Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1940, Page 16

A—14 Home Runs Are Dime a Dozen, With 20 Clouted Win, Lose or Draw' By FRANCIS E. STAN. ; Justice Triumphs and Corp. Miller's Happy It didn’t prove anything, except that as a fighter Joey Archibald iy even a little more inept than first suspected, but the second Jeffra- Archibald act, entitled “Justice Triumphs, or Harry Win Easy,” suggested that Onkel Heinie Miller and his practically National Boxing Association has the best featherweight champion of them all in Petey Scalzo. As these lines are written the score seems to stand as follows: 1—Harry Jeffra is the world champion of Maryland, New York and maybe California. 2—Jimmy Perrin s the world champion of Louisiana, especially of New Orleans, where he lives. 3.—Petey Scalzo is the world champion of the N. B. A,, with special backing at 462 Indiana avenue, local, where Corp. Miller operates. Petey also can do a Grik dialect ect. ‘We have not had the pleasure of watching Mr. Perrin but his record doesn’t exactly shout for his prowess. As for Mr. Jeffra, he is a nice sort: of a kid who got a rough deal last summer in Washington but who lived through it and belted Archibald so badly last night in Baltimore that he couldn't be robbed again. As for Mr. Scalzo, in our book (here we go again!) he's the cream of the crop and that man who is bowing is Onkel Heine. . Courage Kept ‘Cheese Champion’ Churning When Jeffra fought Archibald in Griffith Stadium last summer he won with consummate ease, to coin a phrase, but Archy got the decision. Last night in Baltimore he won again, this time got the decision, and it ‘was no home-town job, either. He knocked Archibald down twice in the second round and only Joey's courage enabled him to last 15 rounds. Archibald never was more than a cheese champion but he had the heart. He proved that last night. Joey knew he was gone in the second round, when he was hit about as hard as it is possible to be hit by a man weighing, roughly, 125 pounds. He knew he was licked but he kept plugging through 13 more long, hot rounds, and he was a better loser last night than he was a winner last September. But getting back to Jeffra, what did he do? He only licked the worst champion in boxing. In two fights with Archibald he has gone 30 rounds. True, he wasn't hurt once during the stretch but in view of the fact that Scalzo belted out Archibald in less than two rounds it is hard to go around carrying a torch for Harry. Jeffra’s Not Bad But Neither Is He Good He isn't a bad fighter, of course. The fellow now has held two titles, the bantam and featherweight crown, and it takes something more than & novice to accomplish this much. But in two fights with Archibald, & shorter, less skillful workman, and in some lesser duels we have seen Harry employ only one style of fighting; he has a negligible left and a right which he swings overhand only. Now, getting back to Onkel Heinie’s boy, Petey, here is a fellow seemingly endowed with more versatility. Scalzo hits with both hands and, if anything, he hits harder than Jeffra and, as the boys put it, he's “shorter.” They mean Scalzo throws his punches shorter. It follows that a fellow who doesn't need a big windup to throw a punch can do a quicker, more accurate job. ‘When, and if, the champions get together, it will be only after some of the fanciest haggling on record. The other day, after Mr. Scalzo de- fended his world championship of the N. B. A. against Frankie Covelli, it ‘was announced here that henceforth Petey will operate only on a 37% per cent basis, which is what a champion supposedly is entitled to demand. But Perrin is claiming a title, ahd hoping to get 371 per cent of a gate sometime, and last night Mr. Maxwell Waxman, erudite owner of Jeffra, disclosed that he will demand $10,000 when his boy’s title, good in Mary-, land and New York, is put on the block. ‘This, of course, creates a problem in economics. A promoter can’t give two champions 37% per cent—or a total of 75 per cent—and escape with his skin. It will be interesting to see how it is worked out. Harry's Okay But We'll Still Take Scalzo Among the poignant notes attached to last night's battle was that reported gross gate of $13,000. It has been a long time since any Wash- ington promoter has attracted a gate that size and, rightly, the second Archibald-Jeffra fight should have been held in Washington. This wa. the one fight which reasonably could have been made for Griffith Stadium ahd which might possibly have come close to filling it. If anything, Jeffra’s official victory over Archibald—last night’s, we mean—was more decisive than the Griffith Stadjum g#uggle last Septem- ber. Jeffra, a 7-to-5 favorite at ring-time, performed like a 5-to-1 shot. He never was hurt and he frequently hurt Archibald. On this inexpert observer's scorecard Harry won eight rounds, with three to Archibald and four going even. Some of the boys thought it was closer and others thought otherwise. Charley Reynolds, top D. C. referee, but only a spectator last night, said that he didn't score the fight but that he could give 10 of the rounds to Jeffra without blushing. It generally was unanimous, all right, but we’ll take Scalzo as the featherweight champion of the featherweight champions of the world. WASHINGTON, D. Three 4-Basers By Higgins Trip Leading Bosox Foxx Hits One With’ Bases Full; Bees Swarm on Reds * By JUDSON BAILEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. Home run hitting being what it is today, a fellow just about has to collect them in clusters to get any notice. There were 20 round-trip tickets punched in the major leagues yes- terday .and the same number the day before, 5o you can see why most of them get lost in the shuffie of other affairs. p But you cant overlook three in one game, which is the little stunt Pinky Higgins of the Detroit Tigers showed the Boston Red Sox in beat- ilr‘\‘g_’ the American League leaders, The trio of homers came on con- secutive times at bat and brought in four other runners for a total of seven tallies as the veteran third baseman personally matched the scoring efforts of the entire Boston team, Rowe Gets Victory. The victory was credited to School- boy Rowe, who went to the mound in the fifth after Jimmy Foxx had hit his 10th home run of the season | with the bases loaded off Tommy Bridges. That, incidentally, is one kind of a homer that isn't easily passed over even if the batter gets only one in a game. Another “ex- ception that proves the rule” is the fellow who hits only one home run a year. Lefty Grove got his for 1940 in this game, but later was knocked out, Jeff Heath of the Cleveland In- dians, who hit/two home runs in one game last Priday, hit two again yesterday as the Tribe trimmed the New York Yankees for the second straight time, 10-2. The world champions yielded to their old weakness against left-handed pitch- ing and were held to one hit for eight innings and barely escaped a shutout by getting to Al Smith for two more in the ninth. Another home run bombardment originated from an unsuspected quarter, the Philadelphia Athletics, as they stopped the St. Louis Browns, 8-4. Frank Hayes put to- gether two of the game’s five homers in the course of helping Chubby Dean to his fourth vic- tory against one defeat. ;. | Reds Stung by Bees. The Cincinnati Reds were crushed, 13-4, by the Boston Bees, six of the runs coming on homers by Al Lopez and Carvell Rowell. Five Cincinnati pitchers gave up seven bases on balls, and the Bees made five runs in one inning and six in another. The Brooklyn Dodgers lost an- other chance to take advantage of Cincinnati’s plight by dropping a 6-4 decision to the Chicago Cubs. All the Dodger runs were crowded into the sixth inning, when they batted Bill Lee off the mound, but this failed to equalize the persistent 13-hit tattoo the Cubs beat against four Brooklyn hurlers. The Pittsburgh Pirates lost an- other heart-breaker, 8-7, to the Philadelphia Phillies. The Pirates were leading, 7-1, going into the Second-Year Jinx Fells Keller, But Williams, McCosky Avoid Baseball's Sophomore Spell Br the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, May 21.—World Series’ hero last fall, bench-rider this spring—that’s the sad experience of chunky Charley Keller of the floun- dering New York Yankees. The “second year” jinx that dulls the luster of many freshman stars #s a very real thing to the 24-year- old outfielder who became a star member of the Yankee cast last summer. He finished the season with a battling average of .334 and blasted out three home runs in the World Series against Cincinnati, clubbing the ball at a 438 rate in the fall classic. Now he’s on the sidelines, benched by Manager Joe McCarthy for weak hitting after carving an anemic .231 mark in 21 games. Strangely, several other freshman stars have picked up where they left off a year ago and are riding high after a month-of competition. Ted Williams, Red Sox outfielder, who batted .327 a year ago while knocking in 145 runs and blasting 31 homers, is hitting a sizzling .347, although he’s lagging behind in home-run production. Among the pitchers Cincinnati’s Gene Thompson is off to a running start with five victories and two losses. Last year he won 13 and Jost 5 and had an earned-run aver- age of 255. None of the other sophomore hurlers is in this class. The Yankees’ Atley Donald, who won 13 and lost 3 in 1939, has par- ticipated in only two games, being credited with no wins or losses. Mort Cooper, St. Louils Cards’ youngster, has yet to win a game while Ike Pearson of the Phils and John Kramer of the St. Louis Browns, have only a victory apiece. Detroit’s Barney McCosky is an- other gardener apparently unaf- fected by the jinx. He is batting .310 and fielding brilliantly. He hit .311 a year ago. Mike Tresh, catcher for the Chicago White Sox, looks better than ever this season. He hit only 259 as a yearling, but now is whacking at a .325 clip, which looks good even allowing for shrinkage later on. Two others giving no thought to the jinx are Merrill May, Philly third baseman, and Eddie Miller, Bees’ shortstop. May is hitting .333 and Miller .325, considerably above their 1939 marks, and delivering steadily in the field. Rocking along about on par with their rookie performances are Jim Tabor, the Red Sox strong-armed third baseman; Glen Russell, Cubs’ first baseman who shines in the clutch, .and Johnny Berardino, smooth-fielding infielder of the St. Louis Browns. ninth, the only run against Mace Brown being a homer by Chuck Klein, Then Brown developed a sore arm, and three other Pitts- burgh pitchers squandered the lead. Dick Lanahan finally forced the winning run across with a walk. CHff Melton, the New York Giants’ seasoned southpaw, shut out the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0, on six hits, but the most interest- ing phase of the game was New York's scoripg. Harry Danning ac- counted for' five of the runs on a two run homer and a triple with the bases loaded, while Mel Ott's solo homer scored the other. Weather Tough on Terps Maryland’s varsity ball team had six games canceled this season by weather conditions. Two of them were with the University of Rich- mond, one listed at each place. ‘Three were prevented by snow. Stars Yesterda By the Associated Press. = John Rigney. White Sox—Shut out Benators on two hits for_seven innings A:&blnt only extra base hit of game, & e. Al Smith, Indians—Held Yankees to three hits, only one during first eight innings, as Cleveland smashed out 10-2 victory. msuélfi_mg%n o Buxg Danning, nf er shuf six" Dits and Iatter batted in Bve ruas with homer and triple. ho;l:kiunl;lhlflmv 1'1!%",— Hit three 0 account for seven Detroit's 10 tallies against Red Sox, Frank Hayes, Athletics — Hit two home runs ad_assault on Browns. Merrill May, Phillies—Made three in fe time . theliding. two® dotiaies, ** 2% v s S single against Dodgers. A ™ Al and Oarvell Rowell, Bees— Bach hit home in wif in Touting Reds, 13-4, C 0 base o, NETIGTT . R PUBLIC PARKS COURT PORTRAITS [ 7, 7 —— /u" (( <1/ ]~ THE LEAPING SERVE ENTHUSIAST... HAS SEEN BUDGE, VINES, PERRY, TILDEN, ETC. SO (T MUST BE THE THING --- OF COURSE , HIS FIRST ONE NEVER GOES IN,, SO NUMBER f — TWO Is PELIVERED 454 FROM A FLATFoOT (AR STANCE..... DOUBLES (5 sucH FUN WHEN, YOUR PARTAER. (S THE WILD- SWINGNG, CHARGING TYPE Travis’' Failure to Knot Chisox Game as Case Bunts Typical Of His Lack of By BURTON HAWKINS, Star Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO, May 21.—There is something strangely fascinating about the repeated failure of the Nats' shortstop, Cecil Travis, to produce in a pinch. He’s too nice a guy to condemn harshiy, but there nevertheless is glaring evi- dence the gangling Georgian lacks baseball instinct, or owns a com- plex which tends to thwart recog- nition of him. as an outstanding performer. Cecil never can be accused of being deficient in intestinal forti- tude, yet neither can he blame any one but himself for a regrettable lack of aggressiveness which has hampered his career. The fellow who twice returned to the Wash- ington lineup last year before re- covering completely from sieges of influenza and grippe can't be tabbed & quitter. It isn’t easy to imagine Travis nudging his nose precariously close to an umpire’s mask and bellowing sizzling sentences over a doubtful decision. There’s & sneaking sus- picion Travis would excuse himself for being in the way if a base run- ner spiked him in a deliberate effort to fracture a double-play possi- bility. There isn’t much sanity in at- tempting to explain it or even in pausing to consider the case. It's Travis’ nature to remain docile and he’ll maintain his tepid tempera- ture throughout life, but it would take only a few heated arguments spaced over the course of a season to rocket the drawling infielder into a higher-salaried bracket. Never Has Batted in 100 Runs. Here is a comparative youngster, currently swatting at a respectable .348 clip, who only once has fallen below a 317 hitting mark since joining the Nats. Yet Travis never has batted in 100 runs and only once has he come close. In five of his six full seasons with Washing- ton he has driven in less than 70 runs, reaching his peak in 1936, with 92 runs batted in. It's somewhat of an insult to a 2348 hitter to be batting sixth in the hitting order, but Travis repeatedly has proven he can’t be graduaged McFadden Decides to Play With Pro Football Dodgers By EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, May 21.—Banks McFadden, Clemson’s great foot- ball, basket ball and track star, has changed his mind and will play pro football with the Brook- lyn Dodgers. Charles S. How- ard is charging $2500 for the services of his famout stallion, Seabiscuit. Bill McKechnie was one of the main spellbinders at the Boston Boys' Club.conven- tion over the week end. Ford th has been selected as the t stop in Lou Nova’s come- back campaign, July 3. - A bunch of Brooklyn political barons were riding high, wide and handsome on Corydon, the 8 ) 21-1 shot that trimmed Bimea lech and friends Saturday. The Cubs have been sending out feelers for Shortstop Eddie Mill- er, but the Boston Bees won't listen. Bill Terry’s salary as man- ager of the Giants is several grand higher than the president and secretary-treasurer of the club draw down. Jack Norworth, the old vaudevillian who wrote “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” is to be honored with a “Norworth Day” at Ebbets Field * soon. Galento’s new managers say if he is causing em & lot of grief they haven’t heard about it. All right, skipit. - Good night! Down in the Flor- ide East Coast League the other night the Palm Beach-Fort Lau- derdale game. was called on the stroke of midnight, in the 12th inning with the teams tied up at 12-12. Between ’em they made 12 errors. Sam Snead made more dough last year than Joe Di Maggio— $35000. Jack Kearns is nego- tiating to come back to the big town as sports-director of a new uptown arena, where boxing will be included. We get a laff out He_only had 100 guys out for says he has no he used 2. in a single practice game. The ‘Yanks insist it’s Cleveland they have to beat—not Boston. 1940 model. The Cardinal com- bination of: Slaughter, Medwick, Mize and Padgett may not be the nearest thing to a murderer’s Fire without harming his effectiveness. Earlier this year, for example, Manager Bucky Harris moved him up to the No. 3 spot at a time when ‘Travis was among the league's lead- ing hitters, calculating, of course, on some of those hits scoring run- ners. Travis went hitless in 13 trips to the plate. Travis, in his current position in the batting order, is hitting behind Gerald Walker and Zeke Bonura, either of whom are apt to denude the bases of runners before Cecil steps to the plate. Travis, though, has had his opportunities to blast run-’ ners across, as reflected in the 37 of them he has left stranded far in the campaign. He doesn't lack heart. He’s proved that, notably on the occasion when Pitcher Thornton Lee sent him to a hospital for 10 days or so as the re- sult of being hit in the head with a fast ball. He returned to the lineup and his first game after leaving the hospital he again faced Lee. Travis collected five hits that day. Cecil's Mental Lapse Costly. Harris can’t fathom the reazon why Cecil doesn’t drive runs across the plate in wholesale fashion and Coach Clyde Milan, who has been around, dismisses it, after vague at- tempts at explanation, as a complex. Perhaps one of those fellows who deals in the intricate maneuvering of the mind can explain it. It isn’t often, anyway, that Travis will cost the Nats a ball game, but he did yesterday, when the White Sox captured their first victory of the season on home territory, 5-4. His error led to what proved Chicago’s winning run and his lapse of memory while on base with what represented the tying run brought the game to an early and unhappy conclusion. The Sox spurted into a 4-0 lead on a half dozen hits off youthful Sid Every Make, SKINKER BROS. | Master Service Station 4444 Connecticut Ave. Telephone WOodley 1114-1115 TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940. \ on Second Day in —By JIM BERRYMAN I GOT IT.PAL AN'ITS RIGHT B POWA THEIR Hudson in the first two innings and increased it to 5-0 in the third in- ning when Taft Wright was safe on Travis’ boot of his grounder, moved to third on Luke Appling’s single to right and scored after Larry Rosen- thal flied to Center Fielder Johnny Welaj. That situation existed until the eighth inning. For Pitcher Johnny Rigney to that point had checked the Nats with a brace of singles. In the eighth, thougn, the Nats contributed four singles and Third Baseman Bob Kennedy chipped in with an error to produce four runs. Welaj and Gerald Walker smashed timely drives to thump across two runs each and reduce Chicago’s margin to 5-4. : Hudlin Makes Debut as Nat. Travis, leading off in the ninth, drilled a single to center and Jimmy Bloodworth sacrificed’ to second. Rick Ferrell flied to Wright, but Travis scooted to third when Pinch- Hitter Buddy Myer beat out a high bounder to Kennedy. At that point, Third Base Coach Milan walked over to Travis and reminded him of the fact George st MIXED DOUGLES 1S NOISY EVEN (i No WHER FORM on The COURT.-... (S A vaLuABLE ASSET...OFFSETS POOR. SERVICE AND A WEAKK BACKHAAD...! Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today & year ago—Torchy and Doug Peden, Ounadian brothers, won sixsday bicycle race at Mad- ison Square Garden. Three 'years ago—Bill Watson, Michigan ore, led quali- flers in Big Ten track champion- ships, setting meet record of 50 feet 10% inches in shotput. Five years ago—W. H. (Stubby) Stubblefield, veteran race driver, killed during trials for 500-mile automobile race at Indianapolis. Case was likely to bunt in such a on the alert. Case beat out a per- fect bunt, but Travis, apparently bewildered, remained on third. ‘Then, with the bases loaded, Buddy Lewis flied deep to Center Fielder Kreevich to end the engagement. ‘Willis Hudlin, the Cleveland fugi- the Nats today as they completed the three-game series with the Sox, with Jack Knott slated to toil for Chicago. Tomorrow the Nats will invade St. Louis for a two-game series. ance yesterday, his second in his starting pitcher. the elongated blond soon will hit his stride. predicament and for Travis to be | E tive, was to hurl his first game for | ¢t Despite his unimpressive perform- | Leon: last two starts, Hudson remains a |Hud: Harris is confident | &g Succession Slow Golf Puts Champion on Her Game * Betty Jameson Goes ' Back to Old Style To Register 75 By the Associated Press. &.:OORTH WORTH, Tex., May 21— of woman golf’s most deliberate figures, both of whom used slow- poke games to win the national title, moved into match play of the Women’s Southern Golf Association tournament today. Slow motion perfection put Mrs, Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill, N. C, and Betty Jameson of San Antonio, Tex., in the drivers’ seats. Only & season ago Betty, a likeablo 20-year-old huskie with power and finesse, won the national title. She drew mixed praise and criticism for her solid game—but nerve-racking deliberation. Finds Concentration Tells. A sensitive lass, she geared up her game. Tournament after tournae ment she fell out of the running. Only one title has she won since the day last summer they hailed her as a near perfect woman golfer, It was her city title at San Antonio. ‘Two weeks ago she lost the Texas title she had held four years run- ning. She confided she was going back to her hcld game—the game of concentration and study on every shot. Yesterday she went out in the qualifying round of the Southern, the laziness back in her game that critics once attacked. She split the fairways, sent iron shots streaking to the greens and putted flawlessly. She was around in 76—one over women’s par on River Crest'’s 38— 37—15 course. Mrs. Page Also Cautious. Betty stepped aside to watch Mrs. Page finish her fine- round of 36—38—74, which won medalist hon= ors. The woman who won the na- tional title in 1937, Betty pointed out, played the same cautious, slow game. Mrs. Page, who took up golf in 1932 “to relax” after finishing three years as a Phi Beta Kappa at Uni- versity of North Carolina, gave a great exhibition of concentration on a great round. Defending Champion Marion Miley needed 80 shots because her driver constantly sent her into trouble, while Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, Ga., a tall girl with power in her swing, came back in 35 for a 7T7. Mrs. Frank Goldthwaite of Fort Worth, the 1933 champion, floun- dered badly and carded on her home course. Griffs’ Records Batting. 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