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1— -—— 1 111 .1 -- 1fji Better Players Passed Up By Possible Managers Of All-Stars TWO TEAM RACES Over The Plate For These Ball I And Cronin Hold Other Baseball Right Players! Terry Helped FEATURE MAJOR ViewsThanFansAsToWhom Despite Itself LEAGUEACTIVITY Should Play On July 10 Yanks Now Have Two DAN By THEON WRIGHT By PARKER Game Lead—Giants (United Pres* Staff Correspondent) New York, July 3—(UP)—The burning question today Also Win teams have ORGANIZED'BASEBALL was reluctant to cooparato when a is whether managers of all-star baseball should Chicago newspapey proposed a game between all-star teams represent- New York, July 3.— (UP)—Two brains, and the concensus is they should not. ing the two major leagues, as a special attraction for the World’s Fair team races appear developing In is awakened over the announcement of the last year. That was nothing unusual for baseball men to every- Excitement oppose both major leagues, as teams thing that is oft their teams that are beaten path. That, incidentally is why baseball sweep toward the home personnel of American and National league has been slowly dying of dry rot. the opposition Of the gtrctch However, despite mark, set as July 4 for some mys- to in the all-star at the Polo Grounds magnates, the was last summer participate game July game put over in grand style and even terious reason known to the dull-witted club only 10. / ownfers saw that, by making the affair an annual baseball statisticians. event, they would be to alive interest In baseball. doing something keep The Yankees hold a two-game And so, the second annual All-Star is to be at the Polo More than 100,000 baseball fani game played edge over the Detroit Tigers. The Grounds here on July 10th. The as was the case last year, will throughout the country have voted proceeds, Giants have the same margin over go to the relief fund of the Association of Professional Bali of on who they would like to see In ACTION! CAMERA! Players the Chicago Cubs In the senior an this America, organisation which cares for ill and indigent diamond circuit. lineup. athletes. The American leaguers yesterday stretched their winning Advance Dope to The starting lineups will not he The widespread response to the game shows that under the streak eight games, Lefty Gonsez a shutout released until later this week. surface, needing only to be stirred up by something out of the hurling against the Boston Red 6-0. there la Indica- ordinary, there is still a vast Interest In baseball. Hundreds of Sox, Nevertheless, every The senor from San Fran- tion that Bill Terry of the Slants thousands of fans cast votes to decide on the makeup of the all- goofy cisco allowed seven and Joe Cronin of the Senators are star teams which will disport on Mr Charley Htonrham's lawn hits. Ed Mor- gan a burning up many ergs of brain on Eighth Avenue next Tuesday. The result of their pub- got triple, the only extra poll, base hit the power doping out who will lished recently, furnishes several surprises. Bostonians recorded. they pul It was Gomez’ 13th win with two on the field In order to win. The of Not the least of these Is the popularity of Bill Terry, man- losses. feeling Messrs Terry and Cronin seems to be have ager of flic Giants, who will also manage the National League Detroit stayed with the Yanks that they bene All Stars. Bill polled the largest vote of all the players In the for half the afternoon, Inaugurat- named managers of the rival all-star running. If it had been a poll of baseball writers. Bill would ing their western tour after win- teams, and they want nc outpost fur trapper who thlnkr probably have wound up a poor last. That only goes to prove that ning ten of fifteen games In the Jack Is still the a bull player’s popularity can’t always be Judged by the east, by beating Cleveland 9-2 Dempsey heavy- quantity weight champion telling either ol or quality of his publicity. In the opener. The Tigers ram- med out 19 hits to fell the swolt- them who Is to play shortstop. Charley Gehringer of Detroit, Frankie Frisch of the Curdinals and srlng Indians on their home lot, The opposite view Is that Messri Chuck Klein of the Cubs follow Terry in thut order. Babe Ruth is sec- but wilted In the nightcap and Terry and Cronin both got Jobs or ond only to Klein among the outfielders. Babe may be to and in a succumbed 6-6, the Indians rally- these all-star teams as a result ol slump but the fans don't forget his accomplishments in vital ball games ing twice to tie It up In the sev- votes cast by a discerning public such as that last one in the series of 1928, with the Cardinals, in which snth and win In the ninth. De- and If these addicts who pay rea he hit three homers; the game against the Cubs in the 1932 aeries in troit thus lost half a game in the money at the gate want to see Jo< which he called his home run shot in advance and the Alt-Star game race with the New Yorkers. Glutz caper In shortfleld, then Jo- last year which he won with a homer. A great little occasion-riser, this Hnlpli Happed seph Is the man to play. A flock o fellow Ruth, even at 40. Washington mounted into third newspaper writers, who have beei Now place again, defeating Philadel- here, girls, are the sort of boys who’ll make good husbands, In ease you’re Interested. The v larding up the all-star game, an be on the baseball team back In but thatdoesn't not about Uie domestl of juast year me gate receipts or tne Aii-atar game were *&6,37s.su phia 7-3 on tho strength of two may Bedford, O., say they're geen c joining the howl protest agalns arts. So In that worked their east to attend the aniiuul of the Amelrca n Cronin and the proflta after (9,876.51 expenses had been deducted were $46,- tome runs manufactured by keen, fact, they way Just meeting Terry and thinking. Ralph Home Economies association In New where here shown a few a 501.99. Since its Inception in 1926, the Association of Professional Ball Kress, late of the White Sox. York, theyare receiving cooking polntei The case of Jimmy Dykes of th' in death benefits. from Miss Stackhouse. The from left to arc: Victor Bultltis and Ilcrbei t Players has dispensed $94,791.03 and sick Up to last Kress, made over from a Daisy boys, right, Harry Vernon, White Sox and Frank Higgins o shortstop Cottrlll. year its only Income was the money received in dues from its members. :o an outfielder and finally to the Athletics is one in point. With this additional source of revenue oponed up, the organisation will i first sacker, was the whole Dykes bats only .250, but he 1 be able to widen the of Its activities henceforth. scape works, lashing In three runs, scor- a popular player and exactly 102. ng two himself. 675 baseball fans said they wante< SPEAKING OF GOOD scouts, let us take the case of Larry Sutton, Chicago and St Louis were not to see him play In the all-stai hunter for the who is still on the alert for Major League Ivory Brooklyn Dodgers, icheduled In the American. game. Higgins, who bats .354, I though In the senile seventies. started his good tusks, supposedly Larry The Giants pummelled Bob Cronin’s tentative choice for thlri career for errors as a for a Joplin, Mo, scouting scouting proof-reader Smith and Barrett of tho Braves Leaders base—and there you have It. Onl; He never knew in those that he would some encounter paper. days day 'or 13 hits to win behind Joe 11,846 are Interested in seeing him errors of the kind the Dodgers make, however. When Larry first hit Bowman, 7-4. Travis Jackson won Not Popular Choice the ivory trail he used a stage coach on some of his trips Into the hin- United Press) :he game when ho poled his 13th (By In the American terlands. Now airplanes are at his disposal If he cares to use them. ST LOUIS (N) NEW YORK <N) general Leagui lomer in the seventh with Ott team to bo one of th< ab r po ab r h po a I.ending Mutters. appears tboard. greatest of ant Around his neck he wears a yellow ribbon to which is attached a Orsattl, cf ... 4 1 2 Crltz, 2b & 2 3 13 ) Player Club g. ab. r. h. pc" , aggregations hitting Tho Brooklyn Dodgers presented ball ever gold medal the late Charley Ebbets gave him for digging up players Itothrock, rf 4 1 8 O’Doul. If 2 3 3 0 I Manush, Senators 68 2SX 55 118.(1 [i fielding players collected jon Koenecke In a special act— 2b I Geltrlngcr, Tigers 70 273 68 104.38 l But It Is not the team the fani that brought Brooklyn its only two pennants—in 1916 and 1920. Frisch, 3 0 0 Torry, lb .. 0 1 12 1 wo of 44 20 63 .36 5 V/ A »- *“* w « « w » them, both homers—and Durochcr, 2b 1 1 0 0 Ott, rf_ 2 I Vosnilk, Indiana.