1937-09-18 [P A-12]

President Roosevelt Sees Record Sail Fleet in Potomac Races Words and Action r>oth Part as VAKItllUr Wl Play Big Gonzaga Prepares for Grid Campaign NATS’ TWIN BILLS SEEM PRIZES CALL OUT ROOKIES Boats From New England to Chase Faces Chisox Here Florida Compete as Big After Regatta Opens. Tomorrow, Krakky, BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE. JR. Phebus Toil Today. President Roosevelt as I BY FRANCIS E. STAN. a spectator aboard the Nationals may have taken a yacht Potomac, the second back seat to the Redskins In WITHChief Executive to view a the last 48 or hours so, but President's Cup Regatta in 11 years, today, with two double-headers a fleet that exceeded 125 craft □HE stood staring them in the face, Manager ready to jockey for positions with the Bucky Harris continued to peek into first gun slated at 1:30 today for the 1938. two-day series of sailing events under Rained out yesterday, at least in management of the Potomac River the opinion of Mr. Clark Griffith, the Association. Bailing St. Louis Browns today were to face Small boat sailors from as far the GrifTmen in a double-header, 6outh as Florida and North to Rhode which will find two of Harris’ prize Island in craft ranging from 10-foot box prospects getting another major dinghies to a 42-foot sloop, descending league test. on Canoe Washington Club, Corin- Ray Phebus. a sensational shutout thian and Capital Yacht Clubs until winner over the Red Sox in his major late last night to compete for The league debut and beaten by Lefty Star * Evening trophies, will be racing Gomez by only 2-1 in his second start, under the of eyes President Roosevelt, was to face the Browns in today's •n enthusiastic yachtsman. opener. In the nightcap Joe Krakaus- kas, who has beaten the Athletics and Record for Potomac Fleet. lost to the Tigers, was to pitch. 'I'HE largest gathering of sail boats ever seen on the Potomac since Krakkv Is on Trial. Jts inclusion in the annual President's PHEBUS already Is established in * Cup Regatta three years ago, were to (Harris’ mind as an outstanding race h™d coach, is three his in 12 classes this afternoon and | instructing of hacks in the art of passing. Left to Louis Di Against the Red Sox the ri„h?rlfUright, they Mitche}hare: Jim Bill Gardiner Filippo, Purple back, is going through a wide hole in the line in a scrimmage with prospect. continue all day tomorrow for Shaw, and Jim Ellis. Eastern the High. He is aided by fine blocking. _star Photos. stocky little rignt.-hander gave up onlv second and third Staff races. Clear skies i one hit in winning his first big league A ■ ■ B^ 4% B ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ a a —- I were assured skippers, but forecasts start. Against the Yankees he fol- of airs light had some of the larger lowed up with a performance that owners Lriants Have fa ns pac.ht worried. was almost as good. All the world With Wondering last-minute entries the comet I HMIMI) champions got oft Ray was five hits. class division loomed as the largest Krakauskas strictly is on trial. The single A Whether Bill' "POPP/NG group. record list of 28 of j Is Genius hefty Lithuanian southpaw looked to the 16-footers Terry included entries from be one of the prize pitching prospects the Eastern Shore. New Jersey, Penn- By LACK OF GAMES of the year when he debuted against sylvania, Or Is Plain Li as Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. ;up the A's and held them to one hit in The B class icky with Manager won handicap 21 seven Joe that entries, B? th* Associated Press. ■- innings. game the bricks of the that no OFF"w5tanl there's majority of them local and near- 1 age; such and coaxed high-sounding words of claimed Nin as Collins Gets Back YORK. September IS.—This animal. by. skippers from Norfolk, Tra<5k License Beds kins Backwash. praise from Harris, but in his game being the time of year it is, Cleveland's Narragansett BUten Island, N. Y., and Providence jittery pilot, Steve O'Neill, against the Tigers he was something in and the Giants out there in OW romps up the question: “Is Washington going to string along with R. I. Play, but First-Place agreed the other day that you might less than impressive. NEWfront base balls in- Also Suspended by State professional foot ball?” and I suppose it is only natural. The sheer again, have taken the Sailing canoae in the open class were ! names of all the big test against the Browns is novelty of the Redskins’ show the other must have lured some*’ Krakky's f*n hand from Giants Also Score. telligentsia laboring once more league at the night New York, some six managers beginning of of was to amount to a tort of acid with that vital question: Is Col. Bill Racing Commission. those 24.942 customers into the pews of Mr. G.’s ball yard and •trong, and the season, shaken them up in a hat test. The for. all of their Jacksonville, Fla., for a nAntldo that wears Browns, BY SID they say off. Then what? FEDER. Terry the greatest manager By the novelty total of 14. The '■any- and assigned them to the various clubs Associated Press. are rated as one of the 15’2-foot snipe boats, Associated Press Sports Writer. Offhand, and without the more lowly standing, body ever or is he consulting learned of our colony's * in saw, just plain and that the now trailing from Long Island Sound : standings would have R. I., September best-hitting clubs in the majors, par- Ripper’S back, folks: the lucky? foot ball folk, we would venture that Mr George P. Marshall s firm will survive. numbered five of the been about the same as are in 18.—A horse race left-handed popular one-de- Cubs are they meeting to their with the Giants ticularly against pitchers. j looking up again. It's Up game the Redskins were a novelty, but would •igns. Tiny 11-foot that in- really a consuming problem, actuality. turbulent with off-the-track With Harland Clift, Bill Knicker- moths, Question before the house it be climbing out too far to a more or less civic now _ predict status for the dear eluded a overshadowing in a the National Jack Joe large fleet from Elizabeth is way PROVIDENCE,controversy closed at Narra- old and Gold? bocker. Bell. Vosmik and THE whether Collins isn't re- Burgundy Rip City, N. C„ tallied 12. League race itself. What makes it a Keeps Players Contented. gansett today while the State Rollie Hemsley hitting from the right turning too late to do the Cubs much prepared Deep down inside. Mr. Marshall conscientiously hopes so. He could hotter subject of debate than it But if that's how are to side of the the tail-enders con- rood in their might true, you going put into effect orders suspending borrow on the plate Laird National League pennant money Burgundy and Gold if the trade took the Redskins to Capt. Joins Committee. be under normal conditions is the to account for this fellow Bill the track's sistently have proved fatal to the r :hase after the Giants. Terry? license at the end of the its collective hearts, as Mr. Griffith's riNAL fact that the Senators are taken, and regarded defeats addition to the Race Com- Giants' peerless leader You can account, all right, for Joe last race and southpaw pitchers thrown at them by Still removing Walter E. as civic catastrophes. It might even be that names like Don Irwin and mittee. who 3’2 games behind the New has not gone out of his to Harris. were to take their way make McCarthy, whose Yankees the Giants O'Hara as director on or Workers, and with 16 to the managing Wayne Millner will become household words whatever household words stand on the Coast only go, himself popular will meet in Kohlman Not to Face Sox. Guard cutter personally. likely the world series. before September 30. are. It even Hubs rapidly are out of ball might develop that the kiddies, at the dinner tables, might learn anchored at the start running on Joe's club has the CLARK GRIFFITH, who and finish line Those whose toes the oil biggest pocketbook The State Commission issued to “Please me one tames. And the way big Racing say: pass of them hard rolls. No, don’t bother with the |yjISTER of tha 5-mile those Terry in the game. It its course around Hains man from the South had trod are buys Di Maggios. the double-barreled order last whole Just heave had been planning a gala Sun- rerriers are there ; night plate. one like Sammy Baugh.” Point was that rearing, doesn't seem of Capt. Charles S. convinced he was bom with a four- Terry, though, hasn't spent that kind to climax a two-week And dear old day for Eastern Shore League fans, to be any more hope for the Cubs than fight by Gov. mother, watering her petunias in the garden, might even Laird, II. S. N., from Norfolk. leaf clover in his of money. He has taken the regretted to announce that to- there was glove hand and players Robert E. to oust O’Hara. mil* uay aim inuau. iviy, IHJw ■sr———-- today The for Hatlle Selassie (re- <^uinn revised schedule of events for under a star that can’t he could get, and they have come morrow’s double-header against the member him?).

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