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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
DETROIT MAULS
TWO Of BUSH s
THROWERS
Tigers Fatten Batting Aver
ages at Expense of Zachary
and Sedgwick.
BY LOUIS A BOUCHER.

The Tigers are having difficult
ties in settling their troubles with
the Griffs. Billiards. interfered
last May in Detroit and now Father
Neptune is brandishing his trident.
1t may be impossible to play today.
Rain prevented Saturdays skirm'
ish. Mondays doubleheader was
turned into a single contest by the
same thing and yesterday the juice
came down between games. 1t
came down so hard that Wee
Tommy Connolly. dean of Ameri-
can League umpires, called off
hostilities after the Tigers had
cleaned up the first combat, IL to-5.
Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary tried
bluffing his way through nine
frames and almost got away with
it. He lasted until one was out
in the ninth when In came Kenneth
Sedgwick, Washington Sandlotter,
who received the remainder of the
whipping. At no time was Zachary
impressive. His collapse was ex-
pected from the opening frame
when the Tigers grabbed one run
In the second they got three more
and it looked like curtains for
Zach, but he hung on.
Inc GIFTS Ieaped upon henneIn
Holloway for three runs in the
second and passed the Tigers with
two more in the third. Three passes
and Patsy Gharrity's triple count
ed the trio in the second and hits
by Evans, Rice and Harris, with
Haney's wicked heave, allowed two
in the third.
Sylvester Johnson pitched five
beautiful frames, beginning with
the fourth. and with the Tigers
clamping down on Zachery for a
couple of tallies in the seventh,
he left the pastime the winner.
The Griffs got but five hits to
nineteen for the Tigers. They never
did look good for the victory, even
when leading.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
TWO DUMMIES ARRIVE
FOR WESLEYAN GRIDIRON

BUCKHANNON, w. Va, Aug l.
The first signs of football at West
Virginia Wesleyan College burst
forth here today when two important
arrivals were noted at the Methodist
grid headquarters.
The arrivals, from Chicago, were
transported here by the Government
and Immediately on arrival at the col
lege gymnasium were placed under
lock and key, where they will be
confined until Head Coach Bob Hig-
gins releases them on the afternoon
of August 90. when training camp
opens for Wesleyan.
Local football followers are taking
considerable interest in the pair
Clipping Dummy and Tackling Dunn
my, for both are said to be fitted
with tricky leaping and sidestepping
contrivances which make them
pesky targets for the most hardened
grid veteran to tackle.
Last year the Methodists used but
one tackltng dummy, so the fact that
three pits are to be used this year
leads many to believe that Coach
Bob Higgins will have q large squad
here when training camp opens.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
HOME RUN
ZONE GONE IN
YANKF|ELD
Ten-Foot Screen Has Been
Erected in Front of
Stadium Pocket.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The joke
home run zone at the Yankee
Stadium has been wiped out. There
will be no more burlesque home
runs into that little pocket in right
field, near the foul line. II an
ordinary single hoped over this
fence 1t went as a home run. Early
in the season Ruth nearly broke
his neck while trying to stop a ball
from climbing this fence. He tum-
bled heels over head into the
pocket.
A ten.foot screen now has been
erected in front of the pocket, and
q ball must now take a mighty
jump to leap in there. The screen
is Of the same height as the one in
front Of the bleachers, and If any
balls are driven into this pocket
they must now drop in on the fly.
The screen will practically elimi-
nate homers to that sector, as few
balls ever went into the pocket on
the fly. They usually struck the
grass and bounded over the short
rail.
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tagging
a1t06dSeeS

The st. Louis Browns are due
to open their series here tomor-
row with a doubleheader, the first
game starting at 2 o'clock, as E.
Lawrence Phillips announced a
couple Of times yesterday, to the
evident disgust Of the fans who
were intent on seeing the Tigers
perform.
Today is an open date in the
schedule, but because Of yester.
days rain the Tigers have had to
remain over to complete their Sc
ries. The Jungaleers go to Ph!la-
delphia tonight, opening at Shioe
Park tomorrow with the weakening
Mackmen.
Joey Evans did not look so good
at third base yesterday. So long
as the ball comes on long hops,
he fills the bill. That lets him
out, though he never quits. For
an outfielder filling a bad hole,
Joey is to be commended.
Bob Fothergill contributed fine
running catch in the fifth inning.
He raced from his position to a
spot behind second base in short
center before camping under Cos.
Inns fly. The wind kept pulling
the ball away from him.
The Griffs stole four bases while
Holloway was toiling. The young
Tiger finger hasn't the least idea
Of how to hold runners and Rice
and Ruel each grabbed a couple of
thefts for himself.
Cross CX) marks the snot wncre
the body was found The Reds
| fell into third place with a dull,
sickening thud by losing a double
header to the Phils, 2 to /, and
| 5 to /.
Although webbing a bit toward
the finish, the Giants managed to
last to the wire and beat the
Pirates, to 4. increasing their
lead in the pennant race to tour
games.
The Braves again surprised them.
selves by getting sixteen hits FOR
a total of twenty-five bases and
another decision over the Cubs.
6 to 3.
Tying the score in the ninth at
the expense Of Ehmke, the Indians
came through in the eleventh and
beat the Red Sox, to 4, Myatt's
single furnishing the exit tally.
The Dodgers and Cards broke
even, the latter winning the open
er, IL to 3, by manhandling Grimm
| and losing the second, to 4, by
failing to do likewise by Dicker-
man.
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am thinking of that great
parade of athletes in Chicago
last week. 1t was the opening
game between the Giants and
Cubs. The parade was u sudden
thing, not on the bulletin board
Those who participated were
Scott, Watson, McQuillan, Barnes
and Ryan. All McGraw pitchers.
l mean all were what McGraw
hoped would be pitchers. They
came and went like straw hats
on rainy, windy day.
Five pitchers were slaughtered
Five pitchers were mauled. They
were all called pitching aces. But
it is against the rules to hold
five aces in one hand. The boys
were like airplanes with no rud-
ders. They had speed but no con-
troll. They were like typhoid
fever, all het up but full of
weaknesses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
BASEBALL TAKES FIRM
HOLD IN PORTO RICO

NEW YORK. Aug. IA squad
of tWenty-three native Porto
Ricans, members Of the Sixty fifth
Infantry, arrived in New York from
San Juan, and prepared to take
part in the annual series for the
baseball championship Of the Second
Army Corps Area.
Capt William A. McAdam, U. S.
A, in charge of the team, said that
within the last few years baseball
has taken a firm hold in Porto
Rico, and there are now several
leagues on the island. This is the
first time any of the native players
have invaded the United States in
quest of baseball honors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
RED SOX SALE IS
SLATEDFOR
TODAY

BOSTON, Aug. 1.-The formal
taking over Of the Boston American
League club franchise by the new
owners probably will occur today.
]. A. Robert Quinn, of Columbus,
Ohio, and his associates spent to-
day looking over the papers of the
present management preparatory to
taking possession of the club.
Ban Johnson, president of the
American League, wired today that
he would not be able to be present
at the transfer.
Quinn, who will become president
of the Red SoX, said that there
would not be much chance Of &C.
curing new material for his tail-end
team until fall, when the minor
leagues would be ready to sell their
stars.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
Can't Be Stopped.

THE Yankees, coming home
from their Western triumphs,
with fourteen games in the
kitty, virtually can't be headed
off now. The Yanks were one
of the eight clubs that The writer
predicted would win the Ameri-
can League pennant.
That is a pretty good average.
seeing there are not twelve clubs
in the circuit. This way, the
writer can be wrong only in
seven cases.
If there were twelve clubs he
could be wrong eleven times.
Maybe his figures and his figure
Is wrong, but his heart is honest.
Two of my foreign-bor friends
were motoring to the park the
other day to see a game. They
were hitting it up to get there
before the first inning when they
who said:
Pull up there! What's your
hurry, and where are YOU two
speed demons going?"
One of my friends replied:
10 the ball game, officer"
Well," answered the officer,
pulling out summons and hand
ing it to my friend, there's a
ticket for you"
Ny friend took it and thank
fully said:
Much obliged, officer; have
you got one for my friend?"
This story shows the sort of
hlgh-class friends this writer
has, and it serves them right if
they keep on going to see ball
games wherein so many pitchers
are killed.
Copyright. 1929. by The Chrlsty Walsh
Syndicate.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
FREDDIE WELSH CALLED
INTO ACTIVE SERVICE

BOSTON, Aug. 1.-Freddie Welsh,
former world lightweight boxing
champion, recently commissioned in
the United States reserve corps as
Capt. John Hall Thomas, has been
called into active service, it was an
nounced at army headquarters here
today.
Captain Thomas arrived in Boston
today and will be detailed tomorrow
as a member Of the athletic staff at
Camp Devens, where approximately
1000 young New Englanders will be-
gin courses of training in citizens
military training camps tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
DULUTH BOAT CLUB TO
RISK NATIONAL TITLE

DULUTH. Mimi, Aug. 1.-The
Duluth Boat Club. holder Of the
Julius H. Barnes trophy emblematic
of the National Amateur Rowing
championship, will risk it's title at
the national regatta at Baltimore,
August and 4. despite reports to
the contrary, says Phil Moore. the
clubs coach.
Seven crews from the Duluth
club are now on their way East to
Baltimore. Walter Hoover. worlds
singles sculling champion, did not
ACCOMPANY the crews.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
ROCKVILLE HORSE SHOW
ATTRACTS MANY ENTRIES

Officials of the Rockville Fair
Association predict that the horse
show to be held in conjunction with
this years fair will be the most pre-
tentious ever staged.
Those in charge, Thomas I.
Fulks, Josiah w. Jones, Mrs. An
drew J. Cummings and Mrs. Her
bert L. Diamond, are busily inter
esting horsemen of the county to
help make the show a big success.
The fair will be held the latter
part of this month and it has
been decided to stage the horse show
on Wednesday of the week in
which the fair is held.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
New Seat Rocks Boat
Despite Efforts Of
Coaches

Racing shells equipped with
rocking seats have been tried
on the Charles river. The
theory is to devise a seat for
the oarsman which will elimi-
nate the break in his body at
the stomach while he is pulling
through.
The theory may be q good
one, but what the old-time
coaches have been trying to do
for many years is to discourage
the practice Of rocking the
boat.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01

yBatted for Holloway in fourth.
Washington .... 0 3 2 o 0 O. 5
Detroit ......... 5 0 o o o 6-12
Runs-Evans. Rice, Ruel 60, Peck,
RiEney (2). Woodall and S. Johnson.
Error-Haney Two-base hits-Evans'
Jones. Rigney. Three base hits ones;
charity, stolen bases-Rice CD, Ruel
I9l Sacrifice hits--Jones. Woodall,
cobb. Fothergill Double play-Evans
to Charity to Ruel. Left on bases
Detrnit O.: Washington, 5. First base
m baIls-Off Holloway, 4: off John
son, /; off zachary. 5. Struck out
BY Holloway, |; by Johnson o., by
2 innings; off Zachary. IA in sh in
nings; off Johnson. 1 in innings in! off
sedgwick; in villa 2S pitchs R GtI G9IS
Winning pitcher - Johnson. Losing
nitcher = Zachary. Umpires - Rowland,
0rmsby and Connolly Time-3 hours
10 minutes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
BRITISH YACHTS LEAD
AMERICANS AT SIX METERS

RYDE, England, Aug. 1.-Great
Britain led by ten points at the end
Of the first days racing of British
and American six-meter yachts for
the British America cup. The score
was % for the British team; 10 for
the American. The races will cor.
tinue for five more DAYS.
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By Nick
NICK TALKS OF LEANINGS.
Trade Mars cppIisS ~

He leaned against lot Of things including
Pittsburgh win flag in League
- including
his But when McGraws pitching staff fold
like camp chair why it makes anybody lean the
All the Arock family liked their meat lean and only natural
for the writer So when he Cincinnati
and Pittsburgh preferably BOTH why friends looks like the Yanks
will the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
YANKEES WIN MORE ON
ROAD THAN WITHIN
OWN STADIUM
By BABE RUTH.

NEW YORK, Aug MAYBE the fellow song
fright when said there like but baseball
the Yankees have found different We've done best work
On the
So far this we've played fiftfOur
own ball park Of these we've forty.
That, I'll tell the world, is going
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01

The Handley A G.. is seeking
games with unlimited. class teams.
DIR. Louis Cuvillier, phone Main
1914 and Adams 244. will handle
the Handley bookings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
Whitfield Is Out

TOLEDO. Aug. George Whitfield
tired of being a player-manager of
: tailend ball club, has resigned as
leader of the Mudhens, the chronic
cellar champions of the American
association.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
SYRACUSE CLOSES EYES
TO BIG CASH OFFER

SYRACUSE Y Aug Efforts of George stallngs, boss Of
the Rochester Tribe buy Doc Silva and another player believed
be Jim Tagger from the Syracuse Stars met with failure
understood offered
per Silva,
believed the Stars could have made him player
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
Plans a Comeback.

Armando Marsans, one time Yam
kee player, plans a return to the
game. He will be with the Louis
vile Colonies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
GRIFFMEN-TIGER GAME
FOR TODAY CALLED OFF

Today's announced baseball game
between the Griffmen and the De.
troit Tigers was called off at noon
because of wet grounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
Garden Still Good.

Madison Square Garden is still
good enough for boxing shows and
will be used regularly during the
coming indoor season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01

For letting Luis Angel FirpO
play double pinOchle with his Tea
lures like q locomotive toying with
crossroads flivVer, Willard in
herited sad beating and $12S, 11S
cash.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01
Has Two, Anyway.

Columbia has two big football
Games in New York, anyway.
Cornell will be there on November
IN and Dartmouth on November 20.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01

That doesn't mean much money
in Shelby, Mont. East Of the
Rockies it indicates face value or
the equivalent thereof.
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But the entire crew, except Nieber-
gall, in the event that st. Louis
wants to give him his major league
chance, will be kept together as a
nucleus around which to build a
real ball club for next season.
Neibergal1 has been with Syracuse
for four years, catching fine ball day
in and day out for miserable ball
teams, and it is understood that the
club owner has promised him that
no attempt will be made to stand
in his way if a major league club
bids for him.
And Branch Hickey has intimated
that Niebergall will be one of his
catchers next season. Eddie Ain.
smith appears to be slipping badly,
and most Of the Cardinal catching
is now entrusted to Harry McCurdy,
last years Syracuse first-sacker
after the promotion of Jim Bottom
ley, a catcher, who is not as capable
as Niebergall unless he has improved
about 200 per cent within a year.
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center of gravity and wake up
with $123,113 cluttering your
vision.
That clears up another heavy.
weight mystery one Of the
toughest the middle-weight police
of two countries ever had to can
Gel. It's a long trek from Ha-
Vana to Toledo to Jersey City.
whether you're walking on your
own or borrowed buniOns. Few
do it and retire solvent.
When Jess staggers back to
Kansas under his heavy financial
load, he'll be met by the local
banker, butcher, barber and boot
logger. all nuts to give him fl.
duciary advice: Will he take it?
He wilI-NOT.
He'll take that old roll of bO-
1Ogna right home to Mrs. Willard
and tell her to deposit it in the
Onyx National Bank. From then
on she'll deal it off the bottom
just as tenderly as she trims her
Jess can have a new pair of
blue jeans every other harvest
and a hatful of nicl1els at Christ
mas. Outside of that, he'll be as
much of a spendthrift as a land
lord buying new wallpaper.
Mrs. Willard will Be president,
vice-president, general manager
and board of directors of that
unchartered bank, and she won't
even send Jess to the corner gro
Gerry without calling in prOfes-
SiOnal bondSmen.
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IT must be a horrible accident
center of saT TGF M sS W aG@ t np
with $123,113 cluttering your
vision.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-01

1t used to be argued that q team
pat could win a little more than
AAlf Of the games it played on the
road would come nightly close to
winning the pennant. For some
reason or other most teams have
found it harder to win. on the road
than at home. Maybe home cook.
Ing has something to do with it.
Maybe it's sleeping on Pullmans be-
tween jumps and shifting hotels
every few days. Maybe it's be-
cause a player will do better in
friendly surroundings.
Whatever the reasons are they
don't work so far as the Yankees
are concerned. On our first West
ern trip this year we won seventeen
out of twenty games. A few days
ago we finished another trip on
which we won sixteen out OF twenty
two. Add the gamies we won on
few short jumps to Boston and
Washington and you get total Of
forty.
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eve are buying players, not SELL
ing them" said President Bartelme.
1--WE have just started getting a
team together. Most people don't
realize it, but since late May we have
been travelling along at a flrst-divi-
sion pace
"And I think our club will improve
as time goes along. No club in the
league welcomes an assignment
against Syracuse now. We viii
strengthen a spot or two II the op-
portunity presents itself.
"But we won't weaken ourselves
just to make a little cash and bet
ter the chances Of Rochester, Balti-
more or Reading.
There has been talk that we
would move from Syracuse. Deny
it. Wen give Syracuse a chance TO
show what it will do in support of u
first-division club"
Jack Dunn has long been strong
for Niebergal1 and recently went on
record to the effect that the SYRIA
in the league. Three years ago he
offered Ernest Landgraf $4,000 in
cash and three players, including
Sullivan, a pitcher, who since has
had service with the Philadelphia
Athletics, only to drop back into the
minors, for Nieberga1l.
AID Pierotti and Elmer Hill are
others for whom the Stars could
find a ready market.
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National League.
American League.
YESTERDAYS HOMERS.
National League.
American Leagu,

Harris, Boston. .......... .
League totals: National, 379:
American, 296.
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TWO. AuO we "OA OIt
q few short jumps to Boston and
Washington and you get a total OF
forty.
The Yankees are q mighty pe-
culiar team. Some times we look
like a million dollars. Other times
we look terrible. When we're
good we're very. very good, and
when we're bad we're awful. But
this year we've been at our best
most all the time while on the
road, and that accounts for the
tremendous lead we have in the
pennant race.
There's a funny angle to this
record we've made on the road this
year. / don't want to offend any OF
my friends in cities outside of New
York, but the fact of the matter
IL that the Yankees are not liked
throughout the American League.
New York is the biggest city in
the country and I suppose the
jealousy between cities is respon-
sible for il. And yet nearly every
player on the team, including my.
self. comes from some other town.
Besides, we've won the pennant
the last two years and / guess
people figure it's about time for
some other team to step in md
win. The champion in all sports al
ways is popular up TO a certain
point, but after that people root for
the other fellow.
Anyhow, we've played to crowds
that have been against u.s. The
other teams always fight harder
against US than they do among
themselves This is only natural.
Everybody likes to take a sock ut
the big fellow. But all this has
made us fight just so much harder
ourselves, and the Yanks are the
kind of q team that can do this.
Three years ago we went into
Cleveland for a four game series.
We had to win all four games or
1ust about drop out of the pennant
race. We won them. l mention
this by way of illustrating he
makeup of the Yanks.
Another time that season we
had to win three out of four in
tveIand. Again we won them.
But then we played one of the
weaker clubs-and blOOie! We
threw away the results we fought
40 hard to get in Cleveland.
The Yanks in many ways are a
freak ball club but I think a great
one. The fact that we've won
forty out of fifty-four games on the
road this year proves it.
Only a real great team can do
this. and IL we have TO travel 70
cincinnati or Pittsburgh for the
world series I think We'll do just
"a well as we've done away from
home this season. II we stay in
New York and play the Giants
assuming that a miracle doesn't
happen to beat US out of the Amer.
Moan League pennant-I think we're
Going to give Mr.. McGraw and his
Giants a lot more trouble than we
gave them last year and the year
before.
Ne were in one kind of streak
AGAINST them and they were in an
other. That's why they beat us
THAT'S why the weak teams in ouI
orn league occasionally beat us
aust as the weak teams in the Ma
;ionaI League sometimes beat tht
IronvriRht, 1929 by The Christy WALSH
Syndicate.)
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Waite Holm as an outfieIder,
Farmhouse and other young
pitchers have given great promise
of development. ~
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Another time that season we
had to win three out of four in
IryeIand. Again we won them,
But then we played one of the
weaker clubs-and blOOie! We
threw away the results We fought
30 hard to get in Cleveland.
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YOU TELL EN-
Totals AZ 52716 Totals. 80 10 81 /

Stated for Sedgwick in ninth.
4patte5 for Holloway in fourth.
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BASEBALL q
II SUMMARIZES

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing Of the Clubs.