Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-09
LUQUE, HE|LMANN
IN THE L|MEL|GHT
AdoIfo Now Leading HurIers
and Harry NearS Top
of BatSmen.
BY HUGH s. FULLERTON. JR.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


A PERUSAL of the current
~ major league records seems
~ to indicate that a player
must be very young or very
old, as base ball ages go, to get a
full share of this seasons glory.
Picking a few names from the
records of those who have done
something worthwhile in pitching
or hitting, we find such ancientS
as Harry Seibold, Adolfo Luque,
Sad Sam" Jones, Ted Lyons,
Harry Heilmann and Sam Rice,
and the youngsters, Mel Harder,
Bob osborn, Earl Collard, Roy
Mahaffey, Wally Berger, Joe
Strip, Smead Jolley and Tom
Oliver.
OF these, Luque and Heilmann are
basking in the brightest rays of the
hurler who has been in the major
leagues for nearly a dozen seasons. Is
at the top of the National Leagues
pitchers with a record of six straight
victories. He gave ample proof yester-
day that he has earned this post by
turning back the Chicago Cubs with
four hits while Brooklyn scored 6-to-
NASbOIJ dlld 10 O1
leadership to three full games.
HeiImann Near Top.
Heilmann, for whom the American
League clubs could find no use last
season when Detroit decided to let him
go after IA successive seasons Is close
to the top of the batters in the National
League In two games against the
Phillies yesterday he improved his
latest official average of 400 by several
| points, hitting five hits in nine times
at bat and giving Cincinnati a 5-to-4
victory in the first contest with q
home run. Heilmann could not Offset
the Philadelphia smuggling in the second
game and the Phillies won 1t by O g.
to-2 count.
Seibold also did we'll after q couple
of bad games. He pitched his tenth
complete game in dozen starts to
beat Pittsburgh, 10 to 6. Seibold had
one bad inning, the seventh, when the
Pirates scored all their runs on six of
their seven hits, but the Braves had
Tailed eight times in the second. The
youthful Berger contributed his seven
tenth home run of the season to this
rally.
Waite Hoyt, another veteran, who
seemed to be about through with the
New York Yankees, made his first start
for Detroit and won out, / to 0, in O
six-inning game. Hoyt yielded four
hits, while his opponent, Ed Morris,
held the Tigers to two but lost out
through an error in the first inning.
Mackmen Beat Lyons.
Ted Lyons, one of the seasons con-
sistent winners, gave the Philadelphia
Athletics four extra base hits in one
inning. This was just enough to give
the world champions 6-to-3 victory
over Chicago. producing four runs.
Young Yves Terrell of Cleveland
finally passed Lyons in the number of
games won by holding Washington in
check and finally driving in a run in
the ninth inning to win his own game,
3 to 2.
Ferrell's victory improved Cleveland's
position in the American League stand
ings considerably, as the st. Louis
Browns subdued the threat of the New
York Yankees with a 5-to-4 triumph
The Browns hammered George PipgraS
from the mound in the, eighth inning
to score all their runs.
The New York Giants provided the
leading exception to the youth-and-age
rule as they defeated the st. Louis
Cardinals, to /, for their eighth sue
cessive victory and the twelfth Cardinal
defeat in Is games. Bill Walker and
Bill Terry, a pair of the middle aged"
players, had the leading roles. Walker
held the Cards to two hits and one I'M
earned run, while Terry drove in two
counters with a home run.