Hampers Weary Pirates in Flag Quest E Ose Or S10P BUCS ME Baseball Talks of Spanking Pro Football
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3Ct «»«« 553 *<* N'lkRUiK w UuT MvmOUD/ ^ I). WASHINGTON, C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1938. B—5 Magic of Feeble Phils Hampers Weary Pirates in Flag Quest E ose or S10P BUCS ME Baseball Talks of Spanking Pro Football. Wilson Pulls But What Are Owners to Rabbits Out Do About Colleges? Subs Take Over From Rizzo, of Hat to Halt FRANCIS E. Leaders. By STAN. Handley as Club Seeks Yankees are strolling into their third world series and the Pirates Yanks Rumble On. are barking into what the baseball tycoons like to hear called the to Improve Punch. autumnal classic By SID by even the lamebrains of the land. It may be a FEDER, THE By the Associated Pres,. Associated Press very eventful series for all I know, and if the Yankees pitch Wes Starts Writer. Ferrell and the PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26.—Pie Tray- stars aren't just right for Brother Wesley the Pirates When all the returns are in from this may nor took another double shuffle in hia eten extend the Bronx Bombers in one business, to of the games. year’s you’re going find Pirate line-up But that old today, benching Johnny as for the series deserving that title of the autumnal classic your pals, Jimmy Wilson and stirring Ridzo and Lee Handley in a desperate it would Casey Stengel have pulled the maybe be wise to pause a moment. Just about the time the Yankees biggest play for batting power. and rabbits out of the hat again. Pirates will be girding their loins for the battle a of football teams The Buccaneers’ boss' still the couple from left to oblig- Reading right, you have to representing Minnesota and Nebraska will be a of their ing gentleman callers though hag- playing game own. Jimmy and his side-kick, Nu- And Notre Gerry gard from the ordeal of both Dame will be playing Kansas, Penn State will be their losing opposing Mary- gent, pulling yearly fast one on ends a Harvard of double-header to the last- land, will be meeting Brown and Stanford will be testing those high- the open trading market, and Casey place Philadelphia Phils yesterday, powered Santa Clara Broncos riding herd on a bunch of bees who said he would use John Dickshot in A fat week before even may yet land in the first al- the American and National League races will division, left field and Bill Brubaker at third though they haven’t more have ended Southern California will have played Alabama. Those big, bold any kick base. than a bottle of sarsaparilla. Mountaineers of West Virginia will have torn into Pittsburgh and California "I’ve got to do something,” he Wilson and Nugent have been the will have fought—it’s even time to off grumbled as he disclosed he was getting dust these fierce verbs and two smartest and buyers sellers of ivory two of the adjectives—those blatant men of St. benching players chiefly Mary’s. for the past five years or so. What- responsible for Pittsburgh being at In view of the program it is to wonder who the baseball brass hats are ever they get rid of promptly falls the top of the league. trying to fool when they talk of the of their ball to apart in new (remember barring gates yards pro- surroundings "Riszo hasn't got a hit in our last fessional football until after the Chuck Klein?;, and whatever pennant races are over. That is like trying they buy five games. has a sore shoul- for Handley to sink a up next to nothing just as battleship with a moth-spray gun. Can the baseball bigwigs do promptly der he hurt last week sliding into a turns to gold.* anything about stopping California, Harvard, Pittsburgh and Minnesota from base. It isn't bad, but he has to have In the latest of their hoss- their football example a rest—gee, I hope we don't run into a playing games? Wilson trading, came up a few weeks bunch of injuries." ago with Max Butcher, a big fellow Good Pitching Wasted. out of Man (W. Griff Favors a Shorter Season. Va.), who had been While most of the Pirates dressed fiddling around with the Dodgers and The diamond magnates have been reported 'pointing accusing fingers at silently or sat glumly In front of their getting nowhere for some three football folk. years, lockers after yesterday's debacle. pro They are supposed to be shouting of treason, treachery and The Phils sent chunky Lefty Laniaster Traynor bemoaned the weak hitting trespassing on the seasonal rights of baseball. Owning the major league to for him. Brooklyn which has cost the club three of Its ball parks, where the pros play their games, they are rumored in the act of Clem Butcher Surprises Bucs. Stralka, who played guard for Georgetown, also is get- last five contests with second division plotting to deny the gridders the privilege of the season in Max a chance in his at opening September. reported to Wilson that his pre- ting first attempt the pro game. He's fast opponents. It isn't unreasonable to believe this so. The came an vious a lineman and a is story from managers had tried to change for clever blocker. —Star Staff Photos. “Our outfield got us just two hits his authentic source. But whether it will work is something else. The swivel- pitching and tell him this and against the Phils—can you imagine that chair brigade of the major leagues is likely to find too much quid in the until he didn't know lor sure that?—and Paul Waiter got 'em which end was both. We're the but mouth if a bite is taken at the football pros. And it may develop that, in up. Why, Max, if getting pitching that’s the case, you just go ahead and Yank Farmer in somehow can't in the runs. the end, baseball will modify its season. Weiss9 Chief, punch throw ’em the way you want to,” “Why, we had a stretch of 12 con- For a variety of reasoas Uncle Clark Griffith isn't going to run the Jimmy told him. secutive scoreless innings this week, Redskins out of the Senators’ ball for the next of Whether yard couple years. So Max did, and in less than two BasebalVs Producer and we’ve dropped two double-head- tt is said in all or not, Mr. takes with w'eeks he's Leading sincerity Griffith, peculiarly, sieves gone’the route four times, ers in five days after going more than reformers who would cut the baseball season. He even threatens to bring whipped the Giants neatly twice, lost two months earlier without losing Up the matter at the next winter meeting. a tough shutout to Boston, and yester- Of Talent in Minors more than two games In a row. he Winning “This can day the club hit—I know it. "Finish baseball the last week in September and play the world series,” stopped Pirates, 2-i. with Bt the Associated Press. seven hits in one Weiss Is doing the best job in the bus- We’ve to shake out of It.” Mr. Griffith. ‘That’s end of a double-head- got fusses my platform." NEW YORK, Aue. 26 —What the iness of er, both sides of which the Phils took supplying replacements. Shake-l'p Helped Before. owners of 14 clubs in the American and As it from the league leaders. In the other proof, Is necessary to look no Brubaker has a batting average of International Leagues should do is get further than Joe Gordon, who American League Is No Contest. half, Wild Bill Hallahan turned in stepped .313. achieved principally as a pinch- together and form a defensive union from Newark into the base with his first win of the a five- second spot hitter, but Dickshot's mark is In of football's tremendous it be year, only light pro popularity may that Mr. and picket Georga Weiss, the overseer for the Yankees season hitter, for another 2-1 derision, there- this and has .233. some 60 points below Rizzo, now Griffith is being smart in not declaring open warfare. I wouldn't go so far ■ of Col. Jacob the had by slicing the Bucs’ first-place margin Ruppert's player plan- played position better than in the depth of his slump. •s to say that in any hand-to-hand encounter football will lick tations. Lazzeri for four or five pro major in the National League race to four Tony previous However, it was such a radical baseball. After all baseball has a in It is becoming commonly agreed that league pull background. But baseball and one-half games. Jay Turner, former George Washington back and one campaigns. shake-up lash May that started the of the 43-year-old Weiss, whose official Never Baseball. could get scarred up in the brawl, like Armstrong did in beating Ambers. Getting along to re- the two local ex-collegians who survived in the Played Pirates on their climb from fifth to Stengel, you rookie ranks title call that with is vice president of the Newark There's no end in sight. The great Even the American and National League club owners are admitting when he succeeded Miracle the Washington Redskins. Turner, who is on first place. At that time Traynor strong Club of the International is Newark Club that Man Will McKeehnie at and is League, overwhelmed all op- subbed Dickshot for the elder Waner this is an uncommonly long season.