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Leaders Lose Ground.

A THOUGH they were compare
~ lively orthodox. the other two
National League games were the
important ones for the Chicago Cubs,
trouncing Pittsburgh. 81, behind Guy
Bush's five-hit pitching. pulled up to
within az games of the league-lead-
ing New York Giants. Van Mungo
stopped the Giants with six hits and
famed eight men as Brooklyn earned
an 1l-2 decision.
In the American League. the New
York Yankees lead was shaved TO half
game when the McCarthymen
dropped a 9-8 decision to Washington
while second-place Detroit nosed out
st. Louis, 4-3, in a f1ve-inning game
halted by rain. Lou Gehrig hit his
twenty-fourth homer for the Yankees
and tied Jimmie Foxx and Bob John
son for the league lead.
Taking over the loops slugging du-
ties for the day, the Boston Red Sox
regained third place by hammering
four Philadelphia Athletic pitchers
for 20 hits and an 1876 victory Cleve-
lands Indians fell back into fifth
position. dropping a rs decision to
the Chicago White Sox.
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Totals. ). l43 1877 4S 10 l3 3O4 IA

The largest collection of runs either
league created with one four-game
program is 101, set by the National
way back in 1887. The record books
do not give the highest total for both
leagues in one day.
Two of the dizziest games on record
combined to send the National League
slugging figures up into the realm of
higher mathematics. In one of them
the Cincinnati Reds outlasted the st.
Louis Cardinals, Is to Is. In the other
the Boston Braves "nosed out" the
Phillies, 1913.
The Cardinals sent seven pitchers,
or everybody but Paul Dean and Bill
Hallahan, to the mound in an effort to
salvage the game with the Reds, but
all to no avail. The Phils and Braves
together collected Al hits, II of them
for extra bases. These figures, 81
runs for the Reds and Cardinals, and
Al hits for the Phillies and Braves,
compared with the record of 49 runs
and 81 hits set by the Phillies and Cubs
in 1922. One modern mark did fall
at Philadelphia, however, when the
two clubs were credited with a total
Of 81 times at bat compared with 95
for Cleveland and st. Louis In 1925.
The all-time high of 110 was set by
the Boston Nationals and Detroit in
1883
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GREAT SOUTHPAW
BATTLE PRESAGED
Batting Orders Announced
for Classic Contest
Next Tuesday.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n JEW YORK, July Nom
M mated in advance by
v popular acclaim, Vernon
(Goofy) Gomez and Carl
Owen Hubbell were definitely
selected today as starting pitch
ers for the all-Star game be-
tween the American and Ma
tional Leagues at the Polo
Grounds next Tuesday.
Obeying the peoples mandate as
indicated by the recent Nationwide
poll, Joseph Edward Cronin, the
American Leagues shortstop-man-
ager, and Bill Terry, first baseman
and master mind of the National
League forces. picked the two crack
southpaws for starting duty and
thereby assured a pitching natural
for which the base ball world has
been waiting for several years.
Gomez and Hubbell generally
ranked as the two finest portsiders in
the game, polled by far the great
est number of votes among the pitch
ers chosen for the two all-star teams.
Announcement of their selection by
the two managers was made coin
cident with the official batting orders
for both teams Cronin has decided
to start with a lineup topped off by
four Of the greatest left-handed hit
ters in base ball, while Terry, al
though he named alternates for three
positions, nevertheless plans to fire
eight right-handed clouters at Gomez.
The hating orders.
American League.
Charlie Gehringer, Detroit, second
base
Heinie Manush, Washington, left
field
Babe Ruth. New York, right field.
Lou Gehrig, New York, FIRST base.
Frank Higgins, Philadelphia, third
base.
Al Simmons. Chicago. center field.
Joe Cronin, Washington, short
stop.
Bill Dickey. New York, catcher
Vernon Gomez, New York, pitcher.
National League.
Frank Frisch, st. Louis, second
base
Harold Traynor, Pittsburgh, third
base.
Joe Medwick, st. Louis, or Chuck
Klein, Chicago. lett field.
Hazen Cuyler. Chicago, or Mel OFT,
New York. right field.
Wally Berger, Boston, center feld.
Bill Terry. New York, first base.
Travis Jackson, New York, short
stop.
Gabby Hartnett. Chicago, or Al
Lopez, Brooklyn, catcher.
Carl Hubbell, New York, pitcher.
Terry explained he had named
Klein and OFT as possible starting
outfielders in the event left-hander
did not open for the American
Leaguers. He likewise added he had
! not yet made up his mind as TO
whether Hartnett or Lopez would start
behind the plate although it was in
dicated the Cub veteran would get
the call.
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Yanks Rate Crf1 Toughest Foes Gomez HubbeU AStaw
Crumbling of Yank Veterans Promises Steady
Positions for Pair of truths Understudies"

By the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK.-In the more
M or less general crumbling
" of Yankee veteran
- through prolonged physi-
cal strain this season two young
fellows who for several years
have shared periodic mention as
promising understudies to Babe
Ruth find steady jobs gradually
opening up for both of them.
Sammy Byrd and Myril Hoag. who
have been hanging around for quite
spell on the Yankee bench, are seeing
fairly consistent duty as the Bam-
binos days Of rest and abbreviated
appearances become more numerous
and the elderly Earl Combs likewise
finds the years telling.
Each has played in considerably
more than half of the Yankee games
during the first two and half
months of the season. and Combs re-
cent reinjury to the ankle he broke
in 1924 makes it more certain that
these understudies are on the verge
Of attaining status as regulars.
ue dIlhCc CdSudiIlCo vi LliC iClO
of battle this season have been per-
sistent enough to have seriously an
noyed any team, let alone an aggre-
CATION literally dotted with players
admittedly in the twilight of their
starring days.
Plenty of Casualties.
n ESIDES Combs ankle sprain there
h have been several jarring mis-
haps to Ruth, including a couple
of spills while patrolling the outfield
and a bad shoulder bruise from a
pitched ball
Then Tony Lazzeri, another of the
old guard. has been bothered for sew
eral weeks by an injured finger which
is slow to heal and has a chronic
lame knee. And Lou Gehrig survived
a Clipped toe bone only through
sheer determination not to break up
his great consecutive games record.
Pitcher Johnny Aliens lame arm
has made him useless for nearly two
months.
The younger generation had al
ready started overhauling Combs
when he met his accident, for just
the day before young Ben Chapman
had been promoted" to center field
and Earle shifted to left.
Hoag. back from a brief but bril-
liant season at the Yanks' Newark
farm, moved into Combs new spot,
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to offer 13 to against any such de-
velopment.
think Joe would lead happier life
if the ball clubs of the South stopped
making him offers. His sad case
would very shortly cease to be a sad
case After all. a man can do we'll
enough in the laundry business If he
doesn't put too much starch IN the
collars.
Copyright 1924. by the North America n
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
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Considered Money n Gift.

TOE, naturally, was much annoyed
by the vigilance of the Govern
ment's bloodhounds. When you
receive $1,000 for a $4,000 job you
feel badly enough without having a
81 200 plaster slapped on your little
pile. Besides, Mr.. Jackson considered
the money to be in the nature of gift.
This was the line his lawyer took in
refuting the claims of the Government
The dead past has buried its dead,
though, and the Governments un-
tactful action has been forgotten. All
Joe Jackson wants to do is turn an
honest penny at his old trade. A guy
who batted the dead ball for an aver
age of .408 in 1911 might do some
valuable stickwork in the bush leagues
in 1894, although he weighs one
eighth of a ton and his girth has in
creased beyond recognition.
The moral aspect of paffaire Jackson
remains just about as it was last year
and the year before that. Judge lands
would appear somewhat silly now If he
lifted the ban on moral grounds. All
he can do is rush reprieve to Mr..
jackson and tell him that the fault.
though q fault, Is forgiven. One Of
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to that figure, even while not playing
regularly.
Byrd. who came up from Albany,
has been with the Yanks since 1929
Hoag came up from Sacramento in
1880. but until this season hasn't
broken into as many games as Sammy.
Manager Joe Mccarthy still hasn't
real solution to the problem Laz-
zeriS detection will create in the in
field. He has been going along with
CroSetti on third, Red Rolfe at short
and Lazzeri. when feeling fit. at sec
ond. But there are plenty of fans
who doubt that either Rolfe or Don
Hefner, the pair touted in the Spring
as cinch keystone combination, will
make the big league grade.
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ne calls OH IHe prayers.
Cronin says his American League
outfit will go to bat as follows: Gehr-
niger, Tigers, second base; Manush,
Nationals. left field; Ruth, Yankees,
right field; Gehrig, Yankees, first
base; Higgins. Athletics, third base {;
Simmons. White Sox, center field;
Cronin, Nationals. shortstop; Dickey,
Yankees, catcher; Gomez, Yankees,
pitcher.
According to Terry. the National
League club will bat this way: Frisch,
Cardinals. second base; Traynor, Pi-
rates. third base; Medwick. Cardinals,
or Klein, Cubs. left field; Cuyler
Cubs, or OFT, Giants. right field l.;
Berger. Braves. center field; Terry,
Giants, first base; Jackson, Giants
shortStop; Hartnett, Cubs. or Lopez,
Dodgers, catcher; Hubbell, Giants,
pitcher.
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Cehrig After All Various League Smuggling Honors
1omers and Runs Bate Among

not knowing what had happened
and seeing the ball in Rice's
hands, went directly to the Yankee
dugout after reaching third base
Gehrig continued around
the runway and the third out
was automatically registered.
Gehrig, this year, has tied one
major league home run mark
that of cracking a four baser with
all cushions crowded four times in
a season Frank Schultz set
that record back in 1911 when he
was with the Cubs Babe Ruth
tied it in 1919 when he was with
the Red SoX Gehrig is after
all league championships that
have to do with power and punch
in this, his tenth season as a
regular with the Yankees He
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Major Leaders
BY the Associated Press.
(Including yesterdays gamesD

! BY tHe ASSOCiaIeu Eicso'
uncluding yesterdays games)
American League.
Batting-Manush, Senators, Aus;
Gehringer, Tigers, 1888.
Runs-Gehringer Tigers, 73; Cos
lin, Tigers; Werber, Red Sox, ano
johnson, Athletics, 81.
Runs batted in-Gehrig, YANKEES
sl; Cronin. Senators, ".
Hits - Manush, Senators, 126;
Gehringer, Tigers, ITO.
Doubles-Averill, Indians, and
Manush, Senators, 2S.
Triples-Manush, Senators, ~;
Chapman, Yankees, ..
Home runs-Foxx and Johnson
Athletics, and Gehrig. Yankees, "a.
Stolen bases-Werber, Red Sox, ~;
Fox. Tigers, IT.
Pitching-Gomez, Yankees, l5-Z;
Marberry, Tigers, 1913.
National League.
Batting-Terry, Giants, 1854; Leslie,
Dodgers, 1856.
Runs-Medwick, Cardinals, and
Vaughan, Pirates, 81.
Runs batted in-Ott, Giants, S2;
Collins, Cardinals, IS.
Hits-Medwick, Cardinals, l08; Terry,
Giants: Leslie, Dodgers, ana Allen,
Phillies, 104.
Doubles - Urbanski, Braves, 25;
Medwick and Collins, Cardinals, 70.
TripleS-Collins, Cardinals, 8; Med
wick. Cardinals; P. Waner, Vaughan
and Suhr, Pirates, y.
Home runs-Ott, Giants, 81; Klein,
Cubs, 18.
Stolen bases-Martin, Cardinals,
IL; Bartell, PhillieS, 10.
Pitching-Frankhouse, Braves, and
]. Dean, Cardinals, 1873.
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right center, but he set sail for
the ball with the crack of the
bat He sprinted far to his
left, took a desperate dive at the
low-traveling ball, got it with
both hands. plowed the cinder
track that rims the stadium out
field with both elbows, stood
squarely on his head and toppled
over, but never let go that sphere
Jack came up with two mean
gashes in his left forearm as a
result of that dive into the cinders
to get fully as much applause as
greeted Gehrig when he made his
record-tying home run.
Al Crowder was to get a shot
at the Yanks this afternoon, with
Lefty Gomez likely to go to the
hill for the home side.
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while Byrd continues to fill in for
Ruth in right. Both Of the compare
tive youngsters-theyr 26-are stellar
helders. Hoag has one of the best
throwing arms in the game and he
cover a lot Of ground in his little
No. shoes.
Classy Fielding Trio.
A HOAG-CHAPMAN- BYRD out
n field would not, probably, have
the blasting power of trio in
cluding Ruth and Combs, but In speed
and fly-catching ability it would rank
with the best.
After all, Ruth and Combs have
been batting under 800 this year,
while Hoag and Byrd are fairly close
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MANUSH'S BATTING
AVERAGE SHRINKING
Loses Seven Points, but Stays at
Top of League-Gehrig
Makes Biggest Gain.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July Although
IN Bill Terry Of the Giants and
Heinie Manush of the Wash
ington Senators lost seven percentage
points each during the past week,
they retained the batting leaderships
of the National and American Leagues
Lou Gehrig, the Yankees lombard
ing first sacker, was the biggest
ground gamer of the week. He hit
safely IA times out of 80.
The standings:
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Medica Aims at Second Mark
Seattle Swimming Sensation Cracks 5.Year.Old
Mile Record-Primed for 40 Effort.

Swedish stars accepted mark was
2l:06.8.
Medica was after a new mark
in the 440-yard free style today,
to give a claim to eight world
records. Four already have been
approved, while three are pending.
Another youngster. 18-year-old
Jimmy Higgins of the Olneyville
Boys Club, Providence, r. L, came
up with a record yesterday. He
won the 220-yard breaststroke in
2:55. one and two-tenths seconds
better than the approved Ameri-
can mark held by Walter Spence
of New York
Trials and finals in the 440-yard
swim. the l00-meter backstroke
and the SS0-yard relay were on
today's program.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
FRANCIS, EX-NAT, DIES
Heart Attack Fatal to Portside
Hurler of 1922 Team.
.cial Dispatch to The Sta

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTA, Ga, July Ray Fran
els, southpaw pitching mainstay of the
1922 Washington Nationals, died sud-
denly here yesterday from q heart
attack while on duty as q member
of the Atlanta police force.
Francis, who later was traded to
Detroit and who also saw service with
the New York Yankees, purchased a
dose of bicarbonate Of soda at drug
store for a heartburn" and after
taking it, dropped to the floor. He
was rushed to a hospital but died en-
route.
The former National Is survived by
his widow and q 2-year-old daughter,
Evening star., 1934-07-07
Criffs, Red Sox
To See Big Tilt

NEW YORK. July THE Wash
IN ington Nationals and Boston
Red Sox will sit in" next
Tuesday at the all-star game at
the Polo Grounds, that is, all ex-
cept Heinie Manush, Jack Russell
and Manager Joe Cronin of the
Nationals and Rick Ferrell of the
Red Sox. who will perform with
the picked American League team.
Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red
Sox, will bring his team to New
York for the classic. while the
Washington club. which winds up
a four game series here with the
Yankees tomorrow and idles Mon
day and Tuesday, also has been
presented with complimentary
tickets.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
Morals, Not Mathematics.

THE fact that Mr.. jackson re-
i ceived only five grand, through
careless oversight on the part
of the gamblers. does not detract from
the merit of the judges position. A
shlewd mathematician would note at
a glance the disparity between $20.-
600 and $4,000, but the judge is not
thinking of mathematics. His stten-
ton is focused on the moral aspect of
laffaire Jackson.
don't know the technical details of
Joe's latest attempt to come back. Il
he can't play in Greenville without
Evening star., 1934-07-07

is hitting around $40. headed only
by Manush and Gehringer. and he
hopes to outdo those clouters .
He has driven across 81 runs in
II games, which is going at a
faster pace than he went in 1881
when he finished with 1874 and
established a new standard for
his circuit.
Jack Stone made a catch in
yesterdays game that goes down
as one of the best ever seen in
Yankee Stadium. or anywhere
else for that matter 1t was
in the fourth inning Dickey
was on third base with two
retired when Ruffing thumped a
lightning-stresk liner toward right
Stone, naturally. was playing
the right-hand swinger toward
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By staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
n IEW YORK. July Lou
~ Gehrig. now co-holder with
v Bob Johnson and Jimmy
4 Foxx of the Athletics of
the major league home
run lead, has an excellent chance
to swing to his best season circuit
clout record.
He has made "a home runs in
II games . Larruping LOUIS best
mark was set in 1927 when he hit
At . that was the season in
which Babe Ruth set his record
of so in 1881. Babe and Lou
tied at 46, but Lou lost a homer
that year. in Washington ..
he hit the ball into the sun
parlor back of center the
ball bounced back to center to be
caught by Harry Rice Larry,
Evening star., 1934-07-07
VIII Map Strategy.

TINE American League squad will
i be assembled for the first time
at the Commodore Hotel the
morning of the day of the game.
Plans then will be made for the con-
test, with Manager Mccarthy of the
Yankees and Manager McGillicuddy
Of the Athletics sitting in as an ad-
visory board Cronin invited them to
attend. as he believes Mccarthy, for
mer National League pilot, and Mack,
leader of the victorious American
Leaguers in last years dream game, "
can give valuable pointers on many
of the batters of the rival club.
Neither Mccarthy nor Connie Mack
will sit on the bench with Cronin
during the game, though. Joe says
he will shoulder all the burden of
that. ready to accept praise for VIC
tory or bear all the blame for defeat.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
GAMES TODAY
By the Associated Press.


- HICAGO, Ill, July Jack
Medica, Americas foremost
" hope in the campaign to
break Japan's hold on
swimming honors in the
1885 Olympic games. was after his
second world record in two days
today in the national A. A. U.
championship meet in the World
Fairs north lagoon.
The human torpedo from the
Washington A. C. of Seattle,
Wash. gave a thrilling display of
speed swimming in breaking Arne
Borg's five-year-old record for one
mile. He won by about 100 yards
over his chief rival, Ralph Flana-
gan Of Miami, Fla, In 2o:57.s. The
Evening star., 1934-07-07
7 GAMES BEHIND
BUT STILL TRYING
Have Too Much Class to Be
Counted Out With 79
Battles to Go.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.
YEW YORK, July 7.-Wash-
ineton's ball club still is

VI the one that must be
4 ' licked to get a pennant,
the Yankees contend. q,
Though seven games behlno
the pace-setting New Workers,
the Nationals are more hlgnly
respected by Joe McCarthy'S
crew than the higher-placed
Tigers or the Red Sox or scrappy
Indians.
The Yanks see too much class in
the Cronin clan, class backed by
splendid determination, to count II
ont of the race for championship.
They realize that a club of Washing
TOMS type can accomplish much IN
the 79 games still remaining on lts
schedule.
So long as the Nationals are on
their feet and fighting, the present
league leaders understand the pen
nant pursuit will be no peaceful prom
enade.
The Yankees discovered yesterday
that a lot of punch and pepper was
left in the champions. Swapping out
of a slump that had cost them three
ball games. the Nationals rammed
their way to a substantial score, then
vithstood a sturdy New York counter
attack. to emerge from the battle 3
to-8 victor.
The Nationals were out-hit, dozen
safeties to nine, but they managed to
work the New York chuckers for as
many as eight passes. And they backed
four of these passes with hits to con-
vert them into runs.
The victim of the Nationals VIC
tory splurge was none other than Big
Charley Ruffing, the pitcher who not
so long ago in Washington blanked
them as he yielded only three hits.
But Rufus the Red did no pitching
like that here This time he gave up
seven safeties and five walks before
he was blasted from the hill in the
seventh inning. And seven runs had
been picked up at his expense.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
7 EW YORK. July There has
been considerable unrest and
disSension in the Dixie
League lately over the attempt

VI lllc culduld, AId.. LluO "
employ Joe Jackson as player-man
ager. Most of the magnates have
turned down their thumbs on Joseph
and they intend to keep those valu-
able digits pointed toward the soil of
Alabama until the Eufaula club aban-
dons its nefarious project entirely.
This is Mr.. Jackson's second recent
effort to crash the pastime. Last
year he was lured from his Savannah
laundry by an Gffer to manage the
ball club in Greenville. S. c.. his home
town. All the citizens of Greenville
from the mayor down. wrote letters
OF appeal to Judge Lands. The judge
stood as firm as the mountain for
which he was named
There cannot be two standards of
eligibility for the major and minor
leagues" said the Judge in a formal
ukase. Mr. Jackson testified under
oath he accepted an offer of 10000
to throw ball games in the world
series of 1919. There's nothing more
to say"
Evening star., 1934-07-07
The Worm Turns

washington ...... OO2 O2l 2oO-a
New York. k............. 001 O30 130-S
Runs batted in-Manush 90. Gehrig
go. Travis. Ssltzgaver. Whitehill Schultz
Kress, Chapman. Cronin (2). Jorgens. Cro-
setti. Hoag. Two-baSe hitS-Manush
Travis. Jorgens. Hoag. Three-base hits
Crosetti Heffner. Kress. Cronin. Home
run-Gehrig. Sacrifce-Byrd. Double
play-Cronin to Myer to Kress. Left on
First base on bails-or Rufing. 5; on
Whitehill. 3; of Van Alta. ! of Russell.
3; by Van Alta. l. Hits-Of Rufhng. Z
in INNINGS (none out in seventh: of
Van Alta, 3 in innings; on Murphy.
innings (none out in eighth: of Russell.
l in 2 innings Winning pitcher-White-
hill. Losing pitcher-Rufins. Umpires
-Messrs MCGOWAN. Hildebrand and Mo-
riarty Time-2:24.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
JOE KNIGHT VICTOR.

ATLANTA, Ga. July Joe
Knight, Georgia lightweight who is
ranked No. l nationally behind
Make Rosenbloom. won a dull 10
round decision here last night from
Rosy Rosales of Cleveland.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
HOME OWNERS vICTORs.

Home Owners Loan Corporation
soft ballers druobed Army war Col
lege, 81, yesterday IN the Capital
City League. Abe Resented tor the
winners pitched two-h1t ball.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
POST OFFICE VICTOR.
Post Office

Post Office base ballers put on SIX
run rally In the seventh 10 score
81 win over the P. w. A. nine yes
terday in the Colored Departmental
League.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
CRONIN AND TERRY PLOT
MORE LINEUP JUGGLING
Strategical Shifts May Include Use of Foxx Instead
of Higgins--Short Service Only for Ruth.
Harder, Ruffing to Follow Gomez.
' a staff correspondent Of The Star.

a a
IEW YORK July Joe Cronn and Bill Terry the world
series rivals of last Fall who will do the master mindng
v in the al-star between of the major
leagues here next Tuesday couple of cagey guys
They announcing lineupS for the big fray today
believe each has his his cheek
Evening star., 1934-07-07
FROM THE PRESS BOX
by JOHN LARDNER-

my agents caught a glimpse of the
judge the other day, and he is willing