___WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 7, 1940. B__7 Nats Unleash New-Found Fourth in 11-6 Atlanta Game — a Power, ..._ Bag Straight All ' THE HOT-AIR LEAGUE —By JIM BERRYMAN Win, Lose or Draw Starters Hit Demaret in Van By FRANCIS E. STAN, Star Staff Correspondent. As 14 Safeties One Stroke The Bugaboo That Confronts the Yankees Ill I ||i 11 ISrSi^f 'J^MBBMMi i By ATLANTA, Ga„ April 6.—It is interesting to note, that two of our RIGHT' SPRINQ better baseball minds the [THOSE BUMTKAD^|||r TM^y'CE^TARTli^ <Hw ^TrA^PEPlJiu TKAWW^r|||! say Yankees won t win their fifth straight Are Cracked IN WHERE THEY LEFTPOFF 1 £*£ American Joe Cronin '/fDAr^StlDAy* WERE JUS § «f••••J/IDYUH noiSf E+V OF^**1 HORSES / FINALLY GOT MARSHALLS I League pennant. devoted several thousand words l t « | | j*. i}n\/PitR£pl U/PfXlfiHTl ifl mII lr flfl BUNCH \ I At PLAIN UNLUCKY" YOUR n l | A HlS i Augusta to the in a national EVER SEE BIRP UP AT TH' V CjQAT-MC HAP subject weekly not long ago and now-Connie Mack, 1 ,^|^^^^-.WEOUQHTAA’>OB SALON ) *JOINED J PUTTS WOULDNT DROP) % O'PARADISE FLYIN' BARRIER WITH A REDSKINS WORKlW speaking from El Paso on the way home, announces that New York will Chase Lets Crackers IV 1M I HIS CLUBHOUSE j|l f—f If AW TH' TRAPS CAUGHT III ADOUN' IN A FLOCK. TORTOISE I WAS l OUT FER TH' PRESS— llli finish third, behind the Red Sox and Indians. ./ji ) Shoots 7 Under Par ^ S Tie but Is III EVERY Qoop WOOD 1 I llirillTinmanThr ^triltilll I f r>'CTADriwrc I wfl BETTIN* ON IN TH' \ WONDER DID ME W “The are Early, ° Yankees not weaker this year,” Mack was quoted as saying, For Three Rounds; “but no ball club 'can keep on the pace for years. The Yankees will have Strong on Hill HMH ^ trouble keeping the edge which gave them their last four pennants.” 1111 B> » Staff Correspondent ot The Star. Mangrum Second Well, now, let’s see about this theory again. We happened to put j the ATLANTA, Ga„ April 6—Again question to Joe McCarthy one afternoon in the Yankees’ camp at St. ^||p|T|y °^J Bj the AsaocUted Preu. unleashing their new-found punch ^W||^^rg°W,E| Petersburg. This was weeks ago. All of the Yanks hadn't signed. "There AUGUSTA. Ga., April 6.—Smiling before a shivering handful in Ponce be such a as a ball Jimmy Demaret lopped two may thing club being surfeited with success,” McCarthy De Leon Park, the Nationals today 6trok$s you GUYS WOULD BE oil the Augusta National Golf Club’s eaid, “but it won’t happen on this club. At least, I don’t think so. That extended their winning streak to Iff ) tough par with a today to lead World Series money is just as good as money made and if four exhibition with HI WDRRYIM'ABOUT 1 70v anywhere ^se straight games the masters’ tournament field for 54 these fellows don’t want it they’re nuts.” an ll-to-6 decision over the Atlanta 9 YOUR. GOLF GAME C holes with a total score of seven Crackers of the Southern Associa- W INSTEADOF 209, BASEBALL,) shots under and tion. ■ after what you J par one stroke ahead of Lloyd Mangrum of Oak Huggins Called Turn on '26-'27-'28 Yankees It was the second defeat in two wr iqht, wh at s Park, HI. But it can and has and with days for the Crackers at the hands happened speaking authority on the T'STOP SID HUDSON Demaret, a 3-2 betting favorite is Coach Bennie of the Nats and their seventh con- 111/ \ topic Bengough, one-time catcher for the Yankees. BEIN' "TH'ROOKIE A ^^S^TTPAY! going into today’s round, played each secutive beating by the three big UrFROM “It happened to the Yankee club I was on,” Bennie said. “We won nine in 35. out in im- league teams which have passed IT OF THYEAR.*7 ITCOULD / Mangrum, 36, pennants in 1926, 1927 and 1928 and I think that on that one shot most people who saw through—Brooklyn, Cleveland and R BE A PITCHER-.Y'KNOW- Z proved by coming that old -- home. Yankee club will agree it was at least as good as the present Washington. \ AN' IT COULD BE y~\b TrflflfrSAy'. DID You\ had been tied for 36 holes Yankee team. Every Griffman in the starting They Bar ALL SEE WHATOL’ l with scores of 139. “One June day in 1929,” Bennie went on, “we were playing in St. line-up hit safely at least once in I^CONNIE MACK SAID > Craig Wood Day’s Best. Louis. At the time it was and tuck between the Yankees and Athletics the 14-hit attack against two young nip Two shots behind Cracker Lewis L. ‘BOUT TM‘ YANKS CRACKIN’ Mangrum came * tor first place but riding out to the ball in a Miller pitchers, Right-hander park taxicab, Huggins THIS YEAC-THAT Sam Snead and blond Craig Wood us Carpenter, a knuckler who started, f THEY'D told we weren't going to win again. of N. and Bob Chipman, who I FINISH 3^.1 HE DIDN'T Mamaroneck, Y„ who put on ‘You guys think that because the Yankees Southpaw the just you’re you don’t finished. A AIENTION WHERE TH' day’s finest scoring show. Wood, have to work hard any more,’ he told us. ‘You’re tired of here the first two winning, too Flaws in Nats’ Fielding. AA'S WILL END UP-- runner-up years, tired to work any blistered the first nine for a 5-under* longer.’ On the defensive side of the ledger Pr ITS PROBABLY w'as said par 31. / ‘‘Hug right.” Bennie, ruefully. “The Yanks finished second. the Nats difl not look so well. They A A NASTY \ WORD! On the home-coming he Toward the end of the season we began to bear down, but it was too late. made four errors, all except one Journey had two bogeys, but made for Hug said that would happen, too, that day in St.. Louis. He said, ‘Toward helping Atlanta to score, and Ken up those with birdies at the 15th the end, when Series time Chase, who hurled the first seven long Wgrld gets close, you guys will try, but you and the home hole, where he won't win.’” innings, was troubled by his old played a beautiful second shot bugaboo, wildness, in one big around a tree onto Cracker inning when four runs were the green, only 12 feet from the He There Is No Ruth & Co. With scored to tie the game, 5-5. The pin. canned the putt Current to a Champs deadlock, coming in the fourth in- roar of applause. The natural assumption is that Mr. is Cronin His 67 Bengough asking and was broken as soon for 212 put him even with Mack move ning, promptly to over so he can hop on the Yankees-will-lose who had a 69 band-wagon. as the Nats came to bat again, and Snead, for the same This is total. assumption incorrect. Mr. B. makes that very plain. thereafter the Griffith A. C. steadily At 213 was P. G. A. Champion "That same thing won't happen to this Yankee club,” he predicted. drew ahead. Henry Picard, winner of the 1938 who "There are too many young fellows on the Yanks now—fellows that want The Nats opened today’s game masters, had his third 1-under- 71 a that as par in row. Open dough badly. The Yanks of ’26-27-28, or most of them, were making they did yesterday's—by virtually Champion the ball down the Byron Nelson, who hasn’t been fat salaries. Ruth and some of the others didn't need any extra to ramming enemy play- dougn ing too well, went two over live all right in those days." pitcher’s throat. George Case led off standard with a walk and Jimmy Wasdell figures with a 74 for 215. There is no Ruth, operating at $80,000 a for the chanA THE LEAGUE'S LOCKER ROOM DIVISION HELD ITS year, playing and Buddy Lewis singled succes- Hogan and Dudley Gain. pions now. The nearest to him is Joe FIRST OFFICIAL SESSION OF THE SEASON YESTERDAY thing DiMaggio, who makes less sively to score Case. On Gee Sub-par rounds by Ben Hogan, than $30,000 ana hasn't been doing that well until this year. There is Walker’s infield out Wasdell also EVENING IN THE GAB -AND-GULP SECTION OF THE No. 1 money-winner of the winter, no and high-salaried veteran like Meusel. The old hand now is George Sel- scored and then Cecil Travis sent OLD CRAB GRASS COUNTRYCLUB. Home Pro Ed Dudley bracketed them kirk. never a star and getting along in years He can use a $6,000 series Lewis home with a long fly, making together at 216, Hogan on a 69 and cut to put away for a rainy day. it 3-0. Dudley on a 71. The Crackers came back in their A 73 by Willie of San Charley Keller earned more acclaim than money last year as a Goggin half of the second to cut the score Francisco put him at also. At rookie. Joe Gordon is young and ambitious. So is Babe Dahlgren. The ^16, to 3-1.