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J. V V L-J 1 » U _ - S P O RTS CHICAGO DEFEATS BOSTOJU TO 0 Larry French Hurls Two Hit Ball To Best Strincevich In Pitcher’s Duel BOSTON, May 15— L5>) —Larry French’s two-hit pitching gave the Chicago Cubs a 2-0 edge in a tight lipped hurling duel with Rookie Nick Strincevich of the Boston Bees today before a slim crowd of 1,919. Both hurlers were in fine fettle and up to the seventh inning each had limited the opposing batting lists to single scratch hits. French him self started the blowoff with two out in the eighth, when "Rabbit” Warst ler, filling in at second base for "Ba tna” Rowell, messed up his easy roller. French scored from first a minute later on Stan Hack’s booming trip le to deep center. Hack crossed the plate with Chicago’s second run when Billy Herman singled. Jim Gleeson followed with a single, but Hank Leiber ended the rally by striking out for the third time in a row. Strincevich, who had limited the Cubs to six hits and struck out seven, gave way for a pinch hitter in the Bee half of the eighth. Dick Errickson finished up for him, but Bee batters could no nothing with French’s delivery and ended by los ing their fifth straight game. Hack, 3b . 4 111? Herman. 2b_ 4 0 14? Oleeson, cf_ 4 0 2 3 0 Lei her. rf _- 3 0 0 1 0 Pnllessandro, If - 4 0 0 3 0 Russell, lb_ 3 0 0 0 0 Todd, c - 4 0 3 5 1 Mattick, ss - 4 0 0 1 0 French, p - 3 1 0 0 .1 Totals _ 33 2 7 27 7 BOSTON’ Ab R H O A SWi. 3b _ 4 0 0 0 3 "Warstler. 2b - 3 0 0 1 ? Loane. cf _ 4 0 0 1 0 West, rf _ 4 0 0 2 0 Ross. If _ 3 0 12 1 Scarsella. lb _ 3 0 0 S o Lonez, c _- 3 0 0 8 2 Miller, ss _ 3 0 15 ? Stnnr-evich, p _- 2 0 0 0 0 Hassett. z _- 1 0 0 0 0 Errickson, p - 0 0 0 0 1 Totals _ 30 0 2 27 1? z-Batted for Strincevich in 8th. Oh ion go _-__ 000 000 020—2 Boston _ 000 000 000—f Irrors: Mattick 2. French. Warstler West. Miller. Errickson. Runs batted in: Hack. Herman. Two base hit* Oleeson. Thfee base hit: Hack. Stoler bases: Loane. Sisti. Double plays* Warstler. Miller and Scarsella 2. Left on bases: Chicago 6: Boston 4. Baser on balls off: French 1. Strincevich 2 Strikeouts by: French 5, Strincevich 7 Hits off: Strincevich 6 in 8 innings* Errickson 1 in 1. Losing pitcher: Strin cevieh. Umpires: Mngerkurth. Stewart and Barr. Time: 1:53. Attendance: (actual) 1.919. GRIMES MARRIES GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 15. — UP) — Burleigh Grimes, former major league baseball pitcher and once manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Miss Inez M. Martin of Des Moines, la., were married here today. Tar Babies Track Team Wins Over Duke Freshmen CHAPEL HILL, May 15.-13’) — North Carolina's freshman track team brought its season to a suc cessful close by easily defeating Duke SO 1-3 to 45 2-3 here today. 1 It was the Tar Babies’ third vie- i tory in four meets this spring. They ; nosed out Duke 64 to 62 in an eai- . lier meet and also won the junior championship of the annual Caro linas A. A. U. meet. Their only de- i feat was at the hands of Navy ten days ago. A’S AL RUBEUNG IS ARCHERY FAN High - Priced Rookie Third Baseman Shoots Bow, Ar row To Strengthen Arm PHILADELPHIA, May 15—W— In all the hullabaloo over Connie Mack’s signing of Benny McCoy, the free agent second baseman, an other high priced infielder slipped into the Athletics’ fold almost un noticed. Mack outbid a flock of other clubs, contracted McCoy for $45, 000 and got reams of publicity for his A’s. But no one dug out black headlines when A1 Rubeling joined the A’s. A1 came from Atlanta in the Southern association and cost $35,000, a pretty penny for Connie. Only two or three of the rookies brought up last Spring cost more than the A’s young third baseman. Connie thinks he is a great pros A1 is happy to be with Philadel phia because as a youngster he idolized Joe Boley, A’s shortstop during the championship years of 1929-30-31. Rubeling had a comparatively weak throwing arm while in the minors and adopted a unique meth od of strengthening it. He took up archery. “I’m no William Tell,’’ he says and grins. “My best score was 589 out of a perfect 810.’’ He thinks he can handle the bow and arrow well enough now to hunt with them. “I’ve been told that arrows are more effective than shotguns in getting deer,” he says. A1 shoots around 80 in golf, bowls and plays billiards. His hobby is collecting pipes. He has nearly two dozen. A1 is a bachelor but he is “think ing of getting married in the fall.” ALMADA OPTIONED SAN DIEGO, Calif-, May 15.—UP)—■ The Sacramento Solons reported to day that Mel Almnda, veteran major league outfielder, had been obtained on option from the Rochester club of the International league. Almada was sent to Rochester by the Brooklyn Dodgers this year. 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The only runs he gave up were lomers by Lee Handley in the first md by Bob Elliott in the fouth. Joe Moore started the Giants to vard their goal with a two-run cir cuit blow in the third and they went >n to get a run in the fifth and two nore in the seventh. In the fifth Frank DeMaree beat >ut a bunt and stole second, raced o third when Arky Vaughan fumb ed a grounder and scored on a sin gle by Babe Young. Mace Brown, who was charged vith the defeat, was removed for a linchhiter in the sixth and the other •uns were off Duck Lanahan on a talk, a bunt, a double by Harry banning and an infield out. PITTSBURGH Ab R H O A Handley, 3b _ 4 1112 Elliott, rf _ 4 12 4 0 Vauglian, ss _ 4 0 0 0 2 Fletcher, lb _ 4 0 1 14 0 Van Ttobays. If _ 4 0 10 0 DiMaggio. cf__ 3 0 110 Justine. 2b _ 3 0 1 0 S Berres, c_ 2 0 14 0 Brubaker, x _ 0 0 0 0 0 f.anahan. p _ 0 0 0 0 0 II. Brown, p- 2 0 0 0 1 Davis, c _ 1 0 0 0 0 Coials _31 2 S 24 14 x-rsaupu ior xxi mi. NEW YORK Ab R H O A Whitehead* 3b - 5 110 2 Moore. If_ 5 113 0 Demaree. cf- 3 2 2 3 0 Ott. rf _ 3 10 3 0 Hanning, c- 4 0 14 1 Young, lb _ 4 0 16 1 Turges, ss _ 3 0 0 2 3 Olossop, 2b _ 4 0 16 4 Hubbell, p- 4 0 0 0 3 Totals _ 35 5 7 27 1' Pittsburgh _ 100 100 000—2 New York _ 002 010 20x—5 Errors: Handley, Gustine, Fletcher Vaughan. Runs batted in: Handley Moore 2. Elliott. Young 2. Panning Two base hies: Demaree, Glossop. Pi Maggio. Panning. Home runs: Hand ley. Moore, Elliott. Stolen bases: Whitehead. Demaree. Sacrifice: Ott Double plays: Hubbell, Jurges and Glossop: Jurges. Glossop and Young Lefton bases: New York 0: Pittsburgh 4. Bases on balls off: Hubbell 2, M Brown 1. Lanahan 1. Strikeouts by: Ilubbell 3. M. Brown 3. Hits off: M Brown 6 in 6 innings: Lanahan 1 in 2. Losing pitcher: M. Brown. Umpires Pinelli. Goetz and Reardon. Time: 2:05. Attendance: 4,234. Match Play Is Ended In Frat Bowling Loop Match play in the Interfraternity Bowling league last night ended with the Sigma Gammas and Alpha Ome gas still in a tie for second place as they emerged victorious over the Phalanx and Hi-Kappas respectively. The Phalanx boys still hold the lead with a four game margin and the Hi-Kappas are in the cellar With eight wins and 13 losses. Abrams, of the Phalanx team, was the individual high scorer for the highest team score for one game with 523. Team captains have been asked to meet after the games next Tuesday night to decide if the second half games will be bowled in the city or on the beach. Phalanx meets the Hi Kappas Tuesday night and Sigma lamma will play Alpha Omega for second place. • LEADING BATTERS (By The Associated Press) BATTING (Three Leaders in Each League) Player, Club G Ab R H Pet Averill, Tigers _16 47 5 22 .40S Walker, Dodgers __ 14 43 7 17 .397 Wright, White Sox 22 92 15 36 .391 Hayes, Philadelphia 21 (59 12 27 .391 Gustine, Pirates_ 13 50 6 19 .380 Lombardi, Reds __ 20 77 14 29 .377 HOME RUNS American League Trosky. Indians _ 8 Foxx, Red Sox _ 8 Ivuhel, White Sox _ G National League Mize. Cardinals _ 9 S. Martin, Cardinals _ 4 Werber, Reds _ 4 RUNS BATTED IN American League Foxx, Rod Sox _69 Walker, Senators _23 Trosky, Indians _19 National League Mize. Cardinals _21 Lombardi, Reds _20 Young, Giants _20 Jenkins Moves From Spectator Seat To Ring In Ten Months BY FELIX R. M’KNIGHT DALLAS, Tex., May 15.—(®—The leathery Texas cowhand, riveted to his rim row seat by the elbows of his companions, squinted through smoke at the white man and the black man that sweltering New York night last August. Down below, miles away the cow hand swears, Lou Ambers and Hen ry Armstrong were slugging. The cowhand was a newcomer in New York. The $1 he paid for that birds-eye seat represented consider able capital stock. Ten months later the cowhand had moved from the rim to the ring. Lew Jenkins, the gaunt ex-caval ryman, cowhand and carnival fight er, cut Ambers to shreds to win the generally recognized world light weight title. Today Jenkins came back home. The fight mob crowded around him at the train. He grinned, shook hands all around and protested rath er feebly that he “wasn’t a good fighter.” Lew’s shyness stops with his mouth. On July 17 he fights the other half of that pair he saw from a bleacher seat, Henry Armstrong. "Only time I ever saw Armstrong tight in my life was from that last row seat last August," he says. “I had a buck seat that night; couldn’t see him very well. "I’m gonna be ready Arm strong, though. I’ve seen hire, in the gym a couple of times. He can be hit.” All Jenkins wants is that oppor tunity. He owns the two most dan gerous hands the lightweight ranks have known since Joe Gans. He was the first man to knock out Am bers. Quaint Hymie Caplin, Jenkins’ New York manager, pared the cham pion’s conversation to a minimum with his own version of Jenkins’ greatness. He said: "Most improved fighter in the business. "Armstrong? Just a little tougher than Ambers. Harder to hit, I’d say. But Lewie can hit anything that walks. An<j Armstrong’s nor mal; he wkll:?.” Jenkins, reared out in Sweetwater, Texas, prepared to shake t?._ city and head for the plains. He’ll be around a couple of weeks before getting back to New York to start training. ! Galen to Wants To Bet On Tony There’s nothing modest about Tony Galento, the roly-poly fighter, who will referee tonight’s wrestling program at Legion stadium. He is shown above offering to bet that, the next time he faces Joe Louis in the ring he will emerge as the new neavyweight champion. Galento To Appear Here Tonight As Mat Referee v —_____— Colorful Fighter To Arrive In City This Morning; Tour Part Of Training Tony Galento, the most colorful character to dot the fistic horizon in many years, brings his antics to the wrestling ring at Legion sta dium tonight when he will referee the Scotty Dawkins mat program. He will arrive in the city early this morning. The Beer Barrel Poker says his refereeing tour through the south *s his way of training for his fight with Max Baer in Jersey City on July 2. Out of this fistic melee is .expected to come the next chal lenger for the heavyweight crown held by Joe Louis. Although Galento will be the main attraction on the program tonight, there are two corking wrestling matches also on the book. The headliner will pit the clowning Chief Chewchki against handsome young Tom Mahoney. Paul Lopez, the Spaniard, will meet Blackjack Ha der in the semi-finals. Chewchki once did a turn in the boxing ring and has tp his credit a knockout over Max Schmeling when the German heavyweight was making his debut in this country. Last week the Gypsy grappler ras sled Ginger the bear and although he won he came out of the tussle minus two front teeth. Lopez appeared here for the first time last week. Hader and Ma honey have exhibited their wares on the local mat before. But with Tony Galento on the program, Dawkins is expecting a sell-out house. The roly-poly bar l-.eep-fighter has about as many followers in Wilmington as in any other city of like size. He is a nat ural so far as getting into the pub lic gaze is concerned and at no time is he at a loss for a state ment. Galento will likely get a chance to use that murderous left of his a time or two tonight. And that left hand of his along with his stout heart is about the best in the bus iness. Doors to the exhibit building at the stadium will open at 7 o’clock and the first bout will get under way at 8:30 o’clock. FOXX PICKS HIS ALL-STAR TEAM Boston Slugger Selects Pres ent-Day Players For Hitting Power; Omits Himself CHICAGO, May 15— UP) —Jimmy Foxx, who qualifies as an authority on the subject of hitting, lined up a power-plus mythical baseball team today which he guaranteed would send chills through all opposing mythical pitchers even on their hot test days. Foxx, the Boston Red Sox first sacker who has slammed out eight homers this season and currently leads the major leagues in runs bat ted in, emphasized his selections were made strictly on consistent slugging ability, with defensive abil ity not considered. His mythica; club has a lot of defensive class however, and the only thing wrong with it is that Jimmy modestly de clined to put himself in “uniform." Here is his powerhouse aggrega tion made up entirely of active play ers: catchers — Bill Dickey, New York Yanks; Ernie Lombardi, Cin cinnati; Don Padgett, St. Louis Cardinals; pitchers — Red Ruffing, yanks; Bucky Walters, Cincinnati; Emil Leonard, Washington and Jim Bagby, Boston Red Sox; third base, Ken Keltner, Cleveland; shortstop, Joe Cronin, Boston Red Sox; second base, Charley Gehringer, Detroit; first base, John Mize, Cardinals; and from left to right in the outfield, Joe Medwick, Cardinals; Joe DiMag gio, Yanks and Ted Williams, Red Sox. “That team is selected strictly for hitting ability,” he said. “On a de fense standpoint I’d take Luke Ap pling, Chicago White Sox, or Arky Vaughan, Pittsburgh, over Cronin, and Joe Gordon, Yanks, or Bob Doerr of our club over Gehringer. But when the chips are down I’ll take Cronin and Gehringer at the plate.” Foxx again modestly sidestepped when he named Mize, Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller (Yan kees) as the four greatest natural hitters now in baseball. Exclusive of pitchers, the collective lifetime major league hitting average of his mythical team is .323 plus. At 32, Jimmy is in his 17th season in organized baseball, his first hav ing been spent with Easton of the Eastern Shore league. Now hitting an even .300, his lifetime major league plate mark is .337 and his World series average .344 Those are but a few of his many remark able accomplishments, but by now you are probably ready to insist that Jimmy join his own team. If he does, Jimmy knows the prob lem of figuring out who to bench is going td produce a terrific mythical headache for his club's mythical manager. FIFTH AVENUE WINS The Fifth Avenue church softball team defeated the Lutheran Mission, 12 to 7, yesterday afternoon at Rob ert Strange playground. IN THINKING THREE RIVERS, Mich. (API — rhe City club of Three Rivers vants the local fire whistle t o sound twice—once when the fire starts and then later on when it’s Dut. Too many citizens, they claim, lo a lot of needless worrying after the initial alarm. “They always used to toot the whistle at least once—— ■irres they’d give it a “a s°me, ;oots—to show the “ap:« ! :inguished, and t! ere ther need for worrv ' n? t* U S. Dooley, a mercl mf5133^ “Now you go at : f ' , a-'.er the alarm is .,ri“ h'-ri ing that the town n • - hl l : • ■■ down.” De butssj HOTEL COMMODORE — Washington, D. C. Facing Union Station—Capitol Plaza. Room & Bath from $2.50. Modern —Comfortable—Economical. Foy,RoeHas the Values SPECIAL GROUP i— - SHIRTCRAFT AIRMAN .*ni With life insured collar, guaranteed to last the life time of the shirt. A real value! 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