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MEDW|CK, GEHR|C
KEEPBATT|NGLEAD
Top SWatters Undisturbed
by Climb of Rivals During
the Week.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
By the Associated Press.

n YEw YORK, June 26-Bie
n league batterS. with their eyes
" on prospective bid to the
coming all-star game. turned
on the heat this week, but although
several climbed way up in the stand
ings. none was able to come close tc
Ducky Medwick or Lou Gehrig.
Medwick. continuing one of the
hottest batting PAGES in years, col
lected l3 hits in 80 chances to boost
his average three points. thereby show
ing .4l6 season mark after two
months of play.
Gehrig, the Yankee clouter. hit for
just under 400 for the week ended
with yesterdays games and remained
far out in front in the American
League with 1892 mark.
Notable sluggers of the week were
Charley Gehringer, Detroit's classy
second-sacker, with II hits in q
chances, boosting himself from eighth
to third place in the American League
with 1856 mark; Paul Waner, Pitts
burgh's "big poison" with 14-for-29
for the week. climbing from eighth
TO second in the National League with
1854; Jonathan Stone, Washington,
who shot into the junior circuit top 10
and all the way up to sixth place with
$50. and the veteran Pinky Whitney,
Phlllies' third sacker, who climbed into
the National League select set with
BAT.
Standings Of the first 10 in each
league:
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SLAUGHTER LEADS A. A.
Columb bus Rook Bats .399-Ri2zo,
Teammate, Hits $3.50.

CHICAGO. June 26 P).-Young
EnoS Slaughter of the Columbus Red
Birds. who about five weeks ago was
thirtieth in the American Association
batting list, held top slugging honors
for the circuit today.
The Columbus outf1elder, who has
been staging spirited hitting battle
with Johnny Rizzo, finally took first
place. Slaughter's f1rst-place average
was .399, 10-point gain. In addi-
ton his 1o8 hits was tops for the cir
cult, as was his 1875 total bases.
RZzo, who week after week has led
the hitting procession, was second
with 389.
Others in the first ten were:
Berger, Indianapolis; 800; Reynolds,
Minneapolis, $50; Eckhardt, whose
loss of Is points was one Of the biggest
slumps of the week, .345; Morrissey,
st. Paul, .344; Cooke, Minneapolis,
.339; Boyle, Kansas City, 1888; Pea
cock, Minneapolis, 1897, and Kress,
Minneapolis. 1886.
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Both Beat Old Record

He AND his sturdy mates were called
upon to outroW traditional rivals
OF much greater skill and stamina in
the feature event of this years color
ful river pageant and they responded
with such vim that they set a new
upstream record OF 20 minutes 2 sec
onds while subjecting the Yale varsity
sweepers to their first setback of the
season.
This Harvard crew, the first Bolles
ever has trained for the Furnishing dis
tance of four miles, crossed the finish
line a length and quarter in front
OF the Ellis while erasing the latter's
mark Of 0:20:14 25. made in 1926 by
Woody Tappen's great boatload of
Blues.
The current Els were also under
their old record, being clocked in
0:20:06 2-5, which caused Leader to
marvel at the performance of his own
eight as well as that of his lads con-
querors.
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Yale Takes Three Events,

CONDITIONS were far from being
ideal for record breaking per-
formance." Leader said, "and Harvard S
crew was magnificent as it succeeded
In doing what appeared to be an i'm
possible feat
This triumph did much to ease the
pain of the three previous defeats
Harvard suffered during the day. The
Yale crews won both the freshman
and junior varsity races in the morn
ing. Then Larry Kelley ended his
intercollegiate career by leading his
teammates to 1873 triumph in the
third and deciding base ball game.
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NEWARK'S BATTERS
PACE !. |. 0FFENSE
Kelleher's .405 Heads Swatters
Keller Ties for Third With
1858, Tops Scorers.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 26.-Gene Kel-
leher. the Newark Bears betting
inf1elder, had little difficulty holding
the International League batting lead.
Although his average dropped IS
points, he maintained a better than
300 pace, to finish up with .405.
His nearest rival was his young
catching teammate, Buddy Rosar,
whose injuries kept him on the side
lines. Rosar's 1878 mark survived
some heavy clouting on the part of
Dick Porter of Syracuse, who held
third place with q 1862.
Trailing Porter were the two top
hitters for tbe week, Jack Juelich, who
boosted his mark IA points to .359
and Charley Keller, the ex-Maryland
collegian, now at Newark, who shot
up rs points to 1853, to tie with Johnny
Hopp Of Rochester.
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games IN a row TO perpetrate its
longest winning streak of the season
and the customers paid homage to
their heroes. But the trade didn t
give Bucky much credit.
In the final Of the Cleveland
series. f'rinstance, Buddy Lewis
doubled and tried to steal third
base. One was out and Buddy
got a great lead. But he was
thrown out.
1t was Buddy's idea and not bad
one. He got the jump when Pitcher
Lloyd Brown wound up and with Billy
Sullivan behind the bat he knew
the Indians had throwing
catcher. If he had stolen success
fully. he could have scored and tied
the game at IL on an infeld out or
a fly ball.
So what? Harris got it . long,
loud, fairly unanimous and juicy
"Boo-o-o-o-o!"
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HARVARD ROWING
OUTLOOK IS ROSY
Record Win Over Yale Crew
First Under New Coach,
Ellis Not Crushed,
Pv the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW LONDON. Conn. June 20
M Harvard's joyful Johnnies kept
" repeating their songs of victory
4 today as they anticipated what
promises to be the most glorious era
OF their long rowing history under Tom
Bolles. their noW-tested head coach,
and Capt.-elect John F.. 'Spike) Chace.
whom they hail as the greatest stroke
to man one of their crimson-tipped
blades.
The stalwart Chace crowded even
the famed Jerry tkiller) Cassedy from
the hearts and minds of Harvard S
roWing-minded hosts last night when.
for the second consecutive year, he set
a pace that Ed Leaders Yale sweep
ers could not match up the 4-mile
stretch of Thames River from the
railroad bridge to Bartletts Cove. A
year ago Chace stroked Charley White
sides seventh and last varsity eight
downstream to one-sided triumph
over an unimpressive Blue crew.
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Stars Yesterday

Augle Galan and Tex Carleton
Cubs-Galan's two homers and sinais
orlVlng m four runs, and Carleton's
nve,hit pitching led to 1I-2 win over
ra hed Rufnne. Yankees-stopped
I1gers with six hits for 81 win.
Ducky Medwick. Cardinals - Hit
COUPLE and homer. driving in two runs.
IN 9.4 win over Giants
Mike kreevich, White Sox-Hit
homer and single. driving in two runs.
IN 7-6 win over Senators.
Alex kampouris. Reds-Hit double
ana triple and drove in two runs in
beating Bees. 6-2,
Earle Browne, Philltes-His three-
run homer and single led to iO-k
victory over Pirates.
Buck Newsom. Red Sox-Handcuf1ed
Browns with four hits for AZ win.
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Simple to Boo.

HERE were few other comments
passed. A big fat guy who had
Government clerk" stamped all over
him rose in his seat and let Bucky
have it after the inning was over
and Harris started his long trudge
back to the dugout. 1t was simple
to boo. Right after Lewis was called
out Joe Kuhel doubled. That's the
way things work out.
In the first place 1t wasn't an
irrational idea to steal and in
the second place 1t wasn't
Bucky's idea. But the customers
called the whole business spin
ach and to hell with 1t.
Then (ouchD came yesterday,
which seems to be more or less in
evitable. In that controversial ninth
inning against the White Sox the Mats
were trailing, 6 to S, but they had two
runners on base and one out. Buddy
Myer was on second base, Wes Ferrell
was on first and Melo Almada was at
bat.
Almada hit single. It skipped
merrily over second base and the run
ners began to run. Myer raced to third
:. rounded the bag. Out in center
field Larry Rosenthal scooped up the
ball and faced third to throw, the idea
being to keep Ferrell from making
the base. He was conceding Myer the
tying run.
Harris took Myers run for granted
and was intent on keeping Ferrell
from trying to go to third base. Bucky
was thinking ahead. Another single
and the game would be over He held
up the stop sign.
1t Was Nobody's Fault.
FERRELL saw it but so, too, did
Myer. Alas and alack. Buddy put
on the brakes and stopped at third,
thinking the red light was for him.
The crowd gasped, then shrugged.
Well, bases loaded, one out, Lewis up
at bat.
Then it happened. Buddy drilled
into q double-play. The game was
ended and so was Washington's win
ming streak. And what happened
thereafter was:
"Bo0-o-o-o-o. Take that uni
form Oh, Harris! Whatta bum!
Get US = coach, etc."
Cleveland fans? No, Washington
mans. In Cleveland they only want a
manager fired after he loses four or
five in row. Here they wanted Har-
ris fired because the Griffs lost one
game their first in the last six.
Down in the clubhouse the Mats
pulled their uniforms OIL somberly. A
game lost by misunderstanding It
was nobody's fault. Now and then
things happen like that. Myer dressed
In hurry and beat 1t. Harris went
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Well. the Fan Pays for 1t.
RUCKY took a deep breath. I'D
rather not discuss it he said, and
that was all. The truth came out
only via some of the players.
Harris has heard the roar Of
a venseful, second guessing
crowd before. but the chances
are the guy never will reach
the stage where he will be indif-
ferent to it. Very few people do.
That Government clerk, though,
probably wouldn't know that. He
makes mistakes regularly, like every
body else. But nobody is standing
behind his desk, looking over his
shoulder, and saying, "Boo-o-o-o." So
ne wouldn't know how it feels.
There is a philosophy adopted by
base ball people who get booed and
slandered. but 1t is weak one that
has something to do with forcibly
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Ferrell Loses First Game.

MIHALIC wound up with badly
bruised side and leg and will not
be available for three or four davs. it
Is believed, In the meantime Buddy
Mver will take over the second basing.
There was no particular quality to
the SoX opener. Wes Ferrell went the
route for the Griffs and was charged
with his first defeat While wearing a
Washington uniform. Yves wasn't
very good yesterday. He didn't have
his control and that hurt him. The
Sox used Johnny Whitehead, Sugar
Cain and Clint Brown None was
very good.
The Grlffs, you know, handed the
game to the SoX. In the ninth in
ming, trailing by 7-6, Myer was safe
on an error by Piet and took second
when Rick Ferrell sacrificed Then
Yves Ferrell walked to put two men
on base with only one out.
At this point Melo Almada singled
and Myer should have scored but he
mlstook a wave by Harris from the
coaching box to mean that he should
stop at third base on this hit. Bucky.
IN truth, was waving for Yves Ferrell
TO stop at second.
Sox's s-6 Win Hurts.
HIS cost TT tie. 1t filled the
bases but Buddy Lewis walked up
and slammed into a double-play. end
ing the game.
Except in excitement there was
notnlng about the game to recon-
mend 1t. The Sox took a 80 lead in
the first inning and the Mats scored
IN each OF the first four innings. At
the end of the fourth it was 6-5 in
favor of Chicago.
Ferrel tightened after this poor
start and pitched good ball, but in the
eighth the Sox got another run and
pulled ahead, Us. In the Washing
ton half of the inning the Griffs got
run, making it 7-6, and then, in
the ninth, they blew that chance to
tie at least by that base-running mis-
understanding.
1t hurt. that defeat yesterday. A
victory would have gained half a game
on the idle, f1fth-place Indians. Fur
thermore, it was Chicagos seventh win
oyer Washington in 10 games. This
knack the Sox seem to have of beat
ing the Griffs is beginning to get un-
der the skins of everybody except the
Sox themselves
Today Carl Fischer was to face
Vernon Kennedy.
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making themselves believe that it is
the constitutional right Of every fan
who pays buck.
Bucky had only this philosophy as
an antidote back in 1926 and 1927 and
1928, or in the wake of the first two
pennant-winning years. When Har-
ris led the Washington club to flags
in "a and rs nothing was too good for
him. He was a little tin god to the
trade.
But when his ball club de-
teriorated and stopped win
ming pennants, his well-wishers
turned on him viciously, snap
ping like starved wolves.
Griff let him go to Detroit. He sort
of had to release him. But no mat
ter where a base ball manager goes
he can't get away from it when things
60 wrong. And the funny part of the
local business this week was that
Bucky had nothing to do with any
of it.
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Bungled

Runs batted in--Kreevich (2). Hayes
(23. Sington (2), Almada. Walker Bonura,
Lewis. Shea. Stone. Three-base hits
Almada. Home run-Kreevich. Sacrifices
-Appling Radcliff. Piet. Cain, r. Ferrell.
Double plays-Appling to Hayes to Bonura
(2) Hayes to Appling to Bonura. Left on
on balls-On Cain. 6; of W. Ferrell, q:
OF Brown, /. Hits-On Whitehead s
in innings; OF Cain. in innings:
of Brown, in Q innings. Winning pitch
er - Cain. Umpires - Messrs Owens,
Or1nsby and Hubbard. Attendance
$4,000. Time-2:47.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Mat Matches
By the Associated Press.

NORTH BERGEN, N. J.-Abie
Coleman. 205, New York. pinned
Wallie Dusek, 220, Omaha, Nebr.,
1929.
BUFFALO, N. Y.-Yvon Robert.
225, Montreal, defeated Marve
Westenberg, 225, Tacoma, Wash,
two straight falls.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Pa Orth,
1873, Toledo, defeated Duke Petit
grove, 1877, Providence G. Of 3 falls).
HOUSTON, Tex-Everett Mar
shall. La Junta. Colo, defeated
Gino GAribaldi, New York,
(straight fallS).
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4:2|
OFF" ~JhGton.. IS!
Boo HOO-f.

UCkY HARRIS claimed that ball
J third him
| \ self
-
prove his has been furnished this
Bucky abandoned Of
from third base He quit that in Detroit But McNee
recently decided
Harris coach
teakers
Everything the ball
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MAXWELL GOLF VICTOR
Princeton Man Beats Hoon. u. s
C., for M. A. College Title.


c., for M. A. College Title.
SHAWNEE -ON-DELAWARE, Pa,
June 26 P).-Lee Maxwell of Prince
ton, defeated Howard Hoon of the
University Of Southern California. 4
and 3, to win the Middle Atlantic in
eercollegiate golf championship.
Maxwell was l down yesterday at
the halfway mark of the 36-hole
match. He evened the score with a
birdie on the long twenty-second and
par on the twenty-third, and was 2
up at the start of the last nine.
Southern California turned in q
four-man score Of $40, beating Pitts
burgh by one point for the team
championship.
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Max Proclaimed "Champion. "

Max Schmeling already has been
proclaimed world heavyweight boxing
champion by the International. Boxing
Union, continental governing body of
the fistic sport, according to dispatches
from Paris today. The title" is con-
ferred upon the German because of his
defeat of Joe Louis last June and the
refusal of Jim Braddock to keep date
for shecduled title engagement in
New York early this month.
The I. B. U. is reported to have
asked the New York Boxing Commits
sion and the British Board of Boxing
Control to concur in its ruling.
1t also has announced that Schme-
ling's title" will be at stake in a
fight with Tommy Farr in England
this Summer.
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CINCINNATI REDS
NOW ON RAMP AGE
Win Streak Lifts EN- Out
of Cellar to Sixth Place.
Cards Wa||op Giants.
BY SID FEDER.

~ NE side, folks. here come the
Cincinnati Reds
After spending slightly over
~ eight weeks getting his Rhine
landers out of the National League
cellar, just when every one thought
they'd taken a lease on the place,
Charley Dresser popped up today with
the heartening news that the Reds
have only started climbing.
From somewhere they've come up
suddenly with the ways and means of
winning ball games. although their
nine-innings pitchers are still few and
far between. and in their current home
stay have climbed from the bottom of
the pack to sixth place
Their record of six wins and two set
backs give the Reds their first better
than 800 home stand of the season,
and has shown some of the stuff that
a lot of the experts" who were chant
ing their praises in Spring training, in
sisted they had
Evening star., 1937-06-26

Three years ago-R. Norris Will
Mans lost to Fred Perry in straight
sets. q. other Americans advanced in
Wimhledon tennis.
Evening star., 1937-06-26
Rate Better Than Sixth.

A LTHoUGH the Cincinnati slugger.
aren't causing any immediate
worry for the Chicago Cubs and st
Louis Cardinals, who belted over the
Dodgers and Giants, respectively, yes
terday to remain in the one-tWo spots
Dresser figures it won't be long now
We're definitely a better ball clut
than sixth place." he decided. "Anc
were out to prove it on the ball field
Watch us from now on"
The sudden return to form of Pau
Derringer, who pitched a three -hitte,
against the Giants last week, is one
OF the big factors Dresser believes has
favored the Reds, and the classy
comeback of Chick Hafey is another
Hafey and another comebacker, the
neWly-acquired pitching veteran, Wal
ter Brown, played a large part in the
Reds' 6-2 win over the Boston Bees
yesterday, which gave them a one
game toehold on sixth place, and left
them only two games away from fifth
Cards Wallop Giants.
HE big fireworks in the National
League. however, were furnished
IN st. Louis and Chicago. The Cardi-
nails, entertaining the Giants, gave
Mr. Slick Castleman a 14-hit going.
over and finished on top, 81, to drop
the New Workers two full games away
from second place. The Cubs retained
tneir one-game lead by walloping the
Dodgers, 11-2, on Augie Galan's two
homers and Tex Cartoons five-hit
flinging
Opening their "croociar' series with
the Tigers, the Yankees handed
tommy Bridges and the Detroits an
81 setback, as Bill Dickey's revived
poWer-hitting clouted his sixth homer
IN f1Ve days. The win left the Yanks
Tour games in front in the american
League and dropped the Tigers into a
Second-place tie with the CHICAGO
Wh1te Sox, who outlasted the Senator,
and Wes Ferrell for 7-6 decision
Boston's Red Sox made it three
straight by topping the Browns 80
as Buck Newsom pitched four-hitter
Inc Pnlllles pounded the Pirates. los
Inc Indians and Athletics were not
scheduled
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GRANT CARRIES ON
DESPITE M|SHAPS
American, on Bad Ankle,
Hobbies to Net Win Over
Stedman at Wimbledon.
NATIONAL.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Chlcaso. IL; Brooklyn. ..
St LOUIS. q; New York. 4
phila delphla. 10: Pittsburgh. 3.
Cincinnati. q: Boston. ..
By the Associated Press

w WIMBLEDON. England. June
26.-Bitsy Grant, who strove
wv for several years to win a
free trip to Wimbledon by
means OF mem bership in the United
States Davis Cup team. figures he's
the luckiest guy alive" but some
critics disagree
Bitsy referred to his victory over
Alan Stedman of New Zealand yes
terday, when he hobbled around on
an injured ankle to pull out the
match after losing the first two sets.
The twisted ankle, was just one of
series of tough breaks the Albanian
has suffered since he reached Eng
land. First he suffered a twisted
shoulder and, just before Wimbledon
began. contracted severe cold.
Grant has a stiff doubles match on
schedule today when he and Wayne
Sabln face Roderich Mcneil and Lad
lslow Hecht OF Czechoslovakia.
Then he'll get to rest until Monday,
when he encounters Henry Wilfred
Dummy Austin, England's leading
amateur, in a quarter final match,
Quarter Finals on Today.
A LONG with the Albanian. Don
Bulge and frankie Parker his
Davis Cup teammates, and Vivian
McGrath Of Australia, reached the
quarter final round yesterday. Bulge
eliminated Hecht and Parker account
ed for Daniel Prem, the German ex-
patriate. Gene Mako plays his round
OILS match today against Baron
Gottfried Won Cramm of Germany.
The women's singles field also was
down to the point where there's MOTH
ing LETT but tough competition as the
f1rst week OF the tourney came to an
end today. The first of the Amer,.
cans was eliminated in this division
yesterday when Katherine Winthrop
OF Boston lost to England's Kay Stan1-
mers.
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Nats Put Chisox Gue List European Fight Kingdom Looms
PETS R0UCHNESS
STARTS NEW FEUD
Miha|ic Hurt When Spiked
by Chicagoan in Tuss|e
Wes Ferre|I Loses.
BY FRANCIS f. STAN.
THERE is an end to almost ev-
erything, and that includes
winning streaks and, specific
Il a1lV Wa aShj0pton'S Snhlroe

\AAAJIeG olA NllI w u4lilOsog CIV
erything, and that includes
winning streaks and, specific
"A ally, Washington's splurge.
which stopped at five in a row But
II it's any consolation-and it should
be--the Griffs have another feud
flaming.
To the Mats list of American
League enemies today was added the
name of Third Baseman Tony Piet
of the White SoX. Running out a
sacrifice in the eighth inning yester-
day, Piet crashed into Johnny Mihalic,
and not only knocked the ball out
of his hand, but also knocked Johnny
out of the ball game
To all outward appearances it
seemed accidental. but the Mats don't
think So They maintain that Piet
had plenty of room to run across
the bag without hitting Mihalic.
Furthermore. they insist it's an old
custom Of Piet's running into
players.
Last year, in Chicago, Piet crashed
into Catcher Cliff Bolton. He knocked
Bolton spinning and badly injured
his shoulder. It was not until this
collision that Bolton ever showed
signs of being a "bolter" He was
no good to the GrifIs from that
day on.
The Mats thought that Piet could
have avoided the collision, but were
willing to give him the benefit of the
doubt. Now they won't give hin. the
doubt any more. If they give him
anything for the rest of the current
series, it likely will be a close view
Of flashing spikes.
Piet Anglers Harris.
"A MOTHER near free-for-all, such
as marked the Browns series, al
most was enacted as Piet sent Mihalic
to the ground in intense agony Man.
sger Bucky Harris appeared to be
the chief aggreSsor. Harris looked
as If he wanted to start swinging at
Piet, and at one stage Umpire Cal
Hubbard had to push Bucky away.
In the end there was no real dis
turbance but this can be put down
for the records-Piet. as we'll as Oral
Hildebrand Of the Browns. has an
*" opposite his name, as far as
the Washington ball club is con-
cerned.
1t was all right with the Griffs'
well-Wlshers to see the fur stand on
end again. Washington was a los
ing ball club until that recent trouble
with Hildebrand and Bill Knicker-
booker Of the Browns Then the
Mats stepped out and won five games
in row for their longest winning
streak of the year And. in 1888,
they didn't hit their pennant- winning
stride until they had couple bare-fist
battles with the Yankees.
incidentally, on both occasions of
these scraps the Griffs lost the ball
game, and yesterday it was the third
time, The score was to 6.
Evening star., 1937-06-26
HILLCREST JUNIORS pIAv

The Boys Industrial School base
oall team will meet the Hillcrest A. C.
Juniors tomorrow on the school d,a.
mond at 2400 Wisconsin avenue.