Mackmen “On The As Famous Trio “Hit Tobo ■ ■ .. ■ » ~_ Spot" By Laafer GRAND NATIONAL Grove, Eamshaw, And Spectacular Sports rc nnrpMiNATinii 4 9 9 U/ ***** 1VI1 PENNANTS AREN’T waioerg au snow OF J.H. WHITNEY WON IN APRIL Signs Of Losing Grip London—Determination to win the Grand National Ilea behind the By JACK CUDDY By BAN PARKER recent purchase of J. H. Whitney (United Preen Staff Correspondent) of three promising young steeple- New York, April 29—(UP)—Failure of the three chasers from Ireland. whose work the rush of the Phil- The United States mHlionaire mighty pitchers, impelled their three successive American VWWMIliilllWWilltMitWWWIMWWWWWWWWIilWf ******** WMltf sportsman, whose bad luck In the adelphia Athletics to league premier steeple-chase of the world pennants, seems the outstanding reason for the A’s slide to *, ALTHOUGH THE BASEBALL season in major leagues is only has become nooorlous, paid a visit two weeks old. I observe that there is a widespread tendency to read to Ireland and purchased Lisburn, the seventh rung in their circuit. the Cards and A’s out of the race because they're in second division. If Double Crossed and Craftsman Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's gentleman-ln-waiting, were alive and in- from the stable of Charles Rogers Seorge Earnshaw, Lefty Grove at least a half dozen in terested in baseball,' he could probably quote pro- County Ueath. ind Rube Wglberg. He hti started verbs to lit the situation, such as: Double Crossed is a full brother BACK WITH HARTFORD them In 19 of the dozen games to the Irish Grand National winner Don’t count your chickens before they gather moss. Impudent Barney, and the other played this season. But they have One swallow does not make the whole world akin. two are useful hurdle-racers which lost seven of those 10 and won only It’s a lane that isn’t worth two In the bush. are to make Be- long expected good. three. In two other games four Only a game fish has a silver lining. sides these three horses Mr Whit- hurlers paraded each Slowly but steady wins the best policy. new also has a two-year-old sister Philadelphia to Easter .Hero at Ratoath, Ireland time to the mound. They lost once as convinced as the next bloke Now it happens, that I am firmly where it will probably remain until uid won once. that neither the A’s'nor the Cards will repeat in 19*8. However, just It is old to in enough participate All Going Badly to explode the fallacy that you can tell how the teams are going to steeplechases. Individual of wind up the season by the position they occupy on April 28th, here are On two occasions J. H. Whitney The performances a few interesting statistics on the subject: narrowly missed winning the Grand red. Earnshaw won one and lost On April 28th, 19*0, the A’s were in fifth place, having won four National. Easter Hero, although this trio place each man in the and lost four. The Cards were in. fifth place in the National League badly handicapped by spreading a two; Grove did likewise, and Wal- with five victories and seven defeats. Tet the A’s and the Cards won plate, finished second in 1929 and »erg won one and lost three. Al- the pennant. Sir Lindsay gained third place for though other causes contrbiuted to On April 28th, 1931, the 'A’s were in fifth place with five victories him the following year. the Mackmen’s poor showing, thus and five defeats, and the Cards were in second place>with six wins and tar, the belief is growing that it is three losses. Yet the A’s and Cards waltzed in again. ‘the beginning of the end” for the On April 28th; 1932, the A’s were in fifth place with four victories MAJOR LEAGUE A’s, unless the three snap out of and seven defeats, and the Cards were in seventh place with five wins It in a hurry. and eight losses. LEADERS Rube Walberg went down to his So what? So what of it? third defeat yesterday when the Washington Senators blasted him wound with a tailender in Newark from the mound in the seventh. WHEN WALTER JOHNSON up (By UNITED PRESS) the season he broke in as a manager, he received enough unsolicited FcoUED Bosfort Despite Deshong’s excellent relief BoTWE to WaA sympathy to keep a whole ward full of hypochondriacs happy for three A 3-UiT Lending Butters. tiuriing, the Athletics lost rH PiTcHIKG 10 to 4. and one half years. Everyone was sorry for poor old Walter. The Player Club g. a.b. r. h. p.c. ter Johnson's outfit, SWJKxjr-STRIWM(3r Yankees 11 45 Browns the fact was that he would never make a successful manager because he Gehrig, 14 20 .444 The St Louis pushed .OiJT t4- Foxx, Athletics. 12 46 13 20 .435 out of six by beat- was too easy-going. In the three seasons since he flopped as a minor Athletics place Walker, Tigers. 12 40 9 17 .426 ing the Detroit Tigers, 8 to t league pilot, Walter has made the volunteer prophdts recant, by doing Crltz, Giants... 11 55 6 23 .418 Washington rose to second posi- a major league job as manager of a major league club. Washington Reynolds, S’tors 10 42 4 17 .452 tion and Detroit dropped to third. has been one of the dangerous contenders in the American League the Home Runs. Detroit scored all its runs in ral- Terry, Giants 6 third inning, but the Browns ACTORS Yankees fourth to regain the OP Ruth, 5 lied in the UllGrtT Collins, Cards 4 lead. Byrd, Yankees 4 Nice Mound Work THtQE 0*2 . Yankees Gehrig, 4 Aided by the three-hit pitching Cochrane, Athletics THEREABOUTS. 4 of Gomez, the New York Foxx, Athletics 4 Lefty took a firmer hold on first Averill, Indians 4 Yankees place by beating the cellar-hold- Rn ns. ing Boston Red Sox, B to 1. Danny Johnson, Detroit 16 MacFayden allowed the Yanks 10 Suhr, Pirates 14 hits. Gehrig, Yankees 14 The Cleveland Indians swamped Lindstrom, Giants 13 the Chicago White Sox, 11 to 3. Klein, Phillies 13 Earl Averill contributed his fourth Lary, Yankees 13 of the season, scoring THEY ALL Rube all out. After an hour of the most stren* Foxx, Athletics 13 homer LAUGHED WHEN tuckered of him. Vosmik, Indians 13 Johnny Burnett ahead went to uous and the Rube ever since Johnson has been at the helm. This year's entry from the Waddell the mound against the Red Sox tugging hauling, pinned In the National league, the banks of the Potomac shapes up like the strongest Johnson has had to one day bacE in 1903. The Sox management had “Candy." And all he did to the Sox that afternoon Runs Batted In. champion St Louis Cardinals drop- date. The Senators are classed as the best defensive club In the Ruth, Yankees league. to frame Rube base- was to beat them 1 to 0, three hits and 17 ped back into the basement losing by having their big first allowing Averill,. Indians They don’t score many runs themselves but they manage to win a lot planned' 17 SAM HYMAN 12 to 7 to the top-rung Chicago man, Rube in a out 14 batten. The wrestling had wanned Terry, Giants 16 of ball games by keeping the opposition to an even smaller number. "Candy” LaChance, engage striking Cubs. A six-run rally in the Herman, Reds 16 Johnson Is still the amiable "Old Barney” of his but when friendly before the to him the Cub’s victory. pitching days wrestling match game get him.ypl Gehrlnger, Tigers .15 Veteran Hartford southpaw who seventh featured the occasion demands it, he can be as stern as the next guy. The play- homered for Gehrig, Yankees 15 has been a holdout from the Allen- Riggs Stephenson ers like him and work for him, though, and he seldom has to step out Chicago in the fourth with two on. town club so far tills season, yes- hits for of his easy-going role. If the Tanks can’t dethrone the A’s this year, ” Hits. George Watkins got five there’s no club New York would rather see turn the trick than Good Johnson, Tigers 24 terday was bought from the Bisons the Cards. YALE NINE BEATS Critz, Giants 23 Homers Enough 014 Waiter’s Senators. Four “New Yorkers and to a Hartford contract. Herman, Reds 21 signed Brooklyn Dodgers L. Waner, Pirates Max Carey’s THOUGH THE NATIONAL LEAGUE declines to number its play- 21 Hyman led the Eastern League the cellar by overwhelm- Frisch, Cards 20 rose from ers, Judge Emil Fuchs, owner of the Braves and one of the most lib- PENN in 1030. the Phillies, 11 to 5. The STATE 11-1; Gehrig, Yankees 20 pitchers ing a six-run rally eral-minded men in baseball, refuses to be petty about It and has fallen Raise East’s Hopes Foxx, Athletics 20 Flatbushers staged In line with the American League’s numbering system. On the in the third to cinch the game. other hand, the tight Shlbe boys who own the A’s won’t number their JOE MAINE EXCELS SOPHS MAY HOLD They pounded four Philly hurlers players at home in conformance with the American League custom be- for 14 hits in nine innings. Johnny In 1932 Max Rosenfeld cause such a move would entail tho purchasing of a new scoreboard, Olympics The Five REGULAR TEMPLE Frederick and Big in the first and (who can tell?) maybe a new phonograph for use at world series, George Packer Holds (By United Press) TACKLE BERTHS homered for Brooklyn and opening games.