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filled the Mats array of 300 hitters
seem least dangerous.

filled the Mats array of 300 hitters
seem least dangerous.
Buddy Lewis streak of consecutive
hitting, which had reached Is games,
came to an end when Ostermueller hit
him on the elbow and then held him
to no blows in four other times at bat
Buddy could have been given a
hit on a drive which tore through
Osty's glove, but the official scorer
called it an error. Had better
fielding pitcher than Ostermueller
been in the box it would have been
scored as hit.
Cecil Travis held his margin over
Jimmy Foxx in the race for the
American League batting champion
ship. =. Each got hit in three times
at bat. Cecil's, though, was an in
nocuous single while Foxx's was long
homer with a man on the base paths.
-. Simmons got his glove on Doerr's
winning hit twice. but couldn't hold
it. i. The ball was driven to the left
to Al, who raced to the fence and
stuck up his glove. The ball
bounded into the air and Simmons
clutched at it again. :. He held it for
a split second and then kicked it out
of his glove with his knee.
Ostermueller can thank Joe Vosmik
and Pinky Higgins for his victory. u.
They kept at least five hits from the
Griffs by their fielding plays. Ken
Chase and either Joe Krakauskas or
Pete Appleton will start tomorrow's
throwing.
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BY PAUL NICHOLSON,


NEW YORK, Aug. 20-Col. Will
Terry and his once starry-eyed Giants
today resembled a group of hungry,
forlorn unemployed men shutting I'M
certainly along a bread line Their
meal ticket" Carl Owen Hubbell, was
punched full of holes, marked void for
the rest of the year, and possibly for
good. And the Giants from the bat
boy up took it hard.
Hubbell, victim of a strange, Grip
ping arm injury just when the club
needed him at his best to overhaul the
staggering and staggering - Pitts
burgh Pirates, took it hard, too. Ex-
cept to say his great arm had troubled
him off and on even through his great
years of 1886 and 81 and that he had
every hope his career was far from
finished, Hub said nothing. He simply
hung his head like beaten dog and
moped.
After a conference in the clubhouse
the screw-ball master tidied his locker
and few to Memphis to consult DR..
Justin Spencer Speed. arm and bone
specialist. First it was planned for
Hub to accompany the team to Chicago
and See DR.. Speed there but then it
was decided to save a few days and
have the ailing pitcher go direct to
Memphis He didn't put on a uniform
yesterday.
No one knows for sure just what
Hubs ailment is. It may be a Clipped
elbow, twisted or shattered tendon,
or his great arm may be just worn out
after Is years of throwing, II of them
in big time The pain is centered on
the inner side of the left arm. Hub
complains he's unable to lift or drop
his arm at times. There's no SWELL
ing.
His revelation that he was bothered
in SO and 81 surprised Manager Terry
and every one except his old battery
mate. Gus Mancuso, who said he de-
tected something wrong with Hub on
pitches even when he hurled his great
est games and brought the Giants pay
dirt by pulling them into two straight
world series.
I remember one day when Hub shut
out the Cubs in a very important
game" said Gus. He was greater than
ever that day, but about once every
eight pitches he seemed to vince and
throw a ball that had nothing on it.
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Carts Screwball Not Great Strain.

Uncle Clark Griffith
the old gentleman insisted
schooy pitching motion expected
violent cueban
the critics called efortess deiv
cries had a good Hubbers called perfect.
the aren't familiar
had the longevity
pitchers ghthandd try holding imaginary
right
the ball thrown and the strain
particularly unless nearly
something to do vigorously
crewba is thrown least
principle
Hubbe not throw the screwb because
Hub started to feature his
the National
harder his than the
throws screwb he still didn't
with He called the old
Hub
back him because he had
lost his fastba but notb dead
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TRAVIS, LOMBARD
SPILL SWAT DOPE
Cecil Holds Batting Lead
a Week and Ernie for
Most of the Season.
Ey the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. Aug. 20.-Keeping
step with the dizzy developments of
the big league pennant races, the rival
batting derbies are offering the folks
one surprise after another.
Cecil Travis. the Washington short
stop who didn't figure in the Ameri-
can League clouting circus for most
Of the first half of the season, then
caught up with the leaders last week,
now has taken the pace all by him.
self with .349 batting average. He
hit safely 10 times in 26 chances this
week to boost his average points
and finish in front of Jimmy Foxx OF
Boston, who had .346.
Ernie (Schnozzola) Lombardi, Gin
cinnati's crack catcher. is doing
the upsetting over in the National
League. Batting against such slug
gers as Paul Waner, Mel OFT. Arky
Vaughan and Ducky Medwick, Ernie
has held the senior circuit pace since
the early part of the year. Boosting
his mark 2 points to 1855 this week,
he raised his flrst-place margin to 10
points over his teammate, Buck Nc
Cormick, who took second place away
from Vaughan.
Newcomers in the top 10 groups
for the week were Minter Hayes, the
Chicago White Sox injured infielder,
whose 1926 mark was good for 10th
place in the American League, and
Phil Weintraub and Buck Jordan,
Phillies teammates, who climbed to a
tie for third and a tie for 10th. re-
spectively, in the senior circuit. Vein
traub broke into the select set by
passing the 200-at-bat minimum.
Season records of the top 10 in each
league biased on 200 or more times at
bat):
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Blind Linksmen Play for SightIess Championship
Headline

DR.. Jock Sutherland, professor Of
gridironology at Pitt, will headline
the faculty at the U. of Kansas
coaching school next week. An
other academic celeb will be DR..
Roland Logan, Pitt trainer, who
will direct course on athletic in
juries.
If Henry Armstrong took one
backward step against Lou Ambers
the other night, we were scooped.
:. Current toast of Polo Grounds
regulars is George Wyatt, the fast
stepping rock from Jersey City.
Mel OFT of the Giants won the
third base post on the breakfast
food firms all-star team and was
presented an auto at the home
plate yesterday :. 1t was the first
gift Mel has received in IL years
of star baseballing. Which re-
calls a remark old Goose Goslin
once made. Said Goose: THE
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SANDL0T PLAY-OFF
TO START MONDAY
District Champion Will Compete
in National Tourney Next
Month at Pittsburgh.

The play-off series for the Washing
ton sandlot baseball championship to
decide the District representative in
the national tournament at Pitts
burgh next month will begin Monday
with Fort Belvoir, Herald-Militia
champion, meeting Procurement, win
ner in the Department League.
Winner of Mondays game will meet
Thursday with the Industrial circuit
champion. which has yet to be decided
In that league. Old Milwaukee moved
into a tie with Heurich for second
half honors by downing Russell Motors,
So, yesterday. Winner of the play
of game today will meet O'ponnells
Grill, first half title-holder, in a three
game series early next week.
Bureau Investigation retained its
U. S. Government League crown by
winning over Naval Air Station, 9-6,
yesterday in the third game of the
league championship series.
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of the Green Bay Packers, who
opens a mems clothing shop in De-
pere, Wis, today. Herman Tay-
lor, Philly fight promoter, has done
Mike Jacobs and tied up Tony
Galento for five years.
Well say Joffre Cross, star U. OF
Oklahoma shortstop, joined the pros
with a bang. He signed with
the Cards, was shipped to their
Houston farm and in his first game
was the middle man in triple
play.
The Berg family out in Mime
apolis may not have to depend on
Patty for golfing honors.
Brother Herman, age Is, is coming
right along. He went to the
final in the Northern Minnesota
Resorters' Tournament before one
Of the grown-ups put him in his
place-temporarily. -. Nice going
Herman.
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No Cooler Than Tenth-Hitter Idea.

thinking placed on
the hlt
partially ball At least that the way one OF
popular theories interpreted
baseball will be introduced by
sawdlst inside
Will need very
right left or auto
freside chat swing band is on
eliminate the necessity OF pitchers throw
while sound
farfetched OF the
haseba o
introduce tenth hitter
In the pitcher who would be allowed
wanted Naturally brought up to keep
cried out for respite
seriously but people who should Kno"
show what baebas
receipts
dangling
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FIVE IN TWO DAYS
GIVE HIM MARGIN
Has al at Point When Babe
Boosted 36-Giants Gain
on Idle Pirates.
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.


They've plugged up the hole In Hank
Greenberg's bat. and the big fellow Is
firing at Babe Ruth's record again
For couple of weeks there, big
Hank might just as well have been
batting with a toothpick for all the
ground he was picking up in chasing
the Babes all-time mark Of so homers
in one year. His batting average
dropped like rock in a well, and those
rosy pictures the boys painted OF q
new record began to seem like the
expert predictions after the first Louis
Schmeling fuss.
But in the last two days, the st.
Louis Browns pitchers, those obliging
cousins to all aspiring batsmen, rolled
into Detroit and showed Hank the hole
in his stick, through which enemy
elbowers were throwing their special
losses. Hank promptly plugged it I'D,
took a hitch to his cap and busted five
choice offerings of the Brownie fingers
out OF the park in two days. to bring
his season four base total to Al.
Hank Clusters Three.
Three of these round-trip tickets
came yesterday as the Tigers clicked
Tor double-header victory, 81 and
IA, and accounted for eight of the
Is Detroit runs.
The net result of Hanks fireworks
was to boost him considerably in front
OF Ruths record again. His third of
the afternoon yesterday came in the
Tigers 109th game of the season 108th
II you omit one tie). Ruth didn't
ciout his 41st in 1927 until his 123d
game, and had only SO at his l09th
mus Hank is some five up on the
Babe, margin that may turn the trick
ne holds it through September /
ana can continue the cannonading
through the final month of the sea-
son, as Ruth did with his gaudy II
in September of '27.
The double win yesterday also BOOST
ed the Tigers to within a game of
fourth place in the American League
standings, since Washington, current
holder of that spot. dropped a 4-3 10
inning decision to the Boston Red
Sox. Jimmy Foxx, that other home
run specialist, whacked his thirty.
third in that engagement.
Yanks 10 Games Ahead.
The league-leading Yankees, how
ever. weren't bothering much about
such lowly spots as third and fourth
place, for they whipped the Athletics,
So, on Spud Chambers six-hit pitch
ing, to climb 10 games in front in the
junior circuit race The second place
Cleveland Indians remember them?)
were soundly thumped, To. by the
Chicago White Sox
With the National League-leading
Pittsburgh Pirates idle, the Giants
took advantage of the opportunity to
pick up half game by betting the
Phillies, Az, on Jimmy Ripple's homer.
This left Bill Terrys outfit Az games
off the pace. Brooklyn's Dodgers
nlpped the Boston Bees, 10. in an
thinning night tilt in the only other
scheduled National League game, to
climb into a tie for fifth place. Fred
Farmhouse tossed 3-hitter to top
| the Bees.
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KING CARL CHEEKY.
VISITING SPECIALIST
Ailing Giants Pitcher Appears
in Good Spirts-Arm Hurts
Only While Hurting.
Ivy the Associated Press.

NV the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. Aug. 20.-Ailing
Carl Hubbell. the New York Giants
master lefthander, arrived here by
plane early today to see specialist
about his crippled pitching arm.
in seemingly good spirits, he joked
with reporters at the airport and an
nounced he would be examined later
in the day by DR.. Justin Spencer
Speed. bone specialist.
Hubbell reiterated previous state
ments that his arm hurt him only
while pitching sharp pain on the
inside of his left elbow.
Asked if his famed "screwball' had
anything to do with his injury, he
replied:
Yes, you bet it has-after Is years
of pitching it."
The ace southpaw, who has pitched
II years in the bigtime, said he never
before had seen a physician about his
arm, though he has taken electric
heat treatments from time to time.
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NATSST|LL MINUS
A WIN IN BOSTON
Give Up Chasing Bosox and
Now Aim at Shaving Off
y Fast Climbing Tigers.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BOSTON, Aug. 20.-Just in case you
put on a few bob on the Mats to run
third in the American League and
planned to buy fall coat off the bet
it might be wise to start planning on
wearing last years job again.
In the wake of their sixth straight
defeat this season in Boston the Griffs
today found themselves seven full
games behind the third-place Sox. Less
than a week ago the Mats were within
reaching distance. but since the Sox
won a few and Washington ran afoul
of the Yankees, who can beat Mr..
Griffiths firm by merely waving their
caps.
The Griffs' last reasonable hope was
the making of a clean sweep over the
Red SoX here. They had taken three
straight and seven out of eight from
Boston in Washington and hopes for
continued success in Fenway Park
were bright. But now the problem
before the Harrismen is to save fourth
place from the onrushing Tigers and
let the Indians and Red Sox battle
for second and third places.
Haven't Won in Boston.
As a result of that 4-to-3 defeat in
10 innings yesterday and the Tigers
double victory over the Browns, the
Mats now are only a game ahead the
birthplace Detroits The advantage is
all with the Tigers over the week
end, too, for they will be entertaining
the tail-end Browns in Detroit, while
the Griffs face another game today
and a double-header tomorrow in Bos-
ton, where they haven't won a game
since the season started.
The Mats fell back into an old habit
in blowing that game here yesterday.
Monte Weaver gave pretty good pitch
ing performance and deserved to win,
but the Griffs left Is runners stranded
on the base paths and where they
should have scored seven or eight runs,
they scored only three.
They had 80 lead by the third
inning against Fritz Ostermueller but
Jimmy Foxx's 33rd homer, coming
with man on base, put the Sox back
into the game in the fifth. Then Bos-
ton tied it in the sixth and won in the
tenth, when Bobby Doerr bounced a
single off Al Simmons stretched glove
to score Foxx from second.
De Shong Makes Rare Start.
The unusual sight Of Jimmy De
Shong starting a game was to mark
today's fracas. Manager Bucky Harris
seemingly had given up on Jimmy long
ago. Used in many relief roles, De
Shong hasn't started in weeks. But
in announcing the unconditional re-
lease of Wesley Terrell a week ago
Owner Clark Griffith specified that he
wanted more starting chances for his
young Observation-Disclosures Chase
and De Shong."
So today De Shong, who is pressing
the 30-year-old mark, was to make a
long-delayed start and see what he
can do about breaking the Fenway jinx.
Ostermueller's victory yesterday
strengthened the left-handers status
as a big Lacquer. The Mats have kept
him in the majors for some time, just
as they used to keep Thornton Lee,
when Lee belonged to Cleveland. They
got eight hits off Osty and profited
by five bases on balls, hit batsman
and two Boston errors, but still they
couldn't score. When the bases are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-20
By EDDIE BRETT,
Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Dr w.
H. j. Oxenham, blind British
IS golfer, is slated to play Clinton F.
Russell, another sightless linksman,
for the blind championship of golf
at Duluth, Mimi, today. . Both
men work with special caddies CDR.
Oxenham brought his from Eng
land) who tell them where they lie
and suggest the clubs.
Charlie Gehringer must be slowing
up at that. For the first time in
IL years the Tigers have bought
second sacker-McCoy of Toledo
who reports next spring. Il. Be
sure to tune in on Prof. Sid FEEDER
II, In this space Monday afternoon.
W Bill Terry may get bid to 60 to
Hollywood in the fall to star in
: baseball picture authored by Francis
Wallace OF kid" Galahad" fame =.
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only thing ever received at the
plate was slow ball"
Tom Riggs, 217-pound tackle, is
having a good look at the country.
He captained the Duke frosh,
then went to Navy and now pops up
at Illinois. One of the best of
the sportcasters is Paul Douglas,
who does his talking for cigarette
money.
If the Washburn College football
team fails to satisfy the wolves this
year, Mrs. Elmer Holm land
kiddies) will not, worry about the
groceries. Head Coach Holm has
just passed the Kansas Bar exam
nation.
The New York World Telegram
hints Van Mungo will be trans
ferred to the Phils for Herschel
Martin and Claude Passeau before
the flrst snow falls.
Here's good luck to Arnold Kerbsr
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BY the Associated Press.

VIENNA, Aug. 2O.-Bill Watson,
the husky University of Michigan
all-round track and field star,
hasn't looked so good competing
against Germany's Olympic aces in
the weight events, but he dazzled
1000 Viennese fans when he ran
into some ordinary competition.
Watson won three events in yes
terday's meet in which the touring
United States tracksters took 10
out of II events from local talent.
He broadjumped "a feet AZ inches,
threw the discus 1873 feet 1884
inches and put the shot 81 feet
S 21-64 inches.
The pole vault, however, proved
even more exciting to the fans
than Watson's feats as Cornelius
Warmerdam of San Francisco
sailed over the bar ct IA feet !
inch. HaunSwicksl Of Vsuns
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HubbeWs Injury, Tough Blov
ToCiants, Climaxes Jinx Year
For Games Star M0undsmen

Several times I've gone out to ask him
what was wrong but Hub would start
talking about something else, hitter
or runner. He's too good soldier
and don't mind saying my hearts
broken. All of us hope he can come
back greater than ever. but. -"
Gus voice trailed Off So did those
of the rest of the players when they
spoke of the great master. All of them
hope he can come back this year. All
of them would settle on a comeback
next year. Many of them fear the
great screw-ball man, their uncom-
planning Hubbell, is through.
Up and down the bench, the Giants
act like they did last fall when they
came to the park after taking three
straight world series lickings from the
Yankees.
Col. Terry waSmore optimistic.
Right now I'm not counting no Hub
this year. It's never been my policy
to ruin a ball player for one pennant
and don't plan to change my policy.
I'd rather have Hub back next year in
all his glory than to have a new pen
nant swing from the flag pole"
Hubbells injury-and this corner
was about to write column telling
how Hub was one of the few masters
to escape a sore arm-climaxes a
wretched year, possibly the worst in all
baseball history, for star pitchers
Down the sore arm line have gone such
masters as Dizzy Dean, Lefty Grove,
Schoolboy Rowe, Paul Dean, Van
Lingle Mungo. Lee Grissom, Slick Cas-
tleman and Johnny Allen, who hurt
his arm and back in the all-star game.
Tommy Bridges hasn't been much
help to Detroit until recently. In
fact, every club in the majors is crying
over sore arms with no relief in sight
from the ill-starred minors.
Now it's Hubbell. It's as hard to
believe as a Yankee lineup without
Lou Gehrig-and more disastrous.
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Bill Watson Scores Three Victories as Yonks Capture
10 Of II Events From Austrian Team.

could do no better than IL feet
51a inches.
Americans ran IL in two
events as Charley Beetham Of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, beat his former Ohio
State teammate, Harley Howells,
at 800 meters in zoos and Fred
Wolcott and Jack Patterson. both
of Rice Institute, showed the way
in the 1l0-meter high hurdles.
Howells took the 400 meters, Pat
terson the 400-meter hurdles and
Mozel Ellerbe of Tuskegse the 100
meter dash for the other American
individual victories. Then q United
States relay team Of Watson, Beet
ham, Wolcott and Ellerbe gave its
Viennese rivals 70-yard handicap
and beat them in an 800-meter re-
lay in 1927.
The only local victory was scored
by Muschik, who took the 5000
meter In 1882.
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Out of Slump Greenbeg Rene,vs Attack Ruth Record
Win, Lose or Draw
Dead Arms Killing Off Good Pitchers This Year.
Club Owners May Consider New Boil as Remedy
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,


favorite ball pulling
quickie runchies
appalling
hill with their
the bottom
the woed the stuff in the of health
the physical mftness 1t be the
removal of Carl Owens Hubbeu
from Oklahoma who earned
of
Hubbn succumbed
burst of unoginaliy
Lefty developed three Before MIN
Lnge Mungo
Teller
malady apparently
ing neither old
viewing
of
National OF Allen blasted the
King Wrig got stuck when he
Dizzy and the Cubs flag
find him with the Philie
out OF
succumbd
opened there
flying ball yard in the major leagues
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-20
Grove Was Promising Prospect.

Walter johnson had during his
Mike Martin insist that
after 20
pitcher know must have good
Alexander of the other
supposed have lasted long
for all
didn't the opportunities
flakes financial pro
and automatically 20 games
watch the efforts OF the uoownes
to bitter pill cluboWner to
southpw like 3ar-od Grove or 3D.
club officials after scanning the
decided he will be
fol-
happening to S doorou There
college
fellows already being killed OF daily by dead
fubdubby medical bursits
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NEW CASTING CHAMPION
Average of $50 Feet Wins Title
for San Francisco Angler.

COLUMBUS, Aug. 20 (P.-Wet and
dry fly accuracy tests were scheduled
today at the 30th annual tournament
of the National Association of Scien-
tific Angling Clubs. A plug accuracy
event for ladies also will be decided
Lee Sens of Baltimore, last years
three -eighths distance champion, lost
his title yesterday to c. H. Hitten-
berger of San Francisco, who made
long cast of 288 feet and an average
cast of 280. Sens, however. took the
five-eighths title, setting new ma
tional record of 1874 feet, 10 feet better
than the former record made in 1886.
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Official Score

Runs batted in-Bonura t2). Foxx. c9.
Bluege. Doerr. Desautels. Two-baSe hit
Simmons. Home run-FoXX. Sacrifices
Travis. Cronin. Chapman. Doerr. Oster-
mueller. Double plays-.,Bluege to Travis
to Bonura. Travis to Bluege to Bonura.
Cronin to Doerr to Foxx. Left on bases!
WASHINGTON. I3: Boston, 10. First base
on balls--Of Weaver. T; off Ostermueller.
3. Struck out-By Weaver. l. by Oster-
mueller. 3. Hit by pitched ball-By Oster-
mueller tTravis). Wild pitch-Weaver
Umpires-Messrs. Hollis. Basil and Rom
mel Time-,.o4
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MULHALL SEEKS GAME.

Mulhall A. c. is anxious to book a
game for tomorrow on its home field
with strong unlimited team. Call
Walnut 8322-W between 4 and S.
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EASTERN LEAGUE.

EASTERN LEAGUE.
WI Pct. WI Pct.
Bingh'ton "a 30 655 W'msport SO Sc .46I
Hazleton 81 AZ 5SS Hartford 40 5S 45S
Albany SO 55 BIB Trenton 80 81 446
Elmira SO 81 465 Wilkes-B AZ 6S 400
Results Yesterday.
Elmira. z; Hazleton. /.
Hartford. IA; ALBANY. 5-3
Williamsport, 2-5; Wilkes-Barre, II.
Trenton. IS: Binehamton. 81