Content from the Chicago Defender - Saturday July 17, 1926

In This Edition

• American Giants Make It 5 Straight Over Dayton as Curry Hurls Record Game
• Dean Hurls Kay Sees to 5-1 Victory
• Indianapolis Swipes the Opener From Detroit Stars
• How They Bat
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AMERICAN GIANTS MAKE IT 5 STRAIGHT OVER DAYTON AS CURRY HURLS RECORD GAME

The American Giants started the second half of the National League race minus the services of Rube Foster, who has hied to the tall timbers of Michigan, where he will take a much-needed vacation. In the meantime the Giants continue to win.

The Dayton Marcos were the victims of the slugging clan of 39th St. Five games in a row—one Saturday, one Sunday, one Monday and two Tuesday. Dayton gave a big sigh as the sun went down Tuesday night and grabbed an armful of bus for their Ohio home, a sadder but a wiser team. Dayton needs an entire new infield before that club again pokes its nose into the Windy City.

Dayton was minus Evans, their center fielder, who got a lame back or sore arm or something and was left in Detroit. News, however, leaked out that Jewell Warner, owner of the Indianapolis A. B. C.'s, had offered Evans $30 more than he was getting a month to jump Dayton and come to the A.'s. Just how Jewell and Evans expect to get by the president of the league with that stuff, if it is true, we don't understand.

We do know that with five victories over the Dayton club the American Giants are in a tie for first place with Kansas City and St. Louis, both of which clubs have not lost a game either.

The series was not without its thrills, however, because Rube Curry got away with a no-hit, no-run game in the second encounter Tuesday. It was a great exhibition of flinging and about the best since Pedro Mendez sat down the Hilldale club in the final game of the 1924 world championship. Not a batter got a walk, not a soul got a hit; only three men reached first—two in the fourth and one in the eighth—two on throws by Jackson that should have been easy outs, while the third was on a fielder's choice. One caused Brown to leap into the air to save a two-base error and the other pulled him clean off the bag. Jackson got two black marks against his fielding. In the meantime Curry was hurling a mean ball and his mates backed him up. In the fourth Jackson's miscue came on Boggs, but Brooks forced Boggs at second, Curry to Jackson, and Radcliff hit into a double play, Thompson taking in his fly and doubling Brooks.

Ducy got on in the eighth via Jackson's second miscue, but Marlarcher to Williams to Brown, the latter making one of those Hal Chase scoops, ended things right there and then.

In the meantime the Giants were hitting and running bases like crazy men. They had a day of fun. Caught off the bases, they would somehow beat the ball back, and every time the visitors made an error it cost runs. The Giants even scored two men on an attempted bunt and then woke up to find that the batter had reached first in safety.

The score of the first game Tuesday was 3 to 0. Benny Clark of the Union Giants, Radcliffe of Joe Green's Chicago Giants and Marshall, a local player, all worked for Dayton—Clark pitching, Radcliffe at short and Marshall at second—but Clark didn't get the proper support and the Giants won.

The game that Curry pitched went to the Giants, 16 to 0.

Monday the Giants walloped the visitors in the only honest-to-goodness game they played. The score was 2 to 1. With one out, Marlarcher singled in the home first and scored on Brown's rap in the home first. The Giants' other run came in the second. Sweatt singled. Williams walked. Jackson sacrificed both runners ahead. Poindexter's sacrifice fly allowed Sweatt to score after the catch. That was all.

Sam Taylor of Northwestern University's 1925 club played first for Dayton.

Dayton's only marker came in the first. With one out, Marlarcher overthrew first on Brooks' roller. Russell's single sent the visitor across the home plate. Poindexter fanned seven and held the Ohioans to five scattered hits. He packed his grip after the game and boarded a rattler for Birmingham, where he will join the Black Barons. Fifty dollars and a ticket South caused him to turn his back on the league and ruin his chances in big baseball.

DEAN HURLS KAY SEES TO 5-1 VICTORY

Monarchs Start Their 2d Half With Win

Kansas City, Mo., July 10.—The Monarchs are off to a winning start in the second half of the National Negro League season. Having won the title in the first half, Bullet Joe Rogan and his employees opened their new race today by dragging the Cleveland club down to a 5 to 1 defeat.

Three runs in the first inning, all unearned, gave Kansas City a lead which stood up all the way through the fine mound work of Dean, a right-hander.

Cleveland made only one hit off Dean in the first five innings, but a single, a double and an infield out enabled the visitors to score their lone run in the sixth. Dean gave only five hits and fanned seven.

Walls, a left-hander, worked a good game for the Cleveland team, two errors coming in the first, after the side should have been been retired, allowing the Monarchs to score their three runs. The two Monarch runs in the fifth were made on clean hits. In this inning Newt Allen singled, Cristóbal Torriente doubled to the embankment in right field and McNair singled.

Kansas City, Mo., July 11.—Besides winning the 1925 pennant, music by the local Elks' band and a lot of other extras, the Monarch fans were treated to a twin bill today and the locals walked off with both games from Cleveland.

Chet Brewer, the kid wonder, hurled good ball to win the first game, 6 to 1, while William Bell pitched brilliantly in the second.

At the rate Kansas City is going, the home fans have already begun to bank on their winning the second half of the league race with as much ease as they did the first half.

INDIANAPOLIS SWIPES THE OPENER FROM DETROIT STARS

By LEO B. DERRICK

Detroit, Mich., July 10.—The Indianapolis A. B. C.'s celebrated the opening of the second half with a win over the Detroit Stars by the score of 10 to 9. It was one of those ball games that would have delighted the heart of a small boy — plenty of hitting, outfielders in pursuit of the flying pellet and hair-raising catches.

Cooper was selected for mound duty by the Stars and he was opposed by Padrone. The former was sent to the showers in the third, when the Hoosiers nicked him for six runs on five hits combined with two errors.

The Motor City boys slipped one over in the first, when Hewitt walked and scored on Turkey Stearnes' triple to left center.

Then came the terrible third. Ed Rile opened with a single through short. Forman hit to Cooper, who threw wild to second, Rile pulling up at third. It was an easy chance for a double play. Harding walked to fill the bases. R. Jones flied to Blackwell, who made a perfect peg to the plate, but Daniels muffed the throw and Rile tallied. Martin doubled to center and Forman and Harding registered. Martin went to third while Cooper tossed out Padrone. J. Jones singled to right and Martin scored. Bingo DeMoss singled through short. Taylor hit over second and Jones crossed the rubber. DeMoss scored and Taylor advanced to third when Stearns let the ball get past him. Rile ended the inning by grounding to Hewitt.

The Stars came back strong in the fifth to tie the score. Hewitt beat out an infield hit. Riggins doubled to center and Hewitt scored. Stearns singled over second, scoring Riggins. Wesely hit to right. Blackwell tripled to the bleachers and both runners tallied. Daniels got a homer when the ball went through a hole in the fence. Hewitt, flying to center, ended the rally.

Indianapolis put the game on ice in the seventh on hits by Rile and Taylor and Wesley's error.

Detroit, Mich., July 11.—The Detroit Stars won a hard fought contest today, defeating the Hoosiers by the score of 11 to 10. Drake went the entire route for the visitors, while Riggins sent Cooper, Bell and Hampton to the mound to stop the boys from Indiana. The Stars were outhit by their rivals, but the Detroiters made their hits count. The Stars put up a strong rally in the seventh and eighth to win the ball game. In the various stages of the brawl it appeared as though the A's would win, for they showed plenty of fight, but when "Turkey" Stearns homered in the eighth it put the game on ice.

The Stars were the first to draw blood. Blackwell opened the second inning by beating out a hit to short and went to second when Harding threw wild to first. Long strolled to first. Both runners advanced on Pryor's sacrifice. Brown doubled to right, Blackwell and Long counting. Cooper singled and Brown tallied.

The Indians came back strong in the fifth and routed Cooper when they knocked five clean hits to score four runs. Harding beat out an infield hit. Martin doubled to right. Drake singled to right and Harding and Martin crossed the plate. J. Jones singled off the umpire's shins. De Moss hit for two bases to left, Jones pulling up at third. J. Jones scored when Taylor fouled to Wesley.

The Stars put four over in the seventh on a single, a walk, a hit and a triple by Long. The game was won in the eighth. Brown walked and was forced at second by Hampton. Riggins was safe on De Moss' error. Stearns hit a home run to score Hampton ahead of him.

The Hoosiers made a gallant try in the ninth, but fell one run short. Martin singled. J. Jones got a hit over second. De Moss walked to fill the bases. Taylor singled to left, Martin scoring and J. Jones and De Moss scored when Blackwell fumbled. Rile flied to center, Taylor scoring after the catch. Dixon ended the game when he flied out to Blackwell.

HOW THEY BAT

By A. D. WILLIAMS

(Director of Records, N. N. League)

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