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Evening star., 1934-09-16
Nn0nTN Cochrane's Purchase
\H0DE Gets Tigers Off Rocks
~ AVVl Fat Gates i'm Detroit.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

-ODAY Is the birthday Of Mr..
Nicodemus Altrock. He is oS
- wears old and can make tnat
hall roll up his arm and back down
again as well as ever. And ne knows
more base ball than half the major
leaguers put together.
Nick took a squint at the 1lgers
Yesterday and, upon request, COM
pared them with the Detroit. outnts
of 1907, 'O8 and '09. last Tiger champs
The comparison was not so favorable
10 Mike Cochrane'S team.
twenty-five years ago." recolecteo
Nick, "the outfield was Ty Cobb, sam
Crawford, Davey Jones and Matty
Mcintyre. I'd take them over White,
Fox, Goslin and Walker.
"The old infield was Claude Ross
man at first, Herman Schaefer at sec
ond. Charlie OLeary at shortstop and
Bill Coughlin at third base. DOME
Bush was shortstop in 1908 and '0s,
now that I think Of it. I wouldn't
say Cochranes infield is any better.
maybe Cochrane is the best
catcher, but the old club had two
good men-Charlie Schmidt and
Oscar Stanage. -..
Bill Donovan, reckon, was bout
like Rowe. The rest of the pitchers
were Eddie Siever, Eddie Killian, Eddie
Summers, George Mullin, Frank Glib
son and Edgar Willetts.
II don't know about the two pitch
ing STATS. Bout even there. But
on the whole reckon the old fellows
was best"
Evening star., 1934-09-16
WEEDS j. s. CROWN
TO BRITISH BY 81
Par.Shattering, Relentless
Coast Youth Falls Into
GaIlery's Disfavor.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.


r--~ ROOKLINE, Mass, September
- l5.-William Lawson Little,
| jr, burly, broad-shouldered
son of an Army Medical Corps
colonel from the Presidio Golf Club of
Sau Francisco, today won the amateur
golf championship Of the United
Suites, smothering 25-year-old Dave
("fspec") Goldman of Dallas, Tex. by
Q and Z, in the final round.
Little thus completed the big slam
in amateur golf in the two great golf
ing nations of the world. He won the
British amateur title last May.
TJnleashing all the power and skill
that had lain dormant in his play dur
ing hectic week of l8-hole matches,
the husky Little, now a senior at
Leland Stanford University, turned on
the heat in the final round, playing
the 70 holes in under par to de-
mcllssh the Texas construction worker
ant leave no possible doubt as to the
best amateur golfer Of the Nation.
Since Lawson, visitor to Washing
ton for a week last April, fired the
opening shot in this championship
wt.ich ended over the classic fairways
Of the country club this afternoon, he
has been marked as the new cham
pi0n. Today he set the seal of ap-
pr1val on his championship caliber in
o way which left no doubt in the
minds of the slim gallery which fol-
lowed the final as to his class.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Great Time for Tigers.

n EANUSH and Myer Joined Bolton
M as sweethearts Of Detroit IN
the next round. With Rogen
on first and two away, White and
Cochrane singled in succession, Mick
ey's blow counting Rogell and Ma
nush's failure to stop the ball count
ing White. Cochrane took second
while Heinie was fiddling around, and
so, when Myer fumbled Greenberg's
side-retiring grounder, Cochrane
scored to bring the score to Detroit,
6; Washington, 2.
The affair took on 50 much Of the
aspect of q Blue Ridge League game
that Cronin, to make the kid feel at
home, waved In Reese Diggs, l8-year-
old Pimlico md product, whose
wind-up resembles that Of fan dancer
without fans.
Reese came In with two down in the
fifth, two runs across, White on third
and Cochrane on second. He promptly
threw q single to Gehringer, scoring
10 10. Then he walked Greenberg and
pitched another single to Marvin
Owen. Here Stone made his generous
gesture and let the ball roll through
his legs, Soluble drumming for Coch-
rane), Gehringer and Greenberg
scoring.
There was only one bright ray, from
q Washington viewpoint, and that was
Diggs. The kid walked into his first
big league game in tough spot and
against the next American League
champions. But after that fifth in
ming he had the Tigers eating out Of
his hands.
They got only two hits. one an infleld
bingle. and base on balls in the last
three innings.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Ruth Finds Game
All Work, No Fun

CLEVELAND, September Is P).
~ The Babe knows he is
through with base ball because
its getting to be work instead OF
fun.
So spake George Herman Ruth
at a luncheon given in his honor
by the knights of Columbus here.
I'm not fooling myself and I
don't want to fool the public"
said Ruth, slurring the kings
English.
I'm through as a regular player.
Base ball has been my job for
81 years, but it has never seemed
like a job until the last year or
so. Now it's getting to be work
instead of fun, and so I know I
can't go on"
Through or not, he got a gold
base ball watch fob from the
knights in token of their esteem.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Lawson Complete Master.

- TOT since Bob Jones was winning
championships almost as he
pleased has one man so COM
pletely dominated a national as did
Little in winning his first American
title Until yesterday he had not seen
the seventeenth and eighteenth holes
of this course, never having had to
60 beyond the sixteenth to win his
five early 18-hole matches.
Yesterday, the semi-final day, he
pie yed the last two holes for the course
for the first time in week. At the
end of the first round today he was 5
up on Goldman, scoring a subpar SO
foi' The round, and playing the final IL
holas of the match in one below per-
fett ,igures to bring the match to an
emf ON the twenty-ninth green.
successfully he beat John w. Tucker,
afiar first-round bye, by and 2; M.
"A. Heath, by and 2; Chester OBrien,
by 1 and 3; Harry Candy, by and
2: Willie Turnesa, by and 2; Don
Armstrong in 36 holes, by 4 and 8,
and Dave Goldman in SO holes. by 8
and z. His march to the title was
devastating in its awesome progress,
as relentless as battle tank as Lit
tie, the killer Of modern golf, unsmil-
ing and sternly concentrating on the
ta.;E at hand, smothered all his rivals
with the remorselessness of an iron
machine.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, September Is
nj Rain, bugaboo of outdoor
l Y sports promoters, fell over the
metropolitan area today for
the second straight week end and
washed out two of the days scheduled
major sports events-the 15-round
welterweight championship fight be-
tween Barney Ross and Jimmy Nc
Larnin and the first match of the
East-West polo series.
The fight was postponed for the
fourth time, to Monday night. The
polo was postponed indefinitely with
the probability it will be held Wednes-
day or Thursday II as and when the
rain stops falling.
The ss-McLarnin shindig origi-
nally was scheduled for September 8.
put over to the 7th, then the 9Th and
finally postponed until tonight. .
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Welter Title Go, Polo Match
Again Blocked by Heavy Rain

Jewish holiday intervening To inter-
fere with Ross training.
Another Of the Jewish holy days
is in the offing, and unless the fight Is
put on Monday night 1t may have to
be indefinitely set over or moved In
doors. Yom Kippur starts next Tues
day night and the "a hours Of fasting
that would entail for Ross would be
q real break in training for him.
After today's postponement Ross
went to the country for q week end.
McLarnin. however, remained IN the
city to continue light training over
Sunday. They will weight In again
Monday afternoon.
The East-West polo matches have
been no less plagued by the weather.
The first match originally was sched-
uled for last Saturday, was put over
until Wednesday, then postponed
again until today when q near cloud
burst drenched international Field at
the Msadowbrook Club last Monday.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
TERMS OLYMP|CS
NIL SANS AMERICA
German Leader Expresses
Sentiment at Banquet
Given Brundage.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ ERLIN, September 15.-The
x Olyrnpics without American
| participation are practically
unthinkable, Theodor Lewald,
German representative on the IN
ternational Olympic Committee said
tonight at dinner rendered Avery
Brundage, chairman of the Amer
lean Olympic Committee.
"I won't press you for a decision
tonight" Lewald said tactfully. but
I am frank to say that ] earnestly
hope America participates in the
1886 Olympics which, to my mind,
are practically unthinkable without
the United States"
Brundage, who now is engaged in
an investigation to determine whether
or not Nazi pledges Of non-discrim-
ination against Jewish athletes are
being kept, replied in non-committal
fashion, but praised arrangements
now being made for the Olympiad
two years hence at Berlin.
CT CONGRATULATE you," he said,
ION the splendid arrangements
u already made. BY the time you're
finished there1l he nothing in the
world to equal your sports forum,
high school for sports, stadium, SWIM
ming pool and other arrangements. /"
Brundage has been empowered by
the American Olympic Committee to
investigate the situation and then to
accept or reject an invitation to COM
pete at Berlin in 1886. He had said,
however. that he will not accept the
responsibility of making a definite
decision, but will offer recommends
tion one way or the other for the con-
sideration of the full committee.
Lewald, incidentally, revealed to-
night for the first time that Berlin's
Olympic village will be contributed
by the Reichswehr, which intends to
use it later as an army training bar
racks.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Keane Will Drive
Guppy in Regatta

CUPPY, Washington's fastest
~ speedboat, which averages
nearly so miles an hour, has
been sold by Roy Dale to Tom
Keane, grand marshal of the night
pageant, feature of the Presi-
dents Cup speedboat regatta pro-
gram. Keane will drive the boat
in the Presidents Cup regatta.
Guppy is 125-cubic inch hydro
plane and Dale has piloted 1t to
several notable triumphs. Dale will
retain his 225-cubic-inch Ketchme,
which he will race in the Presi-
dents Cup affair.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Little Sps Goldman Golf Final Light Wind Deices RanboVo OF Win
Takes Richest Turf Race Tigers Hit Heavily Spank Mats z22
President Clears
EndeavOur's Path
NEWPORT, r. l., September

NEWPORT, r. l., September
IN Is up. - President Roose-
welt took hand in the
first Endeavour- Rainbow race for
the Americas Cup today.
AS the two yachts rounded the
weather mark, several vessels,
notably the destroyer Manley,
carrying newspaper camera men,
made too close to the challenger
so as to interfere with her wind.
President Roosevelt, who was
following the race from vantage
point aboard Vincent Astor's
yacht, Nourmahal. promptly radioed
a terse order to the Manley to
get out of the way.
The Presidents cryptic message
said: Are you challenging the
Endeavor?"
Evening star., 1934-09-16
! ETROIT, September Is
A fan phoned Nevin
Field from central North

ETROIT, september 10
A fan phoned Nevin
- Field from central North
Dakota today at $500
per minute and wrangled for 10
minutes over reservations for a
block of world series box ducats
at $3.50 each.
Already the Tigers ball yard is sold
out for the Forthcoming Yankee series.
Twenty-three thousand fans turned
out to see the hapless Grit1s today ana
80 900 are expected tomorrow.
The Detroit club already is well
over $500, 900 beyond its admissions
total at this stage last year, It's
said, and before they wind up the
regular season at home they are
likely TO lift the increase here alone
to S400, 900.
They are tearing down the left-fleld
fence and will build a temporary set
of bleachers to seat 1900 in the world
series.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Business Picks Up.

Business Picks UP.
YAVIN and Detroit haven't had
~ pennant winner In rs years,
which is q long, long time.
They've never had q world champion.
Up until this year only one Detroit
team in the last seven years finished
in the first division. And that was
fourth place.
But a stocky, broad-shouldered
catcher named Cochrane, who weeps
and fights at the same time; q long,
gawky hill-billy named Rowe. and
an ungainly, round-shouldered Jewish
giant named Greenberg have made
this town and State base ball goofy.
And shown Navin there is \ bet
ter investment than American
Melarkey, pref. or whatever he
sunk his dough On.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
COchrane Great Buy.

COchrane Great Buy.
THIS is not written to make Clark
Grifith's head ache, but to
show how wisely Frank Navin,
the poker-faced president Of the De-
troit club, gambled when he bought
Mickey Cochrane last Winter.
They even say Navin borrowed the
100 grand to buy Mickey from the
AS and the dough to send the club
South for tn training trip.
1t wasn't generally known out
side of base ball circles, but until
Cochrane's advent to Detroit this
town was just about on tn rocks.
Navin thought a couple of stocks
would prove a good investment and.
like a lot of other people, thought
wrong. He dropped, it is unoficially
reported, about q quarter Of mil
lion In one afternoon.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
CHAMPIONS SLIPS
AID DPACE-MAKERS.
Russell Pounded, Hurt by
Errors-Diggs, 18, Looks
Good on Mound.
BY FRANCIS Z. STAN,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

~ ETROIT, September 15.-The
lean, hit-thirsty Tiger. i'll
fed for nearly q week on in
digestible southpaw slabbing,
went on. a rampage today in Navin
Field and clawed and mangled the
fast-fading, -trodden Nationals
by q lopsided count Of IL to 2.
While $4,000 base ball goofy fans
howled with glee and cared little
that the game was but a travesty on
the national pastime, Detroit's slug
gers finally found their batting eyes,
definitely shook of threatening
slump and moved q step nearer the
American League pennant by pre-
serving their four and one-half game
lead over the Yankees.
Temporarily out of southpaws, q
slab species quite bothersome to the
league leaders, Manager Joe Cronin
tAACW OdSA 1NuooCAAt NCly AhuSA Va
orthodox persuasion, into the Tiger
pit today. 1t was like waving q red
flag in Q bulls face. The Tigers went
berserk, pounding 13 assorted hits
to all parts of the field.
Our side went q little berserk, too
but in a fashion quite pitiful to be-
hold. The Tigers only earned half of
the runs they amassed. The other
six were very generously contributed
by the Washingtons.
Errors Hurt Mats.
CLIF BOLTON threw himself O
| three-base error In the third
inning. enabling the Tigers to
forge to the front, 3 to 2, and in
various other stages Of the comedy
Jack Stone, Buddy Meyer. and Heinie
Manush gave brilliant, realistic exhi'
bitions of croquet wickets.
At the outset there was no inklins
of the farce that was to follow. While
Russell opened strongly, his mates
threatened to send Eden Auker, the
Tigers underhand ace, to the shower!
early. Pete Susko walked in the thirC
inning and a double by Bluege and 6
prodigous fly by Stone counted him
Myer also walked and Manust
doubled Bluege home.
That was all the Cronins accom-
plished extensively, however, the onl!
threatening gesture thereafter consist
ing of Bluege's arrival at third bas'
with two down in the fifth round.
But those Tigers, winners Of TIT
FIRST two games In this series on
gosh-awful scarcity Of hits and sweei
smiles from Lady Luck. were jus
starting.
A walk to Petey Fox and q shor
single by Auker started 'em in tn,
third, and then 10 Jo White buntes
in front Of the plate. Here BoltoI
made lot Of friends in Detroit. Gil
picked up the ball and threw it int
right field, Fox and Auker SCORING
and White romping to third, from
where he counted on q long fly b!
Charley Gehringer.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Gallery Against Little.

IAEfSE1AEG bIldl SAINT uIlSiiilllIlB
contraction on the immediate
job gained him the lack of good
will of th6 galleries. For strange
sight was seen out there today as Lit
tie stalked his way to the kill at the
twenty-ninth. The sight of staid
Boston gallery cheering wildly at Gold
mans efforts to stop the tide which
had turned against him, applauding
his every shot and enveloped in a
thick silence whenever Little made a
shot. There is no reason for it, for
lawson is as affable as any man of
the course. But he did not capture
the fancy of the gallery always with
the underdog, which was Goldman.
Only once during the final match
did the red-haired lad from Dallas
held lead. That came on the open
Ing hole of the match this morning,
when he holed bird to win. Lit
tie promptly wiped out that advantage
by winning the next hole in par. A
ren13rseless golfing machine. the pc
reurlial college student from San
Francisco covered the first nine in
S. which included an unplayable sty-
me at the seventh, to turn l up on
G'oldman's 81. He came home with
burst of speed over the last nine,
trouncing par by two shots for "a,
to lick up four holes when Goldman
suddenly developed a spell of wildness
from the tees. Little ended the morn
Ing round by canning 28-foot putt
fol- a bird on the eighteenth and went
to lunch up, with a SO against 76
for -ho Do1lae OF al Ia
leaves Goldman Far Behind.
ST,HE new champion took up his
task in the afternoon right
where he had stopped in the
morning, winning the nineteenth hole
witk q par, halving the twentieth and
losing the twenty-first to Goldman's
par to leave him up. But then he
CIT loose with burst of speed which
lett Goldman far in his wake, f1oun
dering for the halves he couldn't get
wl1A e Little turned loose barrage of
sUp,r-golf, which netted him three
brides in the next four holes A short
pitth spun up against the pin for
W nning birdie at the twenty second ;
he missed 4footer for a winning
a as the 425-yard twenty-third after
being bunkered And apparently
stuIlg by this departure from par,
he turned loose all the power Of his
bury shoulders on pin-splitting tee
She; the 290-yard uphill twenty-fourth
to End his tee shot a yard off the
green and win the hole with another
birdie.
A pin -clinging No iron shot and
B-foot putt for the birdie deuce
won him the twenty-flfth and he went
Q up with II to 60. This margin
seemed sufdcient. for he bagged no
more brides. They halved the eighth
tie twenty-sixth Of the match, split
the ninth with par As with both sink
ina S-foot puts and again halved
the tenth or twenty-eighth with pars
after both puts from Is feet had
barely missed the cup.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Is He Another Jones?

a. ND Lawson was crowned national
IN amateur champion out there on
the 5l0-yard eleventh, the
tF enty-ninth Of the match, when he
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Dark Secret Destroyed.

OaTk SccTct destroyed.
THERE was note of sadness
added to the program when the
brilliant career of Dark Secret,
owned by Mrs H. C. Phipps and Ogden
Mills, came to dramatic close at the
conclusion of the running of the
Jockey Club Gold Cup. The 5-year-
old son of Flying Ebony, the countrys
champion cup horse for the last two
years, won the 2-mile race by head
from William WoodWard's Faireno and
then broke down.
Dark Secret, driving through the
stretch, stepped across the line and
then nearly went to his knees as his
right foreleg snapped a little below
the knee.
Charley KurtSinger Immediately dis
mounted and an ambulance was called
in to take the horse back to the sta
bles, where he was destroyed.
The cup champion, coupled with
Faireno in the betting, was 1-to-10
chance to take the purse of $500.
Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Inlander was far
back, third and last.
After a delay of six minutes at the
post In the Futurity with the 200-to-1
shot, Shoeless Joe, causing most OF
the trouble. Rosemont, from VIII
liam du Pont, jr.'s Foxcatcher Farms,
jumped away to an early lead as
Starter George Cassidy sent the turf
youngsters away in good order.
Wins Going Away.
TINE Foxcatcher Flash's. margin
was not great, however, with
Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat
Eye taking up the chase. At the
half-mile post Rosemont still was
Continued on page B-14)
Evening star., 1934-09-16
No Threat by Endeavour.

"A T ONE time, about midway UP to
~ the windward mark, It appeared
the challenger was In threat
ening position, and she certainly was
no worse of than her poor start put
her.
However, the first time the con-
tenders gave an opportunity for an
accurate estimation Of their positions.
Rainbow had . lead Of about six
lengths.
The only exciting part of the con-
test was waged of Cuttyhunk. one of
the Elizabeth Islands. There they
fought q tacking duel, largely at the
instigation Of Sopwith, who probably
hoped, with his double head rig, to
wear down Rainbow's lead.
The double head sails Endeavour
was carrying may be handled quicker
than the big Genoa Rainbow wore,
when q yacht comes about.
This continued with no appreciable
change in the positions Of the two
yachts until Vanderbilt was ready to
point Rainbow's prov for the outer
mark. ........
Evening star., 1934-09-16
British Crew Slow.

THE contenders held 30 far of to
the southwark of their true
course that they converted the
last part Of the final leg into q reach.
Spinnakers were doused and denoas
reset and here again the expert SAIL
handling Of her crew came TO the de-
tenders aid.
Before Endeavour got her headsail
set, Rainbow had opened up O wide
lead and that lead stood when time
halted the contest
Conclusions drawn from an un-
finished race are likely to be sprinkled
with errors, but today's performance
tended to show to the satisfaction of
most observers that Endeavour Is DO
tentially as fast q craft rs Rainbow
but that she was not given as good
O chance rs the defender.
Aside from his poor start, sopwith's
searnanship was not open TO question
either.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Sopwith Slow Starter.

v VANDERBILT, Rainbow's skip
" per, has long been noted for
his ability to get good start.
and his first meeting with Sopwith
furnished no exception to the rule,
although today 1t was perhaps more
q matter Of Sopwith giving himself o
poor one.
Both shippers jockeyed about be-
hind the line before the starting sig
nal. but the invader to little purpose.
A minute or so before the start he
suddenly decided to shift from q dou-
bic head rig to big Genoa jib, such
as Rainbow was wearing. This took
considerable time and the big blue
invader lost almost all way.
The outcome was that Rainbow
went on on the port tack at one end
Of the line and Endeavour trailed
across at the opposite end OF the star
board tack Sc seconds later.
Rainbow soon came about to cover
Endeavour, and for q long time both
boats held on the starboard tack.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
U. s. Boat Leads at Turn.

THIS RAINBOW turned two minutes
and 46 seconds ahead Of En-
deavoIr.
tardy in breaking out her parachute
spinnaker for the run home before
the wind, she lost nothing by it. for
after Endeavour set hers, 1t refused
to draw and for a time the foot Of
1t trailed In the sea.
1t had not been set properly and
when Endeavour's crew got around to
hoisting 1t. about feet higher, where
1t should have been, the big kite be-
haved satisfactorily.
The breeze grew fainter on the way
home. with occasional pufs favoring
first one boat and then the other.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Rainbow Better Handled.

h&hnDOW DettcE Hdnuic0s
IF THE inconclusive contest proved
il anything, 1t was that Harold S.
Vanderbilt and his crew sailed a
better race than T. o. M. Sopwith. the
challenger, and his men. largely COM
posed Of recently recruited amateurs.
1t also appeared to show the in
vader is not so dangerous q contestant
In light airs as she was expected to
be. OF course 1t must be remembered
that q racing yachts performance in
impossibly light air has no real stand
ing. It Is what 1t can do in a
sailing breeze that decides yachting
contests.
Today's course represented o Is
mile beat to windward against o light
southeasterly breeze to a mark about
five miles west of No Mans Land and
return.
The breeze probably never exceeded
five or six knots and much of the
time the zephyrs were scarcely strong
enough to move the contenders.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

CONTINUED on page B-I4.l