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Flag Competitors Get Slim Satisfaction From Snapping of Win Streak Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN. Tough Guy: Tough Task Ching Johnson is a tough guy. written on his in catgut. His eyebrows have been sewed back to Iris scalp with big, bold etitches.

His nose and his jaw and such other accessories as legs, ribs, shoulders and arms have been broken during Citing's 20 years of hockey. You have to be tough to last that long in fast hockey and you have to be tough to expect to take over a new franchise in the American League, start from scratch and come up with a winner right off the bat. And Ching expects to do it. As you may have heard, Mr. Johnson is the coach of the Washington Ulines, which is the name modestly bestowed upon his team-to-be by Mr.

Michael Uline. Knowing that it may be something more than elementary to shove out the Washington Eagles, which mopped up last year in the Eastern Amateur League, Mr. Uline hired Ching, who not so long ago was the greatest hockey player in the world at his position. The impression you get is that Ching can sell the Ulines, if anybody can. One thing he won do, says the old Bald Eagle, is play.

too he insists. be 45 this Ching Will Scour Canadian Woods Ching's first, job, however, is to round up a team. Once this was a comparatively simple task. All a had to do was tour Canada with a bank roll in his pocket and sign up all the players he wanted. But now there are certain wartime complications.

one Ching was saying yesterday at a luncheon with the press, "they won't let Canadian boys between 20 and 24 out of the country. That is, unless they are deferred for physical reasons or have dependents. That's going to make it tough. We might pick up a few older men, but then got to avoid hindering defense production. By this I mean that If these men are employed in plants making war materials, we haven't got a The old Ranger, nevertheless, is going to turn mountle this week and scour the Canadian woods to find his men.

"We'll have a he said. "It may take us a little while to get started, but we'll do all right He even sounded as if he might decide to play, after all. hung up my skates in 1938-9," he said. didn't have much business playing that year, but, after all. it was with Minneapolis and the American Association was quite a drop in caliber from the National Johnson Says Ulines Will Chase Eagles Mr.

Johnson naturally says that American League which is popularly supposed to be second only to the National, or big league brand, will be recognized almost instantly around these parts as faster than Eastern amateur hockey. not just saying this because we re competitors," he explained. the pros (he laughed when he said "pros, meaning that amateurs are paid just as regularly) are bigger and more experienced. Take the two top teams of the Eastern and Baltimore, for put them in the American League. Neither of them would do very well over a It remains to be seen, of ccurse.

whether the Ulines can chase the Eagles out of town. It even remains to oe seen whether either outfit can round up enough players. "I'd like to get a young, hustling team." he said, "but that going to be hard now. The trouble with getting players in their late 20s is that they are nearing the danger zone. Lester Patrick always insisted that -8 was the dangerous year.

After that, he claimed, a player could go over- I Bald Eagle Is Hockey's Iron Man Johnson, himself, didn't even come to the major league until he was 29 but this was not because he wasn't good enough. Ching simply found that he could make more money a3 an in Canada and 60 he paid no heed to Patrick's offers to play with the Rangers until the price was right. When he did pull on a Ranger uniform It almost was for keeps. He lasted 12 vears and when, be finally got his release he jumped over to the bitter New York rivals, the Americans, and led them into the play-offs, when they licked the Rangers. He can explain his longevity, though.

guests I'm just a he shrugged. There are a few. know two laughed Ken Overlin, the ex-middleweight champ turned radio commentator. and me. I ve been fighting around for a little while, Very few boxing records go back as far as Overlms.

He started at least 13 years ago and probably still is the best middleweight in the world, although he never was a Stanley Ketehell nor a Harry Greb. Like Ching, except on a modified scale, he has a few marks to show for his warring career. lasted a long time because there weren't any fighters when I got Ken said. Ching shook his head. "I don't agree that's the only reason you got up there, he said, but boxing and hockey have one thing in common.

There aren't enough hockey players to go around, either. Di Mag Immune To 'Riding' and Pitching Alike Boosts Average From .304 to .368 With His 54 Straight By TOM SILER. Associated Press Sports Writer. CHICAGO, July months ago today 26-year-old Joe Di Maggio stepped up to the plate In Yankee Stadium and smacked a clean single off Ed Smith, chubby Chicago White Sox southpaw. The Yankee slugger had no way of knowing then that he was projecting himself on the most sensational batting streak ever recorded in major league history.

In those lean days Joe was delighted to col- lect anything resembling a basehit. Batting champion of the league in 1939 and 1940, Joe had just turned from a sad trip below the .300 mark. Until he got that hit off Smith he had drawn "horse collars" in 11 games between April 22 and May 14. Leads These Departments. Of course, all baseball fans know what he's done since Mel Harder held him hitless May 14.

Joe has done so well that today he went against the same Chubby Smith in an effort to extend his consecutive games hitting streak to 55 games. Willie Keeler's old record of 44 lasted more than years. Your i guess is as good as any one's on how long Joe's incredible string will endure. Joe was batting .304 when his streak began. In the subsequent two months the Yankee powerhouse has collected 86 hits in 215 times at bat, scored 52 runs, collected 153 total bases, knocked in 54 runs and blasted 15 home runs, 14 doubles, 4 triples and 53 singles.

This promiscuous slaughter of all kinds of pitching has boosted him into leadership of the league in runs I batted in, home runs and total hits. He is tied with Brother Dominic of the Red Sox for runs scored and is fourth in batting at .368. Joe says his performance now is strain at I wanted the record when I got close to it and I was pressing. But now it's different. If I go five-for-the-collar, all right, except that I'm out there to hit and I don't want to be stopped by any pitcher, any time as long as we can keep winning." Are Discouraged.

And the around the league have almost given up on him. Mule Haas, Sox coach and one of the best ribbers in the business, asks: can you do with a guy like just stands up there and takes his cut. He's a tough guy to telling how long that streak will The fans, too. partisan though they may be, want to see Joe get every opportunity to keep the record alive. White Sox supporters booed Thornton Lee Sunday and John Rigney yesterday when each unintentionally walked the big slugger.

Major Statistics TUESDAY. JULY 15. 1941. AMERICAN. Results Yesterday.

St Louis. 6: Washington. 4. Chicago. 7: New York.

1. Cleveland. 4 Boston. 1. Dftroit.

4: Philadelphia. Stanflim of the Clubs. W. L. Pet.

G.B. New York 77 .003 Cleveland Boston 43 '1. Chicago 41 .19 -51-1 Jr Detroit 41 Philadelphia -jjj WASHINGTON 5 2 6t. Louis 78 50 -4 Games Todar. Gamas Tomorrow.

gY at Chicago. Wash at Detroit. 3. ost-on at Cleve. Y.

at Cleveland. Phila at Detroit. Boston at Chicago Only games scheduled Phila. at St. initei.

NATIONAL. Results Yesterday. Brooklyn. 1: Chicago. 9.

Philadelphia. 5: St. Louis. 4. Cincinnati.

7: Boston. 4 (17 New York. 3: Pittsburgh. 3. Standinr of the Clubs.

W. Prt. G.B. a 5t cM Pittsburgh 30 493 14 a Chicago 4o .444 18 2 Boston --31 4o .408 -1 Philadelphia oS 3-Va Games Today. Games Tomorrow.

Chicago at Brook. at N. 6t Louis at Phila. Pitts, at Boston Cincinnati at Boston. Chicago at Phila.

Pittsburgh at N. Y. St. L. at Brook, (nitei.

Sandlot Teams Seek First Place in Two Leagues Today First place in the Departmental League standings hinges on today's game between Center Market and General Accounting Office. The tilt was carded for the Ellipse, and should the Marketmen win they must defend their position on Thursday aginst District Grocers. O'Donnell's Sea Grill nine has hopes of climbing to first place in the Industrial League, but first it must do something about Reliance Insurance team, new entry in the second half race which already is earning itself the role of upsetter. Reliance defeated the Grillmen last Saturday and came back to make it two in a row yesterday, winning 6-1. All six runs were gathered in the fourth inning.

In an independet game yesterday, Palisades Club sunk Dalecaihia, 9-3. behind the 5-hit pitching of Johnny Gentile. G. A. 0.

Softies Booking General Accounting Office softball team wants a game for Saturday. Call Franklin 9563. Official Score WASHINGTON. A B. H.

O. A. E. Case. If 6 0 3 4 0 0 Cramer, 4 3 1 2 0 0 Lewis, 0 3 Travis, ss 4 3 3 1 2 Vernon, 4 0 2 7 0 0 Archie, 0 1110 Early, 4 0 0 4 0 0 Bloodworth.

2 3 Chase, 1 Kennedy, 1 0 0 0 0 0 I Totals .37 4 8 24 7 0 for Kennedy in ninth inning. ST. LOUIS. A B. R.

H. O. A. E. Heffner.

1 Clift. 3b 4 0 0 2 5 0 McQuinn, 2 111 1 Judmch. cf 1 12 0 0 Cullenbine. 0 1 Laabs. rf 10 3 0 Lucadello.

2 1 6 2 2 Strange, ss 0 Ferrell, 1 0 0 2 2 0 Niggeling, 3 4 27 13 2 010 002 1 St. 212 000 Runs batted (21. Early. Clift. Niggeling.

Travis. Archie (21. McQuinn. Two-base Cramer, Vernon. Travis.

Home Double to Bloodworth to Vernon. Left on Washincton. 6: St. Louis. 6.

First base on Chase. off Kennedy. 2. Struck Chase. 2: by Kennedy.

1. bv Niggeling. 2. Chase, 3 in innings: off Kennedy. 1 in innings.

Wild 2. Losing Quinn. Grieve and McGowan. Attendance (paid), 455. Terp All-America Stickman John Mueller of University of Maryland is named on the all-Amer- ica lacrosse team announced by the United States Intercollegiate La- crosse Association.

MANHUNT JIM BERRYMAN -in ASSIGNMENT I GOT! ROUND UP A GANG OF TOUGH HOCKEY GUYS AfQT WANTED BY A TH' ARMY, BUT WITH PLENTY ON PUCK! TT More Trouble Looms For Nats as Their HurlersGo Wild Defeat of Chase Shows Club Lucky in Taking Series With Browns Ey Staff Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, July cannibal characteristics of the Nats are threatening to get them in trouble, or at least whatever trouble they already haven't encountered thus far this season. The savage streak of wildness displayed by pitchers in the St. Louis series is providing no pleasant thoughts for Manager Bucky Harris. Washington may regard itself as extremely fortunate to have escaped from St.

Louis with two decisions in a three-game series, for the pitchers generally are finding it increasingly difficult to locate the plate. Walks by Chase Hurt. In those three games Washington pitchers walked 26 Browns. Steve Sundra and Alex Carrasquel collaborated in walking nine in the first tiff and in the second game Bill Zuber and Arnold Anderson issued eight bases on balls. Washington won those games, but yesterday that persistent streak of wildness cost the Nats a 6-4 trimming by St.

Louis. The Browns obtained only four hits off Ken Chase and Vernon Kennedy. who was making his most impressive appearance as a Nat in restricting St. Louis to one hit, a homer by George McQuinn in the seventh in innings of relief labor. Chase, however, had tossed away the game before Kennedy arrived on the scene.

In the first inning Chase walked McQuinn and successive singles by Walter Judnich and Roy Cullenbine produced two runs. In the second inning Ken walked three more Browns, duplicating that in the third. By the time Kennedy was inserted the Browns had compiled a 5-1 lead. Nats Idle Today. The Nats, who had scored a run in the second on singles by Cecil Travis and George Archie and Jake Early's infield out, whittled the Browns margin to 5-3 in the sixth on single and doubles by Doc Cramer and Mickey Vernon.

McQuinn then inserted his homer in the seventh and the Nats could muster only one more run off Johnny Niggeling in the eighth when Travis doubled, took third on grounder and scored after Archie flied to Right Fielder Chet Laabs. Niggeling limited the Nats to eight (See Hoy as' Al Blozis Spending Summer Driving Beer Truck Dizzy Spells Drive Jurges Back to Giants' Bench; Dempsey Reconciliation Again Rumored By EDDIE BRIETZ. Aisociated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK. July dizzy spells have driven Bill Jurges back to the Giant bench.

A1 Blozis, celebrated shot-putter, arrived in California for the national collegiates recently in two upper berths, one being too small for Al. He is spending the summer driving a beer truck. And speaking of those suds. Baron Boots Poffenberger, the Prince of Pilsen, was all set to sign with a Washington brewery team but when he learned have to wrestle beerkegs on the side, he called the whole thing off. Jock Sutherland calls Ace Parker almost daily to And out how Ace's broken leg is mending.

Attention, Lou Nova: Jim Robinson says he'd rather fight 10 like you than one Louis. Whirly-girlie Sarah Palfrey Cooke has the East talking about her new hairdo, designed by Husband Elwood. The top half of her coiffure is divided geometrically, making 10 curls; the bottom is a roll. Warner Bros, will get first call on Gloria Callen, the backstroke champ, if and when she makes up her little mind to try the fillums. That Dempsey reconciliation talk is making the rounds again now that Mrs.

D. is having all the meals served in her home delivered from Broadway restaurant. About the snappiest little number we have seen on a tennis court is quite a spell is Mercedes Marlowe, the Californiatte, who dazzles the galleries with her red shorts. Nothing new on the Joe Louis divorce front. Today's guest Sharp, Atlanta Constitution: "Maj.

Bob Neyland might have designed Russia's defense. Do you remember how he had his blockers let tacklers sift through and then nail them from out of the A few on the big Louisville bat foundry reports the Joe Di Maggio model is far and away its top seller. Fred Apostoli has joined the Naval Reserve. And Lew Jenkins now has a stable of three (count motorcycles, which is causing much gnashing of Maestro Mike china molars. Johnnie Porter, one of the best sports editors that ever fanned and panned for Fort Smith papers, now is directing publicity for the University of Arkansas and you'll be hearing plenty about those Razorbacks.

The Fortyninth street betting basemepts are in ft stew over whether Ben Jones or Hlrsch Jacobs is the i No. 1 hoss-trainer at the moment. An Eastern fight manager has offered 5,000 iron men for the contract of Booker Beckwith, the belting lightheavy from Gary, Ind. Classified opportunity: Pinkie George, the fight manager, will make a present of $100 to any gent tor gal) who can get a real heavyweight to go to Des Moines and fight his Lem Franklin. Headline an Elmira tN.

girl tried to sock an Eastern League umpire the other day, the Elmira StarGazette headlined: a slap heard around the Lu-Lou Now. A happy lad is Novikoff And a happy lad is he, For at last the mad, mad Russian's off On an old-time hitting spree. 4 Baseball's Best Second Sacker In Years Gone as Time K. Tigers' Smooth Gehringer By BURTON HAWKINS. Correspondent.

DETROIT, July has typified the economy of action to baseball men. the smooth, apparently effortless play of Second Baseman Charley Gehringer of the Tigers, won't be an integral portion of the Detroit club Washington will face in a three-game series starting tomorrow. Benched, hitting a mere .220 or so, Gehringer probably has reached the inevitable end of active participation. It had been coming for a long time, with an ailing back greasing the skid, but Gehringer insisted on attempting a comeback after indicating retirement last fall following the World Series. Gehringer, who gave Detroit complete coverage at second base for nearly two decades, never taking an unnecessary step but seemingly stabbing everything within an acre of his territory, collapsed in the 1940 World Series.

He covered little ground and seldom got the break on the ball. Weary and disconsolate1 after Detroit lost the seventh and final game to Cincinnati. Gehringer was admitting the termites of time had clipped him. probably was my last season in he told his inter- viewers. never go through an- i other season like this and if I don't feel any better next February I'll retire.

Playing ball was torture for me. I was in agony nearly the entire Fielding Was Painful. I tried to field a ball off to either side I felt I collapse. Often I stoop over to pick up a ball after blocking it. had so many heat treatments I feel i like a boiled oyster.

At times I think I could move two steps or get the bat off my Charley was sick, hurt and dis- appointed. Perpetually he visited physicians, but nothing helped. He had struggled through 139 games after it had been predicted he wouldnjt play at all last year. Frequently, he merely went through the motions, chronic back trouble sapping the snap from his play. Over the winter, though, Gehringer submitted to a new series of treatments and they seemed to help.

He signed his contract and reported for spring training and club officials were amazed to see Gehringer again was spry despite his 38 years. He opened the seifeon at second base, but the span of three months has forced him to chuck in the towel. been coming a long time, but ballplayers like to see it smack Charley. Gehringer has been identi ft 1 tied as a player's player and in the industry thefe is no higher compliment. Gehringer played for years without public recognition, but by members of his profession he was rated at the top.

Lacked Showmanship. The public never shared the enthusiasm of those players, for Charley lacked showmanship. Like the Ossie Bluege of ago, Gehringer- made the tough ones appear simple. He was graceful, marvelously methodical and unappreciated. Manager Bucky Harris of the Nats says there probably never has been another player off whose bat so many line drives have been caught.

Still, Charley's lifetime batting average entering this season was .326. Not a lucky hitter. Charley led the American League in 1937 with a .371 mark. Gehringer's career is stretching into its 18th summer and in that time he probably has had no equal! as a hitter. His was the style the kid on sandlots sought to emulate and one of them, Barney McCosky, now is becoming recog-1 nized as an important factor to the Detroit club.

McCosky copied style so perfectly the differences in their stance and swings are indiscemable. Only one attempt was made to convert Gehringer into anything but a second baseman and that was tried by Bucky Harris when he was managing Detroit in 1929. The Tigers required a shortstop and Harris felt if Gehringer could handle shortstop Bucky could play second. Model for Behavior. That attempt lasted only through one exhibition game.

Gehringer messed up four fielding chances and Harris, who played for more than a year, was rusty at second. Bucky discarded the plan that evening and the Detroit box score since has read, Gehringer, 2b. Gehringer colorful. Always in top physical condition, he never haggled over salary and never was fined or suspended. He was the model for behavior and a superb team player.

He received the publicity he deserves because he sought it and it was typical that when Manager Del Baker of the Tigers announced the benching of Gehringer the brief notice was buried in most sports pages. One of the really polished performers of his era is sitting out now, but Gehringer wont be forgotten In a hurry. For your hdlVt toko SWIM 25c it to F. m. 40c A A A A A A A A 1 A i Washington Awarded U.

S. Canoe Meet in Surprise Move Championships Thought Tagged for Boston to Be Held July 23 will be the scene of the national canoe racing championships on Sunday, July 23. according to a surprise announcement received today by Richard Ackad. president of the Washington Canoe Club, from Emmett C. Lundbeck, commodore of the American Canoe Association.

Ackad put in a bid for the meet several months ago but had little hopes of obtaining it as Washington was host to the event as recently as 1938. and the award came as a complete surprise to paddlers here who were planning to go to Boston which seemed to have the inside track. Plans for the championship include 18 races as well as the canoe tilling title. They will be held on the Washington Canoe Club Course above Key Bridge with the first starting at 11 a.m. Washington's entry in the meet is not the best in the city's history, according to Vice Commodore Trilling.

some of the best padalers haveing been snapped up by the Army, but he is not too pessimistic and figures that other clubs may be in the same fix. Trilling figures that with a crew such as Bill Havens, Herman Vollmer. Dusty Rhodes. Prank Havens. Billy Johnson.

Harry (Pop! Knight and himself, the Washington Club has a fair chance of finishing somewhere near the front. Among the leading clubs expected to compete are Inwood and Yonkers Clubs of New York. Philadelphia and Cacawa Clubs of Philadelphia and Boston Canoe Club. Richmond Eyeing West, Staunton Farmhand the Associated Press. RICHMOND.

July 15 Eddie Phillips of the Richmond Piedmont Club plans to recall rookie right-hander Charley West from the Staunton club of the Virginia League to strengthen his pitching staff. West is a big 190-pounder, who was purchased during the winter by Eddie Mooers from jitaunton. I I A Cutting of String At 14 Fails To Cheer Rivals Setback From Chisox Only 5th Suffered In Last 33 Tilts Bv JL'DSON BAILEY. Associated Writer. The New York Yankees still can be beaten.

This information probably will be received in disbelief by the rest of the American League, but It is a matter of record that the Chicago White Sox yesterday accomplished the trick, 7-1, and snapped the 14game winning streak of the bombers. It was iust as decisive as the score shows. The Sox stepped out into a 2-run lead in the second inning and finished with another 4-run flurry in the eighth. John Rigney, although allowing eight hits, always was in control and even had Joe Di Maggio subdued, but not stopped. Di Maggio topped a pitch into a slow roller down the third base line and beat it out for a single on his third trip to the plate and stretched his hitting string to 54 consecutive games.

Single Defeat Unimpressive. The manner in which the Sosmothered the Yanks should have been encouraging for the other clubs in the league, but apparently there is a feeling that it came too late and that the Yankees will have to be whipped several times in succession before any other rival will have a chance at the lead, i When you consider that the Yankees have won 18 of their last 20 games and 33 of their last 38, a single setback does not stand out as very significant, even though it ends the longest winning streak of the rear in the major leagues. The Cleveland Indians took advantage of the opportunity to shave the margin between first and second place to four games bv bumping the Boston Red Sox, 4-1. behind the five-hit hurling of the incomparable Bob Feller. This was the fastballer 18th triumph and proved once more that the Indians will be a contender as long as Feller can go to the firing line every fourth dav.

The veteran Tommy Bridges also produced a five-hitter as the Detroit Tigers came from behind to down the Philarjplphia Athletics. 4-2. Dodgers Expand Lead. The Brooklyn Dodgers expanded their National League lead with a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs S3. most stirring struggle.

Kirby Higbe shut out the Bruins on two singles for his 13th triumph of I the season, but until the ninth inning Vern Olsen was just as tive. although allowing six hits ieight frames. in the ninth Brooklyn loaded the bases with a single, an error and a walk. Manager Leo Durocher pm himself into the game as a pinchhitter for Higbe and laid down a perfect bunt to score the winning run. Olsen, who fielded the ball saw he could not make a plav either at the plate or first base and i so upset he reared back and threw tae ball over the top of the Ebbets Field grandstand.

the tail-end Phillies obliged by beating the St. Louis s- 5'4- and dropping them games behind the Dodgers. Old Si Johnson held the Redbirds to but it took a single bv Bobby Bragan with the bases loaded thetphik8hth t0 SnarC IaT Reds Win in 13th Round. Cincinnati Reds skimmed past the Boston Braves. 7-4, with a three-run rally in the 13th inning.

from the sixth the fnth got a run in butJn the 13th Lamanna walked two men and McCormick and Haro Craft and a double bv Eddie Joost put the game out of reach. The New York Giants edged out the Pittsburgh Pirates. 3-2. with three runs in the ninth. Held to two hits by Rip Sewell for eiRht innings, the Giants bunched three singles and Joe Moore's triple for all their runs on their last turn A wild pitch by Carl Hubbell let'in I both Pittsburgh tallies in the fourth eastern league.

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