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Evening star., 1936-04-18
WINS FOR GR|FFS
DESPITE ILLNESS
HurIer Wild in Washington
Club Debut, but Holds
AS to Two Hits.
BY FRANCIS Z. STAN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.


@HILADELPHIA, April 18.-There
- was a sneaking suspicion about
this fancy-steppin ball club OF
Il Washington's today that maybe
Uncle Clark Griffith and Bucky Harris
knew what they were doing last jan
uary, when they boxed and shipped
Bump Hadley to New York in ex-
change for young Jimmy De Shong.
Jimmy is the fair-haired boy OF the
Nationals now.
Of course, Buck Newsom hasn't lost
any of his prestige or anything like
that, but then Newsom was expected
to flash lot of good pitching this
year. Until yesterday, however, De
Shong was pretty much a question
mark. Everybody admitted Jimmy was
the swelleSt dresser in base ball, but
there was a general carrying of tongues
in cheeks as far as his status as a
starting pitcher was concerned.
So yesterday he started the tongues
Wagging and pitched himself good
game of ball He whipped Connie
Mack's Apathetics, 3 to 2, and in the
process Jimmy gave up only two hits.
One of them was home run by Frank
Higgins, the other a single by Rabbit
Warstler.
The Washingtons in the meantime,
were pounding the 31-year-old rookie,
Harry Kelley. for 13 hits, which brought
victory, but which didn't speak loudly
for the opportuniSm in the Nationals
But all this is minor matter. 1t
was Jimmy De Shong's day and behind
1t all is story of guy who proved
that he not only can pitch, but also
owns a ticker which will stack up with
anybody's.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
MYSTERY MARKS
STADIUM Project
Press Denied Permission to
View Work on Plant for
Olympic Trials.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, April 18.-An ex-
M citing addition to any good
" spectacle, the element Of mys-
4 terry, was added to the final
Olympic track and field trials today by
New Yorks park commissioner, Robert
Moses. and his assistants.
The final tryouts are slated for RAN
dalls Island Stadium. July 1O-11, but
to date Commissioner Moses has de-
MED requests of reporters and pho
tographers to inspect the scene and
determine whether there actually is
sports arena under construction.
The commissioner insists there is and
that it will be finished in time for
the trials.
Meanwhile, there is reason to believe
the American Olympic Committee will
reconsider its plan to hold the tryouts
here, not particularly because Of doubts
about the stadium's readiness, but be-
cause of the anti-Nazi opposition in
New York. Recent developments, in
Guiding the custer Of Charles l..
Ornstein from the committee, have not
diminished the objections to America S
participation in the Olympics under
Nazi Germany's auspices. Failure Of
the Olympic final basket ball tryouts
to show their expected profit, or any
profit at all, has increased apprehen-
sion over the drawing power OF the
track and field trials.
May Transfer Games.
THIS may lead to selection OF either
the Harvard stadium or Palmer
stadium, Princeton, for the final try
| outs, despite the recent announcement
by William J. Bingham of Harvard,
chairman Of the Olympic and Track
and Field Committee, that Randalls S
Island definitely has been selected.
Bingham and other officials consider
New York the logical spot, providing
no special risks arise, inaSmuch as
the American team sails from New
York for Germany on July Is.
Attempts to see and report on prog
ress on the Randalls Island stadium
today met with complete confusion.
Allyn R. Jennings, assistant to
Commissioner Moses in charge of
maintenance operation, discussed
vaguely the plans for the stadium,
pointed out that "a reporter, having
no technical knowledge of construc-
ton, could not tell how far progress
on the stadium had gone" Anyway,
he said, permission to see the stadium
would have to be granted by James
A. Sherry. chief clerk of the Depart
ment of Parks.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Reds 'Seein' Red'' This Year
Club, Weak in Past, Launches An Anti.Respect
as 1t Whips Champion Cubs.

Wrigley Field, instead Of properly
impressing Mr.. Dresser and COM
pany, had reverse English to the
rafting tune of a vicious, utterly
disrespectful 12-hit attack for "a
bases.
Now you can't tell much about
a club this early" warned Dresser.
But we're building for the future
and aiming at a first division berth.
Well get it. too.
Every one of my players is con-
vinced we are a cinch for the first
division and a lot of them are talk
ing of winning the pennant. We've
got real spirit this year-a winning
complex, and we'll be hard to beat"
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Whitehead Finds
Tigers Big Help

CHICAGO, April 18 P).-Silent
John Whitehead hopes that
history, in his case, repeats itself.
Whitehead, young Chicago White
Sox twirler, started an eight-game
winning streak last season by beat
ing the Detroit Tigers. Making
his major league debut, he al
lowed two runs in the first in
ming, then blanked them for the
remainder of the game. Against
the Tigers in Detroit yesterday, he
again spotted his opposition two
runs in the first frame, but went
on to limit the Bengals to four
hits and one run the rest of the
game to chalk up his first 1896
victory.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
BY Staf Correspondent OF The Star.
Hi ADEI PHIA Anril Ii


DHILADELPH1A, April 1s-John
- Buddy Lewis, 19-year- old
sensation Of the Nationals
Il Spring training season, who
was placed on third base yesterday
for the first time this season, will stick
on the Job. it has been announced by
Manager Bucky Harris, so long as
righthanded pitchers are used against
the Washington club.
Bucky, who wisely refrained from
throwing the youngster into the first
few days of excitement at Washington,
turned over the infielding post to him
yesterday and qualified his move only
by stating that in such cases as he
sees fit he will use the veteran OSsie
Bluege. And then" declared Bucky
'it will be when a left-hander whom
I believe will trouble Lewis works
against u.s.
Without giving any advance notice
Harris inserted Lewis in the ne-up
yesterday and Buddy responded on his
first trip to the plate with lusty sin
SiC W IIsAlG Atlu. ne Il4L Tie Dali well
thereafter, but his drives always were
directed at somebody.
A FIELD the youngster stole the
show Of Philadelphia American
League inaugural. despite an error. He
made five assists, two in brilliant
fashion, and his lone miscue followed
sensational catch Of liner hit by
Hayes in the sixth inning.
The Athletics catcher raped a ter
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Handicapped By Illness.

REATING the AS is a trick that will
be turned lot of times this sea-
son. In fact, the AS haven't been able
to win a game so far. Ordinarily it
might not be wise to go too far over
board on a pitcher who licks the Phila-
delphia club. But Jimmy's was no
ordinary instance and you can't be-
little it.
The guy was sick when he walked to
the slab at Shibe Park yesterday for
the Quaker City's dolorous American
League opener. He had had a high
fever Thursday night and was suffer
ing from la grippe. He woke up yes
terday after couple hours of sleep
with the fever still with him, and the
weather here wasn't fit for man, beast
or even an Arctic base ball fan. But
De Shong wanted to pitch and Bucky
Harris gave him the nod.
That is only a portion of the dis
advantage under which De Shong
made his debut in National uniform
and one of the few pitching starts of
his major league career. The other
was lack of previous work. Jimmy
only had pitched a total of three in
nings of exhibition ball since March
29-nearly three weeks ago-when he
walked out to the rubber. and he
showed the twin effects of illness and
lack of preparation with as discour-
aging start as pitcher might make.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
De Shong Earns Mound Grore Retains Pitching Mastery
Sports Program
For Fans
TODAY.
Base Ball.

Base Ball.
Washington at Philadelphia, 8.
Michigan VS.. Maryland at College
Park, Md, 2:30.
Western VS.. Augusta Military
Academy at Fort Defiance, Va.
Central VS.. Maury High at Nor.
folk, Va.
Tennis.
Richmond at American Univer-
sity, 2.
Maryland VS.. Navy at Annapolis.
Central VS.. Maryland Frosh at
College Park, Md. 1000.
Golf.
Georgetown VS.. Washington-Lee
at Lexington, Va.
Roosevelt VS.. Central public high
school title match).
Tech VS.. Woodrow Wilson (public
high school title match).
Track.
". NJ. I. VS.. Maryland at College
Park, Md, 2.
Triangular meet, Catholic Uni
versity, Gallaudet and Baltimore at
Brookland Stadium, 2:30.
Lacrosse.
Baltimore A. c. VS.. Maryland
at College Park, $3.50.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
BY the Associated Press,

)HICAGO. April 18-Take it
from Manager Charlie
Dresser, his Cincinnati
Reds are seeing red" this
year.
The Reds, Manager Dresser
pointed out quietly, but firmly to-
day, have burned the lease they
held on the National League cellar
and near-cellar positions so long.
They're heading for brighter quar-
ters. They're all through bowling in
respect to the rest of the circuit.
They started their anti-respect
campaign yesterday by whipping
the league champion Chicago Cubs,
12-3. The titular bit of bunting at
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Lewis Is Spectacular in Field
In Season Debut With Criffs

rife drive almost directly over third
base. Lewis made a great dive and
grabbed the ball just before it hit
the ground for the putout.
Then he rose to his feet and made
a hurried peg to Joe Kuhel in an at
tempt to double up Jim Oglesby, who
had walked. The throw went over
Kuhers head, enabling Oglesby to
take second base. Nothing came Of
the error, however.
RASHFUL BUCK NEWSOM, who
last night painfully munched his
first real meal since hit on the face by
Bluege's throw in the opening game,
was to seek his second victory Of the
season today as the Nationals pre-
pared to wind up their current inva-
sio. Of the Quaker City.
Newsom. whose jaw still is sore
from the sock, had been on a liquid
diet until last night. when he ordered
steak and did a fair Job Of putting
it away.
The use Of Newsom against the
Athletics is almost certain to mean
that Earl Whitehill, If his sore finger
is in shape, will pitch tomorrow's
game in New York. The Griffs will
visit the Yankee Stadium for a single
game and then head for Boston, where
they will open a four-game series
with a double date on Monday, Pa
triot's day.
A return visit to New York for two
more games will complete the current
trip.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

miserable attendances. Connie was in
a tough spot. He was given too much
cooperation, financially. by others
connected with the Athletic firm. He
borrowed money on his own life in
surance and used his own savings in
an attempt to save the situation
Finally, he had to dispose of his stars,
one by one, two by two. and in a bull,
Tom Yawkey Of Boston grabbed most
of 'em.
They say Connie, at n, still dreams
Of building up another great team.
They say that when that time comes
Evening star., 1936-04-18
ONLY Z YANK HITS
YIELDED BY LEFTY
Both Safeties Are SIaShed
by Gehrig-TWo League
Champions Lose.
BY ANDY CLARKE,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

N OBJ LEFTY) GROVE, the port
x side finger of the Red SoX,
won't say how many games he
expects to win this year, but
the experts have boosted their figures
bit after watching him in his debut.
On chilly, sunless day, the kind
on which pitchers are not supposed
to be at their best, Grove ruined the
New York opening of the Yankees by
shutting them out, 80, allowing only
two hits. 1t was a day on which
fewer than 10000 fans braved the chill
winds to witness the second open
ings," and three pilots who usually go
under the billing Of playing man
ayers" probably were content to spend
their time in the shelter of the dugout.
III tell you in September" says
Grove, when asked how many games
he will win, but if his start is any
indication, he should surpass his record
of last year. He won 90 lost II, and
led the American League in effective
ness with an earned-run average of
2.70. This year he has Jimmy Foxx,
Roger Cramer, Heinie Manush and
a couple of other potent bat wielders
knocking in the runs, and this
shouldn't have any bad effect on his
won-and-lost statistics.
Lou Gehrig got both Yankee hits.
but they were futile gestures against a
defense that bottled the opposition SO
that not a Yankee reached second
base.
Groves tWo-hitter was matched by
Jimmy De Shong of Washington.
pitching to the comparatively feeble
Athletics.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
WILSON NINE DEBUTS
Meets Mount Rainier Thursday
Nine Other Games Listed.

Woodrow Wilson High Schools first
base ball team will play its opening
game of the season next Thursday,
when it clashes with Mount Rainier
High at Mount Rainier, Md.
Nine other tits have been arranged
for the Presidents by Manager Frank
Quinn. Following is the schedule.
April %, Mount Rainier. 25, Epis-
copal; 28. Dewitt Prep; May /, Mont
gomery-Bla 5, Bethesda Chevy
Chase; IL, st. Adams; Is. Friends:
10, Landon; 29, Georgetown Prep;
June 5, Western.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

Results Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, 8; Philadelphia, 2.
Boston, 8; New York, O.
Chicago, 5; Detroit. 3.
Cleveland, 13; st. Louis, 10 40 In.
nings).
Games Today.
WASHINGTON at Philadelphia.
Boston at New York
Chicago at Detroit.
Cleveland at st. Louis.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

erful hose lines on the low right
field fence to keep perfectly sane men
who were willing to pay from climbing
over the fence.
It even reached q state where broken
bottles were placed on the top of the
fence.
THE story that followed is too well
known to bear much repetition.
Philadelphia tired of its great Athletics
as early as 1881 and Mack began to
sell his stars. He just about completed
the Job last Winter, forced to do 50 by
Evening star., 1936-04-18
FACE IN PRACTICE TILT.

A practice game between the Con-
cord A. c. and the Oxon Hill Fire De-
partment nine will be played on the
latter's diamond at 2:30 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
JUNIORS TO TURN OUT.

Former members of the Versis and
Auth Junior base ball teams are to re-
port at o'clock tomorrow on Diamond
No. 9. New candidates also are to be
present at that time.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Cubs SoundIy Druhbed.


THE Cubs we're given a bad drubbing
by the Cincinnati Reds, 1873.
Paul Derringer, ace pitcher of the
Reds, held Chicago to seven hits while
his mates, paced by two former Cubs,
Kiki Cuyler and Babe Herman, pound
ed three pitchers for II of their IL
hits, to score all of their runs in the
fourth, fifth and sixth frames. Cuyler
and Herman got two hits apiece.
The Cleveland Indians turned on
Mike Nicola in the tenth inning to
score three runs and hand the st.
Louis Browns their third straight de-
feat, 1910. The hefty Babe Phelps
enabled the Brooklyn Dodgers to win
their first game of the season, AS.
With the bases loaded in the tenth in
ming. Phelps came through with the
blow that beat the Phillies.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Cold Holds Down Crowds.

WHEREAS a total of 205, 900 fans
turned out for the sunny open
ing Of the season Tuesday. only 1884
were on deck yesterday, with the tenn
perature dipping to low levels. The
Cards-Pirates game was postponed
because of the cold
Two managers were on the sidelines
with injured thumbs and Bill Jurges.
Cub shortstop, was forced to retire
after injuring that member. Joe
Cronin Of the Red Sox, who says he
will stay on the bench if his new in
field combination proves effective
watched his team play, in multi, his
broken thumb encased in splints.
while Mickey Cochrane. the driving
pilot of the Tigers, also was confined
to the dugout with a thumb injured
by foul tip Wednesday. Bill Terry.
Giants manager, stepped to the plate
as a pinch hitter, sore knee and all,
and delivered double that gave his
team a GA triumph over the Boston
Bees.
Cochrane saw his champions hum
bled So by the White Sox with the
largest crowd of the day, 32,175, in
the home park With Johnny White
head pitching seven-hit ball. the White
Sox turned on a rally in the seventh
inning that netted three runs and re-
suited in Eldon Auker taking an early
shower 1t was a case of history re-
peating itself here, for the Sox beat
the Tigers in their opener last Spring
Evening star., 1936-04-18
MIDGET NINE AMBITIOUS.

Games with teams of 1914 years OF
age are sought by the Addison
Chevrolet Midgets. Call Manager
Cronier at Adams SAIL.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

Results Yesterday
New York, 6; Boston, 4.
Brooklyn. 4; Philadelphia, 5.
Cincinnati, 12; Chicago, 3.
st. Louis Pittsburgh (cold).
Games Today.
New York at Boston.
Philadelphia at BrookIyn.
st. Louis at Pittsburgh.
Cincinnati ut Chicago.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

PHILADELPHIA, April lo.-1 Ou
- may speculate only on how the
pennant races are going to
wind up, who's going to win
the batting championships and what
Dizzy Deans chances are of topping
1855 major league pitchers. But
heres one item you can put down
right now and prepare to hear more
of it-this town is the sore spot of
the American League and there's no
hope for improven ent.
BY sore spot, 1 mean in a financial
way, although the chances are that
Connie Mack's Apathetics, as they
universally are called in the City of
Brotherly Love, will come pretty close
to equaling the modern most-gameS-
lost in a-season record. They may
even approach the feat of the 1899
Cleveland team Of the National
League, which dropped 134 tits, al
though this Is laying it on pretty
thick.
But the box office is likelysto
worry the seven other clubs in
the American League the most.
The Nationals helped the AS TO
open the season yesterday at Shibe
Park and the cash customers stayed
away in droves. 1t is doubtful If more
than TOO or 800 paid to see the mayor
of Philly, S. Davis Wilson, inaugurate
the American League campaign by
tossing out the first ball.
In fact, the mayor didn't even stay
to see the game and he was dead
head" meaning that he got in free.
As soon as Hizzoner made the in
augural toss he ducked out of the
park.
THERE Is something tragic about
- the whole set-up here. The at
mosphere at Shibe Park absolutely is
funereal. Just opposite the low right
field fence, where runs a row OF
houses, there are empty roofs, on
which are naked miniature bleachers.
Once upon a time the houses just
across the street charged admission
for spectators and space was at a
premium.
Once upon a time, as matter OF
fact, this was a rabid base ball town.
When Comics Athletics of 1929, 1880
and 1881 first began to exhibit the
greatness they we're destined to reach,
Shibe Park officials wrestled with the
problem of keeping the spectators
away.
Once upon time, denied ad-
mission to the park that already
was filed to overdowing,
crowd of indignant customers
broke down a tin barrier and
surged into the park.
There was a time when the Phila-
delphia fire departments trained pow
~NxA
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Evening star., 1936-04-18
De Shong's Debut

sBatted for Newsome in ninth.
TBatted for Hayes in ninth.
tBatted for Kelley in ninth.
washington ----- O1O 40 0O0-3
Runs batted in-Bolton. Kuhel. Travis,
Higgins Home run-Higgins Stolen base
Powell. Double play--Newsome to Hayes
to oglesby: Left on bases-Washtngton
on be shons. :: OH Kelley. ). Struck out
BY De shons 8; by Kelley. /, Wild
pitehsss61;De shons 12s; u99pirss.MsssnrIs. ~
Evening star., 1936-04-18

THE Nationals are not the least
coIorful and attractive ball club
in the American League. If they can
only draw 800 or so customers for the
opening game, what can be expected
later in the year, when the AS are
hopelessly out of everything and the
Browns and the White Sox come to
this township to play ball?
With the possible exception Of
such clubs as the Red Sox,
Yanks and maybe the Tigers,
who aren't good drawing cards,
every team in the circuit stands
to lose money when the schedule
calls for an invasion Of Phila-
delphia.
I feel sorry for Connie Mack. if
what all they say here is true. Connie
used to wave his score card, great ball
players jumped at his command, and
thousands of fans cheered their every
move. Now he's got q club that is
almost pathetic and a following that
is even worse.
Sure he got 100000 for Foxx,
Cramer, Marcum and McNair. And
still more for EarnShaw, Cochrane,
Simmons, Haas and Dykes. But if
you ever got load of the Shibe Park
inmates today you'd figure that
Connie was stung.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

Politics and sports will be blended
in Montgomery County this season.
United Young Mems Democratic Clubs
have organized base ball team, with
Francis o. Day, former pilot of the
Cabin John nine, as manager, and
will hold the first workout tomorrow.
The drill will be staged at o'clock
on the Rock Creek field at the East
West Highway.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Wild at Outset.

RIGHT of the bat he walked Wally
Moses and then probably set a
record of some kind when he per-
initted Moses to score without him
Ode Shong) throwing a strike. He
wild pitched Wally to third base and
followed with another wild pitch that
let the Athletic lead-off man score.
Then he finished walking Warstler,
famed Bob Johnson and walked Puc-
cinelli.
Harris frantically waved Ed Linke
to the bull pen to warm up, but before
Ed really could get started, De Shong
rallied and, despite giving out four
more passes over the remainder of
the route, he hurled as pretty a ball
game as you'd want to see.
Warstler made his single in the
third inning the only other time the
AS really threatened because in ad-
dition to the hit De Shong inserted
a couple of walks to fill the bases.
But he came out beautifully. Hig
gins made his homer to open the
sixth. hitting a fly ball that would
have been caught in Griffith Stadium,
and from then on De Shong was
unhittable.
Flashing a lightning fast ball,
Jimmy turned back II of the last 13
batsmen, including three successive
pinch-hitters in the last inning. The
thirteenth man walked right after
Higgins hit his four Dagger.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Mats Waste Hits.


nE SHONG'S mates, in the mean
time, were making it necessary
for Jimmy to pitch a whale of a
ball game. The Nationals got 13
hits off Kelley but contrived to leave
IL runners stranded on the bases.
However. they tied it up in the second
on Kuhel's single and Bottoms double,
forged ahead by to l in the fourth
on singles by Travis, Reynolds and
Kuhel, and showed across the win
ming run in the fifth when Jake
Powell walked, stole second and
counted on Travis single.
Travis, by the way, continued his
sensational hitting by getting three
safeties to share stick laurels with
Joey Kuhel.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
FULLER HURLS 1-HIT
WIN FOR LELANDERS
Sherwood High School Defeated,
18.0-Damascus Also Loser
in County Tilt.

T AIRY FULLER held Sherwood
- High School to one hit yesterday
and Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School defeated the Sandy Spring in
stitution, Is to 0, in scoring its first
triumph in the Montgomery County
scholastic series.
Joe Harris topped the winners at
bat with three hits, including home
run with the bases empty in the sec
ond inning.
Montgomery-Blair High School of
Silver Spring downed Damascus High.
13 to 2, in a county championship
game that marked the winners debut
in the series in which it hopes to
annex its third consecutive title.
Mike Godfrey struck out Is Da-
mascus batters and gave up seven scat
tered hits.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
League Statistics

AMERICAN.
Team Standings.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

Philadelphia will be ready to welcome
it with open arms in manner reminis-
cent of 1929 and 1880.
They say that this current
state of indifference is only part
of the cycle of the Quaker City.
In the meantime, though, Philadel-
phia has supplanted st. Louey as the
sore spot of the American League.
After all, the Browns did draw 5000
for their opening game. Secretary
Eddie Eynon. jr, of the Washington
club didn't even bother to stick around
for yesterdays gate report.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
NATIONAL.

Team Standings.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
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. HILADELPHIA, April 1S.-You
. may speculate only on how the
pennant races are going to
Il wind up, who's going to win