~ WASHINGTON, 1). C., SATURDAY, JULY 10. 19G7.* =__ --oZjT I Nats’ Feuds Club : Laziness Wins Job Grissom Help Coffers ~ < for ~ _ .1 _ i i dAI ILINb IIMtLT Jakie Jars Joie on Jaw BATTING PICKS UP Skyrockets to Slab Fame E USE BALL BETTER DAN WORK TO RED Kuhel-Powell Fight Means Eight Games Bring to Slab Medwick, Gehrig Tilt Leads, ee Loafed When He Could Crowds That Plain Yank 38 Pitchers, Who Yield but Others Continue to Not Play, Hitch-Hiking Tilts Wouldn’t Get. Total of 203 Hits. Close In on Them. His Way Around. BY FRANCIS F.. STAN. — BY SID FEDER, Bj the Associated Press. «fT Correspondent ot The Star. BY RUSS Associated Press Sports Writer. NEWLAXD, YORK, Associated Press Sports Writer. i YORK. July 10.—Maybe July 10,—Ducky much-pummeled pitching Medwick and Lou Gehrig ■> AN the Nats cannot play a great FRANCISCO— Lefty Le« 1 fraternity still huddled In the boosted their deal of base ball, but Mr. respective w Grissom of the Cincinnati storm cellars while base Reds, j today, NEWleague-leading batting aver- the California Clark who owns bulky farmer NEW Griffith, them, ball's war-club THE swingers shout- ages this week, but the opposition certainly cannot fall to appreciate | boy who is the outstanding ed for more three-day layoffs and continued to close in on them. their mast knack of ! lokie pitcher of the major pleasant getting hotter heat waves. leagues Paul Waner of the Pirates batted an lis is into fist fights when only a good old- year, playing base ball be- Except for a slim few, notably Luke even .500 for the week to boost his tuse he was too to work. fashioned brawl will bring people to Jim Turner and Joe Bowman lazy Hamlin, average nine points to .394 in second His *ee them. discoverer. Gene Valla, is the of the National League, and Monte place in the National league, thereby jthority for the statement. With big week end crowds in pros- Pearson of the the schell- Valla, American, trailing Medwick's .409 by only 15 >rmer when the Nats the Yanks a San Francisco Seals’ out- pect play shocked pitchers were tim- That inquiring points. is the closest any batter ?lder and and a double-header more recently manager of single game today idly if the war was over. has come to the Cardinal belter in irious semi-pro teams, should know tomorrow, their feud with Jake Powell j They probably will be having night- weeks. imething of Grissom's habits. of the Yankees is flaming with fresh mares for a month over the | clubbing Gehrig hit 9-for-19 during the week He on. Powell and Joe had the big fellow with him fuel piled Kuhel : they took on yesterday's program. to climb to .378 the 1 at head of the “re for 16 locked in a hand-to-hand month.', during 1932 and grim fight The three-day vacation caused by American League but his parade, >33. For a on first base yesterday and when it the all-star game, as well as the heat Yankee nearly year and a half teammate, Joe Di Maggio, L alia was over Walter Millies was coached Grissom, bearing that melted pitchers down like so stole the show. Joe employed loop Deadpan im and fed him. the Griffs’ standard and Bucky Harris many frying snowballs, made a clubbed out 12 hitting hits in 18 chances to Grissom looked as if he was to Mil- hails from Los trying get holiday out of virtually all yesterday's climb 23 points to .359. and march Molinog, \—,u a tiny in lies to trade places with him. eight games, and put the elbowers into third after community Northern Call- * place, being eighth U »mia, where his folks a The fights proved nothing more generally in the dime-a-dozen class. last week. LEE GRISSOM. have small r inch. he than to show that Washington’s ball A year ago the lanky. 200-pound iexan, practically uas un- Although learned most Fans See 128 ° f his club was still alive. If it wasn’t for Runs, 203 Hits. RadrlifT Moves I'p. heard of as a pitcher for Nashville, in the Southern Association. pitching from Valla during those four is stay in the the fistic display a person would never already named RAECLIFF, of the White Sox, Today he is known around the National League circuit as the bay area, not many QNLY J^IP £ all to survive the ! fans of this section even have suspected it yesterday as the managed slaughter also turned cm the heat during “one-man" pitching staff of the Cincinnati Reds. If Lee doesn't 5* know I that saw 38 led to the in h im. Yanks won a lopsided 16-2 decision. flingers block the seven-day span ended with yester- appear the box score in less than three days it’s an event. I in the The fist were not of eight contests, and clouters In r. —Wide World fights planned, day's games, getting 1 hits In 29 Photo. Parsed both holding the | by Ivory Hunter*. course, but. they could not have been leagues upper hand rhanees for a .349 season average, an 1 to wii so ;old on his timed better had Griffith himself such an extent that 128 runs were increase of 22 points. ^/ALI.a protege's There be scored and 203 hits hammered out. potentialities, he signed him to drawn a blue print. should las:.;..s........:^...;rt.;..„....♦-.. _ Standing of the 10 leading batters this contract, to art as no trouble getting New Yorkers to heading cannonading was the in each league: agreeing his It ivas no love tap that Mr. Powell of the Yanks nlanted 12-11 decision the lanager-coach. He offered to watch the remainder of this series Boston Red Sox AMERICAN- I.EAGcr. sell athwart the mandible Mr. Kuhcl the in cut over ie husky to With keen interest, even if the Nats of of Nationals the sixth pulled the Athletics in 12 southpaw his old club, j "POPPING ie inning of skirmish at Yankee Gr’irle N*w York ti'a •uui ,vi Seals, but on the same ball field yesterday's Stadium. New York, innings, with the two clubs piling up Vn si's the manaeement turned don't belong Walker Detroit «.; -*i;: 4-, <n, -,»;u as this action a total of im down because With the Y'ankees. “ringside” photo indicates. The fist-slinging 36 hits. But for plain and Di Magg o. New York «;•; H5 ;u :;.v. Valla stipulated to all navis. Washington 4H 1 #43# no e was promised involve the members of both teams until the fancy flailing that knocked the cars off :»v> to get a percentage of the .’"hrin^ei Dptro.t 5; 4!» Tv :r>’: restored order and W’rM urchase All Fights Well Timed. umpires banished both combatants. This pitchers as fast as they served them Si. I.ouis ."S 7 J s 757 77 price when Grissom was was a renewal of a r’hiraeo HI .“*♦ 1 *7 140 )ld rT'HAT was the Nats fourth fracas feud that had its inception here a u'eek ago up, the New York Yankees, Pitts- RylHifT to the majors. 3“Ikirk New York 54 1!»5 40 H* .141 OFFStan. j Round three be 4t*. -tv Joe * weeks and each today. may staged this afternoon. burgh’s Pirates and (believe it or not) Cleveland 1 4<> 7S :i4:j Devine and Bill in the last three Bell.^mp>rl;. Essik, Npw ! Si. Louis HU •*7}# 40 95 7J4 j ^ ork Yankee came at a moment when a tonic was —c°PyrirJht, A. P. Wirephoto. Brooklyn's do-or-die Dodgers took the Ballot Box scouts, also turned __ Stuffing for Joe• i win. and NATIONAL I FAGI F. Irissom needed at the box office. The Nats place show. Special Dispatch to The S'.ar. down, according to Medwick St. Lom* H? \'H4 H4 lu» 5 Valla, Joe Di ^ 4<»f> D ecau.se of in Maggio served as executioner Waner. IVi tin the contract he were not getting anywhere particu- ljuuh *_*7!» 5s ]|u ’;;«»t YORK. July 10.—There is a growing the who requested! No. 1 for the nett. Chicago 4H ! 4:1 suspecion among boys g as late as June 18. when the Yanks and smashed out 71 55 ’;»v', iving him a piece of the lar Pittsburgh hr 4:1 work for Ur.c'e Clark Griffith that Mr. Di is the best purchase a of t^i'shan. lie ;*,»»! Joseph Maggio n Browns came to town. Then Oral Hil- pair honors, a triple, double and He. man. Chicago 55 : n ts v; -,ii loney. • 'ti’es ball player m the American League to now most of the as murderers' Chicago »i4 \* l H 77 jv today. Up ! debrand broke A1 Simmons’ finger single row ganeed up on vh11np'. Says Valla: GREAT FIELD SET Philad'nhia n* .t: s4 :r>n Griffmrn were underided between Charlie Gfhringer and Lou Gehrig. Ml7e NEW for a S*. Loins *; 1 ;>»; *•* "The first I with a ball and Simmons Washington 16-2 victory. \\{o heard of Grissom was i pitched Demure* Chleaco To But up to now Di Maggio never was given much consideration **7!» is ;»♦> U4 really by j •om a bush tri-'d to break the hpads of Hildebrand Vtanush. Brookl>n H7 ball player I had 7; ;; 4 j the Nats.