Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-24
.LUQUE, 50, HURLS
ROBINS INTO LEAD
Quinn, As, filings MaCkmen
to Win Over Tigers in
Big Day for Vets.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NX yHOEvER it was that
NJ said youth must pre-
v v vail" probably would be
inclined to retract that
statement If he should look at
the major league box scores these
days. The ancients of the pitch
ing brigade have done just about
as much prevailing as the young
sterS, and often in more con-
vincing manner.
Five moundsmen whose combined
ages total approximately 200 years.
were sent out to toll yesterday and
nearly all of them turned in good
pitching performances. Adolfo Luque,
Cuba's leading base ball hero, age 80,
did a great job as he made first place
in the National League safe for the
Brooklyn Robins. Luque held the st.
Louis Cardinals to five hits through a
trying duel with Sylvester Johnson
while Brooklyn slowly gathered enough
momentum to win, to l. Most of the
and 1t was not until the Cards had tied
the count In the seventh that the
Robins started hitting.
The Robins gain was made possible
by their neighbors, the New York
Giants, who downed the Chicago Cubs,
to 6, to put Brooklyn full game plus
few odd points in the lead. The
pitching in this contest was a matter
of numbers rather than skill, Chicago
using five hurlers and New. York four,
and the wildneSs of the Cub throwers'
was the principal reason for the Giants
four -run rally in the fifth that decided
the game.
Quinn Shows En- How.
Along with Luque, ancient Jack
Quinn of the Philadelphia Athletics,
whose years number somewhere near
pitchers a lesson. Quinn had little
trouble in the ninth inning and George
Earnshaw finished the game for him
as the AS downed Detroit, 4 to l, but
in his eight innings on the mound
which gave him his ninth victory,
Quinn allowed only five hits and only
three were drives past the infleld.
Urban "Red" Faber, second in age 20
Quinn in this quintet, did not figure as
a winner or loser for the Chicago White
Sox. After holding 1-to-0 lead for
five frames Faber weakened and allowed
the Boston Red Sox three runs in the
sixth Hal McKain relieved him and
got credit for the victory, as Chicago
rallied again and gained 5-to-3 de-
cision. The victory moved Chicago
back into sixth place, as washington
came back after three straight defeats
and pulled out 10-to-9 victory over
the st. Louis Browns in IL innings.
Another youngSter of 80 years. Eppa
Rixey, was given the task of trying
to put the Cincinnati Reds into sixth
place in the National League ahead of
the Boston Braves at the start of yes
terday'S Gouble-header. He had a bad
inning and was behind when taken out
for pinch hitter in the eighth. Silas
johnson was credited with the victory,
as Cincinnati rallied in the ninth to win
the game, 8 to z.
johnson also was charged with the
defeat In the second game when he
again appeared as a relief pitcher and
was the victim Of Boston's eleventh.
inning run which gave the Braves the
decision, 6 to 5, and kept the teams In
a tie. Harry Seibold, not much younger
than the ancients of the select group,
pitched the entire game and drove in
the winning run himself.
Herb Pennock, the youngster of the
quintet, age IS, had rough time of it
against Cleveland and was the principal
victim of the Indians eighth-inning
rally which Melted five runs and a 10
to-5 victory over the New York Yankees.
But it was Ownie Carroll who was
charged with the defeat.
The Phillies and Pittsburgh used
pitchers of almost every kind as the
Pirates won two games through Pie
Traynor'S two home runs. Traynor's
first four Dagger gave Heinie Meme \
2-to-1 decision over Roy Hansen in the
first half of the bill while his second,
coming with two on base in the thir-
tenth inning put the Pirates on the
long end of a 1915 count. Ten pitch
ers worked in this game and between
them they yielded so hits.