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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-18


League race that most of
the other clubs have ceased
to talk about outSprinting them.
Their hopes now rest on endur-
ance, rather than speed. They
figure that the Mackmen will,
sooner or later, come back to the
field.
THE Athletics can't keep up their
present pace" one base ball man said
to me. "They are due for slump.
Almost every team has at least one
slump during a season and the Ath-
lectics always have had a period when
they went badly. They will have one
this season"
This sounds to me rather like hope
than like logic. What the Mackmen
have appeared to lack in recent years
has been absolute confidence in their
own ability They really should have
won the flag last year, but they wilted
before the assault of the confident Yam
KEGS like cut flowers in the sun.
This year they are going SO well that
they must have faith in their own abil-
ity and New York no longer seems to
have the old Indian sign on them. At
least, they have won three to the Yam
KEGS two in the five games played.
Moreover, if Philadelphia gets much
further out in front, it can afford lit
tie slump without being in too great
danger It will have plenty of room
to slack up and get its second wind.
I still think that the Yankees are
the team the Mackmen will have to
beat The men of Higgins have not
gone so well for a time and have had
a few bad breaks. but still think that
they are as strong a team as I did
when I saw them at st. Petersburg in
the Spring, and still think that they
will be very much in the race couple
of months from now.
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Mack Denies He Is to Retire;
Hopes Still to Be Pilot at 20

that will ever make me arrive at that
decision will be my health. If the time
comes when to continue managing will
have harmful effect on my well being,
then will step out. Not before.
What a wonderful thing it would be
if could only manage the club in my
SEVENTEEN year. don't know If I will
be able to do it. But if my health Is
all right I expect to do it. Then may
be ready to hand over the reins to
some younger man and let him do the
worrying for me-"
Mack revealed that he was on the
verge of retiring during the Southern
training trip of the Athletics this
Spring, because of his health.
II wasn't feeling so good then" he
said. 1.-THE influenza had laid me low
during the Winter and I was still feel
ing its effects. I doubted that would
be able to go through with another sea-
son of managing. and came closer
to quitting than ever before"
This is Mack'S twenty-ninth season
as pilot of Athletics and his thirty
sixth as a base ball manager.
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Loss of TUo Straight Contests
Is As Biggest Slump of Season

along step for step in the hot National
League struggle, the Cardinals Smelling
the Cubs into defeat by Is to 3, while
Pittsburgh was nosing out Cincinnati,
2 to l, in tight pitchers battle. All
other National League clubs were idle.
The days results left the cards on top
of the pack with Pittsburgh half
game. or two percentage points, behind.
The Cubs dropped to a game and a
half behind the Pirates, and only two
games ahead of John McGraw's New
York Giants.
Clarence Mitchell pitched the Cards
to their easy triumph over the Cubs at
Chicago. The Cards scored two runs
in the second and two in the fourth
before they pounded Charlie Root and
Sonny Horne out of the box with an
eight-run rally in the sixth. Chick Ha-
fey hit his seventeenth homer of the
season in this frame.
Remy Kremer shut out the Reds I'M
til the ninth, when Purdy's triple and
a sacrifice gave Cincinnati its only run.
The Pirates had punched four of their
five hits off jake May in the first and
fifth innings to score two runs, just
enough to give them the victory.
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TURF STARS INJURED
IN PLUNGING RIVAL

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 49, The plunging
hoofs of Paul Bunyan while the field
was at the post in the American Derby
Saturday have caused three crack
3-year -olds to be withdrawn from &C
ton, probably for the rest of the sea-
son.
Naishapur received deep cash on
his hind leg and it is believed that
three months of treatment will be re-
quired to heal in the injury. Minotaur,
owned by John r. Thompson, came
within reach of Paul Bunyan's heels
and suffered severe decorations on one
of his front legs, the lgaments being
almost severed. He will be out the rest
of the season.
DR.. Freeland also was paved by the
misbehaving horse and suffered in
juries which it is believed will prevent
him from racing for a long period.
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KLANSMEN FORM
NEW BALL TEAM
BroadSide Challenge Hurled.
Phoenix Wins ThriIIer-Gas
Men Slug Pill.
FTER a dicn strn,,,

A FTER disastrous start, the Ku
~ Klux Khan ball team has been
a reorganized and is hurting chal-
4 a lenges with abandon.
Harry Groves is the pilot and
can be reached by phone at Atlantic
1533-W after pm, or by mail at 1922
Neal street northeast.
Groves has signed Buddy Gilman,
Eddie Brown, Johnny Hoffman, Boat
Shuey, Shorty Wenzel, Dan Donaldson,
Dyson, Doc Jenkins, Speed Hamilton
and Charlie Cashell
In battle packed with thrills, the
Phoenix A. C. nosed out Hume Springs,
IL to 10, scoring the winning run in the
ninth. Lowe made four hits to put
dynamite IN the Phoenix attack.
Chestnut Farms Dairy could do little
with the offerings of Cane and Collins,
while the Washington Gas Light players
were numbering the apple to win by ID
to in the Industrial League. OF the
Gas Light teams "a bingles, four each
were made by Gill, Smithson and Far
ran. Farran got homer and triple.
It looked like a romp when Grace
Episcopal scored four runs in the first
inning against West Washington Bap-
fist IN the Georgetown Church League,
but 1t turned out to be battle. West
Washington got even with a rally in the
third. but was beaten in the end, to 5.
A home run by F. Crown was the de-
Gliding blow.
Pitcher Colvin blew up in the sixth
when Capital Traction scored six runs
and the Union Carmen were smothered
in the Terminal r. r. Y. M. c. A.
Morning League, IL to 5.
Haig pitched the Terminals to 40
decision over Southern Railway in the
Terminal r. r. Y. M. G. A. Afternoon
League. He famed 10 and yielded five
hits. w. Conover pitched well for the
losers.
= 1t was tight affair between Inter-
state and Navy in the Government
League until Navy Yard got four runs
IN the seventh and won by to 3. The
losers made Is hits to the victors' 10.
Blier's three hits were much help to
Navy Yard.
Lafsky and Hayes each made four
hits when Treasury collected 20 to down
Agriculture in the Departmental League,
IL to Z. ~
Navy Yard scored four times in each
the first and sixth innings to beat
G. P. o. by 8 to 4 In the Colored De-
partmental League.
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This eagerneSS to collect deal
of first-base talent quickly does
not mean that Griffith fears the
veteran Joe Judge is about to pass
out of the picture. Judge, regular
guardian of the initial station
since the start of the campaign,
has been taking good care of his
job afield, especially during the
present home stand. But Griffith
realizes his 35-year-old first base
man cannot beat Father Time
much longer and he wants to have
a well trained player at hand to
step into the gafle when Sir
Joseph is forced 10 go the way
all old-timerS go in base ball.
Griffith is hoping Boss, who is ex-
pected to report here some time tins
week, is as strong physically as the
player has declared in letters to his
chief lately. If so, it may not be long
before young Harley will be able to
show some base ball around the first
stop on the runway. After coming up
from Little Rock last year, Boss was
given little chance to prove his worth
under fire, but he certainly appeared
to advantage in practice, He knew how
to move around the sack and in the
batting drills he swung a wicked stick.
Boss Looked Real Find.
Both Griffith and Stanley Harris, at
that time manager of the Nationals,
were favorably impressed by the young
sters performance and it was no secret
that those in charge of the club be-
lieved Boss with the training he was
to get this year in Florida would de-
velop into one of the best young first
sackers in theb usiness. But Boss III
ness during the Winter ended this. He
reported at Tampa so broken down in
health he was unable to indulge In any
training and had to be sent back home
where it was hoped he might in time
regain strength sufficiently to be Ct
some service before the season ended.
According to reports from Louisiana
Boss has returned to health mucn
quicker than any who saw him at
Tampa in the late Winter dared hope,
If he is as well as he says, he viii get
much attention after he joins the Ma
tionals. And about as soon as he is
able to get into the lineup, he'll be
playing. Manager Walter Johnson holds
that a youngster is developed better by
PLAYING than any other way. That's
why he is keeping Joe Cronin on the
Job at shortstop. And that's how he
will endeavor to develop Boss. If Boss
proves strong enough to get the chance
Engel Still Searching.
Engel combed through the minors
early in the season for first-sacker or
two, but at that time was unable to
discover any players considered worth
bringing up for trial. Since renewing
the quest, Joe has met with no success,
but he's still hoping to find some player
not bound to another big league club.
All the likely-looking young flrst-base-
men so far seen or heard of by Joe are
with minor clubs owned by clubs of the
big leagues or thoroughly covered by
the majors.
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MINES CLASH TODAY
FOR SCHOOL TITLES

They were at it again today in the
playground base ball championship war.
Monroe School was to meet Wheatley
in the deciding game of the senior Sc
rieS and Janney was to battle Blow for
the junior title, both games on the Plaza
Field.
Wheatley defeated Monroe yesterday.
6 to 4, to even the series, and Blow got
square with Janney by taking a 7-to-5
decision in IL innings.
Studds and Dorr were rival pitchers
In the long junior struggle. Studs held
Blow to four hits. Janney got 10 eff
Dorr, but the latter had an advantage
in strikeouts, with 10 against Z, and was
strong in most of the pinches.
March for Wheatley and Mahoney for
Monroe both pitched well.
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YOUNGSTER STARS
WITH KANSAS TEAM
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ST. MARYS, Kans.-A 14-year-old
boy, who pitches with a Kansas junior
base ball league, may be a regular with
the Boston Red Sox five or six years
hence.
Stephen c. O'Rourke jr has pitched
two consecutive no-hit, no-run games
against his schoolboy opponents this
Spring.
His dad, Steve ORourke, has been
athletic director Of st. Mary's College,
as we'll as scout for the Red SoX.
In IA innings young Steve famed Is
batters. He will enter high school next
Fall.
The elder O'Rourke sent two members
of his 1929 st. Mary's team to organ
lied base ball this year. Jack Ryan, an
outfelder, went to the Red Sox. and
Paul C3oynick, pitcher. was sent to
Des Moines of the Western League.
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Personally I do not know. During a
meeting of the A. A. U. I met the ad-
vance agent of a Florida hotel chain
and really company. He was lowering
in the anteroom, waving three cheek
books and bale of bills.
1T am here to get some amateur
swimming meets" he announced to all
who cared to listen.
P. She got the swimming meets.
A Tyrannical Ruling.
MISS NoREL1Us and Miss Meany
w are products of the Women's
Swimming AS. ociation, a real amateur
organization and one which has done
more for amateur sport and for the de-
yelopment of the modern American girl
than any other organization. 1t was
the Women's Swimming Association
that developed most of the Olympic
winners in the women's swimming
events in the last three Olympic games
The association trained and de-
veloped Gertrude Ederle, who holds
the authentic record for swimming
the English Channel. On her first
attempt she was trained and sent
across by the association. / know
something of the amateuriSm OF this
association because when 1 offered
to get aid for the organization was
told that the Women'S Swimming
Association financed itself. I know,
further, that 1t is developing plenty
of future champions, and that its
products have been doing the finest
sort of missionary work for women's
athletics.
I recall that shortly before the Olym-
pic games of 1924 the Women's Swim
ming Association started to send a team
to England to compete with English
girls. The A. A. u. decided that this
might detract from the interest in the
Olympic trials and ruled against It, AS
recall it, the team of the Women's
Swimming Association reached London
only to be notified by the little BUREAU
Gratis of the A. A. u. that any members
of the team who competed in London
would be banned" and would be denied
places on the American Olympic team.
The Women's Swimming Association
made a serious blunder, in my opinion,
when it accepted the edict OF the
badgers"
Should Ban the Banners.
THE A. A. u. some time back made
u Raymond Barbuti, one Of the
Olympic game heroes of last year, feel
It's "heavy hand" It was not even
alleged that Barbuti accepted money or
inducements. Neither did he partict-
pate in an unauthorized meet.
Barbuti made statements to the effect
that some of the athletes who appeared
in the sanctioned meets under the
beneficent auspices of the A. A. U.
received money. Barbuti was called
upon to specify. Naturally. Barbuti did
not feel that his eligibility as an anna
teur athlete required him to act as
stool pigeon" for the A. A. U.
There is every reason to believe
that there was considerable in the
allegations of Barbuti. I have in
formation from an authentic source
that a certain well known athlete
was paid a substantial sum in cash
for participation in a meet that was
sanctioned by the A. A. u. My in
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DOWN THE LINE
WITH w. o. McGEEHAN-
That A. A. u. Again.

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WAIVER is AT STANDSTILL;
FOXX AND HORNSBY LOSE

BY the Associated Press.
The big six had a very light after
noon yesterday, both in the amount of
work scheduled and the amount of hit
ting done. Only Jimmy Foxx, Paul
Waner and Rogers Hornsby were sched-
uled. Foxx and Hornsby lost ground,
the former getting one hit in four at
tempts and the latter none in two off,
cial trips to the plate. The leader
slipped to .406, loss of three points,
while Hornsby dropped from 1927 to
1923.
P. Waner held to his mark Of 1913
by hitting once in three tries.
The standing.
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RUTH LIKELY TO APPEAR
AGAINST MACKS FRIDAY

NEW YORK, June Is [P).-Much i'm
proved in health. Babe Ruth is back in
town but he still needs a few days of
rest before getting back into the New
York Yankees lineup.
The Babe has been spending the past
week on fishing trip near Annapolis,
Md, in an effort to recover from
severe cold thatf creed him out of the
Yankee lineup nearly month ago.
He probably will not get into uniform
until Friday when the Yankees play
their crucial series with the Philadel-
phia Athletics.
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BOSS TO BE WELL TESTED
If in SOUND HEALTH AGAIN
Youngster Due to Report to Criffs Soon Looked Fine
Prospect Before He Became iii During Winter.
Engel Is Hunting Talent.
BY JOHN b. KELLER

GRIFFITH is looking for first baseman for his
to find quickly too That's why the
asked Harley to
this also why he
keeping that
initial sack talent coming from the
reported promptly the Washington club office
promsingookin first
bringing the player
physically suffered last Winter
would be able to ball
hopes be able to look other prospects Enge
expected to here n future.
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to be managing the
Athletics when he
is 70 years old. He
now is sc.
There is abso-
lutely nothing to
the report about
winning a pennant
and retiring" said
Mack. "I have no
reason to quit. No
one will have to
tell me when 1t Is
time for me to give
up managing. I'll
now better than
any one else when
that time is at
hand.
HTha nY11y thing
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NEW VIRGINIA LEAGUE
PROPOSED BY NORFOLK

BY the Associated Press.
A Norfolk commercial organization is
taking the lead in a movement to re-
vive the Virginia League for 1890.
Norfolk, Richmond, Lynchburg and
Portsmouth. all large Virginia cities. are
without base ball this season, while
Charleston, S. c.; Raleigh, N. c., and
Savannah, Ga, also have no profess
sional teams.
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GUARDSMEN TO FIGURE
IN FlVE-BOUT PROGRAM

Boxers of the District National Guard
and the Silver Spring Service Com
pany will engage in five amateur bouts
tomorrow night in the Silver Spring
Armory. Col. Hjalmar Erickson of the
Army War College, and Kid Sullivan
will divide the refereeing.
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~ PHILADELPHIA, June 18 R).-
Connie Mack, veteran manager
of the Philadelphia Athletics,
i today spiked reports frequently
heard in base ball circles that
he wanted to win one more pennant
and then retire.
He said he had no intention of retir-
ing and hoped still
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Dormant Is OF the same mind as Bar
buti-that he is not stool pigeon"
for the A. A. U.
The conditions do exist indicating
that the A. A. u. is not competent to
keep amateur athletics amateur-to put
it mildly. There seem to be numerous
guerrilla wars on for control of anna
teur athletics. In these I always have
been inclined to take the side of the
A. A. U. on the ground that it seemed
to have the organization for the better
control.
But am convinced that the A. A. U.
officials in the case of Barbuti and in
the matter of the two girl swimmers
have indicated that they are unfit tenn
peramentally for this work The next
ban should be on the A. A. U.
Copyright, 1920
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BUSH JOINS NEWARK.

NEWARK, N. j., June IS (P).-"Bul-
let" Joe Bush, former pitcher for the
Yankees, Red Sox and Athletics, has
joined the Newark International League
base ball team. He recently was re-
leased by the Portland, Oregs club
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MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Buffalo. g. Newark, 3.
Toronto, 3; Reading, /.
Baltimore, 9; Montreal, Z.
EASTERN LEAGUE.
Albany. S; Springfield. 7.
New Haven, o; Allentown, 8.
(Only games scheduled)
PIEDMONT LEAGUE.
Greensboro, 8; Winston-sa S.
Henderson, q; Salisbury. Z.
High Point, IA; Durham, 6.
EAST CAROLINA LEAGUE.
Coldsboro, 8; Wilmington, 5.
Kinston, 0; Rocky Mount, 3.
Greenville, s; Fayetteville, T.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Omaha, Il; Denver, IL called 9Th for
- fSs;' Moines. Il; Pueblo, 3.
(Only two scheduled)
TEXAS LEAGUE.
s San Antonio, 3; wichita Falls, >.
Beaumont, s; Shreveport. 0;
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
No games; open date.
THREE-I LEAGUE.
Terre Haute, j; Peoria, o.
quincy, 5; Danyille, 2.
BLOOMINGTON. 2: Evansville, !.
Springfield, 8; Decatur 3.
SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION.
Asheville, II; Augusta, 2.
Knoxville, 81: Macon, "a.
Columbia, 6; Greenville, 4.
Charlotte, 7; Spartanburg, 10.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Atlanta, 4: Little Rock, z.
Birmingham, 5; Memphis, !.
Only games scheduled
SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE FINALS.
Tampa, i; MONTGOMERY, tealled end 7th'
rain).
Columbus 2; Selma, 0.
Jacksonville, g. Pensacola J.
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RARIDEN TURNS TO BOATS.

Bill Rariden, catcher, of Bedford, Ind,
last with Cincinnati in the major
leagues, is speed boat enthusiast Bill
to live.
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GAMES TOMORROW
st. Louis at Chicago.
Pitts. at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn at Boston.
New York at Phila.
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BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS

American League.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Detroit, 5-8; Boston, 6-3.
Chicago, 6; Philadelphia, 4.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
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GAMES TODAY.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Pitts. at Cincinnati.
N. Y. at Brooklyn.
Boston at Phila.
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National League.
Yesterdays RESULTS.
Pittsburgh, 2; Cincinnati, /.
st. Louis, Is; Chicago, 3.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
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GAMEa TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW
Phila at Washington Chicago at ST Louis.
Boston Al New York. Detroit at Cleveland.
Boston at New York
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MACKS PREPARED
TO STAND SLUMP
Confidence, Lacking in 1923,
Is Likely to Save Club
From whitening.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

HE Athletics have pulled so
far ahead in the American
League race that most of
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Y TAVING- lost two games in row,
Connie Mack's Philadelphia
Athletics, appearing here today
l. Il against the Griffmen in their
drive toward an American
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HOME RUN STANDING

BY the Associated Press.
HOME RUNS YESTERDAY.
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ROSENBLOOM-OKUN
CONTEST TO SIZZLE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December LESS than
a year ago Make Rosenbloom and Yale
Okun were considered fair to middling
boxers and safe enough for topnotcherS
to meet without undue danger of an
upset. That has all been changed.
Whether for better or worse depends a
good deal on the attitude Of the fans
toward their style of milling.
Rosenbloom, the perpetual motion
man of the ring, and Okun, q cagey
counter-boxer. does not shape up as an
appealing bout on paper. But the fact
that both men have abandoned their
seeming diSinterest in ring affairs and
are now trying to add fame and for
tune to their possessions presages a hot
duel Monday evening, when they meet
over the 12-round route at Madison
Square Garden to decide a momentous
question as to which one of the pair
continues in the running to succeed
Tommy Loughran. as the light-heavy-
weight title holder.
RoSenbloom'S stock took a drop when
Jimmy Slattery edged over a win on
the SlapSttck artist. Rosey has beaten
Jimmy before. and when 1t comes to a
showdown Stats, in shape, can pretty
near whip any 175-pounder in the
world. 1t will be recalled that Jimmy
beat RoSenbloom at Hartford and in so
doing won the designation of the Ma
tional Boxing Association as light
heavyweight, and Loughran was COM
PEELED to fight Stats before Tommy's
claim TO the title was cleared up.