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TUNNEY IS KEEPING
WORD ABOUT FIGHT

NEW YORK, June 1S.-After Gene
Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey last
September he said he would be glad
to give the latter return fight. Moth
ing much has been done about it be-
cause there has been no occasion to
make him keep his word.
When Tuney signed to fight the man
Tex Richard picks out for him the
coming September. time limit was
set for Richard to name the cham
pion's opponent. This limit expired
last Wednesday. Tuney has consented
to waive that part of the contract and
will wait until Jack Dempsey and Jack
Sharkey have settled the issue between
them July q.
The champions action only goes
to prove that he is not concerned
about his opponent. He said he would
be fighting champion and fight the
man the promoters selected for him
This would ordinarily be put down as
the usual twaddle of a title holder.
Brushing aside all precedent OF
champions in the past by refusing to
name his own opponent, Tunney has
put himself in a different >hght. Nc
one will be able to say he had to hand
pick his men to hold on to his title
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ST. MARY'S CELTICS
ARE GIVEN BEATING

ALEXANDRIA, va, June 20.-Pub-
lie Buildings and Public Parks defeat
ed st. Mary's Celtics, to 2. at Dread
naught Park yesterday. Allen of the
winners, hit safely twice to lead the
batters. Wood, Celtic pitcher. hit a
double, the longest clout of the day.
Camp Meade nine meets A. B. & w.
Rapid Transit Co. tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock in Dreadnaught Park.
Pilot ike" Dreifus of the locals has
outfield. Bleier quit in midseason last
year after two campaigns, in which he
played fine ball.
Virginia Athletic Club and Southern
Railway Juniors will clash in Wash
ington tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock.
AllOn Dennis, Outfielder for the past
two seasons, has been elected captain
of the 1928 Alexandria High School
has been named manager. The stu.
dent body has voted to continue the
diamond sport. It's abandonment was
being seriously considered.
Leon Riley led Alexandria High hit
ters the past season with a mark OF
1875.
Del Ray Juniors will entertain St
Mary Juniors on st. Agnes School
field tomorrow at 3 o'clock.
No. Motor Co. goes to Clarendon
| tomorrow afternoon for a game with
Penrose Athletic Club on the Washing
| ton and Lee High School diamond al
| 3 o'clock.
Pirate A. c. and Glover clubmen will
meet on Hayden Field tomorrow az
| IL o'clock.
George Everley was reelected sec
rotary of the Number Five Motor Co
| Athletic Association. Mutt" Cockrel
was named publicity director. Teddy
| Sutherland. captain of the base bal
team, and Charles Fletcher, base bal
| manager.
st. Mary's Junior base ball team
will give a dance Tuesday evening II
the Lyceum Hall, from 8 o'clock tc
midnight.
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PAUL WANER.MOON HARRIS
NEWEST STAR HITTING DUO

elapsed, Paul has driven in the as.
tonishing total of around 70 runs, a
pace which would carry him well past
the National League record of 152 for
season, set by Hornsby. or the
American League mark of 10 made
by Ruth.
Harris has been looming along the
top of the leagues batting ever since
Manager DOME Bush shifted his line
up and put the Moon" on first base
move that netted immediate results
and snapped the pirates out Of their
earlier slump.
Harris and Dutch" Ruether, both
cast off by Washington last season.
have become vital factors in two pen
nant races. Ruether has been twirl
ing brilliantly for the American
League champions. the Yankees, now
well out in front in a dash for a sec
| ond straight title. If present pros
poets are fulfilled, Dutch" may be
tossing 'em for his old teammate
Moon when the worlds series rolls
around in October.
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CANZONERI FAvORITE
FOR GO WITH TAYLOR
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, June 20.-The fans, who
have made Tony Canzoneri of New
York 7-to-5 favorite over Bud Tay-
lor of Terre Haute in their 1O-round
battle for the bantam crown next
Thursday night, evidently have fig
ured the contest to be battle of left
hooks.
Tony's father arrived today to
watch his son fight for the title, and
quickly became infected with the
confidence that pervades the New
Workers. camp that the title will go
East. The little New Yorker is go
ing six rounds daily now. with his
regular sparring partners.
Taylor, seeming to realize the i'm
portance of his left, has persuaded
Sammy Mandell, lightweight cham
pion. TO work out with him, as Man
dell is regarded as one of the best
left-hand jabbers in the business.
| Mandell will give the Terre Haute
blond his first lesson this afternoon
Besides polishing up his left. Tay-
lor has worked out daily with Pal
| Moore, the Memphis boxer who origi
mated the peculiar jumping style
which CanZoneri has adopted. Moore
plans to challenge Taylor should the
latter win.
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CTJRS ARE DETERMINED
TO GUST BUGS FROM TOP

Benton. whom McGraw has just &C.
CURED from the Braves famed eight
and allowed only two hits in the five
innings before he was forced out of the
game by being struck with a pitched
ball. and Clarkson gave only two safe
ties the rest of the way. A third good
pitcher in the game was Sherdel OF
the Cardinals, who was hit safely but
six times.
Jack Scott Of the Phillies, however,
outshone all the other hurlers of the
day. at least in ambition. After pitch
ing 3.to-1 victory over the Reds in
the first game of a double-header he
hurled the second game, too. losing it
by to 0.
A summary of yesterdays games
follows:
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
C cIeSsiand .:: o1d doo9oo3C !
Lyons and McCurdy; shaute and l.. Sew
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
C in'". .>... oo60o00Yooo o-i s i
Scott and Wilson; May. Mays and Har-
greave
Phiiadelphia.. 0oo000ooo-o Z !
CINCINNATI. IL q o X-3 o
Scott and Wilson; Rixey and Picinich.
ch fti1s's" .:..... @030osoG1-14 II !
Hill. .Yde. Cvengros and Gooch; Root and
Hartnctt.
New York. .... o002odo01-t 9 2
Benton, Clarkson and O'Neil; sherdel and
Schultz.
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CHICAGO NOW ONLY ONE
GAME BACK OF PIRATES
Improvement Continued at Recent Ratio Would En-.
able McCarthy's Club Beat Bucs-Yankees-
Show No Likelihood of Falterng.

players, who has held base ball to he
more or less of a joy-ride.
Gehinger seems to have gone to
second base on the Detroit team for
good, and perhaps that will be of more
help to Moriarty than he imagines
this moment.
Cleveland might we'll begin to trade
it's old pitchers for some who have
stability and less brute force.
In the National League, the Chicago
Cubs have improved on their home
field-and proved it quite conclusively
by licking the Pirates in yesterdays
encounter to climb to within one game
Of the leading Buccaneers. The Cubs
have grown like the moon from its
first quarter and the Pirates have held
their own, although there has been
no runaway for them. IL the Cubs
could improve i'm the same ratio to
the end of the season they would beat
Pittsburgh out.
Cards Too COmplaisant.
The other Western teams of the Ma
tional League did nothing on this in
vasion by the Eastern clubs that
would make them appeal to anybody
as firebrands. st. Louis club is too
ALFRED complaisant. If it is trying
to show that it is not excited because
it won the pennant in 1926, it would
better slip out of that environment
and get as excited as blaZes, because
| it will need more than the sluggish
| waste of energy that oozes from 1t
now.
Cincinnati is doomed for this year.
IT is poor ball team as it stands and
was made so by poor judgment. no
matter who is responsible for trying
to make a winner out of team that
should have preserved all it's strength
and not frittered it away in readjust.
mentS,
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HYDR0MEL TO RUN
IN LATONIA DERBY
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, June 20.-Hydromel,
winner of Saturdays American Derby
in record-breaking time, together with
Dolan and Buddy Bauer. will be sent
to Latonia to run in the Derby there
next Saturday.
Whiskery, the Kentucky Derby
winner, who ran last in the big Wash
ington Park race, will not be sent to
Latonia. His poor showing has de:
cided Trainer Hopkins that the Blue
Grass winner needs a rest.
Larry McDermott, who rode the
Camden colt, Hydromel. to victory
Saturday, likely will be sent to La
tonia to pilot him there. Latonia's
Derby also is for $25 900 added money,
and, like Washington Parks, is over
the mile-and-a-half route.
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/ Il
clubs of the National League
is finished. The next will not
be undertaken until another
month has arrived So too, have the
Western clubs of the American League
finished their circuit of the Eastern
fields, and today in both leagues East
again opposed East and West fought
the West.
In a general way the Western divi-
sion of each league profited too little
in the series just ended to make 1t
worth while to consider three -fourths
of them having any chance to win a
championship in 1927. unless there is
fever which burns up some of the
leaders
There Is nothing to show that the
New York Yankees are to be thrown
off the main line in the American
League They will go booming along
to the finish. unless there is some
thing like mira culous Improvement
on the part Of Chicago or the Ath-
letics. Washington hovers SO closely
to the $3.50 that rally is being de-
SPARED Of.
Unrest Stirs Tigers.
For a brief moment the Detroit
Tigers showed something of the vital
ity which they are presumed to boast
and then weakened again. This. on
top Of a dressing down which was
given to the players by Manager
Moriarty. implies that there is more
than lack Of a good Spring start be-
hind their discomfort. There are in
dications that the old spirit of unrest
has stirred up at least one of the
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EAST-WEST HONORS
GO TO HOME CLUBS

NEW YORK, June 20 R.-Battling
legions of the majors were homeward
bent last night following the conclu.
sion of the second intersectional COM
bat Of the 1927 campaign which per-
ceptibly swept the Chicago Cubs into
recognition as potential contenders
for the base ball bunting in the Ma.
tional League.
Bolstered by a 12.game winning
streak, the Cubs captured all the
honors of the East-West strife for
both circuits with II victories and 4
defeats. The New York Americans,
like the Cubs in defending against
the invading hordes, won 10 and lost
3.
The one-time powerful New York
Giants were jolted severely in their
pennant hopes coming out in front in
but of II starts.
Most of the clubs wound up their
East-West clashes yesterday but
some finished their invasions Satur.
day.
The following table shows how the
clubs Jared during the two.week tilt:
AMERICAN IEACIyE
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PITCHERS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 20.-There may
be more and bigger headlines about
the brace of Yankee belters, Buster"
Gehrig and Babe Ruth, or the clouting
combination of the Athletics, Ty Cobb
and Al Simmons. but no Pittsburgh
fan would consent to take either pair
just now for the two Buccaneer bomb
ers, Paul Waner, the bridegroom, and
Joe Moon" Harris.
Waner, youth Of "a, but already a
star of the first magnitude, and Har-
ris, the battle-scarred veteran of 35,
have been the big guns of the Pirate
| attack for weeks. Their consistent
and timely walloping has been as vital
a factor as any in the clubs ability to
keep its pace around the top where
bad breaks" such as the temporary
loss of Kremer and the injury to Guy
| Ter threatened to be disastrous.
Paul Waner has replaced Glenn
| Wright as the teams foremost expo
nent of the timely art of driving in
runs. With only a third of the season
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BALLSTON NINE STOPPED
BY ARLINGTON BEARCATS

team are asked to attend a meeting
tonight at 1870 o'clock at 1346 d street
northeast.
Hanlein's triple with the bases load
ed gave Joe Harris Insects a 4-to-2
win over Lisenbee Insects yesterday
Mount Rainier manager would like
to hear from Manager Deuterman of
the Arlington Bearcats. Call Hyatts-
vile 378M.
Manhattan Juniors are carding
games. Call Atlantic 2530-W.
Manager Pop Kremb wants a game
for Liberty A. c. for Saturday. Call
Columbia 4165-J after o'clock.
Reading A. c. is booking games.
Call Lincoln 1740, branch 6, between
and s o'clock.
Maryland A. G. has several open
dates. Call Manager Edelin,, Capitol
Heights SO.
Unlimited foes are sought by Navy
Yard nine. Call Franklin 446.
Stanford Midgets seek competition
Call Atlantic 1880.
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RAIN PLAYS HAVOC WITH
SANDLOT LEAGUE GAMES
JUNIOR CLASS.

JUNIOR CLASS.
Section A-Kennedy vs. Palace. Plaza
FIELD. O'Clock: Coca Cola vs. Senator'S No
IL o'clock
:, Section B-Moose VS.. MonteIlos. East Ell.
Ilpse. II o'clock: Centers VS.. Lindbergh,
Plaza. II o'clock.
Section Central Reds vs. winsalls
South Ellipse. ] o'clock: Manhattans vs.
Corinthians, No. o. 1 o'clock
MIDGET CLASS.
-, Section A---tSunday) Eddie Collinses VS..
Moose No; 4: 3 o'clock. Corinthians vs..
Crandalls. North Ellipse. IL o'clock; Satur-
day. Sam Rices VS.. Crandalls, No. g.
Section B-EsEimos VS. Aces, Plaza 8
o'clock; Americans VS.. Rommels. West Ell
lipse. IL O'clock
INSECT CLASS
Saturday games)
Russells VS.. st. Martins South Ellipse.
30 o'clock. Corinthians vs. Boys Club
Elks East Ellipse: 80 o'clock.
- Sunday Walfords VS.. Iroauois, South
Ellipse. IL o'clock.
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GERMAN BOXER SCORES.

DORTMUND, Germany, June 20
R.-Max Schmellig of Germany de-
feated NJ. de Large of Belgium in a
boxing match here last night, which,
it was announced, was for the middle
weight championship Of Europe. De
Large, the title holder, retired in the
fourteenth round
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American League.
National League
HOME RUNS DIMINISH.

CHICAGO, June 20 R.-Hot
weather pitching blighted the home
run totals last week, especially in the
National League, and there was but
half the usual crop. The National
Leaguers got but 10 home runs last
week compared with their usual total
of about 80 The American Leaguers
were not far behind their regular gait
with 20 four base drives.
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FRISCH NOW IN FIGHT
FOR BIG EIGHT HONORS

The struggle by Rogers Hornsby
and Ty Cobb for batting supremacy
in the Big Eight, representative of
base balls highest salaried players,
has developed into a three-cornered
affair, with frankie Frisch threaten
ing the leaders.
The rankings follow:
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RECORD FOR PAST WEEK
IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES

BY the Associated Press.
The weeks major league record OF
games won and lost, runs. hits, errors
and opponents runs, including Satur'
day, follow:
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Attack Consistently Weak.


It's club that never knows wheth.
er it is to get decent pitching and is
none too sure of itself afield. 1t is
fairly consistent in only one depart
ment of the game-attack. And in
that it is consistent in its weakness
So moor have the Nationals been in
stickwork this season that whenever
they continue to do some real clout-
ing in a game the opposing manage
ment is apt to inquire what its pitch
ers were about the night before.
So after all, Washington's American
League representative is getting along
about as we'll as should be expected
of it. Twice this season it has per-
formed f1ashily over a brief stretch OF
DAYS, but generally it has moved
along in the leisurely manner of the
little old lady who was going some
where, but with no definite knowledge
of her destination.
In it's home stand of 20 games. the
club started and finished in defeat.
The Nationals were well drubbed at
the outset of the series on their own
heath by the Macks, whose guests
they now are. Then they made merry
with the lowly Red Sox in Memorial
day double. header, only to have Bill
Carrigan's men come back at them
the following two days in no uncer-
tain manner.
That was not so pleasant to take,
but after humping the Browns the
first time they showed in Washington
this year, the athletes seemed to think
that all was wei again. But the
Browns turned on them with ven
geance and grabbed the next three
games in a row. The Nationals
played terrible base ball in that series.
such terrible base ball that nnally
Manager Stanley Harris yanked vir-
tuaIly all his regulars and gave his
reserves chance to show their
worth.
Naturally this wholesale withdrawal
of regular talent could not be made
permanent, but the st. Louis series
did result in one important change
the supplanting of the veteran, Topper
Rigney. by the youthful Bobby Reeves
at shortstop. After Bob broke into the
lineup the Nationals began perking
up a bit. They stepped out to take
three of four games from the Indians
and swept rain-shortened three-gam
series with the chesty White Sox.
But that kind of work was too good
to last, and when the Tigers struck
Washington the Nationals fell back
into their normal stride. They played
against George Moriarty's men at only
a 500 gait, and in neither of their
two victories were they particularly
brilliant. Extraordinary pitching by
Horace Lisenbee carried them to sue
cess in one Of the two tits, while Al
Crowder's ability to stand the Tigers
on their heads until near the close
of the contest accounted mainly fol-
victory in the other.
In taking a 5-to-1 licking from the
Tigers yesterday the Nationals ha6
neither pitching nor an offense
MOriarty's men took fancy to Irving
Hadley's stuff at the start and pounded
him continually through eight rounds
They reached the recruit for an ever
dozen safeties, never missing an in
ming in their hitting And Irving
helped their cause by dishing up -four
bases on balls and perpetrating a balk
In the Nationals half of the eighth
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TIGERS BUSY WITH BATS


.Batted for Hadley In eighth inning,
Waited for Burke I'm ninth inning.
Washington. :. o o o d
TwO-base hts-Heilmann. Tavener Three
base hit-Blue. Stolen bases-Warner.
Manush. Sacrifices-BIue. Heilmann. HolI0-
way; Tavener. Left on bases--Detroit, 4:
Washington. 8. First base on balls-Of
Holloway: 3: on Hadley. 4. Struck 0ut-By
Hadley. l. Hits-oT Hadley. IL In in
HadIey. Losing ptcRerMriadI nH"f Tmpi a.s-
Messrs. Rowland. Connolly and Vangrafian.
Time OF game hour and 80 minutes.
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Invading Club.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
EAGLES SEEK GAMES.

Anacostia Eagle FASTENERS are after
an out-of.town game for next Sunday
with Bryantown, Hughesville or
Mechanicsville, Md, teams. Call Mrs.
Eva O'Donnell, Eagle manager, at At
lantic 1886. or write her at 1895 Ridge
place southeast.
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PHILADELPHIA. Pa. June 90.
A d0uble-header scheduled be-
tween Washington and the Phila-
deiphia Athletics today was pre-.
vented OH account of rain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20

Pop Dulin's Crescent A. c., base
ballers are after game with any team
in the vicinity for next Saturday after.
noon. Dulin may be reached at Frank
lin $685.
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
Seattle II: Oakland. SIS.
Hollywood 3-S: Missions. II
Portland. lis: Sacramento. 81.
San Francisco. 1916: Los Angeles. 10.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Houston 6: Wichita Falls. 8.
San Antonio 7: Fort Worth. 8.
Beaumont 4 Dallas. 2.
Waco at Shreveport. postponed by rain.
SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE.
Montgomery. 9: Pensacola. 0. Called al
end of seventh inning. rain.)
Only games scheduled.
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GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORRoN'
pitts.bb nj Chicago. Pittsb'h at Cincinnati.
Chicago mt st. Louis.
Boston mt New York.
Phila. Mt Brooklyn.
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SENIOR CLASS.

ington Barracks l O'Clock: Terminals vs
Aztecs. West Ellipse. ! o'clock: Creseents VS.
Section B-National Circles vs.. Atlantics
No. f. / o'clock Moose VS.. Freers. No. 3.
o'clock
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n AIN and wet grounds kept
- teams in sandlOt leagues out
of action. with two exceptions.
Il y All Capital City League trays
were postponed except one
and will be played at the close of the
regular season.
Two contests We're played in the
new Beaver Heights circuit, but all
PetWorth Senior and Intercity League
games were postponed before start
ing time.
Marion A. G. and Seat. Pleasan,
mines tied for the leadership of Beaver
Heights League by defeating Kroy-
dens, 4 to 0, and Modern Woodmen,
9 to 3. respectively. The pitching of
Bopp and Smith, for the respective
winners, featured the games.
Hess A. G. gained a 6-to-4 triumph
over BladenSburg on the latter teams
diamond, thus stepping into second
place in the rating of east division of
Capital City. Deuterman hurled eff.
fectively for the winners. w. Love
lace and Gibson each collected three
hits.
Following is the team standing in
unlimited class:
WEST SECTION.
Standing of the Teams
AsS!;sn = $1 SS3 g!a..e y + gss
81. Joe -. L l 800 Modocs :. 0 2 900
EAST SECTION.
Standing of the Teams.
# #s..tera' : 9 g g'sss.ss* S$'
NE Motors 1 1 800
Diamonds have been assigned for
Capital City League games next Sat-
urday and Sunday as follows:
UNLIMITED CLASS.
East SectiOn-Stephens VS.. Bladensburg.
Bladensburg Field. 3 o'clock; Hess VS.. North
east Motors (pending).
West Standardization vs. BallstOn, Ball
ston Field. 3 o'clock: Donohoe VS.. Fort Myer,
Fort Myer Field. 3 o'clock; St. Josephs VS..
Modocs (pendng).
SENIOR CLASS.
Section A-St. Martins VS.. Auths. Wash
ington Barracks. 1 o'clock Terminals vs.
Aztecs. West Ellipse. l o'clock; Crescents VS..
Falls Church. No l. 3 O'Clock.
Section B-Natonal Circles VS.. Atlantics.
No. 4. / o'clock; Moose VS.. Freers. No. 3.
n
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BY JOHN Il. KELLER.


- the series that was to be
started with a double-headel
i this afternoon the Nationals
are carrying the fight for third
place in the American League to the
Athletics. But if they play no better
base ball in the five games here than
they did during their home stand of
20 engagements, they'll not be above
the fourth notch when they hurry out
of this City of Brotherly Love for
Boston Thursday.
To overhaul the Athletics in the
present series. the Nationals must win
four of the five tits listed for Shihe
Park. And that's a big order for
club that was able to take not more
than II of 20 battles staged on its
home lot during the past three weeks.
That 11-9 break in Clark Griffith
Stadium did not pick up much ground
for Bucky Harris bunch. But it rep
resents just about the class of base
ball the Nationals have been putting
out since the campaign started. One
seeing them in action for more than
two months comes to the conclusion
that President Clark Griffith has little
better than a 500 PLAYING outfit.