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Westdefeats East Indiamond Clastic St intoine, C»r. Coimbia—Phone RAndolph 2704 THE DETROIT TRIBUNE Saturday Sept. IC, 1933. PAGE SEVEN West Defeats East In Diamond Clastic Cincinnati Bows To St. Stephen Big Bats of West Hammer CAPTAIN LEWIS ALL-STAR CARD City Champions White UNCOVERS NEW Thru The AT NIT. OLIVE Down Three Eastern Pitchers Hard TRACK TALENT SPORT MIRROR FRIDAY NIGHT Sox In Three Games Played By RUSSELL J. COWANS Mule Suttle* Drives Ball Into The Upper Ernie Grimm To Run 12 Amateur Bouts Richard Denard Lead* Teammate* In As- Tier; Lundy and Stearnes Sparkle Afield For Great Lakes More than twenty thousand fans streamed through the turnstiles game On Matchmaker of Comiskey Field Sunday afternoon Jo witness a baseball be- sault On DeHart Hubbard * Hurler* Mutual Team tween two teaniH. The fana began purchasing tickets as early us ten By Ruaeeli J. Cowans o'clock although rain wuh threatening. Ellis’ Card The game was between the all atar select lon of plavera repre- The group of tllln clads wearing St. Stephen#, winner of the Church Athletic Associa- Chicago—The* crt»am of the West’** baseball crop, ably Kentlng the Fast and the all star team from tlu» West. This acted as The first boxing the colors of the Great hakes show under tlie the inter-city title, won supported by a magnet to induce the large number of fana through the turnstile* auspices of the Mt. Olive Athletic tion baseball championship and their heavy bludgeons, vaulted into diamond Mutual Insurance company will Negro went fog the record crowd of baseball. will he Friday night additional honors when the Cincinnati hite Sox supremacy here Sunday afternoon when they crushed have in their midst one of the elub held al the The Kastern team hud the host baseball flesh available in the the Mt. Olive chun-h, Will- in three at tin* Hoesink Stadium. moat promising young athletes in Baptist down to defeat trameft best the East could afford, in the big East-West diamond Fast. The West, with the exception of one yositlon, second base, had is and Brush The Detroit team defeated DeHart Hubbard’s team Detroit when they compete for the the best players in the West. streets. classic Comiskey T Alter*"Kid” Kills, trainer ami 7-3 Friday and then smearred tiie Cincinnati team in both in Field Michigan A. A. IT.l . track and field The Kant's lineup included Jinl Wilson, Dick Imndy, Hap Dixon, matchmaker of the organization, winning the first game, More 20,000 persona the of championship at Belle Isle Satur- and Haleigh "Itlzz” Mackey, Philadelphia Stars; Sam Streeter, Oscar ends of a double-header Staurday, than witnessed downfall has arranged a card of 12 amateur day Sept, 23. Charleston, John “Pistol” Russell, James Pupa’ Hell, William 5-4, and the game, 8-5. the mighty Eastern warriors to the tune of 11-7. And more 'Cool bouts. Ten of Ihe fighters ure final Ernest Grimm, student at Detroit Bell, Josh Gibson, William Hunter. Hrltt and Judy Johnson. Pittsburgh from • The Cincinnatian* matched the than fifty per cent of that mammoth throng were upstate, Flint sending nine and of hop- (Mty College and the moHt versatile Crawfords; Vic Harris, Homestead Grays, and Cats Jenkins, Black St. Stephen batters in the first ing West, Haglnuw one. i for a win for the and voiced their joy vocifer- competitor In the stute, is the man. Yankees. Big Star name of the double-header Satur- flyweight ously at the conclusion of the game. Although Grimm is a member of The West included Norman “Turkey” Stearnes, William "Steel In the bout K. Celsllk ! day and out hit them by one large It was the Imts of the< the opposite group, he is swinging Arm'* Davis, Billy Wells, Radcllffe, George 'Mule' Suttles, Harry will meet J. Millie, of Flint, Al blow 111 tho final game. Jt waa the which victory Tucker will oppose Christian, of Went wrested from Lundy filed to Dunkchcad In right along with hla old teammate, Brown and Willie Foster, Cole’s American Giants; Morney, Cleveland, C. i Cineliinafi defense which cracked the team representing tlie Hast. Lewis, captain the Great und Bankhead, Nashville Klite Giants. Flint in tlie banatamweight class open, turning five errors Mackey crossing thu plate. How- John of wi«le in Fifteen blows of vurious and sun- Lakes team. team representing the Hast was managed hv John Henry Ted Dickerson and E. Haley, of I in the first game Friday, nine in ever, The dry dimensions bounced off the he was called out for leaving Coach Holmes has been groom- Lloyd, former member of the Lincoln Giants, Rube Foster American Flint, are two more bantamweights the first game Saturday and six (lie huts of the Western hitters. the base too soon. ing Grimm for the 193tf Olympic Giants, and Hillsdale club. Lloyd is now head of the Atlantic City 'dub. who will mix on card. in .tlie final game. * Billy Hutties Paces Tin* West Once more the West was In the meet. He expects to enter the big Jim Taylor, manager of the Detroit Stars during the season of Brice and G. Barrett, of White Mux Score Kind the decathlon, most und manager of the Louis and Indianapolis clubs, Flint, are the two featherweights Sox a George "Mule” Buttles, big first front, ami this lead was never fellow in the 1983 former St. The White split double track anil field test In piloted the West to victory. lighting on Gm* curd. Annson Hin- header with the St. Stephens team buseman of the West, puced his threatened gruelling serlously hy the East- of best material In the son tackles J. Woolh, of Flint and last year. teum-mutes at the plate with tw.) the Olympiad, The Fast, habitat of Home the pitching in Cincinnati erners. Sam Streeter star south- Grimm will entered in Hie game today, where it was to be the strongest. A. Oliver meets D. DlMarlu. The in the blows, u ringing double in the sixth be failed supposed Cincinnati scored opening paw of the jump, discus, Javelin, pole- Hunter, lasi four light weights. ' game Saturday when Houston inning and a homer into the upper Crawford Giants, was broad No where in the west can liurlcrtf like Bell Matlock. J. shot put. the unit strength. McKinney and run tier of the pavilion In tlie fourth chased from the ruber during the vault and In State Holland, Willis and Britt he matched as a of The West’s Thurston meets Ward doubled in the fourth meet be üble to collect top four would he foster, Brewor, Cornelius und Percy Bailey. Hynder, of Ityrd Davis was on second base via a uprising. he should Flint and L. Kitchen m* U home when fumbled the hall points In each of these events. Sam Streeter, for was opposes John Borgew, of Flint, in J *. iu right double when Buttles blasted his Wells, the first hater, rapped a sturting moundsmun the Fast, driven from v field. Eugene Beatty, who will also the rubber In the hlxili inning after yielding seven hits and the two welterweight bouts L. Rodgers, Cincinnati pitcher, was homer into the upper tier. Hadcltfle single to center uud was sacrificed wear the colors of the Great Trikes, four runs. The little southpaw was hit hunt in the fourth/ and sixth Clark and J. Lapines, of Flint, safe at first when Iluff* muffed his was also on second by virtue of a to second hy Davis. 1iffe Hade has been training dally at Kelsey Innings. Hre tlie middleweight!! who grounder tin* went double when "Mule” greetod doubled down the third base line will in seventh. He Field for the state meet. Beatty sueceeding pitchers, were lilt hard hv the light. on single. Staple Hunter, Xho had relelved Sum to tally Wells. replaced Hunter and Britt, also to second Drake’s Hunter will enter the events. West halters, giving three hits two runs In the two- bit, filling starting Streeter hurdle Hunter up and Jesse I'attersoii meets White and beat out an infield the Streeter, the southpaw, after the blow. inning While the 400 meter hurdles 1n third lie pitched. Britt was the victim of five hits and live runs. Clinton Bridges meets Stan Evans liases. K. Houston doubled Kod- witli a long double to right. Big George Huttlo greeted Fast an llial Oscur Beatty's favorite distance, he is The presented inner defense sparkled, Char- in two other middleweight hunts g**rs and Drake home, "Steel Arm” Davis, rapped out Hunter with a double to right to leston, Bussell, Lundy and Wilson turned in a flawless exhibition. ulso able to run the shorter hurdle between local I toys. Joe Lewis, J. Houston's single, V. Harris’ two scored two * doubles and runs. send HadclttTe across tlte plate. events creditable time. Lundy was brilliant In his play in the short Held, handling eight dif- JIM and Huff's error and in * who Is fighting in the heavyweight 'Jh ,- double accounted Htearnes, Bankhead. Wells Morney scored llcillt chances without a hobble, <. kMI’ Suttles with a Albert King, Detroit high school j division, meets a for another run In the eight. collected two blows Harris and Hell, heavyweight from Kadcliffe also single. Bankhead forced Morney title-holder in the running high The outfield was not so strong. Vic James con- j Saginaw, Si. Stephens scored In the third apiece, Bankhead, Wells and But- second, Lundy sidered the peers in their respective positions, left and center field, at to Hussell. Larry Jump, has been in training for the Boh Sage, former middleweight when Staple hooted Dudley’s tles tallied two runs each.
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