Show akina irig of sports kowols jos johns create i aate new pi jai allOu nond d lore GEORGE A BARCLAY baseball miracle BV some fly lind land an and cincinnati should american and national be pennants nen nants respectively a and nd fl e out tor for the worlds chami at it et tall fall they will have to two p ohio J johnnies for help johy vander meer e ill 9 1 quiet spoken southpaw ebest to fame with two straight rose games a and nd johnny norun no run Clev elands truculent right pent iligir lii ET ff JOHNNY VANDER MEER tinder who fi fights ats harder to v win vin flan perhaps any other pitcher in the ge game fame baseball men will tell you it Id nt be such a miracle after ial if these two ohio teams should binish firstin first in their respective cir this year they almost did it C cacis ats cere orce before missing each other by only 0 one e y year ear cincinnati won the N national ta I 1 le league g e pennant in 1919 and cleveland won the american league gag feg in 1920 both teams have been on or near me he top since the season began both jure added some sensational rookie players who have been factors in licit rise both showed their treB th by the number of their players selected on the allstar all star turns tums this year cincinnati came up gp with five catcher ernie lom ardi pitchers vander meer and derringer first baseman nick mirk and outfielder goodman cleveland Ot veland drew three pitchers al len denind and feller and teams have color oddly enough both teams have tew lew managers this year who have fin imparted parted color and zest to hitherto listless outfits Clev elands oscar vitt and cincinnatus Cincin natis bill mckech lie but bat it is to the two johnnies that these two teams owe a lot of the drive that has made them serious pennant contenders pitching scoreless innings has become a habit with ruddy cheeked checked johnny vander meer out of the first III innings he pitched for cincinnati this year 95 were scoreless including 23 straight hitless frames tor for a new national league mark As a first year man jo johnny anny startled the baseball world by blanking the boston bees without any hits a while back and then duplicating cating this performance against the brooklyn dodgers vander aleer is a solid youngster of 1 twenty three who takes it easy ill B the knife and fork league to keep bis weight at pounds uis his ruddy wk ik belies the fact that as a kid of fourteen fait teen he was puny pany and sickly ua 2114 spent eight months convalescing leecing from an operation on an appendix johnny allen alien may not be the most popular player in the american league ague but he is one of the most respected he believes in standing tp 1111 tor for his own rights and has a stormy temper that bodes opponents or teammates no good when they cross wa hirn him he won 15 straight tales lames in 1937 before losing the 4 I 1 1 4 0 JOHNNY ALLEN the 5 afons w s final anal to detroit he dropped first th 1 I game played this year and won the next eleven straight der a avith 1111 bobby obby feller and mel har he it aft ha s given cleveland Ge veland a pitch I 1 staff that is without an equal in the t djoro tea jorg feller promise at behig gives tr pitcher S eventually an even great than auen allen but at this 1114 ung allen has the e experience we the record cord on his side golfing city WHEN W HEN charley yates ot of atlanta won w on the british gou golf championship pion ship ip a while back he was the second native son to capture that honor and save gave that city all but two ot of the worlds major golf titles only the professional golfers Goi association championship and the western open crown have escaped atlanta golfers over a span ot of 25 years it all started in 1909 when george sargent won the U S open and the canadian open three years later then alexa sterling had an impressive run of victories taking the southern championship pion ship in 1915 1916 and 1919 she also took the united states wom wm ans championship in 1915 1916 and 1919 bobby jones began to add luster to At lantas golf reputation by winning winding the southern amateur title in 1917 repeating in 1920 and 1922 the holder of probably more golf titles than any other mortal jones has to his credit the united states amateur which he won five times the U S open which he won four times the british open three times and the british amateur once in addition to many tournaments of lesser importance other antans who have helped make the city the worlds golf capital are perry adair who won the southern amateur championship in 1921 and 1923 watts gunn who also took this title in 1928 and won the united states intercollegiate title in 1927 dorothy kirby who won the southern title in 1937 and david mitchell who won the united states public links championship in 1934 hornsby lights liolios tn FOUR OUR times a major league manager and once a candidate for the of the new york giants rogers hornsby is now trying his hand in the southern association as manager of the Chatta chattanooga noo ga lookouts hornsby this year had been serving in as coach pinch hitter bitter and utility it man for the baltimore orioles in the international league until he he was offered the new job probably the greatest right hand hitter of modern times the rajah led the national league in batting six six consecutive times he set the highest modern batting average by 4 ai 1 I 1 0 1 e ROGERS HORNSBY hitting in 1924 while playing with st louis in the national league hornsby began his big league career with the st louis cards and was manager of the team in 1926 when they won the pennant and the worlds championship he was successively ces manager ot of the boston bees the chicago cubs and the st louis browns in the american league the chattanooga team is one ol 01 the fan owned clubs in the country it was P purchased ur chased by the fans ot ol chattanooga from the was washington hington senators through the sale of stock at 5 a share plus a substantial sum furnished by joe engel the clubs president here and there HE cubs could have purchased ccaude THE claude and bucky walters valters from the phillies and van lingle baiungo from the dodgers for less than the they are reported to have given the cardinals tor for dizzy dean football players at michigan state college were wen given new balls to take home with them during vacation they have to bring them back in the tall fall and the condition of the ball tips off coach charles bachman as to how much practicing the boys have done two hours after f ining fining johnny allen alien for walking out of a game in boston manager oscar vitt ol of the indians indian s took the pitcher to a movie A alex lex kampouris giant second baseman owns more luggage than any other player in the major leagues more than one thorough thoroughbred with a broken leg has been saved besides insco sire ol oj lawrin back in 1931 ben marshall was vas y saved he was a son of dis done and he won two orleans after recovering new races race s at from the injury joe E brown has a horse hors e in his stable which was doomed tobe to be destroyed because of a broken leg but brown ordered him saved the horst horse new york aorl again is racing baseball writers are now saying that thai it was a innis mistake take to let tony lazzeri from the yan yanks ks because get away was too valuable as a coach he ju julian lian black if not as a 42 player managers of joe louis one of the betting one to made a healthy sum twenty that louis would flatten Sch melina in the first two rounds ft 0 western newspaper union |