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Evening star., 1927-08-30

for Corby Indians. Dean and Hazel
ton hit home runs for the winners.
Holy Rosary Seniors seek a foe for
Wednesday on diamond No. 3 at 5
o'clock. Call Cleveland 1852.
Manhattan Juniors. who have 33
wins in 80 starts this season, will
meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the
home of the manager. Saturday and
Sunday games are wanted. Cell Lin
coin 819S after 6 o'clock.
Atlas Midget League teams were
scheduled to meet this afternoon at
5 o'clock at 927 D street northwest.
Franchise money was to be returned
to the runners.up. Emerys won the
pennant.
Harlem Midgets will meet Friday
night at Z o'clock at 4434 Conduit
road.
st. Peter Midgets, who previously
defeated the Sam Rice team, will
battle that team Saturday at o'clock
on East Ellipse diamond. Call Lin.
coin 4o73 for games.
Sam Rice Midgets want a game for
tomorrow. Cali Atlantic 1876.
LiCneis. DumbartOns and George
Burns mines are challenged by Har-
lem Insects. Call Cleveland 6042.
Rex PeeWees are out for the Dis
trict title. On Thursday they will
play Shamrocks at Q o'clock and
Waverleys at IL o'clock.
Goose Goslin Peewees are in search
of games. Call Billy Detweiler at
Cleveland 5573 between and 6
o'clock.
Games are wanted by Achenian
PeeWees. Call Adams 1022-J.
Eddie McDermOtt wants games for
Massasoit Peewees. Call Lincoln BASS
between s and 9 o'clock.
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JUNIOR MINES FIGHT
FOR SECOND PLACE

ALEXANDRIA. August 30-The
fight for second-place honors in the
Alexandria Junior Base Ball League
will open Sunday with Glover y. c.,
runner-up. facing the third-place
Pirate nine on Hayden Field at 1880
O'Clock. st. Mary's is leading.
Emmett f. Lawler. jr, of the Old
Dominion Boat Club, attended last
nights meeting of the Middle States
Regatta Association officials at the
Baltimore Athletic Club, Baltimore.
Plans were formulated for the asso,
citation shell races in the Monu-
mental City Labor day.
Edward Allen. manager Of Dread
naught A. c., wants to book unlimited
opposition. Call him at Alexandria
1874 or write 726 North Washington
street.
st. Mary's Juniors are after a game
with some Junior team for Sunday.
Manager Charles Colium can be
reached at Alexandria 1341 or IL
South Royal street.
st. Mary's Celtics have a game pend
ing with the Fredericksburg Va)
town team, to be played at Fredericks-
burg Friday. Manager Charles Cor
bett of the Celtics would like to hear
from unlimited and senior teams. His
phone is Alexandria 564 and address
1924 Cameron street.
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BY JOHN II. FOSTER.

- EVEN games that have surely
strayed from home in the Ma
tional League now loom up as
~ having an important influence
on pennant calculations. These
games will be transferred from East
to West, for the Chicago Cubs missed
one chance to play in Boston, the
Pittsburgh Pirates missed two games
in Boston and the st. Louis Cardinals
were deprived of four chances to play
in New York. There are others be-
tween Cincinnati and Brooklyn but
they have no bearing on the pennant
race.
Rain and the threat Of rain did this.
One of these days some major league
team will lose a pennant because it
mo1keyed with the rain clOuds-and
it isn't altogether certain that at least
one team in the past did not lose a
championship that way. Throwing
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COAST TEAM PLAYS
ONLY COLLEGE MINES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A base ball team that never won
a pennant, plays less than a dozen
games a year only with colleges, and
has numbered some of the greatest
performers in the sport. has func-
toned in San Francisco for 80 years.
1t is Irelands Independents, organ
lied by Cliff Ireland, local business
man with a base ball hobby. Ireland
has been manager and second baseman
from the start.
In 1888. Ireland had the idea of
forming a team to play college and
university mines in this section. Every
year he sends out a call to his player
friends, and they are legion.
Among the familiar figures who
have greced the lineup are Truck"
Egan, Hap" Hogan, Duffy Lewis.
Spider" Baum, Ping" Bodie. jim
Scott and scores of others of major
league fame. All contributed their
services. The fun they got out Of
playing and the warm welcome re-
ceived on the various campuses more
than repaid them. The club never
profits in a financial way.
Every Spring games are scheduled
with California, st. Mary's, Santa
Clara and Stanford. When Stanford
was founded in 1892, the first Cardinal
nine crossed bats with the Independ-
ents. Since then it has been tradi.
tional that this team. with Ireland at
second, should open the season there.
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LEGION TO WELCOME
TUNNEY AT CHICAGO

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 30.--One Of the
greatest civic receptions ever accord
ed any heavyweight champion is be-
ing planned for Gene Tunney when
he arrives Friday to finish training
for the Dempsey battle September %.
Business and political leaders will
be on the welcoming committee, and
the champion will be escorted by a
bodyguard of Marines to the city hall
to receive the key to the city.
The American Legion Is cOoperat-
ing in the Tunney reception arrange
ments; with Mayor ThompSons civic
affairs committee, Of which George F.
Getz, promoter of the fight, is chair
man.
Billy Gibson. Tunney's manager,
has been here for several days COM
pfeting preparations at the Cedar
Crest Country Club for the cham.
pion's training camp.
After a round of golf and day
off from training routine, Dempsey
was expected to resume jabbing his
sparring partners, with two newcom-
ers, Osk Till, and Marty Cutler. on
the receiving end. Till, a Rochester
light heavyweight, was helping train
Tunney at this time last year. Cutler
has worked out with Dempsey for
nearly every one of his fights since
Dempsey grabbed the title from Jess
Willard.
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Harris Shifts Lineup.

In an effort to end the Nationals
losses. Manager Harris yesterday re-
organized his team, benching himself,
iris Speaker and Ossie Bluege. Top
per Rigney was sent to third base.
Stuffy Stewart to second and Earl
McNeely to center. Then Bucky drew
names out of a hat to determine his
batting order. After all these prep
arations to chase the jnX. the game
was stopped in the second round by
rain.
Horace Lisenbee and George Con-
nally were pitching opponents and the
former had the better of the argu.
ment the short time they were in ac.
ton. A single by Sam Rice, Nc
Neely's sacrifice, Rigney's infield
erasure and wild pitch accounted for
a Nation"l tally in the opening round.
That was offset in the SoX's half by
two hits and Reeves error.
But Reeves opened the second ses-
sion with triple and scored when
Goose Goslin singled. Lisenbee had
disposed of two of the Chisox and had
two strikes against third in the lat
ter part of the round when Umpire
Brick Owens decided there was too
much moisture in the air to permit
more play.
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TIM NJ ERMAN RACERS
IN MARLBORO MEET

UPPER MARLBORO. Md. August
30.-A newcomer to Maryland racing
in the person of J. J. Zimmerman of
New York has asked for seven stalls
during the Southern Maryland Acri-
cultural Fair Association's meeting
here. September II to September Il,
inclusive.
Zimmerman. who is handling his
own horses. says that he will ship
down Fine Manners. i Told You. Out
Standing. Standard Bearer, Full Speed
and Tom Tickle.
Fine Manners. winner of the High
Stakes at the last Jamaica meeting. is
looked upon as the best of Thinner
mans band. However, there are other
capable performers in the New York
or's string.
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LOWERING OF BELT LINE
TO BENEFIT FIGHT GAME

Road work and calisthenics will
come in for a bigger share OF the
training than heretofore. For only by
these means can the would-be fighters
hope to strengthen their bodies and
improve their wind. A fighters wind
usually is the first thing to go when
he is subjected to a pasting about
the body. When winded one is easily
tired and soon becomes a knockout
victim for hard wallop on the jaw
on in the body.
/ often have heard it said of a
fighter; He doesn't like it in the
stomach"
Well, who does? I don't know any
fighter who likes" to get battered
about the body, or who can stand
very much Of a body beating, as a
matter of fact.
But this new foul line ruling will
force our fighters to become better
ring generals and better fighters, for
self-preservation if for no other
reason.
fCopyright 1927
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SANDLOTTERS TO BE BUSY
DURING NEXT THREE DAYS

| ~ ANDLOT base ball team mana
gers are preparing for another
| week end and holiday series
for their teams, several having
arranged games for three sue
cessfve davs. Saturday, Sunday and
Monday. 1t is the third time this sea
son that the calendar has favored the
sandlotters thus.
Pom Kremb has open dates both
Saturday and Sunday for his Liberty
A. C. nine. His team is anxious 10
| shake the jinx which has been hover
ing about it lately. and Pop plans 10
give his lads plenty OF work TINS
week. Call Columbia 4165-J, after D
o'clock for games.
Ma Cheseldine's Lafayettes, who
took two games over the past week
end, are booking games for TINS Week
and throughout September write ma
| at 1902 Thirteenth street southeast OF
call Lincoln 3095. Lafayettes nave
challenged Washington Black SoX.
Ku KIux Klan diamOnders would
book with an out-of-town foe on LABOR
| dav. Write Manager Furr at l4oo ID
street northeast, or can Atlaitic
| 4S1.W. The Klan boasts one Oh lhe
| leading unlimited teams i'll the lis
| trict.
Cberrydale is without an opponent
next Sunday. Manager Burch W0llIu
| like to book a game for Lyon VliiasS
Field. A Washington team is oeSireo'
| Cali Clarendon SAG after ociocA'
D;strict Engineers, who were sched-
| Med to play T. T. Keanes this after
noon at S o'clock on No. l diamond,
want week day and Sunday games
| with senior and unlimited teams. Cai'
Manager Bryan at Main 6oOo' prahch
III.
Hess 4, G. wants foe for Thurs
! day afternoon at O'Clock on the
| Fifth and L streets diamond. sun
dav games with any strong unlimited
teams are also sought. Call Manager
| Deitrick at Adams 269.
Marlboro Independents seek games
| for September 4 and 20. Manager
T. d. Gray can be reached at MARI
boro INV between 3 and O'Clock.
Arlington Bearcats have carded
with Hilltop A. c. Sunday on Airing
| ton diamond at o'clock. The N1r-
| ginians have been in a slight slump
lately, but hope to emerge at the eX-
pense of Hilltops.
Knicks and Chevy Chase Bearcats
will stage the game which was post
poned several weeks ago by rain in
| Georgetown Hollow on Sunday at 8
| o'clock. Knicks hope to make it eight
| straight.
Willie GiascOe has slated his Sham
rocks for a hard proposition on Sun
day when the Harps meet Black Sox
| in one game at American League
Park at o'clock.
National Circles will play Cedar
Grove at Deale, Md, Saturday. while
Cabin John will entertain them Sun
| day. Two games are carded with
Junior Order on Monday on Glen
Echo diamond.
Ted Otte has booked a game with
Galesville, Md, at that place on Sun
day and two games with Cedar Grove
at Deale, Md. on Labor day. Ken
nedys are preparing for the busy
| week end.
Curtis halted the Silver Hill bats
men in time to save a 12-6 triumph
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TUNNEY SIX POUNDS
OVER BEST WEIGHT

SPECULATOR, n. Y. August 3o.--
Gene Tunney is fully six pounds over
his best fighting weight--and glad
of it
4 little more than three weeks from
today the heavyweight champion must
meet the challenge of Jack Dempsey.
seeking to snatch back the crown
which Tunney won at Philadelphia
last Fall Only that extra weight.
Tunney believes. will permit him to
drive at top speed through the next
three weeks of intensive training ana
insure his entering the ring in Chicago
September % in the best physical con-
dition of his career.
The burly Marine weighed ~
pounds today, six more than when he
previously fought Dempsey The add.
ed weight, all on the upper part OF
the body. apparently has left power
to ! is punches without taking toll IN
speed.
Little serious work is in prospect
before the champion breaks camp
Thursday to entrain for Chicago.
where he will complete preparations
for the fight at q country club outside
the city. Gene planned light workouts
for today and Wednesday in addition
to the daily miles of road work.
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LA BARBA RELINQUISHES
HIS FLYWEIGHT HON0RS

LOS ANGELES. August 80 Up
Fidel La Barba has formally relin-
quished the world flyweight boxing
championship he wrested from frankie
Genaro of New York in 1925.
In a letter to the State Athletic Com
mission yesterday George v. Blake,
his manager, officially announced that
La Barba on August % engaged in
his last professional boxing contest.
On that occasion he defeated Johnny
Vacca of Boston.
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Pullmans strengthened their narrow
Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK-Jack Britton out
pointed George Levine, Brooklyn 00).
Roberto Roberti, Italy, won by tech
nical Knockout from Arthur Smith,
Wyoming. U.
TULSA.-W. L. (Young) Stribling,
Georgia, knocked out Ed Smith, Neo-
desha, Kans. (3).
FIGHTS TONIGHT.
CHICAGO.-Eddie Shea VS.. Johnny
Hill U0). s...-.
PORTLAND, Oreg-Joey Sanger
VS.. Young Nationalist 0O.
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DEMPSEY IS REQUESTED
TO SERVE AS SECOND

CHICAGO. August 80 (P.-Jack
Dempsey was asked today to return q
favor and second Eddie Anderson. the
Wyoming cowboy. in his 10-round bout
here Friday night with Tony Can
Zoneri.
Bill Duffy, Anderson's manager, was
in Jacks corner when the former
champion knocked out Jack Sharkey,
and is anxious to assist Dempsey also
in the Tunney fight.
Dempsey did not indicate his de-
ciSiOn
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CUBS OBTAIN SOUTHPAW
HURLER FROM MISSION

LOS ANGELES. August 80 [P). -
Sale of Phil Weinert. husky south
paw pitcher with the Mission club of
the Pacific Coast base ball league, to
the Chicago Cubs has been announced
by Howard Lorenz. secretary of the
San Francisco aggregation.
NNeinert will report Immediately to
the Cubs.
Cash and players who will be de.
livered by the National League club
to the Missions next Spring were in.
volved in the deal, LorenZ said.
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BY JOHN b. KELLER.

~ITTSBURGH. August 80. - A
soundly beaten bunch of Ma
tionals is to appear before home
fans in Clark Griffith Stadium
tomorrow in a tussle with the
Athletics. who now occupy the second
berth in the American League stand
irps that the Washington crowd con-
sidered it's exclusive place before II
Travelled to the West.
After experiencing their worst tour
in wears through the Western part OF
the circuit. what the Nationals may 90
on their home grounds no one can
forecast. Having failed to play as a
club for some While, the Harris horde
is a puzzle, even TO those in charge
of it. They are guessing, too, these
days.
TRY 70 figure for yourself what may
ba exnected Of club that steps out
10 win 10 games in row. moves
through the West at fast pace. re-
turns to Washington for a good nome
stand. goes back to the west 10 WIZ
one game and then runs into losing
streak of l. games.
Rain ended Il chance to break Inc
string Of defeats yesterday. play ne
ing called in the second lnnlng win
the Nationals leading the Nhlte SON
. to /. The tilt will be played OH IN
WASHINGTON.
Lose "a, Win Is.
What a terrible time the Nationals
have had on Western fields this year.
Of As games they played in that sec
ZION. "a were lost. OF the II others
inst IS came the Nationals way. for
no decisions were reached in three en-
gagements. -, a.. ,1,.;s
In only one city did the Harris
horde grab the big end of the annual
series. 1t was winner in seven OF
the II games played in Cleveland.
The Nationals were we'll drubbed in
Detroit and st. Louis. The Tlgers
won seven and tied in two or dozen
contests staged at Navin Field, While
the Browns grabbed seven and tied
in one of 12 tits at Sportmen's Park.
In Chicago the White Sox took six
Of the 10 games at Comiskey Park.
During their last Western invasion
of the season it seemed the Nationals
could not do anything right. They
found themselves outguessed by the
opposition when they attempted to
place themselves to meet attacks and
generally their own offensive measures
were easily countered by the foe.
After the club suffered a few sue
cessive lickings its pitching staff vir-
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NEHF RELEASED BY REDS.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 80 (P).
-Artie Nehf, southpaw pitcher Of
the Cincinnati Reds, has been tele-
graphed in Boston notice of his un-
conditional release by President Au.
gust Hermann. Before coming to the
Reds two years ago Nehf had pre-.
viously pitched for the New York
Giants and Boston Braves.
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BURDINE WITH EASTPORT.

Sonny Burdine, local boy, who has
been hitting hard with the North
bridge, Mass. team in the twilight
league of that section. has returned
to the city and will hold forth for the
remainder Of the season with the
Eastport, Md. nine.
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ALTOONA. Pa. August 80 CP). -
Harry Hartz, automobile racing
champion last year, qualified for the
200-mile automobile race here Labor
day by circling the mile.and-a-quar-
ter wooden speedway at an average
speed OF 1923 miles an hour. Nine
teen cars are entered.
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away an opportunity to play base hsli
is a bad thing even when the other
team may seem 10 have an edge. ono
never knows in base hall which tenn
is likely to crack under certain con.
ditions.
Giants Status DebateabIe.
For the moment it seems as if tn,
Giants have slipped into Il bad STATE
Of affairs because the third st. Louis
New York series has been postponed
and will have to be played in st. Louis
AS such things go, base ball mon
would say that the Cardinals We're
some little better off owing to the
postponement. May be so. hut they
had been doing better of late than they
had early in the season at the Polo
Grounds and they might have added
to their total Of victories instead Of
losing on this transferred series. The
Cards have won four games in NeW
York this season and lost three.
On the St Louis ground. the Giants
have played the Cards upsidedOwn this
season. They threw the harpoon I'm
the champions on the last trip West.
The next time the Giants arrive in ST.
Louis, on September 13. the teams Will
play three double-headers In three
days, owing to the postponed New
York series. The Giants will have fin
lshed with Chicago just before enter.
ing st. Louis and New York NAV feel
good or may not feel good depending
upon the fight the Cubs put up. II is
certain the Giants feel pretty good to-
day after upsetting the Cubs in q
double header yesterday.
Cards Meet Cubs, Too.
Cubs before the games with New York
begin and unless there is a deadlock
in that Western campaign, or the ST.
Louis team has all the better of it,
the championship of the National
League still will be long way from
being settled.
The st. Louis team sees this COM
ing and has made a mighty smart
move by purchasing from the Syra-
cuse club-which is an annex to the
st. Louis club-three pitchers by the
names of Sylvester Johnson, Allyn
Stout and Fred Farmhouse. All three
have been doing mighty well. John
son has been in the majors before and
has a lot of skill which has been held
back by hard luck. st. Louis figures
rightly that it will need a heap of
pitching between Chicago and dou.
ble.headers.
The Cubs go out of the East In
fair condition so far as postponed
games are concerned. They are rid
of all their baggage except one con-
test which goes from Boston to Chi.
cago-and there will be no tears shed
by the Cubs because of that. The
Cubs took three lusty slaps on the
beezer in Boston. Pittsburgh did not
fare so well, either in Boston. On
their home yard the Braves have won
five from the Pirates this season and
lost four to them. Toward the lat
ter part of each season Dave Ban
croft manages the Braves as he secs
fit and they win more games.
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" HERE is a marked difference
between the batting styles Of
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehr1S,
Il and because Of this pitchers
work differently on each man.
Until Gehrig is ready to swing, all
his weigh is on the left foot, and he
does not step forward with the right
foot until he has definitely decided to
take a wallOp at the ball.
Because Of this oddity in Gehrig's
stance. pitchers seldom use change
Of pace or slow ball in pitching to
him. They feed him mainly low
fast ball and curve balls over the
inside corner of the plate.
When pitching belt-high to Gehrig
they try to get the ball over the
handle Of his bat and crowd him, to
use the pitchers oNn term. BY pitch
ing over the handle they keep
Ciehrig from getting a solid hold on
the ball. This means that he cannot
meet the ball squarely with the thick
end of his bat.
Ruth's stance Is not set like
Gehrig's. He is not planted as solidly
Ruth switches his stance and he
starts his swing much sooner than
Gehrig. since he describes an arc
with his swing when he goes after
ball. Ruth. because of his style of
swinging, is an easier prey for the
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KING TO BE GIVEN o. O.

Boston Red Sox will look over How.
ard King. clever 20year-old Ballston.
Va, hurler, when the Hub brigade ar.
rives here Saturday to begin a series
King, weighing 175 pounds, stands
more than feet.
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MIDGETS CHALLENGE.

Maryland Park Midget ball tossers
challenge all teams in their class.
Call Manager Grove at Capitol Heights
242 after pm.
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tually collapsed and there was no
fight left.
Mats Completely Outclassed.
The Nationals were outclassed in
every department by the four West
ern clubs during the trip. In onense
the Harris-led club made 10S hits and
Al runs while the four Western out
fits made 1877 hits and 81 runs in the
Is games On defense the Nationals
had $40 chances and erred 26 times.
The opposition had COZ chances and
erred only IS times.
The club went to bat 4S6 times to
get it's los hits. That was averaging
just 222 with the fail. How weak
was the attack during the trip may
be seen in the batting statistics of
all players excepting pitchers who
participated in games in the West
that follow.
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Pensacola 81: Albany. 90 tsecond gam,
i've innings. darkness,.
Columbus 3: Savannah. I
Montgomery. -: Jacksonville. !.
Waycross. s. Selma. 5.
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BLUE RIDGE LEAGUE.
EASTERN STORE LEAGUE.

FredariCk 3: Hanover. ).
Martinsburg A. Wavneshoro l.
Chambersburg. 10; Hagerstown. 2.
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SOUTHEAsTERN LEAGUE.

Raleigh. l: High Point. O.
Salisbury. 10: Rocky Mount. IL.
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FLORIDA STATE IE4GTE
VIRGINIA IEAGTE.

Miami. 9: Sanford. 4.
Tampa, s; Sarasota. &
Orlando, i; St. Petersburg. 0.
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TEXAS IFAGlrE.

Macon. 2-3: Asheville. 1-2.
Knoxville. 10. Augusta. /.
Spartanburg. o. Charlotte. 1.
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SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION.

Parkslev 3: Salisbury. /.
Faston- -Northamnton (rainl.
Cambridge L.: Crisfield. 5.
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Bed1ugged Meet Athletics Griffith Stadium Tomorrow

How Cehrig and Ruth Differ in Batting
Style, and What They Can't Hit.
X Hx
) Ball Over LOUIS Bat Handle, Low, Slow
Pitch to Babe, Are Hurlers' Aim.
B y %%
Bambino's Young Rival Has Better Eye,
Rarely Going After Bad Ones.
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PIEDMONT LEAGEE.

Fort Worth. q: San Antonio. ..
Beaumont, 8: Shreveport. Z.
Wichita Falls. 4: Houston. I.
Waco. 8. Dallas. 6.
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Wilson. 3: Portsmouth. ..
Petersburg. 9: Kinston. I.
Richmond. s. Norfolk. 3