Sports News Radio and Classified W)iy V WITH SUNDAY MORNING V J e fßbmitraV EDITION L/Jlfaf. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931. * PAGE C-1 Pitching Bests Batting in League Race : Intersectional Warfare in Full Blast ! LIFE’S DARKEST MOMENT. —By WEBSTER A S GET FEW RUNS Detroit Club, Lacking in Punch, NINES ADD TALENT EAST-WEST CLASH - May Finish Lower Than in 1930 IN TO LEAD FOR FUG BY JOHN B. FOSTER. than many a team has had in the past. FOR STRETCH DRIVE BOTH CIRCUITS But there appear to be no .350 batters the Detroit Tigers perk among the ponies. up at the bat, begin to put With the batters it has and its pres- Many New Faces to Cardinal-Giant Series Holds Hurlers Who Hold Foes to some punch into their hitting ent pitching staff Detroit cannot hold Be Seen its own if the team cannot get more UNLESSand give relief to men who are pic. saiohc of a punch to it. The American in League Squads in mv H i wewouLDhfTLer Big Interest—Regarded Small Score Tell—Set dying on the bases for lack of a hefty League collectively is making more W/ P WAS GOIN’ T SHIP ITHOMG I,] swing of the bludgeon, Manager Stan- runs than the National League, but as With Tigers Detroit, as a team, isn't carrying its Second Half. “Crucial.” Starts. ley Harris will find his aggregation even share of the task. Nor has it strength lower in league standing at the end of enough for its own needs. The best outfielder the team is BY GAYLE TALBOT, JIL, BY JOHN B. KELLER. this year than it was when the Ath- batting on week-day base ball leagues, romping home with the Gerald Walker, with .333 in a few Associated Press Sports Writer. letics came games. Stone is hitting about .330 the Government and Depart- cry fence-breaking & for League pennant in 1930. The playing over After day's hiatus, in which only American and better and more polished mental, start all again next game batters, these owners of big today ball year one escaped the rain and the Tigers stand lowest in the circuit this than last. After those TWOweek In their pennant chases as general movement of clubs East and league ball clubs—and the in team hitting. two are named It is a long, long drop THEY to Johnson with less than .290. the second half series opens and sand- West, intersectional warfare breaks out fans do, too—but cold sta- For years alibi purveyers in Detroit FothergUl is up to .376 In Chicago lot folk who trek to the Department- on both major league fronts today. laid the onus on the pitchers. It can't Four Western members of the Ameri- tistics indicate that pitchers are and his punch is missed in Detroit. al's stamping grounds will see many be done any longer. The team's show- He may not have been as expert in can League, invading the Atlantic Sea- more necessary if an outfit is to ing today can only be attributed to the the field he should have been, but new faces in the line-ups this week as board for the first time this year, have players wield the wand as be highly successful. failure of the to Detroit will not win a pennant by ambitious managers Insert new talent scant prospects of success against the with effectiveness. are to eligible powerful Philadelphia -Washington-New thought fielding alone as the games now make them for the "home The Indians, the Nationals and Once Detroit never much running League fight. stretch.” Under the league rules, It Is York combine. The National League's batting, the team could in the American the Yankees are outswatting the about because Simmons. Ruth. Fothergill, Averill. necessary for a player to have partici- Eastern contingent, on the other hand, bat hard. Ty Cobb played for it and pated in the first series In order to opens in the in way others of fame. Goslin, and even Webb, for the Boston be- west with more concerted Athletics no mean now- Sam Crawford and something come eligible for the seccnd series and ' strength than it has boasted in several a member, Fother- Red Sox. are doing in the adays, but the world champs are Heilmann was and driving home runs they the city championship series. seasons. glll managed to hit well. Last year w»y of because pace are slugging. Young Vosmik of Cleve- Art Ludlow, St Mary's Celtic infleld- Look to St. Louis. setting a dizzy in the Ameri- Gehringer was the best batter Detroit was erroneously set er, Wolfe, Maryland was no super-batter. He land. who down and Willie fresh- centers on Sportsmen's get had, and he man Interest Park, can League and threaten to good teams by many as a flash in the pan, has second baseman, will Join District at was for .300. Other in the Repair Departmental St. Louts, where the New York Giants ahead the other clubs American League had lot better punch batted home 25 runs for his team. He Shop, League engage the St. Louis Cardinals so far of a best-looking ball champion. in what Detroit, and they have it this year. is one of the young a little later on might in the first division that there will than players who has stepped into any Bill Mcllwee, one of the Maryland be termed a Stan Harris said he was kept down "crucial series." It is a little too early no pennant after team's ball yard for many a season. varsity nine’s mound aces, will play just yet. be race for the in the 1930 race because his outfielders Commerce, for that but the series will lend games for him before the Alexander has batted in only 15 runs with as will Heinie Gorman, a the season is two-thirds gone. had lost 16 regular at fair idea of the Cardinals' chances to July. busied around and this season and Stone but 17 for De- first sacker Maryland. Com- pennant. A game Fourth of He year. help win another and a The Athletics haven't been making some best-looking young troit this More for runners merce clinched the first half pennant Gabby collected of the must bring half ahead of the Giants now. many runs, they don't require many outfielders for 1931 in the whole land. on the bases be found to in the Departmental loop and with this Street's face opportunity but through with advantage. Its expects Red Birds an to win a game, it seems. Their In the Spring he had a pony outfield Detroit added strength to make a clean to take a commanding lead. runs in the two Walkers and Doljack that pitchers must have better batting and sweep of both series. Robins, generally The Brooklyn flushed with a pitchers see to it that the better fielding outfield collectively run-making support to turn in victories. four-game winning was a Bussy Brenner, shortstop on streak, engage the opposition gets less Pitching, crack third-place Cubs, runs. the St. Mary's Celtics, said, Chicago who like- plenty—and it is will wise have captured in a which the A's have a that ; join the R. R. Y. M. C. A. team in the four row. The — Boston open despite a so-called ‘‘three-man” staff Industrial League. Braves at Pittsburgh and the Phillies the luckless is why Connie Mack's herd of White meet Cincin- Bottle Cox, ex-sandlotter, who now nati Reds. Elephants is heading the flag parade. FOR CHANCE Tothe Chicago SCHNEIDER’S AUTO FIGHT is calling balls and strikes, advises White Sox falls the that Steve Physioc, the University of thankless task of bearding the fast- these Athletics, for in- Maryland's ambidextrous freshman traveling Philadelphia Athletics in their stance. They only pitcher, is the best schoolboy frosh own park. The St. Louis Browns in- CONSIDER have made 205 or Stadium, runs thus far this season. The i hurler he has seen around these parts. vade Yankee the Detroit LADDER Bottle, umprd at College Tigers face Washington and the Cleve- runs, the Na- TO CLIMB who Park Yankees have made 246 WIN IS confirmed; Physioc land Indians meet the Boston tionals have made 234 runs and the this Spring, declares that is Red Sox made 221 runs. Yet the tough with either hand, though he has to round out the American League Indians have menu. A's are well ahead of all this lot. From *Portney- Raymond Scrap more "stuff" on the ball pitching with What's the answer? Pitching only. Only Shift Recheck* his right hand. Cards Sent Overtime. The A s have the stuff that stops the Bottle can’t see the all-time Govern- Their ability to take all extra-inning other fellows even when they can't Boosts Shafer to 12th Winner Will Get Crack at decisions again stood the Cardinals themselves. ment League team picked by his fellow in cross the plate often umpire, Ping Purdy. | good stead yesterday as they made When it comes to getting ahead in the ready for the Giants by nosing’ out the the big in 500-Mile Grind. Title Contender. According to Bottle, Lu Blue, now race it certainly seems that idea was Cincinnati Reds. 6 to 5. in 12 innings. is to have the pitching to keep the with the White Sox, the best first baseman ever to perform in the Gov- It marked the fifth time the Birds have other clubs from making many tallies As been forced beyond the regulation By Glick, contender ernment League.