1934-09-02 [P B-4]

; -1 SPORTS SECTION I-•- Base Ball, Tennis Boxing, Wrestling ___ _ * .. mm ■ ■ ■ ■■ — j B—4 _WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1934.____ W _____ Title Tennis Free : Nats at Last Trim Yankees, 5-1 1 ■1 ... — — ■——'—— — ■ ■ — ■■ ■1 —Slug, of•- a .. r Opening Upsets SWING ROUND In Sportdom’s Spotlight Milburn Breaks Collar Bone STORTScope By Fall in Practice Polo Tilt Griffs Unable to See 10 CHECK LOCOES SNAP FOR PERRY By the Associated Press. an impressive demonstration of hard Tigers 7-5 Choices • and ___________ N. Y., Septem- accurate hitting. a first-! Over Giants. ber 1.—Devereux Milbum, They were pitted against class Freebooters side consisting of Stone’s Fielding High Spot Hot Dogs, Beer Slow Lott’s one of the greatest players Ohio Girl Sets Pace Most WESTBURY. Seymour H. Knox. Ivor Balding, _BY FRANCIS E. STAN- American ever devel- Gerald and Milburn, with polo Balding 1.— of Ruth Gets Win—Hunt Gives Allison W. in for Mil- of 5-Mile Race to YORK, September Fray—Babe oped, suffered a fracture of the collar Earle Hopping going Get bum when the latter was hurt. Early betting odds on the the West- bone while playing against in for Boeseke In His 20th Homer* Brisk Battle. Tom Mather went Prize of $2,000. world series have installed ern team today at the Meadow Brook the last chukker to the 10-goal NEW give the American Leaguers, 7-to- a rest. Club. Californian % 5 favorites over the National Leaguers. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. By the Associated Press. Playing at back, Milbum was at- By the Associated Press. Of course Bill Terry’s Giants, who Staff Correspondent o( The Star. HILLS, N. Y.. September for the ball September 1.—Forg- tempting to reach along of undoubtedly will carry the colors YORK, September 1.— 1.—The perfunctory procedure the sideboards when his pony was Last Three ing to the front soon after the circuit once can't round of the Nags the senior again, Your Griffs laid of the first fifty- bumped by the mount carrying Elmer start, May Looney of Warren, groggy TORONTO, “see" these early quotations against FOREST aside the bats national third men's singles Boeseke. Californian. Mil- In at Ohio, won the Canadian na- fungo they Jr., 10-goal Spa while stanch American NEW them. went Money And, have been for nearly a tennis championship along today burn's pony fell, smashing the veteran tional exhibition 5-mile swim for using Leaguers, all, neither can the Griff- and without a hitch, with Fred Perry, the in women and earned week, grabbed some real cudgels against the sideboards directly the Associated Press. today first-prize By men, who currently' are testing the forgot the portly Yankees were pen- British holder of the title, barely get- front of the grandstand. money of $2,000. SPRINGS. N. Y„ punch of the Yankees. nant contenders and themselves a workout in his elimination of ting An examination by Dr. John Rich- 1.—In what was be- Sweeping into the lead before the headed for the nether regions of th« SARATOGASeptember Assuming the Detroit Tigers will par- Carl H. Schweikhardt. ards showed Milburn’s collar bone lieved to be unprecedented ac- first half-mile was finished, the Ohioan American League this afternoon ticipate in a world series for the first con- While most of the guns were tion in the history of horse racing never And so, with Walter Stewart big had been fractured and he was re- faltered as she covered the 5- time since 1909, most of the Nationals in New York State, the first three tributing a heady, if not brilliant, muffled by virtue of receiving first- moved to his home in mile course in 2 hours conceive Cochrane’s Westbury. finishers in the seventh race at 28 minutes 30 cannot Mickey slab performance, the New Yorkeri Carl Hubbell—at least round byes, the black-haired British Earle W. Hopping replaced him. Saratoga today were disqualified. seconds to defeat Janet Sheather of crew licking were vanquished, 5 to 1. six starters, the last not a 7-to-5. The Nationals the titllst accounted for the former Co- Milbum, now 53 years old, played With only Port Credit, Ontario, by 150 yards, and smote stagger- three to finish were moved up to boss Joe sum of 11 hits to various sections lumbia University star in straight sets, on seven American international Charlotte Acres of Vancouver by 250 "Certainly,” grants ing the money positions, with Mrs. A. yards. Cronin, “the Tigers have a of the Yankee Stadium as they ended 6—0, 6—1, 6—3, and led four seeded teams from 1909 to 1927 inclusive. a 7-to-l S. Dodd's Just Cap, shot, Miss Sheather, recent winner of the chance to win. Bat we couldn't their four-game losing streak, kept M. share of the Louis domestic challengers—George Lott, He captained the teams of 1921, 1924 taking the major Chicago marathon, completed the do it last year and I think the pace with the fifth-place St. W. E. Jones' Celiba was club was whom still trail two jr., of Chicago; Lester R. Stoefen of and 1927, he was rated at the maxi- purse. course in 2 hours 33 minutes to earn 1933 Washington Browns, they by given second and J. A. Cobum’s better than the 1934 and one-half games, and dealt the Los Clifford Sutter of New prize money of $1,000. Miss Acres was Tigers. Angeles, mum of 10 goals for the 12-year the favorite, third. blow to what Bahadur, clocked in 2:35:34 in third Gothamites a serious York and Wilmer Allison of Austin, of 1917-1928. His handicap taking span Anna V. L. was the first to fin- prize of $500. "wittE WERE a better fielding flag aspirations they still entertain. Tex., into the second round. rating now is seven goals. ish the mile and was followed by W team. We were hitting too, Really, It was quite a rare sight It was a broken collar bone suffered Noble and The lots of and we had to see the frail Stewart slabbing so They were the only members of a Spirit Semaphore. Other Prize Winners. had spirit, our side and during a hunt meeting at Aiken, S. C., latter appeared to bother Anna V. as good a pitching staff as Rowe, well, swinging actually select group of 15 American and for- these leaders finished the in March, 1928, that brought about L. in the jamming soon after the Bridges, Marberry and Auker in hitting the ball, with a couple of who saw action in eign seeded players his semi-retirement from +be game. start, while Anna V. L. did the same BEHINDfollowing prize winners: Fourth, Crowder, Whitehill, Stewart, Weaver exceptions by Pete Susko and Stew- the opening round. The 10 others Milbum is chairman of the Selec- to Noble Spirit around the bend. Eva Bein, New York, 2:39:55, and Russell. art, fielding in a fashion reminiscent choose Anna V. L. had a and a $250; fifth, Ruth of 1933. Walter to cover will into action for the first tion Committee designated to length Downing, Toronto, “We were supposed to lick the neglected swing while hunt- the Eastern team for the intersec- half to spare at the finish, 2:42:50, $150; sixth, Mona Looney, Giants last year, too. We didn’t, first base once and Susko was time in the second round on Labor Noble clovers when he should tional series against the West starting four lengths separated Spirit Warren, Ohio, 2:43:45, $100. y'know, because we couldn’t get over ing four-leaf and Miss Acres started but in- have been on the but outside day. j next Saturday. Semaphore. slowly, Hubbell. If the Tigers can whip Carl bag. | The stewards deliberated for creased her stroke after the Yanks 2 undeserved shortly the then they can win. But then they’re of giving West defeated the Freeboot- a half Don field 22 No Task for Perry. nearly hour, calling of had gotten away from the beating the best pitcher in base ball.” hits for a total of 10, no damage ers, 13 to 11. The West, with Meade, Sammy Rennick and Harry starting line and at the end of the was done. LAYING in a brisk atmosphere, THE Luke Sewell, who knows his Eric Pedley, Cecil Smith, Aidan Richards, riders of the first three first mile was in third place, behind more suited for foot ba'\ Perry curves and hops ao only Roark and Elmer Boeseke, a 36-goal horses, on the carpet. No action May Looney and Miss Sheather, and Stone’s Catch Peps Griffs. completely dominated the first a smart catcher can know, combination, riding in that order, gave was taken against the jockeys. 20 yards in front of Nell Hurley of AYBE this is stretching the Im- two sets, forcing Schweikhardt into concedes the Tigers a good Memphis. a trifle, but It errors and depriving his American KATHERINE STAMMERS, chance If Tommy Bridges in- agination Miss Hurley overtook the pretty seemed as Jack Stone, rival of a single earned point. stead of Schoolboy Rowe faces though English netwoman, who won the Vancouver girl as they swam into the the With Schweikhardt serving first in Hubbell. Why? right fielder, injected strychnine singles and shared In the doubles second mile and were on close to neither could they the Nationals needed. Johnny made the final chapter, player title of the Eastern “Because I think is the grass-court even terms until the end of the fourth Bridges one of the catches hold on to his delivery for the first better gosh-awfulest tourney.

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