Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1937, Page 14

A—14 @he Foening Stup Spofls WASHI) GTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, AYGUST 11 1937. K ) Twin Win Fails to Buoy Griffs : Saunders Back on Ringer UTLOOK UNHAPPY ASTWIRLERS G Beat Macks Twice Simply Because They're Not as Poor as Enemy. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. JXURIATING in double- ory over the Ath- letics and a position only a full game behind the fifth-place Indians. the Nationals nevertheless face the future with some trepidation Their pitching 15 not what it should be by any tch of optimistic imagi- | nation This in the face of Monte Weaver's first victory since June 24, too. It was Monte who received credit for that 15 farce yesterday, but the ex- professor was nor 00 impressive. | Between his spotty pitching and four fielding errors by Buddy Lewis at third base. it behooved the Nats to take advant s unpardon- runs in s not T ay 1 the second game the brand of that Bucky Harris got from Pr ... and this Pete, who has been going relief pitcher, appar- A i s out and the Mackmen w Eventually Lin 5 s W of the game e ahead, 4 to 3. | on it and Ed r the victory. Hot Weather Hurts Monte. \\'EA\'ER was by no means bad, Two of the A’s runs came error by mattered a great Philade! the d had t indoubtedly — An Old Star Shines Again Amid New Satellites as D. C. Ringer Title Is Decided i R S s CHARLES HELEKER, Who lost to a teammate. Bill Wood- field of the Woodfield Regulars, in the semi-finals of The Star tourna- ment last night at McMillan Park. s BILL WOODFIELD, Rising youngster, who fell in the final, but considered it an achievement to win two out of six games from the “Old Maestro.” Wood- field pitched 51 per cent ringers. before Harry Saunders ~ e Throne TRIMS WOODFIELD FOR CITY HONORS \Aces of D. C., Maryland, Ole Dominion Battle Next for Metro Title. ARRY FRASER SAUNDERS, former all-around athlete of Westminster College, now a golfer and tennis player of no mean skill, today was back on | the horseshoe flipping throne of Wash- ington, occupied several times by him in the last eight years. but young Bill Woodfield, in the final of the Dis- | trict section of The Star tournament |last night, served notice in defeat | that Handsome Harry's reign is to be insecure. Woodfield came away from the bat- tle at McMillan Park, on the muni- MEL JOHNSON, Newcomer to The Star tournament, beaten in the city semi-finals, but still rated a dangerous con- tender for the Metropolitan District crown, for which play starts tomorrow night. HARRY F. SAUNDE Golfer and tennis player of ability. but an ace among ringer flippers, who twirled his way last night to the Capital championship, a title he has held several times befcre. - INJURY TOCOLLINS B BLON 0 CUBS 'First Baseman, Who Breaks eran is precio cated when Cleveland Monte since Yankees beaten 4 knocked out of ¢ He failed to I s poi then wice bea 10 0f those Det Ankle, Great Run-Getter, Smooth Fielder. BY BILL BONI, Associated Press Sports Writer. N ACCIDENT may have accom- plished what the combined ef- s of seven major league clubs couldn’t bring about— endanger the Chicago Cubs’ hold on first place in the National League. Today, 1t's true enough, the Bruins still are six games up on the Giants But as they resume their series with | the Pirates they do so in the knowledge Appleton Flops as Starter, the two ball basses on ba the fourth inn the decision as a result ter and Geor, Travis Loses Ground. ‘HE second game found the Nats trailing by 5 to 3 going into the ixth inning. By the end of the| seventh, they had up against Southpaw Edgar T taken out in the e . Harry Kell came in the box and he was no puzzle, | although an error by Shortstop Lamar Newsome aided the Griffs in staging a three-run ur to win, 8 to 6 Linke, who was credited with the victory, failed to fi h After Earl Brucker hit econd home run of the day in the ninth inning and he walked Peters, the fat boy was removed in favor of Syd Cohen, who retired the | side with a double play | Cecil Travis idling Lou Geh League batting r Cece had one of | his rare “bad” days, getting only two | hits in eight official times at bat. But he drove across four runs during the | double-header and he was no draw- back. Today Ferrell series, nd on the e American | Lee in Ross the is to face Wes ird game of the that for the next month—to within a few weeks of the season's end—they will have to struggle along without the services of Jim (the Ripper) Collins, fancy-fielding, run-producing first baseman. Hits in the Pinches. \\'H’E.\' the first baseman. a bone in his right ankle fractured as the result of a desperate but futile slide for home. was carried to the dressing room at Wrigley Field yesterday he had a batting average of .278 The batting average. though, doesn't | the whole story. It fails to show that Collins was fifth in the league in driving in runs, that he had clouted 15 homers, that his defensive work had been just what Dr. Grimm ordered. With the last third of the campaign in sight—the Cubs’ 6-5 defeat by the Pirates yesterday was their 100th game, and Collins had been in every one. While the Cubs were bowing to the Pirates and Al Todd's four-run homer, | the Boston Bees kept them from losing | any ground to the Giants. Danny Mac- Fayden, veteran Boston right-hander, put an effective six-hit damper on the Terrymen that stopped them, 6-1, and gave them a record of one unearned run in their last two starts. Cards Defeat Reds. \’[EANWHILE Cardinal Warneke “Y% moved a victory ahead of team- Dean by handcuffing the | with six hits for his thir- teenth triumph, and the whipped the Phillies, 7-3, to inch a step farther away from the gaping National League cellar. The White Sox moved into third place, half a game and one percentage point ahead of the Tigers, by nosing out Mickey Cochrane's crew, 6-4. The Yanks and Red Sox, in Boston, and the Browns and Indians, in Cleve- land, were rained out. Dodgers | | By the Associated Press. | HICAGO. August 11—Their star first baseman. Jim (Rip- per) Collins, was in the dry- dock with a broken ankle— the eleventh victim in a series of major misfortunes this season—but Chicago's National League leading Cubs still were on their feet today. Collins, acquired last Fall to repair | the only weak spot in the infield, went out of action yesterday in the opening game of the series with the Pittsburgh Pirates when a bone in his right ankle | cracked as he attempted to slide home | in the first inning. Nothing New for Grimm. HE WAS carried from the field, and | | for the 'steenth time of the cam- paign Manager Charlie Grimm made an emergency shift in his battle front ! But neither the usually genial Grimm | nor any other member of the team, in- cluding Collins himself. could see the blow interfering with their hopes of | geting into the world series | “Sure, it's a tough wallop losing a ball player like Collins” Grimm growled. “but we had seven guys down | | at once at the start of the season and | it didn’t keep us from staying right in there until they got back. “Now, we've got a six-game lead to | work with and we aren’t going to let | loose witnout a helluva battle. Every 'Loss of Infield Ace, Eleventh In Series of °36 Misfortunes, . Fails to Feaze Game Bruins man on the club feels that wav. The doctor says Jim will be able to move around in three weeks, and we prob- ably will have him back on first base for the last month of the season.” Collins’ loss came with Pitchers Bill Lee and Charley Root and Shortstop Bill Jurges out with uries, all more or less serious. Jurges. however, is £x- pected to return to work in a dav or two, and Grimm already has decided on his next shift. him, will be transferred to third hase Stan Hack will move from third to first and young Bill Cavarretta, first baseman in 1935 and 1936, who took over for Collins yesterd: will be re- turned to center field. a job he has shared with Joe Marty this season Misfortune made its first visit to the Cubs before the season started when Pitchers Tex Carleton and Curt Davis | and Catcher Gabby Hartnett were laid While Hartnett was out. his un- suffered a hand up. derstudy, Ken O'Dea injury. suffered a smashed hand and was out a month. Second Baseman Billy Her- man Iost a fingernail and about a week of work, and Grimm was forced hy an artack of sciatica to turn the club over to Hartnett for a week | FIRST GAME. DELPHIA. AB. Jehee 4 PHILA] Moses, | Deal. Werber. 3 | Johnson. | HilL et Brucker. | Conrov,” ¢ | Beters.” b, Par | Caster. p. | Turbeville, p. | Totals | WASHINGTON Almada._cf Lewis. 8b. - _ Travis. s Simmons. A E‘ o o ol 0 1 1 1 [ —susum SISV, | O ) Weaver, Totalsse = Philadelphia Washington Runs batted Millies (3), Simi ~ 020 Z 030 in—Brucker mons. Stone (2 Travis' (3), Almada. Dean ase hits—Simmons. Weave; Three-base hits—Stone Myer. Home Double play—Millies to n bases—Philadelphia, 9. | . Bases o I i | Dean runs—Brucker. Travis. Left Washington, 7 s Caster. 4: off Weaver. . Btrikeouts—By Weaver. 4 Hi 14 Caster. 5 in 3'3_innings: off Turbeville, 7 in 4% 'innings. Winning pitcher—Weaver. Losing pitcher—Caster. Owen and Moriarty. Cubs Get Break—but It’s a Fracture CHICAGO, August 11.—Here's ill-fated slide that may doom the Cui bs’ flag hopes. Attempt- ing to score in the first inning of the tilt the Bruins lost to the Pirates yesterday, First Baseman Rip Collins cracked his right ankle and may be compelled to idle for the remainder of the season. Tagging him is Catcher Todd of the Bucs. b ) | Moses | *Bluege {Cohen p. M | Kuhel, Hill | Winning pitcher—Linke. Umpire Sears is calling the pla; "2 Copuright, 4. P. Wirephoto. ) Two More Won’t Hurt ’Em SECOND GAME. ADELPHIA. AB. R Tt A ib b PHIL, Finney Werber. = Johnson if. Hill cf Brucker c Peters b Newsome ss. *Nelson Smith p. Kelley p. +Batted for Kelley in WASHINGTON. A Almada_cf Lewis 3b Travis ss Simmons If. Sione 1f Kuhel 1b. Myer b, Millies ¢ Appleton 'p. Linke p. Totals E *Batted for Appleton in second. Philadelphia 040 100 Washington 300 001 Runs_batted Simmons (3), . Werber. Two-base hits— Smith. Johnson in—Lewis, Smith Travis. Stone. Brucker. Werber. Lewis. Brucker Almada. Peters. Simmons. Three-base hits +—Moses. Werber. Home runs—Hill. Bruc- ker,_Sacrifice—Myer. Double play-—Travis to Kuhel. Left on bases—Philadelphia, 17 shington = 10, Bases on balls—Off Smith. 3; off Linke, 34 off Kelley. 1. Struck out—By Linke. 1. Hits—Ofl Appieton, 7 in > innings: off Linke, 10 in s innings oft_ Cohen. ( in % inning: off Smith, 11 in 7 innings: oft 'Kelley. 2 in 1 inning. Losing pitcher— Moriarty and Attendance—1.500 Kelley. Owens, Umpires—Messrs Time—1:54. WANTS SUNDAY GAMES. Hillcrest A. C. unlimited diamonders want Sunday games with strong out- of-town teams. Attention, Young Democrats of Southern Maryland. Call Ed Bendure at Atlantic 0122, Then, Southpaw Larry French | ) | spotlight, \) | poignantly _" 'but strictly professional in others. GEVINSON, INGRAN G0 NOW FEASRLE Archibald Levels D. C. Boys for Bout Once Frowned Upon by Officials. BY BURTON HAWKINS. HAT scrap at which the District Boxing Commission turned up | its collective nose late in June | now apparently would blend well in some card as a semi-final. We mean the Lou Gevinson-Ray Ingram argument, which once was signed, scaled and vetoed. | Many punches have been exchanged | since the local fistic fathers claimed | Gevinson Wwas too inexperienced to | meet a fighter of Ingram's caliber, and | |'a full quota of those blows have been | stopped by the respective chins of Lou | and Ray. Ingram isn't the polished | boxer they believed, and Gevinson, after all, has done a trifle better in the same company. Lou and Ray, both local lads, have the mutual dubious distinction of being | chopped up and then leveled by Joey Archibald, the smallish reputation smearer. Joey required seven rounds to kayo Ingram and eight to stretch Gevinson. Archibald Levels Them. JNGRAM. at the time his proposed bout with Gevinson was rejected, | was seventh in the featherweight | ratings of the National Boxing Associ- | ation. When Lou was snubbed as an opponent he was matched with Archi- bald, who was elevated from prelimi- nary ranks on that show. | It's past history how Archy smacked | that smile off Ingram's pan, but it 1 | served to focus attention on the Provi- | dence lad. He has prospered in that proving one of the most popular fighters ever to evade this sec- tor. And Ingram has been forgotten. Joey didn't exactly ruin his reputa- | {tion by the effective manner in which he bumped Gevinson, for he settled some questions which had bothered |local ringworms ever since Lou | emerged from amateur ranks. He absorbed Lou's Sunday socks and re- | turned more authoritative blows. He | illustrated that Gevinson | still is amateurish in some respects, | Still Is Drawing Card. |T_OU. while stripped of some prestige, | still is a drawing card, even if |slightly battered about the edges. In- |gram has changed managers, taken a |new lease on larruping life and i |anxious to regain the esteem of local | ringworms. Ingram failed to improve his posi- | tion by losing a decision to Christobal Jaramillo, a guy he previously had | whipped, on the John Henry Lewis- | Willie Reddish show, but there are enough fans who still feel his fancy flipping can carve a victory over Gev- inson. Lou and his manager, Matt Twomey, istrictly are against the proposal. They want a return match with Archibald and nothing less. They might im- iprove their chances of obtaining that rematch by decistvely trimming In- | gram. Major League Statistics : AUGUST AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 15-8: Philadelphia, Chicago. 6:' Detroit. 4. 8t. Louis at Cleveland. New York at Boston, r STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 6. in. n. ) L% fl‘lflfg -—=-o8esqun uorsurusTAL STXI0X MmN Phll_11 01 51 6l 11, 1937, NATIONAL. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Boston, 6: New York. 1. Brooklyn. 7: Philadelphia. 3. Pittsburgh,’ 8: Chicago. 5. 8t. Louts. 3: Cincinnati, 2. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Pow ey Ly =-1suupouy, - ysmasing -----uo wjuapped “e3wjua0ng 111101 5117 bI11/11164/361.6401_ 101 5I111_91 715 8 | _710141156].4 6140157] L._129138/4: GAMES T'DA»Y GAM!é TOMORROW. Phil. at Wash., 3‘%5. Phila_ at Wn.. 3:15. Qhucesd ot evrart. " Chicats. st Do™ 5 3 Clev. (3. 8¢ Louu' &t Clev: \ "GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. | pions, Boston at New York. Boston at New York, kly3 hila, Brookizn st Phila. Brookizn'at 8 OPPIN OFF"Uit RS, —Star Staff Photos. N\ \\\;\/."f a l Jesse Comes Back. oung man in Philadeiphia blue and gray must have stirred some misgivings in the minds of Messrs Harris when he bobbed up in Griffith Stadium again Clark Griffith and Bucky Early you see, the Washington firm sold Jesse Hill on waivers and the A's claimed him for $7500. The Nats nev batting only .220, and Mr. Griffith was er had used Jesse much and he was sort of cleaning house. But Hill rode into the stadium yesterday with that batting average 100 points higher than when he worked for is saying that Jesse was one of the better Since the day that Hill joined the A's in Chicago he has been a sensation at bat and afield. His batting average | in something like 25 games for Mack has been close to .500. It was Hill who scored the run that broke the Athletics' 15- game losing streak in the West, and it is Jesse who is driving across more Athletic runs, per games played, than anybody under Mack's banner. Now the story comes out that Connie | originally bought Hill for trading pur- | poses this Winter. Is he going to trade him now? *“Absolutely not.” an- swers Jimmy Isaminger. the veteran Philly scribe. “Hill's ace high with Connie. He is a pretty good ball player.” | | | Synthetic Ba“ini Stroke Costly. IP WHAT Isaminger says is true— | and Jimmy has been around long enough to know—the A’'s have found out more about Hill than either the Yankees or the Nationals, Jesse spent P L7 several seasons with the world cham- but he never got much of a| chance. And his status as a regular with the Nats was brief, indeed. Jesse's potentialities were hailed by Harris and Griffith when he came to Washington in trade with the Yanks in the Winter of 1935, In Spring training last year he was installed as the regular left fielder,| but when he failed to hit during the first two weeks of the season he was yanked and from then on he became strictly a utility player. OVERLIN GETS TITLE SCRAP WITH STEELE Norfolk Middleweight to Invade | Seattle Ring for 15-Round Bout August 31. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash,, August 11 — Freddie Steele, world middleweight | champion, will defend his title against | Ken Overlin of Norfolk, Va, in a| 15-round bout here August 31, it was | announced today by Promoter Nate | Druxman. Dave Miller, Steele's manager, jre- viously had been reported as con- sidering offers from Hollywood and ‘Washington, D. C., where Freddie kayoed Hobo Williams recently, but negotiations to stage the scrap here were completed by telephone yester- day with Chris Dundee, Overlin's pilot, in Los Angeles. Steele and Overlin were scheduled to meet for the title in June, bus Ken was stricken with an attack of jaun- dice shortly after his arrival on the Pacific Coast from Washington, D. C., headquarters of the Dundee stable. TAKE 14TH STRAIGHT. Junior Senator Peewees made it 14 straight yesterday by defeating the Ida's Department Store nine, 6-5, in a Columbia League game. TODAY BASE BALL "33 Washington vs. Philadelphia AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK ) the Gi th A. C, and Connie Mack base ball bargains of the year. Hill paid a heavy penalty for being what the trade calls a “synthetic ball player.” A former foot ball plaver at the University of Southern Cali. fornia, Hill had the typical jerky, u natural batting stroke of a reformed | gridironer. i He was a fine flychaser and one of the fastest men in the Amer- ican League, but only regular play gave him a square shake at bat, due to his strange stroke. And Hill not get that chance t play regul . a chance given to many others of his t3 far less ability. Relished Sale to A's. THOSE who knew Hill when he was with Washington knew him as one of the most earnest bench warm- ers in the league. Jesse had an un- quenchable ambition to play regularly and monumental faith in his ability to hit if he ever got the chance. And those who recall his sale by the Nats to the hopeless, hapless Athletics are not likely to forget quickly how eager- Iy the guy looked forward to joining his new club. Hill had known the sweetness that goes with collecting first-division checks for warming the bench for better ball clubs, but it is doubtful if he relished his new ole any less than he did his jobs with New York and Washington. He was boarding a train for Cleveland when the news was broken and those who expected the normal reaction of a player’s sale to the lowly Philly firm were startled when Hill said: “I'm glad. I like the fellows on this ball club, but after all I want to play. And I think I will with the A's. Nobody, probably not even Hill, | knew he was going to play this way Least of all, Mr. ffith. L b 1) Accounts Invited in July, | cipal playground courts, with reason to be quite satisfied. He proved to be at least a year ahead of schedule in a campaign to win the Washing- ton championship, | Histol horseshoe | have observed that rarely | plaver attain a high ord before two or three ye petition There'’s m than the casual observer might sur- | mise. pitching does Gets There in Hurry. UT in one year Woodfield youngster, son of the ation, has gained ghts. The horse- only last season. ging last night. of seven to de- Saunders won the first thought to coast, but | found it dangerous. Woodfield took two skirmishes in a row before Saun~ ders could step up his game again. When he did he clinched the match style. The scores were 50 50 35 41 shoe bug nicked | He wept down sw | With fofir games o de the t er | | ip | | | years ago we eno to win down. He ringer perce; Saunders who the horseshoe ton, but Honors grouped the metropolitan district title, for which play will open tomor- row night at McMillan Park he courts are on the Reservoir road, near t and Bryant streets northwest., once pitchers in Ringer Fans E ND her the battle horseshoe addicts have looked season. The cont for the Mary- Bill Moore, who won last left. Washington, bu down in the class of the show. Prime favorites are the famous Deadpan Raymond Frye, Orknev Springs and Richmond, Va. who was dethroned last season by Moore, but whose game " (See HORSESHOES, Page A-15) vear, has here is no let- Griffs’ Records | BATTING. De Shong Chese Jacobs o Sabo v | PITCHING BB. SO. IP. GS 40 10623 0 W ARDROGSB The Val-A-Pak makes traveling easy . . . prevents wrinkling . . . banishes packing and unpacking be- cause clothes may stay put until wanted. 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