Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1940, Page 16

A—16 Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN, Griff Changes Horse, and Look Who's Here! Old Zeekpus Peekpus Bonura s among us again, proving once more that a baseball clubowner can change horses in midstream quicker than a fiy (horse). As we recall it, six weeks ago to the day Grandpappy Clark Griffith sat in the little wooden grandstand in Winter Haven, Fla., and told Wachington and New York newspapermen that he wasn't interested in buying back Zeke from the Giants. “We're a-rebuilding the club on young fellows,” nyah, nyah, nyahed the Old Fox. “We'e a-going to string along with Jimmy Wasdell. He's fast and young and he’s got power. Bonurk doesn't fit.” Apparently Zeekus Peekus fits a little better now because the Old Fox has passed over a passel o' dough—popular guess is $10,000—for a fellow he sold in December of 1938 for $25,000. Of this same chap Grandpappy Griffith, in a burst of bitterness three months later, said, “He's the worst big league ball player I've ever seen.” The Fox Was Only Defending His Pal Now clubowners say a lot of things they don't mean. Especially young. tempestuous clubowners like our Mr. Griff. We happen to know that he really doesnt think Zeke is the worst ball player. Maybe one of the worst but not the worst. At the time Griff poured it onto Bonura, which was in March of 1939, a New York columnist had raked Connie Mack over the coals for letting Zeke out of the American League :nd-’ Mr. G. chose that means of defending his pal, Old Connie. Of course, when Griff was talking six weeks ago in Florida, he was doing some wishful thinking, much of it aloud. He kept talking about ‘he bases his club wculd steal this year and the various ways it would outsmart the enemy. It wasn't a bad spiel, at that, because anybody with one good eye could see, in the dark, there wasn't a whole lot of hitting on the team. It wasn't bad as a spiel but it wasn't permanent, either, else Griff wouldn't have bought Bonura, who can't steal bases and can't field. And, speak- ing of buying Zeke, he offered $3,000 and the loan, for a year, of Rookie Firsc Baseman Jimmy Vernon while denying any interest in him. Now What Happens to Einstein-Seabiscuit Formula? ‘What Bonura does best is hit the ball. The obvious conclusion, then, is that in these days of modern baseball there is nothing to replace that long base hit. For a while it was a stirring picture Griffith was painting. «+. Case beating out a bunt, stealing second and third, and finally scoring on a bunt by Wasdell, who, of course, would beat out his trickler, too . . . Wasdell stealing second, taking third unmolested while wearing the dis- guise of a groundkeeper sent to tighten the straps fastening the bag, and scoring while Walker stole first and stretched it into a double, etc. It was stirring stuff but it was blasted early. That was good baseball in dad’s day. It would be good ball today if a club had a pitching staff composed of Feller, Ruffing, Leonard, Bridges, Lyons and Grove. But it didn't take Griff long to see he didn’t have that kind of ‘a staff. So now Zeekus Peekus Bonura is back again and the idea ostensibly | is to junk that Einstein-Seabiscuit formula and simply beat out the | enemy’'s brains. And Zeekus is the chief beater. Born to Be a Breakfast Club Maestro Thus is added another chapter to the strange story of Henry J. Bonura of New Orleans. He knocked across 440 runs in four years with the White Sox and wasn't wanted. He led the Nats with 114 runs batted over in 1938 and was sold. He led the Giants in runs batted across and in average and didn’t even finish the season on the field. Bill Terry benched Zeke, formally announced he didn't intend to play him again, and as long ago as last August the big fellow knew that he was through as a Giant. The strange part of the saga of Zeke is that he can do more things well than he does poorly. He can’t run, nor can he cover much ground at first base but he can hit with his eyes closed, he's good target for in- fielders and he is one of those guys to whom the world is just a bowl of cherries. For Zeke the sun always is shining. There are no such things as wars, 14-day periods to the next pay day, red lights and sinus. He was born to be one of those radio fellows who gets up at dawn, plays records and spreads ebullience among the cab drivers on the day shift. Zeke's Shadow Always Hanging Over Wasdell It almost goes without saying that our large friend will be accepted by | the Griffith Stadium wolfpack. The Nats, with their pitching staff, are | going to need all the runs they can get this summer and Zeekus is the boy to help out. He may let in a few runs, himself, but as he puts it, “Who don’t?” Try to answer that one sometime during an idle hour. For young Jimmy Wasdell it's a tough break. Mr. G. went out of his way to emphasize that James would be retained in the capacity of a spare outfielder. This is designed to encourage Wasdell but obviously he can't break into outfield of Walker, Case and Lewis. Not when Johnny Welaj has improved to such an extent that a booming campaign with a Welaj-In- Regularly slogan, is under way at this moment. But, if nothing else, it removes for Wasdell the shadow of big Zeke hovering over him. In Winter Haven during spring training, while Jimmy played first base, Bonura sat in the stands with Griffith and discussed ways and means of getting away from the Giants. In Orlando it was the same thing. Zeke even visited the Nats’ camp to play fan-tan with his old mates and, of course, if Griff was handy, Zeke tried to sell Bonura to Washington again. He even motored 30 miles through a rainstorm in South Carolina to catch an exhibition game of the Nats. As we said, Zeke's shadow is gone now for Jimmy. Instead, there is Zeke in person. Wasdell probably prefers it. If anybody can make Jimmy laugh these days it will be Bonura, who is infinitely funnier than his shadow. Gate-Crashers, Camera Pests Big Headaches to Director Of Penn Meet Publicity By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, April 27.—For 16 years, row, Joe Labrum has been ladling up publicity on the Penn relays and you'd think the man would begin to sour a bit on the job in that time, but not Labrum. “The job's getting increasingly tougher each year.” he says, “and keeps me pretty busy, but it's in- teresting and I like the work. Like any writing job, though, the hour's are bad. Newspapermen call me all hours of the day, at home or at the office, and I've got to give them data and one thing or another.” A graduate of Penn, Labrum went overseas as a “top-kick” and fought in several major engage- ments in the World War. Returning to this country, he entered the news- paper field, writing on the sports staffs of the North American, Press and Ledger. In 1924 Pennsylvania offered him the position of director of publicity, which involved the set- ting up of his own organization. He's been on the job since. Knows All Gate-Crashers. Joe’s hardest problem is meeting newspapermen and radio men and trying to forestall gate-crashers from worming into crowded press boxes at important sports events. He's got it down to a science now, and can spot a gate-crasher at 50 paces. More troublesome than uninvited guests, however, are camera addicts who seem to think no football game or track meet is official unless they record the event with their No. 2 box contraptions. He found them difficult to discourage at first, but thinks he has the correct formula. The Penn relays, according to a survey made by the Labrum staff, receive more actual coverage than any other sporting event on earth. Results find their way into foreign papers as far east as Japan and all over Europe. The games have attracted numerous European relay teams and consequently, staff writers on papers from England, Germany, France, Finland and Sweden—to mention a few. Games Long Established. ‘The games originated back in 1893, when Penn. blessed with four outstanding quarter-milers, thought it would be a good idea to invite Princeton to Franklin Field for a race involving all four men. It seemed to be a nice opportunity to steal a march on the Tigers, too. Princeton accepted, but the idea backfired and Penn’s prize quartet lost. But the idea lost none of its ap- peal and in 1895 the relays were placed on a permanent basis and have been growing ever since. Joe’s brother, “Hap,” went to Georgetown and was a well-known illtop. Philadelphia law- Chuck Fenske, who was expected to win the invitational mile on today's program, spent yesterday in a ma- chine shop nearby Franklin Field supervising the grinding of spikes on his new shoes. The spikes were ground down from three-fourths of an inch to five-sixteenths. Fenske lost his old shoes in the recent fire at Wisconsin, which de- stroyed virtually all of the Badgers’ athletic equipment. SOUTHERN ASBOCIATION, Memphis, 3; Birmingham. 1. Chatiansots. & Ariente. 8. atta ; a3, ew a’r’l:fi'ns € ‘Little Rock. 3 (12 In- he Foening Htap Sporis . Gerierous Henry Saves Junior First Kayo Champ Prolongs Bout To 7th Round, Where Referee Stops It By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 27.—Thanks to a merciful referee and Champion Henry Armstrong’s tolerance, Paul Junior, courageous Lewiston, Me., battler, was able to boast anew to- day that he never has been knocked out officially in any of the 300-odd bouts he has fought during his 10 years in the professional prize ring. But the 30-year-old Junior stepped far out of his class when he faced off against the fast-punching Arm- strong, who successfully defended his world welterweight title at Bos- ton Garden last night for & $15,000 guarantee. Henry Delays Slaughter. Armstrong, in the opinion of most of the 16,469 spectators, could have settled the issue jn the very first round if he had desired, but he was obliging enough to' prolong the scheduled 15-round title match un- til the 65th second of the seventh round, as Junior was about to sink for the fifth time under a vicious barrage, Referee Johnny Martin halted the action. That saved Junior from taking unnecessary punishment and spared him the ignominy of taking his first 10-count. The result will go into the records as another technical knockout for the great Negro scrap- per, who, not so long ago, owned three world titles. After ., asserting his supremacy over junior in the opening round by knocking him down twice, Arm- strong eased up on the Maine vet- eran and coasted along for the next three rounds. Junior managed to gain an edge in two of them for, as | they crouched head-to-head, his uppercuts were effective. Crowd Just Under Record. As if bored with such shillyshally- ing, Armstrong came out for the fifth round in a tantrum. There- after, he flayed and belabored junior’s head with a barrage of short hooks and was giving an ex- cellent impersonation of perpetual motion gwith his punishing fists in the seventh when Martin inter- vened. Although the packed crowd was only 33 less than the all-time New England record, set back in 1930 by the Jimmy Maloney-Tom Heeney show, the gate receipts totaled only $33855, due to the fact that Pro- moter Rip Valenti retained his cus- tomary $1.10-$3.30 price scale. Although junior is the holder of the New England lightweight title, he actually weighed more than the | defending champion, 141 pounds to | 139%. Major Statistics SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1940. AMERICAN Results Yesterday. ton. 8; Philadeiphis, 8. ton. 8: New York. 1. Chicago. 11; Cleveland, 1, Detroit-8t. Louis, rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS EFe] T s | [=he || 01 01 01 01 2| 21 6| 217141 Det 11— 0/ 0 0 0 2 21 5] 217141 Bos!_01_0/—! 11 3/_1 0 01 61 2L.714] NYI 0l 0 0/—I 1| 2 0| 0/ 3 315001 1% Wal 01 01 11 0/—I 2| 0/ 0l 3| 41.429] 2 PRI 0/ 01 11 2/ 0I—I 01 0l 31 61.375 2% S.LI 01 11 01 01 0] 0l—I 1/ 21 5.286| 8 Chil 1] 0l 01 01 0 01 1/—I 21 61.286] 3 L1 21 21 21 31 4 61 6| Bl—I—I | ‘GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. N. Y. at Wash,, 3. Bos. at Phila. at Chi. t Det. 2 R NATIONAL Results Yesterday. N k, 5: Boston. 3. Erootithe 6 Phiwasiohia, 0. Pittsburgh. 10: 8t. Louis. 4. Chicago. 6; Cincinnati. 2. “ STANDING OF THE CLUBS [ L3 UOM. === o I8 wiqdEpeud = ukmooia == XI0X MIN = Beuupuo C] © qsingsiid Bkll—| 1| 0}, 0! 01_21_3I_6|_0{1.000| NY| 0l—I 01 0l 0l oI 2 66712 Pitl 0/ 0l—I 0l 21 2| 01 0l &I 21 .667I2 Cin| 0l 0l 0l—I 21 11 0l 0l 3| 2[_.600i2% Chil_0l ol 11 2i—I 2| 0l 0l 5 5| .50013 StLI_0l 0l 11 01 1l—I| 0l ol 2i 5| _.28614% Phil 0 1] 0 0l 0 Ol— 0l 1| 0i .200I4% Bos| 01 01 0 01 0 0l 0l—I 0l 5I_.00018% L..1 O 21 21 21 5| 5] 41 5l—I—I | GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Brkiyn. at N. Y. kiyn at N. Y. R Chi. at 8t. L. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1940. Daffiness Gone as Dodgers Sport Best Early SCORE FOR CAPITAL—Prominent in the opening events of the Penn Relays at Philadelphia yesterday were Georgetown and Maryland Universities. Above, left, grimacing with effort, and with both feet off the ground, is Hoya Al Blozis achieving a meet mark of 55 feet 53 inches in the shotput. And at the right Terp Mason Chronister, about to break the tape as anchor man in’ winning the distance medley relay. for Maryland. —A. P. Wirephotos. More Records Loom In Windup of Big Drake Relays Three Broken, Another Tied on Opening Day, Despite Poor Track By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, April 27.—An | ambitious Drake relay field, proud“ of three new records and a tie for another, sought new additions to the Cardinals’ 31-year-old record | books today. With promises of good weather and a fast track, it appeared likely that the track and field stars, the largest gathering in 11 years at the Drake show, would oblige with more record-smashing performances in the final events of the two-day an- nual meet. One of the top attractions today was a special pole vault performance by Earle Meadows, & former Univer- | sity of Southern California cham- | pion, who had definite ideas about regaining the world record lost when | Cornelius Warmerdam soared an | even 15 feet in a Pacific Coast event | a few weeks ago. Milt Padway, | Wisconsin's former Big Ten cham- pion, provided the competition for Meadows. Loyola Quartet Speedy. ‘Twenty-one events for the college, university and high school per- formers dotted the customary final- day program. Somewhere along the | line new records were expected to turn up in much the same manner as they did yesterday. Battling a chilly breeze and a none-too-fast track, a qusrtet of speedsters from Loyola University of Chicago opened the record-breaking for the first-day crowd with a 3:279 performance in the college sprint medley relay, taking four-fifths of a second off the previous- mark established by the Pittsburgh (Kans.) State Teachers in 1938. East Texas State Teachers con- tributed the second record with a 1:275 race in the college half-mile relay. The Southern lads wiped out a 15-year-old mark of 1:278 by Butler University. Hughes Gets Discus Mark. Husky Jack Hughes of the Uni- versity of Texas chipped in with the third record. He tossed the discus 159.79 feet to erase the mark of 15829 feet set by Edsel Wibbels of Nebraska last year. The Corn- husker didn’t even place yesterday, his best toss being 13549 feet. Indiana University’s hustling Hoosiers tied the 3:25.1 record for the sprint medley and would have done even better if Campbell Kane hadn’t had the misfortune to stumble as he started the anchor leg. Griff Inmune to Mind-Reader Smoking Out News of Bonura’s Return Swell Training for Diplomatic Corps Rookie Recommended for striving young diplomatic corps aspir- ants . . . covering a major league ball club: i It is 3 pm. on the afternoon of Friday, April 26 (yesterdey), and s baseball writer invades the office of Clark Griffith, president of the Washington ball club. “Anything new, Griff? Are you going to get Bonura? We hear buzzings all over town that Zeke is coming back. In fact, he's due tomorrow, they say.” “Harrumph! Bonura? What's the matter with Wasdell? A lit- tle slump, that’s all” Fifteen minutes later; a ball game starts. The Nats win, 8-6. ager Bucky Harris’ locker. B t's this rumor,” one, asks, “about Bonura being on the way to Washington?” Harris looks up. “Listen,” he says, “I don’t know what goes on around this club. Why don’t you talk to the old fellow with the white hair. He’s running the club.” But the whole town is buzzing. Bonurg” is on his way to Wash- ington, they say. “Listen,” Harris says, “I wish my bird dog had a nose like yours. We'd bag a lot of birds.” Throughout the emptying club- house rings laughter. The newspapermen go to din- ner . . . in short, their first meal of the day. The phione rings: “Hallo, this is Griff. Listen, T've just purchased Zeke Bonura. I never give out prices, but I paid more t.lzm the waiver price Bonura Merely Filling In W hile Vernon Is Seasoned for Job; Garden Beckons Wasdell By FRANCIS E. STAN. Shhh . . . don't syread it around but THE first baseman of our Na- tionals—the fellow who is going to be playing the bag until all of us are a great deal older—is apprenticing at Jersey City yet. In the wake of Clark Griffith re- | purchase of Henry J. (Zeke) Bonura | all sorts of things are happening. | For instance, Manager Bucky Har- ris has revised his batting order for the third time this infant seasor. President Clark Griffith has thrown out hints that Jimmy Wasdell, de- moted predecessor to Zeke, will| stick as an outfielder and part-time | first baseman. And all the time, up where the Jersey City club is play- ing and probably unaware of the heavy drama, our Nats’ real first baseman is blithelv playing ball. That, at least, is Griffith’s story. He is James (Mickey) Vernon, the fancy-fielding youngster who served a stretch here last year. James is being polished under the auspices of the New York Giants’ farm across the river. The story behind the ac- | quisition of Bonura is a touching tale of patience. OI' Zeekus Peekus is a Senator again because Grift wants a stop-gap pending the day when Vernon really is ready for the | majors. M C. C. Griff Raids Again. Even Grifith admitted as much today as he awaited the arrival of big Zeke from New York. “I don't want to call in Vernon,” he said, “because Mickey really needs a year or two irn fast minor lenzue‘. ball. He's going great for Jersey City and he ought to develop. He’s a8 major league first baseman right now but he needs a little brushing up on his hitting.” The purchase of Bonura came as & surprise to nobody. Something has been in the air ever since the Nats’ first two or three games. The ‘Washington club failed to hit and, alarmed, Griffith and Harris, be- gan to look around. Wasdell, who with two hits in 30 times at bat shows only an .066 average, was picked to be replaced and Griffith, who ruthlessly raided the National League to form the American in 1901, continued his raiding. In short, Griff added to a grow- ing little band of ex-National Leaguers, including Dutch Leonard and Al Hollingsworth, the person of Bonura for a price which was unannounced but believed to be $10,000. $15,000 Rental for Zeekus. Even from a financial viewpoint it was an interesting negotiation which went on between Griffith and Horace Stoneham, young owner of the Giants. In the winter of 1938 Griff sold Bonura to the New York- ers for $25,000 in cash and two bush leaguers. Thus, the Giants paid the equivalent of $15000 in American money for one season’s rental on big Zeekus Peekus. Now that Zeke is back, raising hopes for a big inning because he can hit a long ball and clapping his flippers together, seal-style, Man- ager Harris today changed his bat- ting order. Zeke is going to hit in the clean-up post. Gerry Walker, who has been batting fourth since he joined the team in March, will be shoved up to the third slot and Buddy Lewis, who emerged .from & batting slump when placed back in the No. 2 position, will con- tinue where he is. Griffith and Harris are not posing Bonura as part of the building-for- the-future scheme, which is some- thing we hope to live through. They are high on Vernon, but they want Zeke for a year or two, and as for ‘Wasdell, it will depend upon circum- stances. Jimmy can hit better than 066 and he can play the outfield. If he gets a break he may step in the garden and do all right. Wasdell's fate was sealed—some- body had to be goat—when the Griffmen lost their first four games. Thres of the pitchers who won against them were southpaws—Lefty Grove, Vernon Gomez and Rookie Mickey Harris. Inasmuch as Was- dell was in a bad slump, along with the rest of the boys, he was the guy they decided to replace. The plan is to play Bonura the moment he arrives at Griffith Sta- dium. Upon completing the deal last night, Griffith wired Bonura to hurry here for the opener of a three- game series against the Yankees today. “If he can't make it by train,” Griff said last night, “we’ll get him in town by plane.” Griff, incidentally, never has traveled by plane and never intends to. The chances were, however, that Bonura would be in the vicinity of the park by game time today because ever since last August, when Bill Terry went sour on him, Zeke has been trying to hook up with the Nats again. “That,” Zeke said some weeks ago in the South, “is my favorite town. I like Griff, Bucky and everybody in the city.” Off the record, but now eligible for publication, he added that he did not consider Mr. Terry among his close friends. Winners of Six In Row Tangle With Giants Terrymen Streoki;\g, Too; Red Sox Keep Yanks Submerged By BILL WHITE, Associated Press Sports Writer. The frantic antics of Brooklyn’s daffiness boys apparently have van- ished from the baseball scene, and the Dodgers, darn ’em, have turned respectable. That seems unfair. Visions of pitchers winding up while men were on base, of three Dodgers all try- ing to occupy the same base or of outfielders catching fly balls with their heads used to be an integral part of the game. But the Dodgers no longer are daffy—they're down- right dangerous. How else would you explain Brooklyn being the only undefeated team in the majors, with six straight victories, climaxed by yesterday's 6-0 triumph over the Philadelphia Phillies? Freddie Fitzsimmons’ fling- ing limited the Phils to seven hits| to give the Dodgers the best early | season record in the club’s 50-year | history. Giants on Dodgers’ Hoels. Pressing the Dodgers for top hon- ors in the senior circuit are their hated mterborough rivals, the Terry Giants, and the rejuvenated Pitts- burgh Pirates. The Dodgers collide with the Giants today. The Giants won their fourth in a row, 5-3, over the hapless Boston Bees yesterday as Pinch-hitter Joe Moore doubled to send in the win- ning two runs. The Pirates, behind Mace Brown's 10-hit hurling, slaughtered the St. Louis Cardinals, 10-4, thanks to a 400-foot homer by Pinch-hitter Joe Bowman with two on that gave the Bucs the spark that sent them on their winning way. The Cincinnati Reds, defending| league champions, were shocked byi a 6-2 setback at the hands of the| Chicago Cubs, whose Claude Pas- seau limited them to five hits while| Billy Nicholson went on a batting | spree, hitting a homer, double and | single to win the game almost single | handedly. | Yanks Strangely Submerged. The New York Yankees, another interborough rival (for fandom’s acclaim) of the Dodgers found | themselves unaccustomedly in| fourth place in the American League | standings—the result of a sound| shellacking at the hands of the Bos- ton Red Sox in the first meeting between the American League’s two 1939 titans. | The Yankees, no better than any one else when facing inspired piu:h-‘1 |ing, couldn’t do a thing to young Emerson Dickman until the nifith inning and by then the Gold Sox had the game sewed up. The final | score was 8-1, as the Bostonians made merry at the expense of Monte Pearson, Spud Chandler and Lee Grissom, gathering 11 safe blows. | Thornton Lee of the Chicago White Sox held the Cleveland In- | dians helpless while his mates drubbed Johnny Allen for an 11-1 Goodness, Three in Row! Meanwhile, the Nats faced the in- vasion of the Yankees with rising | victory. | Detroit and St. Louis were rained out. | hope. They have just won threet e ! o the boys to go inta the matter of | Columbia-Navy Race Apt fo Give True how they won those games so we'll let it go by saying they have won | despite pitching, batting and defen- | sive shortcomings. Actually, they | have been outfumbling the enemy. | Our side made it two straight Season Record .in Club History Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Baseball. Washington vs. Griffith Stadium, 3. Maryland vs. Washington Col- lege, Chestertown, Md. American University vs. West- ern Maryland, Westminster, Md. Roosevelt vs. Navy Plebes, An- napolis, Md. St. Alban's vs. St. Andrew’s, Middletown, Del. ‘Woodrow Wilson vs. Episcopal, Alexandria, Va.; 3:30. Lacrosse. Maryland vs. Penn State, State College, Pa. Washington A. A. vs. Washing- ton and Lee, Central Stadium, 3. Track. Local schools and colleges in Penn Relays, Philadelphia. Maryland Frosh vs. Plebes, Annapolis, Md. Steeplechase. Maryland Hunt Cup, Martin e: tate, Worthington Valley, Md.; 4. Horse Show. George Washington U., Easte west Highway, 2. Wright, Nat Castoff, Bats .444 fo Top American Loop League-Leading Dodgers Have 3 Hitters Among National’s First 10 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—As befits & team that is riding the crest of a six-game winning streak and cure rently is setting the big leagues afire, the" Brooklyn Dodgers have three of their brightest young men among the 10 leading hitters of the National League. On top of the Dodger parade with a fancy 364 is Cookie Lavagetto, the olive-skinned third baseman, whose mark makes him the fourthe ranking National League batsman, The other two Dodgers among the select group are Rookie Charley Gilbert and the veteran Dolph Camilli, both clouting at a .333 clip. Heading all big league .400 bats= men is the New York Giant rookie first maseman, Norman (Babe) Young, with 11 hits in 23 appear= ances at the plate for a fulsome .478. Elbie Fletcher of the Pirates is next with a 455 mark, just a whisper better than Chunky Taft Wright of the Chicago White Sox, leading American League clouter, who has a mark of 444, Chasing after Wright is Barney McCosky of the Detroit Tigers, who has bingled safelv 11 times in 25 tries for a mark of .440. The 10 leading hitters in each league: AMERICAN LEAGUE. G New York, Navy Wright. Chicago McCosky, Detroit Travis. Washington Tresh. Chicago Cramer. Boston Foxx. Boston Campbell. Detroit _ Mack. Cleveland Higgins,_ Detroit Doerr. Boston = Kennedy, Chicago NATIONAL LEAGUE. G. AB Young. New York _ 6§ 23 Fletcher. Pittsburgh_ 6 Slaughter, St. Louis Lavagetto, Brooklyn Marion, St. Louis Padgett. St. Louis _ 5 J. Martin, St. Louis 6 Vaughan, ' Pittsburgh 5 Gilbert. ‘Brookivn . & Camilll, Brooklyn Official Score ©ooBORNE S S 5H R. 4 8 5 2 i 8 2 1 4 5 4 oo mPORNDL D over the Athletics yesterday and Hollingsworth won his first start, although he didn’t finish. For five innings Al was okay but he tired and after a three-run rally in the sixth and another three-run rally in the eighth the A's got him out and Sid Hudson finished. The Nats won by taking a first- inning lead against Nelson Potter and increasing it later at the ex- pense of Herman Besse, Lester Mc- Crabb and Bill Beckman, who also work for Connie Mack. The Wash- ingtons only made six hits but helpful, indeed, were two Philly errors, four bases on balls, two balks and two hit-by-pitched balls batsmen. Those things mount up, you know. . Vienna Cards Dating The Vienna Cardinals, an un- limited baseball team, want games for Saturdays and Sundays. Call Falls Church 890-W-2 or write M. C. Turner, Vienna, Va. Line on Crews PHILADELPHIA. . R. chapman, of oA T | | By the Associated Press. the East's top-flight college crews |and a couple of little fellows get | their first trials in competition to- | day, while Columbia and Navy come together in the second test for each. The results may help to clarifly the situation so far as “sprint” racing supremacy is concerned. Columbia in its first start whipped Rutgers and Manhattan handily, while Navy lost to a fine Princeton crew. But the weather last Satur- day was so bad those results can be discounted to a considerable extent. Their duel at Annapolis today should be more revealing. The first-time starters are Har- vard and Syracuse, which take on setts Tech and Boston University, in the quadrangular Rowe Cup Re- gatta at Cambridge, and Pennsyl- vania, which meets Rutgers in a dual race at Philadelphia. Yank Series to Pay for Zeke Loan of Monteagudo, Only Griff Pitcher Yet To Toil This Year, Overlooked in Deal- The Nats paid $10,000 to get Zeke Bonura and they'll get that 10-grand, plus some, back to- dsy, Sunday and Monday with the Yankees invading for the first time . . . In other words Grandpappy Clark Gi will more than pay for Zeke's pur- chase price and even his salary during the current invasion of the champions . . . Who inci- dentally, may not be champions for long. 3 ~Most overlooked part of the Bonura deal is the loan; on op- tion of Pitcher Rene Monteagudo the only Washington pitcher who hasn't appeared in a game this year . shadowed all ‘The Brooklyn club, which passed up Dutch Leonard, notably, gave Griff 30 days in which to pass judgments on Holly, who de- serves a break. Marvin Breuer, who won 17 and lost only 6 games last year for Kansas City, was to open the three-game series for the Yan- kees against the Nats today, with Ken Chase in the box for the Washingtons . . . George Mar- shall and his coach, Ray Flaherty, saw yesterday’s game and visited the clubhouse after . . . Up until that point it was comparatively easy to get Harris, a dyed-in-the wool pro-football fan, to talk baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomorrow—New York—3:00 P.M. NEW YORK, April 27.—Three of | H: a couple of minor rivals, Massachu- | Hud: o> Moses. rf __ | McCoy. 3b ~~ | Johnson, 1f | Biebert. ‘15 - aves.'c Rubeling. 3b Lillard. ss Potter,’ p *Brucker ~ iGantenbein | Besse, p iSimmons | McCravb. p Beckman. p §Miles 95952~20050~19m0) 20200 DII DL 29053550 19wmLH M0 B L ETH eIy 922000000~ Totals _ 3 *Batted for Potter in the sixth. iRan for Brucker in the sixth {Batted for Besse in the seventh. §Batted for Beckman in the ninth, AB. R. H. 020 IO LA 0 L T ot SHOo32HO8O omwomem B0 O PEEEEERES Totals 28 8 62712 *Ran for Early in the seventh. Philadelphia _ ——-- 000 003 030—8§ Washington = 00 030 40x—8 Runs__batted in—Travis, Moses, McCoy. Siebs Rubeling, _Two-ba; Johnson, Hayes. Stolen ' base—Hayes. Double Playe—Hollingswort, Wasdell to Bloodworth. on Philadelphia. 8: _Washington, 4, base on balls—Off Potter, 2: off Besse, Off McCrabb. 2: off Hollingsworth, 3: Hudson, 1. 'Struck out—By Besse. 1 by Hollingsworth. 1: by Hudson. 2. Hits— Off Potter, 5'In 5 innines: off Besse, 0 i 1 inning: off McCrabb. 0 in 0 inning: o& Hollingsworth, 8 in 7% innings: off Hud- fon. 2 in 1% innings: n, 1 in ngs. t by pitched ball—By Potter by M bbb (Hollingsworth). Balk—Potter. Winning pitcher—Hollings- worth. Losing pitcher—Potter. Umpires Ziyunn, Piogras and Summers. Time— Lewis r, Hi INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Newark, l: Buffalo, 2. 3. Oity, ester. aitimore. 8: Montrea . (Only games.) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Columbus, 4. Minneasoits, 10 Toredor 5’ (14 tnnings), PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Guliinacht gameg, one doublecheader) Francico, §1: Beattle, 1-3. Sacramen! lollywood, _rain. S on SMOSTH ICE - CHEVY CHASE ICE PALACE