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I- THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1924 SUE STATESM PAGE OF LIVE SPORT NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE AN COAST AND Frisco 18, Seattle 7 .'&SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27 TMe; Seals Jumped upon a trio of Seattle pitchers today, and won a 'free bitting contact, 18 io v. Indians scored four runs in ilie first on four hits, including a 'home run by Rohwer. - In te third San Francisco' forged to the jront with 10 tallies. : , Sam Agnew returning after a long layoff due to an operation played first for the Seals in the linal Innings,. i . . .-. . Score: . v ' '. Seattle .. 7 12 San Francisco ....... 18 22 3 3 Jones, Bagby, Brandt and Baldwin, Tobin; Crockett Yelle, Ritchie. , ; E. and Angels 4, Portland 2 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 Los Angeles made its hold on fourth place secure by' taking a fifth straight Tictory from Portland hi,tody 4 to 2. The Angels touched Wintersor a total or nine hits while -Elmer Myers, pitching for Los Angeles, held the Bearers scoreless until the last Inning. Portland . . . ...... 2 8,0 .Los Angeles . 4 9 1 Wintera. and Cochrane; Myers and, Jenkins. , Salt Lake 10, Vernon 3 ;SAl.TaA.KB CITY. Sept. 27. Salt Lake defeated Vernon today 1( to 3. All of the Tigers runs were made in the first inning on afdlcahy's wildness. O'Neil shut them out thereafter. The Bees pjrV on a nine run rally in the seventh. '" . t'Soore ' L VerUon , 3 6 0 fc'Uti Lake . .... . 10 19 0 ' i-Fulton, Johnson, Carson and Hannah; Mulcahy, O'Neil and cgok. ,: ' v. Oakland 4, Sacramento 3, SACRAMENTO, Sept. 27. Al though outhit nearly 3 to 1 the C ika won out in the tenth inning tclay, 4 to 3. cinched the series. cWnfleld pitched great ball after the first inning as did Boehler. .'gcore: R. H. E. Oakland ............ 4 5 0 iSfccramento . 3 13 . 0 :W.. (10 Innings) Boehler and Read;. Canfield and Koehler. . ; I I : .V- Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., Takes r Firs Place In National X Tourney ; $i : J . . rlRDMORE. Penn., Sent. 27 (By The Associated Press.) Ro fet Tyre Jones. Jr.. of Atlanta, come ' to man's estate . today, acquired the honor he sought In Tin for .eight years of (his youth toe national " amateur golf CUkmplpnship. I In the final round - at the annual tourna ment he defeated George Von Elm tfpLos Angeles by the 'unprece , dented score of 9 to 8, for the concluding match of the weeks' competition. Triumph came at the Merlon Cricket club, where, in I?i6, a boy of 14, who wore short pants even when not playing golf, fist attracted attention by his ability at' what some scoffers hare often termed an old man's game. -have been his disappoint ments since then. A favorite several 1 times hl- therto to win the amateur crown, he, was eliminated by opponents of far less average ability. The open title came to him last year, only alAer his. average score per hole over a period of years had r been less than that of any other, com-. . . petltor. - . - i . '.. : ' v Now, with .Tamtly and .business fiiatters. to attend to beside golf, and about to cast . his. first vote fpy. President, he joins the select class of link etars who have 'won both the amateur and open titles. TLre are only, three others: and . to ot.taera were eliminated in this tournament. The three are Jerome p. Travers -of New York. Francis ,Ouimet of Boston and CS arles Evans. Jr., of Chicago. His' game . was a bit inferior to ' Xbt great heights reached in his ae JWlnal match witfi Francis :Oetmet, but he' was better than V- Elm in every branch and was n! .er down after the second of tf 28 holes which the 36 match ho. 4 consisted of as a result of tfc 'decisive' victory- Zon Elm attracted attention all the-week by the lowness of his c:2al scores and the decisive margins-of most of his victories before the final round. : Tour par five holes were played. At three of them Jones had the longer drive, the longer brassie and the, closer approach of the pl.t. ' . Honors were even at the six strt holes flgnring in the match. aea having the better tee shots at 3 of them and Von Elm being ; nearer to th pin at the other CTLIJTICIfl wins TITLE tiree. - , MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES ; New Yoifc 5, Philadelphia 1 NEW YORK.! Sept. 27. (Na tional) The New York Giants today broke a precedent of 49 years and won j the national lea gue championship for the fourth time in succession by defeating Philadelphia here today 5, to 1. while Brooklyn was. losing to Bos ton. & j ; x ! No other National or American league club ever has won four suc cessive pennants. . Manager McGraw of New York was thwarted ja his ambition for four straight f; pennant winners when the Boston club beatVufhis Giants" in a SeptembrNnnlaten years ago. ; The .championship is McG raw's tenth,, twice as-many as were won by any t other j National league manager. i . Bentiey found the Phillies easy picking and held the visitors to four hits. A j muff by Jackson gave Philadelphia its only run in the first Inning: - ! The Giants -: hunched hits of f Ring and scored their runs one at a time. Ring was driven out of the box in the sixth inning. Holke was spiked by Terry and was obliged to ; retire. Score ."; Philadelphia 141 New York 5 11 1 Ring, Carlson, Henline and Wil son; Bentiey and Snyder. i! Cincinnati - IO, St: Louis 1 CINCINNATI, Sept. 27. (Na tipnal).- Cincinnati, with a make shift team in the field slogged St Louis pitchers: and won the final game at Redland field 10 to 1. The Reds will close the season at St. Louis tomorrow with a double header. .. j , Score St. Louis . . . 1 1 18 3 Cincinnati . . . . . , 10 16 1 Fowler, Berly : and demons; Debut and Hargrave. Boston 8, Brooklyn 2 BROOKLYN, Sept. 27 (Na tional) The Braves put the Brooklyn Dodgers permanently out of the race for the National league pennant today, 3 to 2. In cidentally the Boston club broke Bill Doak's string of consecutive victories, which had reached ten up to this point.r " Cooney held the Dodgers to four hits, one of which was a home run hyi Brown, firat,, jnta.Jiohi. Mie. sixth. '-' ,"' ..- ' - Thiswas Brooklyn's first hit of the game.. -Brooklyn team scored its second and final run in the eighth on a single by High Mit chell's walk and Wheat's single. A vigorous protest arose in this inning when Umpire Klem ruled Mitchell's hit to right a foul. Both High and Mitchell had scored on the hit, the latter's run tying the score when Stengel threw wild and the ball rolledTto the Boston dug outs. The runners were ordered back, however and Mitchell was passed. The ! Braves scored all their runs off Doak. Mcinnis' hit ting featured.' ; Score Boston . . . .... 3 10 Brooklyn 2 4 4 Cooney and O" Neil; Doak, Er- hardt and Taylor. j i Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 2 ' ' PITTSBURGH Sept. 27 (Na tional) Pittsburgh closed its home season today with a 10 -Inning victory over Chicago, 3 to 2. Adams pitched for the Pirates and helped win with a sacrifice hit in the tenth inning with one out which put Schmidt on second base. i Schmidt scored the winning run oil a single by Carey. . ; ecore: - v- i : Chicago '. :..J.. 2 9 0 Pittsburgh ..." 3 1 Aldridge and Hartnett; Adams and Schmidt; I . played. At 14 Jones had the better drives and at ten of them his 'second shots were better. J Jones took : 47 .putts.- Including six one-putt greens and one three Xutt gren due to a stymie. Von EJra required 5 i .putts, including three one putt greens and five where he took three putts each. California Gets Off j To ; Very Poor Start BERKELEY. Cal.. Sept. 27. The University of California, coast Champions at football for four years, won its opening gajfV here this afternoon with Santa Clara university, but only after a real struggle which left the final hcore 13 to 7. i For about: half of the game. Santa Clara played California off its feet. It was only in the final part of the contest that the cham pions stiffened their defense and began carrying through tte Santa Clara line. The mighty Bears were forced to trail the entire first half. NO MOORE MEDFORD; Or., sept. 27. The Med ford high school team playing the first game of the season, this afternoon on a ; dusty field held a team of former college and local high school stars to a 0-0 score. ; Scientists say we must wait 200 years to learn if Mars is Inhabited. Washington 7, Boston 5 1 BOSTON. Sept. 27 (Ameri can) Pinch Hitter Wade Lefler's double to right field with the bases full in the sixth inning let Washington score three runs and eventually gave the Senators a 7 to 5 victory over the Red Sox this afternoon. A crowd of 22.000 saw the game today, and ae was the case yester day cheered steadily for a Wash ington victory, even though Howard Ehmke. the best of the Boston pitchers, started in the bOX. 1 ;' Mogridge started pitching for the Senators. After the Wash ington:; team" made two runs on doubles by Rice and Goslin and Judge's triple in the first, the Sox scored four runs in their half of the opening inning on Washing ton's single. Boon's single, a pass to J. Harris, Ezzell's single i off Peckinpaugh's glove. Lee's single and a successful double steal.) In the 'fifth Goslin singled. Judge beat out a bunt, Bluege sac rificed Peckinpaugh fanned f for the third straight time, but the bases were filled after Ehmke hit Ruel. Lefler came in as a pinch hitter. Hie double off Ferguson yesterday" scored the single Sena tor run of that game. He sent a liner to right, which Boone did not hold, and all three runners scored,''' The last was scored on a ; two bagger and Lefler was run down trying to make third base. With Russell pitching in the fifth Boone tripled and scored on Ezzell's timely single over second. The ecore was tied at five all. . In the sixth, Washington scored twice. ; Liebold walked, Stanley Harris bunted toward Ehmke who took the ball, failed to throw to second and then made a bad peg to and beyond first base which Warn by did not cover. The ball went to the fence with Liebold scoring and the batter reaching third from where he later scored on Goslln's clean single to right. Ehmke's error was fatal to I Red Sox hopes. ' Score V R. H. E. Washington .... . 7 10 2 Boston 5 8 3 f Mogridge, . Marberry.; Russell, and Ruel;' Ehmke.: Quinn and O'Neill, Picinbh. . Philadelphia 4, New York 3 ' HILADELPHIA,.Sept;- 27- (American) A wild pitch by Joe Bush in the seventh inning of to day's fray with the Athletics cost the New York Yankees the game 5 to ?. Had it not been for this wild pitch the Yankees scoring of two runs In the ninth would have tied the score. ... The bad pitch came with Jimmy Dykes on second and before the husky "Wally" Schang could re trieve the ball Dykes had scored with the fourth and what proved to be the winning tally. Rommell pitched a strong game: Bush's shaky start in the first Inning when he was blasted for five singles and three runs proved his most disastrous season. From The Yoimrag' School time means new clothes and this is the one place to find just' THE CLOTHES you'll like at prices you can afford to pay. Our extensive show- ing or will make it TROUSERS ; f - I'M ATI the newest colors are here in our Fall Showing Casslmcrs and Worsteds, $4.00 to $8.00. aJ Ellis E. Cboley then on he allowed but three more hits. Rommell struck out but one batter, but he singled out Ruth for this doubtful honor and the 'Babe" was resting his bat on his shoulder when he was called out. : When Ruth realized the signi ficance of the umpire's dee idiom, he tossed his bat in the air to demonstrate his disgust and then paused at the plate to make a few remarks to Umpire Holmes. Holmes stood his ground and Yan kee players persuaded the home run king to take his place in. the outfield and the Incident wae Closed. " The capacity crowd that com pletely filled t ho standi and bleachers 1 and cheered lustily as the game finished and let out still a louder whoop as the Senators' 7 to 5 victory was hung tip on the score board. ; Second baseman Dykes was presented with an aqtomobiie af ter Philadelphia sporting writers had decided he was the most valuable player on the team. Score New York . Philadelphia ' Bush and and Bruggy. R. H. E. .3 7 0 .4 8 a Rommell Schang; Detroit 10, Chicago 8 -CHICAGO, Sept. "27 (Ameri can) Detroit staged a ninth in ning rally after Chicago bad overcome the visitors lead and made it two straight from the White Sox 10 to 8. W'oodall and Manush led the attack for the Tigers with four hits each. Score JS R. H. E. Detroit ; . . . 10 21 2 Chicago 8 11 2 Whitehill, Calloway. Wells and Woodali; Thurston, ; Blankenship and Schalk. M Cleveland 12, St. Louis 1 CLEVELAND. Sept- 27 (American) Recifuit pitcher Levsen held St. Louis to seven scattered hits and Cleveland won the opening game, of the final series 12 to 1 today. '.: The Browns only run resulted from singles by Sisler and McMantis and a wild Score if R. H. E. Score R. II. E. St. Louis .g. ...17. 4 Cleveland ........ . . 12 13 0 Grant. Wingard and Rego; Lev sen and L. Sewell. T CLUB PERCENTAGES I :w PACiriO COAST LEAGUE Won Ist Pet. Ran Franrico Seattle Oakland . Loft Angeles ... Salt I ake Z. Vernon Portland ...... Bacraniento 98 80 .551 93 94 90 8 87 84 84 85 88 89 91 9.1 .525 .523 .506 .500 .489 .475 .429 .... 78 101 NATIONAL ZJBAOT7S m Won Iot Pet. N York Brooklyn Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago . Sr.- I.ouik .4.... Philadelphia! Boaton 9.1 59 62 62 9 71 89 PH 99 .612 .595 .589 .544 .530 .421 .360 .349 VI 89 82 80 44 54. 53 AXEZXCAV LEAGUE .': Won I-ost Pet. W.-btnsrton ........... Now York Petroit 1st. lOui Philadelphia Cleveland Boston. Chicago .. 91 61 .59 89 86 74 71 67 6 65 63 67 77 81 80 K6 87 .586 .562 .490 .467 .439 .134 .I-J8 Store Men With Better Styles and Better Values mm mi. a pleasure for you to OTHERS, See Our; Windows Let Us Show You Now! for Those New Clothes liE MAIM N. V. GIANTS John McGraw's Ball Club Takes Fourth First Place in Four Years NEW YORK. Sept. 27. While the New York Giants clinched their ourthjlstraight pennant to day and their tenth under the magnetic leadership of John Mc Graw within a', score of yeani Washington advanced a step near er the Senators' :first flag .triumph by defeating Boston while the New York Yankees lo3t to Phila delphia. " : . ' " J " Washington, with atwo game lead, now can get no worse than a tie. In the junior circuit, for thei riva contenders" each have two remaining games, scheduled Mon day and Tuesday. A victory for the Senators in only one will as sure them the pennant, even l the .Yankees take both of their remaining contests. By taking his fourth straight pennant, McGraw gained one of his most cherished goals and set a major, league record." Back in the 70's. in the old National asso ciation. Boston won four straight pennants while' in the American association,-; a1 decade later, St. Louis won four . straight, but no American or National league club ever has won" more than three in a row. ' P The Giants' finish this season, despite the; handicap of injuries that forced Groh and Frisch, bul warks of the club's inner defense, out of the lineup. ' ranks among the most sensational in National league history. Threatened Ly both Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, the makeshift McGram team rallied in'the final week, put the Pirates out of the race by defeating them three times in a row and clinched the pennant today by trimming Philadelphia while Brooklyn lost to Boston. 1 ; ' i Except for a brief interval when Brooklyn, the dark' horse of the race, gained the top, the Giants have set the pace all season. Their triumph, however, wis gained by the closest margin, of any machine McGraw has led to the front. They held a margin of two and a half games tonight with two games yet to play with Phila delphia while Brooklyn has , only one more with Boston. Midwieks of Los Angeles Are . Winners Over Wanderers By Close Score WESTBURY. N. Y.. 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Pedleyl who scored four goals was the .mainspring of the Mid wick attack but it was I superior all-around team play of Califor nians that proved the deciding fac tor. Hitchcock stood out for the losers, tallying three times. The triumph gave the Cal if or nians the two major polo titles of the season, outside of the inter national challenge cup and prac tically assured them victory in the monty Waterbiiry tournament, cup. This is based on handicaps, the westerners will be conceded from three to seven goals by every team. . j "The first contest of the Water bury series was played today with Louis Lacey Anglo-Argentine star, leading the Hurricanes to victory over the Middleneck farm combi nation 12 to 11, in an extra hard game. OUT-STATE MEN ldahoand California Owners Successful at Lone Oak Track; George M, owned by J. E. Mont gomery of Sacramento, won the free-for-all pace at Lone Oak track yesterday, taking the second, third and fifth heats. Lilas D, owned by Will Williams of Lewiston, Idaho, took' first money In the 2:18 trot, and Raisin Express, owned by G. J. Gianinn) of San Francisco, took -all heats in the consolation trot. - ; ' Summary: , Free-for-all , pace.; three In five heats; purse, $1,000 - " George M (Montgomery), 8, 1, 1. 4, 1. ,- Ark Bell (McKinney), 3, 2, 7, I. 2. ' Mary J (Keener), 1, 3, 6, 2, 3. Borden McKinney (Machado), 4, 4. 2. Prince Zolock (Walker), 4. Hal Brown (Dennis), 7, 3, 5, 6, 3. Civilian (Moore). 6. 7. 5. Al Silk Huber), 2. dis. Time: 2:07; 2:08: 2:09; 2:094; 2:11. 2:18 trot; three heats, every heat a race; purse, $800- Lilas D Williams ), 1. 1, 2. Exodus (Walker), 5, 2. 1. -Tloyanna Mack ( Spencer) 3r3, 3. v . HoUis W. Huntington The Northern (Huber), 2, 4, 4. Bill SchulU (Merrill), 4, 5, 3. Time: 2:10 M; 2:10; 2:11. Consolation; trot; three heats; every heat a race; purse, i&50 Raisin Express (Macbado), 1, 1. 1. Alecia McKylo (Smith), 2. 2, 2. Mary Miles; (More), 3, 3, 3: J Time: 2:13; 2:14 V4 ; 2: 16 Five furlong run, for 3-year-olds and upwards; purse, $150t Slats (Donovan), first; Skylark (Neal), second; Zelma Roberts, (Whittingham), . third. Time, 1:02. - Seven furlong run, for 3-j ear olds and over; purse, $150 i Ranger (Donovan),- first; Ron aldo (Wittingham), second; H. Warren ( Mortison ) , third. Time, 1:30. USC Piles Up Big Score in First Game LOS ANGELES. Sept. ' 27. The university of Southern California New .Fall : t '. ' ' " If ' '. ' . l -i Hand-TaHored for You Right Here in Salem' No ready-mades can possibly take the place of the custom-tailored suit! which MOSHER fashions for you INDIVIDU ALLY. We make clothes to fit you. A suit that fits, looks better, wears longer and gives satisfaction to the wearer. Come in and see how much EXTRA refinement, Extra workmanship, and EXTRA style you can obtain from a TAILORED-IN-S ALEM SUIT. , ' i D. H. 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