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Evening star., 1936-06-03
TITLE FLAG FLIES
AT WESTERN HIGH
Beats Central, 5-4, in Tilt
That Provides Stirring
Ninth Inning.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

TOSSED about on the scholastic
sports sea for 16 years, West
ern High School today proudly
u displayed its championship
base ball team, which recovered from
ninth-inning dizzy spell to beat Cen
tral, 5-4, at Roosevelt Stadium.
Prize exhibit No l and on the re-
| ceiving end of much backslapping was
! little Alden Lawyer, who in the first
half of the ninth picked out one Of
Arnold Heft's southpaw offerings and
planted 1t in the fertile soil of right
field, where it produced a double that
scored George Oertel and Leaton
Kushman with what eventually proved
to be the winning runs.
The Red Raiders all but booted the
title into Central's eager paws in the
ninth inning. however. Ed McDonough
who had gained life on Bill Edmon-
ston's error promptly stole second and
raced to third when Joe Feuz was safe
on swinging bunt. Feuz pilfered
second, and George Rowles. who pre-
viously had tied the score with a
home run over the right field fence,
cracked a fly to left scoring McDon-
ough and sending Feuz to third
ONE of the most dependable batters
in the series, Bernie Askin, Cen
trail catcher, waved futilely at three
of Kushman's curves. Heft walked
and thefted second. and Valenza also
glanced at four wide ones to fill the
bases.
Don Fones selected the first pitched
ball and socked it down the third
base line for what appeared to be
championship swat Dickey Lynham,
Westerns polished third sacker, dove
to his right, snagged the sizzling
grounder momentarily bobbled 1t and
then tagged out Heft, who was racing
down the base line.
Western had stepped into a 3-to-1
lead over the favored Central nine be-
fore Lefty Rowles scored Joe Moran
from second base with his circuit clout
to knot the count in the seventh in
ming.
Coach Cliff Moore surprised scho-
lastic followers by sending Bob Raj
terry to the mound. and Rafferty, an
swered by surprising with a creditable
seven-inning stretch that saw him
grant but six hits while tanning seven.
Heft, who previously had limited
Eastern and Roosevelt to six and three
safeties, respectively, was nicked for
IA hits.
Tomorrow the entire Western stu
dent body will honor its title team at
an assembly at 9:1o m, when Clark
C. Griffith, president of the Washing
ton base ball club, will present the
Griffith Trophy. symbolic of local scho-
lastic Diamond supremacy, to the
champions
Bryan Morse and Walter NordIinger,
coach and captain of the 1920 team,
also will speak,
Evening star., 1936-06-03
DEANS WILL RULE
CARDINALS FATE
Have Won ID of 20 Games
Club Has Taken-Paul
Subdues Dodgers.
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

- AY what you want about those
Dean boys-their big-talk and
oft-time astonishing antics-but
- week by week 1t becomes more
apparent that as they go. so goes the
gas-house gang from st. Louis.
Stealing a page from the history Of
Babe Ruth's heyday with the New
York Yankees. Dizzy and Daffy are
Just about the backbone Of the Ma
tional League leaders right now.
OF course, there are such aces as
Ducky Medwick, Pepper Martin, Rookie
Stu Martin and the others whose bat
ting has been keeping the Cards up
there in the pennant chase, but even
they seem to go better when one or
the other of the Arkansas brothers is
in action.
To date, the Cardinals have won
% games. And half Of these victories
are credited to Paul and Dizzy. yet the
Deans represent only one-third of the
six starting hurlers Frankie Frisch has
on his bench.
Paul In Great Form.
DAUL never looked better than he
did for eight and third innings
in a 5-4 victory over the Brooklyn
Dodgers yesterday. They got TO him
finally in the ninth. but by that time
his mates had the battle sewed up.
In allowing the Dizziness boys from
Brooklyn only six hits and one run in
eight innings, he was one of the few,
throwers who weren't belted all over.
the lot in yesterdays big-time bill.
Tommy Bridges, leading the Tigers
IN 5-4 win over the Athletics, was
the only winning hurler to go the
route. For the rest, the boys with
the bats had all the say-and they
spoke up loud, with xtra-base blows.
The Pirates dubbed the Bees for II
hits in winning. 5-4. Washington
banged out Is safeties to trim four
ST. Louis Brown hurlerS. 1911. al
though the Brownies held up their
end with l9 hits off pair of pitchers.
The White Sox surprised the Ysnks.
119. in a slugfest that saw 30 safe
blows. including two homers by Rip
Radcliff. rattle all over the field
and outside it. Boston's Red Sox
opened up the power and collected Is
hits in taking Cleveland, 1916, de-
spite the fact the Tribes war clubs
also were swinging and Knocked two
Of the Hub City hurlers off the mound.
Reds Night Game Draws.
EVEN at Cincinnati, where night
time base ball made a financially
successful 1886 debut before 1919
fans. AL Hollingsworth couldn't last
in chalking up his seventh win. He
went well until the ninth. when Chuck
Klein's homer led a six-run assault to
tie the count until Ival Goodman's
four dagger broke it up and gave the
Reds 98 win.
The Giants-Cubs game at Chicago
was postponed.
Paul Dean. for the most part. wasn't
bothered by this wholesale whaling of
the ball. He had the Dodgers eating
out Of his hand for eight innings,
keeping them hitless for three and
runless for six.
Not even Bridges tight performance
against the AS could match that, for
the Mackmen woke up in the third
and clubbed him for three runs.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
MITCHELL, WELSH
BATTLE IS LIKELY
Play in City Championship
Singles Today to Cut
Field to Five.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.

w yITH the first presentation of
W. The Evening Stars Perpet-
" " ual Challenge Trophy To the
City Of Washington singles
champion only four days away. the
field Of possible recipients was IN be
reduced to five by nightfall. with two
ausrter-6nal and one fourth round
matches scheduled for the Edgemoor
courts this afternoon.
AS more and more tennis fans gather
to watch the crucial rounds. the
chances Of a revival Of that classic
scrap between Dooley Mitchell, de-
Tending champion, and Barney Welsh,
ranking racketer Of the city, in the
final loom all the greater.
Welsh, now in the Semi-fnals, still
must get by one Of three players
Hugh Lynch. Bill Buchanan or Alan
Blade. The latter two clash this after
noon in the last of the preliminary
round matches. the winner 10 meet
Lynch tomorrow. The survivor of the
morrow's encounter gets the crack
at Welsh.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

out, and the hitter drives in the
run, he draws down 81 in cash :.
II the batter fails, he forfeits like
amount there are other angles
of the bonus plan which Charlie
refuses to divulge.
AL Smith Of the Giants. who used
10 be swell relief pitcher, but not
much of a starter, suddenly has be-
gun to win ball games Gus
Mancuso, Giant catcher. explains
the about-face as follows: He is
learning to pace himself better :.
Now he has plenty of stuff left for
the eighth and ninth He isn't
wearing himself out in the early in
nings." Because he is the best
holder-upper on West Forty-ninth
street. Harry Lenny, manager of
Ray Impellittiere, has been elected
mayor of Jacobs Beach, as that
part Of our town has been desig-
mated.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Pennants and BliEzards.


THEY say pennants are won
during Winters billiards just
as much as they're won when
u the chips are on the table and
the flag chases are under way. BY
the end of September this theory is
likely TO be backed up by another
concrete example. 1t begins to look
now as If the Yankees, providing
they can carry on to capture the
American League pennant. can be
thankful for a move engineered last
December.
1t was then that Joe Mccarthy
Grated and shipped the temperametal
Johnny Allen TO Cleveland in ex-
change for Monte Marcellus Pearson
and a rookie named Steve Sundra
The latter plays no immediate part
in the plot. but Pearson occupies
the feature role.
OF all the individual cogs who
were weighed in the Spring
during the perennial forecast
ing, it is likely that none Of the
New York club was an under
rated and generally overlooked
as Pea arsOn.
Now it appears as though the deal
by which the Yankees gained him for
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Mitchell's Path Th0rnv,

MITCHELL, however. faces q bit
tougher sledding, scheduled as he
Is TO play two more hard opponents
before earning the right to contest in
the title round This afternoon at
4:30 O'Clock he faces his severest test
to date in the person of Tom Mangan.
terminated by The Stars tournament
almost 10 the form with which he won
the first City of Washington title seven
years ago.
Should he eliminate Tom. Mitchell
then would meet the winner of the
Tony Latona- -Yelverton Garnett match,
also scheduled for 4:3n today. And
both of these two have been playing
inspired tennis, Latona far exceeding
his form of '35 and Garnett proving
the sensation Of the first local open
senior tournament in which he has
ever participated.
Semi-finals of the singles proba bly
will be played on Friday. with the
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Rip Radcliff. White Sox-Had
two homers and single. driving in
seven runs in ll-9 victory over
Yankees.
Paul Wsner. Pirates-His pinch
single started two-run winning rally
as Bees were defeated. 5-4.
Tommy Bridges. Tigers-Held
Athletics to nine hits, as Detroit
won, 5-4.
Paul Dean. Cardinals-Had Dodg-
ers helpless for eight innings in
5-4 victory.
Buddy Myer, Senators-Had three
hits in l5-ll victory over Browns.
Ival Goodman. Reds-Hit home
run in ninth 10 defeat Phillies, 9-S,
in seasons first night game.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Curve Ranks ss Best.

Curve Ranks as Best.
THERE were other members Of the
Yankee pitching staff who we're
accounted bigger factors than Pearson
in the Spring. The center Of stten-
ton was Lefty Gomez and. ranked
just behind the lean southpav. were
Johnny Broaca. Red Rufing and john
ny Murphy.
There was not a great deal Of
whOlehearted limb climbing on
the part of critics in Pears0n's
behalf.
Steve ONeill's judgment Of base ball
flesh. for one thing, is rated highly.
When he let Pearson and plus Sundra
go for Allen it was figured in many
quarters that maybe Monte wasn't the
pitcher he appeared to be. Through
out the American League II has been
acknowledged that Pearson has as
much STUFF on the ball as anybody
His fast ball ranks as tops"
with opposing batsmen. He has
the sharpest curve Of any right
handed hurler in the league.
But it was felt that something
was wrong.
II there is something wrong 1t
ought to be inscribed along with base
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Griffs Infiict OnIy Defeat.

Griffs Infiict Only Defeat.
IN nine starts, of which ne contrived
TO win eight victories, Pearson al
ready has captured one less triumph
than he did during the entire 1885
season. He was beaten in his debut
as a Yankee, the Nationals licking
him, but since then he's been unbeat-
able. That flawleSs. smooth. deceiving
delivery Of Monte's has burned fast
balls by batters. who avow that his
hard one is as live" as any in the
game.
IL the hitters look too much
for the fast one Pearson has
whistled over almost unhittable
curves.
Some idea of how hot the reformed
Indian has been this season can be
gained by quick glance at his rec
ord. In his nine games the husky
right handler has worked II innings
and given up only So hits. This is
an average of slightly less than six
hits per game. He has famed As
batsmen.
Monte'S record sparkles particularly
when stacked alongside of Gomez.
The portsider is too good a pitcher
to doubt his worth. but so far Lefty's
value has not been comparable to
Pearson's. In his last five starts
Gomez has been shelled from the box
four times. Gomez, in eight games,
has worked only Sc innings and has
been nicked for a heavy total of 48
hits.
For years ranked among the
most deceptive pitchers in the
game. Lefty has famed only 28
batSmen.
Gomez may strike his stride later.
When. and If he does. and II Pearson
keeps winning. you probably can write
down the Yanks as 1886 world skries
participants. Pennants really can be
won in the Winter.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Homer Standings

Yesterdays homers - Radeliff,
White Sox, 2; Lopez, Bees, /; suhr,
Pirates, 1; Collins, Cardinals, /:
Becker Indians, /: Kroner, Red
Sox, /; Klein, Phillies, /: Scar
sella, Reds, /; Goodman, Reds. 1.
The ieaders-Foxx, Red Sox. 10;
Trosky. Indians, IL; J. Moore. Phil
lies. 9; Dickey. Yankees, 9; Gehrig,
Yankees 8; Lazzeri. Yankees, 8.
League totals-American. 205:
National. 200; total, 4os.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer

n YEw YORK, June 3.-Now
M that Lawson Little has
IN turned pro: who is the long,
est driver in amateur golf?
-. Down at Durham, N. c.. they
say you'll have to go some to beat
Henry Clay Poe of the Duke Uni
versity golf team He can
average around 240 yards when he
gets down to business Walter
Hagen played with him and was
amazed The kid is just 20 and
getting better every day Might
mark down his name for future
reference.
Please don't let those reports of
how poorly Joe Louis is showing in
his Lakewood workouts worry you
There is definite suspicion
around West Forty-ninth street
Evening star., 1936-06-03
WESTERN. 5; CENTRAL, 4.

Rnn5-MlddIeI0n1 LaWY7I' HnIUhIIn,S'
Oertel, Kushman Moran, McDonouQh'
Rowfes (2). Errors-Edmonston ~. Lyn-
ham. AlafoEinas McDonough. Fones. Nal
ius. Moran Two-base hits-Lawver. Ed
monston. Oertel Three-base bits.Ala-
foginas. Home run-2owles. Stolen tsses
-Fones Moran, McDonough t2) Rowies.
Middleton, Borden. Sacrifices - Fones.
Kushman: Double plays-,valenza to Askin
Left on bases-Central. 49,: Western. 8.
First base on balls-On Rsfterry. g.; of
Kushman, 2. Hits-Of Rafferty,. 8 in
INNINGS; off Kushman. j in :, innings.
Struck out-By Rafterry. :: by Kushman.
. by Heft. T. Passed balls-Askin CD.
Winning pitcher-Ku shman.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Stars AfieId in 1911 Victory.

HE washington speed demon did
his offensive share when the GrifYs
overcame a 20 deficit in the first
inning and by the end of the fourth
frame piled up a 15-to-2 edge for
De Shong to work on. Then. while
DE Shong was suffering from the twin
effects OF being unable to bear down
after letting up and of trying to pitch
with blister on one of his throwing
fingers, Hill stole the show with his
fielding.
Going into the sixth still trailing 2
to Is, the Browns scored a pair of
runs with rally that might have been
more potent had not Jesse, with a
great one-handed, backward catch Of
liner by Ed Coleman, taken a lot
OF the fire out of it. In the seventh
the Browns, thanks to an error bv Red
kress, double by Coleman and singles
by Hemsley and Carey. scored two
more runs with only one out
Ray Pepper batted for Les Tietje at
this point and rammed a vicious, curv-
Ing liner to left with two runners on
base. Hill, breaking with the crack
OF the bat. snagged it with his eloved
paw. and while on the dead run f1ipped
1t to Buddy Lewis. The kid third base
man. In turn. pegged to the plate to
catch Hemsley in one of the most un-
usual and sensational double plays
that will be seen at Griffith Stadium
this season.
1t STAYED off De Shong's departure,
which took place in the next inning.
when the Browns cut down the score
to 15-11. Monte Weaver finished for
Washington in capable fashion. but
for a club that held 1872 lead it was
a close squeak.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Now Hitting at .342 Clip.

HILLS batting climb hardly can be
written down as squirt Of dubious
meaning. Over stretch of 81 games
now Jesse has more than fulfilled ex-
pectations by collecting 81 base hits
Of assorted distances in 70 times at
bat for highly commendable aver
age of .342. As a lead-off man he has
been all that his supporters expected
In Florida when the Nationals began
10 take shape.
During his tardy barrier break Jesse
scored only single run in the first 10
DAYS Of play and batted across only
one marker, but he is making up for
lost time by record showing II runs
scored In the above mentioned 81
games. More remarkable still, ne has
batted across 13 mates while hitting
In the lead-off position.
Defensively. Hills work has been of
q consistent standard that ranks him
on par with Jake Powell as a fielder
on the Washington f1y-chasing bri-
gade, and yesterday, as the Griffs won
their fifth straight from the Browns.
he topped all previous efforts.
Outhit, Is to 10. the Nationals man.
aged to capture weird 15-to-11 deci-
sion from the st. Loueys. It is doubt
ful II this could have been done with
out two brilliant defensive plays by
Hill.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
TITLE COURSE SELECTED.

OKLAHOMA CITY, June CE).-|
East Lake Club of Atlanta has been
selected for the 1887 Southern women's
golf tournament.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Hill Jusing G and Bucky OldD Net Foes Head for Final
'POPPING3 49,
OFF, vs. Jfon:.S: zAD

balls deeper mysteries. At any rate,
Yankee uniform has made differ
ent man out Of the one-time Indian
enigma.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Runs batted in-Myer. Powell, De
shong, Hill l.l, Kress l2l. Kuhel !3l.
hits-Carey. Travis. Coleman. Cliff. Three
kuhel. Stolen bases-Powell (2), Kuhel,
Hill. Sacrifce-De Shong. Double plays
Travis to Lewis. Hill to Lewis to Millies.
s. First base on bails-on Van Alta, ;:
Oft De Shong, 3; of Liebhardt, l. of
by Weaver. l. Hits-Of Van Alta, 2 in
! 4 innings; of Liebhardt. Q in . in
nings; of Tietje, in Is innings: OF Ma
haffey, ! in 3 innings; of De Shong. 15
in innines (none out in eiRhthl; of
Weaver. 4 in 2 innings. Winning pitcher
De Shonr Losing pitcher-Van Alta
Umpires-Messrs. Geisel. Summers and
Dinneen Time-".40.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Undaunted hy Poor Start.

Jesse lost favor early in the cam
psign when he failed to hit. Harris
was anxious to utilize the ex-Yank's S
amazing speed and eager to work a
right handed batter in the lineup, so
he handed the left-field Job over to
Hill in training camp.
Jesse did we'll enough in the pre-
season campaigning, but when the
American League curtain rose he was
of to poor start. During the first
10 days of play he paraded TO the plate
27 times and made only three hits for
a III average Somebody cracked {:
He reminds you of racing car with
no gas
Johnny Stone. who got off to good
start, replaced Hill as the No. left
fielder. at least while ight-handed
pitchers faced the Nationals. Since
then the majority Of JeSse's perform
ances have been against southpaWs,
but this does not detract particularly
from the speedy gardeners record of
late.
Undaunted by start almost pro-
fibitive to a good year, Hill kept trying
and so marked has been his success
thst today he shows 283 average
that seems to be growing plumper
every day. Defensively he has been a
sensation,
Evening star., 1936-06-03

tSee MITCHELL. Page A-15)
Evening star., 1936-06-03
COMING THROUGH
AFTER BAD START
Batting Average Mounting
Rapidly and Field Work
Is Exceptional.
BY FRANCIS r. STAN.

Hill of the Nationals f1y-
" chasing corps is going about
- the business these days of
proving himself to be the kind of a
cog the Washington ball clubs front
cfice" envisoned in him last Winter,
when Clark Griffith and Bucky Har-
ris swung their biggest and most i'm
portant deal of the year.
In exchange for a pair of young
sters who had yet to win their major
league spurs-Hill and Pitcher Jimmy
De Shong-Griff and Bucky turned
over to the YANKEES the veteran Bump
Hadley and the hard-hitting Roy
johnson. They gsmbled, did the Old
Fox and the young one. on the pos
sibllities of developing Jesse and
Jimmy.
Now. after a diScouraging start by
Hill. it begins to look as though the
gamble is going to pan out 100 per cent
okay by the Washington club. De
Shong, by virtue of six victories in
eight starts. already seems to have
justified the swap of Hadley. And
currently Hill. who seems ready to
f1irt with the 800 batting mark at any
time, is doing his bit.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
GAMES TODAY.

N. York at Chicaso.
Brkln. at st. Louis.
Boston at PittSb eh.
others not xchedIlled
Evening star., 1936-06-03

about on the scholastic
sports sea for 16 years, West
ern High School today proudly
The Washington times., 1936-09-22

theoretical capacity Pittsburgh specially notable since
ducton there less dependent the automobile industry
and is affected by the heavier capital goods.
Some observers have feared that the recent advances steel
prices would drive in advance buying and that then the
squirt Others feared that the political campaign
would restrict demand Neither fear justified There has
been great rush of buying anticipate prices At the same
time the bulk of the business for current requirements
that political fears for the future have had great effect far
The automobile business has turned the into the
There may be another dip in production following
completion of models display but probably the uprn
last week marked bottom Production from about $4,000
about 5000 cars which with only $4,000 cars
year ago.
Other industries gains have been cotton textiles and
lumber The reduced cotton crop estimate caused large order
of higher prices. Although the marketing
crop depressed cotton the cloth market has held
This only suggests improved earnings for cotton mills but
indicates that cotton likely to rise later under the in
fuence of increased demand for a rather small crop.
Statistics of caroadngs and of retail sales are mixed and
nconclusve, but the whole show tendency to edge
upward.
Commodity prices however, had off week. and averaged
little The chief weakness in hogs lard sugar.
cotton But grains higher Steel scrap con-
nued to climb. Tn rubber silk and hides were up Would
say that the decline chiefly due to seasonal pressure OF
crops hogs aided by the speculative reaction IN cocoa
and that the underlying trend remains an upward one
The political pot began to boil last Perhaps the most
significant point from the business angle is that the New
Dealers are more and more the defensive and tending
to softpedal their radicaism Mr. Roosevelt is getting
and eager entertain groups of Toy business lead
and proposing to enter pool with the greedy ana
"privieged" utility magnates .
All this nothing to what Roosevelt would do If
reelected for his record to promises and consistency IS
HOPELESS But it best evidence that the forces of
mon sense straight economic thinking and American demo-
cratic ideals ralng Hope is therefore growing that
real and sustained business recovery lies ahead.
In the domestic field the chief obstacles appear to lie in
the organized labor situation and in the political scramble to
do something the farmer Strikes and impossible devices
for taking all risk out of farming threatening But
neither threat likely to materiaze large scale until
well after election by that time aboers and farmers
NAV AGAIN come to realize that what given to
pretty largely out Of the other.