Win, Lose Or Draw Yanks in Scrap by FRANCIS E
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WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940. A—13 American League Boils Over With Four Clubs Now Stoking Pennant Fires Win, Lose or Draw Yanks in Scrap By FRANCIS E. STAN. Man With Canary Feathers on His Lip After Pushing There is a ; damp little basement office at 462 Indiana avenue, Just below the Traffic Bureau. On the door, printed in black letters, is ’ “District Boxing Commission.” Ask the young lady at the desk for Col. Tribe Off Harvey L. Miller and, brother, you are face to face with the smuggest- Top * looking fellow you ever saw. The canary feathers still are on his lower lip. You see, Col. Miller has been for bleating a long time about a fellow Odd Win Over Bosox ; named Sammy Angott of Louisville, Ky. The Colonel and all of his National Boxing Association playmates have been plugging this gent as Gets the real Tigers Lead; i lightweight champion of the world. But until the other night, when Henry Armstrong showed up Lew Jenkins for a preliminary boy, the Dodgers Pick Up tawney Texan had been getting all of the publicity and most of the By JUDSON BAILEY, recognition from the man on the street. •t Auociated Press Sports Writer. “Honestly,” murmurs Col. Miller, a bit peevishly, “you’d think the National The Boxing Association w'as a bunch of guys who never saw a American League still is boil- We ing over, like a pot of hot porridge, fight. had Jenkins tagged long ago. Listen, we have expert fight men all over the and there doesn’t seem to be any- country. They saw Jenkins and they saw Angott. But thing any one can do about it. does anybody pay any attention to us? No, not around New York The Cleveland Indians stumhled where most of the national starts. publicity Up there they take Mike into their fifth consecutive defeat Jacobs’ word for it that Jenkins is a great lightweight and that’s all yesterday, 9-6, at the hands of the there is to it.” ever-dangerous New York Yankees. Pour, losses got ’em into first place, Lew Down 11 Times in Two Fights but five took ’em out. The Both the Boston Red Sox and De- good Colonel is working under obvious For In- handicaps. troit Tigers had a chance to scoot stance. the N. B. A.’s Mr. Angott is practically unknown in the East. into the lead, but when they finished Once he sneaked into New York, under cover of darkness, and fought battling each other at the end of 11 a fellow named Pete Lello a to draw. wild innnings, it was Detroit that “He was unimpressive,” Heinie admits. “He had one of his rare was on top, 10-8. bad nights. For that so did matter, Lello. Both of those guys can whip This was a game that had every- Jenkins. And I mean, they can knock Jenkins out.” thing. including a triple play. The The man with the cat-that-swallowed-the-canary look shuffles Red Sockers scored all their eight around a few papers. “Here’s a the runs in the first three innings. report N. B. A. had on Jenkins a 1; time he Then the Tigers, using five long ago,*’ says. “He’s strictly a four-round fighter. He can’t pitcher^, take a to held them helpless the rest of the punch the body. If he doesn’t knock out his opponent in three rounds he gets knocked out himself. way. “Now I’ll Boston used four hurlers, the last illustrate,” continues the old Colonel. “You remember Ray of whom was free and Jack Bowen? He was a classy little local boxer but he easy had a tin chin. Every- Wilson. body knew it. Some AT IT AGAIN—Ray Stocklinski (left), who lost to Allie .-t years ago Bowen fought Wesley Ramey here in Ritzenberg (right) in the at 3:30 on the Rock Creek courts, following the title match between Willie O’Steen Now final of the Public Parks tennis Wilson Free With Walks. Washington. Ramey never could punch a lick. He must have hit tourney last year in a five-set struggle, gets a Herbert, defending champion, and Margaret Keever, the tournament’s surprise. The Bowen on the chin a thousand times change for Tigers had kept nibbling and he never staggered That revenge tomorrow, when they repeat the 1939 setup. They will battle on Ray. (Story Page A-14.) —Star Staff Photos. away at Boston's margin and had it was back when Ramey was a kind of cute fighter. down to 8-7 when Wilson came on “Our report on Jenkins includes two with fights Ramey, who’s been duty at the start of the ninth. He through for a couple of years. In two fights Ramey had Jenkins on the gave a walk, a single and a long fly floor 11 times.” for the tying run. In the 11th he The Colonel While Misfit in Home Fandom Makes grins broadly. pausing to let this sink in he lights Carrasquel, Minors, Wadden, Reaching walked three men to fill the bases up a fresh cigar. and Pinky Higgins spanked a 2-run Proves Star in Relief Roles single to win the game. Hostak 10-8 Choice Net The Yankees sewed Ham-and-Eggers Have Flattened Jenkins Final, Seeks Delay up their vic- tory in the first two innings. Buddy "Our records show that Jenkins was knocked out by one Bobby Brit- As Nats Five Rosar homered with the bases ton, who is strictly a Bag Straight ham-and-egger. Britton once fought at the Rid- In Bout Tonight To Heal loaded in the first and Red Rolfe ing and Hunt Club. I BURTON Blisters forget, offhand, who he fought but he got licked By HAWKINS. shooting for his seventh successive hit for the circuit with one on in by some preliminary boy. Our records disclose that Mr. Mike Jacobs’ Alejandro Carrasquel, who owes pitching victory. the second. Joe Di Maggio extended handsome his current existence Denies Scores Three M. A. his streak specimen was knocked out by one Chino major league Leonard Toils Sunday. Manager Heavy Wins hitting to 13 consecutive Alvarez, who was to beaten by fellows named the fact he was somewhat of a For Sunday’s double-header Man- games by poling his 17th home run Quarles, Spigel and Yucatan Kid. He also was Hand for Title On One knocked out fizzle with a minor league outfit, is ager Bucky Harris will Wrap Day; Bensinger in the seventh inning. by Lello, who drew with Angott and was beaten probably by Aneott demonstrating the daffiness of at- elect to Dutch in two fights. pitch Leonard and Battle With Zale Beaten in Semifinal Although they are in fourth place, tempting to the baseball in- Rene or dope Monteagudo Joe Krakaus- the world champions are four ‘‘This,’' sniffs Col. Miller, "is supposed to be THE only lightweight cham- dustry. Branded incompetent by kas. Monday the Nats will head By thy Associated Press. to The Star. pion." Special Dispatch games behind the leaders. Jersey City and returned collect to West with a fond desire to continue SEATTLE, July U).—After an ar- BALTIMORE, July 19.—As soon The streak to end all The platform of the N. B. in the the streaks was A., case anybody has come is Nats, angular Venezuelan jumbling the league and over the as just in, standings gument amount of hand the blisters on Tom Wadden's the one the St. Louis Browns ex- to give the fight game back to the has proceeded to win three at the same time people. This platform has certain games improve their own bandages had been settled, every- feet subsides the Washington youth tended to 14 all in five games, losses, yes- qualities but, by the same it is days. position. t the to finish the of token, singularly vulnerable at this time. thing—including weather—was expects job winning terday. This isn’t a record—yet— For do On one of those occasions Car- hn’t to for instance, the people want the fight game? Harris jQglined disturb ready, tonight’* 15-round fig&t the junior Middle Atlantic net title bqt it is one more defeat than the Never mind ra'stjuel fnerely strolled in and out his winrilft* Ithe-up, so until the between A1 Hostak of Seattle and he so well about that,” hisses Col. Miller pettishly, “if don’t began yesterday. Browns ever had sifflered in suc- they of the game at a time when Wash- Nats lose Cecil Travis is a want it it's because this fellow', out of Tony Zale of Gary, Ind., for the In an afternoon of hard and often cession before. The 10-3 victory Jacobs£has>ruined boxing. Because he ington was home seven his that hammering job. despite lofty batting aver- , 40-State N. B. A. middleweight brilliant play Wadden won three that the says Ken Overlin is the Jenkins is Philadelphia Athletics took middleweight, the lightweight runs in (me Inning, but his mates »ge and against Harris’ better Judg- to gain the final round. and Harry Jeffra is the championship. $ matches from them was a combination of featherweight champ all of those yes-men on nevertheless feel he has played a ment. Travis returned to action Eddie Hostak’s His victims were Charles Uie Marino, mahagdr, Scbbew, flve-hit hurling by Johnny Babich New York papers say these guys are the vital in the Nats’ in best in their divisions.