Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1937, Page 15

| 11 Clubs—Three to Bees. Mackmen Grab Two. EW YORK, October 6.—Check- N mated for the second year in a monopoly, 11 major league elubs have drafted 16 minor league of the Yankees and Giants in 1938. The Giants and Yankees, with more & man at last night’s draft meeting. But second-division clubs helped them- drafted three, the Phillies and Ath- letics two each. The Chicago White eontenders, also got two and the De- trolt Tigers and Chicago Cubs, run- weren't above acquiring a player apiece. eoming up for another shot at the big time and the big money. One of these fielder the Bees sent to San Diego with Jim Chaplin for Vince Di Maggio last Chicago White Sox with a .327 batting average and a collection of 16 home Sixteen Players Divided by By the Assoclated Press. row by New York's pennant players in preparation for the pursuit tmportant business at hand, didn't get selves liberally. The Boston Bees Box, early-season American League ners up in their respective circuits, Some of the players are veterans, is Ruppert Thompson, the jaunty out- Spring. Thompson comes back to the runs, Griffs Get Atlanta Star. THE White Sox also picked up Wil- liam Martin, an infielder with the Baltimore Orioles, who hit .301 and bagged 21 homers. Martin has been up before. The Giants tried him and found him wanting at third. Emil Leonard, a pitcher with an educated knuckle ball, was grabbed by Washington. Leonard won 15 and lost 8 with Atlanta of the Southern Asso- ciation this year. The Phillies got Pitcher Thomas Reis, who won 19 for Wilkes-Barre of the New York-Penn League. The two hurlers are National League cast-offs. Leonard served a term with the Dodgers and the Bees had Reis. Three infielders went to the Bees. They are Robert Kahle of Indianap- olis, of the American Association: Joe ‘Walsh of Little Rock, in the Southern Association, and Earl Maggert of Houston, in the Texas League. The records show Maggert is the best hit- ter for 1937. He sports a .346 mark. A’s Get Two Pitchers. THE last-place clubs, Cincinnati | and the St. Louis Browns, got one | man each. The Reds drafted Out-| flelder Anthony Bongiovanni from Portland in the Pacific Coast League. He hit .336 with 11 home runs in 1937. George McQuinn, the only member of Newark's wonder team to be picked up in the draft, goes to the Browns. McQuinn, who has been up with the Reds, hit .331 this season. The Athletics took two pitchers, Nelson Potter of Columbus, American Assoclation champions, and Ralph Buxton of Oklahoma City, in the ‘Texas League. Potter won 11 games and Buxton 13 in 1937. The Phillies got Bill Ehrensberger from Sioux City of the Western League in addition to Rels. Other acquisitions were: Pittsburgh, Pitcher Robert Klinger of Sacra- mento, Pacific Coast League; Detroit, Pitcher Edward Selway, Fort Worth, ‘Texas League; Cleveland, Pitcher Ed | Cole, St. Paul, American Association; Chicago Cubs, Outfielder Jim Ashbell, Jersey City, International League. (Ashbell played with Knoxville, | Bouthern Association, in 1937.) ——— e Palisades Recreation Center In- stalls Pair Courts, Invites Pubilc. NE of the few sports missing around these parts will be in- troduced Friday at the new | Palisades Recreation Center on Conduit road, when two shuffle- board courts will be opened to the public. Aside from a fortunate few who Winter in Florida or take Summer sojourns on the high seas. very little is known of the game other than it's played with & cue and disc and that one not sturdy enough even for old | maids can play the game. Several enthusiasts will be on hand at the opening to offer something in the way of a demonstration, and thereafter, until the citizens know what it's all about, the Department of Playgrounds will supervise and in- struct. Use Floor-Mop Delivery. SHUFFLE, one faces his oppo- I nent from the opposite end of a eourt 52 feet long and 6 feet wide; then, using & two-pronged fork with a handle about as long as that of a broom, employs & floor-mop motion in propelling & small wooden disc into numbered blocks at the other end of the alley. Whether or not one wins ¥epends on which of the blocks his @isc finds. Shuffieboard might have been a generally accepted pastime here by now had it not been for the short- sightedness of some one when two fine eourts were constructed in Rock Creek Park several years ago, and not until they were completed was it revealed that the necessary equipment could be purchased nowhere within a reason- able distance of Washington. " PIRATE ELEVEN BEATEN. , CINCINNATI, Ohio, October 6 (#). =Cincinnati defeated Pittsbyrgh of the National League, 21-0, in an ex- hibition foot ball game here last night. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. ‘Today & year ago—Yankees won fifth world championship by trimming Giants in sixth series game, 13-5, to take series four games to two. ‘Three years ago—Texas shaded El- mer Laydens’ first Notre Dame eleven, 7-6. Virginia Van Wie won United Btates women's golf title. Five years ago—Newark took “little N MOUNT. MUSIC VS. GEHRIG \ % NING STAR, WASHINGTO! Washington Lands Emil Leonard, Atlanta Knuckle-Baller, in Dra ft THE SWING BAND. DI MAGGIO N B N N\ \\ \ ) \\\y E b ) I History Is Repeating Itself As Giants Bank on Southpaw T o Jeo . wirling in BY GRANTLAND RICE. EW YORK, October 6.—Down the years since 1905, the Giants always have come up with a southpaw defense in a world series, as they did this year, with the nomination of Carl Hubbell to pitch the opening game. In 1905, which was John McGraw's first world series, the Giants banked on Christy Mathewson and Joe Mc- Ginnity, of course. But since then the bulk of the Giant pitching in the clutch has been southpaw pitching. In 1911, 1912 and 1913 Rube Mar- quard figured large in McGraw's pitching plans and by the time 1917 rolled around and the Giants were in a world series again the defense was solidly southpaw. Three Greet Southpaws. CGRAW had three great left- handers that vear—Slim Sallee, Rube Benton and Ferdie Schupp. Sal- | lee and Benton were. real seasoned | campaigners before they came to the | Giants. Schupp was a young fellow | of whom McGra: had had great | hopes long before, in a big league sense, he arrived. Schupp, a smiling kid from Lousiville, was teamed up with one Rube Schauer for several | years with the Giants. McGraw, in moments of exaspera- tion, called them the Katzenjammer twins. Schupp would start a game— and Schauer would have to finish it for him. Or Schauer would start and somewhere along the.way McGraw would have to call on Schupp tc come in and mop up. It wasn't—for some curious rea- son—until McGraw finally despaired of Schauer and sent him out to the minors that Schupp came into his [T = own. That was in 1916, and Schupp moved on to play & tremedous part in the winning of 26 straight games by the Giants and wind up the season with an earned run average of 0.89 that still tops in the big show. By 1917 Schupp was a real major league pitcher and a consistent winner and McGraw banked on him and Sallee and Benton to beat the White Sox in the world series. They didn’t quite make it, but they gave the Sox a tussle, at that. Benton and Schupp pitched shutouts, but Sallee was beaten in a well pitched but ill-starred game, and, what with one thing and another, the Giants blew the series, Nehf Comes Along. BY 1921, which was the next time the Giants rolled into s world series, their best pitcher was Arthur Nehf. Nehf lost a couple of splendidly pitched games in that series with the Yankees, but came on to win the final game—and the title—in a memorable duel with Waite Hoyt. Nehf again was the standout Giant pitcher in the 1922 series, which the Giants won from the Yankees in four games, bar- ring a tie. In the Spring of 1923 some of us were talking to McGraw and, with the season just a week or two away, we said to McGraw: “There isn't any sense asking you who will pitch the opening game of the season because we know it will be Nehf. But what about the opening game of the world series?” McGraw laughed, “Well, Nehf always pitches the opening game of the world series, doesn’t he? You might put him down for this one, I guess.” 'HE Giants won again that year, as everybody expected they would, and when they went into the world series McGraw’s dependence was pinned on Nehf, as usual. Right down to the last game. Nehf lost that one. ‘world series” four games to two, beat~ ing Minneapolis, 8-7, in final. N i, He lost his control and McGraw had to take him out, and I don't think I Classic Series ever have seen a more tragic figure in base ball than Nehf was as he walked from the field that afternoon. He had got jammed up, and, after he was out, the Yankees came on to win, and | in the club house afterward Nehf | cried like a child because he felt he had let the Giants down in a pinch. | But McGraw knew how hard he had pitched all year—how he had pulled the Giants through one crisis after another. He knew Art had pitched his heart out in that final game of the series. And he put his arm around Nehf in the club house and told him he had nothing to feel badly about because he had done all he could and, as McGraw said, it just didn't seem to be in the cards for the Giants to win the world series three years in a| row, if for no other reason than that no team ever had done it and possibly no team ever would. Nehf was the Giant standby in the world series with Washington in 1924, The Giants couldn’t win that -one, either. But Nehf got them off to a roaring start by beating Walter John- son in the opening game. Hubbell and Melton. OVING down the years to 1933, it was Carl Hubbell who was the Giants’ defensive ace against Wash- ington. He had pitchced the Giants to the pennant, and he barged right into the series and beat the Na- tionals twice and won the series. Last year Hubbell again carried the main pitching burden against the Yankees, beating thent in an amazing pitching performance in the rain the first time out and then losing the next time he faced them. This year Hubbell is in the fore- front again. This time he has some promise of some material assistance— from the southpaw, Cliff Melton. The story of this year's series—if anybody can read it in advance—is the story of a couple of left-handers against the power that lies in the Yankee batting order. An old story, as the record bears out—southpaws hurling for the Giants in the clutch. (Copyright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Detton and Lopez, Who Once Ruled on Coast, Oppose Hanson and Meyers. IM LONBOS, grappling cham- pion in the days when the mat industry didn't bob up with & new title claimant every other day, may teke a bow from the ring tomorrow night at Turner's Arena, providing Promoter Joe Turner’s plans materialize. ‘Turner, who hopes to land Londos for a match here soon, saw him regain the world title, Maryland division, in Baltimore Monday night and requested him ta drop over tomorrow night to witness his card. Londos has not definitely informed Turner of his in- tentions. ‘Two former world champions, Pa- cific Coast division, will appear on the card, with Dean Detton meeting Billy Hanson and Vincent Lopez tangling with Freddie Meyers in twin feature twists. Both Detton and Lopez were recognized as champs until being tossed by Bronco Nagurski. Clara Mortensen, claimant of the world feminine lightweight crown, and Marie Gardina, who squirmed in Balti- more Monday, will unravel their act here in a semi-final match. Miss Mortensen won in Baltimore and un- leas the ring collapses, she'll win here, L A 0O-0-0-0LD FEELING !! 'I,\Q GOT RTHAT ) HOAG el % 1 o ..TANBdARI( BY ROBERT B, HE Inter-American Horse Show, by two notable features. T | compete, and no more. | and Toronto. The English and French, | who might have been induced to ap- pear here if they were overe here, are not even coming to the Garden. The Chileans will not return. | 0 came | so bravely and futilely to compete last year. According to Maj. Frank L. Whittaker, manager of the Inter- American, the Chileans decided they had had enough for a while after a certain visit the officers of the United States Army paid to that country this year.” The North Americans cleaned up in brutal fashion, and Maj. Whit- taker says the Chileans have resolved to stay home, collect and school some new horses, and then make a much more impressive appearance at the Inter-American and National Shows of 1938. The Mexicans, so I hear, have a date to play some polo with their “friends the Argentines, who recently took a handy lick- ing around the New York tour- naments. As some of the boys in on this polo flesta would have to come here in- stead if a Mexican horse show team were sent, the Mexicans will give Washington the slip this year. They also may feel that & bit more jumping experience would be a help before undertaking journeys so hazardous and gruelling as the one they made last season. Come 4,000 Miles To Watch Series By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 6.—An Alaskan and a Canadian claim the long-distance traveling record for world series spectators unless Mickey Cochrane, manager of the Detroit Tigers, cares to dis- pute their claims. Lawrence Kubley, theater man- ager of Ketchikan and Juneau, is the Alaskan and his traveling comparion is Stan Moran, cafe owner of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. They started for the series from Prince Rupert Septem- ber 16, coming about 4,000 miles to see the base ball classic. Both manage base ball teams and occa- sionally they visit Seattle to see " Pacific Coast League teams in ac- tion. Moran has picked the Yanks to win, while Kubley backs the Giants. Cochrane, who has been recu- perating in Europe from a head injury suffered in a ball game last May, returned on'the Queen Mary Yesterday. X » . PHILLIPS, JR. First, it will not be inter-American, in the | sense that it brings together army teams representing various nations of North and South and Central America. national horse show, in which teams from the United States and Belgium will The Irish, who were suj | to stick to Madison Square Garden: here this month, will be distinguished Second, it will be an inter- pposed to appear, have decided [ VWELL, there you have it. This vear we will see Capt. Milo H.|x. NI Matteson, Lieut. Franklin F. Wing, | | jr., and Lieuts. Scott M. Sanford and | m William H. S. Wright riding for the| Americans. The first two are exper- | fenced hands, and Capt. Matteson was | | head of the squad that went to Eng- | 1and and Ireland this Summer. Lieuts, Sanford and Wright are newly grad- uated from the advanced equitation | class at Fort Riley, and will have their first opportunity here to-show their wares in big-time competition. And rest assured that the competition supplied by the Belgians will be perhaps the stiffest that has:been seen lo- cally. Maj. Whittaker is frank in stating that he intends to make the inter- national courses spectacular, cparing {no necks, since the Belgian horses, especially an animal named Ibra- him, are supposed to be up to the best. So are the riders, who will be Captaine Commandant Chevalier de Menten de Horne, Lieut. Paul Mond- | ron, Lieut. Van Strydonck and Lieut. | Poswick (the latter undoubtedly have first names, but they are at present kept secret by the management). The Belgian horses are named Mu- saphiki, Whisky, Trouvaille, Ibra- him, Ramona, X (yes, X), Acrobate and Soir de Paques. I tell you this not because the names mean much at the moment, but in order to give the announcers and the public an opportunity to practice pronouncia- tions for a while. Olympic Veterans Compete. ALL the old-timers of the United States Army olympic squad will be here. Dakota, Ugly, Dinger, Ren- 20, Fralax (the horse with the name like an advertisement), Masquerader, Joe Aleshire. Then there will be some novitiates and semi-initiates— Podhorski, Scamp’s Boy, Colonel Pink, Soother, Fitznota and other young blood. Some of these horses have placed ahead of the Belgians in open com- petition abroad. Others have been beaten soundly by them. And that, 5o they say, makes hoss races or hoss shows. . TICKETS MADE HANDY. George Washington still is offering that free delivery service by Postal Telegraph on tickets for all games. To secure tickets for the West Vir- ginia Wesleyan game Friday night simply telephone Postal Telegraph, National 6600, and a messenger will bring your tickets with no charge for the delivery service. They also are available at Spalding’s and the G. W. usiness office, 2101 G stre AUTO HEATER SERVICE L.S.JULLIEN.I.c 1443 P SLN.W. NO.80%6 —By Jim Berryman AWRIGHT, KID, LL YUH GOTTA DO IS STRIKE UP “REMEMBER ME” AN’ DROWN By the Associated Press. SEATTLE—Gus, Lesnevich, side. N J. and Allen Mathew: Louis drew (10) LO! 1 65, Cliff- s. 16 1. 8t S — Baby Arizmendi Los Angeles. outpointed Chalky 53, Los Angeles (10). EE. Wis.—Larry Greb. 11 ukee. stopped Al Georse, 135%. C %"5‘.’1,;"', h B! 135 RK —Johnny el 3515 Lot Tlus. Haven d out Bernie Priedkin. 13115, nted Young Chappie. . Conn —Reb Russel Dynamite Joe Cox. o of three falls Mon- jed Richard Stahl Ger- 0% FRANCISCO ——Sandor Szabo. 2186, defeated Bhu Pinder, In- MI POLIS.—Lou Baitimore. « Md 240, Towa. 38713 TNDIANAPOLIS.—All _Baba. de- feated Chris Zaharias. 230. Pueblo, Colo straight falls; Shiniki Shikuma, 20 Japan. threw Irish Dan O Connor, Plummer. 245, Maves McLain, RS SR Got Appleton in ’36, Went for Cracker Pitcher in This Year’s Spoils. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. EW YORK, October 6.—For the second time in three years Owner Clark Griffith of the Nats has hit the bull's-eye in the annual major league draft. Griffith, who gunned for and got Pitcher Pete Appleton from Montreal in -the 1935 draft, drew a bead on Pitcher Emil (Dutch) Leonard of At- lanta when the draft meeting opened last night and grabbed him. Leonard, like Appleton, is a veteran right-hander. He formerly served with Brooklyn, but was released be- cause of incompetence. His forte is a knuckle ball. Willard Hershberger, a catcher with Newark, was believed to be the player Griffith wanted, but when the old gentleman arrived in New York yes- terday he announced that Leonard was the man he would claim if given the opportunity, Browns Prefer McQuinn. IT WAS just as well. The Browns, who were given first choice in the American League, selected First Base- man George McQuinn of Newark and, under the rules of the draft, no more than one player may be taken from a class A or class AA league team. Leonard is described as being about | 28 or 29 years old. With Atlanta he won 15 games and dropped 8. He is| touted by young Calvin Griffith, adopt- ed son of the Washington club owner. Brooklyn base ball writers do not think much of Leonard's ability to make the grade in the American League, although they admit “he may fool the hitters for a while because of his peculiar style.” “He hasn't much outside of his knuckler,” said one of the eritics, “and he can’t keep throwing that pitch all the time.” Griffith last year wanted to get Pitcher Luke Hamlin in the draft, but instead drew Outfielder Beverly Fer- rell, who is a class D player, 20 YEARS AGO = IN THE STAR TE SOX defeated the Giants, 2-1, in the first game of the world series. Sallee of the Giants and Cicotte of the Sox each gave up seven hits. “Happy” Felsch, Chicago’s slug- ging center-fielder, hit the first series homer, Wilson, Long, MacDonald and e e AHEARN 15 STERN Lunch Fund Card. C desire to carry their private round bout or be dropped off the lunch hating each other daily for the ben- The Cowboy, a legitimate light- Meantime 16,000 general admission | made to have members of the Junior Belnap starred for Central in the WITH SCOTT, DEAN ’ OWBOY HOWARD SCOTT feud into the ring, have been in- fund card at Griffith Stadium Oc- efit of the press, suddenly have ac- | weight, also wants Johnny to weigh in tickets, which will sell for $1, have League and Boys Scouts aid in the high school's 22-6 victory over Baltimore Poly. Orders Feudists to Come to Terms or Be Left Off and Irish Johnny Dean, who haven't shown any particular structed by Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn to come to terms for a 10- tober 18. Scott and' Dean, who have been quired hallucinations of grandeur and are squabbling over a matter of weight. |t 135 pounds, but Dean, normally | about 139 pounds, refuses | been distributed to 2,000 policemen |and firemen. Efforts also are being sale of tickets. CUP RACE WEEK STARTS. LIGONIER, Pa., Octobbr 6 (#).—The fourth running of the Rolling Rock | Hunt Cup Handicap opened ‘“race | week” today at the American Aintree, fostered by the Mellon family, BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. SLOW, drizzling rain is an asset to chess gatherings, as evidenced by the splendid turnout last evening at the Social Chess Lounge, when 20 players initiated the first round of the general tournament of the Washington Social Chess Divan under the direction of Winfred Horn, acting tournament director in the absence of Simon Naidel. Pairings for round No. 1 were D. E Brand-F. L. Richards, Conrad Will- nich-Edith Johnson, F. W. Gleason- Maud Sewall, J. G. Fairchild-Morris | Appelbaum, E. E. Williams-R. J. Fuglister, Winfred Horn-Q. U. Thomp- son, Joseph Chmielewski-J. Skeffing- ton, Vincent Saporito-W. L. Elledge, Henry Reil-J. W. Dubin and Raymond W. Lewis-James E. Terrill. Inasmuch as several players were | unable to schedule official play for succeeding Tuesdays, the tournament director says these players may ar- | range for match games any time. pro- vided the weekly match is completed before the foNowing Tuesday. { Awards will be made to the ranking players. | Social Chess Tonight. | OPEN house is the theme of the meeting of the Social Chess Divan | this evening at 8 o'clock at the Park- | side Hotel and any would-be beginner | is invited to drop in and engage in a friendly game of skittles. Four new inlaid folding boards from Czechoslovakia with accompanying Staunton-pattern chessmen, loaded and felted, and four sets of plain | Staunton chessmen were added to the | equipment of the Social Chess Lounge today. New members of the Divan ar Morris Appelbaum and R. J. Pug T | bringing the membership up to a total of 64 active players. | Last Call for Team Championship. ‘CHAIRMAN ALEXANDER STUR- | GES of the Metropolitan Chess | Association’s committee for the team | championship tournament of the Di: | trict is making the welkin ring lus: | 5o as to attract late entries in the | quintet battle that begins Friday at 8 p.m.,, Parkside Hotel. ‘ Any club or group may enter a five-man team and the fee is $5 for the entire match schedule. Present teams come from Paul Mor- phy C. C. Agriculture, Procurement Division, Government Printing Office, Ladies’ Chess Club, Social Ches: Divan and the Interhigh Chess Asso- day evening the Omar Khay- ub of G. W. 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