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Evening star., 1936-09-05
BALTIMORE GETS IN
INT. LOOP PLAY.0FF
Clinches Fourth Place Beating
Albany-Cup Series Opens
Next Wednesday.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
IT'S all over but the shouting-and
L the play-offs-for most of the In
ternational Leagues clubs.
The Baltimore Orioles made 1t Ger
tain that they will compete in the
post-season series for the Governors
Cup and the right to represent their
circuit against the American Asso-
citation winner when they whipped
the last-place Albany Senators, 81,
last night.
Since Buffalo previously had clinched
the pennant, that settled the four
play-off participants, with Newark
and Rochester in the middle, still
far from reaching . decision as to
which will take second place and
which third.
At the same time the play-or plans
were announced from league head
quarters, calling for each play-down
series to be decided on q basis Of four
victories out Of seven games. The
play-offs will start Wednesday, Sep
tember 9, two days after the end of
the regular season.
Buffalo, Is first-place team, will
oppose whichever team takes third,
while Baltimore will hook up with the
second-place outfit. The two winners
then will meet In Q similar series.
In each case the club with the higher
standing gets the choice Of grounds
for the first two games.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

anyway. It shows people that your
laundry does such a good business 1t
hasn't time to fool around with a
lot of base bail uniforms"
Hi, skipper" doomed shanty.
Say. forgot to tell you, but when
I came down here Bill Cissell told me
to give his regards. You remember
Bill"
Bucky said, Sure. Thanks" Then
Ben Chapman came up to comb his
hair in the mirror next to Harris
locker.
"Sington and I both hollered
for that fly that dropped safe."
Ben said, "only we both yelled
at the same time and neither
Of us heard the other. II we
hadn't been four runs ahead
might have kept going for 1t,
but who In hell wants to crash
into Sington?"
That was about the only point
agreed upon unanimously. When
Tuffy Leemans gets back Griff could
fill the ball park by letting Tuffy run
at Sington and showing people what
happens.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
HENS HELPLESS AT BAT
Held to Lone Hit in so Defeat by
Trenton Soft Ballers.

Their batting attack throttled by
the sone-hit pitching of Jackie Fried
man, the Ehrlich Poultry soft ball
team District champions, bowed to
the Trenton Democratic Club, 30,
last night at Grimth Stadium.
Although Abe Rosenfield granted
but five safeties, his mates COM
mttted five errors in the fourth in
ming to allow the Maryland cham
pions their margin of victory. Fried
man struck out 18 Of the ~ men
whom he faced in the seven-inning
game.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
AVER|LL, MEDW|CK
REMAIN IN FRONT.
WeatherIy, Mize Fall Back
in Races for Big-Time
Batting Honors.
By the Associated Press.

N YEw YORK. September S.
nj Havoc created among the bat
~ ting leaders by the stretch
L ' drive shock up the lists Of
first 10 hitters in each league this
week, but failed to unseat the lead
ers, Earl Averill Of the Indians and
Ducky Medwick Of the Cardinals.
Although Averill dropped nine points
to .375, he held onto the American
League pace simply because Lou
Gehrig, the Yankee slugger, was in
q slump and skidded 13 percentage
points to 1858. in second place.
Medwick was among the least af-
fected, and held his 1866 average dur
ing the week to top the National
League, while Paul waner Of the
Pirates pulled up to second place with
1858, and Johnny Mize, the Cardinal
rookie, who was second last week,
sank ell the way to nth with .355.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Ringer Champion Defies Frye
Allen Wants Return Match With Star Tourney
Winner Who Beat King of Twirlers.

Here was an opportunity to pick
up an extra few bucks.
Allen got the berries. right
enough-they take UP q hat col
lection for horseshoe champs on
exhibition-and Ted got something
else, entirely unlocked for.
In short, he got a neat shell
lacking.
If there's one thing that Ted Al
len relishes more than o tight
horseshoe battle it's two Of the
same. So he's hankering for q re-
turn engagement with the Orkney
Springs Deadpan.
It very likely will take place
after The Star tournament, which
will require about two weeks to run
OF, with the Washington, Mary
land and Virginia qualifying rounds
opening next Tuesday night. Allen,
he writes, has an open date on
September 30. If the match Is
made It probably win be held here.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Line-Ups Are Given.

TEAMING with Hitchcock, who
plays No. 3 for the defending
champions, are G. H. (Pete) Bost-
wick, the little No. player; Gerald
Balding, the Irish internationalist, at
No. 2. and John Hay (Jock) Whitney,
the team captain, at back. It is ex-
actly the same quartet which won
the title a year ago and opened its
defense with two lopsided victories
over strong opposition within the last
week.
Templeton, captained by Winston
Guest, who plays back, includes
Michael Phipps. Jimmy Mills and
Stewart Iglehart. Mills is the only
one who didn't play against the
British.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
ShOne With Weak Club.

NDlSF y 1EDL1 IN Ine llrSI ulfl-
sion this morning as result Of
7-to-3 victory over the AS in the
opener Of the current four-game series
yesterday, the Nationals now are in
fair position to experiment with
Phebus. In the first place, unless they
lose the spell they have over the AS.
they figure to win the series even If
Phebus is beaten and, Of course, there
is no better club than Philadelphia to
offer a rookie a chance to get away
vinging in his major league career.
Looking back over Phebus' record
with Albany there are noted hearten-
ing signs Of ability. Although he did
not join the Albany team until the
second week in May, Phebus had won
almost one-third of the total victories
scored by the Washington farm" in
the International League. Ray won
13 games for Albany, which was cred
tied with only SO wins up to Septem-
Der 3. The team never was higher
than sixth place, spent most of the
time in seventh, and now and then fell
into the cellar. Not for one month
did Albany play as much as 400 ball.
Thus Phebus' record of 13 victories
as against II defeats for a team with
q $3.50 percentage stamped him as one
Of the most promising pitchers in the
International League and significant
was the fact that he did particularly
well against first-division teams. He
beat the second-place Newark Bears
IN two of three starts and was beaten
in the third by 1-to-0 score. Once,
when i'll, he beat the league-leading
Rochester team with five hits; twirled
. five-hitter against Buffalo in its
bandbox park. and scored two 2-1,
a0-inning decisions over Baltimore.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Griffs Shake Chisox.

THE Senator's took over sole possess
sion of fourth place from the
White Sox in yesterdays curtailed
program by trouncing the Athletics,
7-3, behind Buck Newsom's effective
hurting, while the Chicago contend
ers were idle.
In the only other battle on the
major league front-for every one
else had scheduled day off-the
Chicago Cubs picked up half a game
on the National League pace-setters.
the Giants and the Cardinals. Larry
French returned to his top form and
shut out the Pirates with seven hits,
while his mates dubbed out an 80
win. This pulled the Cubs up just
half game of the second place held
by the Gas House gang and four and
one-half back of the Galloping Giants.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Bucky Pitches and Ducks.

A REPORTER asked about Hogan.
Isn't he ever gonna get out
fitted?"
I'VE tried to do it for today's game"
said Harris. Joe Cambria took two
uniforms and went all the way to Bal
timore to have 'em sewn together.
When he brought it in today it was
bigger than our tarpaulin, and 50 we
sent 1t down to have 'em cut it down.
When it came back it would have been
too small for Mickey Mouse.
"Doggone 1t, too, but I wanted to
catch Hogan on ladies' day. Shanty
finally got in the tight uniform and
he bent down to see how much lee
way he had. All of a sudden 1t went
rip and, blooey. there went the seat
of the pants"
THAT would have been nice
out on the field, especially on
ladies' day." somebody dryly OBJ
served. "'Sposc, too, Hogan
didn't know about IT,"
Don't worry about that" said
Bucky. "You could hear the rip all
over the club house"
Bucky took time out to tell q kid
pitcher to report the next day for
batting practice duty. Harold Conn
is all tuckered out" he told him.
"You two split it up, so 1t won't be 80
tough"
Look" he added, returning
to the general conversation and
showing an angry = looking
bruise on his knee.
IT got that from trying to pitch
batting practice myself. was sup
posed to be pitching only to the pitch
ers, but the first thing knew Miles
had muscled up there and hit liner
back at me. Then Stone whtstled .
couple around my head and beat It,"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
See Slab Hope in Pebs Di Mag Sn,oots Yanks Flag
ROOKIE UNDERGOES'
TEST TOMORROW.
Hurler to Face AS Starred
With Weak AIbany-FaSt
Ball PIeaSeS.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

HANTY HOGAN finally was
poured into Washington uni
form today and now that the
- fuss and furore over this new
conner from Albany has died down for
the present, it might be good idea to
pause a moment and ponder the pos
sibilities of his travelling mate from
the International League-William
Raymond Phebus.
OF the pair, Phebus probably will
play bigger part than Hogan in the
future of the Nationals, first, because
he is a youngster, and, secondly, be-
cause Ray is a pitcher. What kind
of a big-league possibility he is, OF
will be, will be learned in part TO-
morrow, when Bucky Harris unveils
him in one of the games with the
Athletics.
The husky. blond hurler. Is years
old and no unusual size, had no trou-
bic finding a uniform to fit him, la
Hogan, and so Harris has been able
to look him over since Phebus and
Shanty arrived. What he has seen SO
far has been encouraging for Phebus
has shown a good fast ball and gives
some promise Of developing a curve,
slab weapon he has lacked.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Homer Standings
BY the Associated Press.

Yesterdays homers-Foxx, Red
Sox, /; Lazzeri, Yankees. /.
The leaders-Gehrig, Yankees,
AZ: Foxx, Red Sox, So; Trosky, In
dians. 36: OFT, Giants, %: Di Mag
gio, Yankees, IS; Averill, Indians,
%; Berger. Bees, %.
League totals-American, 664;
National, sal; total, 1,185.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Bulge Plays McDiarmid.

IN THE upper bracket remained
Fred Perry, the English favorite.
who won in the second round from
Ernest sutter of New Orleans, e6.
60, 6-1; Mako, Sidney Wood Of
New York, Jacques Brugnon and
Pierre Pelizza Of France, Bobby Riggs.
the Los Angeles youngster. and Bryant
Grant of Atlanta.
Don Bulge OF Oakland, Calf.
leading American hope, had to con-
tend with John McDiarmid, Prince
ton; Yvon Petra and Bernard Des-
tremau. France; Frankie Parker,
Spring Lake, N. j., and Gregory
Mangin, New York. Bulge had q
surprisingly hard match yesterday
in beating Gardner Mulloy OF Miami,
+6, 60, 60, 81.
In the women's championship three
seeded players were grouped in the
lower bracket with Miss Bundy, Alice
Marble, Gracyn Wheeler Of Santa
Monica, Calf. and Helen Petersen
of Stamford, Conn. Helen Jacobs. the
defending champion, was in the
harder bracket with Kay Stammers
of England, Mrs. Mary Greet Harris
of Kansas City. Mrs. Marjorie Glad
man Van Ryn Of Philadelphia and
Caronn Babcock Of Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
LEGION TITLE STAKE
Los Angeles, Spartanburg Mines
Meet in Rubber Game.

SPARTANBURG. S. c.. September
S R.-Los Angeles and Spartanburg
mines. all even In four tits. squared
OF here today for the American
Legion junior little world series"
championship.
Although outhit. 1876, Los Angeles.
Western champions. made every hit
count for a run yesterday as they
nosed out the Eastern title holders,
5-4. Five Spartanburg miscues played
havoc with its hopes.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
BATTING IN RUNS
JOE'S SPECIALITY
Expensive Rook Apt to Top
WeatherIy as Leading
Youngster of Year.
By GEORGE CHADWICK.

n YEw YORK, September 5.-Ths
nj New York Yankees are head
" ed for the American League
L pennant. Only a general
breakdown of the Mccarthy machine
will keep the Ruppertmen out Of the
Fall classic.
For this reason no little credit for
the feat Of the club will be attributed
to the fine work of Joe Di Maggie,
the high-priced San Franciscan.
Stepping in as first-year man and
making good in the field and at bat
was an undoubted factor in the gen.
eral run Of things. Di Maggie was
nominated to perform as one Of the
all-stars of the American League last
July. Joe was a terrific bust. In
fact, he was pointed out as the goat"
Of the big event.
Had the Italian taken the boos to
heart. as was expected when he kept
to himself and seemed to brood over
the affair. 1t is questionable if he
would have been any use to his club
for the remaining games of the
season.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press.

Buck Newsom, Senators Stopped
Athletics with nine hits.
Tony Lazzeri, Yankees - Hit
homer with two on base in 9-6
win over Red Sox.
Larry French, Cubs-Shut out
Pirates with seven hits.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Totals :
Philadelphis
Washington

Runs batted in--Dean (2). Stone t2).
sinst9n. Neysom. ch.Pmnn; ch.Pmnanv; T4sxi: Lewis.
Stone, Dean. Three base hit-Chapman.
Stolen base.Kuhsl Double playsLNeV.
FSilsdelpRis. Shs II: w.shinston. 8. Base
on bsils..On Ross. Il; on Newsom. g.
Hits@oH Lisenbee. b In inninss; OF
Ross. 8 In innings: on Flythe 9 IN
wnnnas lnnins pitcher
-Lisenbee Umpires-Messrs. Bash. Nc
oowan and Ormsby. Ttme-2:o6.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Play for Waterbury Gun.

TEMPLETON has the higher handi-
cap rating Of the two, 50 goals
against Greentree's 30, but the bril-
liant play Hitchcock has displayed In
the early rounds is expected to 60 q
long way toward balancing the scales.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
SOX PLAY PARMELLES.

Virginia White Sox diamonders. who
will clash with the Parmelle A. G.
tossers tomorrow at 2:30 O'Clock ut
Bailey's Cross Roads. will journey to
Fairfax Station Monday to play the
Fairfax Station nine at 3 o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Weatherly on Skid.

freshman and American League
leader two weeks ago, found the
going even tougher, and slipped from
third to eighth at 1854. showing the
biggest drop Of the week-15 points.
The leading 10 hitters in each
league:
Evening star., 1936-09-05

EADPAN RAY FRYE,
holder of the Metropoli-
tan Washington horseshoe
championship, which he
will defend in The Evening Star
tournament which starts next
week, Is in receipt Of an unusual
challenge.
1t comes from none other than
the world champion, Ted Allen, Of
Alhambra, Calf.
Allen, as king Of 'em al, isn't
used to flinsing challenges and In
this instance the greatest hoss s-shoe
flipper probably In the history Of
the game isn't inspired solely by
the coin that would accrue from
. match with Frye.
Some time back Allen, en- route
to Florida for . series OF exhibi-
tions, dropped on ct Orkney
Springs, Va, where, he'd learned.
there was . ringer thrower. with
something more than . local repu-
tAHon. named Frye.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Base Ball.

TODAY.
Base Ball.
Philadelphia VS.. Washingtons
Grifhth Stadium, 3.
Tennis.
Army-Navy Club women's Fan In
vitation tournament, Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Detroit Passed Him I'm.

UNOFFICIAL figures reveal that
Phebus worked in 80 games, COM
pleted Is tilts, pitched two shutouts
and twirled 213 innings, allowing 1873
hits, 116 passes and tanning Ill
batters
II Phebus makes the grade with the
Griffs 1t will have been a feat accom-
plished after two Chattanooga
and Detroit-had let him go this sea-
son. The Tigers drafted Ray last
Fall from Chattanooga, which had just
purchased him from Davenport of the
Western League. Last April the Ben
gals returned him to Chattanooga
and the Lookouts, after he had been
knocked out of the box in his first
start, shipped him to Albany.
The Nationals. Phebus or no PhebuS,
seem pretty intent on going places
while the going-agaipst the A'+is
good. That was their fourteenth VIC
tory in 10 games with the Macks yes
terday and it served to gain ground
on all top teams except the Yankees,
who no longer interest anybody ex-
cept the Yankees. While the White
Sox idled the Griffs broke their
fourth-place tie and jumped into the
first division, also approaching to
within half q game of third place
and two games Of second place. Both
defenders Of these positions, Detroit
and Cleveland, also idled yesterday.
L. - - D-k
DUCK NEWSOM was credited with
his sixteenth pitching victory of
the season, but while he did a cred
liable Job the Washington hitters, led
by Ben Chapman again, stole the
show for the ladies' day crowd of
5000. Maintaining his terrific bat
ting pace, Chapman hit two singles
and Q triple, scored three runs and
drove across what proved to be the
winning run, and once raced all the
way from first to third base on
wild pitch.
Newsom, who gave up nine hits and
six passes, was embroiled in close
slab duel with Horace Lisenbee until
the NTH inning. With the score tied,
S-3, Blushing Buck singled to open
the nth and Chapman tripled him
home. scoring moment later him
self on Buddy Lewis hit.
The other Washington runs were
made in the seventh inning, when
Lee Ross was pitching. Chapman and
Kuhel singled and Stone, swapping
out Of his slump yesterday, doubled
to finish the scoring.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Shows Real Spirit.

M MAGGIO showed his stuff by
overcoming the jeers of the fans
and playing along in steady fashion
until he had drowned his bitter spirits
and went on to excite the fans into
cheering him Justify.
Di Maggie will get the call as the
prize rookie Of the league in the East.
Not so in the West, where Roy
Weatherly Of the Cleveland Indians
has been playing several positions in
the outfeld and keeping pace with
Veteran Earl Averill and outbatting
Joe Vostnik.
Weatherly may not gain the rec
ognition of Di Maggie There are
several good reasons for this suppose
ton. One is that the Yankee star
has played in 40 more games than
his rival, has batted in more runs and.
on the average, has come through with
better percentage of hits. Runs bat
ted in tell the story of a good batter.
Runs win ball games. Not hits. There
is nothing to be gained by hitting in
front of batter unless a succeeding
batter sends you around for counter.
Di Maggio Gets Runs Over.
IT Is something real. and more to
the point in the final result, If
one hits behind a runner and sends
him scampering across the pan with
q needed run. Di Maggie has done
this frequently and kept pace with the
sluggers of his clan with such effect
that many consider his timely blows
a needed stimulant in the terrific
pressure the Yankees have placed on
rival clubs to keep them out of first
place.
The race has three weeks to run.
There is no pressure on the Yanks
other than to maintain the big lead
they have. With the Indians it Is
different. They have a fight on their
hands to finish as good as second.
Di Maggie can relax and play ball
his usual way. Weatherly must be
on his toes all the way through. The
relative ability Of the youngsters,
based on the records at this time, give
Di Maggie q decided edge over his
Cleveland rival.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Joe to UnveiI Screwbau.

WHO'S pitching tomorrow" an
w other reporter asked, and
Bucky nodded to Cascarella. Little
joe" he said. II bet he's got some
thing up his sleeve"
YEAH" said Joe, "a dead arm"
"Cascarella says he's got a screw
ball he's gonna unveil," said Bucky.
Maybe we got another Hubbell."
81 had the screwban all
along" explained Joe, "only
never used it In . game"
THAT means you haven't got it,
then" snapped Bucky. "Where've
you been hiding it?"
well, pitched SO little with Bos-
ton that I was afraid I'd get a sore
arm twisting my arm and wrist one
way for curve and the other way
for the screwball. I've been afraid to
use it here on account of the games
I've pitched have been too close to
take any chances. If I find the right
spot. I'll use against the AS. wait and
See"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Win 10 Out of IL.

THE Yanks have minded so little,
in fact. that they have come
through the hard times with a record
OF 10 victories in their last IL starts.
including clashes with the Tigers,
White Sox, Indians and Red Sox.
Winding up with a S-6 victory over
the Boston Red Sox yesterday, on
the strength of Tony Lazzeri's homer
with two mates aboard, and despite
Jimmy Foxx's thirty-sixth four Dagger
of the season. the Rupert rifles
climbed 1712 games out in front of
their nearest rivals, the Indians.
At the present writing, they need
eight more triumphs to wrap up the
pennant and take it home. and prob
ably will clinch the matter by the
tenth OF the month.
The defeat for the Red Sox dropped
them out of the pennant fight. their
last hope to catch up gone, and made
a five-club race of the rest of the
campaign, with the situation lined up
this way:
Evening star., 1936-09-05
YANKEES HOLD UP
DESPITE INJURIES
Win Ten of Twelve Games
With Club Resembling
Base Hospital.
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

i Lhol Tile dIlkccS nave given
n some indication of just how
II completely they outclass the
4 \ rest of the American League.
For weeks the homicide squad has
shown that it tops the other seven
clubs like tent, but it took the re-
suits of the last two weeks to prove
that the outfit is entirely in a class by
itself.
For most Of the two weeks, murder
ers' row has resembled base hospital,
with at least two, and sometimes three
members of its first string cast crippled
and on the bench. At the same time,
the two heaviest hitters, Lou Gehrig
and Joe Di Maggie. have been in their
worst slump of the season.
Yet, even the injuries to Bill Dickey,
Red Rolfe and frankie Crosetti-the
latter two wrecked the infield-and the
weak stickwork of Gehrig and "Di
Mag" in addition to the hardship Of
running up against four Of the tough
est outfits in the loop during that time,
have had little if any effect
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Dorothy Is Modest.

MISS BUNDY Is not thinking much
about going through to the title.
"I was lucky" she said. Il caught
Sarah when she was OF her game"
Nevertheless, students OF the game
were impressed by the girls supreme
court confidence and by the sweep and
speed of her forehand drives. They
point out also that she came within
point Of beating Alice Marble, the
San Francisco star, In the recent
Longwood tourney.
Though there have been some hard
fights in both the mems and womens
tournaments, Miss Bundys victory was
the only real upset so far Going into
the third round today all the seeded
man players, except Hal Surface Of
Kansas City. were in the running.
Surface, seeded eighth, lost a f1ve-
set struggle to Gene Mako of Los
Angeles, 3-6, So. 6-4, SIS, IS,
in one Of the finest matches Of the
tournament. This hardly was con-
sidered an upset. however, as Mako
stands a notch above Surface In the
national rankings.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
NEW STAR LIGHTS
TENNIS HEAVENS
Dorothy Bundy Brings Back
LuSter of Famous Old
Name on Courts. !
BY SCOTTY RESTON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

FOREST H1LLS N. Y, Septem-
l. ber 5-There Is q new star
with an old and famous name
L in the tennis sky today.
The name is Dorothy May Sutton
Bundy-Bundy for her father. Tom
Bundy, national doubles champion
with Maurice Mclaughlin from 1912
to 1914; May Sutton for her mother,
who won the national women's title
In 1904, and Dorothy for herself.
A chubby little girl. just turned 20,
Dorothy defeated Mrs. Sarah Palfrey
Fabyan Of Brookline, Mass, 2-6, 6-3.
6-4. in the first round Of the ma
tional women's singles champion
ship yesterday. And since Mrs. Fabyan
has gone to the finals for the last two
years. Dorothy is conceded q chance
to repeat her mothers conquest in
her first trip East.
Miss Bundy learned the game en-
tirely from her mother. She has been
playing tennis since she was 10, prac-
ticing after school with her brothers.
her cousin, Johnny Doeg, former
United States mems champion or
with her mother and father.