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SPLASH STARS—U. 8. Olympic divers, left to right. Dick Degener.
Elbert Root, Marshall Wayne and Al Greene.
LaMotte Assumes Full Credit For Indians* Triumph
CITY SWIMMERS AFTER RECORD TODAY
LUKE BOWYER AND SAMMY RHODE TO TRY FOR SA
VANNAH TO TYBEE MARK—A 23-MILE GRIND.
Two swimmers are breasting the
current of the Savannah river today
seeking to smash the record between
Savannah and Tybee. Sammy Rhode,
a veteran long distance swimmer and
Luke Bowyer his protege, left the
municipal docks this morning at
19:30, seeking to better the standing
time record of 10 hors uand 31 min
utes for the 23-mile grind.
Rhode, haoving attempted to swim
the distance beffore in 1930, is no
novice in distance swimming. Being
taken from the water at the mouth
of the Savannah river after having
clipped the dash record by some two
hours, the veteran plans to take
things easy in an effort to make the
swim around the point at Fort Scre
ven. Bowyer, the dimunKive sprint
star whose feats on the Savannah
High school swimming team, and
whose records as a participant of
the Savannah senior team has had
the critics predicting big things for
him. has been training daily with
the hopes of completing the grind.
HOW THEY STAND
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Detroit 8-9 Philadelphia 0-8.
Washington 6, Chicago 5.
Cleveland 6, Boston 5.
St. Louis 5, New York 4.
Team Won Lost Pct.
New York 38 31 .652
Cleveland 50 29 .562
Detroit 48 40 .545
Boston 48 42 .533
Chicago 46 41 .529
Washington 46 42 .523
St. LOUIS 28 58 .326
Philadelphia 28 .59 .322
Games Today
Pl 'ladelphia at Detroit
New York at St. Louis
Borton at Cleveland
Washington at Chicago
SALLY LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Savannah 6, Jacksonville 0.
Micon 6 Columbia 5.
Columbus at Augusta (rain).
Team Won Lost Pct.
Columbus 17 8 .680
Jacksonville 17 9 .654
Macon 15 10 .600
Augusta 12 14 .462
SAVANNAH 9 16 .360
Columbia 7 20 .259
Games Today
Augusta at Savannah (8:15 p. m.)
Columbia at Jacksonville
Columbus at Macon
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Planning to take the South Chan
nel down as far as the mouth of the
river and then cutting out to the
last bell bouy before tacking back
into the comparative safety of the
beach, the dup expressed hopes that
the total elapsed time will consume
not more than 9 hours which would
establish a new record. Sills, a life
guard at Tybee, in 1928 established
the present record which has sur
vived all attempts to shatter it. Tak
ing the North Channel down the
elongated star who later went on to
higher glories in distance swimming,
finally completed the swim after four
tries.
It was not ascertained who will
make the trip with the swimmers
but from all reports It will be three
wel known Savannahians. To buck
the tide here for at least two hours,
comparatviely easy sailing will be
the order of the dash down the river
until the mouth is reached when a
five mile grind against cross currents
will be the next step.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Cincinnati 3, Boston 2.
Chicago 5, Brooklyn 3.
New York 2, St. Louis 1.
Pittsburgh 17, Philadelphia 6.
Team Won Lost Pct.
Chicago 54 31 .635
St. Louis 53 34 .609
Pittsburgh 45 41 .523
New York 46 42 .523
Cincinnati 43 41 .512
Boston 41 47 466
Philadelphia 33 53. .384
Brooklyn 30 56 .349
Games Today < 1
Chicago at Brooklyn
St. Louis at New York
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia
Cincinnati at Boston
- SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Atlanta 4, Birmingham 2. >
Memphis 3, Nashville 2.
Chattanooga 7, Little Rock 0.
(Only games scheduled).
Team Won Lost Pct.
Atlanta 62 36 .633
Nashville 55 43 .561
Birmingham 51 46 .526
Chattanooga 48 45 .516
New Orleans 45 50 .474
Little Rock 41 51 .446
Memphis 40 55 .421
KnoxviUe 39 55 .415
Games Today
Little Rock at Chattanooga
Memphis at Nashville
New Orleans at Knoxville
(Only games scheduled)
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INDIANS VS. AUGUSTA AT STADIUM TONIGHT
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GOES INTO PLAY
POLICEMAN AND CLERK
SHARE QUALIFYING
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• (TP). —A San Francisco radio polloe
, man and a Washington haberdashery
I clerk share qualifying honors as 64
; golfers begin match play this morn
-1 Ing in the National Public Links
‘ championship.
> By reason of their excellent play
> in the two qualifying rounds, the po
; lyiceman, James Molinari, and the
clerk, Claude Rippy, are now favor-
I ites to win the links title. Molinari
( was runner-up in the Northern Call-
> fornia amateur championship last
: year, while Ripply recently won the
, Washington Public Links title.
Twenty-year old Frank Strafaci, of
• Brooklyn, who won the national title
i last year, is well up in the qualifying
i list. He registered a 36-hole total of
149, four strokes behind Molinari
and Rippy.
Baseball Results
NEW YORK. July 22 (TP).—
Frankie Frisch's gas house gang—
the St. Louis Cardinals —are two full
games behind the Chicago Cube in
the National league race this morn
ing
The St. Louis outfit dropped back
in the pennant contest by losing a
2 to 1 decision to the New York
Giants yesterday while Charley
Grimms crew was putting an end to
the Brooklyn Dodgers’ winning streak
by a 5 to 3 score. The Cardinal
twirling ace, Dizzy Dean, suffered
his eighth defeat of the year In bow
ing to the Giants.
In other National league games,
the Cincinnati Reds nosed out the
Boston Bees, 3 to 2; and the Pitts
burgh Pirates pounded out a 17 to 6
triumph over the Phillies.
In the American league, the St.
Louis Browns sprang a surprise by
defeating the league-leading New
York Yankees, 5 to 4. The Cleveland
Indians put a slight dent in the
Yankees’ lead by downing the Boston
Red Sox, 6 to 4. The Detroit Tigers
took a double-header from the Phil
adelphia Athletics, 8 to 0 and 9 to 8,
while the Washington Senators end
ed the eight-game winning streak of
the Chicago White Sox by a 6 to 5
margin.
Sally League
The Savannah Indians shoved the
Jacksonville Tars down another niche
In the Sally League last night, when
they handed a 6-0 decision to the
second place team In the circuit. Be
hind the stVen hit hurling of ?.im
little Morris Pickens the Indians
blasted the offerings of Lamb for a
total of twelve safeties to shove
across the winning runs.
Relying on the old squeeze p'ay In
the last inning, the Macon Peaches
won a close 6-5 decision from the low
ly Columbia Senators. Way out In
front, the Senators saw their com
fortable lead go by the boards as the
Maconltes got going In the last frame.
Yesterday’s scores:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R H
Boston 5 14
Cleveland 6 13
New York 4 6
St. Louis 5 8
Washington 6 9
Chicago 10
Philadelphia 0 7
Detroit 8 13
Philadelphia 8 12
Detroit 9 12
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R H
St. Louis 1 9
New York 2 5
Chicago 5 6
Brooklyn 3 10
Cincinnati I 3 6
Boston 2 6
Pittsburgh 17 21
Philadelphia 6 11
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
R H
Birmingham 2 7
Atlanta 4 8
Memphis 3 7
Nashville 1 5
Chattanooga 7 15
Little Rock 0 6
SALLY LEAGUE
R H
Savannah 6 12
Jacksonville ....0 7
Columbia 11
Macon 6 13
Words of Wisdom
Do. not think that years leave us
and find us the same.—Owen Mere
dith.
SAVANNAH. DAILY TIMM. WEDNMDAY. JULY 22. 1239
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Captain George Eyston receives congratulations, top. from his relief
pilot, Bert Denley, after setting 60 auto records in a 48-hour drive
covering 6,455 miles on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. Below is
a view of Eyston and his two-ton car setting the records. The car
had a continuous speed average of 136.354 miles an hour.
HIGH PRICED PLAYERS ALONE
DO NOT WIN MAJOR FLAGS
RED SOX OWNER DISCOVERS
KRONER, ROOKIE INFIELDER FROM MINORS. IS BOS.
TON’S BRIGHTEST STAR AS COSTLY VETS
FAIL AND TEAM FALLS.
By WILLIAM RITT ,
(Central Press Sports Writer)
There are almost as many answers
to the question: "What is wrong with
the Red Sox” as there are to the
problem of how to solve America’s
economic ills.
The Boston team has been accused
of having an overabundance of tem
perament. Some of the players, we
are told, have been unable to adjust
themselves to their new home grounds
and teammates there. It js believed,
have passed their peak and are physi
cally unable to regain that prowess
for which they were purchased. There
has even been a rumor, with no ap
parent foundation, of front office in
terference.
Whatever the reason or combina
tion of circumstances at fault it Is
a fact the Boston Red. Sox have
proven one of the greatest big league
flops in many years.
And the big headache—such is the
irony of fate—goes to Owner Tom
Yawkey, the one man connected
with the team who could have no
share in the blame.
• • •
Reports from Boston Indicate the
Fenway park fans have turned against
the ball club which they so confi
dently expected last April would bring
the first world series in 18 years to
the Massachusetts capital this sea
son.
The truth is, the fans expected too
much.
Big league club owners do not buy
their way to a pennant. Champion
ship teams are built up, usually from
material which came to the club
through early development or at mod
est prices paid minor league teams.
That’s the way the late John Mc-
Graw acquired his pennant-winning
Giants. And that’s the way the cur
rent St. Louis Cardinals, the recent
Washington Senators and such earlier
teams as the old Chicago Cubs, Phila
delphia Athletics and Chicago White
Sox came into prosperous being.
The New York Yankee teams, of
the early 1920’5, were the great ex
ception. And even these would have
been a failure save for the managerial
genius of the late Miller Huggins.
For three years generous Tom Yaw
key has been paying very fancy prices
for star players and has been giving
handseme salaries to his stars. What
the Red Sox have cost him since he
took over the club cannot be figured
but from the known prices he has
paid the sum must be terrific.
And. what has generous Mr. Yaw
key gotten for his gold? Not a team
fighting to retain first place but a
club trying desperately to finish in
the first division, on a par with such
humbly priced outfits as the Washing
ton Senators.
Os course, the Sox still have a
pennant chance. If the Yankees
should collapse, and if Oelevland and
Detroit would kill each other off
and if the Red Sox put on a spec
tacular and long winning spurt. Bos-
I
, ton can do it. But these are too many
miracles to even hope for.
• « •
AU is not darkness in Fenway park,
however.
Manager Joe Cronin has done a
fine job of pUoting his coUection of
faded heroes and ambitious young
sters. And he has been playing a
great game himself.
Lefty Grove has been pitching
steady ball and Jimmy Foxx still looks
a lot like the Jimmy Foxx of old-
Wesley Ferrell and Johnny Marcum
may again become consistent winners.
Bill Werber, the old third baseman,
seems to like his new outfield post.
Brightest news of all is the play
and batting of Rookie John Kroner,
who came to the Re<’ Sox from Syra
cuse. Kroner has been sensational
leading the club by a wide margin
in batting and his fielding pep (he
plays third) has done much to revive
the faltering veterans. He is a find.
If Yawkey, General Manager Ed
die Collins and Manager Joe Cronin
could find a few more Kroners to re
place some of the Sox’j high priced
stars, the Boston Americans probably
wouldn’t be the richest ball club dn
the country but they might very well
be the best.
“DISCOVERT - RUNS
AT SUFFOLK DOWNS
BOSTON, July 22 (TP).—A. G.
Vanderbilt’s great thoroughbred, the
five-year-old "Discovery,’’ goes to the
post for the $25,000 Massachusetts
handicap at Suffolk Downs today.
Despite the fact the stallion will
carry 136 ponds, “Discovery” is fa
vored to annex the mile-and-an-eighth
classic.
Walter M. Jeffords "Firethorn”
and F. A. Carreaud’s "Time Supply”
figure to offer the chief contention
to the VanderbUt entry.
12 HORSES READY
FOR BOSTON RACE
MASSACHUSETTS HANDI
CAP TO PAY WINNER
PURSE OF $25,000
SUFFOLK DOWNS, BOSTON,
Mass., July 22 (TP).—A field of 12
horses is expected to go to the post
this afternoon in the $25,000 Massa
chusetts handicap at Suffolk Downs
Heading the list wil be A. G. Van
derbilt’s champion of 1935, "Discov
ery-” Although he will carry top
weight of 136 pounds, the five-year
old thoroughbred is favored to win.
"Discovery’’ was beaten in the same
race a year ago by “Top Row” and
’ Whopper.’
His ehte* opposition today is ex
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AUGUSTA TIGERS
ARRIVE IN TOWN
TO MEET INDIANS
TRIBE CHEERED BY WIN
OVER TARS PRIMED
FOR VICTORY
Opening a series against the Au
gusta Tigers, the Savannah Indians
will trot out onto the field toinght
seeking to put themselves back into
the select circle of the Sally league
by sweeping the series with the Au
gustans.
Showing a convincing 6 0 victory
over the fast flying Jacksonville Tars
last night, the Indians flashed some
of their old time form as they
slammed the ball out into the lot to
shut the Tars out. Emil Roy is the
man slated to take the mound for
the Indians and the chunky right
hander is set to duplicate Morris
Plcken's work on the mound last
night.
Paint Tars 6 to 0
Flashing an offensive that the
Jacksonville Tars was unable to cope
with, the Savannah Indians last night
handed a 6-0 trouncing onto the plat
ter of the Floridians. Headed by the
diminutive Morris Pickens, who let
the Tara down with seven hits, the
Indians swept on throughout the
game, never in danger and using their
sticks like a club inspired.
The second, tnlrd, fifth and eighth
stanzas were the scoring frames for
the Tribe, as the heavy ciouters came
to bat and thoroughly blasted the of
ferings of Lamb, the Tar hurler, to
the four corners of the lot to make
another game history for the Indians.
Getting their eye on the ball in the
second stanza when Pickens hit a easy
grounder to Lamb which the hurler
lost in the grass, scoring Downer. Get
ting another tally in the next inning
when Nick Etten slammed a homer
into the leftfield bleachers, the In
dians skipped a frame coming into
their own again in the fifth, when
Elliott hit a single into leftfield, scor
ing Morales who came in from sec
ond on a fast play.
The Tars made ineffective gestures
to close the scoring gap but found
that the task was too great for them,
as the Indians continued on their
high and mighty way. The barrage of
runs in the eight inning more than
did the trick for the Tribe which
contributed to the fluke inning of the
evening. The Tars did everything
wrong, and coupled with the fact that
the Indians were hitting everything
thrown across the plate certainly
didn’t help matters any. Pickens and
Moore scored the first two runs of
that inning when Williams hit a hot
one to Bonner, the shortstop for the
Tr r, who let the ball get away from
L m. The last run of the stanza found
the speedy Williams coming home
when Elliott hit to Bonner who threw
wild to first.
The box score:
JACKSONVILLE AB R H POA
Bonner, sss 0 11 1
B. Leitz, lb 3 0 0 8 2
Dunbar, If 4 0 1 2 0
Maxwell, cf 3 0 2 3-1
Stratton, rs 3 0 10 0
Fafly, c 4 0 0 5 0
Gullan, 2b • 3 0 0 4 3
A. Leitz,3 b 4 0 2 0 6
Lamb, p 3 0 0 11
♦Bazner, 1 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 0 7 24 14
•Batted for Lamb in ninth.
SAVANNAH AB R H PO A
Moore, ss. . 5 1 2 1 3
Morales, rs. ’ 5 1 2 0 0
Williams, 2b 5 11 4 3
Elliott, If 4 1 2 2 0
Etten, lb 4 0 2 9 1
Downer, cf 4 11 1 0
Hines, 3b 4 0 0 0 3
Horgan, c 4 0 1 9 0
Pickens, p 3 11 11
Totals 38 6 12 27 11
Score by Innings:
Jacksonville 000 000 000—0
Savannah 011 010 03x—6
Summary: Errors, Bonner (4), Dun
bar, Lamb, Maxwell. Runs batted in,
Elliott (3), Williams (2). Home run:
Elliott. Double plays: Moore to Wil
liams to Etten; A. Leitz to Gulian to
B. Leitz; Gulian to Bonner to A.
Leitz to B. Leitz. Left on bases:
Jacksonville, 10; Savannah 11, Base
on balls, off Lamb 3; off Pickens 4.
Struck out, by Lamb, 1; by Pickens,
7. Wild pitch, Lamb. Umpires, Mad
dock and Burnett. Time: 2:00.
pected to come from F. A. Carreauds
“Time Supply.” and Walter a Jef
fords’ “Firethom,” the speedy
“Clang” and “Stand Pat” recent win
ner of the SIO,OOO Stars and Stripes
handicap at Arlington Park. .
The mile and three-sixteenths
event is scheduled to get under way
about 5 p.m. E. D. T.
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VICTORY ALTERS BOB’S ALIBI THE TEAM
NEEDS BOLSTERING; FANS STILL KNOW
TRIBE NEEDS NEW PILOT TO SUCCEED
The law of averages eaught up with the Savannah Indians
and the ancient standard coupled with good playing on the part
of the Tribe, won a game for them last night against a hard
playing and hard-fighting club. Or maybe it is because LaMotte
the “know-it-all” manager discreetly kept his mouth shut in
last night’s game. The fans themselves know that LaMotte didn’t
have any part of last night’s victory, both from the way the club
was run, and from the way that the men handled themselves.
It’s funny to note that LaMotte is coming out of his shell
now and beginning to voice some of the old-time bragadoeio
which so marked his advent into the managerial ranks of minor
league baseball. Admittedly a person who won’t concede to facts,
.the strutting manager with his antiquated ideas of baseball, now
that the Indians has won a few games, is beginning
with a little enthusiasm. Always a good fellow heat
isn’t turned on him, LaMotte belongs in the "category of those
people who are front runners, as long as they are winning every
thing is fine, but when something causes a downfall, they go
back into comparative oblivion, there to stay until they make
their debut back into the limelight.
The sports editorial in the Savannah Morning News of July
22nd date line, depicts LaMotte as a fighter and a man who hates
to take it on the chin. Granted as to taking- it on the chin, but in
addition to that the fans also know that he is quick to shunt the
blame for any poor showing on the players. Why can’t he face
the facts that he is not the man for the and that a man who
knows the game should be in the position? Why didn’t the Sa
vannah Morning News make the statement when the Indians
were on the losing end of the streak? Anyone can talk when they
are out in front. The baseball critics who are anxious for the
scalp of LaMotte were anxious to watch the reaction of the Sa
vannah Morning News when the Indians won a game and their
expectations certainly didn’t fall short, because with the winning
of a brace of games, the Savannah Morning News took it as a
standard of measurement that the Indians were definitely on the
upgrade. Oh, yes, LaMotte can take it. He can take it as long as *
he can win a game but when they lose, it’s just a case of “Sadie
Bar the Door,” because Bobby LaMotte is not at home I
U. S. CANOEISTS
NOT BOTHERED BY
UNLUCKY NUMBER
NEW YORK, July 22 (TP)—lf
thirteen is an unlucky number, the
American canoe team has a ready
made jinx to beat at the Berlin Olym
pics.
The 13-man team sails today aboard
the United States liner, “President
Harding.” The canoeists are heading
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for Germany, where they will join the
334 U. S. Olympic stars who
for Europe a week ago.
Despite the "131” hoodoo, Coach
Albert. C. Bauer has high hopes that
the stars and stripes will be hoisted
to the top of the Olympic flag-staff***
after the American canoeists finis!'
their contests.
“Thirteen,” he said, "doesn’t me?
a thing when you have a top-n- ‘
team.” ’ ,