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START ON FOOT—Driver* in the Grand Prix, Pari*, mu*t start for
the car* on foot. Sprinter* have an advantage.
how they~stand
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Open date.
Team W. L. Pet.
New York 51 23 .689
Detroit 41 33 .554
Boston 42 34 .553
Washington 40 35 .533
Cleveland 39 37 .513
Chicago 35 38 .479
Philadelphia 24 .333
St. Louis 23 47 .329
Games Today
Detroit at Washington.
Cleveland at New York.
Chicago at Boston.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
Games Today
Knoxville at Atlanta.
Chattanooga at Little Rock.
Birmlnham at New Orleans.
Nashville at Memphis.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Columbus 8, Savannah 5.
Jacksonville 4, Maion 1.
Columbia 11, Augosta 10.
Team W. L. Pet.
Columbus *ll 1 -917
Jacksonville 7 5 .583
Macon . . , 5 7 .417
Augusta . 5 7 .417
SAVANNAH 4 8 .333
Columbia ... 4 8 .333
Games Today
Columbus at Savannah (8:15 p.m.)
Macon at Jacksonville.
Augusta at Columbia.
SPORT CELEBS
Pi’ v'■.£&'•. Hfek
\\ FLINT RHEM
(By Central Press)
A 20-game winner 10 years ago
with the St. Louis Cardinals, Charles
Flint (Shad) Rehm has bobbed back
* into the major league picture, and
is doing excellent relief work for his
old team, the Cards.
Rhem comes from an old South
Carolina family, his birthplace being
the town of Rhems, named for his an
cestors. Flint is 33 years ol.d.
After being graduated by Clemson
with an electric engineer's degree, he
I was tried out by the Cardinals. After
' a year at Fort Smith he became a
regular on the St. Louis staff, and in
1926. when McGraw named him on
his all star team, Flint won 20 games.
His escapades have furnished inter-
Wm esting copy for baseball writers. One
HH of his excuses for periodic absences
HI was that he was “taking care of Gro-
W ver Alexander," whose penchant for
f pleasure was well known. On the eve
of the 1928 wor>’, series Rhem disap
peared. After being gone two days he
t turned up with a story that he had
been kidnaped. Branch Rickey used to
•ay Rhem might be the greatest pitch
xH cr in the league if he would train
more faithfully.
Rhem started the season of 1936
f with Nashville, but his fine pitching
(L earned a comeback chance.
Ri* RrWlii <».! iTirarm»iu
■ * vitxerland issued thi* stamp in
■ ' 92$ to commemorate the centen
-1 * ,ry of the birth of Jean Henri
R % unant, founder of the Red Cross.
■ \ i
I BESS
6
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Open date.
Team W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 46 28 .822
Chicago 43 27 .614
Pittsburgh 41 33 .554
Cincinnati 38 33 .535
New York 39 34 .534
Boston 34 41 .453
Philadelphia 27 46 .370
\ Brooklyn 24 50 .324
Games Today
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at St. Louis.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.
Boston at Cincinnati.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Results Yesterday
Nashville 5, Memphis 2.
Chattanooga 6, Little Rock 5.
Birminjham 8, New Orleans 7.
Knoxville 7, Atlanta 1.
Team W. L. Pet.
Atlanta 56 28 .667
Nashville 48 38 .558
Birmingham 43 42 .506
Little Rock 39 43 .476
Chattanooga 39 43 .476
New Orleans 38 44 .463
Memphis 37 47 .434
Knoxville . 35 50 .412
j Baseball Results j
NEW YORK, July 9 (TP)—Umpires
will call “batter up” today on eight j
big league ball parks after a three- j
day vacation occasioned by the all
star game held at Boston.
The renewal of hostilities finds the
New York Yankees leading the Amer
ican League and the St. Louis Card
inals ahead in the National League
race.
The Yankees meet the Cleveland
Indians at New York, while the St.
Louis Browns visit the Athletics at
Philadelphia. The Detroit Tigers
meet the Senators at Washington and
the Chicago White Sox go to Boston
to try their luck against the Boston
Red Sox.
In the National League the Card
inals play host to the New York
Giants; the Boston Bees go to Cin
cinnati for a game with the Reds;
The Phillies meet the Pirates in Pitts
burgh and the Brooklyn Dodgers play
a double-header with the Chicago |
Cubs in the Windy City.
Sally League
The race in the Sally league is ap
pearing to be a reputation of the first
half. Columbus has started pulling
away, with Jacksonville hard on their
heels. The identical picture was pre
sented at the start of the first half,
with the Tars coming through to take
the honors in the first session. The
Columbus Red Birds, by their con
vincing defeat of the hapless Savan
nah Indians last night, moved fur
ther into confines when they dropped
• the Tribe, 8-5. A boring game, which
proved to be just another merry-go
round for the Birds, the Indians got
an early lead which was wiped out
soon in the set-to, further augmented
by the heavy hitting artillery of the
Birds. The Jacksonville Tars appeared
to b? regaining some of their first
half form as they dished out a 4-1
defeat to the Macon Peaches. Leading
from the first inning, the Tars had
no trouble in taking the game from
the farm of the Cincinnati Reds. The
last game was a slugfest in the cir
cuit as Columbia toon the measure
to Augusta, 11-10. A total of 30 safe
ties was racked up in the game, as
Columbia came through in the last
stanza to cop the set-to.
Yesterday's results:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Open Date
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Open Date
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
R. H.
Birmingham . ... • • 9 13
New Orleans 7 15
1 Chattanooga 6 10
[ Little Rock 5 9
i -
Nashville 5 9
i Memphis 8 8
» Atlanta 1 / 5
! Knoxville 7 13
SALLY LEAGUE
R. H.
Savannah • • 5 9
Columbus 8 8
Macon 1 6
Jacksonville 4 8
Augusta 10 15
Columbia ...11 15
Armancine Dupin known in liter
ature as George Sand, was the daugh
ter of an illegitimate man, her hus
band was illegitimate, she lived illeg
itimately with Chopin, DeMussst and
others, but she bore two legitimate
children.
I The first elevated railroad, in New
I York, went into bankruptcy because
| persons were afraid of riding at a
I height and was sold at a sheriff's
Mle - '
■ Joshua Barney, who became a cap
I tain in the French navy, was an of-
I' ficer in the U. S. Navy before he
■ was 17.
SPORTS
FULL
COVERAGE
LOCAL
SPORTS
CENTRAL
PRESS
SAVANNAH IS HOST
YACHTING VISITORS
IN RIVER CLASSIC
NEW CHARLESTON SAIL
ING BOAT HAS EXPERTS
GUESSING
Savannah’s yachting season will
formally open today as tha select field
of local and out-of-town craft meet
today on the Wilmington river in
a series of races which will take place
this afternoon, tomorrow and Satur
day. The judge's stand will be at the
dock of Henry C. Walthour with the
events scheduled to start at 4 o'clock.
The course has been laid out for
three and one-half miles, rounding a
buoy off Priest's landing, and a
marker off Cabbage Island. The vari
ous sailing critics state that this course
will try the racing mettle of,any craft
entered in the events, with all types
of water to be encountered.
Savannah’s hopes will be well rep
resented by a fleet headed by the fast
sailing Mischief owned by Raymond
Demere. Well versed in the art of
sailing a craft, Mr. Demere, will be
at the tiller today -n what he hopes
to be a repetition of former triumps
enjoyed as skipper of his fast stepping
boat. Also in the same class will the
first race of the Geechee, the new
boat of Beckmann Huger. Untried as
yet, pre-race speculation has it. that
Mr. Huger will prove a masterfieid
dark horse in the three day events.
The Sandpiper which bested the Mis
chief in Charleston last year is also
entered, and the Class A race should
prove the most thrilling event of the
regatta.
All eyes are turned on the new
speed creation of E. H. Jahnz from
Charleston who has acquired a fac
tory made boat from the same firm
which constructed Mr. Demere's
craft. In the lake scow class with a
28-foot over the eight foot beam
which has been proven to be of such
use in the inland waters has lived
up to the expectations of racing own
ers. Mr. Jahnz will boast a boat which
carries more than twice as much can
vas as the Mischief and rumors have
it thatthe Charleston boatis out to
lick the Mischief on her own home
course. Other races in the Class B
class which consists of boats in the
24 to 26-foot swallow class and the
Lark class which i sfor boats und’r
18 feet alo are entered in the three
days’ race program.
TALES IN TIDBITS
The American League race is not
ended . . . given an even break in
luck the Red Sox can win the pen
nant . . . Wesley Ferrell is one of
the greatest competitors the ggme
ever saw (and that goes for Iron
Man BcKinnity, too) . . . New York
is a mighty good ball club.
Who says so? Why. Joe Cronin,
manager of the expensive Tom Yaw
ksy entry. In a casual hotel room con
versation in Cleveland the other
day, Joe discussed intimately the do
ings of his ball club. Listen to Joe:
“We started off all right. Grove
was unbeatable. The club was hit
ting. I stuck my thumb into one
and had to sit on the sidelines, but
McNair stepped out and played great
ball for us, and I wasnt missed so
much. Then Grove hurt a finger,
and it threw him off stride. Heinie
Manv.sh broke a finger, too, and
PRETTY MERMAIDS AND ALL-STARS OF WOMEN’S AQUATIC WORLD
Freeman, Kompa, Redfern, Lifson, Jarrett, Kompa and Hoerger
At the moment these pretty mermaids are just up for a sun-' right, at Manhattan, Beach, N. Y., are Marvis Freeman, Eliza
tan. But they will continue their record-smashing feats in the beth Kompa, Toni Redfern, Janice Lifson, Eleanor Holm Jarrett,'!
water for the Olympics are coming up and in this group is more j Erna Kompa and Mary Hoerger. Mary i a 12-year-old prodigy i
than one possible lady for Uncle Samuel s team. Shown, left to from Miami Beach, Fla,
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936
INDIANS VS. RED BIRDS AT STADIUM TONIGHT
GEHRIG’S HOMER OF NO AVAIL AS NATIONALS WIN
—Central Press Soundphoto.
Lou Gehrig’s spectacular home run in the seventh inning provided plenty of excitement
in the All-Star game at Boston, but failed to keep the Nationals from winning their first game
in four years from the Americans. This Central Press Soundphoto shows Gehrig lining one out
to the bleachers as Catcher Gabby Hartnett and the umpire look on. The homer started a three
run rally for the Americans but the score ended 4-3 in favor of the Nationals.
now he's out.
Dusty “Loosens Up”
“One of our young pitchers, Jim
Henry, was pitching fine ball and he
came down with a bad sore throat.
We’re sitting in the dressing room
one day and Dusty Cooke begins to
pull up his knees to loosen up.’ He
‘loosened up’ a few’ ligaments and
had to sit on the bench at a time !
when he was playing the greatest j
ball of his career.
“On this road trip west the only j
thing that hasn’t happened is a rail
road wreck. Johnny Marcum loses
a 1 to 0 ball game in Chicago on a
freak bunt. We drop two ball games
by one run each, and one of the
games is won by a handle hit, the
other by a looping pop back of first
base that the hitter breaks his bat
on.”
“No, we're fighting. This club
has got plenty of that all right. We ll
still be heard from. Wait until that
series begins Tuesday (June 30) in
New York. You'll see that we still
have something to say about the
pennant.
“Discouraged? Not a bit. Take
Wes Ferrell, for instance. He’s work
: ing out of turn on the road because
j we can’t keep him out of there. Talk
! about your old-time pitchers working
| every third day—Ferrell wants to
pitch all the time. If he gets beat,
he storms, and wants to walk right
back to the box next day and show
’em. The rest of the boys are pull
ing right with him. We haven't got
any ‘lose with a smile' boys on this
team.”
Were the Yankees playing a trifle
over their heads?
“No, the Yankees aren’t playing
over their heads. That's the team
we've got to beat, and Joe Di Mag
gio has made ’em just that much
tougher. Say, have you seen him?
What a ball player!”
Very true! A fine ball player. And
from a fine part of the country, too!
That sends Joe off the subject of
baseball entirely. He's a Californian.
And have you seen Phil Bru
baker fight? That was a tough one
he dropped to Sharkey, wasn’t it. Ex
perience beats youth again! But say.
suppose Max Baer (another native
son) beats Brubaker of Sharkey. Can
Baer get back up to the top by Sep
tember?”
Does Joe want somebody from Cali
fornia to win the title that Jim
Corbett (natve son, too) so proudly
held? I am afraid Joe does!
FUN IN THE Alß—Twelve-year-old Mary Hoerger, *tar diver from
Miami Beach, Fla., cut* a caper in the air.
INDIANS CONTINUE TO LOSE AS
BIRDS HAMMER OUT 8-5 DECISION;
DOWNER CLOUTS TWO HOMERS
LOCALS EARLY FOUR-FJJN LEAD PROVES UNAVAILING
AS BATTING ATTACK OF COLUMBUS GOT UNDER
WAY RESULTING IN LAST INNING
MERRY-GO-ROUND.
Still seeking some answer to their
losing streak the Savannah Indians
will trot out onto the field tonight
against the Columbus Red Birds, hop
ing to erase some of the hopeless de
spair over their inability to get back
into the running of the select circle
in the Sally league.
The last seven games has found
the Tribe on the short end of the
score, and this coupled with the fact
that relief appears to be far in the
offing is serving as a checkmate to
the leadership aspirations of Bobby
Lamotte, bossman of the Indians.
Tied with Columbia for the cellar
position, the Indians will have to play
baseball from now on to keep out of
the undesired position at the bottom
of the heap. It is hoped that La
motte can find an answer to the
riddle which has the baseball fans
guessing.
Lose Close Again
Continuing their uninterrupted
march to the Sally league cellar, the
Savannah Indians last night dropped
COACH VARNEDOE
GIVES JACKETS
1936-37 SCHEDULE
REPORTED ONE OF “HARD-!
EST” EVER: STINGA
REES ON LIST
Coach John Varnedoe of the Sa
vannah High Blue Jackets last night
announced that team’s schedule for
the coming year. To be pitted
against some of the fastest and well
coached teams in the South, the
Jackets will face one of the hardest
schedules ever to befall the lot of
any Savannah High team. The high
point of the schedule appears to be
the Stingarees of Miami High, which
has so trounced the title aspirations
of the Jackets for the last three ssa
, sons. The Miami team is making
, its first trip to the city, and the com
’ ing of the highly touted Florida team
' is being anxiously awaited.
Also to be noted on the grinding
schedule is the coming of Tech High
from Atlanta for the first game of
the season. The Smithies have al
! ways trotted a hard fighting team
j onto any field, and long an arch rival
of the local gridsters, the club from
' the capitol city of Georgia can ex
‘ pect to meet fighting opposition from
• the Jackets. Also from Atlanta will
come the champion Boy’s High team
1 which every year appears to ruin
the chances of the locals in their
t drive for the G. I. A. A. honors. The
Purple Hurricane can be counted on
• the furnish the major opposition for
: the Savanahians with their trick as
• sortment of flat pases and off-tackle
. thrusts.
; . One -of the innovations for the
) I coming season will be that all of the
-1 games with the exception of the
I Thanksgiving Classic against Bene
. I dictine will be played at night at
,I the stadium. It appears that Savan
, I nah has gone arc mad to witness
games as played under the Kleig
lights, and the attendance records
stand to be shattered. Practice for
the local gridsters is slated to start
September 1. in order that everything
will be shipshape for the first game
against the Smithies.
DETECTIVES CLEARED
OF ASSAULT CHARGES
NEW YORK. July 9 <TP> Charges
! of police brutality are lifted from the
j records of four New York detectives
today.
The plainclotkesmen were accused
of beating up a Liberal, Benjamin
Kaplan, when Kaplan arose to make
a protest gt a Bronx high school
graduation'. Kaplan, according to po
lice report, criticized the failure of
school authorities to give ciplomas
to two students who were involved
in an anti-war demonstration. Wit
nesses say Kaplan was beaten and
kicked after he was taken into cus
tody. The assault charges against
the four detectives were ordered by
a magistrate after Kaplan was given
a suspended sentence.
Magistrate George De Luca dismiss
ed the assault charges wken he ruled
that whereas Kaplan undoubtedly
i was beaten, there was some doubt 2s
I to when and by whom he was assault- ’
| ed.
RICHMAN PLANS TO FLY
OCEANIC ROUND TRIP
HOLLYWOOD, July 9 (TP)—The
• screen and radio player, Harry Rich
; man. is negotiating for a new motor
today to drive the airplane that he
hopes will carry him to Europe and
; back. Richman wants to make his
1 round-trip flight late this month from
Floyd Bennett Field In Brooklyn to
London and return
He has agreed to pay Eastern Air
! lines chief pilot Richard Merrill, to j
I fly the plane and chart the course.
„ Richman owns a powerful all-metal j
j Vultee monoplane and hopes—with j
I the new engine—to make the Trans- [
Atlantic hop in 32 hours.
PAGE
a 8-5 decision to the league leading
Columbus Red Birds. A wild ninth
inning proved to be Waterloo of the
Tribe as they saw their tight tie
break up and go floating away under
the determined assaults by the bats
men of the fast flying Birds.
Bob Harris started the game for
the Indians but soon was relieved in
the fourth frame by Richard Kasky
who pitched beautiful ball until the
fatal ninth, -when he was shunted to
the dag out in favor of Emil Roy.
This trio of pitchers failed to save
the day for the Tribe and the end
of the ninth found the Redskins on
the short end of the score.
The Indians got started in the
scoring department early in the set
to when through the use of a brace
of homers by Downer and Elliott
scored Hines and Etten ahead of
them to bring the game to a point
where it appeared that Savannah
would win a game, but the momen
tary pride was shortlived when the
Red Bird bats started working over
time. The third stanza found the
Birds getting their eye on the ball
as they scored one tally as a result of
Gruzdis scoring Oehler. The fourth
inning proved to be the turning point
j of the game as the Birds evened the
| score with the coasting Indians,
j Slaughter and Orengo both got on
! the paths as results of scoring sin
! gles through the infield. Bremer,
j then caught one to his liking and
slammed it into the bleachers scoring
both men.
Birds Score Again
Making runs appear to be a habit
with the Birds as they got another
tally in the seventh as Tutaj scored
Gruzdis on a grounder which went
through little Eddie Moore's legs.
Downer of the Tribe made the score
even when he parked one in the left
field stands for a homer. The stands
breathed a sign of relief as they set
tled down to what appeared would
be an overtime game, but the Birds
came out with vengeance in their
eye in the ninth and through a bar
rage of hits coupled with wildness on
the part of Kasky and Roy, scored
three runs to make the game gc
down in the losing column.
Downer, star second sacker for the
Tribe nailed the apple for two ho
mers, Elliott getting the other cir
cuit clout credited to the Indians.
Gruzdis of the Birds almost had a
perfect day at bat when he got four
out of five to lead the day's safeties.
The box score:
COLUMBUS AB R H PO A
Oehler, cf 3 2 0 5 0
M. Harris, rs 4 11 1 0
Gruzdis, 2b 5 2 4 0 3 r
Healy, c 3 0 0 8 0
Tutaj, 3b 5 0 0 0 2
Slaughter, If 4 11 1 0
Orengo, ss 4 11 0 1
Bremer, lb 4 11 10 2
Sims, p 4 0 0 2 0
Totals . 36 8 8 27 8
SAVANNAH AB R H PO A
Moroe, ss 4 0 0 4 3
Hines, 3b 4 11 5 4
Downer, cf 4 2 2 1 0
Williams, 2b 4 0 1 2 2
Etten, rs 4 1 2 2 0
Elliott, If 4 1 3 11
Hilcher, lb . 4 0 0 7 0
Zubik, c 4 0 0 5 0
R. Harris, p 1 0 0 0 0
Kasky. p 2 0 0 0 1
Hoy, 0 0 0 0 0
Horgan, x 1 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 9 27 11
x—Batted for Roy in ninth.
Score by innings:
Columbus 001 300 103—8
Savannah • . 400 000 010—5
Summary: Errors, Sims, Moore,
Williams, Hilcher, Kasky. Runs bat
ted in, Gruzdis, Healy, Tutaj, Brem
er 3, Downer 3, Elliott 2. Two-base
hit, Etten. Home runs, Downer 2,
Elliott. Benner. Stolen base, Slaugh
ter. Sacrifice, M. Harris, Double
play. Moore to Williams to Hilcher,
Left on bases, Columbus, 9; Savan
nah, 5. Base on balls off Sims, none:
off R. Harris, 3: off Kaskey. 3: off
Roy. none, struck out by Sims, 6;
by R. Harris, 2; by Kasky, 2: by
Roy, none. Hits off R, Harris, 5 in
3 innings (none out in fourth); off
Kasky, 3 in 5 innings (none out in
ninth); off Roy, none in 1 inning
Wild pitches, Kasky. Roy. ’ Passed
balls, Zubik 2. Healy. Losng pitcher.
Kasky. Umpires: Parker, Jones Da
vis and Enger. Time 2:09.
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