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Evening star., 1937-10-02
GAINS;
GEHR|NCER SLIPS
Gard and Tiger Assured of
Big League Batting Titles,
However.
Fvthe Associated Prose


n YEW YORK. October AL
N though both lost ground to
u second place rivals during the
past week. Ducky Medwick of
the Cardinals and Charley Gehringer
of the Tigers still sported enough
advantage today to Just about assure
their National and American League
batting championships. respectively.
Medwick, although picking up three
points and raising his average to .379,
nevertheless saw his lead cut to II
points by the late surge Of his team
mate and second-place rival. johnny
Mize. The st. Louis first sacker
Travelled at better than a 500 clip
during the week, with l3 hits in 25
chances, to boost his mark eight
points to 367.
Gehringer, getting only nine hits
in % chances, fell four points TO .374,
but still held 22-point bulge over
Lou Gehrig of the Yankees. who
slipped from 1853 to 352.
Standing Of the first 10 in each
loo one
Evening star., 1937-10-02
GOLF PROS HERE
HAVE BUSY YEAR
Two More Events Will End
Campaign-Diffenbaugh,
Cox Pep Affairs.
RY w. r. McCALIUM.

~ PROFESSIONAL golf exhibition
matches, of the kind that
were played at half a dozen
Il clubs during the past Summer,
will be continued next year on a
longer schedule, running from June to
mid-September
The pros played this year before
local crowds of several thousand peo-
pie, and the little pro matches, in
addition t. providing a good-sized
pot for the District open champion
ship next. week. gave the pros the
competition they need and enabled
thousands Of persons to see them ia
competitive action.
Obviously they should enlarge their
field beyond the eight who started
in the matches by including all the
local pros, but, at that, they did pretty
well after a late start. There are
several Washington pros who would
have added action who will be in
cluded next year.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
JOHNSON BOWLER, TOO
Walter Will Help Open Satur-
day Night 1O-Team League.
Has Two Games to Play.

A bowling alley runway will serve
as the pitching mound for Walter
Johnson tonight when Washingtons
base ball idol attempts to throw
strike at 10 duckpins to signal the
opening of the Saturday Night League
at Convention Hall
Ten teams will compose the loop
that for eight seasons has been one Of
the city's few successful Saturday night
leagues.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
FED BASKETERS CALLED

The United States Government Bas-
ket Ball League will meet Wednesday
a. the Central Y. M c. A. at pm
TO plan its campaign. The league is
restricted to II teams, and the first
dozen To register will be accepted. Any
Government department desiring TO
Join should have representative pres
ent.
Evening star., 1937-10-02

ments thought. 1t is tiny little viii
lage, situated on one of the hundreds
of inlets and rivers which dot the
ocean side Of Virginia's Eastern Shore,
where, fish stop for few moments on
their southwark migration.
Wachapreague is a seasonal spot,
good in the Spring, only fair in Mid
summer and again topnotch when
Fall rolls round again. All Summer
long the fish have been playing around
up the Atlantic Coast, and now that a
nip of cold touches the air and water
they start for the South, hitting our
Virginia and Maryland coasts.
And now "the run is on" says
A. II. G. Mears, the pioneer fish
erman there, who keeps Wash
ingtonians informed of what's
what.
First there is channel bass. Largest
taken on the northward migration
went to 62l2 pounds. sizable fellow
indeed. So far during the Fall season
the top gass weighed So pounds, but
more like him are coming in every
day. There is plenty of time. though,
for those who have been fattening up
while swimming around the Atlantic,
and the 62-pound mark may be broken
long before they stop biting for the
Winter.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Ready for Photogra phers

HELL,' he said to me. I'm Man
cuso. Bring on your pfotogra-
piers"
That, then, is the story of the man
who will catch Carl Hubben and Cliff
Melton starting next Wednesday. II
explains in some wise why Giant fans
refuse to worry about Bill Dickey, the
long-legged, long-hitting fellow who
viii catch for the Yankees.
Mancuso (as the Houston sports
editor recalis) has plenty faith in
Mancuso. He isn't the hitter that
Dlckey is, but he is smart handler
Of pitchers, and he is a dangerous man
in the clutch.
Where Dickey, who was batting
bust against the Giants in the world
series year ago, appears certain to
catch every game for the Yankees in
the series coming up, Mancuso will get
lot of help from Harry (the Horse)
Danning.
This is the sixth year that banning
has been around with the Giants
With fellow like Mancuso ahead of
him it had begun to look hopeless. 1t
was reported that Manager Bill Terry
wanted to trade him during the past
oh-season, but, along about midsea-
son, Harry got his break
Evening star., 1937-10-02
BATTLE AT MEADOWS.

ST Cyprian A. c. foot ballers meet
the Brown A. c. of Annapolis, Md,
tomorrow in their season opener at
Meadows, Md, at 3 O'Clock. Cham
pion Willow Tree A. c. tangles with
the Northeast eleven at the same place
at l pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Walter Woods. 1917.
New York. outpointed Solly Krieger.
1888 Brooklyn (10).
NEW HAVEN, Conn AL Gamer,
40. New Haven. outpointed Emil
Scholtz, 1884, Germany C0.
CHICAGO-Holman Williams. 144.
Chicago, outpointed Reno Fernandez,
146, San Diego, Calf fS).
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Glen Lee,
154, Nebraska outpointed Chief Paris,
149Ia, Oklahoma 10).
johnson, ir.. 154ia. Philadelphia, out,
pointed Paul Cortlyn. 1907, Newark
(sl.
PHILADELPHIA. Mike Piskin
l4l ", Long Branch. N. j.. outpointed
Pete Gsliano, 143. Baltimore u0).
DURHAM, N. Cray Matulewicx,
IN, Durham, outpointed Carl Knowles,
17A Rome, Ga. 10).
Evening star., 1937-10-02
DiffenbAugh and Cox Lead.

golf activity around Washington
this year than ever before, and it's
all due, the boys say, to Diffenbaugh,
as president of the Middle Atlantic
P. G. A.. and to the handspring ac-
tivities of Witty Cox These two have
worked together like well-matched
team Of horses. arranging golf affairs
for the pros, scheduling tournaments
and playing in them.
Their Middle Atlantic P G. A. tour
ney was the best in many years, and
never before have they had as much
money in the pot for the District open.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Major Leaders
f. the Associated Press.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Batting TIGERS .3s4:
Gehris, Yankees. .352.
Huns-Di Magic. Yankees las;
Role Yankees, 141
runs battsd in---Greenbere, Tigers,
lfa: Dl Magic. Yankees. l5s
Hlts-Bell. Browns, PA; Dl Magic.
Doubles BEL Brown, and Green
berg, Tigers SO
-. Iriples--kreevich White Sox; Di
Maeeio, Yankees. and Stone, Senators,
Home runs--Di Msggio Yankees, As;
Crs.enoerg, Tigers. 40
stolen bases-Chapman, Red Sox. 81.
Werber. Athletics, 30,
Pitchins-Al Allen, Indians. 1910;
MURPHY Yankees. 1874
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
q. Bsttins--Medwick Cardinals, .37a;
Gize. Cardinals 307
Runs--Medwick, Cardinals, Ill. Her
man, Cubs, IQ5.
Runs batted in---Medwick, Cardinals,
154: Demaree, Cubs 1l2
hits1,Medwick; Cardinals. 236; p.
Doubies-Medwick Cardinals, bs
Mize. Cardinals, 30.
Triples-Vsushan Pirates II: Hand
ley Pirates and Goodman. Reds, 10
home runs.-Medwick, Cardinals, and
OFT, Giants, 81.
Stoleenn bases--Gslsn, Cubs. %; Hack,
Hubbem. Giants. 22-s:
Root, Cubs. 1875.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Stars Yesterday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Hank Greenberg, Tigers-Hit two
homers, double and drove in six
runs in 14-4 win over Browns.
Si johnson, Cardinals-Beat
Cubs, 4 to /, with six hits.
Buck Newsom, Red Sox-Stopped
Yankees with five hits for Az win.
Jim Tobin, Pirates-Pitched six
hitter for 6-3 win over Reds.
Goody Rosen, Dodgers-Drove in
two runs against Giants, one with
triple, in winning rally for IA
victory.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR

THE Mats must win two in Bos-
ton to be assured of beating
the Yanks out for fifth place.
Roy Whitfield's 1nglesides cele-
brated the opening Of their bowl
ing season by rolling a 1880 set.
Johnny Evers, the famous Tro-
Jan, may become a major league
pilot next season.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
banning Proves Worth

MANCusO was injured. Terry
threw Danning into the breach.
Danning jumped in there and pro-
ceeded to play game like no one
has played it recently.
He did the Giants backstopping so
well, in fact, that it was only few
days ago, when a foul tip stubbed his
finger, that Danning let Mancuso get
back IN the lineup at all. He will,
the doctors say, be ready for the play
off next week
Mancuso will catch the Giants
southpaws, Danning the righthanders
Dickey, who bats far up in the
American Leaguer's lineup. has it all
over his rivals in the sticking averages.
He is great batter, while Mancuso
and Danning are only fair.
Evening star., 1937-10-02

welcome. Lecture admission is so
cents.
Roland G. Morrisette, leader
of the Procurement Division
Chess Club is busy planning
the clubs Fall activities.
Paul Morphy Chess Club has re-
sumed its weekly Thursday meetings
Ely Culbertson is now publishing
Games Digest that has chess section
edited by Frank K Perkins.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
A1STRAIGHT OFEA
q: ~ ~ THE TEEI
eA ~~N44Ssn>~>- By Walter McCoum ~
By Walter McCoIIum

E bg-me of the Womn District Golf Association
what has relatively
remain the calendar the golf
following
the Times a
Of
the
that Times Cup
played We've had invoke adherence
Evening star., 1937-10-02

other prizes. The gross award in the
Times Cup affair went to Mrs. N. j.
Waldron, with 81.
Prize winners in the higher handi-
cap division were:
Times Cup, winner, Miss Florence Scott
Manor S9-l5 81; low gross. Mrs. N. J
Waldron. Beaver Dam. 9f-l4-77 sec
ond low net. Mrs. James Hill Manor
100-2l-19; third low net Mrs Charles
Vale. Kenwood 96-I7-79.
Other net prizes were awarded to
the following
Mrs. S. w. Du Boise WASHINGTON; Mrs
Stephen De La Mater Kenwood: Mrs
Briggs Simpich Columbia; Mrs. A. c. Min
NIX. Columbia Mrs. Otto Elble Congress
sional; MIS-. J. E; Ludwig Army and Navy:
Mrs. Z. M Amick. Columbia; Mrs Charles
r Penn congressional Mrs. c. j Wiikin-
son, Consressional; Mrs D. r. Hutchin-
son: kenwood; Mrs. j. F. Gross Columbia
Winners in the low handicap di-
vision-Gross, Mrs. Leo Walper, un-
attached, 80, first low net latter a
tie), Mrs Walter r. Stokes, Indian
Spring, 85-5-80; second net, Mrs.
c. S. Stern. Indian Spring, 85-5-s0;
Mrs. George F. Hussey, Army and
Navy, 88-8-80.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
"MilliOnS Are Here"

NullOHS are mere.
CIvEN favorable weather. Mears ex-
poets the fishing to continue there
until November Is, but it only takes
one good hurricane, such as showed
up last year, to put the finish sign
up for this season The channel bass
situation should improve on up to
the 18th or goth of October. after
which a stop in that species may be
expected
Other fish taken there are
trout and giant croakers, and as
Mears puts it, millions are
here"
Nearly all the fish on the coast are
migrating SOUTH he says, land when
you 90 fishing you may catch blues or
channel bass, and you always can
Evening star., 1937-10-02
ARE BOOKED.

The Arlington unlimited foot ball
team will play the Congress Heights
eleven tomorrow afternoon at Airing
ton. For games with Arlington, call
Clarendon 1915.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
CHE; f.; E S#

at Semmering, Austria, by the score
Of 9-5.
Opposing Keres were Jose Capa-
blanca. ex-world champion; Samuel
Reshevsky, United States champion;
Salo Flohr, champion of Czecho-
slovakia, and Reuben Fine. Western
Chess Association champion, among
others
Although the youthful Esto-
nian played brilliant at the OPEN
ing of the Austrian congress, he
drew several games at the end
and barely edged ahead of Fine.
The individual score:
Evening star., 1937-10-02
VIRGINIA TEAM GROWS.

Virginia Juniors, lis and l25 pound
champions of North Virginia for the
last two years, have stepped up to
the l35-pound division and want
games. Call Alexandria 510 between
6 and pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Telescope, Pigeon Employed.
A Master of Disguise.

THE senior has secuted the Giants
from every possible angle Through
. high-powered telescope, on the top
of nearby Coogans Bluff, he has OBJ
tained incontrovertible evidence that
Melvin OFT is left-handed hitter
and that John Mccarthy wears the
No. 6 ON his shirt.
This vital stuff is relayed to the
Yankee Office by a carrier pigeon,
disguised as a Himalayan woodpecker
with a sore throat. Sometimes, to
break the monotony, the pigeon han
dies the telescope and Senor Gomez
carries the messages.
The senor planned at one time to
dig a tunnel under the wall of the
Polo Grounds, emerging somewhere
near the Giant dugout, from which
point Senor Gomez could hear Adolf
Luque complain about his rlleuma-
tism without fear of detection. He
discarded this scheme when he learned
that it had been done before.
We must have fresh angles" NUT
tered Operative X-16 to himself.
You can't pull the same trick twice
In the secret service"
Evening star., 1937-10-02
COUNTY MINES BATTLE.

Kensington and Colesvlle mines
meet again tomorrow on Corby Field
in Garrett Park in the second game
of their playoff series for the cham
pionship of Montgomery County, Md.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Sports Program
For Local Fans
Base Ball


Washington at Philadelphia (2),
1:3O.
Foot Ball.
Loyola of New Orleans VS. Cath
olic University, Brookland Stadium,
2:3O.
Shenandoah College VS.. George
town, Griffith Stadium, 2:30.
Maryland VS.. Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa, 2.
American University VS.. Bridge
water, Massachusetts, and Nebraska
avenues, 2:30.
Tech High VS.. Episcopal. Alex
andria, Va, 2:30.
Dewitt Prep VS.. Newport News
High, Newport News, Va,
George Washington High VS..
Lane High, Alexandria, Va, 3.
Today year ago-Yankees ran
up biggest score in world series by
crushing Giants, 1874, to even
series.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Impers0nates a Customer.

THE other day, in a fash of in
spiration, Senior Gomez con-
ceived the idea Of paying his way into
the ball park and watching the en-
emy from a grandstand seat. OPP
erative Kills organized safari, his
graphs, charts, note paper, pencils
adding machine, telescope and box
lunch being carried by pair of ma
tive bearers, both named MBongu
Senor Gomez headed the expedition
with his suit case. containing a change
OF disguise in case the weather turned
chilly, and toothbrush.
Mr.. x reached his seat without be-
Ing recognized. aside from scattered
shouts of Hello, Leftyl" and Give
my regards to Mrs. Gomez" This
be believes, was blind luck
They were only guessing" says
Senor Gomez.
Evening star., 1937-10-02

MISS FLORENCE SCOTT, one of
Manor's ace golfers, today holds
the Times Trophy, won in the tourney
at Kenwood yesterday with a score Of
89-l5-74. The competition for the
Times Trophy was open only to wom-
en- with handicaps between 10 and "a,
although nine women with lower
handicaps played in the tourney for
Evening star., 1937-10-02
BY PAUL ]. MILLER, JR.

"A ATCH play for the general
M tournament OF the Washing
VI ton Social Chess Divan will
4 4 begin Tuesday at 8 pm. at
the Parkside Hotel, according to Di-
rector Simon Naidel.
Final rules are being drafted and
the most important one is that the
laws Of chess as approved by the
American Chess Federation will gov
ern all play
The divan championship tourney
opens week from today and any
player may enter provided he can
qualify by displacing one of the
present six entries in a three match
series.
District Team Championship.
A LEXANDER STURGES, chair
man of the District Champion
ship Team Committee of the Metro
politan Chess Association, has desig-
mated the following as members Of
the Team Credentials Committee: Ro-
land G. Morrisette, Procurement Di-
vision Chess Club; Earle Kunkle, Paul
Morphy c. c.: Maud G. Sewall,
Ladies Chess Club; Marcel Prop
per, Government Printing Office Nor
val P. Wigginton, Social Chess Di-
van: Robert Hostler, Interhigh Chess
Association, and Prof. Paul Miller,
Metropolitan Chess Association presi-
dent, ex offcio.
The Credentials Committee will de-
termine the respective membership of
every chess team entry and where a
player is member of several clubs
rule on the question of which club
he shall represent in formal play.
Match play commences next Friday,
Parkside Hotel.
Keres Outpoints Capablanca.
DAUL KERES, Estonian chess mar
vel, at the age of 81, has won
the international masters tournament
Evening star., 1937-10-02
GREENBERC NEAR
GEHR|G'S RECORD
Needs Six in Two Games to
Top Mark of 1874 Runs
Batted In.
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


- I'VE Hank Greenberg a hand,
folks.
In the dying moments OF
~ the major league season.
when it's hard to find anything
startling to report. and harder still to
sit and watch the antics of the newly
imported rockies and the also-rans.
Hank is taking his big bat in hand
and going his "dernedest" to make it
interesting.
The point at issue is whether the
Detroit dynamiter can equal or tie
Lou Gehrig's American League record
of l84 runs batted in for a season.
Considerably quieter this season than
usual with the willow Hank has been
sneaking up on the Gehrig mark of
1881 IN recent weeks. and now has
accumulated total of 179 runs
driven in.
Has Two Games TO Play.
LIE HAS two games more in which
to send five across to tie the
mark; six to break it. If he can do
did yesterday. Gehrig's mark is as good
as gone, although Greenberg would
still fall short of the all-time major
league high Of 100. posted by Hank
Wilson with the Chicago Cubs back
in 1880.
Greenberg added six more to his
total yesterday as the Tigers trampled
toA fnn
homers, each with two mates on base,
and added double for good measure.
The homers were his thirty-ninth and
fortieth. and put him securely in sec
ond place in the home run derby, Ave
back Of Joe Di Maggie.
Hanks hitting output topped the
developments of the curtailed major
league program yesterday.
Otherwise, there were these bits Of
news:
The Dodgers, after setting the sea
sons longest losing streak of IA
straight during visits to the National
Leagues seven other parks, came
home and ended the run with v7-4
win over the newly crowned pennant
winners, the Giants.
Red Sox Tag Gomez.
7 EFTY GOMEZ, after winning five
- straight pitching victories. failed
to make it six in his final tune-up
before the world series. The Boston
Red Sox tagged eel Goofy" for three
runs In the first inning and went on
to q AZ win over the American League
championship Yankees, despite q fine
comeback by Lefty before the game
was halted by darkness in seven
innings.
The st. Louis Cardinals, after losing
Is Of l9 starts against the Cubs, turned
the tables with a Al decision, behind
| ST Johnson's effective twirling.
The win, however, didn't stop the
Pittsburgh Pirates from clinching third
place In the National League. The
Bucs whipped the Cincinnati Reds for
| the eighteenth time in nineteen starts
! this season, taking 6-3 edge behind
tight pitching by Jim Tobin.
The rest of the clubs in both leagues
were idle.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Chesspourri.

ELEMENTARY rules of the game of
chess will be explained by the
chess editor Of The Star. Monday
evening, O'Clock, Social Chess Lounge,
1886 1 street northwest. Visitors are
Evening star., 1937-10-02

They hold many more tournaments
than any mems organization, which
is due. of course, to the fact that
women have more time to play golf
than most of the males. And have
they demonstrated their ability to
run their own affairs? They have,
in q manner that no masculine or
ganization could possibly criticize
Don't be surprised, either, to see
them insist on Mrs. Payne serving
another year as president She has
done such splendid job she de-
serves the honor.
Today a team of higher handicap
women are down at Winchester, Va,
playing in postponed team match
The Washington team consists of the
following feminine golfers: Mrs. H.
l.. Simcoe, Manor; Mrs. R. A. Lacey,
Columbia; Mrs. R. E. Joyce, Ken
wood; Mrs. Charles MCGOWAN, Beaver
Dam; Mrs. Mac Hill, Indian Spring;
Mrs. Charles H. Merrillat, Washing
ton; Mrs. Frank Helan, Manor; Mrs
c. A. Frownfelter, Beaver Dam; Mrs.
N. J. Waldron, Beaver Dam, and Mrs.
Ralph w. Payne, Congressional.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
'iAahQB&SzRE4Ms1@
By GEORGE {. ttuBsR- ~
Chesapeake Bay Species.
By GEORGE E. HUBER :

take weaks and croakers, the largest
croaker going to AZ pounds"
Evening star., 1937-10-02
HELEN DETTwEILER, District and

Maryland champion; Mrs. Bishop
Hill of Chevy Chase. and Ellen Kin
caid of Congressional are at Mem
phis today preparing for the opening
of the womens national tourney Mon
day. Miss Dettweiler won the first
flight consolation prize in the South
eastern tourney at Nashville. and will
write newspaper stories about the
tourney from Memphis. She also will
broadcast from Station VINO at Mem
phis.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
WHEN Roland Mackenzie gets hot

with his golf clubs he really burns.
The boys at Congressional are all talk
ing about the flve-under-par 80 the
Congressional pro scored on the last
nine, in an informal game with Billy
Shea and Frank Goodwin Here is the
way he made it:
Par - 443 534 444-35
Mackenzie ------ 532 334 1880
That nine includes three brides and
an eagle. Darkness stopped them from
finishing the round.
Evening star., 1937-10-02
Scouts Giants Learns Enemy Wears Numbers Uniforms
OFT LEFT-HANDED
HITTER, X-16F|NDS
Yankee Operative Denies
Identity as Foemen Ask
How're We Doing?"
BY JOHN LARDNER.

n YEW YORK, october There s
n more espionage and intrigue
" in New York ball parks these
a days than you'll find in a
bushel of Oppenheim novels. Every
body is scouting somebody. The thing
has gone so far that even Senior Lefty
Gomez, a frank and open caballero
In private life, now operates as a
secret agent, spying on the New York
Giants
Senor Gomez denies this, of course.
No self-respecting spy likes to be ad-
vertised as such. It's bad for busi-
ness. But how else can you account
for the fact that the pride of Aragon
and the toast of CASTLE was in the
left-field grandstand at the Polo
red fake whiskers, blue eyeglasses
and heavy veil?
The fellow was disguised, unless I
miss my guess, as an unemployed
shrimp fisherman.
A Master of Disguise.
YOUR correspondent, through hid
den channels, has probed deep
into the New York Yankees Bureau
of Espionage and Intrigue. I learn
that Senor Gomez is listed on the
pay roll as operative X-16. His bud
dies call him Mr.. x for short. This
sinister agent knows every trick of
the trade and has mastered every
form of disguise.
He is toying now with the notion
of pitching the first game of the world
series disguised as an early sixteenth
century freplug And certain Giant
supporters of my acquaintance assure
me that soon afterward-say two in
nings later-Senor Gomez will be dis
guised as left-handed pitcher walk
ing to the showers. They say he
can play the role to perfection, thanks
to a wealth of experience.
But this, Senior Gomez tells me, is
An ugly libel. He will let posterity
be the judge.
Evening star., 1937-10-02

w YHEN considering fishing
NA/ trip this time of year do
" not fail to give Wacha-
rreani1a No fo,r, mn
Evening star., 1937-10-02

\ n ATCH play for the general
Nu tournament OF the Washing
VI ton Social Chess Divan will
4 4 begin Tuesday at pm. at
Evening star., 1937-10-02

Keres Outpoints Capablanca.
DAUL KERES, Estonian chess mar
VEL at the age of 81, has won
the international masters tournament