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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-15
Fools "Old Fox at First

GRIFFITH was holding court one
fight UP in the ball park Office
Yesterday. sadly contemplating the
untimely shower which socked again
the Washington club exchequer by
raining out the third game Of the
ST. Louis series. Miles swing was
brought up.
THAT is what buffaloed me at first, -
admitted Griffith. Sure he swings
funny. In fact. it isn't swing at all.
Miles strokes at the ball.
Il first got a good look at him a
few weeks ago when I spent six or
seven days IN Chattanooga scouting
the kid myself, When Miles stroked
at the ball and popped up, lot Of
hopes went crashing down on my ears.
L thought TO myself: This kid
hasn't any power He doesn't even
take a cut at the ball.
Then. with the same stroke. he
put a ball over the fence the next
time up.
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BY the Associated Press.

by tNc ASSOCldtcu Ftces'
~ edmond, Va, July Is
u George Terrell, fence-bust-
IN ing outfielder Of the Rich
L y mond team of the Pied
mont League, spends his off-hours
asking a riddle which goes some
thing like this:
eff Brother Yves can pitch for
Boston and Brother Rick can
catch, why in the world doesn't
some enterprising big league mo-
gul make room for that other de-
serving Ferrell boy, George, who
can hit like nobody's business?"
He asked the conundrum again
after knocking his fifteenth home
run out of the park into the mud
dy James River for the league
leadership. When the statistics
were brought up to date the other
day, George. with q fat .4o7, was
leading all Of the Nations minor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-15
BUTCHER BRILLIANT
IN BETHESDA DEBUT
Holds Concords to Three Hits
in S.3 Victory-Rockville
Beats Cardinals.

MATTERS BUTCHER, who has been
w performing brilliantly for the
Chevy Chase Grsys. switched over to
the Bethesda A. c. yesterday and DOM
mated the show as his new club dealt
an s-to-3 licking to the Concord A. c.
at Garrett Park
Butcher held the Concords to three
hits, struck out IL batters and banged
out a home run, double and single In
four times up.
Rockville A. A. flashed a 14-hit at
tack to trim the Colesville Cardinals,
4 to !, in a game between two strong
contenders for the Montgomery County
unlimited crown. Tribby and E.
Hutchinson divided six Of the winners
blows.
Beckdorf limited Kensington A. c.
to four hits and the Silver Spring
Giants broke the five-eame winning
streak Of Charley Davidson's boys in
a ST. battle at Kensington.
Bethesda Firemen had little diff
Guilty disposing Of the Montgomery
County Police. Is to S. In game
opening an annual feud.
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"FIat Tire" Vets
Finally VictOrs

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 15.-The Flat
Tires beat the Broken Wings
Yesterday In a base ball game, IA
to 10. at Staten Island.
1t was the Flat Tires first vic
tory over the Broken Wings in five
years and gave them the 1885
championship Of World War Am
rutations Post. No. 1885, of the
American Legion.
The Flat Tires are men who lost
a leg in the service in France.
The Broken Wings each lost an
arm.
Just about II years ago. the
players recalled. the second battle
of the Marine began.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-15

Aha! The Answer.
"NOW, our club isn't great. We've
been weak on pitching, but that,
think, isn't as bad as it has looked
the first half Of the season.
For instance, we've had Buck New
son only for four starting games.
Now he's back and in great shape.
From now on, barring further injuries,
Buck ought to win regularly.
"Whitehill still II a good
pitcher and. now that he's
broken his jinx at last, he might
reel of a flock Of wins.
Hadley has been very good lately
and If the rest of the staff starts
winning there may be no stopping
Bump.
"Linke will win games If he can
continue to get the ball over the
plate. and especially If he can control
his new 'knuckler' Hayes and Cop
pola lack experience, but between 'em
they ought to turn in quite few
victories. Russell is going back to
relief work, and this may make o
difference in his work.
We've played exactly u
games. We have "a more to 70.
Why, back in 1912 I was man
aging Washington and we were
in last place on May 80. Eight
cen days later we were in first
place by two games.
mo, sir; don't concede anything"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-15
GRIFFMEN PLAY TODAY

Use Open Date to Meet Browns
in Postponed Contest.
Originally slated for an off day
today, the Nationals put their fishing
tackle away again, hung up bathing
suits and hied out to Griffith Stadium
for the third game of their series
with the Browns.
The game that was postponed by
rain yesterday was to be played today
instead. The Browns also will be here
tomorrow and Wednesday.
Earl Whitehill for Washington and
Sugar Cain for st. Louis were to do
the hurting today.
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"H1S average in the Southern Asso-
citation bears out the fact that
he can hit Moreover, he hits for
distance. He had II doubles, 10
triples and home runs when he left
Chattanooga, and the season wasn't
half over. I figured he would bear
watching so watching he got. And
I'm convinced that in spite of one of
the most peculiar batting strokes 1
ever have seen, the kids going to
make the grade He can't miss.
The nearest thing I've ever seen
to Miles form at bat has been Earl
Combs Of the Yankees. For years,
Combs, In my opinion. has been one
of the truly great batsmen of base
ball. Why. back in the days when
Ruth and Gehrig we're driving across
all those runs. who do you think was
equally as responsible? Combs, of
course.
He got on base by lining singles
end doubles all over the lot with a
stance and swing even more peculiar
than Miles. Combs has habit of
crouching with the pitch and drop
ping his shoulder. Ordinarily bat
ter hasn't any more chance of hitting
good drive this way than golfer
has when he drops his shoulder.
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GET FLYING STARTS
Squirrels and Cookoos Win First
Games in Soft Ball League.

The Squirrels and the Cookoos are
on top of the soft ball league of
Local 140, National Federation of
Post Office Clerks. today as a result
of victories in opening games played
yesterday. The Squirrels scored seven
runs in the third inning in out
smuggling the Giants, 10-7, while the
Cookoos broke a tie In the ninth to
score three runs and defeat the
Temps, II to 10.
Frank Morrison. secretary of the
American Federation of Labor. tossed
out the first ball. Music was furnished
by the Junior Drum Corps of Advance
Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-15
ROCKIES STRANGE
SWING DECEPTIVE.
"LookS Terrible" When He
Misses, but Youngster
Is Real Hitter.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

r UNCLE CLARK GRIFFITH. who
enjoyed last laughs on critics
who once viewed Cecil Travis
~ and Cliff Bolton as couple of
minor league stick demons and moth
ing more, is getting ready for another.
This one, Griff hopes, will be on the
critics and fans who took first look
at Outfielder Dee Miles and wagged
their heads sadly.
Miles. like his Chattanooga prede-
cessors who made good. came up from
the minors with reputation of being
able TO swat minor league pitching.
He wasn't renowned AS fielder.
Neither were Travis and Bolton. But,
unlike the kid third-sacker and the
stocky catcher. Miles didn't impress
Capital critics with his bat at all.
He swings" remarked one, recall
ing his sandlot jarcon. like rusty
sate." And this seemed to be the
general sentiment.
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Homer Standing

BY the Associated Press.
Home runs yesterday-Gehrig, Yam
KEGS. l; Hale, Indians, 1; Klein, Cubs
/: Whitney, Braves, /: Cuccinello
Dodgers, /; Herman, Reds, 1.
The leaders-Greenberg, Tigers, 26;
OFT. Giants, 19; Johnson. Athletics,
10; J. Collins, Cardinals, Is.
League totals-American, 1888; Ma
tional, 387.
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C Has Laugh Miles Critics. Cards
THE SPORTZICHT
Sports Full of Hard.Luck Champions
Whose Mistakes Are Rarely Forgotten.
BY GRANTLAND RICE

He won often with Man o War and
with Sir Barton, and he rode so well
that he might have been the Babe
Ruth of jockeys In sporting history,
except for that August Is.
Tony and Alex.
Or TONY LAzzERI. Maybe you
don't even remember that Tony
had an August 13 all his own. His
August Is was the second Sunday In
October, 1925. and the Yanks were
playing the Cardinals and Tony was
at the plate. The score in games was
three-all, the situation two out, the
bases loaded and the Cardinals lead
ing, 3 to 2.
Tony just couldn't see what Grover
Alexander threw past him. but ne
heard strike three" and for seasons
the Yankee fans reiterated it.
It is to the credit of Mr. Lazzeri that
he has almost outlived that terrible
cry.
Roy Riegels? He ran the
wrong way for touchdown and
made the movies look sick with
the drama he packed into that
70-yard sprint.
1t was toward his own goal line,
which was just one foot away when
Benny Lom, the California halfback,
tackled his own pal, the California
captain-elect.
Riegels has married and settled
down at Pomona, Calf. where he
coaches the Pomona Junior College
foot ball team and is a proud father.
But it stays with him, Identifies him,
that heart breaking run he made in
the Tournament of Roses game, which
he lost for his team to the Rambling
'Recks from Georgia Tech. to 7.
Movies of the run proved beyond
question that Riegels, spun about
three times by tackles, actually lost his
bearings, and, in the excitement Of
eight or nine seconds. cut his name
into the minds OF millions who still
say. "Oh. yes. he's the guy who ran
the wrong way"
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7 EW YORK, July l1.-"Well.
that boy has been right be-
! hind me for quite a while"
' said Jesse Owens solemnly.


4 said Jesse Owens solernnly.
Looks like he caught up"
Mr.. Owens was referring to his
black shadow, Eulace Peacock. who
not only caught up with Mr.. Owens
during the last month, but passed
him frequently and with great nom
chalance. Mr. Owens spoke Of Mr.
Peacock in a grave voice. with over
tones Of forgiveness and Christian
charity.
Hes a good runner" said Jesse.
Yes Good jumper. too. Ever see
him run? Yes? Well. he's got an easy
stride and a good, strong finish. Looks
like he'll give me a lot of trouble
holding those records. But he don't
give me no trouble on the track !
mean, up in that Canada race. there
was no rushing. Nothing like that
No elbow"
Result Honest. SAYS Owens.
THE Cleveland comet was speaking
= of a sprint in Ontario last week
when the sininster Peacock. making
his final charge in the stretch. seemed
to the bystanders to be jostling Mr.
Owens just a trif1e as he passed on
to win. But Jesse says no. Accord
ing to Jesse. there is nothing f1ukey
at least nothing terribly f1ukey about
the way Mr.. Peacock has been pass
ing him Of late,
"Of course" said Mr.. Owens,
I'm a little worn down. you
know. Been doing q lot Of
running this Summer.
Looks like I might lay off now and
take a little rest. Pretty soon, any
way"
Setting down Is Mr.. Owens bounden
duty. now that he is married man.
But marriage will not slow him down
on the track. The men of Ohio State
are not going to let little thing like
marriage come between them and the
best athletic bargain Of the year.
AS for JeSse's recent defeats by the
Peacock person. they can be explained
in two ways.
Hes a good runner" said
Jesse, land he caught me after
done my best work for the
year.
You know, q man has only
got so many record Jumps and
record sprints in his system for
one season."
But Mr.. Owens believes that the
27-foot broad jump is sure to be
achieved in the near future, either
by himself or another Of the highly
promising school of Negro leapers. He
doesn't try to account for the sue
cess of Negroes-Gourdin. Buffers.
Hubbard. Tolan, Metcalte, Ward,
Cornelius johnson, Ben johnson. him.
self. Peacock-in the field Of sprint
ing and jumping.
Owens Smooth Runner.
DOP WARNER, who has had
L chance to study Eulace Peacock
at close range, says that the dark
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MILES isn't quite as radical as
4'A Combs. He Is cross between
Combs and Joe Judge at bat, as far
as style goes. For years I used to
get mad at Joe and accuse him Of
not taking cut at the ball. When
he popped up and grounded out he
looked bad. But with the same swing
Joe could rattle the right-field fence
with any of 'em.
George Sisler, I think, was the
greatest batter in the history of the
American League. And George never
was model swinger. He snapped
at the ball, but he got his base hits.
Don't sell this Miles short because
he looks bad at bat few times. I'll
be frank. When he misses the ball
Miles will look like the biggest bum
in the world. He'll look terrible
awful.
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f1eld OF sport than IL Is any
where else.
When Mac Smith tied for the United
States open In 1910 at the age OF 20.
he seemed to have st least five crowns
waiting for his rare skill in the course
of the next Is years. He was still
striking for his first at Muirfleld this
week.
The hard luck champions are the
ones remembered longer than most OF
the others. Many of their slips or
mistakes we're bsyc end control. Most
Of them came lust where the spotlight
was shining at is brightest.
And. as the eminent AvOnian
once remarked. 1.-The evil that
men do lives after them" 1he
good Is forgotten In much
greater hurry.
Take Dave Barry, referee OF the
famous Dempsey Tunney scrap in
Chicago, whose long count. will De his
affinity until ne dies. Dave was in
the news last week again. He was
convicted of embezzlemerft conspiracy
involving Chicago bank ana ne
faces prison term. Maybe the
Dempsey Tunney nickname had
something to 10 with it.
That was humping situation Barry
faced in Chicago that September ~
in 1927, when he counted beyond 10
over Tunney wnIie S2.650 900 worth
of customers ate their hats. The
greatest sporting event of the year
,and possibly of all time), tine most
exciting moment III the history of
boxing, the faYoilte tiger who could
not keep away from his fallen prey,
and Dave Barry had to act in that
bedlam Even & Barry goes TO Joliet
he will be greeted by his fellows along
the gray upper tiers with Hi, Long
Count"
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Another Tough One.

OR JOHNNY LoFTUS-"the man
~ who rode Man O. War in the only
race he ever lost" That fatal day at
Saratoga. that August Is lit had to
be the 18th in 1910 when Man o.
War broke in tight quarters, was re-
peatedly interfered With and finally
was forced wide, to lose to Upset land
1t had to be horse of that name).
Two seasons later. John Fat
rick LOTUS was through as
jockey. although he had been
one Of the greatest Of all time.
Now. at 80. YOU never hear
about him any more.
He owns his own home in Belmont
Park, N. Y; tries to forget that he
was alive on August 10, 1919. and
wishes. as he probably has wished very
often, that he could go back and skip
that whole day-all of it.
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MOUNT RAINIER WINS.

Mount Rainier Grays nosed out the
Takoma Tigers by 9 to 8. Scott,
Liggett. Merkle and Monkey collected
three hits apiece for the Grays.
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CALL TRUCE, PLAY
TO CATCH GIANTS
Winning Streaks WhittIe
Leaders Edge to six.
Lyon Blanks Yanks.
BY HUGH q. FULLERTON, Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

TIME st. Louis Cardinals and Chi.
cago Cubs apparently have
called truce in their warfare
at least until their next
series-while trying to chip a few
games off the Giants National League
lead.
Instead of slamming each other
down at regular intervals, these two
clubs have stepped of on q pair Of
notable winning Streaks and already
have succeeded in cutting the New
York margin TO six games.
The second-place Cards. by vallop-
ing the Phillies twice yesterday in
celebration OF the official hosting of
the 1884 world championship pennant,
extended their string of victories to
ten straight TO equal Detroit's high
mark for Tire season.
The largest crowd of the ST. Louis
season, $4,000, turned out to see the
Cards take a pair of easy victories.
S to / and 10 to / behind the master
full finging Of Paul Dean and Bill
Walker.
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Left Fielders Lead OF.

THE lead-of hitters with 100 or more
safe blows. by coincidence. are
all left fielders-Augie Galan Chicago
Cubs: Joe Moore, New York Giants,
and Rip Radcliff, Chicago White Sox.
A table Of the hitters. giving their
positions in the batting order. totals
SO far this year and final totals of
1884 follows:
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International.

Syracuse, Al; Baltimore, 80.
Montreal, "A; Newark, 40.
Rochester, go; Albany, IA.
Buffalo, IL: Toronto, 4.
Valley.
Harrisonburg, 3; Orange, o.
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Cubs Win Seventh In Row.

THE Cubs bowled over the cellar
dwelling Braves. TO s, for their
seventh straight triumph as Fronk
Demaree smacked out three hits, drove
in four runs and scored two Tex
Carleton, relieving Lon Warneke,
gained his tenth victory in eleven
starts against Boston in Two seasons.
Meanwhile the Giants, suffering
from a shortage of pitchers. took
4-to-2 setback from Pittsburgh as Cy
Blanton held them to six hits. while
three reserve fingers. Al Smith. Allya
Stout and frank Gabler. failed TO
check the Braves.
The Reds. who have been doing a
little winning on their own account,
moved into fifth place with a double
triumph over Brooklyn, 9 to 4 and 4
TO 2, to sweep the five-game series.
With the aid of the clouting Ath-
letics, the Yankees managed to stave
off one threat to their American
League lead by splitting double
header with the Chicago White SoX
while the AS turned back the second
place Tigers, to 3, in 10 innings.
That increased the Yankee lead to
Ia games.
Gehrig's Homer Wins.
TED LYONS, Chicago veteran,
BANKED the league leaders with
five hits as the Sox won the opener.
to 0, and gained his tenth victory.
but Johnny Broaca bested three Sox
hurlers in the afterpiece and won. 5
to 4. as Lou Gehrig's fourteenth homer
supplied the odd tally.
The Red Sox reduced Clevelands
fourth-place margin to single per-
centsge point by winning the opener
of their twin bill, IA to 3, betting out
10 hits, while Yves FeTell gave o for
his fourteenth victory Of the season.
They muffed a chance 10 move into
the first decision when the SUNDAY
sports "curfew" halted the second en-
counter At $50 with the count tied,
%, after 10 innings.
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Season Half Done, Criff
Not Ready to Give
Up Flag Hope.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

another outfielder to play right field.
What have they got in the way Of
pitching outside of Yves Terrell and
Lefty Grove?"
Griff skipped the As. He
has said all along that Connie
Mack had the best team in the
league outside Of pitching. But
hurting happens to be any
where from so to 80 per cent
of a ball club. and on the slab
the As are nil.
So that would bring him down to
the Northumberland the original ques-
ton.
It did.
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Other Historic Sims.

Fred Merkle was on first base Sep
TENDER %, 1908. when Bridwell singled.
Merkle dashed for second, but his eye
was caught by Mccormick. who was
racing home with the pennant-win-
ming run. Merkle never reached sec
ond.
He cut across lots in his rap
ture at that $1,000 bonus that
was now his.
Johnny Evers was jumping up and
down on second base yelling for the
ball. He got it and Henry Hank
ODay jerked his thumb skyward. Not
one fan in 10 who we're already on the
Polo Grounds turf knew until they
read it the next morning that Merkle
was out and the Giants were not in.
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THIRTEEN bATTERS
PASS 10I)-H|T MARK
Myer Far Ahead Of His "a
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Leads
All With 116.
BY the Associated Press.


~HICAGO, July 15.-Thirteen
players, seven in the Ameri-
can League and six in the
- National, already have COL
lected 100 or more safe hits this sea-
son.
Proof Of the strategy Of managers
in placing the right hitters in the
right spots in the batting order Is
shown in the list of the century hit
tiers. Three Of them are lead-o1 men.
three others bat second, flve bat third
and two operate In the cleanup role.
Joe Medwick. cleanup man for the
world championship St. Louis Cardi-
mails. tops the field with 116 hits,
good for a batting average of 1863.
Roger Cramer of the Philadelphia
Athletics tops the American League
and ranks second to Medwick with
ia. six Of which he collected in six
successive trips to the plate last week
TO tie the modern record,
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SPoRTSCoPE
w WHETHER Clark Griffith,
A alias Ye Olde Foxe. alias
wv the David Harum of base
ball, alias the Mayor OF

wv the David Harum of base
ball. alias the Mayor OF
Florida Avenue. convinced himself
too. Is a matter of speculation. But
what Uncle Clark did do today was
to rekindle for a few inquisitive gents
some faint hopes.
80 today is exactly the halfway
mark of the season for the Washing
ton club?" he was repeating. And
do concede the pennant?"
Before answering he lit the in
evitable fiat stogie, and even then
didn't come right out.
First of ALL" the old gentle
man began, Il want to say this
years race in the American
League Is the most wide-open
affair I've ever seen. There isn't
real good ball club in the
league. Every one has its weak
spots.
Rowe No Help to Tigers.
THE Yanks aren't great. If their
= pitching ever boys down-and
IL looks as UnOugn new IOrk plUCnlng
Is doing that right now-they're not
going to be good team. The Yanks
can lose or 10 in row as easily
as Washington did-easier, If any,
thing, because they can't hit like our
club.
The Tigers were not great
club last year and they're not
even as good this season as last.
Schoolboy Rowe, 1 allus said,
was crooked arm pitcher
and wouldn't stay up at the top
for many years. He's going
bad already, il seems.
THE Indians are full of weak spots.
Out of their own ball park they're
Just another ball club.
1.-THE White Sox have been playing
over their head all season. They
don't figure to stay that good or, at
least, get any better. That's a cinch.
Jimmy Dykes has been getting lot
of great pitching out Of Ted Lyons
this season.
Pitchers Eliminate Athletics.
ZOE CRON1N'S Red Sox aren't
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Pitchers Eliminate Athletics.

ZOE CRONIN'S Red Sox aren't
great. We're starting to throw
Werber curve balls now and he's not
banging 'em out Of the lot. Dahlgren
isn't q. big league hitter. They need
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League Statistics
MONDAY, JULY Is, 1898.
American
RESULTS YESTERDAY

St. Louis at Washington, rain.
Chicago. 81: New York, 0--5
Philadelphia. 4; Detroit 8 40 inninss)
Boston, 14-2; Cleveland. 30 Second
game called end of 10th. Sunday law).
STANDING OF THE CIVBS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-15

.HE world Is full Of hot spots
and hard luck champions. But
the harvest is thicker In the
L field of sport than 1t is any
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WON EMS
JUNIOR
DIV Nc
CHAMPIONSHIP