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iWin, Lose or Drawj Barrett’s Shutout Win Shows Harris Is Handy With Phil Vets By GRANTLAND RICE. -. —, Special Corraapondent •( The Star, Modesty Stands Out as Three Great Aces Meet Shares Mile in 4 Flat NEW YORK, July 9 (NANA).—Did you ever see three gfeat competi- Kewpie Glory Browns' Clift Sought Beyond tors who never had met before? I mean the top headliners. Within the last few days we scrambled around to bring this about. A 100-to-l shot. With 1- Current Track Their names happen to be Willie Hoppe, Carl Hubbell and Earl Sande. Grove, As Losing Nats Try Aces, Here are three of the all-time tops in three widely scattered profes- sions—billiards, and racing. Having known these three men for many years—having watched Victor Over Yanks To Mend Fences Andersson Holds them in competition for over two decades—I was championship interested By JUDSON BAILEY, B7 the Auoeleted Prate. see what had in common. By BURTON HAWKINS, to Just they Auociated Prut Writer An- Sport* Star Staff Correipondent. STOCKHOLM, July 9—Arne Skill? Courage? Ability? Form? Style? They had all of these For years baseball’s fountain of In a des- dersson, world’s fastest miler (4:02.6) elements. Only normal elements. f-__ _ CLEVELAND, July youth has reposed in Yankee Sta- to their who failed yesterday In an attempt But they had something more. A is an exact science. Baseball Isn’t. perate attempt regain spot dium and joining the perennial of the Amer- to shatter Gunder Haegg’s 1,500- rare corhmodity. An almost lost Not quite. Hoppe’s opponent is the among the aristocracy champions has the Nats meter record, doesn’t believe the virtue. Plus, of course, the billiard table. Mine is a bunch ol ican League, frantically winning made almost any ordinary ball- much-talked-about 4-minute mil* art of coricentration. human beings. I still might be bet- are searching for reinforcements, player into a star, at least tem- is sincere the will be by any of the present- had the rare gift of ter off if I on but while the effort They modesty. just kept pitching. porarily. milers. They have a gift of shyness and of But you keep results may be negligible. At least, trying something, Now the “I cannot imagine any one running subdued friendliness. against individual hitters. isn’t visioning have set up a rival clinic in re- the mile in four minutes or less dur- None of the three—as many head- “But I understand what Hoppe obtaining anybody in a hurry who juvenation that is producing just ing this or the next few years,” the lines as they have made—seem to means. That’s not to would soothe the Nats’ suffering. tighten up— as spetacular results without the Swedish school teacher think are not to Washington has lost 8 of 11 games 25-year-old they important. overtry—just keep within scent of a share for a since told the Associated Press in an In- your limit. Just play your own game on its current road trip and stimulant. the terview shortly before his attempt Hoppe Is Impersonal Foe —and not play against your oppo- last Saturday night, when Nats Schoolboy Rowe, , to set a new world 1,500-meter mark To my mind this is the top gift, nent. But that’s easier to do in bil- poked their noses within .003 per- Babe Dahlgren and other veterans of 3:45 was by inclement liards than it is in baseball or foot- centage points of first place, they’ve spoiled when you take into consideration so have responded to the treatment weather. ball. Willie Hoppe’s main job—just created toboggan records, dropping many fourflushers and headline- of Dr. Stanley Raymond Harris this as It is in to 7 of 8 games. Planned Race on Schedule. golf—is play against season and the newest Phillies’ pa- chiselers in this who think That sort of conduct has demoted Watched a crowd of country yourself. That isn’t true in other tient to take the cure by capacity successfully the Nats to fourth place, with no 20,000 (an estimated additional 10,000 they belong around the top, in place games." is Richard O. (Kewpie) Barrett. guarantee they won’t be nestled in were turned away) the spindle- of the bottom. This 35-year-old right-handed Sande a Daring Rider the second division after battling legged, long striding 155-pound I'll call them the Three for , who was cut loose a few Big in the I Cleveland here tonight. In an effort Andersson ran the 1,500 meters over At this point argument days ago by the after this one reason—humility. Willie turned to Earl Sande. Sande is to stymie that .comparative catas- a rain-soaked course in 3:48A, three losing four games without winning has as modest and as as trophe, Bluege will employ Early seconds off Haegg’s recognized world Hoppe been world champion for just just shy one, came up yesterday with a 14- and Carl Hubbell. Wynn as his pitcher. mark of 3:45.8. * 37 years, off and on. Largely on. Willie Hoppe shutout against the Cincin- “I wouldn’t know what to Be Back. “The track was too heavy to set say,” nati Reds to win a grueling 1-0 Priddy May He still is the greatest billiard a he commented later. Sande said. “All I know is that I battle for Wynn and Milo Candlnl on sev- record,” in the world on his to the Phillies after they player way was take eral occasions have in to Andersson, who ran his record- out to win—to every open- had been a 17-hit stepped 60 of age. battered, 7-5, by years chance—to take an end to streaks and breaking mile only a week ago, had ing—to take any assault in the first half of a - put losing And Willie Hoppe happtens to be felt he had a chance of any gamble—to take any risk—if it header. to Wynn will be entrusted the task good setting one of the shyest, humblest com- meant winning. I was no soft of stopping Washington’s string of another record, provided weather I've ever known. Shares Honors With Grove. petitors rider. I always liked to shoot the defeats before it reaches record pro- conditions were right. He had As my old-time friend. John Sid- works. There were times when I Considering that it came from a portions. Hie Nats have lost three planned to run the first 800 meters dall, once wrote about Hoppe— old-timer who failed to in two minutes. had to be a little rough. Not un- stumpy had straight games several times this Under his plan if ‘Hoppe plays billiards—the others make the he ran fair. But to take care of myself grade not only with the season but never a fourth straight 1,200 meters in 3:01, he would play Hoppe.” Cuhs this but with to the and my horse. Don’t forget the year, previously contest, a mark they will establish try sprint remaining 300 “I guess that’s right,” Hoppe told the Braves and PESSIMISTIC—Arne Anders- meters in 44 horse always came first.” Athletics, Reds, the by being defeated tonight. seconds. me. "I just keep playing billiards. was to he was 1.4 After talking over the general performance flashy enough Bluege also hopes to regain the son, Swedish runner, who However, seconds be- I don’t one or play any anything situation with these three outstand- share attention with the one-hit services of Gerald doesn't believe of the hind his timetable when he reached else. You can't any play your oppo- game pitched by Orval Grove of the who was lifted from the the 800-meter mark and didn't try ing stars, I give them the No. 1 Priddy, of will nents. You've got to play your White Sox last as he as present crop speedsters to extend himself thereafter. Ha vote on the side of modesty and Chicago night lineup yesterday the Nats j own be to run a 4-minute game.” humility. beat the Yankees, 1-0, for his seventh dropped a 5-2 decision to the In-1 able finished 15 yards ahead of his near- triumph without a defeat this season. illness and mile. Andersson est competitor. Different With Hubbell But in this modern world it may dians. Priddy pleaded i yesterday be these are lost arts. Barrett kept nine hits scattered, Bluege dispatched George Myatt to failed in an attempt in his Might Cut Second Off Mark. I moved this argument over to second base. The Perhaps they have been wiped out. fanned five and walked five to out- home country to break Gun- “flying school teacher,” who Carl Hubbell. who is about as lo- that a Outside of a few, "humility” and last Ray Starr, who was pitching for Myatt convinced Bluege asserted "I’m running better than quacious as the well-known der Haegg’s world mark for Sphinx, “modesty” only remain in the dic- Cincinnati on one day's rest. Starr slump-shackled Priddy is more ever now,” expressed the opinion “if With a bad cold. was a meters. He made his tionary. yielded to a pinch-hitter in the 11th preferable than Myatt. who 1.500 I could have run last year like "I is he said, I'm; guess Hoppe right,” it total loss and who now (Released by North American Newspaper and was Joe Beggs who was vic- dropped prediction prior to the race. doing I could have pressed- “as far as billiards go. But billiards Alliance.) timized by Merrill May's pinch an easy pop flv. —A. P. Wlrephoto. Haegg much harder and perhaps he for the winning run in the Washington's recent behavior has ✓ would have been able to run a 4- 14th. Barrett also had to overcome Bluege believing the Nats require minute mile. Haegg was at his BSA Gains First Half Vol, All-Star Contest the handicap of five Philadelphia GETS LATE BID—Dick Wakefield, sensational rookie outfielder aid immediately, so Washington is best last year and I doubt whether errors. for the services of Out- I could beat him at of the , who has been picked to play for the Amer- bidding Baker and Ball Added his best John Vander Meer went the fielder Tony Criscola, formerly of “Maybe the next generation of ican Leaguers in the place of the injured Charley Keller of the route in the first game to win after the Browns but now performing runners may be able to run the. Potomac for Nashville in the with the National aces in Phil- a St. Loop Flag Epic giving up four runs in the first three Yanks all-star game loop with the Toledo Mudhens, To Staff mile in four minutes or less,” Bureau of Supplies and Accounts By the Associated Press. . adelphia pext Tuesday. —A. P. Wirephoto. Louis farm. Maryland Andersson continued. “I might be

— Still to Get Clift. took the first-half championship ir NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 9 — Grove, pitching the season’s Hope University of Maryland's physical able to run it one second faster m Roberts, a who the Potomac River Naval Command When Larry Gilbert's Vols tangle ninth one-hitter, came within one Charley education department was enlarged 4:01.6, but no more.” out has in the Baseball League by defeating Coast with the outstanding performers of of reaching the no-hit hall of been playing admirably today with the addition of Stanley fame. The was a double Southern Association, is Washing- former football and Guard Headquarters, 11-6, yester- the other seven clubs in the sixth spoiler by Grove Year's 8th 1-Hit Pitcher, tTuffyl Baker, day. annual Southern Association all- (batting average .214), ton property and is being eyed by baseball at Point Pleasant ! Wills Trains in Baltimore but the but the Nats’ Montgomery and Herman This gave Supplies and Accounts star game tonight, greatest benefl- disappointment of 31,019 Bluege,