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WASHINGTON, D. C,, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938. G—1 Keen Defense, 4Inside’ Put National All-Stars Across —' ------*

lose or I I Americans Didn't Take All-Star Game Seriously. Vander Meer Proves an Uncommon Youngster. By FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent ot The Star. ROUTE FROM CINCINNATI, July 7.-On the flagship roaring East from the All-Star game Jimmy Foxx leaned gratefully back in his seat, EN cocked a» eye at Jone Cronin, and murmured: “S’probably a good thing for us to get licked,” he said. "We’ve been used to beating those guys so often we took things too easy. No pepper, no nothin’.” There have been many other and fancier theories advanced for the 's 4-to-l defeat at the hands of the All- Stars yesterday in the Rhineland. Jubilant National Leaguers have seised the opportunity to put , Bill Lee and Mace Brown on a pedestal and point to them as the type of pitchers who have symbolised the league all this time. Some American Leaguers say that if Joe McCarthy had not yanked and put Foxx on third base, where he made a costly , the Americans might have won, anyway. This, and ’s remarkable catch ofl in the ninth. If that ball had dropped safely But of all the explanations Foxx' probably comes closest to hitting the, nail on the head. The better team won yesterday—the better team between the hours of 1:30 and 3:28 I mean—and the Nationals were the better club because they outhustled the Americans. The ball players, with characteristic bluntness, maintain the All-Star games prove nothing. They mean, of course, it fails to prove one leagues supremacy over the other and I Vippose what they say must be so. But the 1938 All-Star game was not perpetrated in vain. It proved a few points. For one thing the National League, which has been pictured color- fully in most of the public prints as a downtrodden, antiquated, non-progres- sive and definitely minor league organization, isn't so at all.

Vander Meer Answers Challenge. That, at least, is the only fair-minded autopsy. The confirmed Ameri- can Leaguers and a sprinkling of the unbiased observers still think the Ameri- cans can whip the Nationals three out of five games any time the two dubs meet. This may be so but it doesn’t necessarily prove the Nationals are minor leaguers. They are capable of playing pretty good ball sometimes better ball than the American Leaguers. Personally, I thought the 1938 All-Star game proved beyond question that 23-year-old Vander Meer of Midland Park, N. J., is entitled to consideration with the better pitchers of the times. His National League record of 10 vic- Americans’ tories as against only 3 defeats argued blatantly in his favor before the All- Heavy Artillery Star game even started. His two successive no-, no- games spoke even more one was the weak as Sacrifices eloquently, although pitched against pitifully Spiked Terry Bees and the other at night against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Then, yesterday, he answered the challenge of the best fitters in the busi- Power to Pitchers ness. True, he pitched only three innings but that is all the rules would Support allow. So that part wasn’t his fault. He gave the impression that he could By GAYLE TALBOT. kees, victor in three previous all-star have carried on easily. Against the sluggers who blasted more experienced Sports Writer. james, had the misfortune of being National League pitchers in four of the five previous games Vander Meer did CINCINNATI, July 7.—The Na- charged with the defeat, though he tion's all that was asked of him. He allowed one hit, an innocuous single by Joe several million National League allowed only two hits in his three- addicts, who have taken an awful lot Cronin. He walked nobody and he picked Foxx as the man to strike out. inning tenure. Stanley Hack, lead- of lip from the opposition in recent oil man for the Nationals, greeted years, were bouncing around on their him with a clean single into left. His Foxx Says Krakky Is Bettor. toes today and telling anybody they teammate on the Cubs, Billy could back into a corner about the Vander Meer showed uncommon poise. In retrospect, the game l^t its Herman, then slapped a sharp This was the setting at in Cincinnati pester- eight thousand Jans packed every available spot in the park to merits of inside, scientific baseball. toward appeal after the first three innings, when Vandy was replaced. You got the jrounder , and with day for the all-star game, in which the National Leaguers watch a contest in which the pitchers were predominant, espe- They were pointing out, with ges- a in front of him the an 4 1. those the A. P. Impression that something big and important was missing. play sprang “upset" by defeating the Americans, to Twenty- dally of winning outfit.—Copyright, Wirephoto. tures, how their all-stars whipped the pilot let the ball Never before had a kid, spending his first full year in the majors, been pants off the best the American shoot through his legs. Hack took asked to perform in an All-Star game, much less start one. But did could 4 Vandy League produce, to 1, in thfi third on the miscue and scored on the trick in stride and it is that Meer won bout entirely reasonable Vander the ball big charity here yesterday, and Medwlck'8 long fly to center. Faces Red as National were that a few game. He baffled the confident American Leaguers, who lavrbed easily before predicting confidently What proved to be the winning run Broadway League Triumphs more such demonstrations would have the game and predicted easy victory. In three innings it ma>* have been that was scored off . Cleve- the slow, sluggish, ungainly American he changed the enemy confidence into fear and thereby smoothed the way for land speed-bailer, in the fourth. Mel League crying uncle. Galento on No. 1 and Tennessee to Meet in Football in 1940. his successors, Lee of the Cubs, and Brown of the Pirates. It isn’t in the Ott of the Giants took a toehold and Capitalizes Rating—Duke Again Having lost four of the first five, one books for that American team make four errors and allow three pumped of Johnny's pitches Is Duke Tennessee will re- League to the Nationals were about to toss By EDDIE BJtlETZ, Longhorns in his visiting list for .. Bnoe Slaughter, who going and ready against the wall for a unearned runs to score: But that was what and Vander Meer right-field , Associated Press Sports Writer. sume their home-and-home foot- happened might in the towel. There was a last-ditch the Madison Square Garden next win- great guns for the Cardinals, has lustiest blow of the game. Where- ball in 1M0. have contributed to the panic. air about them as went into , July 7.—Lot* of rivalry they yes- upon big of the Reds ter Jack Gray can start been made an honorary member It was interesting to hear, in connection with Vander Meer, the opinions terday's game. From President Ford red faces around this town Note to Col. Alan Gould, Glndn- slapped the first of his two singles today an entire line-up of ex-John Tar- of the fire department down In Prick on down, they were and natl: Keep your eye on a chap of the Americans. The concensus was that Vander Meer was not as fast as Jumpy down the third-base and that lost its shirt betting leton boys and John Tarleton, if serious and determined. Another line, Broadway Roxboro, N. C., his home town. named Neilson of U. of Ariaona in they thought, but still a pretty good . At least, they said he had more was the ball game. you remember, is the school which drubbing would have broken their on the American League ... fourth Cincinnati is—and always was—a this year's all-America stuff on the ball than Lee or With old Grove won 84 in a row before the selecting Brown. Lefty pitching, the biting red-hot baseball town when the little hearts. of must have been pretty ... He gained 165 yards against Foxx had different ideas. “He’s fair * • • said last two National runs in the Seventh July well-known dust late last season. just just fair,” Jimmy. still is Reds are winning When the last fall and is set to to Tight Baseball Effective. were tough on Mike Jacobs, who Oregon go “There are of much faster than gifts, first Jimmy Foxx and then The Nebraska State Baseball plenty pitchers he is, and plenty with better Mebbe club galloped off with the bunting town against Southern Methodist, They came out of it looking like Joe Di the ball laid up with lumbago is made of cities from curve balls. He's no world beater. You can’t mention him in the same Maggio throwing out League up back in a rabid fan in men who have received a from from the Far West that a 1019, Cyn- Marquette and Santa Clara this reprieve uf sight. It finally wound up in the reports no less than three States The with was or thiana. walked 16 miles ... breath Grove, when Lefty good, with Hubbell or Gomez. Tell you the Governor. Frick was bout in Cali- Ky., every year Ohioans predict JOe Scott, jouncing Nationals’ as Frank Joe Louis-Max Baer with broad dugout McCor- guy the grin is Coach to the score what,” he added, positively, “there’s a lefty down in who's around hostile writers day learn George Western Reserve University’s one- Washington got asking sports mick and trotted across fornia wouldn't do much more than Howard Kissell of Findlay College Moye. former Florida football star, man track will be the de- him licked in every way except one. And that's control.” “How do you like the minor leaguers the $100,000 had something to do with team, pan. out in Ohio, and no wonder ... He now?" will fill in for Jeff D. McCord as cathlon star of the next “Chase?” asked. And even Col. William Terry, it •. a Olympic somebody They're tossing big party lost only three men off his crack who engineered the didn't director of athletics at Emory Uni- team His specialties are the “No, that Krakauskas fellow,” answered Foxx. "That kid Griff's got is triumph, in St. Louis tonight for J. Ed Wray, football team; his basket ball hide his elation. TIVOLI WINS squad versity while McCord takes a year’s pole vault and low hurdles, but he faster and he's a better curve, too.” SLAB DUEL who has been sports editor of the comes back to the got At there is campus intact, leave of absence Healthy sign: looks to be*a winner in almost any that, nothing much more there for 30 years Courbat and Alexander Post-Dispatch and only one lad will be missing The the Illinois Com- impressive in sports than a demonstra- engaged in way Boxing event They say if he wasn’t ... of a This grand veteran the sports when the baseball pitchers’ duel in the opening game team reports mission sat down on Messrs. Kearns, out there Western Reserve wouldn’t The Old Guard Passes. tion of the National League's type of world is his 65th birth of the Fourteenth Street celebrating In other words, he is sitting al. a tight, play-for-a-run baseball—when Business pretty Adamick, Trammell, Lavan et have track team. It was no stirring, crushing victory the National League won. A run was Men's Softball which anniversary. it works. And it worked yester- League, was won coined in the when Joe Cronin made an error. An earned run the Tivoli The minute the National Boxing opening Inning by Theater ten over the ... day. It was baseball, the ■■■■IBIHHiBHHBHBHMHBHBHBBBflHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBHF was made in the but in when favored Co. Association named Tony Galento fourth inning the seventh, the Nationals scored kind that has been Murray club, 3-2. winning National No. 1 their final two wild throws Foxx and Joe D1 heavyweight challenger, Tony runs, by Magglo made these pos- League pennants, and for an after- strung a big sign across his bar sible. In short, each team scored one earned run. noon, at least, it was better than all reading “Bring on that big bum The game proved, of course, the trite angle that good pitching always will the sluggers the American League Louis” '. Wally BergeF began stop good hitting. For all of its triteness there is a measure of interest at- could muster. Sports Program clicking as soon as he left the Polo tached to this point. It is difficult to imagine a line-up of Mike Terry sacrificed potential batting consisting Grounds to Join the Reds ... Texas strength to put an air-tight defense For Lofcal Kreevich, Rog Cramer, Charley Gehringer, , Jimmy Foxx, Joe Di Fans basket ball fans think Promoter behind his pitching. The Nationals Maggio, Bill Dickey, Joe Cronin, Buddy Lewis and being held to TODAY. Ned Irish will be making a mistake made esight hits, only one more than two one in six Yet that is what If he doesn’t Include the Texas hits, scratchy, innings. precisely Vander Meer their adversaries. But they fielded Tennis. did. and Lee perfectly, even brilliantly, while their District Women's Tournament, The 1938 All-Star game was interesting because it marked the influx of opponents of the fat batting averages Columbia Country Club. new blood on the National League side. That is a strange box-score in today's made four glaring errors and literally TOMORROW. Mirror papers, In case you haven’t noticed. Where is Pinky Whitney? And where is threw the game away. Baseball. Sports ? And how about and Rip Collins, , Americans’ Defense Cracks. Washington vs. Philadelphia, Bt the Associated Press. and the Waners, and, lastly, King ? Johnny Vander Meer, Cincinnati’s , 3:15. Today a year ago—American sensational young southpaw, held the Tennis. League All-Stars won inter-league tilt for fourth time in Nationals’ “Newcomers” Steal Show. Americans to a single hit for the first District Women's Tournament, five years, three innings. Bill Lee of the Chicago Columbia Country Club. 8-3. at Washington. Some of them were on the All-Star but didn’t It was Three | squad they play. Cubs shut them out with one bingle, SATURDAY. years ago—Max Schmel- P all in all. Bill chose to shake his for ing outpointed Paulino Uzcudun in significant, Terry up forces and gamble on a fluke double by Bill Dickey, the Baseball. All First First Brown of 10-round bout before at Grade, Quality youngsters and newcomers to this particular July fame. On first base he had second three. Mace the vs. 65,000 Washington Philadelphia, Berlin. one Prank McCormick, serving his first term in the majors. Mr. Pirates repeatedly pulled himself out Griffith 3. McCormick, Stadium, Five of and gave up only one run to years ago—Craig Wood and who plays for the Cincinnatls, collected a hit, scored a run and played fault- danger Tennis. the vaunted American Leaguers in the Denny Shute tied for first place GUARANTEED 18 MONTHS lessly afield. District Women's final three. Tournament, in British Open golf with 292s; I give you my pertonol guarantee agoinit any defect* in work* Stan Hack of the Cubs, never selected took over the Columbia Club. previously, third l>as- Still, if the Americans had fielded Country Jack Crawford defeated Ellsworth manthip er material. 16 year* of Service i* your complete protection. ing, opened the game with a hit, scored the first run, and twice ended American Public Parks Tournament, Six- Vines, like the winners, they would have 4—6, 11—9, 6—2, 2—6, 6—4, »•* *•"»■•« teenth Street Reservoir Courts, 2. in MATE—»• them tire* with neond er third trade.. Tee will pmw—^gBeu^wMi League scoring gestures with defensive Ernie Lombardi of the nine Wimbledon tennis final. en amazing plays. finished the regulation innings MU I E recocniie then u eheeleteiy FIRST QUALITY, GRADE ..... L A. Tee ma t her bntereight time! Reds, always shunted in favor of Hartnett and , caught the en- in a 1-1 deadlock and might have WHITE Sp.cn// | tire game, collected two of the Nationals' eight hits, drove across a run, and been playing yet. It was spectacular that __ ,, _ Urt I Sole Side Walls handled Pitchers Vander Meer, Lee and Brown. National League fielding, then, | kf*a | 2nd Line Tire* I brilliantly Still All-Star 6.50x16 I 5.50x17 AIIFiwt*—lit Line I of there was Vander Meer. A won. ^ Then, course, year ago Dizzy Dean started Gehringer King Liit Price Price The high light of the game, In fact, $19.35 $13.95 Tirm I SK.,’ J£ pitching. Yesterday it was Vandy. A year ago Hubbell was the second pitcher. |u.t I was a fielding gem by Joe Medwick of I Yesterday it was Lee. And did you know until yesterday that there was a At but Pace to 0.10 I 00*55 ^WMjg jL15x)9_|_$4.95 the 8t. Louis Cardinals in the ninth. .500 $1 I#— -I -:; 5-25x18 Mace Brown of the Pirates? Honestly. Bat, Slips Itf riMt I Sf 6.25« 16|$2).10|$13.70 | $5.95 I Joe Di Maggio of the Yanks led off Br the ■ 5.25x19 Associated Press. $13.251 $7,50 6.50x 16|$23.25i$14.95 5.50x17 | $6.85 I with a single and the National League ^J NEW YORK, July 7.—The American Leaguers lost the ball game, but 6.00x16 <15.701 $9.95 6 the 27,000 spectators 7.00x 16 $25 20|$16J5 00x16 i $7.75 I All-Star Outlook Is Brighter. adherents among Charley Gehringer still is No. 1 hitter of all-star hmehail at history. 6.00x17 <16.18 $10,75 On the whole the a for the shuddered as Dickey drove one the resifft was good thing All-Star branch of base- The strong, silent man of the Tigers hit safely once in three 6.00x16 in center. Carl 6.00x19 $16.95 $11.00 ball. A fifth American League victory in six games would have been too much. scoreboard deepest chances yesterday, his sixth all-star game. The performance chopped 29 ■Lut Pnee $15.70„„„ Hubbell and Were warming off 6.25x16 $17.55 $11.90 Hie Nationals needed that game yesterday and they got it by playing heads-up ’points his six-year average, but left him wjth a mark of .900 on 10 hits OPEN up furiously in the Nationals’ bull- in 20 times , and that was the best of 6.50x16 baseball and making the most of the enemy mistakes. any player who has seen action I 5Q.95 $19.35 $13.10 NITES JB82]r B pen. in three or more dream games. All I know is what I hear but the tip had been out that National League 6.50x18 | <23.45 $11.73 UNTIL AB Med wick's Great Catch Helps. The National League lead changed as a rseult of orhj» J^^k elubowners were tired of the and the It was yesterday’s clouting. game beatings. bad business. Last Medwick took one look and 7.00x16 431.00 $14.25 quick Last year’s leader. Ducky Medwick of the Cardinals, hit safely only once in ^H^HBIBMr 3 year the American League won the All-Star game and the . The At the last 7.00x17 >25.00 tore back at full speed. four chances and slipped to .389 for five years. Thus he gave up the league I— «» »*•- .«/, $17.00 p m. before the Americans won 1935 “Take-Offs” WvHm ilk JK year the series. In they won the series and the Instant he jumped up and speared the pace to Bill Terry, manager of the successful senior circuit who com- 7.00x18 >25.60 NT 1 warriors, •‘Tske-eBi” are tire, that have been taken $12.80 jB All-Star game again. balk and it stuck In his glove as he piled a mark of .400 in his three years of playing duty, 1933 through ’35. i>37.90i$i3.95 It was an unflattering commentary on National League baseball. somersaulted. It was a heroic catch. are the leaders in various 5uemwb“.tth.?ttim.de*,er’*m““‘”47.00x21 -^n*5a Naturally Following departments in all-star history: 7.50x16 $33.30 $21.90 ALL [\\ \ It followed the crowds would want to see the best. Joe Cronin, the next man up, dou- —-;-ESI-1-gale- they would go to watch American League. National League. I SIZES IN bled to center, his second hit of Sl»e_I ?d«» Wg 7.50x17 S37.45 $18.73 \ American League games. Newspaper columns and magazine pieces did not deep Batting...Gehringer, Detroit.500 Terry, New York..400 »™«»UT the day, to give the Americans their Games Detroit_ 6 boost the National League stock and prestige. played _Gehringer, Hartnett, Chicago ... 5 I” only run and avert what would have New York- 6 ^-H422-«4« MllfflW In view of yesterday’s victory, though, I think it Is safe to assume the Gehrig, Herman, Chicago, .1.1 5 been the first since the All- St. 6 All-Star game will be with us another year or so. A victory here and there Medwick, Louis_ Star games began. But that was all. Ott, New York_ 6 gan go a long way toward changing a clubowner's mind. Lou Gehrig lined out to New York_ 4 .. Runs.Gehrig, St. -- -- Frisch, Louis_ 4 ---„-- iii — I in right and Brown olosed the books Hits.....Gehringer, Detroit- 10 Medwick, 8t. Louls.I.I 7 by striking out Pinch-hitter Bob John- Doubles ...Cronin, Boston.. 3 Medwick, St. Louis_ 2 REDS SIGN SEEK SOFTBALL LEAD son. •Simmons, Chicago... 3 The Americans’ only other serious Triples.Avtrill, Cleveland_ 1 Hartnett, Chicago_ 1 CINCINNATI, July 7 OP).—'The Cin- In an effort to determine who’s who threat came in the seventh, when they Chapman, Boston- 1 Ott, New York.. 1

in softball in the Central Eastern collected two hits and a walk St. Louis .. 1 cinnati Red* announced today the off tHemsley, Wamecke, St. Louis .. 1 Dr. signing of John Metoskie of the Co- area, Pepper, leading Washington Brown to fill the sacks with two away. Rolfe, New York. 1 team, and the Shavlts team of Balti- This time , Detroit’s home- Home runs.Gehrig, New York_ 2 Frisch, St. Louis_ 3 lumbia (S. C.) Sally League as utility .more, last year’s Maryland champion, run expert, was given his chance t5 .Gehringer, Detroit- 12 Medwick, St. Louis_ 12 third baseman. will meet tomorrow night at Ballston. break up the game, and he went down Runs batted in_Gehrig, New York_ 5 Medwick, St Louis_ 8 A graduate of Pordham University A preliminary, starting at S o’clock, swinging at Brown's Sharp-breaking Bases on balls __Gehringer, Detroit- 7 Collins, Chicago__ 2 this spring, his has will bring together Agriculture and curves. Struck out.Gehrig, New York.- 7 J. Martin, St. Louis... S been around .375. Colonial Village All-etars. Yemen "Lefty" Gomes of the Yan- •Now with Washington. tNow with Cleveland. 1

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