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WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1938. B—9 New Plan Proves Success : Hostak Uncrowns Steele " — ■■ ■ 1 Ring --——AScoring A_ p- PERMANENT USE LIGHT COMEDY By JIM BERRYMAN ose or -SAV THEY — SO! THEY’RE GIVIN’ X^JSPLUP! > THAT BUM TH' LIGHT! WHY TH’LUCKV STIFF, I'LL KNOCK HIS ; A Nearly All Winter Baseball Deals Prove Flops. EARS OFF THIS KJt ROUND 'jjjZZj Problem to Managers' Now Is Make More Trades System Used as Reid Beats Floors Champ Four Times By FRANCIS E. STAN, Lee Lauded by Ring Fans a Staff Corespondent of The Star. With Murderous Left. July 27.—This Is a year of bitter disappointments in the and Officials Alike. 30,000 Fans Amazed. American League. Bucky Harris is bitterly disappointed with First By BURTON HAWKINS. Baseman Zeke Bonura, whom he got in trade from the Chicago Ey the Associated Press. DETROIT, Striking a responsive and enthusi- White Sox. When winter comes the Senators will waste no time SEATTLE. July 27.—A1 Hostak, a astic chord with ringworms, the plan Zeke on the baseball counter. 22-year-old kid from the putting bargain Here in Detroit Mickey Coch- to reveal official of bouts to WHEN l Georgetown progress >/..AN district of rane is bitterly with Pitcher Vernon and PLANT THIS brewery Seattle, who disappointed Kennedy Outfielder spectators here through illumination *4 Dixie RIGHT ON would as soon punch you in the Walker, who came to the Tigers also via Chicago. It would seem to appeared headed for success' today, His BUTTON I GUESS nose as shake hands, wore the world* follow that Jimmy Dykes is the trading winner over Bucky and but with several authorities suggesting Mickey, THEV LL GIVE ME middleweight championship crown such is not the case. Dykes is with minor alterations to oil the mechanics disappointed Outfielder Gerald Walker, A FLASH-I LL- today. whom he no and with of the system. longer plays, First Baseman Joey Kuhel. Mr. Gabby Hostak, wielding a murderous left of Transferring the experimental sta- Street, skipper the Browns, plays neither Outfielder Buster nor hand, battered down Freddie Mills, tion to Griffith Steele, Pitcher Stadium next week, the Eddie Linke, whom he obtained from Boston and re- Tacoma, Wash., boy, who held Washington, where the system will be tested fur- spectively. the title two years, four times to ther in the Ivan Nedomatsky-Steve Each of these win in 1 minute 43 seconds of the gentlemen, at various times prior to the start of the Mamakos feature bout and possibly American first round of their scheduled 15- League season, took the floor and made pretty the semi-final, Ernest W. Brown, speeches, pregnant Maj. !j round bout. with optimism and extravagant in prophecy. When the Bonura-Kuhel trade chairman of the District Boxing Com- ERE IT IS BENNY! I TOL ^ Some 30,000 fans hardly realized was announced last March in Harris mission, plans to explore the idea H I D GIT TH U6HT! AIN'T I Orlando, Fla., .Mr. uttered an audible the battle was over when Referee sigh of relief, announced that Bonura more fully. — A beauty.benny’ chee! henceforth would be Washington’s 1 Jack Dempsey counted 10 over the and that Employed for the first time last GUESS I'M clean-up hitter, all along he had been looking for a long-range, -six-seven DOIN'ALLRIGHT' glassv-eyed Steele, who lay at Turner's Arena as A1 Reid bleeding right-handed hitter of night and battered Zeke’s type. At the time of the deal Mr. Dykes was -EIGHT-NINE' in the resin. It took carved out a unanimous eight-round PH in far-off Pasadena, Calif., where he was as that Hostak, too. some time to realize he quoted saying with Kuhel decision over Paul Lee, the system he would l~TEN_L^ was the but when have the best infield in the majors, and also more champion, he did batting power clicked, even in a fight which was so he from the jumped and danced all over the coming left side of the plate. one-sided, as Lee one captured only ring. Speaking, roughly, from 3,000 miles away, Mr. Harris warned Mr. Dykes, round, although remaining something Takes in effect: of a threat throughout. Advantage of Opening. “Wait till The on which "X am the m you see Kuhel in 154 games a season. He doesn’t hit as well only passible point happiest guy the as it cried Hostak. saw as you think.” •. the system could be rejected country,” "I a worked out last was the fact hole and let that left To which Mr. Dykes, in reply, said: night go. Boy, am customers started to vacate I “Wait till many happy.” you see Bonura in 154 games a season. He as doesn’t hit the anemic arena in the last round. That’s just the way the bout fin- well as you think, and he fields worse than think.” you That, however, has happened on nu- ished. A1 spotted an opening through These utterances the kept boys from drawing complete blanks. At least merous occasions in one-sided scraps Steele’s guard, let fly with a left cross were in a they right negative sort of way. here when fans felt the trailing fighter ! to the jaw, and Steele went down in a could win only by registering a heap. He was so far gone he didn't knockout. Since Lee's steam had van- know' what to do and got right up, Dykes Hailed as New Hamm. Davey ished by that time the fans’ tendency groggy and weaving. He was an easy Mr. Harris was mark the rest of the let off lightly compared to Mr. Dykes. For prior to to leave hardly was surprising. way. Ho-stak making the Bonura-Kuhel trade, Round Man charged in, throwing punches from Jimmy had dispatched Kennedy, Clamor for Lights. Dixie Walker Early every direction, and Steele bounced and Infielder Tony Piet to Detroit in exchange for Gerald On the other hand, there were poig- ! twice more before he took a Walker and Third Baseman Marvin Owen. In Detroit went finally up an indignant nant illustrations the may prove : vicious that howl of system ^Ari? right finished him. protest. Trading Gee Walker from the Tigers was unpardonable, and extremely popular. Fans sporadically “I wish A1 good luck,” said Steele to prove it the Detroit fans threatened to boycott Briggs Stadium and the were clamoring for the lights even in from under an ice pack in the dress- school kids of the town contributed a penny a piece to erect a monument to the preliminaries. There was consid- ing room. "I did the same thing once” the memory of Walker, or something. erable glee when the green bulb —meaning he won the title from Babe At the time over Lee's corner at the end Mr. Dykes was hailed as something of a David Harum and gleamed Rlsko here two years ago. “They all the of the first round, and more cheering with logical successor to Washington s Clark Griffith as the shrewdest trader get caught up sometime. I was when both flashed at the end Statistics in the business. In off with Gee lights Major League pretty well shaken. Say, can you tell making Walker, was sus- especially, Dykes of the of the second, indicating fighters WEDNESDAY. JULY 37, 1B38. me how many times I went down?” pected having stolen from his old pal Cochrane such other items as: were even over the route to that point. (a) Two (2t gold both from AMERICAN. NATIONAL. steele to Take fillings, Mr. C.'s uppers. When the light switched from Lee, Long Beet. <b) One (1) franchise in the Remit! Yesterday. Results Yesterday. American League, originally made out crowd favorite, to Reir, at the end of Hostak asked the same question. He to Detroit. Detroit. 6 Washington, A. Philadelphia. 6: Pittsburgh. 6. the third round, there was booing, but Chicago. 9 Boston. 1. Chicago. 10; Brooklyn. 8. didn’t know, either, the number of New ». Louis. 8—5. 8t. Louis. 6; New (Ci One (1) scrapbook full of Cochrane it was brief. From that the York. 10—12; York 6. times he flattened Freddie. clippings, one (1) clubhouse boy point Cleveland. 4: Philadelphia. 2. Cincinnati. 6; Boston. 2. and one-half of the crowd saw Lee was out- "But I guess it was he (>2) Walter O. Briggs fortune, on whose purse strings clearly being STANDING OF THE CLUBS STANDING OF THE CLUBS enough," Mickey has a hold. pointed and accepted the fact sporting- laughed. Distorted With First zoo 03 co w i < r u 5 Heavier but Fight ■ Still as < i. an Naturally this and ly. There was no more booing. Si 5 S 3! f* [P ~J g c* *? E* !T oi Ti jr o » ■ Henry, Steele, expectant papa, will take pleased flattered Mr. Dykes very much. But that was *TP'l2; s * Claude W. who formulated «| si S- 5 r § 3 ;S D an extended rest before he considers last winter. have Owen, 5- | I E gi Ij I e, f 8 I Things changed. to Favor X! gj 2 S 2. £, P c | » £ B || as the plan used in the Reid-Lee en- Max, Roxborough § &8 fl, g8 Fast Ever, Is Demon returning to the his S’S g 8 I £ ! ! f ring, manager, avi&i ", «i ■ H ftl : 1 : * Eddie said. gagement after the suggestion to reveal 1 Miller, 1 I O I E? I I I • I1 I Cables U.