Foxx on Batting Rampage for Cubs After Modest Start in National League ■ — —♦ Win, Lose or Draw Ward Galleryite Snaps Cooper's By LEWIS F. ATCHISON. (In the temporary absence of Francis Ε Stan ) With Semifinals Mound Streak, ^Willie Ritchie, Jr./ Enters Sports Picture Maybe the name of Jim Reichert doesn't mean anything to j-ou. but suppose we call him Willie Ritchie, jr.? Ah, it does make a in Western Nails Braves difference, doesn't it? On Thanks to who a Charley Reynolds, recognized possible feature Passeau to Win ptory when he discovered the lad pursuing a physical fitness course Welch, His Conqueror, Helps at Camp Letts several weeks ago, we found the tall, athletic son of 13th Victory on Hill; the old lightweight champion at Takoma swimming pool. He'll Takes on McCormick; Bpend the summer there as a lifeguard and if ever there was an Yanks Triumph athlete who looked his part it is this big, quiet kid. Abbott Plays Givan BAILEY, Reichert's boss is George (Docι Lentz, George Washington Univer- By JtTïSON By RIISS NEWLANI). Preei Sport/» Writer. sity trainer, who remembered him Associated well from last year when Jim led Buck- Associated Press Sports Writer. No one has accused James Emorv nell to a 6-0 victory over the Colonials. 11.—A SPOKANE, Wash.. July Foxx of anything but a decorous "A plenty good football commented "and I wish new Western amateur cham- player," Lentz. only golf debut in the National League For we could take him this was the of year—he's not going back to Bucknell. He scored pion striding: fairways days after he Joined the Chicago the Manto Course today, doomed to the winning touchdown against us and ran 6r> yards for another only Cubs the big slugger was as incon- remain undefeated until the finals to have it called bark on an offside penalty. We can't use him. of course, spicuous as a stick of gum. are afternoon. finished Sunday If the senior circuit berause of the conference transfer rule, but he'd make a mighty sweet But expected The defending titleholder. Corpl. to re- back." "the Beast's" huge war club Marvin was eliminated Ward, yes- main silent indefinitely, It must and it out today over terday, fighting know better now. 36-hole semifinals were the present Off He Game He set off a cannon cracker on the Chip Oid Block, Likes Fight national public links champion, Bill Fourth of July with a threr-run Relchert. likes football, but he likes boxing, too. and figures he has Welch; two former wearers of the homer that knocked Mort Cooper enough native ability to makp a quick piece of change In the ring under links crown and an ex-Walker public out of the box after Cooper had nine the But, he craves action and if he could a berth Cup star. right management.. get straight games; yesterday he made Welch, Houston iTex.t mechanic on a pro football squad this season he might forget boxing for a while. half of the Cubs' six hits and who won the championship here a But sooner or later he knows the old fighting spirit will boll up within knocked in the deciding run In a year ago, knocked Ward out of com- him and he'll find himself in the dueling with a pair of mittens laced 3-to-2 victory over the Boston pit in the quarter-finals. 2 up. petition Braves. on his hands. It wasn't exactly unexpected be- At Bucknell, wherp Football Coach A1 Humphreys called him the best cause Ward bobbed up in a, bad This game was a pitching duel STRETCHES IT—Here's Dick between Claude Passeau and Jim Bison athlete since Clark Hinkle scarred the turf of old North Field. slump after winning the qualifying medal and was to face only Bartell of the Giants Tobin with the unlucky Boston Fteichert had 14 intercollegiate boxing matches and won 13—most of lucky j getting average opposition in the first three a from hurler helping to beat himself. In them by knockouts. His lone defeat was at the hands of a West Pointer "safe" verdict Umpire rounds of match play. attempting to start a double play had none the best of the offi- Sears as he slides under Sec- and strictly neutral reports indicate Jimmy threw wild Phil Cavar- Welch Three l'nder rar. he and let ciating. But that isn't a reliable yard measure of his true ability. ond Baseman Frank Crespi on retta ieach from where he He scrambled to an impressive second, a a double in the course of a on In the The college boy who makes good in pro ranks Is rare specimen. 1-under-par score yesterday, but it scored Foxx's single eighth. The Braves contributed two other Ivan Nedomatsky. an outstanding lightweight at Maryland, tried to make wasn't good enough to match battle at St. Louis yesterday, errors, one of them by Shortstop the big jump and landed In the mudpuddle of oblivion. Ray Matulewicz, Welch's 69, three under. but his feat didn't prevent the When Welch won he ousted not Eddie Miller, who hadn't made a Duke's light-heavy who fought for dough as Matt Ray. was no paragon Cards from winning, 3-2. only the holder of the big national mlscue in 40 previous games. of success. Bob Pastor, of course, is the shining exception to the rule, but amateur title, but the winner of the —A. P. Wirephoto. Passeau held the Braves to Ave him Steve Hamas was the only ex-collegian who made any sort of before Western crown the last two years. < hits in scoring his 13th triumph hands a a splash in the big pond and Max Schmeling's savage put period Welch, incidentally, said today he against five defeats. He has won than other to his career in Berlin. intended to remain here and make more games any pitcher Spokane his home. Rain-Hampered Nats in either major league this season. In first semifinal, Welch Reds Shade Learn Hard today's Dodgers. Youngster Willing to Way compared shots with Bruce McCor- The Cincinnati Reds nosed out the Heichert had 14 official bout? at Bucknell, as we were saying, but mick, Los Angeles fireman who was Resume Attack on Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1 in 10 innings in 1937 with had many informal jousts with his dad and picked up a lot of ring strategy national public links leader in a night game Prank Mc- in last Cormick Walters In these sessions. His pop was a good belter with either mitt and Jimmy and a quarter-finalist year's singling Bucky left national amateur. home to decide the contest after the remembers vividly the day Ritchie forgot and smacked him with a McCormick still was in the run- Chisox Tonight pitcher had opened with his second hook. He thought the building had caved in. ning by virtue of a victory over Skee ! hit and advanced on an error. mistaken idea Reichert is a weisenheimer who won't But don't get the Glendale, 3 and 2, Each team scored in the third in One of the Riegel, yesterday. Halts Newsom to advice because his old man was a world champion. Downpour the other of a listen Abbott Meets Givan. only interruption did when the lad came under his wing at Bucknell battle between first things Joe Reno The other 36-holer brought to- As He Looks on Way stirring pitching the differently. He taught him to snap Walters, who gained his tenth vic- was to make him carry right gether Corpl. Pat Abbott of Denver, still knows he's a lot To Shutout Win tory, and Kirby Higbe, who was the punch and step up the voltage. Jimmy got 1936 public links top man, and Harry is to wait and charged with his sixth defeat against of schooling before he'll be a polished fighter and willing Givan of Seattle, a member of the Buck Newsom could fall into a eight successes. learn. 1937 American Walker Cup squad. Abbott, who has shot the best golf cluster of four-leaf clovers and come Walters allowed but six hits and He came to town seeking one man as nis manager—nouuuy ei»c— in the tournament, defeated Marsh with The Higbe gave only five for nine innings. instructions to avoid the wolves who might try to up poison ivy. strutting end with explicit Hammond, Spokane, 4 and 3, while Then Walters singled to open the a tentative on Washington pitcher who earlier in on his name. They have agreement, nothing blasted the of Wilford 10th and Hugh Casey came in to capitalize Givan hopes the season was must a hurling horribly and one of the stipulations is that Jimmy undergo Spartan ace from Racine, yield the winning blow. paper, Wehrle, ranking lately has been producing some of then at the four-round preliminary class. 4. The defeat shaved a full game fiege of training and begin Wis., 5 and the league's better pitching, but he It's to be off the Dodgers' apparently None of this •,we'll-fight-anybody" stuff. going slow, painful There was little to choose among hasn't much to show for it. ample from the 8 ^-game lead because the St. Louis not the semifinalists although, end very profitable. He has won only two of his last Cardinals a week of play, Abbott appeared the snatched 3-2 victory in Reichert wants to resume school work this year.