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Hagen Comeback Is Predicted When He Ends Tour


approach It since he made his
debut on the major tracks. Riding
on the frying pan" circuit, Turner
rode six winners in one day then
came back the next to ride six
more.
The champion 2-year-old colt
Of the year may be seen tn action
at Saratoga next Saturday. Tiger,
the Milky Way Stable star, which
ran 4 dead heat with Teddy's
Comet in the Arlington Futurity,
has been named for the Grand
Union Hotel Stakes along with j.
H. Whitney's Pumpkin, c. v. Whit
ney's Dauber, the Wheatley Stables
stromscud, the Belair studs Fight
ing Fox and Wise Fox, E. r. Brad
ley's Born Wise, Calumet Farms
Chic Maud aud Bun Lea and Mrs.
=. A. Clafk1 Encore.
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Complains Of Pictures.

E>ARR is cocky enough, If that means
anything. He was saying in camp
today that Louis knows that e is
licked. am going to win the cham
plonship by fair methods. And the
malicious scoundrel who says I butt
with my cad to cut a man, is most
unfair"
Word has gone out. you know, that
Tommy uses his head in the ring,
but chiefly to open the eyes Of his
foes. Izzy Kline, who trains Max
Baer, is disciple Of this doctrine.
Icy claims that Farr defeated Baer
only by butting a cash over Max's
eyes, causing the flowing blood to
blind Baer.
Farr spent part Of the day
vigorously denying this accusa-
tion and another part Of 1t COM
planning Of the photography
connected with his training.
They always pick the worst pic
lures to put in the papers" lamented
Mr.. Farr. They all show me off
balance or getting it."
It's never seemed to occur to
Tommy, nor did anybody care to
remind him. that it is difficult to
make cameras lie. II he was shown
getting konked, or of balance, he
must have been konked or was on
balance. He probably has the worst
staff of sparring partners in history
and II he cannot pose we'll against
them, he is in bad shape, indeed.
Wonder what he will say when he
sees the papers Of Friday, August 27?
Or is that nice to say?
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MIDDLE Of STICK
ORDER PUNCHLESS
Travis No Longer Sustains
Club as Pitchers Jar
Down on Leader.
BY FRANCIS E STAN.


n YEW YORK, August 18.-Wanted
One healthy svinger. who
" occasionally connects, for work
in middle Of batting order.
Hours good, pay swell. Apply Stanley
Harris, Washington base ball club.
Bucky knew it couldn't 60 on for
ever . that winning streak. He
suspected the Yanks would have some.
thing to say about swapping it. too.
But Bucky would have felt better
along about dusk yesterday if he had
one climax hitter among the Mats
That lack cost the second game of q
double-header and. incidentally, fifth
place. New York won, 80, ga.
For weeks now the Mats. to be
brutally frank. have been depending
on Cecil Travis to do the big work
with the stick. And Cecil did It..
Almost single-handedly, the young
shortstop pounded the Griffs to victory
after victory, and in the process he
batted himself into the leadership
Of the American League with an
average that once cached .389.
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Made 1t a New Game.

WHAT came rolling out of the
w hotel conference rooms after the
Winter of 1920-2l, besides the sched-
ules. was a lively apple that would
sail over practically any fence in
either league except the Cleveland
Municipal Stadium, and that hadn't
been built yet.
What happened actually was that a
pew game was invented. The en-
phasis had been changed. Look at
sarned-run averages of the leading
pitchers in either league five years be-
fore and five years after the first
rabbit ball was thrown out by Presi-
dent Harding Grover Cleveland Alex
ander of the Phillies and the Cubs
was the big pitching star from 1915
b 1920, and his earned-run averages
went 122, 1.55. 185, 1.72 and 19l.
Yet, in 1921, up went the leagues
lowest earned-run average-Eppa
Rixey's-to 278.
The best mark was 800 next season,
and only twice again was National
League pitcher to break 200 earned
runs. Luque of Cincinnati in those
days had 1873 in 1923, and Carl
Euobell the Great had 166 in 1888
The rest-and there were some fine
pitchers among them-ranged between
209 and 347 as league-leading pitch
ms. It was a whole new game, base
ball was.
Evening star., 1937-08-18
Fewer Home Runs in 1898?

HOME runs, naturally, won't be as
frequent next season If the two
big leagues adopt the ball they say
they will, Pitching will get the break
It deserves, but at the cost Of lot of
excitement. If they took the forward
pass away from foot ball or penalized
a team every time pass failed there
wouldn't be so many fireworks. and
maybe the fans wouldn't like foot ball
20 we'll. Base ball may suffer similarly,
though to some old-timers 1t will be
base ball again and not the alias Of the
192os.
In the National League, the batting
pitcher now must use, as a tester,
about two dozen new dead" balls. So
far there has been no report. Ford
Frick tells us that the new apple has
less rubber In its insides than the rab-
bit.
Ty Cobb believed In the sanctity Of
the one-base hit. He believed it took
real skill to place a hit. and he proved
that he had such skill A single yet
may be brought back to the place Of
honor.
The fans may not like the deader
ball. but third basemen will. Since
1920 third-base averages have dropped
from to 10 points. and the third
baseman who has finished a season
with $50 games or more and 15C
stitches or less has won 4 special
league trophy. The way that modern
ball comes down the third-base line
from . powerful right-handed hitter
vas enough to scare Pie Traynor into
managing the Pittsburgh Pirates
There hasn't been a star third base
man since Pie left to sit with score
card, and II you don't believe 1t, try
to pick one for an all-star team. You
cant think Of any Of their names.
Evening star., 1937-08-18
Sc1,ocht Cleans Up as Clown
While Nick, Slowed by Injury,
Carries On as Criffs' Coach

Altrock is an ardent golfer. He's
a southpaw and plays municipal
course here almost every morning the
team is in town. He shoots a good
game, too, often in the 70s.
He still is big favorite with the
players, and his playfulness in the
locker rooms keeps them in lively
spirits. They're always thinking up
jokes to play on him
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'POPHP!NGEas H:: y -! 50
Off"~JhG ~JhG - !! ) =
The Title Is Farr, Farr A,uay.


T ONG BRANCH N. j., August 18-Mr
of
Yankee Stadium be most irritable
with hghlng
stranger than other
3ofoot fence
"keep-of"
For Tommy develops
make living
he To
the conviction that he is bum fighter.
Louis hitting
George Washington like
Matte Brown in the
that you'd have shoots his
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Kuhel Is Stopped Cold.

RUT once Cece got into this strata
the pitchers began to work on
him. They put something on every
pitch. They began to walk him rather
than give him something good to hit.
And Travis average began to drop.
But did anybody else step up and
volunteer to shoulder the load9 Not
as far as Harris has been able to see
Given one opportune hitter in the
nightcap yesterday the Mats would
have had an even break and retained
their hold on fifth place.
Joe Kuhel has been the weak sister
of late. Not only did he fail to get
hit, but he went hitless all day
yesterday. and once he hit into
double-play On two other occasions
he struck out
In the last Is games played by the
Mats, joey has made only IL hits In
81 times at bat This is an average OF
only 1877. He has driven across. from
(See STAN Page A-l3)
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Fanciful Stories on Carpenter.

Fanciful Stories on Carpenter.
RECALL that fight WE'LL" said one
of the grizzled group that was
watching Farr. I'm fact this fellow
makes me think Of Carpenter all the
time except that he can't fight as we'll.
"Rickard wouldn't let Carpenter
train in public" he went on. "Demp-
sey, who weighed 189 at the time, was
at his peak. Carpenter was only 4
middleweight. He was 1853 when he
weighed in for the fight, but happen
te know definitely he was only 1863
when the bell rang for the" first round.
They probably filled him up on water
or something when they weighed in.
"Rickard knew what he was
doing when he made Carpenter
train in private. A good deal Of
phoney ballyhoo came out Of his
camp, but at least nobody could
come right out and say he was
a bum. And that's what they
are saying about Farr."
It may be recalled that some very
fanciful publicity was written on
Carpenter, at that. There was
Francois de Champs. his manager,
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BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK, August ia
IN a's par'.y.a ID SO 10 ., on tn tn. o.s11 Ashe
4 y letics in the recent Yankee
series and made himself q cool
$500 New York newsreel
audiences applaud Tommy Farr's
picture Walter Hagen's pals
say he is all set for q great golf
comeback when he comes back
from Australia or wherever he is.
You can laugh at the Cincinnati
Reds all you like. but they may
have lot to say about who wins
the National League pennant race
Latest Semi-ofncial dope is
that Bobby Riggs, the California
youngster, can count himself In
that No. ! tennis spot-fisht BE-
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In the American League.

THE same thing happened in the
American League. Before 1920,
the earned-runs champion invaria bly,
was below 400 Walter johnson was
a 100 pitcher in 1912. There hasn't
been pitcher below 200 in the Amer
tcan League since Mostly the pitch
Ing champ has been closer to 800.
Batting averages went up naturally
and home runs were no longer mat
ters for exceptional hitters like Home
Run Baker. Pitchers began swatting
high flies and trotting around the
diamond, while John McGraw and
Connie Mack swore these distinctly
were not the good old days. Stolen
bases Topped. What was the use of
stealing base, sacrificing a player
to third and scoring him on a fly
out. when. with one blow, almost any,
body on the other squad, including the
bat boy, could lift a pitch out of the
park? The managers stopped telling
their scouts to look for pitchers and
sent them out for Nightly hitters who
weren't afraid to swing at anything.
The scores got higher. In 1919 they
had averaged to 4, and in 1880 the
winning team usually had to get 7
to win-on the average, Of course.
There still were 10 games. but there
were more big innings and more
double-figure scores. The Cubs and
the Phillies did it up right in the Fall
Of 1922. when the Chicagos had to
score Is runs to defeat % Philly runs
Usually it took less in 1905 to 1920
to win the batting championship than
1t took after 1920. In 1922 Hornsby
hit for 40l and Sisler led the other
league with .420. Practically all the
extra base records were murdered after
1920. Only few Of Ty Cobb's great
base ball achievements have outlasted
the rabbit. But with three-base hits,
the total has been about the same
before and after the lively ball came
tn Maybe a three-base hit still is
the real hi. in any mans ball park.
Maybe that's why.
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Injury Slows Nick.
\ LTROCK rarely is on the coachil

A IL NoSh rarely Is Oh tne cOaCnlng
line these days He hits to the
infielders in pre-game warm-ups
Sometimes. when the fancy strikes
him. he'll do stunt or two, and he
still gets the laughs. His stuff" al
ways went over better in some towns
than others and in these parks he
still turns on the comedy occasionally
Nick's ankle was broken by a batted
ball last year and the injury slowed
him up.
Evening star., 1937-08-18

Of those base ball trades that Clark
Griffith did not make All Matte gives
his opponents to shoot for is a small
portion of very durable skull.
The kind of appraisals that
Mr.. Farr has been drawing then
can do no good for the box office
and most of the boys think that
Mr.. Jacobs should have done
the the same thing Tex Rickard
did when Carpenter was train
ing for Dempsey.
Tex took look at Carpenter and
decided it would never do for the
writing boys to see much OF the orchid
man. In the first place he was not
Evening star., 1937-08-18

who was supposed to be able to
hypnotic the Frenchmans foes with
his evil eye. And there was a story
going the rounds that Carpenter
trained in private only because he was
perfecting a new, secret punch to
throw at Dempsey.
The funny part of it was that
Carpenter really did wind up and
clock Jack on the chin with a right
hand that made Dempsey's ears wave
at Boyle's Thirty Acres. But, in the
end. Dempsey did exactly what those
who knew boxing expected him to do.
Only he made it little strong. He
almost killed Carpenter.
Evening star., 1937-08-18

guest He looks like q mil
lion dollars and talks that kind
Of fight.
Although War Admiral appeared
to be in fine condition when he
breezed quarter mile at Sara
toga Saturday he will not be raced
until the Lawrence Realization at
Belmont Park. The Son Of Man
o War has not had q hard work
out yet, but the long rest seems
to have helped him. His smooth
action and graceful stride look
more effective than ever.
Leonard Turner, contract jockey
for the BomAr Stable, claims .
riding record which probably never
has been duplicated by any rider,
but hs hasnt been ahls svsn TO
Evening star., 1937-08-18
Two Bad
FIRST GAME.

Runs batted in-Dickey, Lazzeri. Di
Magic t2}. Gehrig, Powell Hoae '2l.
Two-base hit-Gehrig. Home runs-Dic-
key Lazzeri. Sacrifce-Crosettl Double
play-Myer. Travis and Kuhel Left on
bases-New YORK $: Washington, /.
ton. /; of Chase, :. Struck out-Bv Ap-
pleton. 5; by Chase. 4 by Gomez. 3. Hits
on Appleton. in a. innings; of Chase,
in 5i7 innings Losing pitcher-Apple-
ton. Umpkes-Messrs. Hubbard, Dinneen
and Kolls. Time of game: :55.
Evening star., 1937-08-18
BY DILLON GRAHAM,
Associated Press Sports Writer

L SCHACHT is clowning for
n minor league fans these days,
~. while Nick Altrock. his one
a time pardner in base balls
most famous comedy team, carries on
as Washington coach.
Schacht. familiar figure in Ameri-
can League parks for years, left the
Boston Red Sox last Fall to take his
cut-up act about the country. Re-
ports say he's been knocking them
in the aisles.
Evening star., 1937-08-18

Runs batted in-Stone t2|. Gehrls '2l,
Two-base hits-Sinston, De shons. Stone.
Three-base hits-Gehrig, Di Massio, Hen
rich. Home run-Dickey. Stolen base
Almada Double plays-Gehrig and
Dickey; Travis. Myer and Kuhel. Left on
Bases on balls-on Hadley. g. off De
Shons, . Struck out-By De Shons /:
by Hadley. 8 Hits-Of De shons, IL in
ia innings; OF Cohen, in Is inning; on
Hadley s in g innings (none out in
ninth: of Murphy. l in inning Hit by
pitcher-By Hadley tMyer. Winning
pitcher-Hadley. Losing pitcher-De
Shong. Umpires-Messrs. Dinneen, Kolls
and Hubbard. Time-2:05. Attendance
25 2SS
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1888 Base Ball to Be Hurer Joy He Hitter No,u Grs' Nee0
MAJORS To DOOM
CHEAP HOME RUNS
Johnson Last A. |. Pitcher
to Beat 200 Average in
Earned Ta|Iies.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

a YEW YORK, August 1s.-The
N boys put gopher inside the
" American base ball so people
4 would forget that some Of the
greatest ball players that ever lived
had played to lose against Cincinnati.
It was about IS years ago that the
take-their- -minds-off-it campaign was
Matched, and they put in the gopher
and now they want to take it out.
Some of the Nightly home runs will
Be putouts a year from now, and a
pitcher will have at least a mathe-
matical chance of getting below two
earned runs in the averages
The world series scandal of 1919
didn't break, you will remember, until
1920, although one or two pretty good
broad hints bounced off the bar
tenders on the South Side OF Chicago
that the White Sox infield suddenly
had taken to closing their eyes and
wearing their gloves on the wrong
hand 1t was such terrible mess
that big base ball needed a whitewash
and something brand-new to talk
about.
Evening star., 1937-08-18
hind Don Bulge (Which Is
just what Bobby has been con-
tending all along).

Marcel Thil, the French mid
dleweight, is completely bald =.
A Western school has It's eye on
smart old Bill Alexander Of
Georgia Tech (but doubts II it
can lure him away Also
more than one college is watch
ing Lawrence Spearman, new as
sistant coach at Little Davidson,
whose Chester Is. c. high teams
lost only four games in nine years.
Harry Smith, veteran sports edi-
tor Of the San Francisco Chronicle,
Is back from . jaunt to Europe
and will stay here until after Louis
and Farr do their stun FAR
was jack DemDssy's lancheon
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tSee STAN, Page abb
Evening star., 1937-06-10
DELEGATES RECEIVED
BY F. B. |. DIRECTOR
Hoover Asks Them to Seek Junior
Board of Commerce Conven.
ton for D. C.

Three OF the 10 Washington dele
gates who will leave Sunday for the
national convention Of the Junior
Board OF Commerce, in Denver, were
received today by j. Edgar Hoover,
director Of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, who expressed to the
group his most sincere wish" that
the delegates from here will be able
to swing the convention in favor of
Washington as the site of the annual
meeting in June, 1898.
The Washington delegates-Who will
bear convention invitations to Denver
from Senators, Representatives and a
score of other prominent persons in
Washington-Were particularly pleased
to receive Hoovers cordial invitation
because of the Justice Departments
cooperation with the program of
civil Identification through finger
printing being carried on by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Members of the Junior Board who
called on Hoover this morning we're
John S. Bleecker, president. Lyle F.
O'Rourke, a director, and A. z. Foster
Wood, general counsel Others who
will make the trip to Denver are
Walter S. McBroom, Jack Hayes, jr.:
Aloysius I. Sheehan, Minor Hudson,
Fred B. Linton, Dr. Robert Harper and
Chester wilkins.
Evening star., 1937-06-10
BERRY CHARGES
TO Be WEIGHED
Senate Privileges Commit.
tee to Meet Tomorrow to
Determine Procedure.

The Senate Privileges and Elections
Committee will meet at 10 am. to-
morrow to consider charges against
Senator Berry Of Tennessee. filed by
H. c. Lowry, also Of Tennessee.
Among the charges filed was court
decree involving the expenditure Of
$l55 900 OF the funds of the Press
mems Union, OF which Berry is presi-
dent.
The charge maintains that the
funds were used for the development
Of a power plant.
Senator George of Georgia, chairman
OF the Privileges and Elections Com
mittee, said today that the meeting
tomorrow would be executive and for
the purpose of determining whether
the committee shall hold hearings on
the charges against Senator Berry.
He said Lowry undoubtedly would
be present and permitted to file any
supplemental charges and information
that he might have.
Senator Berry recently was appoint
ed by Gov, Browning Of Tennessee to
fill the vacancy in the Senate caused
by the death Of the late Senator Bach
man.
Evening star., 1937-06-10
RITES LISTED TODAY
FOR D. B. HEMPSTEAD
Special Assistant to Attorney
General Was Native
of Utah.

Funeral services for David B. Hemp
stead, special assistant to Attorney
General Cummings in the land division
of the Department of Justice. who died
at the Kennedy Warren Apartments
Tuesday, were held today in the Latter
Day Saints Chapel, Sixteenth street
and Columbia road.
Born in Utah in 1870, Mr. Hemp
stead rose to prominence in his native
State as a lawyer specializing in land
litigation.
He graduated from the University
of Michigan in 1890 and from Harvard
Law School in 1893 Beginning the
practice of law shortly after gradu-
alton from Harvard, he became lead
ing member Of the bar in Salt Lake
City, where he once served as cor
poration counsel He was a member OF
Zeta Psi fraternity
He was appointed to the Department
Of Justice in 1884 and assigned to
handle important Western land
matters.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Estelle Hawk Hempstead; his son and
daughter-in-laW, Mr. and Mrs. David
B. Hampstead, Sd; a brother, H. H.
Hampstead of San Francisco, and two
sisters, Miss Florence G. Hampstead of
Salt Lake City and Mrs. Annie H,
Rand of British Columbia.
Evening star., 1937-06-10

struction. His burdens became sc
great during the war that he found
them getting beyond the control OF
one government, hence he invited q
number of prominent Liberals to
share them, and the result was the
Union government, with Sir Robert
still at the head. 1t was this govern
ment that inforced the military serv-
ice act, Canada's first experience
with conscription.
With the termination of hostilities,
Sir Robert attended the Paris Pea ce
Conference as Canadian plenipoten-
tiary and member of the British En-
pire delegation. He was appointed
chief British Empire representative
on the 1nter-Allied Commission of the
Peace Conference on the Greek ques-
ton, and representative on a SINH
lar commission to determine the Rus
sian question.
The United States was given an
opportunity to see Sir Robert in ac-
tlon at close range during the Fall
of 1921. when he spent several weeks
in Washington as the Canadian rep
resentatlve to the Armament Con-
ference
Evening star., 1937-06-10
BYRD WOULD HOLD
FAMILIES IN PARK
Says Mountaineers Could Be
Left in Homes With Profit
to Selves and u. S.
Ey the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, June 1O-Sen-
ator Harry F. Byrd. severe critic OF
the Resettlement Administration s
plan to move approximately $50 fami-
lies in the Shenandoah Park to model
farms, said today that majority OF
the families may be left in the park
with profit to themselves and the Fed
eral Government.
There is work for them in the
park Byrd said. They should be
permitted to stay there on good be-
havior. They should be rehabilitated
at home"
The Senator pointed out that In
his criticism Of the too costly" Shen-
andoah homesteads project he has
not opposed the extension OF ADEQUATE
aid to the park residents.
Transportation Called Cruel"
They should be given every oppor-
tunity to adjust themselves to their
altered condition" he said. Those
who move should be placed on farms
that can be purchased in the neigh
borhood at a cost much lower than
the model farms"
The junior Virginia Senator recon-
mended that the Older people, particu-
larly, should be left in their present
homes. They are, he insisted, un.
suited to any other environment and il
would be "uneconomical as well as
cruel to transplant them"
AS / understand the present ar.
rangement," he continued, many oi
the working men in these families are
to be given employment in the park
anyhow. If they are going to worI
there in the park why not let then
live there along with the people who
VIII be brought from the outside fol
work In the park? There is plenty OF
room for them to live without inter.
fering with the public use of the area
and there seems to be plenty OF EN-.
ployment for them up there"
Says Plan Expensive.
The Senator said he thought Il
would be expensive and unsatisfactory