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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-22
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-22

The Erltlsh Automobile Association
outlined sacsflon tours for is members
a The rate ot 5000 week during the
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Evening star., 1928-08-31
FOUR TEAMS REMAIN
IN WEEKDAY SERIES

But four Of the ccntenasrs Tor tne
weekday league championship re-
NAMED in the title scrap as Berg
mann's Laundry and American Railway
Express teams planned to meet today
Navy, one of the early faporites, was
removed yesterday by G. F, O., 10 l.
In one of the best games OF the series.
Government Printers, Bergmann s
Laundry, American Railway EXPIRES
and 1ofser mines will oontine the battle
for honors next week. Neither OF the
CONTESTANTS carded today can be eliml-
mated by a loss as neither has oeen
defeated In two starts Government
Printers top the list with three WINS
and no defeats. Loff1er tossers nave
split even III two games
Hutchinson of Government Frlnters
and Henry Phipps OF Navy engageo
in a mound battle. Phipps was toucheo
for two counters in the first inning
and settled down after that, out th@
damage had been done.
NAVY rallied In the last INNING pul
could muster but one tally
Hamilton Of Navy led the batsmeh
with three safeties Both teams per-
formed we'll afield.
e...n af ..orferday'S game,
Evening star., 1928-08-31
ROSS COUNCIL TEAM
IN IMPORTANT GAME

Ross Council and Army War College
mines will meet tomorrow afternoon AT
Washington Barracks in game which
If won by the former will send 1t into
n tie with Auths for first place In
Section n. Unlimited Division, Capital
CITY League and necessitate play-oT
with Auths on Sunday for the division
crown However, II Army War College
npsets Ross Council the title viii 60 10
Auths. The game tomorrow Will start
at 4 O'Clock. ,
II contest between Ross Council
and Auths is necessary Sunday II will
take place on Washington Barracks
diamond at o'clock.
clovers and Army War College are
rarded to meet in another Section
tilt Sunday al Washington Barracks az
! o'clock.
Three games are scheduled In the
anal week OF play in the Senior Glass
NJ Capital City League Sunday Brown
A. Wood and Aztecs are TO meet on West
Ellnse at il o'clock. Auths and Hart
fords will face on South Ellinse at III
O'Clock end Hartfords will battle Brown
g. Wood on West Ellipse at o'clock.
Palace has forfeited TO ID. j, Kaufman
nine.
Al a meeting at o'clock tonight in
fiae POST sports department dates for the
series hetWeen Georgetown A. G., Sec
tIon A winner and either Auths or
Ross Council, representating Section q.
for the Cauitai City unlimited Glass
crown, will be set The meeting was
originally flxed for q o'clock,
Staging a fine uphill fieht. Royals
soueeged out a o-s eleven inning triumph
over iris Speakers Yesterday In the
first OF the series niay-nff games for
the Insect Glass title of Capital CITY
League, The Royals will meet Brook
land Boys Club, probably next Thurs
day for the championship ROYALS,
Speakers and Brooklands all were tied
at the end OF the regular schedule
Wehces whitewashed Tsrookiand Boys
Club 8 to q, yesterday In Freneh's
Insect League diamond tilt, Raiford,
winning pitcher, gave up only two hits,
Evening star., 1928-08-31
ALEXANDRIA TEAMS
LIST TITLE SERIES

ALEXANDRIA, Va. August 3i.--Man-
ayers of tha ST. Mary's Celtics, No. 5
Motor Company, Columbia Engine Com
pany and Serepta Lodge. No. 46, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows have
agreed to stage a series on September 9
with the winner to play the champion
Of the weekday teams double loss
knockout" tournament for the Alexan-
dria amateur title.
Present plans call for two games at .
o'clock on September with one on
Corbett Field and the other at Havdon
Field. The two winners will hook up
on Corbett Field at 40 the same after
noon and the nine surviving will meet
the weekday champion,
A meeting will be held at O'Clock
Wednesday night at 317 King street.
Joe Kleinman provided surprise yes
terday when he defeated William Jes-
ter In straight sets In second round
match of the municipal tennis tourna-
ment for boys l6 years OF age and
above. He won 6-3. rs.
incs with E. w Schreiner leading
George Hoeft. 6--i. 6-2, In a first
round match, Stanley Dreifus eliminated
Sidney AbramSon. 6-4, Is, 7--o.
Because of the death Tuesday of D, j,
Howell, chairman of the green's commit
tee the Belle Haven Country Club Will
not hold its regular weekly dance to-
morrow night.
City Manager Paul Morton has an
nounced that the municipal pool viii be
open from , 10 pm, each afternoon
and also at night from 7 TO 3.
Columbia Engine Company has can
celled Its game with the washington
Red Sox September Is.
A field day will be held on the NUM-
cipal Fairgrounds before they close Sep
tember IS. Supt of Public Recreation
j. II. Wilson Is making plans for the
event.
ST. Mary's CeiticS play the Washing
ington Fire Department here tomorrow
afternoon on Corbett Field at o'clock.
Alexandria Police win oppose team
from the Washington Navy Yard tomof- :
row in Dreadnaught Park at O'Clock,
No, s Motor Company will hold prac-
tlce on the Carriers Field diamond tniS
afternoon at 5;l5
The weekly shoot of the Alexandra I
Gun Club will be held In Janney's Lars I,
tomorrow afternoon at $50,
Evening star., 1928-08-31
EAST BESTS WEST
IN JUNIOR LEAGUE
Stronger in Intersectlonal
Series-Seaboard Clubs
in National Weak.

By the Associated PreSS.
n YEw YORK, August 31.-East is
East In the American League
and West is West in the Ma
4 tional. so far as the interSsc-
tional games in the major cir
cults are concerned. but 1t begins 10
look as though the twain shall meet IN
the worlds series.
The slump of the New York GiantS
in the last 10 days has all but ellml-
mated the chances OF an Eastern cluo
representing the senior circuit III the
post-season games.
The con1posite records of the inter-
sectional games show the Athletics OF
the American League continuing their
supremacy among the Is major league
teams In battling the clubs from the
opposite side of the circuit. >.
Connie Macks boys have won %
games and lost IT Of their tilts with
the Western quartet OF the American
League. giving them an average OF .72U'
Their position, however, has been chal-.
lenoed by the fast travelling Pirates OF
the National League. In the last series
Pittsburgh boosted its figures 10 oo
victories against "a defeats for an aV-
erage of 676. l..
The Pirates still have a chance TO
press their challenge In the final inter-
sectional series. starting September IL.
In the American League the Eastern
quartet has won a total of 164 games
to 1872 for the Western four, while IN
the National League the margin IS
much wider in favor of the Western
Clubs, whose combined victories totai
1885 to the seaboard clubs l0a:
The composite records OF the inter-
sectional series to date follow:
Evening star., 1928-08-31
B1ton Duel Promises Thrills Clubs Depres Flag Contend1s
BRAVES HAVE PUT GIANTS
OUT OF BATTLE FOR FLAG

ridge the lack Of stable and cham
pionship outfield and some other things
McGraw led the outfit as best ne could
until its failings keeled him over with
a cold-and he was not present when
the Braves clouted his boys all around
the Polo Grounds this week.
Pittsburgh lost so games last year
and won the National League pennant.
The Giants still have "a games to play
and they may lose but eight OF them
il they expect to be considered candi-
dates for the world series. 1t seeming
" isn't in the wood for them or for
any other but superhun1an team, and
this years Giants are not superhuman.
Here is an interesting item for Amer
ican League rooters. 1t tells one OF the
reasons why the Yankees are not float
Ing away with pennant as they did IN
1927
Last year the st. Louis Browns won
one solitary game from New York. Ine
Yanks won 81 from the Browns. THIS
wear to date the teams are even, each
having won games from the other.
Four games remain to be played.
There is a big net gain for st. Louis
and the American League in general
II the New York team had been going
against the Browns at the rate that it
did in 1927, the current pennant race
would be as good as over. The Attn
letics may thank Dan Howley's team for
doing them a large favor.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
BOATS ARE HAVING
FIVE-DAY CONTEST


BY the Associated Press,
NEWPORT HARBoR, Calf, August
a1.--Crack star boats from all sections
of the United States, Cuba and Hawaii
today begin a five-day sailing series over
courses of this port for the tnterna-
tional championship OF their class.
Entries In the flve~race regatta num-
ber II. Is of them challengers intent
upon wrestling the championship from
the Tempe III Of the Newport Harbor
Yacht Club.
Craft flying the Burgess of Eastern
star fleets we're much In evidence. that
section having nine representatives in
an effort to recover the honors II held
for many years. The victory last wear
of the Tempe III on Narragansett BAY,
r. T., was the first for the Pacific Coast
in the history of the international conf
petition.
Foreign challengers are the Aurrera
", skippered by Miguel de Sena OF
Cuba the Aurisa. q, H. G. Phillips
craft of British Columbia, and the Hoku,
Everardus Bogardus' three time challen~
ger from the Pearl Harbor Yacht Club,
Hawaii,
Evening star., 1928-08-31
LIBERTY A. C.. is READY
FOR ANNUAL FIELD DAY

ington on Monday. Manager Scanlon OF
the Anacostia Eagle nine wishes to book
a foe for Sunday. Call Lincoln 4989.
One of the leading Labor day dia-
mond programs will be staged on Silver
Spring diamond where Bond Clothiers
and Petworth A. C. are to meet IN 2
games. Bond players are to meet at
noon at Eleventh and M streets.
vic's Sport Shop players will meet at
. o'clock on Plaza field to go to Fails
Church for a game tomorrow at
o'clock.
Southern Railway nine has found 1t
necessary to cancel the game cardeo
With Columbia Engine Co. nine at Alex
andria tomorrow.
Frank Cinotti is having trouble land
ing a Sunday game for his st. Joes
nine. Call Lincoln 1o441 for arrange
ments.
Manager Sam Gordon would like to
send his Fetworth Eagles against
good unlimited team Sunday at CLOCK
on South Ellipse diamond Call Adams
49s7.
CHEVY Chase Seniors have been I'M
able to list game for Monday. Call
Cleveland 98S after o'clock.
Manager Paul Pizza announces that
Corinthian Seniors. recently graduated
from Junior ranks. want to book games
with teams in their class at Atlantic
3493-J.
Mayis Midgets will convene tonight
at the home of Manager Marshall, 439
MARYLAND avenue southwest, at 7:5o
o'clock.
After downing Hess A. c. yesterday.
4 to 3. and Bond Bakers the day be-
fore, Seanen Gunners hoped to con-
tinue their win streak by downing
Policemen, who were to be met today.
Farrinstcn held Washington Gas
Lighters to one hit yesterday and Kane's
All-Stars bagged 14-to-0 triumph.
Rittenous was an all-around star yes
terday as Panther Insects routed Col
Inns Insects, Is to 4.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
HERE
FACE BUSY PROGRAM

With the regular weekly club pro-
gram scheduled tomorrow and special
Labor day card arranged for Monday
trapshots of Washington Gun Club face
plenty of activity,
Trophies will so to high gun and
for the high handicap added target
total In the regular program tomorrow,
One hundred targets in four events
will be fred Labor day starting at 80
o'clock. There viii be three classes,
based on averages for the club season
of iess Prizes will so 10 the high
guns In each of the three classes All
Ties will be decided on the "niSs-and-
out" basis
Much activity is planned by the local
club during the remainder OF Septem-
ber and october. a
Evening star., 1928-08-31

OP KREMB has completed ar
rangements for the eighth an
nual field day and double
header base ball game TO be
held under the auspices or
Liberty A. c. at American League Park
September IS.
In addition to the dual clash between
r,ibertys and Monroe A. G. and Slmp"
sons Dairy mines, number of events,
including fungo hitting, throwing Tor
distance and a 10o-yard dash open TO
members of, the teams and to am
others desiring to enter. will be staged.
These will precede the first game, which
GETS under way at 2 o'clock.
Sam Rice and Co,legian mines, lead
ing contenders for the District JUNIOR
championship. have arranged to meet
Monday on West Ellipse diamond at
! o'clock. Both teams are prepping
for this clash. which will probably de-
eide which shall wear the crown
Pices are to meet Brcokland Boys
Club nine at o'clock tomorrow on
South Ellipse diamond and on SUNDAY
will engage Langlevs in a Sport Mart
League game at 3 O'Clock on East
Ellipse field.
Brookland Boys Club nine, which
has only lost games this season. will
meet Collegians Sunday at l O'Clock
on No. | Monument diamond. Brook
landers have not been defeated by
Collegians In the past four years. Don
Grist would like to hear from the
Brookland manager at Lincoln 86l8
,after $50 o'clock.
Dux A. c. nine will have another
Ibusy week end. Indian Head Marines
will be met tomorrow and Centennials
are listed for Sunday Both games
start at 3 O'Clock Saks-Kroydens and
iPetworth Eagles will be met Monday,
starting at / O'Clock
Manager ingram has cerded game
with Marlboro A. c. for his Addisons on
SUNDAY. He requests All olavers tn meet
at 7.30 o'clock at his home. Addisons
are listed to meet Arlington Busren
on September 9.
Having listed games with Boiling
Field Airmen tomorrow and Fort Wash
Evening star., 1928-08-31
DEER HUNTING POPULAR
SPORT IN PENNSYLV VANlA

In Pennsylvania a total OF ll4,ss2
special doe licenses will be issued To
hunters In Sd counties, The number
of licenses is based on the number OF
buck deer killed last year,
From the "a counties lA,374 bucks
were shot during the 1927 season and
the State Game Commission has de-
eided eight licenses shall be issued for
each deer The special licenses will cost
t2 each and will not be issued 10 any
nonresident OF the staf.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
COSDER TO DISCONTINUE
BREEDING. BUT 70 RACE

NEW YORK. August 81 0P).-Joshua
S. Cosden. who established the Fappa-
hammock stud near Warrenton, va.
few wears ago with the feet French
horse. Snob. I'd, at its head. has de-
cided to give up the breeding of thor
oughbreds and confine his turf inter-
ests to small but select racing stable.
The nucleus of this stable Cosden
believes ne possesses in nine yearlingS.
most of them by Snob, I'd. winner Of
the Withers stakes and other good
races Accordingly. Snob. I'd and as
mares will be sold at public auction at
the Belmont Park paddock Ssptem-
ter II
Evening star., 1928-08-31
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

n 7 EW YORK, August oi. Dooo
N ball fans OF the metropolis are
NJ talking In sorrowful tones OF
| the decline and fall OF the
Giants and they wonder what
ails the club Hopes ran high in New
York for time when the Giants mace
their sensational squirt at home ne1ore
making their last Western trip.
In the West. the Giants began badly
at Chicago. triunphed at st. Louis ana
slumped, sloshed and sloughed In Cln-
cinnati and Pittsburgh. Reaching nome
again. the New York team was handed
some knockout drops by the Brooklyn
and Boston clubs.
The Boston Braves probably have put
the Giants out of the National League
race this season, just as they wrecked
the chances of the Chicago Cubs IN
the closing days of the 1927 campaign.
When Manager McGraW was most
urgently needed to direct the fortunes
of the Giants, he came down with a
cold. The coaches Of the team dld
everything they could to steer the
Giants properly but the old boat that
had weathered many a storm leaked
badly at the seams and seems likely
now to go on the rocks although 1t
has plenty of opportunity to finish in
the first division.
What ails the New York club very
much is the trade of Grimes for Aid
Evening star., 1928-08-31
RED sOX TO BE ACTIVE.

Bill Jenkins Red Sox tossers face
four games in three days. Tomorrow they
viii engage Takoma Tigers on the Silver
Spring Md diamond at o'clock; Sun
day will tackle Chevy Chase Bearcats
on Friendship Field at 230 O'Clock.
and Monday will travel to Indian Head,
Md. to face indian Head Marines in
a double-header, starting at ! 80 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
Jones Again Helps His Record
At Hoyt's Expense in 81 Win

NK ILLER HUGGINE' band of ball
nH players may seem world cham
VI pions TO some pitchers. but
i TO Sam Jones the Yankees are
Just a ball club While pitch
ing the Nationals 10 q 3-to-l victory
YESTERDAY Jones found his former team.
mates about as easy To subdue as on
some other occasions this season. He
let them down with seven safetiea and
tao passes and made his record OF
uitching against them in the present
campaign read three wins and one loss,
II was Babe Ruth who averted
YANKEE shiItolt. The Bambinn picked
the start of the seventh inning as the
snot for his forty-seyentn home run OF
the year. He socked the FIRST pitch 70
him and the ball SCARED over the right
field barrier.
While Jones found the Yankees Just
a ball club. Waite Hoyl, Denapefamental
right-hsnd zce of the Huggins corps,
found the Nationals anything but such
as he Rad before The licking ne TOOK
vas the fourth Of this campaign, the
second from the Washington club and
the second In a scrap with Jones, Hoyt
hsa defeated the Nationals only once
this year,
Ten hits and pass we're gieaned on
Hoyt before he called II q day al tne
ene of the seventh inning. Then Fred
HeirnseEl, lstely-s acquired left-hander.
vent a round for the Ysnks ana ne
yielded nothing more than two-baR-
ger and a pass after two were out IN
the eighth.
The dig frame for the Nationals was
the sixth. Then they punched fiVe oi
their hits of HOyt and made Tour oi
them count for all their runs.
Rice opened the round vith his sec"
ond successive single, slash 70 right
Coslin checked Rice in At the plate by
Sizmming the ball over Kuth'e dome u
the fence back Of the right garden Tor
triple Along came Judge with his thirc
single In row. also o sock 10 right, and
the Goose counted Eiuege sacrificed
then Reeves slid q single past Koenis
near second base and Judge tore home
Reeves was shared when he endesy0r'
90 10 pilfer second, 80 the fifth hit ot tht
frame, q waIlop 20 left by Harris, wa
wasted Euckg tried 10 make double
ef the blow, but got 70 the midway sta
ton illst too late,
In hye Innings other than the one II
srhich Ruth cracked his homer th.
Yankees mace threatening gestures
Evening star., 1928-08-31
SLAB ACES CLASH
IS DUE TOMORROW
Griffman's Record Is Better
Than Yankee Stars in
InterClub Set.
By JOHN b. KELLER.


- NATIONALS VS.. Yankees--Gar-
N land Braxton. left-hander, VS..
VI George Pipgras. right-hander,
1 That's the bill TO be offered the
fans tomorrow afternoon at
Grifith Stadium. The battling VIII be-
gin at 5 O'Clock.
The clubs are likely to be on edge for
tire SCRAP for both r'sSted today. After
the lcnc workout IN Wednesdays heat
sno the Strenunns engagement yester-
eisv. the Nationss could stand lay-od.
Manager Stanley Harris believed. For
the league leaders It was the tlrSt re-
lief from work in several days. Before
opening their series here, the New York
ers were sent through two exhibition
games and their road secretary, Marx
10th. declared II was hotter IN New
England. where the tilts were staged,
than here.
Maybe Garland Rraxton will make i
still more torrid fer the club struggling
II stsve of the stampeding White Ele-
phants. who are right at the heels OF
the staggering league leaders. II he
pitches to the form he has displayed
against them IN previous starts this sea-
son. he Will
Braxton has appeared in four games
against the Yankees this season, twice
as starting pitcher, Each time he
stsrted. he won. His first victory over
the world champions was scored in the
Yankee Stadium in New York on May
80 Then the southpaw yielded bit
three hits and e pass and won, to o
Earl Combs. Lou Cehrig and jos Dugsn
we're tbs Ysnks to get the hits, wnlle
the pass went to Ben Faschel. He won
he-e on July .. outoitching Pipgras. In
this second car.e. Braxson granted eight
safetieS ana two walks
Pircres has pitched against the Ma
tio-als five times this season. four times
es starter and once as a relief hurler.
Eis record for the set with the local
eegTega ton reads wins and / loss.
However, in one of the games in which
be was credited with victory Pipg"as
~as driven from the hill by fve-hit
hcn.bar6mcnt in the fifth victory.
Records of hits and runs given up by
Paxton, and Pirgras in the National
t&rkes screrping IN the present CAM
reigr fellow:
I.c H-.3. Euro. Arc. . Ir'ngs.
r,s:rss i,rs1ssn :. !: S Is ls.i: 81; l.. l..
These figures show Brsxton to hare
been far nicre effective than Pirg as
In this -car'T battling between Ns-
t.onals and yankees, even though the
New Yorker has wen games and the
waehinEtonian .. Any way one locks
Of the hsures, though. fine fight be-
tween these two slabbing r1ainstsys Of
their respective clubs appears likely to-
morrow afternoon.
Braxton will have had plenty of rest
since his last start when he tak~s the
hill tomorrow. His last appearance wss
on SUNDAY when be set bark the IN
dians. to /. granting them but five
gafetiee Another effort like tliat
against the Yankees. and he'll take a
deal Of bestir-
Evening star., 1928-08-31
HORAsBY TO REMAIN
AS PILOT or BRAVES

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON, Mass, August 3f.-Rogers
Horribly has signed contract 10 man.
age the Boston Braves for the next siX'
years, Judge Emil Fuchs has an
nounced.
The Judge also took the opportunity
to put an end to stories that the Ecs-
ten club is controlled BY New York
capital
In his statement Judge Fuchs said
that Hornsbv signed the contract during
the Summer and pdded:
Hornsbv will STAY with the Braves,
He is neither for sale nor for trade"
In declaring the independence Of the
Braves, Judge Fuchs pointed out that
the team had Just knocked the New
Ycrkers cut of the pennant race and
said the records showed that the Braves
played better ball against McGrap's
team tfan against any other club In
the League.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
MOBILE SELLS PITCHER,

MOBILE. Ala. August 81 (A').--An-
nouncement of the sale Of Pitcher Tony
Welzer to the Louisville American As
sociation team was announced here to-
day by the officials Of the Mobile
club Of the Southern Association.
Evening star., 1928-08-31

Runs--Mosedale. Garland. Mattinsly Error
Robbins. Two-base hits--Simons, GnatisS' ei
Mattjnglv stolen ~-Mosedaik Cd Si~
mons Sacrince hit-Bleier. Double plays
"e'haconss 10 Robbins to Mattingly, Nose
"a Hutchinson, l. of PhippS. 3. Struck
oit-T3y Hutchinson, A. by Phipps, J.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
CLAIM DIAMOND TITLE.

Bancroft playground nine defeated
Cook 8 10 Q. for the third time this
season and claim the city boys play
ground title. Reynolds, Bancroft pitch
er, gave up only four hit6.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
TIP FOR FISHERMEN.

HARPERs FERRY, w. Va. August
81 The Potomac River was very
cloudy and Shenandoah was muddy
this morning
Evening star., 1928-08-31
TEXAS LEAGUE,

Dallas, 7-2 Fort Worth 6~i fhfst same
J. inningsb
Houston. 6~3 Beaumont. 6st
Wichita Pals, Shreveport, o
WscorSan Antonio frainl
Evening star., 1928-08-31
BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Washington. g! New York, l.
Rc<ton, 3; Phiia ielrhia. :.
Detroit, 81 Cleveland, 3.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Evening star., 1928-08-31
EsrERpAY's RESULTS.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Boston, 81 Philadeiphia, 5. -.
Chicago, q Cincinnati. tcaiied In siAth
inning, tainl.
ST. uiS-PittSburgh. rain.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.