Win, Lose Or Draw I Worth of Revised Nat Infield Hinges on Work BURTON Kampouris* by HAWKINS
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%» Win, Lose or Draw i Worth of Revised Nat Infield Hinges on Work BURTON Kampouris* By HAWKINS. Star Stall Correspondent. Harris and Marberry Were a Pugnacious Pair Tried at Second Base, Discriminate CHICAGO. Aug 20.—The subject of gameness was being tossed Layden, League around in a conversational storm by the Nats last night in the hotel lobby and during a lull in the tongue tornado. Secretary Edward B. Eynon. jr„ Alex Nearly Kicks Skins. Marshall recalled an incident along these lines. Against Says By WALTER McCALLUM, drawing card in the On his “Boys,” launched Mr. Eynon. smiling, “now that you’ve had your league. Star Staff Correspondent. record alone ha la the beat, but he little say, I'll give you my all-time combination for gameness in baseball. Game to Chisox 20 —The hasn’t received the Joe Carr Award.’• It’s Bucky Harris and Fred Marberry. You can have all the others—just CHICAGO, Aug. makings By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. of a old-fashioned This award will next leave me that pair. good sectional go week to CHICAGO. Aug. 20.—Johnny Sul- scrap today were brewing in Chi- Don Hutson of Green Bay, with "It was in 1924 when they teamed up to give us a vital game on ] livan has made his exit as the Nats' cago as Redskin President George Football Commissioner Layden mak- sheer meanness. Washington was playing the Yankees and the score j shortstop and whether the shifting Preston Marshall accused officials of ing the presentation. was tied at 2-2 in the first half of the ninth at New York. Marberry was scenery in Washington's infield will the National Football League of “I see by the papers they are on second ba'0 with two out and | leave him out of a job temporarily giving Washington “the business” in grooming Glenn Dobbs to throw a Harris hit an infield grounder get around to tossing fists in his j | ! or permanently will depend on the several matters, one of them involv- football like Sammy Baugh,” said when it happened. ! major league career, but it wasn’t : conduct of Alex Kampouris as a ing a wanted the Redskins Marshall. "They all to men because he didn’t invite trouble. player by try get j second baseman. for the college All-Star game to be like Baugh, but Sammy hasn’t be&n Babe Later he shifted to Detroit to Marberry Drops Bi§ pitch Harlond Clift, who couldn't ob- here next named most valuable under Harris and there the Nats played Wednesday night. player yet. “It was a close play at first base, j tain a plane or train reservation Marshall accused President This is his seventh in the accused him of throwing at Heinie Lay- year but Bucky could see he was going was to arrive here den of favoritism in It's time he ! yesterday, today barring Indian league. got his due to be thrown so he deliber- Manush. Marberry challenged the out. and take over the third base duties Jack Jacobs of the Army, who recognition. Further how come the the first baseman's foot entire Washington team, but nobody ately spiked handled with various degrees of suc- starred in the Shrine game in San All-Stars will play several men in p- he crossed the bag. He was hurt, accepted. | cess by Ellis Clary, Bob Johnson, Diego. He accused the league of the service when we can’t get Ja- rf course and the ball. Harris and were a dropped Marberry tough Kampouris and Sherry Robertson discrimination against Washington cobs? Furthermore, the league voted scored. combination. Before Marberry | Bucky acquired this season, and if all goes well with generally and against Sammy Baugh, last spring to give every help to the his present he was a Naturally the Yankees converged j suavity rough, Manager Ossie Bluege’s latest ex- star Redskin passer and kicker, spe- pro team playing the All-Stars in spirited character who, before toss- on Buckv and he was ready for periment, Gerald Priddy will remain cifically. He told newspapermen to view of the shortage of manpower. ing the ball in to would 1 them. Just in case the Yankees Marberry, at shortstop. quote him when he said Washing- What is this, a Job against the Red- decorate it with tobacco or licorice were geing to start swinging, Until the last three weeks, Sulli- ton has not had a square deal in skins, or does the pro league want though, Marberry was there with ; juice. van's fielding had been keeping him many league matters. to win the All-Star game?” They weren't above taking advan- him. Between them they chal- in the Nats’ line-up. His batting has Declares Sammy Slighted. Meanwhile the Redskins, 33 strong, on the Yankees : tage of anything the umpire didn't been around were the lenged everybody hovering the .200 mark “In six years Sammy Baugh has working travel kinks out of Bob Meusel were detect. On one occasion Fred all and their “Babe Ruth and year since his fielding has not been chosen the most valuable legs today at Loyola Univer- i cheated on the mound, moving up at doing most of the Yankees’ snarling. sagged horribly, costing the Nats player,” said Marshall, “when sity Stadium. least three feet toward the batter. every Marberry stuck his nose in Ruth's three games on their current one ! trip, knows Baugh is the biggest Hoya Oja to Join Squad. who happened to be Ruth. He un- is a face and said. ‘Listen, you big ape. Bluege seeking remedy. They were to be joined by Ollia leashed one of his more steamy fast ore more out of you and you're Leonard's Ninth Victory. "Oja, Georgetown University tackle, balls, but this time Ruth got the gonna be picking yourself up." Off what he saw yesterday as the and Warren Plunkett, former Cleve- was better of it. He rammed that pitch Meanwhile Harris telling off Nats defeated Chicago, 4-3, Bluege Ails But Skins land back, obtained in the deep into Griffith Stadium’s center- Baugh April Meusel. isn’t certain Kampouris will solve draft by the Tribe. down and field stands. "Things quieted finally his problems. Sullivan cost the Nats The train from San Diego was late, when Ruth walked from Mar- away a victory in the first game of a Face All-Star Game but the boys were hustled to Loyola he 'Let's let be Still Is berry said, bygones Bucky Sparky double-h e a d e r Wednesday and for a brief signal drill and kink- bygones, Fred; no hard feelings.' i Harris’ rip roaring baseball Kampouris nearly fumbled Wash- loosening calisthenics. Last night 'Bygones be bygones, h-1,’ methods decreased as he became into defeat in his debut as sat before a blackboard for two ! ington With Confidence they 'You’re first but as as answered Marberry. up older, recently 1939 he the Nats’ second baseman. hours absorbing details of the new the DAVE this inning and you'd better hit demonstrated he hadn’t lost his tif- Dutch Leonard had retired 16 By HOFF. Bergman plays. Practice on tha dust. You're to one Associated Press Sports Write-. going get right fing touch. When A1 Simmons and White Sox in order and owned a Loyola field is secret. at head.’ Bill Knickerbocker 20. — your became involved 4-0 lead with two out and none on CHICAGO, Aug. Sammy The All-Stars, working out at to fire in a is so lame he can “Fred wasn't content just scrap at Griffith Stadium, in the eighth when Kampouris Baugh hardly bend nearby Northwestern University, are one at Ruth’s head. He and an over to tie his shoelace, and folks pitch Bucky stepped up parked muffed Vince Castino's easy ground- declared by Chicago newspapermen knocked him down three authoritative fist on Knickerbocker’s claim the All-Stars have so straight er. The Sox then sprayed three runs much to be the best bunch of football times with hard ones. Ruth features. power that the Evanston high, across the plate as Orval Grove sky glows players in the history of the late wasn't All of which make for dull at night like aurora but just merely backing away sort walked and Wally Moses and Ralph borealis, summer classic, which will be a sell- from the nlate on those of in* times when a there’s no in the ducking reading soldier Hodgin singled successively. weeping Washing- out next week. Stars on the All- He was the a a ton Redskins’ pitches, cither. hitting by sticking finger out of foxhole Leonard braced, however, to strike newly pitched tepee Star squad are Glenn Dobbs of on one. then or a a on the Loyola ground each Marberry sailor by stepping aboard out Guy Curtright and then retired University campus. Tulsa, Otto Graham of Northwest- and more A healthy, struck out Babe Washington ship displays courage than Chicago in order in the ninth to bruising-looking bunch, ern, Pat Harder of Wisconsin. Char- won, 3-2.’’ ever has been shown on a baseball the Redskins have five days left to annex his ninth victory. Dutch per- lie Trippl of Georgia and Paul Gov- a Texan, didn't field. finish their training for Marberry, huge mitted only four hits and singled Wednesday emali of Columbia. night's game with the collegians, but across what developed to be the John Kovatch, a lieutenant of it's obvious they're already in peak winning run.