%\\t j-toening A-8_ WASHINGTON, D. C., All-Time Hit Streak Mark Set, Di Mag Now Gets Shot at Triple Batting Crown —— « -- -•> __ __:_. — -—— Runs Batted TROUBLE IN THE TEEPEE AGAIN —By JIM BERRYMAN Artistic Win, Lose or Draw In, Beating By FRANCIS E. STAN. The Americans Clouting Leads ^KEEP ITURBOysT^N Is Handed Davis Vanishing I GOT SOME IMPORTANT It develop? that the Cleveland Indians have not quite clinched the American League pennant which their supporters were claiming for them FIGHTIN* TDO...AN' yDURE last March. In a manner reminiscent of their great days, the Yankees Neared Joe TAKIN'A LOTTA STRAIN Weller have taken at least of the race, and lo, the by temporary charge flag poor By King ? Indian, is having internal troubles again. OFF A^E For “failure to hustle’1 Outfielder Roy Weatherly has been suspended Maintains Homer Edge Zivic Gains Revenge and sent home. This is second offense in the of Weatherly's eyes in Manager Roger Peckinpaugh. The first time Perk blew the whistle By Rap 45th Tilt For Fouls as Benny Weatherly was fined $25. This latest punishment is serious. It could In Row With Is in 10th mean the beginning of the end of the Indians’ 1941 hopes. Safety Stopped Managers who have to ball usually are suspend players managing By JLDSON BAILEY. By GAYLE TALBOT, unhappy teams and, as a rule, clubs don't win. When the Associated PTtss Sports Writer. unhappy Associated Press Sports Writer. Tigers and Indians raced down the stretch last year it was the team Poker-faced Joe Di Maggio. the NEW YORK, July 3. —Bummv with the esprit de corps that won, although the Indians were younger, I greatest player, excluding pitchers, Davis, the unpopular little waif from faster, better defensively and better in the box. Owner Alva in the present era of baseball, has Bradley can back and tell his reached his of a new all-time Brooklyn, go of the Indians, apparently having learned a bitter lesson, tried to make goal record for in Army buddies in Texas that he put his major league hitting players happy by firing his manager. Oscar Vitt. One by one he a fight before he 45 consecutive games and now can ( up courageous chopped off the heads of he didn't fit. to Zivic at players thought try shooting for another prize—the bowed Fritzie last night Polo Grounds. "triple crown of batting.” the In were try- Yankees' This bauble is a three-way cham- fact, ringside regulars Charge Broke Indians' Stride who had pionship in percentage hitting, home ing to remember any boxer In renaming Peckinpaugh as manager (Bradley fired Peck a few absorbed a worse in a local runs and runs batted in, and is one licking years ago), Cleveland's railroad mogul a before magnate-baseball appointed of the most elusive batting honors in ring just Bummy finally sag- man and It in the tenth fairly popular generally was believed that the Indian?, who the game. ged against the ropes and that he had marched almost en masse to the president's office to petition for the In the last 15 years it has been round signified taken dismissal of Vitt, would rally 'round the new boy, whoever he was. This, won only by the immortal Lou enough. of course, was for purposes of making themselves look good. Gehrig, who, incidentally, is to be Davis Looks Helples*. memorialized the Weatherly's fine and his subsequent and more serious suspension by New York Bummy's face was smeared with was the first that Yankees and fans in a ceremony inkling everything is not rosy in the wigwam. On the he was his head in Yankee Stadium before tomor- blood and helpl°ss, other hand, Weatherly's case surprised practically nobody except those torn the machine- row's double-header. cap- and body being by in Cleveland who Gehrig super-optimists worship their little band of spoiled tured all three in 1934 when he hit gun punches of the welterweight brats and when Referee Arthur sourpusses. .363. collected 49 home runs and champion, between them and The Yankees and. for a brief period the White Sox put the pressure batted in 165 tallies. Donovan sprang called it off. on the Indians. Under Peckinpaugh, and with Bob Feller winning four Babe Ruth never was able to hit It was agreed that the last one times as many games as he lost, the Tribe jumped out in front. This was this target. Rogers Hornsby did it twice in to receive such a terrible beating customary. Pitching is 90 per cent of a ball club in and June the National League in April, May on the 1922 and 1925. Other heroes the here was Barney Ross night end the Indians had the Then the Yankees to of pitching. began charge, he gave the title past might have achieved it. ex- j up welterweight led by the brilliant Joe Di Maggio. to almost four cept that runs batted in were not Henry Armstrong, The Indians, over their faltered. hit the took it almost looking shoulders, They recorded until the last two decades. years ago. Bummy road for their most recent Eastern and went into a as well as Barney did, the difference swing slump. They Anyway, it is a coveted prize which that Davis did not feel honor lost their lead and now, apparently, they are losing their heads. only a really great, all-around hit- being bound to stick it out for the dis- ter can hope to win. tance like Ross. to Good Chance at Triple Crown. Bradley Runs Mild-Mannered Managers Zivic did an artistic job on the Di has a It has been written many times before that Cleveland's is a problem Maggio chance. His blow soldier boy, taking full revenge for to break the Which has been one of the modern mysteries of sports. Bradley, the yesterday 44-year-old the foul shots that Davis poured mark of Willie Keeler for hitting into his trunks at their first meet- millionaire, has tried various remedies. He has hired and fired managers, in the mast consecutive games was ing last November. It was so one- who. for some reason, seem to have been mild-mannered men like Peckin- I a sizzling home run. his 18th of the sided that the crowd began moving paugh, Walter Johnson and Steve O'Neill. He has made changes in season, and preserved his leadership I out before the scrap was half over. player personnel. He has changed the general manager and even has in this department. { That is unusual for an audience that changed from one ball park to another. Cleveland being one of those In batting in three runs to help i has paid up to $11 for a ringside fortunate way stations which Uncle Sam has blessed with a big stadium. the Yanks rip open the Boston Red | chair. It be that will be forced to to Sox. 8-4. he also lifted himself may Bradley change presidents, just Left Jab Bothers w-ithin four "r. b. 1.” of the Bummy, play out the hunch that a change will help. He could invite some brave League leader. Teammate Charley Keller, All Davis had was a left hook, character to theoretically take his place. He might find somebody willing and who hit his 17th homer in yester- he was helpless in the clinches. If he combed the Army parachute corps. Or, Mr. Bradley might start day's game. Zivic, who had waited eight months from scratch, trade off his entire ball club, appoint some rough-and-ready Joe's batting average of .348 is for another chance at Bummy, had bums to out and earn their salaries. manager, and tell his go 53 points behind the .401 pace of j just about everything, including a Excuses for the Indians are running out. The last time they won a Boston's Ted Williams, but their left jab that was in Bummy's face pennant was in 1920. Yet it is hard to remember the last time Cleveland marks have been sliding closer to- all night. for and Di had an inept ball club, on paper. Nearly all of it's teams throughout the gether weeks, Maggio. Bummy was just proving that he not in boosting himself from a .306 could take it and the last 10 years have been pennant contenders and nearly all lost out disappointing where percentage when his streak started crowd of 8.968, which paid a gross only on the playing field but in the dressing room and in the hotels May 15. definitely has come within of $36,185, was proving the same the hatch up their newest down-with-everything movements. players range of the lead. thing. can have the Indians. You Yesterday's victory was New There was a great relief for every- York's 6th straight and 20th in 24 body when Bummy, walloped to the games In a furious surge that has Seek Drum Major New Record body in the tenth, went back against made the rest of the league groggy Mrs. Louis Files Divorce Suit Expected the ropes with a pained expression Travel Has Broadening Effect and given the Yanks a lead of three For 'Skins Band on his pan that said plainer than full games over the Cleveland In- words that he had enough. All He Likes' Want to be a drum dians. who were idle yesterday. After'Cooking major, In Takoma 10-Mile dress in Indian and on Nats' Di Maggio's hemer came with one up regalia Only Losing Record; march beside the Redskin band on in the fifth inning and so un- Fails to Lure Back Joe at football games at Statistics settled the Sox that New York was professional Race Tomorrow Major fall? THURSDAY.