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Evening star., 1937-04-24
Took Sting From Defeat.


"V'KNOW, Johnson to me was an
idol. And here I am, standing
there, with 10000 people yelling their
heads off for Walter, and the thought
struck me how much he deserved it,
not so much on account of that one
game. but because of the great record
behind him, as g. pitcher and as
man. 1t sure took lot of sting out
Of losing"
We traded bit of unwritten base
ball history with Bentley. Two days
before the epic wind-up Of the 1924
series johnson was beaten, 6 to 2. It
was his second loss to the Giants, and
gave them the lead, three games to
two. The great Johnson, after 18 years
OF striving for the opportunity to pitch
IN a world series, was a failure.
Bentley, by the way, was the winning
pitcher that day.
After the game the Big Train ap-
peared before Clark Griffith. There
was nothing for old Barney to say
verbally. But the tears that streakcd
down his bony cheeks spoke eloquently.
Forget it, Walter" said Grif, with
an af1ectionate pat, and added: go
get some rest. We may need you"
And sure enough the Griffs tied the
series the next day and johnson got
another chance. No pitcher ever put
more heart into job than did Walter
johnson, when for four innings as
relief finger, he held the Giants
runless as the Griffs won the pay-off
game in IL innings.
Gosh" said Bentley, you make
me feel almost downright glad I lost
that game"
Evening star., 1937-04-24
JERSEY CITY'S 81 234
SETS MINOR RECORD
Crowd Makes Total for Int Loop
1naugurals 56,S34-Buffalo,
Rochester Victors.

BY the Associated Press.
IF THEY even come close to the
drawing power indicated by their
opening day crowd, the Jersey Giants
should fulfill the fondest hopes of the
International League bosses for a
financially successful season.
The all-time record crowd of 3D.
234 which came out yesterday as the
jersey City club, back in the circuit
after three-year absence, got off to
a day-late start, probably won't be
equaled often If at all 1t was the
product of city-Wide celebration
which included half holidays in public
Offices and schools and which was
backed by concerted drive to get
the fans out, regardless of the cold,
raw weather.
Jersey City is noted as "red hot
base ball town, however, and the
chances are the crowds will keep COM
ing large enough to make things
bright even in league that plays be-
fore more than million customers
annually. The brand-new team was
beaten in its first start, but looked
promising as it battled the Rochester
Red Wings for II innings before going
down, 43.
Only about 1000 chilled customers
turned out at Syracuse to see the
Chiefs take 6-to-l licking from the
Buffalo Bisons in their opener.
Evening star., 1937-04-24

passed from one OF the richest clubs
in base ball to probably the poorest and
in doing so he looks as If he got the
best break of his life. And maybe
he did
They'll never name little Lamar
Newsome on the American League
all-star team, probably, but just the
same Mack has the best fielding Short
stop in the circuit.
Newsome never will hit lot,
but he adds class to the infield
and so does Chalmers Cissell, at
his present pace.
Cssell, of course, is no youngster.
He came up to the American League
some years ago and the White Sox
paid a pretty penny for him. But
Chalmers was a Good-time Charley
and he was sent to Boston and, from
there, to the minors. When he stops
being playboy he can play base ball.
Right now he seems to be playing ball.
When Mack picked up Lovill Dean
from the Duke University campus, he
apparently did the AS no harm Last
year the kid was neither fish nor
fowl in the field. but he could hit.
He proved it, too, when he led the
pinch-hitters of the league. This year
Connie installed him on first base and
it Is beginning to look as If he's got
one of the rising first basemen of
modern times.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
MAYER AGAIN RULES
FAIR u. S. FENCERS
Proves She Stands Almost Alone
in Field by Taking Title
for Third Time.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-On the basis
= OF the 1887 championship results,
Helene Mayer, the Oakland, Calf,
girl who won the 1928 Olympic wom-
ems fencing title for Germany and
competed for that nation again last
Summer, stands almost alone in Amer
ican women's foils play.
Miss Mayer found only one trouble
some opponent last night as she won
the title for the third time Mrs.
Joanna De Tuscan of Detroit, who took
the 1896 championship when Miss
Mayer didn't compete after winning in
1884 and 1898, has become pro-
fessional. The No. ranking fencer
in America, Mrs. Marion Lloyd Vince,
missed the championships because Of
honeymoon. She recently was mar
ried to Joseph Vince, New York fencing
instructor.
That left only Carol Alessandroni,
member Of another famous fencing
family, to give Miss Mayer competition.
She lost one semi-flnal match, but
was unbeaten In the final round
robin until she met the Californian.
She was defeated, AZ.
Behind Miss Allessandroni Mrs. Dolly
Funke and Maria Cerra Of New York
placed third and fourth. Madeline
Dalton Of New York, national junior
champion, and Madeline Sarvis Of
PHILADELPHIA tied for nth,
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Wild Tiger Away
To ROarin' Start
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April Pats too
early in the season to venture
a guess on whether Gerald Walker
has reformed" but he's making
life miserable for opposing hurlers
right now.
Walker, the speedy Detroit Tiger
outfielder, whose antics on the base
paths have electrified the fans and
put gray hairs in Manager Mickey
Cochrane's head, holds a tWo-game
batting average Of TIT. In the Tiger
win Tuesday over Cleveland he had
home run, triple, double and sin
gle in four trips. Yesterday he had
a double and two singles in five off,
cial times at bat.
Walker, who has been known to
smack pinch triple and then be
tagged out overrunning the bag, hit
1853 last season.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Vats Failure at Bat Puzzles Indiana Sparle Meet
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TO-DAY.
Base Ball.

Washington VS.. Philadelphia,
Griffith Stadium, g.
Maryland VS.. Georgetown, Hill
top field, 3.
Western Maryland VS.. Catholic
University, Brookland Stadium, 8.
Baltimore City College VS.. Roose-
welt. Roosevelt Stadium, 2:30.
HagerstoWn High VS.. Maryland
Frosh, College Park, Md, 2:3O.
st. Adams VS.. Gilman Country
School, Baltimore, Md.
Junior Horse Show.
Landon School, 1890.
Hunt Race.
Maryland Cup, Worthington VAL
ley, Md, 4.
Maryland VS.. ST. Johns, Byrd
Stadium, College Park, Md, 3.
Track.
Local colleges and schools in
Penn Relays, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bowling.
Washington City Duckpin ASso-
citation tournament, Lucky Strike, 7.
Tennis.
Hampden-Sydney VS.. American
University, Nebraska and Massa-
chusetts avenues, 2:3O.
st. Adams VS.. Gilman Country
School, Baltimore, Md
Roosevelt VS.. Maryland Frosh,
College Park, Md, 2.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
HUbbEL[ MAKES|T
SEVENTEEN IN ROW
Giants Ace Picks Up Where
He Left OFF in '36 to
WhiteWash Bees.
BY SID FEEDER,

IIC QUAREPANTs" is back with
all his stuff, so alls right
with the Bronx, the Polo
- Grounds and the New York
Giants. But it's not so hot for the
rest of the National League.
Squarepants, for the benefit of those
Who've missed the treat, is the Ma
tional Leagues leading pitcher King
Carl Hubbell. He got the nickname
from his extra-leg-length base ball
Jeans which stretch three quarters Of
the way down to his ankles and appear
for all the world like two stovepipes
painted white, when he's out there on
the mound.
He also is noted for his portside
pitching, his screw ball specially and
his 16-game unfinished winning streak
last season.
Bill Terry threw King Carl at the
usually TROUBLESOME Boston Bees yes
terday as the league champions made
their debut at their own Polo Grounds.
And Hubbeu picked up where he left
off in '36.
Invincible in Crisis.
HIS screw ball did everything but
sit up and laugh right in the
Bees faces. The rest of his stuff fol-
lowed suit, and Carl pitched himself
a three-hit, 80 shutout for the
Giants second straight win of the
season and his own seventeenth
straight in league competition. He
famed five, walked three and the
only time he was threatened he struck
out two men in a row with the bases
loaded.
Hubbell's top-hight flinging topped
a day of generally fine pitching along
the big-league front. Right behind
him were Young George Caster Of
Connie Mack's Athletics and old Waite
Hoyt, opening his Goth year in the
majors as relief pitcher extraordinary
for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Hoyt, picking up in the second in
ming when big Jim Weaver weakened
allowed three hits the rest of the way
as the Bucs won their third straight,
nosing out the Roughhouse Reds from
Cincinnati, 43, in a game marked by
the seasons first fist fight. Rookie Lee
Grissom of the Reds and Catcher Al
Todd started it, and several others
joined in before it was over.
FelIer Pitching Today.
DOY HENSHAW famed nine in
close to eight innings as the
Dodgers topped the Phillies 4-3 in the
Philadelphia National League opener.
Roxie Lawson muffled the Chicago
White Sox with half a dozen hits as
the Detroit Tigers, headed by Hank
Greenberg and his first homer, clubbed
out a 1912 conquest to remain unde-
feated.
Although touched for eight and ten
hits, respectively, the Cardinals Lon
Warneke and the Cleveland Indians
Johnny Allen showed lots of stuff in
the pinches. Warneke, pennant hope
Of the gas house gang, kept the Cards
in the unbeaten column with Sd
victory, st. Louis third. Aliens Indian
mates did most of the work in the
Cleveland home opener, banging five
pitchers to wallop the already slipping
St. Louis Browns, go. The Yankees
and Boston Red Sox were rained out.
The Indians, tangling with the
Browns again, are slated to present
their rookie sensation, young Bob
Feller, to the home folks in todays tilt.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
SEVEN STAR PAGERS
ELIGIBLE FOR DERBY
S4 500 Event Will Be Held for
First Time During Grand
Circuit Meeting.
By the Associated Press.


GOSHEN, N. Y, April 24.-seven
of the country's outstanding
PAGERS still are eligible for the S4,50O
pacing derby, which will be raced for
the first time at Syracuse's Grand Cir
cult meeting, September 6-ll.
The derby. similar in its provisions
to the $4,000 all-American stake for
trotters, also to be raced at Syracuse,
will be single handicap dash of liz
miles.
The side -wheeIers kept eligible by
recent payments to the Trotting Horse
Club are:
E j. Bakers Cardinal Prince and
Princess Woman, St. Charles, III. Pau!
BowserS Dominion Grauan. LeXinstor.
Mass; H. D. Bierys Little Pat and Lee
Hanover Butler. Pa R NJ Norton
Colonel Tom Waterville N Y. and Henry
E Warwick S Running Water New Ham,
burg H
Evening star., 1937-04-24

For one item, nobody is calling them
the Apathetics any more, which was
a name Mack inherited involuntarily
last season after he shipped most of
his big-name players to Boston for
cash consideration. Secondly, Mack
has taken two games from highly
touted Washington club and, in doing
so, used two pitchers the Mats didn't
even know were in the American
League until the games were won.
you should have seen the
club in Mexico" supplied this
departments informant.
"Spirit? I never saw anything like
it. This Werber, for one guy. has
done a lot. When a fellow fails to
slide at the right time, the whole bench
gives him going-over. They call
each other so-and-so's and cuss all
over the joint.
And Connie . he just sits back
and grins, He's happier now than at
any time since his last pennant win
ner was rolling over the rest OF
the pack"
Evening star., 1937-04-24
DOONIS is SLAB DEMON

Further evidence that Tommy Doonis
high series was forthcoming today, as
Tech chalked up another triumph at
the expense Of Mount st. Joseph, 80,
yesterday, in Baltimore.
Relieving Buddy Webb in the sec
ond inning, after the Baltimore bats
men had nicked the chubby right
handler for 4 consecutive hits, Doonis
dished up only 2 hits in 7ls innings
and struck out 8.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
CROWNS, RECORDS
PREY OF HOOS|ERS
Two Bagged, Four More Are
Sought Today-Woodruff,
Lash Games Stars.

~ PHILADELPHIA, April 24-Un-
- der the leadership Of Coach
E. 0. Hayes, Indiana is eX-
L tending its rule beyond the
bounds of the Hoosier State.
Last week end the Indiana track
crew cleaned up five championships
and victory in freak event at the
Kansas relays Today, as the forty
third annual Penn relay carnival went
into its second and final session, the
crimson -Shirted corn belt flyers, with
two titles and two records to their
credit, were cunning for four more.
The Hayes pupils were entered in
three of the afternoons baton passing
scrambleS-a half mile, mile aad four
miles. In addition, they had sandy
haired Don Lash, holder of the world
2-mlle record, ready for an invitation
mile race against Luigi Beccal, Olym-
plan from Italy; Gene Venzke, Olym-
plan from New York A. c.. and Ernie
Federoff Of New York's Melrose A. A.
Lash's Leg" Makes Record.
ASH did his standing in this "spe-
cial" no harm at all by clicking
off a Abb mile on the anchor leg
of Indiana's distance medley victory
yesterday. That anchor leg was the
works in the Hoosiers' time OF
l0:04.7-faSt enough to tie the Amerl-
can record and wipe out both the
United States collegiate and Penn
relay marks.
Lash had the able assistance OF
TTuitt, Jimmy Smith and Tom Deck
ard-the latter the new Penn relay
champion and record-hoIder for the
3000-meter steeplechase-In the A.
mile relay today.
Not far behind Indiana in spectator
appeal, was Pittsburgh, featuring
seven-league- booted John Woodruff,
dusky Olympic 8OO-meter champion
who helped the Panthers to take the
sprint medley crown.
Admittedly Lash had a difficult
task cut out for him in competing in
the longest relay and then going into
the invitation mile an hour an three
quarters later. Yet, pending definite
decision by his coach, Woodruff had
been assigned an even more handsome
row to hoe
Heavy Duty for Woodruff.
THE lanky Pitt man was entered for
the 1a-mile, 4-mile, 2-mile and
mile relays.
Oddly enough, until yesterday In
diana hadn't won a relay since 1884,
Pitt since 1918. Today, both we're
hopeful of crashing through to the
top again Hopefulness, however. was
universal feeling as the army Of 5000
athletes again converged Oh Franklin
Field.
For. besides the events already
named, there were titles and prizes to
be won in the hammer and jaVelln
throws, 20 high school relays, four
college relays, two prep and two high
school championship relays, teach
ers college relay, shuttle hurdle relay,
class B college relay, 100-yard dash.
freshman relay, pole vault, high jump
and broad jump.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Varied Sports
COLLEGE BASE BALL.

Wisconsin Wasy,aaG 3: s Mfchiasn State. 8.
Western Maryland. Z: Dickinson. 3.
N. C. State, s; North Carolina. 0.
Wake Forest. 5: Davidson. 2.
Elon, s.; Lenoir Rhyme, 5.
Providence. IL: Dartmouth, 5.
Holy Cross 5: Princeton. B.
Pennsylvania 4; Columbia. o.
Roanoke. 1s; Emory. and Henry, z.
Armour Tech. II; Elmhurst, 5.
Iowa 3: Michigan. 2.
Gustavus Adolphus. 4 River Falls. 3.
Hamline. IA; st. Thomas. 13.
COLLEGE TENNIS.
George Washington, Z: west vir-
Bucknell. Z; GEORGETOWN. /.
Virginia. q: Maryland, 0.
Western Maryland. 5; American Uni
Lenoir Rhyme, 4; Erskine. 3.
Furman. 4: Wof1ord 3,
Clemson. z: Presbyterian. 0.
Michigan. 9: Toledo. 0.
Michigan State. 7: Ohio State. 8.
Catawba. 4 Guilford. 3.
Chicago g; Wisconsin. O.
High Point. g; LouisburR. ].
Pittsburgh. B: Grove City, 2.
Nebraska. 3: Iowa State. B.
COLLEGE GOLF.
Clemson, I'm; South Carolina. eh.
WAy1A 1obS VastAko RAsezvA IA
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Outheld One Of Best.

TO THE casual observer, his pitching
staff is composed Of lot Of guys
named Joe. But Comics Finks, Kel-
leys, Williamses, Smiths, Casters and
Roses are better than they've been
given credit for being. Smiths sup
port on opening day didn't help him.
Williams didn't need much support,
after he relieved him, to win, to 8.
And Caster, who held the Mats to four
hits yesterday, owed no thanks to his
supporting cast.
In back of the plate the AS have
Frank Hayes and Earl Brucker The
former is a kid who was rough as
the queen Of spades in hearts game
year or so ago. But Hayes has
acquired polish and he can hit.
Brucker is a veteran minor
Lacquer who seems to be some-
thing Of an Appleton behind the
hat That u to say. he appar-
Evening star., 1937-04-24

" illSllc Ill UdSt Udu 1llSIOl y
If his name be worthy of
memory, so John Needles Bentley Of
nearby Sandy Spring, Md, is known
best today as star southpaw pitcher
of the New York Giants under Nc
GraW.
He is almost a neighbor of Walter
Johnson, to whom Bentley bowed
with only slight pang, we learned to-
day-in the epic final game Of the 1924
world series between the Giants and
Griffmen. Jack and Walter own big
farms in Montgomery County.
Ordinarily a ball player who wins
lasting fame under the big top skips
lightly over his minor league career, but
Bentley, some recent figures on the
international League reveal, may point
to one whopping season in the vener-
able circuit that any star, major or
minor Lacquer, might be proud to recall.
With Baltimore in the campaign of
1921, Bentley not only cracked out two
all-tlme batting records for the second
Oldest base ball league extant, but set
a pitching record. He batted .412
and made 246 hits for marks that still
stand, and in winning II games and
losing l hung up an International
record for percentage of victories
1923. He doubled in brass as pitcher
and first baseman, so the willow
records represented a full season. To
be exact, he went to bat SGT times in
141 games. He pitched in 18 games,
giving II complete performances.
Baltimore Records Striking.
IN 20 years of minor and major
league base ball, Bentley estimated
today; he won l25 games and lost So
From 1913 to 1916 he pitched for
Washington, but without marked sue
cess. With McGraw, from 1923 to
1927, he won 40 games and lost 90,
but likes to remember a batting feat
with the Giants quite as much as
any diamond victory he won with
them. In 1923 he whaled away for
mark of .427, which placed him
among a handful of major leaguers
who have beaten .420, and Bentley's
O1l6ACo ClldU oCdoOll 1Ol Gllc 1llOoU
were made under pressure. He was
used extensively as pinch hitter.
When one considers the age of the
International League, Bentley's rec
ords with Baltimore become striking
The league is just entering upon its
54th season, only one behind the
daddy of all diamond circuits, the
National, and in SO years untold
hundreds of ball players, many of
whom carried on to success in the
majors, fell short of Bentley's achieve
ments.
This morning Bentley recalled with
a grin that world series drama of 1924
Not few among the thousands who
jammed Griffith Stadium forgot to
cheer the triumphant johnson while
pitying the unlucky Bentley. How
McNeely's grounder, striking a pebble,
hoped over Lindstrom's head for
double scoring Ruel with the winning
run is well known history. How Bent
ley felt about 1t is current news.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
AIR BOXING CHARGES
Commission to Sift Complaints of
Irregularities Here.

Two specific charges, unsubstan-
tiated by witnesses thus FAR, will be
sifted at the meeting of the District
Boxing Commission next week.
Both charges were made by boxers.
Unless more definite proof is forth
coming, Maj. Ernest w. Brown, chair
man of the commission, admitted the
hearing merely will pitt the veracity
Of one man against another's.
The commission voted to reinstate
Teddy Loder on May %. Loder was
suspended for runout on Match
maker Goldie Ahearn.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Homer Standings
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Homers yesterday-Greenberg,
Tigers, /; Rogell. Tigers. l; R.
johnson, Athletics, 1; Demaree,
Cubs, /: Goodman, Reds, /.
The leaders-R. johnson, Ath-
etics, }.
League totals-American, 10; Ma
tionAl 1. Total, II.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
PREP NINE THOROUGH

Combining home run with the
bases fully populated in the first
inning with triple play to retire
the side in the ninth inning, George
town Prep yesterday recorded an
ll-9 victory over Landon at Garrett
Park, Md.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Apathetics?

..,Battea for Appleton in seventh.
Philadelphia 030 001 300-7
WaShineton 600 00l 000-1
Runs batted in-Cissell. Myer, johnson
Two-base hutchinson Three-base hit
Myer Home run--Johnson. Sacrinces-
Dean. Newsome. Double play--Newsome
to Dean. Left on Observation-Disclosures. 8:
Washington. II. First base on balls-On
Caster. g.: OF Appleton, g. off Linke. l.
Struck out-By Caster. 8: by Appleton 3:
by Lnke, @ Hits-Of Appleton, 7 in 7
innings; OF Linke. l in . innings. Losing
pitcher Appleton. Umpires- Messrs.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
AS Infield Has Class,

A NALYZING the club, it isn't hard
to see where it has improved.
Mack traded Frank Higgins for Werber
last Winter and a lot Of people said
he lost power. Maybe he did. But
where Higgins sulked, 'Werber is a
veritable pepper-pot. BerWyn Bill
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STRONG ON PAPER,
CLUB MISSES FIRE
Attack Nets Only 21 Hits
in 3 Games-A's Again
Upset Griffs.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

YUST bit beWildered at the turn
of events Washington's base ball
firm readied itself for hectic
~ week end at home today. The
Athletics, who were supposed to be
doormats a la 1886, twice have struck
home now and the Griffs' hopes of
getting off to a flying start in the
American League flag chase have gone
s-dwindling.
One look at his 1897 batting order
convinced Bucky Harris long ago that
his hitters would carry a fair-to-
middling pitching staff into the first
division Now he is beginning to Won
der If the Mats batting power hasn't
been overrated The recapitulation
for three games now is runs and 81
hits and ball club can't go far at
this kind Of pace.
First it was Almon Williams, an
unknown Athletic pitcher, who set
back the Mats. He did that last Mon
day, which was opening day. The AS
won, to 3.
To win their only victory in the
derby to date the Mats got help from
faulty Yankee outfleldlng and gal
liant pitching performance by Monte
Weaver. This game they won by 3 to
2. No club figures to win many games
from the Yanks by scoring only three
runs.
Yesterday one George Caster, a
rookie right t-hander. stopped the Griffs
cold. Officially, the Washingtons were
credited with four hits. Actually
they made only three-a gracious
scoring gesture was no drawback
and dropped 7-to-1 decision.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Vaughan, Kampouris Edgv,
Looked for Trouble-Got 1t.

CRISSOM said later:
Hell, I was wild all afternoon
I wasn't trying to brush Suhr or to
hit Brubaker. But this other fellow
that I fought-What's his name?-he
was on me all afternoon. 1t was the
sort of thing you could take if you
wanted tor not take So when he
came across the infield we got into it.
There really wasn't fight. I don't
think either Of us hit the other"
Tddd said:
II was on to him. I knew what he
was doing. He kept shooting them in
there against Suhr. Then he hit Bru-
baker
Il went out there looking for trou-
BILE and got it."
Evening star., 1937-04-24
POPPING ~
OFF" ~JGton. HS
They Were the Apathetics.

~ NOW it has evident the Washington
* old
led hulng Athletic Nationals
-
first Grfs
1895 they don't relish the idea of things
There shreWd
they said that Mack worth
After watching the AS for
Evening star., 1937-04-24

you'd think that a pitcher losing
the deciding game of a world series
like that" said Bentley, would be
just about heart-broken.
II would have been except for one
thing-the man lost to was Walter
johnson.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
emily is ready to blossom a little

The AS outfeld need apologize
to none. Bob johnson is always
dangerous at the plate, particularly
in the Spring. In center field Lou
Finney looks to be ready for the full
time test, at last, and there isn't any
use Wally Moses, the right fielder.