Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1940, Page 17

SPORTS. THE EVEN. Winner, 4-3, Suggests Y oung Leo Jarboe Will Gain Two Divisions With National Swimming Fame, 3-Game Playoff Says Team Really Wins Honors Twice Under Present System High school baseball fans today &till were discussing the pros and cons of the extra-inning battle staged at Anacostia Stadium yester- day in which Central barely man- aged to defend its championship by beating Eastern. 4 to 3, and accord- ing to Coach Jack Ray of the vic- torious Vikings something should beI done about the present playoff plan. Looking at the situation whereby & team practically must win the title twice, so to speak, before it can be called champion, Ray believes that & much better system could be used which would more clearly show which team is the best. As the game was plaved vesterday stern, al- most unanimously regarded as in- ferior to Central, nearly won. A vic- tory, of course, would have meant that the Lincoln Parkers were champions, but very few would have considered them the better nine. Season Nearly Ruined. “I see it this way,” Ray sald while commenting on the 1l-inning tilt that had some 1,000 fans wild. “We came very close to ruining a great season on one play, the play that gave Eastern its three runs in the eighth inning. As it turned out, w won, but it was too close for com fort. We had beaten Eastern a few weeks ago with ease and despite the closeness of yesterday’s game I think we have a much better team. “A team that goes through the regular series undefeated deserves more than once chance to win the championship. Eastern had two chances, once in the first game with us and again vesterday. Suppose on the day of the final game a coach’s best pitcher is out for one reason or another. That leaves the coach in a bad spot, although he knows he has the better team. The way the plan works now a fourth-place team could catch the first ranking team on a bad day, and win the whole business. In my opinion there should be two divisions, and the winners of each should play a two- out-of-three for the title. That way both teams would have a chance to display their best.” | Lower Clubs Benefited. Last vear the two division win: ners met in one final game for the title. Central won that game from Eastern, 6 to 2. In former years the team finishing with the best record was declared the winner. ‘There was no playoff unless two or more teams had identical records. | The present plan benefits greatly | the team that finishes second, third and fourth. The first ranking team must beat them in the regular series and then repeat in the playoft | Yesterday's game had thrills| aplenty. Each side had chances to win, although errors and poor play contributed to each of these chances. None of the runs were earned and while Billy Fisher of Central had an edge over Kenny Curles and Warren Erhardt it was Fisher's misplay in the eighth that almost cost him victory. A wild throw to first and a miscue near the plate of a return toss gave Eastern its tallies. Fisher gave but one hit until the eighth inning and was tight in the pinches when players | he had walked threatened to score Steiner Plays Fine Game. Benny Steiner, who with Fisher has been the backbone of Central's great season. helped his side with numerous brilliant feats. He was involved in two or the Viking's | three double plays that cut off | Eastern threats. Benny, who, like | Fisher, was playing his last game for Central, also led his team at bat with two hits. Steiner scored the winning run when Jimmy Nutwell threw wild to first trying to nip Sam Di Blasi. Chief Guyon's strategy of start- ing the left-handed Curles almost worked. Curles pitched a good game against the highly touted Viking sluggers and except for ner- vousness in the first frame when his error gave Central a 2-run lead might have won. Erhardt, who had been driven out by Central in the game several weeks ago, finished the job and de- served a better fate. It was Er- hard’t double that started the 3-run Eastern rally in the eighth. Eastern, ABH ABH.O Hite.: S ] 3o Fisher.p. ) Totals 39 53319 ~ 000 000 030 00— 200 000 010 01—4 —Stelner. Lagos, Fenlon, Kligman, t Errors-——Hoffman, ell. Di Blasi, Curles. Two-base _hit— Steiner (2), Lagos, to’ Fenlon 1 1 Fenlon to Steiner to Whalen. —Central. 13 Eastern Off Pisher. Struck ou by Erhar off Curles, By Fisher. 2. Hits— | oft Erhardt Hit by | 7 innings in’ 23 innines. Erhardt ~ (Fisher) Balk— Winning pitcher—Fisher. Losing | pitcher—FErhardt _ Umpires—Messrs. Pur- | @y and Watt, Time—2:20 Around the Southeast Branch, | Boys’ Club of Washington, the kids think young Leo Jarboe some day will be swimming in important na- tional meets, breaking records and winning bannerlines of publicity. They think he’ll make Johnny Weis- muller and Buster Crabb look like a couple of broken-down side- wheelers when he reaches his prime, | because- right now Master Jarboe appears the hottest, slickest thing in water around here. A 13-year-old eighth-grade student in Holy Comforter School, young Jarboe recently placed fourth in the 12-13-year-old group of the Boys'| Club of America 10th annual swim- ming competition. The club team finished 15th, a decided improvement over the previous year, when it was 24th, and most of the credit must go to Jarboe. The national meet is conducted on a private-test, let- ter-report basis. The teams swim the various events in their own pools and mail the times recorded to headquarters, where places are de- cided by a complicated point-scor- ing system, Just Misses National Mark. Jarboe missed a new national rec- ord for the backstroke in the na- tional telegraphic meet conducted by the Scranton (Pa) Y. M: C. A. by 1-10 second. but that was merely another incident in his budding and busy career. His trophy collection s beginning to assume man-sized roportions and from the looks of it he’ll have a sizable cache of silver stored away when he decides to quit swimming. Southeast Pals Believe Although he has only gotten into the swim. so to speak, in the last year, he's a marked youngster when he toes the starting line. Last summer, for example, he won the | breast-stroke in the Baltimore Sun { meet. He was first in the breast- | stroke and first in the free style in | his class in the city-wide boys club meet. He repeated this latter per- formance in indoor competition, in- | cidentally. Finally he won the | breast and free style in the D. C. | Playground Department meet. Learned to Swim There. Charley Reynolds, director of ath- | letics at the Southeast club, is mighty proud of Leo and one of his | staunchest supporters. Charley is proudest of the fact that Leo learned to swim in the club pool, | under the club coach. | “Leo owes everything he knows: | about swimming to Max Rote, our | swimming coach,” Charley said. | “And I think Max is going to make a truly great swimmer of the boy.” | Young Jarboe faithfully follows | the training program laid down by Rote and never misses a day in the water. He's keen and quick to pick | | up little tracks. Of averags height and weight, Leo is a handsome | youngster with light brown hair, | brown eyes and a contagious smile. | He has personality plus. His hands | |are large and ideall; suited for | svimming and his feet are big, too. | But big dogs never hurt Weis- | mueller or Crabb or any of the other headliners, so Leo sees no | reason why they should hinder him. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 5.— Walter (Hoot) Evers and George McKin- non did a pretty thorough job of sweeping honors in the hitting de- campaign. Third Baseman Bob Smith of Wisconsin won the batting cham- pionship, but Evers and McKinnon led in or shared all the other honors. Smith collected 15 hits in 34 times at bat for a 441 mark. McKinnon, Northwestern shortstop, got the most hits, 21, and shared the dou- ble-hitting lead with Fred Shinke- :Big Ten Stick Crown to Smith, But McKinnon, Evers Shine { four. Northwestern and illinois tied for the team title. Evers, lanky sophomore' outfielder ; of Illinois, hit five triples, three | home runs, batted in 16 runs, had 37 | | partment of the Big Ten baseball | total bases and scored 20 runs, tops | | in all five departments. John Pacotti of Illinois and Fred Rosch of Northwestern topped the pitchers with five victories each and one defeat. Iowa's Harold Haub won six games and lost two, both to Northwestern. Haub completed his career this spring with a record of 21 wins and 6 setbacks in three | years and 11 triumphs and 2 defeats | vich of Northwestern, each hitting | against all competition this season, Graves to Run Sunday In New York Meet NEW YORK, June 5—Phil Graves, Georgetown freshman star now rep- resenting the New York A. C. and Sanford Goldberg, the “Flying Fire- man” of the Millrose A. A, will head the field for the Ohrbach mile, fea- ture of the twenty-seventh gnnual meet the Ninety-second Stréet Y. M. H. A. will hold at Macombs Dam Park Sunday afternoon Yount to Little Rock | PITTSBURGH, June 5 (#).—The | Pittsburgh Pirates announced today that Outfielder Floyd Yount, playing | under a Pirate option with the Ok- | lahoma City club of the Texas, League, has been transferred under | the same option to Little Rock of | the Southern Association, | Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Tommy Bridges, Detroit Tigers, fanned 10 in winning 3-0 victory over New York Yankees, first shutout of champions in 1939. Three years ago—War Admiral P TArmy Medicos Defeated | Unable to fatham Powell's offer- | ings, Army Medicos bowed to St. Elizabeth’s, 9-2, in the Militia | League. Boyce and McFadden led | & 13-hit assault on Powell. Dixon Stars on Mound With “Lefty” Dixon holding the |foe to two hits and fanning 12, | Sacred Heart tossers blanked Fort | Myer, 5-0, on the losers’ diamond. G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940. SPORTS. ~ Coach of Central’s Title Nine Urges New Series Plan After Near-Jolt by Eastern Kaysee, Only Western A. A. Club fo Lose, Drops From Lead By the Associated Press. The Western clubs of the American Association are off to a successful start, generally speaking, in their second invasion of the East, but this doesn’t apply to Kansas City. ‘The Blues not only lost their initial game of the trip to Louisville, but also fell out of the league lead by a margin of two percentage points, Other Western clubs were vic- torious on foreign fields, Minneapolis stepping into first place by its win over Toledo. Virtually unbeatable at home dur=- ing the past two weeks, Kansas City ran into a red-hot pitcher in Yank Terry,27-year-old righthander. Terry | allowed only four hits in Louisville's | He walked three and | 2-t0-0 victory. struck out four, Names Were Too Daffy For Southern Hotel ‘When Babe Hamburger, Dodger | front office handy man, and Ben Tincup, coach and scout, registered | at a hotel o na Southern trip the | clerk was going to call the cops ‘With those names he thought they were a couple of phonies, Harvard Elects Donahue CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 1 (P).— Donald A. Donahue, of Lawrence, Harvard's outstanding hurdler, was elected captain of next year’s Crim- son varsity track team. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Pete Lello. 134. Gary, Ind. outpointed Victor Troise, 13K, New York (K) LOS ANGELES. — Richard Lemos, 135, Los Angeles. and Nemo Llanes, 12K, Mexico, drew (10) By PAUL J. MILLER. Thirteen games have been sub- mitted to Judges Harold M. Phillips, H. R. Bigelow and H. Helms for | consideration for the $100 brilliancy award offered by Messrs. Turover and Wimsatt of this city. | Just who played the most brilliant |game in the recent United States | Chess Federation championship | congress in New York is open to | challenge. Kupchik, Adams, Seid- | man—all submit games for both the brilliancy award and the best | played game beginning with the | opening move, P-K4. Bernstein, Littman, Hanauer, Re- shevsky and Shainswit also seek the brilliancy award. For the best P-K4 game the prize is $50. Seidman versus Simonson is a game that is offered for both awards. What is your verdict? PHILIDOR DEFENSE. Black, White, Simonson. Seidman, P-K4 P-QB3 White, Black Seidman. K4 7 ROPRIODIPOITITR b33} Adams vs. Polland illustrates the brilliant sacrifice of a rook. Here's how: SICILIAN DEFENSE. Black, White, Adams 20 P-Kt5 White, Black, Polland. B-RS PxKt Px Simonson. | P Q-Q? 35 K-Kt3 Ki-B3 36 Q-Bich QKt2 Resiens. For comparison with the United States players’ brilliancles try this game between K. Beyer of Denmark and R. G. Wade of New Zealand. The game was awarded the bril- of New Zealand, held this past win- ter. Beyer, Danish expatriate, net- ted the prize. But it was J. B. land title for the sixth time. SICILIAN DEFENSE. . White. . Beyer. BxQ K-R -Ktich Resigns 2 Q-B2 Federal Trade Commission Chess | Club engages in a match with Fed- | eral Security Chess Club tonight at 8 o'clock at Hotel Portland. Dr. Arnold Steinbach welcomes visitors. In May issue of British Chess Magazine I. Konig continues to de- velop modern openings and expounds | at length on the Queen’s Indian. “Blighty” is the periodical read by thousands of Tommies overseas. Chess is a popular game with the | habitues of the Maginot Line. During a recent illness Thomas E. | Dewey, aspirant for the presidential +Republican nomination, turned to chess to while awav the lassitude of convalescence, (June 5, 1240 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Newark. 7: Toronto, 1 se. 8. Buffalo 5. 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