The Washington times., 1937-08-19
Local and ". Y. Printers
To Battle for First Place
DISTRICT nine
DEFEATS TWINS
AS WEBB STARS
By SID KATZNELL

New York is battling Washing
ton today on the North Ellipse for
the supremacy Of the twenty-Sev-
enth annual international Union
Printers Baseball Tournament. The
boys from Gotham and our lads
are tied for first place with three
victories and no defeats, and the
team emerging victorious today
Will be an overwhelming favorite
to cop the championship.
Baltimore and Chicago, who are
deadlocked for third place are also
seeing action today. Baltimore is
tackling st. Louis at Griffith Sta
dunn and the Windy City crew is
matching runs with Cincinnati on
the South Ellipse.
Yesterday Washington typos
eliminated Twin Cities OMinne-
apolis and st. Paul. in a well.
played ball game, 70, in which
the veteran Heinie Webb, Wash
ington Times linotype operator,
set the Minnesota aggregation
down with seven scattered SwatS.
In other games of the day, the
defending champion Chicago team
noSed out Detroit in 10 innings,
100; Baltimore defeated Boston,
13-5, and New York won from
Cincinnati at Griffith Stadium,
81. st. Louis drew bye yester-
day.
Thus the teams, at the end Of the
third day Of play, are shaved down
to washington, Chicago, New York,
Cincinnati, Baltimore and st.
Louis.
Teams eliminated from further
play are Pittsburgh, Indianapolis,
Boston, Detroit and Twin Cities.
TWINS ELIMINATED
In eliminating Twin Cities from
further play, the Washington team
hoped off to an early four.run
lead with a single marker crossing
the pan in the opening frame and
a trio Of scores registering in the
second heat. Washington added
two more runs in the fourth frame
and one in the sixth. Twin Cities
scored its pair of runs to avert a
Shutout in the fifth inning.
Heinte Webb contributed to His
bit Of epic-hurling by cracking out
two clean singles. In a pitching
way he uncorked a brilliant dis
play of control, walking but one
man in the eighth inning. Bound
tord and MoSedale also Swatted
the ball hard, with the latter bang
ing out ringing triple that spelled
doom for the MinnesotanS in the
second inning.
In the first extra inning tilt of
the series, a stubborn Detroit team
bowed out Of the picture in the
tenth frame after knotting the
count in the ninth with three
runs. The score at the end of the
regulation nine innings was 9 to
8. Detroit failed to score in the
first half Of the tenth although
the inning started out prosperous
enough with a double. Chicago
came back in its half Of the heat
to fill the bases, and with two out.
Alberts, Windy City catcher, sent
a screaming single to right, scor.
ing Albrecht with the deciding
marker. Tingstead did the pitch
ing for Detroit. Both teams col
lected is hits apiece.
BALTIMORE DARK HORSE
In the third game on the Ell.
lipse Field Baltimore, the dark
horse Of the tourney, upset and
did away with Boston, 13-5. Wei.
Ter, catcher Of the Baltimore team,
featured with a home run in the
fourth inning which turned out to
be the game-winning swat. Balti-
more used Quimby on the mound,
while Boston presented Olson and
Divine, both Of whom were hit
freely, when men were on the has
socks. Boston garnered 10 hits.
Out at Griffith Stadium two
indicated teams claShed with
New York gaining the nod over
Cincinnati. The game was pretty
much of a pitchers battle until
the late stages Of the argument
when the Gotham team pushed
across a pair of runs in each Of
the seventh and eighth frames
and one in the ninth. Cincinnati
scored a run in the fifth and an
other in the eighth. Zaner pitched
for New York, while Goethe was
on the mound for the Ohio outfit.
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