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SATURDAY, JULY 24,

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1937

A. A. and Major League Averages

May Be Next AMERICAN ASSOCIATION| AMERICAN LEAGUE

Giant Pilot

Warren Giles of Cincinnati Thinks Rajah 0. K., Harry Grayson Says.

By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor There is more to the latest Rogers Hornsby story than his being thrown out again, this time like a sacrifice bunter. From an unimpeachable source it is learned that Hornsby's next stop will be Cincinnati, where he is to succeed Charley Dressen next spring. The same authority has Dressen going to New York, where, after a season as coach and chief assist-

ant to Bill Terry, he will become | | wr { W

manager of the Giants in 1939. Donald Barnes, president of the

8 is his custom, Johnny Rizzo of | OU GEHRIG, slugging first base

Columbus is still the leading in the tionn. The Red Bird er is hitting at a 384 clip, a drop of two points in the week, but still good enough for a substantial lead. His teammate and most persistent rival, Enos Slaughter, fumbled a chance to gain by going into a minor slump at the same time Rizzo was cooling out [from his sensational early pace. | Slaughter dropped off five points to 373. J. Heath of Milwaukee zoomed te 378, but has competed in only 42 games, less than half the number in which the two Red Birds have toiled. Red Kress, veteran shortstop of | Minneapolis, remains the circuit's (leading slugger, pacing the home run hitters with 20 and driving in 24 runs. King of Columbus has stolen 27 bases. Lin Storti of Mil-

a3 batter

waukee, starting July 10, hit eight | seven consecutive

home runs in | games. Averages

include games

Browns, brought in Gabby Street as | TEAM BATTING

Jim Bottomley's right-hand man in | order to have someone handy next

spring in the event that Sunny Jim | INDIANAPOLIS

doesn’t relish the deep digging in | St. Louis, or that conditions merit | another change. Has Habit of Coming Back Being fired by the Browns in midseason certainly is enough to mark the finish of the ordinary manager, but there never was anything commonplace about HardBoiled Hornsby. The Rajah has more baseball lives than a game has innings. They wrote his obituary in August, 1932, when, broken by misfortune, he was tossed out by the Chicago Cubs when he least expected to be. It was that winter that Branch Rickey, whose scalp he once demanded, took Hornsby back into the St. Louis Cardinal fold, and who in 1934 engineered his bow in the American League as manager of the Browns. A product of this same Cardinal organization, Warren G. Giles, would be sponsoring Hornsby in Cincinnati. Hornsby's American League ouster in St. Louis was as sudden and mysterious as were his sale to the Giants by the Cardinals, his transfer from the Polo Grounds to Braves’ Field, and his not exactly honorable discharge by the Cubs. Only a week before, Barnes ex- | pressed complete confidence in Hornsby.

A However, the facts Were that the |

new owners of the Browns were looking for an excuse and Hornsby was fed up. Hornsby admits his hoss playing, which has had him in trouble be-

fore, may have brought the thing | wep

to a head, although I understand | that the gee-gees have been running | for him all right of late, and that | he had $200 on a $32 plug just the other day. Barnes & Co. expected more than | Hornsby could get out of a second division club. |

Bottomley a Humanizer

The new proprietors of the Browns didn't spend a quarter to | help Hornsby. The Rajah himself | made deals calculated to bolster the Browns, and picked up Catcher Benny Huffman at Ray Doan’s Hot ! Springs baseball school. Indeed, | Hornsby’s sales and deals have kept the Browns’ heads above water for three years, and his presence helped the outfit as a gate attraction on the road. Hornsby’s iron hand club mediocre talent tracks. Perhaps the

failed out of

to its

likeable Jim Bottomley and his sunny disposition will fare better. Certainly, Bottomley will humanize the Browns. Sunny Jim doesn’t have to worry, | though. Baseball was good to him | while he was first basing and helpira to bat the Cardinals to four pennants and two world championships. He has a 127-acre farm at Bourbon, Mo., property at Nakomis, ill, and is worth $100,000. He | wanted to retire a year ago, ex- | plaining that he didp’'t want to be | a leech. Terry Likes Dressen As for Dressen’s transfer New York, Terry's contract as! manager expires next year, and he long has aspired to devote all his time to the front office. He long | has had great faith in Dressen’s judgment of players and manage- | rial skill. { And Giles, not long removed | from the Cardinal chain, like | everybody else in it, still regards | Hornsby as a managerial genius, | particularly in the heat of battle

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Effects Agreement With Browns

By United Press : ST. LOUIS, July 24 —Differences | between Rogers Hornsby, ousted manager of the St. Louis Browns, and the club management were settled today after Hornsby surrendered his two-year contract for approximately $7000. The contract called for $20,000 a vear for 1937 and 1938. Hornsby turned it over to Donald L. Barnes, president of the Browns, at a conference with club officials. Hornsby said the settlement was for the amount he would have received for the balance of the year. DUCK PIN TOURNEY SET WASHINGTON, July 24 — The National Duck Pin Bowling Congress announced today that its next United States Sweepstakes will be held Jan. 8, 1938, at Waterbury, Conn. . HE MADE RUTH LOOK SICK sT. LOUIS, July 24.—Hub Pruett, former ge Louis Browns hus + who was famed for striking ou Babe Ruth in the Bambino's heyday, is a practicing physician here.

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i | Two games are scheduled in the | City Recreation Department's In- | depndent Water Polo League tomorrow morning in the Rhodius Pool. Ellenberger will meet Willard, and Garfield plays Rhodius in the second game. League Sands

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“Iron Man” of the New York Yankees, enjoying one of his greatest seasons, continues to hold a substantial lead in the American League batting derby with a mark of 374. This figure is a drop of five points for the week as Lou added 11 hits, four of them doubles, to his collection, A new runner-up has appeared in the person of Joe DiMaggio, young | Yankee outfielder, who came up seven points to .363, replacing Cecil Travis of Washington, who dded slightly to 359. Gerald Walker and | Charley Gehringer of Detroit, among the elite for weeks, dropped back of two members of the rather feeble St. Louis Browns—Sam West and Beau Bell, who are hitting .356 and 360, respectively. Bell has the most hits for the season, 117, with DiMaggio having | the most total bases, 223, and the

of | most runs, 80. DiMaggio also has RUNES except night games of | the most homers with 25, but trails |ouly 21

Hank Greenberg of Detroit in | driving in runs. | Monte Pearson of New York remains unbeaten among the pitchers with six victories, but the real race

| is between Roxie Lawson, Detroit

82 | rookie, and Charley Ruffing, Yankee

veteran, each with 12 and 2. Monty | Stratton of Chicago, who turned in | a 3-hit, 1 to 0 win over Boston, July | 18 for the week's best effort, is close He has won | 12 and lost 4. TEAM BATTING

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NATIONAL LEAGUE |

OE MEDWICK dropped off a trifie during the last week from the phenomenal pace at which he has been hitting, slumping five points but the St. Louis Cardinal star’s .406 still gives him a long lead | over all rivals for batting honors in| the National league. In 80 games, the colorful Cardinal has been at bat 315 times and scored 71 runs, four less than Augie Galan of Chicago. But his 128 hits, 32 doubles, 20 home runs and 95 runs bat- | ted in all are tops for the circuit He has only five triples, four off the pate set by Handley of Pittsburgh. Paul Waner of Pittsburgh has moved ahead of Gabby Hartnett, veteran catcher and acting manager of the Cubs, in their fight for second place. Bryant of Chicago, who has been unable for weeks to make any change in his record of six wins and one defeat, still sets the pitching pace at that figure, but the real honors fall to Lou Fette, veteran rookie of the Boston Bees, who has won 12 and lost three. Fette stopped the Cubs on three hits and held the Cardinals to five hits in 11 innings to swell his record during the week. Averages include games of Wednesday, July 21. . ' TEAM BATTING

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1938

French Slated |

To Pitch for Tribe Tonight

Opposes. Former mates; Redskins, Hens Split Double-Header.

Don French, the, Tribe's new hurler, was expected to see action against his former teammates when the Indians and Mud Hens resunie their series under the lights of Perry Stadium tonight. French recently was traded to the Redskins for Emmett Nelson, who made good for Toledo in his firet start when he won a three-hitter against the Colonels. The Tribe management hoped for a crowd somewhere approaching that of yesterday which saw the teams divide a twilight-moonlight “bargain day” program, the Hens taking the first encounter, 8 to 5, and the Redskins coming back to capture the nightcap, 8 to 6. An estimated 9000 ig on hand for the second encouner. Vance Page Zmntea the opener for the locals, but ran into tough luck in the fourth when two errors started a rally and the Hens pushed over

3 five runs, all unearned, after the

Tribe had taken what looked like a commanding lead. Garland Brax-

80 | ton relieved him, but gave way for

a pinch hitter and Jimmy Crandall finished. Pat McLaughlin was Killefer’s mound choice in the second game

g%i|and although laced for 11 hits in

seven and a third innings, got credit for the victory when Bob Logan stepped in and subdued the threat-

89 | ened uprising.

The teams clash in a double-

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TREE

At top, a major league groundkeeper directs his crew in preparing the diamond for a crucial series. Right above, Lefty Weisman Jr., one

header tomorrow afternoon and| of the Cleveland Indians’ bat boys, puts Earl Averill's bat back in place. wind up the series in a night game | And, at left, Fred Logan, clubhouse custodian for the Giants and

on a long Western trip.

TRIBE BOX SCORES

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TRIBE BATTING (Including Yesterday's Games) .

G AB H Pct. 50 228 85 .373 84 404 134 332 94 397 129 328 80 348 111 321 89 348 105 .302 28 67 20 .209 47 136 40 204 63 213 61 .288 80 324 92 284 80 306 81 .265 24° 61 15 248 6 16 1 .063

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The Indians then depart Yankees, packs the players’ uniforms away for a road trip.

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Side of Baseball —

Caretakers and Bat Boys

Also Play . Important Role

(Fourth of a Series)

By RICHARD M’'CANN NEA Service Sports Writer They don't get their names in the box scores, but-the groundkeepers, | clubhouse caretakers, and bat boys do their share for baseball. Sometimes, it seems, they should be given a bit of credit in the

records. Visiting players, for instance, insist that the Fenway Park ground- | keeper ought to get an assist every | now and then because he has made Joe Cronin a better fielder thig season by sprinkling the left side of the infield before each game, thereby slowing up grounders which ordinarily might skip by Josephus. And the Yankees of a decade ago all swear that poor little Eddie Bennett, their hunchback bat boy who died a few years back, won as many games as Babe Ruth with his peppery, cheery talk.

And the 1933 pennant-winning Washington team insisted that Frankie Baxter, their clubhouse caretaker, stand in a grand stand runway throughout every game because they happened to win a close, crucial battle once while he was standing there. They felt that his presence at that particular post was as necessary as Earl Whitehill’s on the mound. : In fact, they thought it. was so important they insisted that the club send him on the road with the team.

All-Day, All-Year Job

However, bat boys and clubhouse caretakers do more than just act as guardians against invasions by Joe Jinx and Sammy Slump, and the groundkeeper’s duties don’t end with wetting down the left side of the diamond for some heavy-legged fielder. : : The groundkeeper’s job, indeed, is practically an all-day, all-night, all= year-round affair trying to keep the infield as smooth as a billiard table, the pitching mound just high enough, and the outfield pasture fresh and level what with fights, football games, rodeos, mass meet ings, high school cadet drills, and such being staged night and day in the stadiums. Football players, according to Walter Owens, caretaker of the Yankee Stadium, help rather than hurt baseball fields. . “I con= sider that they plow up my field for the winter snows,” says Owens: “But that rodeo liked to kill me. It took me a year to get the grass a-growin’ again.”

The diamond is usually an awful mess after a big fight or wrestling matéh. The ring is pitched at secend base and the posts must be Griven deep into the ground. “And no matter how carefully you smooth out the ground that night and the next day,” says Owens, “there's bound to be a couple of bad bumps or holes that make grounders take freak hops past the fielders.” Jack of All Trades The clubhouse caretaker is cobbler, tailor, laundryman, messenger boy, express agent, sports gaods salesman and concessionaire rolle into one. He keeps the home team’s uniforms in shape (there are four suits to a man); sees that they are cleaned at regular intervals (except Guring a winning streak when a team likes to wear the same dirty eutfits); packs and ships them when

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it takes to the road; and does a similar duty for the visiting team. The clubhouse caretaker and his

out the players’ sweat shirts after each game, clean and mend the shoes, run out for food. He sells various pieces of equipment (such as shoes at $12.50 per pair for which he ‘gets a commission) and peddles soft. drinks and beer to the players.

NEXT—Bloodhounds of Baseball —the scouts—and their happy hunting grounds, the 37 minor leagues.

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* DURHAM, N. C,, July 23.—Judge W. G. Bramham, czar of minor league baseball, continued his drive against umpire-baiting by suspending for 90 ‘days Pitcher Howard Taylor of the Cedar Rapids, Ia., Western League team. Taylor was accused of attacking | Umpire Lynn-Kelley in a game played at Davenport, Ia. July 1.

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By United Press NEW YORK, July 24—The Chicago Cubs were riding high toward the National League pennant today with another of their chief cone tenders in retreat. Even Bill Terry feared that the

Cubs couldn't be headed. He shook his head sadly after Chicago had routed King Carl Hubbell yesterday and said: “Gad, those Cubs are tough!” Every time a challenger moves up to threaten the Cubs the result is sudden death. The Giants were in full pursuit yesterday, and played their trump, Hubbell, who had won six straight and hadn’t been beaten since June 18, in an effort to pull up within .003 of the league leaders, But even Hubbell couldn't hold the Cubs. He had them beaten, 3-1, at the end of the third and 3-2 g0ing into the sixth but a flood of Chicago base hits swamped him to defeat. The Cubs’ attack swelled in on Hubbell and Tom Baker in the late innings and when the shelling was over the Cubs collected 18 hits and scored an 11-3 victory. Their lead is now two full games. OI’ Charlie Root, going on 39 and now in his 13th year in Cub harness, was the hero of the Chicago win, He came in with the bases loaded in the first inning, retired the side and went through the rest of the game yielding only five hits. Root’s Tenth Victory

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Marty, Cuh rookie back in the line= up, after riding the bench since July 9, clouted three singles and a double. Rip Collins’ homer with a man on. off Hubbell in the sixth was Chicago's big punch. The Cardinals beat Brooklyn, 4-1, as Jess Haines held the Dodgers to six hits. Joe Medwick had a perfect day at bat, “3 for 3,” one of them a triple. Cincinnati won from Philadelphia, 6-3. Jordan and Hafey hit homers for the Reds. The Pirates and Bees did not play. The Chicago White Sox made a threatening gesture at the highflying New York Yankees by knock= ing them off, 9-6, and trimming their American League lead to six games. Red Ruffing was belted out of the box in the midst of the White Sox’ 13-hit attack. A triple by Mike Kreevich with the bases loaded featured the Sox’ offense. Joe Di Maggio, Jake Powell and Red Rolfe hit homers. The Boston Red Sox won from Cleveland, 6-2." Southpaw Archie McKain blanked Cleveland until the ninth when Jackie Wilson came to his rescue. Elon Hogsett’s 5-hit pitching fea« tured the St. Louis Browns’ 8-0 vice tory over Washington. In addition Hogsett hit a homer and double. Detroit and Philadelphia split a doubleheader, the A's slugging out 16-4 triumph in the opener, then succumbing 9-8 when the Tigers scored two runs in the 11th inning of the nightcap. Walker's single drove in the winning run. Yesterday's Heroes — The old-

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