Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1940, Page 12

= @he Foening Star $ ASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1940. poy 15 k. Ted Lyons, With Chisox 17 Years, Proving Best ‘Sunday Pitcher’ in Baseball Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN. Some Views Behind the Week-End News | Furr, Mamakos at Peak of Form.—To a harsh critic of pugilism this line still leaves something to be desired because neither one of these guys is a good fighter. But they are rough, tough, they come from the same neighborhood and they happen to want to win this particular scrap. The distance is 12 rounds, the time is approximately 10 o'clock tonight, the place is Mr. Clark Griffith’'s arena and the referee will not be Benny Leonard. The purposes are twofold and as follows: (1) To determine the District, welterweight and middleweight champion, and (2) to give local boxing a shot in the arm. This practically is Promoter Joe Turner's last chance to keep his end of boxing alive and he finds himself sure of all support except that of the customers. The last time he put on a show Joe found the District Boxing Commission and the National Boxing Association painfully willing to help him. But the customers stayed away and so the Scalzo-Covelli bout was a financial flop. No N. B. A. title hinges on tonight's battle at Griffith Stadium. Furr and Mamakos are only a couple of local guys trying to get along, but this is the formula which has been used most successfully since the legaliza- tion of boxing in Washington. This is: the formula—Ilocal boy versus local boy—which forced legislators to stamp out bootleg boxing by making it legal, Oh, Griff, Lookit What Wasdell Did! Wasdell, ex-Nat, Stars for Dodgers—Jimmy played right field in Brooklyn's first game against the Cubs, drove across all of his team’s runs in a 3-to-2 triumph, and made two doubles and a single in four trips. Now the question is reopened again. Is the National League—Brook- Ivn had Wasdell, Dixie Walker and Joe Vosmik in its outfield—inferior to the American, or were the Senators hasty in letting Wasdell go? It could be that Wasdell is a better ballplayer than he ever has shown in a Washington uniform. Off what Jimmy displayed with the Nats during the last two years he couldn’t hit, but when Griffith let him go this time a year ago he burned up the American Association, and now he apparently is ready to hit for the Dodgers. Griffith, however, probably made no mistake. Wasdell isn't a first- class outfielder, nor is he any kind of a major league first baseman. And even if he can hit, Jimmy never could be completely big league stuff with- out producing before June 1. His is a singular case and one which may bear watching. The fellow has a peculiar temperament. He is a moody guy who thinks the whole world is against him. It wasn't until. Manager Bucky Harris bitterly observed, that Jimmy had given up on himself that he gave up on Jimmy. For the Right to Become a Heavyweight Conn Fights to Prove Status.—This means that Billy Conn, the light- heavyweight champion, intends to resume his drive to a match with Joe Louis for the heavyweight title. And who is he fighting? Nobody except the poor but honest Gus Lesnevich. Who is Gus? Well, Gus is a thick-legged light-heavy who can take | it all night but who can't hit much and can't box. Gus and Billy fought | once before and it was as one-sided as the battle of Flanders. Conn | simply kept his left hand glued to Lesnevich's face, and if Billy caught a solid blow through the night nobody saw it. | But now Billy is called upon to meet Gus again on Wednesday in | Detroit to prove that he is entitled to be considered as a heavyweight | and as a title contender. This is a large collection of rubbish. Billy is a heavyweight anytime the big boys want to make him one, and since when has it been necessary for a heavyweight to prove himself a contender before meeting Louis? Winning Pitcher—Bucky Walters Bucky Walters Wins Ninth in a Row.—And he’s on the road, for the #econd straight year, toward being the best pitcher in baseball. Funny thing about this Walters. Even after he won 27 games last Yyear he wasn't considered in the same breath with Bob Feller. His team- mikte, Paul Derringer, generally was rated above him. So was Red Ruffing. Bucky hasn't got the speed of Feller, nor the curve of Feller. His fast ball and his curve aren’t as good as Derringer’s or Rufing’s. Enemy batsmen face him, walk away and when an anxious pal asks “What’s he got?” they answer that Walters hasn't got anything they haven't seen before. And he hasn't, either. ‘Walters, a pitcher by accident, because he broke into the majors as a third baseman, simply is one of those battlers who is able to get the ball over the plate and to think for himself. We recall talking with Bill ‘Werber the night before the 1939 World Series. “I never paid much attention to Walters,” he said. “but after playing behind him for a year I've found out some things. We'll grant Derringer, Ruffing, Feller and some of the other boys have more stuff, but if there's & better pitcher around than Walters I couldn’t name him. He ean pitch, hit, field and do one other thing a lot of guys with more stuff than | he’s got can't do, “That,” concluded Werber, significantly, “is win. Bucky’s & winning pitcher.” Great Future for Hoyas’ Lyden In 880 Seen by Coach Hardell After Strong I.C. 4-A. Race By LEWIS F. ATCHISON. ‘Al Blozis’ record-shattering per- ances in the shotput and discus st Saturday in the I. C. 4-A. games at Harvard attracted wide | publicity even though smashing marks is an old habit with the Georgetown giant, but the thing that pleased Coach “Hap™ Hardell most was Ken Lyden's run in the | half mile. | Young Lyden, a slender sophomore, was third in a star-spangled field and his performance had Hardell | doing verbal handsprings. “Getting third is good enough for | me in a field like that, especially when it was Lyden’s first big test. You've got to remember he's been running relays for us all year and | that was his first time out on his own hook. I don't think he ran| his best race, but it was good enough. | Remember, he whipped Andy Neidnig | of Manhattan. Lynn Radcliffe of Syracuse, Denzil Widel of California, Joe Zeitler, Manhattan, and Les McMitchell of N. Y. U. He beat about 20 top-flight runners in plac- ing third and he wasn't supposed to have a chance. “No, you can't be disappointed with the race he ran—even though it wasn't his best. At least I don't think it was his best. He didn’t have his usual finishing kick. You know how he finished his leg in the mile relay at the Penn Relays? Well, he didn't have that finishing power this time, but let's forget that. He got third and I'm satisfied.” Hardell hews to the opinion that Lyden is just beginning to develop. He's only a youngster and, as Hap pointed out, never before was in a bigtime race. He was up against the best in the country, veterans who knew how to pace themselves, how to save stamina and a few steps that mean so much in the stretch run. He met them under the handicap of inexperience and came through with flying colors. As for Al Blozis, Hardell believes he'll knock over the world mark some quiet afternoon in a meet of small importance and he has con- vincing evidence for this argument. In practice Blozis chucks the shot and heaves the discus for good yard- age without apparent effort, but in competition he has a tendency to tighten up, which reduces his effi- | cy. fil& winning put Saturday was 53 ffet 9% inches—more than a foot | ht_omw his previous efforts. Then, A when the photographers asked him to throw the ball for an action “shot” he nonchalantly tossed it 55 feet 834 inches. John D. O'Reilly, former George- town coach, was a visitor to the Hoyas’ dressing room before Sat- |yory. urday’'s finals to wish them luck. The grand old Irishman is reported in fine health and still pulling for the Hilltoppers. It was “homecoming” for Wash- ington track officials at the Army- Navy meet at Annapolis. It was the 16th consecutive service meet for Frank Dobson, incidentally, who, resplendent in a scarlet jacket, wielded the starting gun. “Dobbie” goes to West Point on alternate | n; years. Another old-timer is Kip Edwards, who was head field judge and who also serves at both academies. Ed- wards, according to Dobson—who should know—is one of the finest track and field officials in the coun- try, and Dobson has had a chance to watch him work in meets from Maine to Georgia. In Johnny Corbett, rapidly im- proving 2-miler, Catholic Univer- sity’s trackmen have picked a sterling leader for their 41 captain. Corbett hails from Beloit, Wis.,, and will go down in the books as one of the greatest distance runners in C. U. history. Damaged Goods Is Oomph Girl 0f Turtdom Acorn and Oaks Victor Nearly Ruined in Fire, Proves a Cinderella By SID FEDER, Associated Press 8ports Writer. NEW YORK, June 3.—The “oomph” girl of the race tracks this spring is a leggy little scarred filly with enough Cinderella in her back- ground to be written up in a book. Her name is Damaged Goods—and that's just what she was when she came down to Edward B. Benjamin’s New Orleans stables from Arthur B. Hancock's breeding farm at Paris, Ky., a couple of years back. She had been through a stable fire that left her frightened half to death, her coat seared and her hide laid bare by the flames. But now she’s the queen of the American turf for this year, winner |of both the Acorn and the Amer- | ican Oaks at Belmont. It's a stunt | that's been duplicated by only two “misses” of the turf in History—Top | Flight and Dawn Play, a pair of | the greatest race mares ever to go to the post. Hikes Earnings to $26,625. With her victory in the Oaks Sat- | urday, the finely bred daughter of | Jacopo and Perjury boosted her | earnings for the year to a neat| | $26.625. She couldn’t kit the com- | bination in 13 outings as a 2-year- | old and collected only $725. What she is now can all be laid to the faith Trainer Johnny Mil- |burn had in her. He wouldn't give up dsepite her juvenile showing, or | the fact that everything was against her. He'd taken a liking to her ever since she turned up in his barn, scared and seared. He had taken one look at the marks of the flames and didnt have to think twice for her name. He registered her imme- | diately: Damaged Goods. | He trained her tirelessly as a yearling, finally got her over her fright and calmed down. But still | left is some of the soreness from | her burns. She has to wear a thick | pad under her blanket. | Gains Revenge on Fairy Chant. | She started off hot this year. In| a dozen starts, she's been beaten by | a 3-year-old filly only twice—once in the mud at Hialeah, where she was a fast closing third at seven furlongs and again in the Pimlico Oaks. when she just couldn't get started and finished fifth to Fairy Chant. But she’s had her revenge. Fairy Chant was the betting choice in the Acorn, and Damaged Goods showed her the way home by five lengths, for which she paid a New York | record price of $143.50 for $2 under the mutuels. Fairy Chant was the | | favorite again Saturday and this | time Benjamin's little lassie camel from behind, and in the mud. too. | It topped off the Cinderella piece. | The ugly duckling’s a glamour girl now. |English Derby Is Moved To Newmarket Course By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 3—The Derby and the Oaks, English racing fix- tures, which were moved from Epsom to Newbury, will be run instead at Newmarket. The Newbury race meeting, sched- ules for June 12-13, has been con- celed. | ;Offucml Score DETROIT, AB. R. Bartell, s __ McCosky. cf Gehringer, 2b. Greenberg. If_ ork. 1b Higgins, 3b_ Fox. rf_ Swess~ouseE SmommmO~DA> PP UREPI » Benton, p_ Totals = WASHINGTON. £ Welaj, c Walker, 1f ~-a, 1b_ Early. ¢ Bloodworth, 2| Pofahl. ss Monteagudo, b dson. D wsswl © D PR so5omenanteand PUTTING ON PRESSURE! TRACK COACHES MIGHT BOOST POINT WINNING WITH A CAREFUL STUDY OF RUNAERS' REACTIONS ToHUMIDITY AND ARIDITYsa.. .. QOoPs " TH' BALL IS SOGGY-- -’ M'SPIRITS ARE ALITTLE DAMPENED! DON'T BLAME YOUR FAVORITE KICKER WHEN HE FLUBS...IT COULD BE THE LOW PRESSURE AREA ! CONFOUND THIS NAG! KE'S A HURRICANE ON A HOT DAY.. BUT WHAT A DEAD DOG W A DOWNPOUR' I HOPE TH'JUDGES TIME.. I JUSTCAN'T HELP IT WITH THAT, BRIGHT ‘SUN ON HELP! OW! I SHOULDN'T A-LEFY THESE FLIES IN MY HAT WITH TH' BAROMETER RISIN'SO —By JIM BERRYMAN A PORTABLE OXYGEN OUTFIT MIGHT Do WONDERS foR POKER PLAYERS WHO LACK ETTING COURAGE & ShuloMBosox His Second Win In Seven Days Wasdell Batting Hero As Dodgers Pick Up Game on Leaders By JUDSON BAILEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. The best “Sunday pitcher” in the baseball business right now is that grizzly veteran of the Chicago White Sox, Ted Lyons, who has been with the same club for 17 years. Born in 1900, the same year as Lefty Grove, Lyons came to the American League direct from the campus of Baylor University in 1923, two years before Grove, and still is going strong. In fact, he is the strongest gear in the Sox’s well-worn drive shaft today with four victories and two defeats. Chicago has played nine games in the last seven days and won three. Of these three, Lyons won two. This spring he has pitched every Sunday except one that it rained and he showed up at Fenway Park, Boston, yesterday on schedule. The result was a 6-0 shutout of the league-leading Red Sox on six hits It was the 225th triumph of his major league career. Foxx Hits Winning Homer. The Red Sox recovered from this masterful going-over sufficiently to beat out Chicago, 10-8. in the second game, with Jimmie Foxx notching | his 13th home run with one on in | the ninth inning. Bobby Doerr and Lou Finney also homered for Boston. The fact that the Cleveland In- BRAINERD C. SNIDER., AN ILLINOIS | dlans also divided a double bill with HOSS PLAYERS SHOULD INVESTIGATE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AT VARIOUS TRACKS... LOSSES MAY BE MINIMIZED.... _ T — JOURNALIST, CLAIMS FISH REACT To 2 === BAROMETRIC CHANCES...PERHAPS > — == ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLAYS AN : = IMPORTANT PART IN OTHER FIELDS OF AMERICAN SPORT Redleg Flingers Flirt With No-Hitfers Six Times in 10 Tilts Walters, in Scoring Ninth Straight Win, Perfect Until Sixth Inning By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, June 3—Write this on the wall somewhere: One of these days soon maybe Reds is going to throw himself a no-hitter. It's in the cards—and maybe it'll be the St. Louis Cards. The argument: From Sunday to Sunday Manager | Bill McKechnie's pitchers have to ! their credit: Item, one 1-hitter; item, one 3-hitter; item, three 4= hitters; item, one 5-hitter. For 10 games in eight days, that is a showing, and if you think the op- position likes it, ask some sluggers like Joe Medwick and Johnny Mize of the Cards, Arky Vaughan of Pittsburgh and Max West of Boston. Another point worth noting is how close some of the boys have come to the giory games. In taking his five-hit, ninth straight win yes- terday, unbeaten Bucky Walters held the Boston Bees hitless until the sixth inning. Milkman Jim | Turner cut down all but one of the first 18 men in his game and four hits were all th® Bees had to work on for their 2-to-0 victory. Credit for the record is pretty well distributed. The best game was Paul Derringer's one-hitter against the Cardinals last Sunday. Whitey Moore and Joe Beggs combined Monday for a four-hit job against the Pirates. Walters gave the Pirates four hits Tuesday. Gene Thompson allowed the Bees three Saturday. So write it down somewhere—but don't bet on it, baseball being the game it is. na:a:m::u o] 3555800500222 5 ol 2205mms20522M 2 s = a8 *Batted for Hudson in 8t Detroit - 3 100 000—8 Washington ~277 003 100 011—6 Runs batted in—Greenberg (2). McCosky 2). Trout (2), Walker. Bonura (2). Early, Pofahl, Case. 'Two-base hits—Bartell (2), Case, Greenberg. Walker, Bonura. Early. Home runs—Greenberg, Bonura. play—Bloodworth fahl . 3: off Hudson, 2: 5 Struck_out—By Monteagudo, 2: by Trout. 3: by Benton. 3: by Hudson. 1: by Haynes, 1. "Hits—Off Trout. 6 in 3 innings (none out in fourth): off Benton. 6 in 8 innings; of : off Hud- Benton, 1. in 1 Hudson Benton. sing " pitcher — Umpires—Messrs. Hubbard, Basil and Mo. riarty. Time—2:05. Washington Girl Shares Gibson Island Net Win Specia! Dispatch to The Star. GIBSON ISLAND, Md., June 3.— » | Margo Lee of Washington, D. C., paired with William Mahony of Scarsboro, N. Y., to defeat Frances Carter and Cuthbert Train, both of ‘Washington, for the mixed doubles championship of the island’s invi- tation tennis tournament over the week end. Miss Lee and Mahony prevailed in straight sets, 6—2, 6—1. some pitcher for the Cincinnati 'Hudson Confident He'll Be Help To Nats on Hill After Flashy Relief Work in Tiger Tilt By BURTON HAWKINS. | Cherry-cheeked Sid Hudson, the | towering, youthful Washington Ready to Win, Says Sid. pitcher who until yesterday was| “I've learned something,” ex- being shelled harder and more fre- | plained Sid, “and I think I'm gonna quently than the Somme sector, be- | be all right now. The reason I was lieves he has taken the first bold | being hit so hard was because I was | and exhilarating step toward be-[ trying to throw every ball past ’em, coming the slab sensation most | throwing my curve as hard as my everybody feels he will be. | fast ball. I guess I was pressing Hudson yesterday resembled the | trVing to make the grade and T highly touted lad he was labeled coHIQnt keep ahead of the batters. this spring as the club emerged T've quit that now. | from the placid atmosphere of the | keep showing 'em a change of pace, palms, chucking fiive and one-third most encouraging exhibition of the campaign. I'm gonna | | stop pressing and stay ahead of the | iNafionaI City League Race Free-for-All As Kleins Lose Three Teams Crowding Pacesetters as Result Of Smalls’ Triumph A runaway for Klein's Tavern dur- ing the first month of competition, | the flag race in Section A, National | City League, was a free-for-all today with three teams crowding the pace- makers as a result of their 4-3 defeat yesterday to Frank Small Motors. “Dutch” Earhardt, Tavern pilot, | the Philadelphia Athletics left the | American League squabble in status quo. Bob Feller achieved his eighth | victory. 7-2, over the A’s, giving eight hits. But Philadelphia turned the | tables in the nightcap by rallying | for seven runs in the seventh inning and a 12-6 conquest. In the National League the Brook- | lyn Dodgers whacked a game off the margin separating them and the pace-making Cincinnati Reds by squeezing two one-run decisions out of the Chicago Cubs, 3-2 and 2-1. Jim Wasdell hit a double for one Brooklyn run in the second inning of the first game, then doubled again in the ninth for the other two. In the nightcap Manager Leo Durocher doubled two tallies across in the second stanza. Walters Wins Another. The Reds divided two games with the Boston Bees. Bucky Walters bagged his ninth victory without a defeat in the first game, 11-1, hold- ing Boston helpless on five hits and getting the help of two home runs | by John Rizzo. The second game, | which Boston won, 2-0. was a score= |less duel between Dick Errickson |and Jim Turner for seven innings. Then rain interrupted and cooled |off Turner to the point of giving | up the pair of markers in the eighth. Pittsburgh edged out the New | innings without allowing what even faintly imitated a hit to the De- | hitters. I was getting behind almost every batter and they knew I'd have last week said he expected trouble | York Giants, 2-1, in the eighth in- | from the auto dealers. “They were |ning after Bob Klinger and Hal troit Tigers, who had accumulated | {0 come in with a fat pitch. I'm | enough runs off Rene Monteagudo | keeping those pitches low now and tough last year.” he commented, | Schumacher each had pitched seven to capture the decision at Grifith “And e oulans d I don't think they'll be teeing off | {pire uer pont, D6 Surprised if | son staged a convincing comeback | on me any more.” Hudson, by his impressive appear- ance, automatically was elevated to the status of a starter, together with Stadium, 8-6. Before some 9,000 customers Hud- after being blasted in numerous | | appearances this season, his per- formance serving as something of a balm to ease the pain of the Nats’ seventh loss in eight games. It may have been the turning point for the trim blond kid. Showing Bolsters Confidence. Hudson's pitching hitherto had been swatted with such enthusiasm that his confidence apparently was destined to be shattered. But he learned a lesson, applied it and feels he has conquered a mountain- ous fault he owned. Sid entered the game after the Tigers had clawed Monteagudo for seven runs and eight hits in his brief appearance, disposed of Dick Bartell, who had smashed two con- secutive doubles, for the final out of ‘the third inning and continued to hurl brilliantly. He hit Barney McCosky, leading off in the fourth inning, and walked Charley Gehringer, but from that point he mowed them down. He forced Hank Greenberg, who had clipped Monteagudo for a home run and double, to foul to Catcher Jake Early and made Rudy York hit a ground ball which should have been converted into an easy double play. Second Baseman Jimmy Bloodworth threw wild past First Baseman Zeke Bonura, however, after Shortstop Jimmy Pofahl's toss to Bloodworth had forced Gehringer and McCosky scored an unearned run. After that touch of trouble cre- ated by a mate, Hudson allowed only Hank Greenberg to reach first and that elongated specimen was erased on a double play. It was his Doyle Makes Nelson and Demaret 8-1 Favorites in Open West Virginia Frank About Bigtime Grid Aspirations; No. 7 a Hoodoo to Chisox . By EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, June 3—Jack Doyle’s Broadway book has made Byron Nelson and Jimmy Dem- aret co-favorites at 8-1 to cop the National Open. Other mem- bers of Jack’s big four are Ralph Guldahl and Sammy Snead at 10-1. Prof. Joe McCarthy lec- tured to 1,000 youngsters at the first World's Fair baseball class Saturday. The mutuels “take” at Balmont Park has passed the million-dollar mark four times in 16 days. Do you realize those surprising Dodgers are playing hide-and-seek with first place with only one regular (Dixie Walker) hitting at a .300 clip? Cooling him off —When Joe Engel of Chattanooga recalled Hillis Layne, second sacker, from A / the Selma (Ala) club, it made Owner Morris Bloch so mad Engel order a Selma ice foundry to deliver 600 pounds on Bloch's front porch to cool him off. Bimelech has been educated to to the Puett starting gate and his nervousness has disappeared. The grandstand wolves are snap- ping at Dixie Howell, ex-Alabama grid great, who is having a miser- able time at short for the Okla- homa City club. West Virginia U. is out to make the big-time football circuit and makes no bones about it. Pedro Montanez, O. K. after that auto smash, is training again in Puerto Rico. Joe Cronin is telling sports writ- ers in the other American League cities to stop worrying about the Red Sox pitching and fret s little about their own, / Today’s guest star—George Ed- mond, St. Paul Dispatch: “The German high command fears the success of its troops may cause over-confidence. Sounds almost as if Minnesota’s Bernie Bierman were on the staff.” Personals: Freddie Fitzsim- mons, Dodger pitcher, has been selected as the outstanding father in American sports by the Na- tional Father's Day Committee. El Galento received a parking ticket from a Broadway cop while he visited with Mike Jacobs the other day. Jake Powell of the Yanks is having trouble bouncing back after that brain ‘concussion. Bob Myers, one of our Coast operatives, reports that Belle Martell, the woman referee, handles her work as well as any ) man. Red Evans, as eccentric as ever, reports to the Minneapolis clubhouse at 8:30 every morning and waits for the trainer to open up. Once a Dodger, always, etc. Old double-x. There was a young fellow named Fo: XX, Endowned with the strength of an ox; ‘Whenever he bunted, The Outfielders hunted The ball for a couple of bloxx. 5 —G. E. P, Los Angeles. Lucky seven? A Chicago judge has urged Eric M'Nair, slump-ridden White Sox second sacker, to discard No. 7 for an- other. His honor pernts out this numeral proved unlucky for every Sox who wore it in recent years Gerry Walker, Al Simmons, Lew Fonsecs and Willis Kamm, 3 Dutch Leonard, Ken Chase and | ployed as starters against certain are Willis Hudlin and Monteagudo. Leonard, who dropped a 2-1 de- cision to the Yankees last week in his last start, was to seek his sixth triumph today in the final game of the Detroit series, with Chase and Masterson ticketed to toil in the (See HAWKINS, Page A-14) 'Major Statistics MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1930. AMERICAN Results Yesterday. Detroit. 8: Washington, 6. New York, 13—11: St, Louis, 4—1. Cleveland. 7—8: Philadelphia. 6—12. Chicago, 6—8; Boston. 0—10. STANDING OF THE CLUBS | | | | | == pueEadld! i0X MON uoior 0385140 T uoisuTeM, UL | 'sourep ~wiudppeua ==-imoT === ajomeq ~=="puiyeq |-=-a3w ! " ! Bosl—I_2[ 3| 41 41 b5/ 3] 3124/111.6861 311 41 41 4l 21 21 61241151.615| 2 et 11 41—I 41 41 1] 4| 4122115.505] NYI 31 11 11— 31 21 6| 4120181.526] 2111 3l 20 411120 11— 3[ 2115221.405110 Wal 1/ 11 2[ 9| 2[ 6—| 216! 0 StLI O 21 11 11 61 21 34 L. [T111815/18123122174 /24— —| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Det. at Wash. 3:15.Cleve. at Wash. (2), Cleve. at Phila. 1:30. Y. Chicago St. Louis at tN. Y. Chicago at Boston. §t. Louis at Boston. Detroit at Phils, NATIONAL Results Yesterday. Brooklyn. 3—2: Chicago, 2—1. Cincinnati, 11—0; Boston, 2. Pittsburgh, 2—3: New York, 1—7. Philadelphia, 4—2; 8t. Louis. 2—9. 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Yesterday’s thriller was a fitting inaugural for the battle- scarred turf despite unhappy ending for the home team. The defeat, Klein's first of the campaign, left it a scant half game ahead of Small, Packard-Washing- ton and J. C. Flood Plumbers, which adds up to one of the most exciting first-half finishes President Vic Gauzza’s circuit has witnessed in several years. Small was the day’s fielding star. He figured in one double play with De Simone and Cohill that checked one threatening Klein rally and also was the main figure in a triple killing. It happened in the fifth when he snagged Shipp’s line drive, touched second to retire Freddy Nau and whipped the ball to first tanip Ciomei. Elliott Leads Stickers. Batting star was Bob Elliott, whose rousing double cleared the fully populated sacks in the fourth, pre- senting his mates with a 4-1 lead they never surrendered. Lefty Stant also turned in a creditable mound performance, although nicked for 13 hits. He was ef- fectivegin the pinches. J. C. Flood swamped Marvin's Credit, 18-4, to move within chal- lenging distance with Dick Rozzelle setting down the losers with six hits. Harry Martin, Rozzelle and Stevens led the attack. A couple of upsets marked Sec- tion B activities, St. Francis turn- ing back Capital Cafe, 9-3, while Variety A. C. was dusting off Achi- son Keller, 3-1. Washington Home Improvement chalked up its fifth consecutive victory, beating Arcade Market, 8-3. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Sman Motors, % Kieins Tavern, 3 & ’ Team Standings. w. Klein's_Tavern Small Motors Packard-Wash. J. C. Flood Miller Furnit, D, G. 3 Marvin's_Credit Orange Disc 4 3 3 0 0 Section B. Wash. Home Imp., 8: Arcade Mkt., 3. Variety A. C. Aichison-Keller.” 1. 8t. Prancis Xavier. 9: Capital Cafe, 3. Terminal Ice, 13; Hahn Rovers, 1. Team Standings. Wash. Home Imp. Plaza Tile & Marble 8t. Francis Xavier -Kelles some lively sandlot tussles in by- | Second Baseman Bud Artis of | | runless | frames, but New York bounced back to take the second game, 7-3, although outhit, 11-10, | and outhomered. 2-0. At St. Louis two pitchers chalked up their first wins of the season. Boom Boom Beck of the Phillies | stopped the Cards, 4-2, on seven hits, {and Bob Bowman gave the same |amount in winning for St. Louis, is-z. John Mize hit his 13th and | 14th home runs in the second game. | The World Champion Yankees continued their upward surge at the expense of the St. Louis Browns with two triumphs, 13-4 and 11-1. Marius Russo and Marvin Bruer gave two well-pitched games, but had the help of a terrific attack in which every one of the other Yankees Jjoined. More than 200000 fans turned out for the games in eight cities. | C. Rapids Springfi'd Clinton Decatur BASEBALL .72 Washington vs. Detroit AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomorrow—Cleveland—1:30 P.M. % | P.M. 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