Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1937, Page 20

SPORTS SECTION he Sunday Sta WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8 Griffs Split Twin Thrillers STRUGGLE UPHILL TOSQUARE TIGERS Drop First, 3-2, as Ferrell Deals “Fat” Pitch—Snag Second by 8 to 7. ITTLE WALTER MILLIES, the Nats’ junior welterweight catch- er, carried his .280-plus batting average to the plate at dusk yesterday at Griffith Stadium and with a fine disregard for the best minds of the Detroit firm, singled Johnny Btone across the plate for an 8-to-7 victory over the Tigers. The hit served to snap a four-game losing streak for the Washingtonians and gave them an even break for nearly five hours of toil in & double- header witnessed by 7.000 customers. Detroit took the first game, thanks to & Herculean wallop by Rudy York by & 3-to-2 count The Nats seemed hopelessly beaten in the nightcap, too. When the Wash- ington eighth rolled around the score was 7 to 4 and with Tommy Bridges | performing for the Tigers it looked to be a lost cause. Then, striking sud- denly, Washington tied it up with a | three-run rally and went into the ninth swinging. With one out Stone whacked a dou- bie to center. Joe Kuhel then flied to Pete Fox for the second out and the Tigers' brain trust, playing the percentages, ordered Buddy Myer pur- posely passed so that Bridges could pitch to Millies, One Bad Pitch Fatal. “':\LT did not wait long Stone pacing restlessly at second base, Millies picked the first pitch out of the gathering darkness and plunked it into short center to break up the game. This spread balm on the open | wounds the Nats carried into that sec- ond game for in the opener they had | & well-earned victory snatched from | their grasp by one unwise pitch. Wes- | ley Ferrell, working another fine game | for the Griffith A. C, went into the seventh inning holding a 2-to-0 lead Then, suddenly, he lost control and walked Chet Laabs and Marv Owen 8till wild, he got into a hole against York, and when finally he grooved a fat one the big Cherokee catcher de- posited the ball into the bleachers to score all three runs and make off with the decision. It was a thriller, that first game, but the second one surpassed it in drama ‘This tilt found the Nats trailing at 7-2 at one stage, only to pull a spec-‘ tacular comeback and win for Rookie Bucky Jacobs’ first triumph as a | major league pitcher. 1 Appleton Succeeds Chase. ! ( EN CHASE, the left-handed re- cruit, opened the nightcap against Bridges and was no puzzle. The Tigers | nicked “Showboat” for three rums in the first three innings and, after he walked the first hitter in the fourth Bucky Harris thumbed him out in favor of Appleton Pete was no great improvement at first. He gave up two more walks and two triples for four runs and this uprising had the Nats on the ropes. Washington, thanks to singles by Al- mada, Travis and Simmons, had made & run in the first inning and another i the third on more hits by Travis and Simmons and one by Lewis. But these were negligible compared to the | Detroit total In addition Travis was lost when Laabs kicked him in the face while trying to steal in the third and the Nats were moseying along without their big howitzer. The customers were watching the proceedings indifferently when a run | was coined in the sixth and another in the seventh eighth, transforming a dull game into the drama it was until Millies' single nestled in center. Kuhel first up in the eighth, drew & walk. Myer then grounded to Hank Greenberg, who threw wildly past first base to put Kuhel on third and Myer on second. Millies was thrown Kuhe] scoring, and Wes Ferrell was sent up to bat for Appleton He fanned, making two out and seemingiy taking the sting out of the r Almada Revives Morale. BUT Almada injected new hope when he doubled against the right field fence, scoring Myer and wenting the tying as he pranced n second. Far from Bud to check big inning and sent Almada home with that ng to left out was the ade 7 and 8 into with Jacobs taking over the pitching. Bucky got Owen but York was safe on an err Lewis and here did Tra eome a bonanza, for Charlie G smacked a smash toward field. Probably it would has s hit for shortstop in league except Frankie Crosetti or Ossle Bluege. And Bluege it was, as sub for Travis, who stabbed the ball and converted it into a lightning, side- ret double play. You know the rest In the first game the Nats stepped | out to & 2-0 lead against Roxie Law- | ®0n in the second inning. This busi- | ness was conducted when Kuhel singled, with one out. Myer filed out, but Millies singled and so did | Ferrell, scoring Kuhel. When Almada alwo singled Millies scored Going Into the seventh inning Fer- rell had the Tigers eating out of his hand. They had made only three hits and all came after two were out But then Wes walked Laabs and Owen and Heap Big Injun York pumped sixteenth home he bleachers for what proved to ball game The Nats that th it went but any the be were licked after MIDDY NINE WINNER ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 7—With € & record of § victories and 2 defeats the Naval Academy second-class nine . eompleted its season today by defeat ing the Knights of Columbus of Balti- more by 10 to 6. The Middies won the game with seven runs in the second tmning. ] [ Breaking Even o Game. AB Gehringer. Greenbe Lasb we Lawson, b POV ol S Second Game. R T e 4 I'wo out when winning run s tBatted for Appleton in eigh 110 140 101 001 Laabs, Simmons gell (1), Myer. B Aimada_ Lewis. hits—Walker (2), Gehringer, Almada._Stone_ Three-base h Stone. Stolen bases Sacrifices—Bridges ays—Gehringer $ (unassisted Left on bases th 000—7 131—K Lewis, Fox, D Appleion Hits—Of innings: ‘off 'Appleton Jacobs, 0 in 1 Jacobs neen ance IDLE GIANTS GAN AS BEES NP CUBS Galan and Herman Hit Home Runs in 8-6 Game—Lee Injured on Slab. Br the Assoclated Press HICAGO, August 7 ton Bees, after Bill Lee was forced from the Chicago mound with a side inj the sixth inning, fell on three relief hurlers for all their runs in that frame today to defeat the league-lead- ing Cubs, 8 to 6, before 9,465 specta- tors. The defeat reduced the Bruins margin over the idle, secon ace New York Giants to five gam Augie Galan's sixteenth another circuit smash by B! with two mates on bases e, the Cub's leading pitc vietory column, a 4-to-0 star his" thirteenth triumph. The Southerner, who granted only ee hits during the first five innings, pulled muscles in his side while wal Hal Warstler at the start of the sixth, and after pitching one strike to Vince Dj Maggio, was forced to leave the mer and I Hermar ad g Get to Root Quickly. 'HE veteran Charley Root, the Cubs renowned game-saver into the game with scarcely any warm- But then came the | UP. and Di Maggio promptly greeted | him with a single. Cuccinello singled and Moore doubled to send three runs home before Root could get his brea Larry French went in, with no b luck. Gil English singled home tying marker, Frenct error on a bunt allowed anof ler doubled home a sixth Johnson singled run Manager Charley Grimm frantically signaled Clay Bryant to the hill, and Warstler slammed out a double. But after a fly drove in the eighth run Bryant managed to retire the side Turner to the Rescue, "T"HE Cubs fell on Frank Gabler for tWo runs in the seventh, when Bill cashed on Gabby t's single, and | ges trotted Jim turner then went escue and checked the Br triple Bryantp 0 *Cavar'ia P meleep 0 10 Dea Totals 36 12 in seventh r in_eighth iBatted for Parmelse in nintn Boston 000 008 Chicago 000 400 Warstler, Di English 000—8 Maggio, Fletcher Warstler Three-base Galan hits. Mueller uns Root O'NFJLL'S BROTHER DIES. SCRANTON, Pa., August 7 (#) Patrick O'Neill, brother of Steve O'Neill, who manages the Cleveland Indians, died at his home today in Minooka, near here. | Two-base | ~The Bos- | VANKS RUN STRING 10 SEVEN IN ROW Ruffing First A. L. Hurler to Bag Fifteen Games as Tribe Bows. EW YORK, August 7T—Lou Gehrig and Red Ruffing ruined the Cleveland Indians today as the Yankees belted the Tribe, 6 to 3, to stretch their streak . to s their n | League Gel base ig climaxed a ping by bang mer of ast seven games— and a triple, driving in two runs. mited the Clevelanders to its and became the first pitche e American League to post victories for the season defeated o three eventh his sev in the imes, Harder Takes Beating. JFOR six innings it was a ball game with Mel Harder and Ruffing hooking up in a pitching duel. But, after the Indians had deadlocked the count in the first half of the seventh, the Yanks blasted Harder out of the ball game and put the decision on ice h a three-run rally, Gehrig's three-bagger As a result, Harder was tagg his eight ss. Next greatest trouble came from Joe Di Maggio, who stretched his consecutive game hitting streak to 16 with a double and single Ruffing got off to a aliowing a r to Gehrig, his shaky start, runs on Johnny Kroner's double, a walk, Hal Trosky's single and a t after that he was on top throughout. of Win Game in Seventh, "THE Yanks' first scoring, third, was the result of double, an error, and singles by Rolfe and Di Maggio. Gehrig's homer had broken a tie in the fifth, the Indians came back with un in the seventh on Hale's double and B; in the A hit batsman, Rolfe's single, a force-out, an error, Gehrig's triple and Jake Powell's pinch fiy gave the Yanks their winning margin in the sevent o Ruffing p Totals 31 200 000 100—3 002 010 30x—6 Hale. Orosetti - THIRD N REGATTA ’Fail to Get First Place in| was rushed | Opening Day Races of U. S. Title Meet. ORCESTER Mass Pendletor opening-d national N Y took honors at the championships of American Canoe Association at Qu mond toda Pendleton, which scor points in the York and Ernest doukb two-day the | Lake ns ts 18 was followed Yonkers of New the Washington Canoe Club Riedel, Pendleton, world ade champion, stroked his victory in the final event, ur, single-blade Pen- the intermediate and all three races by s, the ce dieton also single-blade double-blade Washington seconds and Team ssores- kers, 16; Washington New York State, 10 Boston, 5, Crescent of Waltham, 5 eedham of Massachcusetts, 4 Knickerbocker of New York City, 3 Red Feather of Hackensack, N. J,, 3 and Breed of Dedham, 2 took single tandem made all thirds —Pendletol s points in 18 Sebago of Night Owl of Yon- TAKES SKEET HONORS. SPARTANBURG, 8. C, August 7 (#).—H. L. “Brooksie” Thompson of Savannah and Ludowici, Ga., today added a second 147x150 to the same score Priday for a total of 294x300 and the all-around championship | honors in the tri-State tournament Griffs’ Records BATTING 2b_3b Hr Rbi Pct 0000 Linke De Shong 2 Weaver Chase Jaeohs | W Eerrel poleton Cohen week of extra- | 15| He has been | featuring | d with Hoag's | consecutive | After | Bad News | August | 7 () —Pendleton Club of | | Takes a Lot of Wérk to Get One 1‘1&1; Out Here's a play that did not hurt the Nationals in their dramatic 8-to-7 victory over the Tigers in the nightcap of yesterday’s double-header. Detroit staged a four-run rally in the fifth inning but one tally the Tigers didn't get was that which Shortstop Bill Rogell was intent on bringing home The cameraman shot this one as Rogell broke for home on Tom my Bric Buddy Myer whipped the ball to Catcher Walter Millies, who chased Rogell ba Millies uncorked a bad throw but Third Baseman Buddy Lewis dove for the ball as Rogell headed toward the plate. At the top Lewis is shown throwing to Millies from a sitting position as Rogell dashed home. The ball beat him but was directly in front of the runner as Millies caught it and Rogell crashed into the half-pint receiver. Millies went down for a short count, but he hung onto the ball and Umglre Cal Hubbard waved Rogell out. The Tiger was slightly hurt and was replaced bld;.‘harlve —P“Mu by Zlwood Baker, Star Stafl. ) 13 7es’ roller to second, k toward third and snagged it Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY Base Ball Detroit Washington Stadium, 3 Grifith Swimming national junior Maryland Mer champior Gardens, 3 Tennis Final, Middle Atlantic men singles tourney, Edgemoor Club, TOMORROW vs. V Stadium, 8:3( Swimming District A. A. U Takoma Park pool, 8 TUESDAY, Base Ball ia vs. Washington adium, 1:30 Tennis. girls' playgr Chevy Philade’ Griffith junior ! tourney, 'Playground, 10 WEDNESDAY, Base Ball. 1ladelphia Vs, Stadium, 3:15. THURSDAY. Base Ball. Philadelphia vs Griffith Stadium, 3:15, FRIDAY, Base Ball. Washington, Griffith Wasl Washington, Boston tadium, 3:1 SATURDAY. Base Ball. Washington, Griffith vs Boston vs Stadium, 3 RPPY RATES HIGH INPUBLINKS £0 Shares in Favoritism With Abbott, Kauffman in Big Field After Title. By the Associated Press. AN FRANCISCO, Au Golf’s “common man low who explores the fair and traps of the public —steps into the national spot here Monday for a week's the universal sport of par sn: It's the annual national public links championship and the greats and near-greats who come under this classification are primed to fight it ou for individual and team titles. The field, numbering 191 entrants from 61 cities, includes the defend- ing champion, Pat Abbott of Pasa- dena; the three-time former title- holder, Carl Kauffman of Pittsburgh, | and Claude Rippy of Washington D. C., medalist and runner-up a year ago. Rippy Rips Harding Links. BASED on past performances and | esent impressive practice ses- sions, these three share pre-tourna- ment favoritism. Haberdasher Rippy took the 6,719-yard par 72 layout the tough Harding Park course pleces in one round Actor Abbott, less prominent Hollywood movie extra parts than he m tee to green in golf, blasted 1t an early subpar round on the course which is considered a stiff test | in any golfer's league. Last year he whipped Rippy, 4 and 3 The Far West has other stars to fall back on if Abbott should wander off the victory line. One is Tab Boyer of Portland. tournament medalist in | 1933. Observers rate him at the top | of his game. to Stanford Team After Laureis. i JOUR Stanford University boys Bill. Colm, Howard Clark, John | Brock and James Dillon, will represent Palo Alto in the team play. Seattle won the team trophy last year through the efforts of Bill Kin- kella, Warren Campbell, Harry Um- binetti and Carl Jonson, and is pre- pared to make a powerful bid to re- tain it Eighteen-hole qualifying rounds will be played Monday and Tuesday with match play starting Wednesday The 36-hole final will be held Sat- urday. | Unofficial team matches will be held tomorrow as a prelude to the tourna- | ment proper. A special match will | pair off Abbott and Otto Greiner of | Baltimore against Rippy and Kammy | Lau, smooth-stroking little star from Hawaii. | 1 —— | English Take Seven Matches, | Lose Three, Halve Two. HOYLAKE, England, August 7 (#) —Yale University's golfers were de- | feated today by the Royal Liverpool Liverpool won the foursomes, 2 to 1, | with one match halved, and the singles, 5 to 2, with one halved. Minor I eagues INTERNATIONAL. Toronto. 5; Baltimore. 58 Montreal 3: Jersey City, Newark Rochéster. 4. Syracuse, Buffa AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Milwaukee_ 10: Toledo, & Louisville, v, &: Colum Minneapolis, R: Indianapolis. 1 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, Atlanta. 8; Chatianooga. 3. Nashville, 4;” Knoxville, 2, PACIFIC COAST Los Angeles. 7, Oakland. 1 San Prancisco, 5. Sacramento, 0 TEXAS Houstos, 8; Galyeston, 2. PIEDMONT, Winsion-Salem, R: Chal Portsmouth. 4: Asheville Rocky Mount at Durham, rain. Lo, 8 | SOUTH ATLANTIO, l olumbis. 5. Columb b e R \ | YALE'S GOLFERS BOW |Z | Club, 7 matches to 3, with 2 halved. | _ Seabiscuit Paces $50,000 Race TRACK " BY HOWARD HORSE Beats Caballero Il Length in Rich Massachusetts at Suffolk Downs. By the A OSTON, Au ated Press of Rao Seabiscuit | ticket. Caba Fair Knightess $ Earns $142.030 This Year end of t has the Howa defeat. He was | Feels Whip in Stretch “;Am KNIGHTESS and T | © B. Martin's White Cockade led the field ot he gate with the Bright Knight filly having a length adva age as they went swinging into club house turn. There Seabisc moved to second and Pol! kept him there until he made winning move coming into the stretch Seabiscuit was runn ) er re 1 lard to ng easily !l ly time Pol- he whip was once in the stretch, hitting him that time cause the Hard Tack colt has a habit of pulling up once he has his race w Caballero II, and the French ho Grand Manitou, turned in excel | races. and took Seabiscuit broke shed on October Row while carry | The $123,792 that was handled on the Massachusetts Handicap was $18.- 000 better than the bx | single race handle at Suffol the 16 record est 1935, by Do Homer Standings 5 Yesterday's homers—Medwick dinals, 2; Getl , Yankees Tigers, 1 11 , 1; Poxx, Red he Ass Press Bonura 1; Her- man, The Galan, Cubs, Maggio , 29; Gehrig, Yan- Indians, 25; Green- Medwick, Cardinals, leaders i 32; Foxx, Red S« kees, 27; Trosky. ber, Tigers, 25; 23 League tional, 442 totals—American, Total, 972 530; Na- League Statistics AUGUST R, 1837, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Sk tan 8. THE (LI BT[] 712 81 8/10/ 4/13/11(561 7I_71111 5/11155 5/11/11/12]5 8| 6]10/43 i 11/ 4141152441 8/32(62.340 3 10/42 GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORRO W NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY, ston. %: Chicago, 6 ncinnati, 4: Brookiyn. 1 t. Louis. 11: Philadelphia. 4 New York at’ Pittsburgh, rain STANDING OF THE CLUBS. - o 2 8 2 8 El 1y = Ll Chil—[11/10 NY| 6/—I(10 SiL| = Pit Bos Cin Bri e3vuedIBg 610/40/55/4 5139561411 1 — 140160/ 400 2 L. 135/40/44/45152155/56160 ESTODAY GAMES TOMORROW, at Pitts, ( Shic Open date BASE B Washington vs. Detroit AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tuesdar—Philadetvhis TODAY 3:00 P.M,