 BI11[1] %] 91 Bl 9|51] =] 41 31 %] Bi—I_81 &/10 _31_61_81_3] & —101 413014 StLI_41 8T 81 31 2[ 8| 81.448/20 GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. t. L. at Wash.. 3:18. St. L. at Wash., 3:15. trolt N roit at Phila. Chicaso at N. York. Chicago at N. York Cleveland at Boston. Clev. at Boston (2). NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. No games acheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. $ B Chil—I11[ BI10|_711| 5(10{59|32(.6481 _ NY|_6/—I 81101 5] 9] 9] 754130.581] 6 Pit | 81 31— 5[ 91 6[10] 9/48[42(.5331107% BtLI_2] 71 _4/—I 91 9 7/10[48/431.627/11 Bos/ 4/ BI_8]_6I—| 8| 8| 6/45/48.484115 Cin| 7iB PRI[ B[ 41 81 11 71 b Al—I[38}57]. L._|32[39/42143148152 (83157 |—\—I "GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMOREOW. N. Y. g dropped his ninth game to the men of | 1932, 20 in 1933, 30 in 1934, 28 in 1935 | A such might have been the case. LOU LEARNS. UTTLE JOBY ARCHIBALD ANSWERED THE OPENING GONG WITH HIS USUAL RUSH = BUT 1T SEEMS LOU GEVINSON HAD A COUPLE OF IDEAS OF HIS OWN -= AND STUCK A GOOD STIFR JAB 1N JOEY'S PAN-- BUT LOU VERY QUICKLY LEARNED HIS MISTAKE == IN AT ANY MOMENT, BUT HE STAGED A GREAT COMEBACK AND YACHT INSPECTION HALTS CUP SERIES Endeavour’s Hull Believed Fouled as Ranger Again Scores Easily. By the Associated Press. EWPORT, R. I, August 3.—A one-day halt in the yachting battle for the America’s Cup was called today, in the wake of a second rout of the British chal- lenger, Endeavour II, by Harold 8. Vanderbilt's defending sloop Ranger. Both yachts were taken to the Herreshoff Yard at Bristol for inspec- tion after T. O. M. Sopwith, thor- oughly trounced by Vanderbilt in the two races already held, asked for a postponement of today's scheduled race. Ranger needs only two more races to retain the historic cup. Bopwith ordered the British sloop hauled out because of a remota sus- picion she might have fouled a lobster pot line with her center board. a cir- cumstance which might easily explain her poor showing against Ranger. No Other Alibi Offered. SOPWn'H. suggesting no alibi other- wise, was rather hopeful that: Otherwise he was ready to concede Ranger is & much faster boat than his big blue challenger and admit that his pursuit of yachting’s biggest prize is hopeless, at least for 1937. Endeavour trailed Ranger home yes- terday in the second race of the inter- national series by 18 minutes and 32 seconds. In the opening contest Sat- urday the coat of shellac was thinner only by about a minute and & half. Both opening races were sailed in light air, only once exceeding 11 miles an hour, which hasn't pleased Sop- with. British Want More Breese. "WE WOULD like to try it in a lit- tle more breeze,” he said, de- claring his challenger is stiffer than the American defender. He also said he believed Endeavour II has bene- fited in short tacking matches with Ranger, asserting the challenger can > —By JIM BERRYMAN, — PECAUSE 1T PEEVED Tu1 LITTLE FELLOW SO HE ATTACKED FROM ALL SIDES AT ONCE _ UNTIL LAU LOAKED N A4S TUBUGH R1GOR MORTIS MIGHT <1 N SPITE OF His FRESHLY- CHOPPED-HAMBURGER AP- PEARANCE, NAILED "ARCHIE WITH A “SUNDAY SPECIAL” THAT SAGGED HIS PROPS- - AND 1T WAS ANVBODY'S FIGHT UNTIL LITTLE JOE GOT UNDER FULL SAIL IN THE EIGNTH AND SENT “GEWIE™ To Medwick Can’t Fool Hartnett By the Asociated Press. CBICAGO, August 3. — When some one asked Catcher Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs how he has his pitchers toss to slug- ging Joe Medwick of the St. Louis Cardinals, Gabby replied: “I just get down on my haunches and tell ‘em to fire that ball. Then I run like heck to third base to back up the throw cism of his tactics has been unwar- ranted. Ranger’s victory yesterday of 18 minutes 32 seconds broke a record for a 30-mile triangular course estab- lished by Vigilant off 8andy Hook in 1893, when she beat the British chal- lenger Valkyre II by 12 minutes 23 seconds. South Atlantk Columbus, 23: Columbia, 8. Mid-Atlantie. Akron. 8: Zanesville, 6. | | Oral Hildebrand probably | premises these days. PICK-UP POWERFUL INSLABBING CORPS De Shong Is Likely to Leac Lot Again—Invaders in Weakened State. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HEIR week end circus with the Indians dead and buried. the Natlonals returned to routine diamond warfare today against the Browns with fifth-place hopes flaming anew. As in love and war, anything is fair in base ball, and the current idea is to pick on the Browns while they are down for fair. Mr. Jim Bottom who fell heir to Rogers Hornsby's managi since the Browns last invaded Stadium, was to open the three series with a ball club that is hadly crippled. St. Louis blew in from New York this morning and when Bottom- ley counted noses his able-bodied men were few and far between. Infielders Harlond Clift and Rill Knickerbocker are playing on lame legs and 50 is Outfielder Joe Vosmik. Pitchers Jack Knott and Jim Walkup are having trouble with their arms, Inflelder Tommy Carey has a bruised side and Catcher Benny Huffman atill zzy spells as a result ion a few weeks az) with Wayne Ambler of the Athlet. Bucky's Pitchers Ready. LE‘F’r in §t. Louis was Russ Van Atta, the southpaw pitcher, and his absence, plus the ailments of Kno't and Walkup, have Botiomley on spot for hurling. Elon Hogsett a tart two of the games here, but Bottomlev ia equipped with capable rescue wo ers in the bull pen in case the going becomes rough Skipper Bucky Harris enters the series with an apparently heftv pull in pitching, at least as far as rest concerned. Wes Ferrell was to go tn- day after five days of rest and Mon's ver probably will get the call to- morrow, with six davs Pete Appleton, the hottest of the ‘Washington slingers at the momen:, either will work the series fingle or be held back for the Detroit epener to follow. If Pete is held for the Tigers, against whom he generally effective, Jimmy De Shong is ready. De Shong Again Setting Pace. | DE SHONG, incidentally, is causing no undue worry on the ball park His victory dur- series was ing the Cleveland | fourth straight and James Brook! | vear, | league campaign as a starter again looms as & sure shot tn lead tf National pitchers in the number games won. De Shong won 18 and lost 10 last which marked his first major 8o far this campaign, with slightly less than | half of it over. he has 11 victories and | 8 defeats. | games than he won in 1936, but his He figures to lose more 11 wins keep him running ahead of last vear's pace. The Nats were given the day off yvesterday, with nothing doing at the ball park until evening, when most of them hied off to the Gevinson-Archi- bald fight. A - PRISON FOR MAT FAN Throws Flask, Misses Referee, but Badly Injures Woman. MEDFORD. Oreg., August 3 (£ — Harvey E. Snider expressed his dis- pleasure at a wrestling match referee by tossing & flask from his seat in the gallery. The flask miseed the referee, struck Mrs. Ray Love, serioualy tnjuring her, and sprayed two men spectators with glass. Snider was sentenced %o prison for not more than two years. Minor ieagues International. Svracuse. 6-5; Toronto. 5-0. Jersey City. b Rochester. 4. Only games scheduled. Ameriean Associstion. Milwaukee. 6; Indianapols. &. Mineaperis * 18" Eaniene, 2 . Paul,_3: Toledo, 1 Kansas City. 8. Louisville, ¥. Pacifie Coast. @No sames seheduled. : eston. 8 Oklahoma Ofty, &: Besumont. Tulsa. 5: 8an Antonio, 4. Southern Association. No wames scheduled. New York-Penn. illismsport. 9: Trenton. 6 Biaenamron & e Barre. 1.2 Scranton. 10: Albany, 4. Pledmont. Portsmouth. 12-3: Charlotte. 1-0. Wnston-Salem. 4. Richmond. 1. Norfolk. 6: Rocky Mount, 4. Only an.ex acheduled. Life on Palatial Yacht Relief To Scribe Bored by Sail Race BY MARY ELIZABETH PLUMMER. EWPORT, R. 1, August 3— What a hardship it is watch- ing the America’s Cup races from some of the great yachts in the gallery fieet. If you grow bored watching boats, you can take a salt-water swim in & pool on the biggest yacht there—Julius Forstmann's Orion. You can play “chopsticks” or Beethoven on a grand piano, do Bwed- ish exercises in the gymnasium, play bridge in the card room, or go to the red-carpeted library and read—éay about old ballads, or the economic rise of the Argentine republic. Or you can sit on the after-deck in s comfortable chair and just enjoy life. Boarding such a boat to see races is like leaving this mundane life for & different world. Orion, the hobby of Forstmann, wool manufacturer, is the second biggest yacht afloat, and is here for the first time at the cup fray, although she has sailed the seven seas. Forstmann, hale and hearty in his 60s, in white suit and yachting cap, is & genial host to his race guests. He eome about quicker without losing beadway. If this-is frue, some eriti- 1 knows first-rate seafaring tales, and his eharts of his trips, marked with s b tiny flag for each day's course. His wife, who has gone with him on all his trips since Orion was built in 1929, is along; his sons Kurt and Julius, jr., and a score of guests. Picture a big floating home, daz- zling white on the water, and that's Orion. She has a laundry, a bakery, a dark room for developing pictures. 8he has a doctor aboard, short-wave radio, and she's air-conditioned. ‘There are bed rooms for 20 guests, each suite with its own bath room. There are soft carpets in the lounges. The dining room has a long table that seats 30 in tapestry chairs. “A beautiful dream boat,” some one wrote in the guest book. ‘The only inconvenience is a dash of salt spray sometimes thrown by the swift launch that carries you out. But who minds a little salt spray, with a lounge seat ahead for the big marine show? BASE BALL,"2"5Y, Washington vs. St. Louis AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Louls—8:00 P.M.