WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY MAY 22, 1937. ’ Lewis Regained Punch Cheers Nats : Hurlers Lift Cubs and Bees School BUDDY MS .385 Inter-High and College Athletes Perform on Two Track Fronts Here WINNING STREAKS OVER 8-1IL1 SPAN LAID TO PITCHING Promises to Aid Club Soon, American League Flag Race but His Homer, Single Unchanged as Three Top Don’t Check Tribe. Clubs Triumph. BV FRANCIS E. STAN. A QUIET sort of a way Buddy BY SID FEDER. Associated Press Lewis has been going about the Sports Writer. business of building up an anemic, TOOK Chicago's Cubs and Bos- IN run-down batting average, and, ton's Bees a long time to find it in the process, showing that he out, but they finally are convinced is not one of those first-year base IT that base ball never has produced hall sensations who tail off as soon a suitable substitute for good pitching. as the pitchers get a real line on him. For the entire first month of the Buddy's average today still is woe- season, both outfits fooled around fully low but, withal, a grand figure trying to buck the old belief, and both compared to that owned 10 days ago. got nowhere—fast. The experiment- It was as recently as 10 days ago, ing Bees dropped to the National too. that some critics were shaking League cellar. The Cubs, trying to their heads when Lewis’ name was make up for pitching injuries by heavy brought up. The kid who batted hitting, creaked into the second divi- over .400 during the Spring of 1936 sion. and who finished the season with a creditable .293 average wasn't batting Pitchers Get Going. the weight of his bat. CUDDENLY, however, both ha'e Even among the Nationals doubts come to life simply by getting arose. During the first Western trip throwers out t.hete on the hill who ran Buddy rarely saw a fast ball, unless bamboozle enemy batters. At the the pitcher was wasting it. Word moment, each boasts a four-gamr win- apparently spread throughout the ning streak, chiefly be"ausc of top- league that Lewis couldn't hit slow flight flinging. curves and he wasn't at the time. Th» Cubs, with Tex Carleton back But to judge by his hitting these days from the hospital and Roy Parmelce it wasn't because he was particularly and Bill Lee doing their duty, hate to slow curves. He susceptible prob- jumped from fifth to third place, in ably just wasn't able to hit anything. front of the Giants. The Bees, with Danny MacFayden Ruddy Hits Tough Man. finally Here’s an action shot of the high hurdles event in the annual clicking, and a couple of is seeing—and fortieth scholastic meet at Central Stadium yesterday From hitting—fast with their rookies. Lou Fette and Jim Turner B^nx rif>M contestants, order of finish are Hal Kiessling of Eastern, first; Willis Smith of Tech, second;' Burrell bails now. In the last eight Hildebrand of Tech, third, and Joe Hahn producing, have climbed out of thp of Central, fourth. _star Staff Photos games the kid has batted at a cellar, and now are pressing Brooklyn's phenominal .385 clip and the Ameri- baffling Dodgers for fifth place. can League pitchers apparently have revised their estimates of Buddy. The Bmgles C ome at Rich! Time. Browns' hurlers, to name one group, the surPrising part is that him a strict diet of slow LEAD AND quit TAPED FEET feeding neither the Cubs nor Bees are curves and began to mix them up dur- knocking down fences. ing iheir recent series. any Chicago has averaged around seven Only once has he failed to hit over hits and five runs that stretch of that per game in the current eight games and WILBUR CENTRAL streak. BARR TO TITLE Boston has day he went. "5-for-0," as the boys JOSEPH BURNETT averaged about Of Central, winner of javelin four tuns and nine hits. say. He made up for that by getting Of Gallaudet, victor iii mile event, with heave of 159 Boston has four hits in a game against St. Louis feet race in dual meet with Amer- pitching yielded five 6 wches. Dollar Invested in runs in four games and in the rest he consistently has Chacos’ Tilts to but ican U. and the cub huri- Feller On a Average .443, ers have given made his two a day. Young Spot. up nine runs in the same number of Nor have hits—he's made “Pups’ Bears Dividends starts. Buddy's DEVELOPS that people who wagered that Bob Feller would win 15 20 Lary, Hassett Are Week’s or Tne Cubs did the heaviest 15 in his last 39 times at bat—been NIGHT PLAY games thus season are hittm-' TICKLES becoming resigned to disappointment and are of their streak run-of-the-mine hits. runs in Track Meet. LOUIS NOW THROWS yesterday in Two home almost readv to pay off. Bigtime Stars. walloping the Giants, 8-5. but it was have bounced off his bat and four The 18-year-old Iowa as much BY Bl'RTON' HAWKINS. IT farmboy still is considered a very unusual Pv the SHORE LEAGUE FANS ih" Associated Press. six-hit of others were doubles. Time after prospect but now it looks pitching Clyde Shoun dollar invested by ; doubtful if he will pitch 15 games this year, HIS FISTS IN PUBLIC and time he has crossed the wisely YORK. May 22—In Bill Lee as their own 12 up opposing touch less win that many. To date the heir spite hits Coach Hardy Pearce today i apparent to the strikeout throne that did it. Infield by dropping bunts and beating has of Joe Cronin's return to the The Bros, meantime, took was as an instru- appeared in only two games and has worked a total of six Cambria, Owner, Plans regarded only innings of the on the them out. He is no "type hitter" Salisbury still top American League league-leading Pirate-. and mental factor in He complains very earnestly of a soreness in his arm of Will Be ONE yanking throwing and con- Pounding Sparmates with no man who can be shaded too far to NEW Ducky Medwick's Danny MacFayden muffling the and Enlarge Plant, as First I Central to the school track while mast base ball people are inclined to with him the public high sympathize tinued in Burs with seven in any direction. of clouting the National, the Done in on hits, came through championship. Berms suspicion are beginning to spread. Maybe the Schoolboy Rowe Open Four-Days- his terrific Game Draws 4,000. j big league hitting honors for this week with a 6-3 win Maintaining batting pace, Louis incident prompted the but at rate By the Associated Chacos. an angular lad who suspicion any Cleveland newspaper men While Buddy banged another pair of signifi- Press. go to two other aspiring belters, a-Week Schedule. the National Prague stand- l forged his brownish figure prominently i traveling with the Indians are wondering if Bobby hasn't "got a little Rowe cant hits as the Nats by attendance at the Cleveland's Lyn Lary and Brooklyn's ings were shifting, the one-two- yesterday first to the fore in Central's i in him." By the Associated Press. tight JUDGING conquest, has, Hassett. three race in the dropped a 7-to-5 decision to the In- night game of the Eastern Shore When he warms Buddy American loop con- among other things, flat feet. Pearce up, they say, bystanders are popeved with awe His Wis., 22—Joe from the May Louis, tinued as dians in the opener of a series that League, a lot of fans are to fast ball travels as Cronin, returning hospital J^ENOSHA, unchanged Cleveland, th* going risked one buck and had those tootsies swiftly as a trade rumor and his curve is what the boys in at Lake was to I see list in waltzed into the training Front Sta- Athletics and the conclude today. They were base ball under the this call a ball off table." midweek, Yankees all finished lights taped by an expert, bracing the weak "rolling the In*---- dium for his bout June 22 in he them off Summer. American lead 7 Chicago on top. significant because got ! short, Feller never had more League by getting spots. stuff with Jim Earl Whltehill, the old Nat And. sure, but hits in 17 times at bat for a 443 sea- Heavyweight Champion southpaw, judging by performances to Whether that I than he has right now. they give everything taping did the trick Braddock, began bombing'' his spar- Two who for years has reigned as the date in the young league, the fans The kid they've got and the same energy son average, replacing the St. Louis Games Go Overtime. or whether Chacos would have been steadfastly has com- mates publicly hardest in the for a are to see some is extracted from their bodies. Browns' Beau Bell, who to a today. pitcher league going good, hard base the star of plained of the soreness since he slipped Indians nosed out ! the meet regardless is Louis was scheduled to work several 'y'HE Washington, left-handed hitter tc hit. ball played in the revived Class D his Sure they have sore arms. They second-place tie with Lary at .433. 1-5. j beside the point, however, for Central pitched first game against rounds before with rallies in the late in- into a car a Medwick fell 16 to .443 newspaper men and loop.