The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-29


bet things would be different in this
world. AS it is now, things are in
sad state. Injustice prevails on every
side. Why should our neighbor have a
pianola when we have nothing but a
phonograph or a jews harp? OF course
if our father struck oil we would have
to make our children stop speaking TO
the neighbors' children, but that's our
own affair-and one of the things that's
different, whether the suhragettes get
votes or merely that dear advertising.
But, TO get back to the equalization Of
rights, we want to know what right
the Government has to give these two
Wright men SO, 900 Of the public money
for going up in the air from Washing
ton to Alexandria and back, when the
Washington ball team can ascend into
the ambient atmosphere in Washington.
make a circuit of seven Of the largest
cities in the country, then come home
and do a series Of gyrations on their
own parade ground on Seventh street
that would make Wrights look like a
broken-wing sparrow caught in steel
trap-and get nothing but the boot?
It isn't justice, and you can stake your
life the suffragettes would see that
change was made.
Baker made eight hits while the Ath-
Ietics were here-a triple, three doubles
and four singles
AS we have pointed out before, one
of the curiosities of the age Is that
the higher the Washington ball team
goes in the air the lower 1t goes in the
cellar. That merry COnceit pleased us
vastly as long as the team was main
tanning a steady and routine rate or
one loss a day, but when II begins 70
drop games two at a time, then the
heart grows weary, mirth departs from
the soul and there is no health IN us.
From a state Of gOOd-humored callOus-
ness, bred by long years of following
the Washington team, we are becoming
vexed by the dOuble-barreled wallOp-
tngs, and are losing our sweet ana
amiable disposition. There is growing
within us a wild desire to see the man
ager, or the stockholders, or BWana
TumbO, or somebody take hold of the
situation and give the National Capital
a real ball team. CaricatUres are anus
ing for a while, but a little Of the real
thing is wanted now and then.
It was scandaIous the way old man
DOnOhue acted yesterday. Five hits in
The great fault heretofore with Les
MiseTdbles was that they couldn't make
hits even by running blind tigers at a
summer resort. Now they are hitting
the ball quite some but are getting
beaten worse than ever. A man with
half an eve could see that the trouble
is with the miserable pitchers, and il
isn't going to get any better with the
dOuble-headers coming at the rate OF
four or five week Yesterday they
collected eight hits off Plank in the
first game and made one lonely, I'M
earned run. The Athletics got seven
runs off ten hits in that comedy. In
the second act Washington accumulated
four hits and no runs, while the ATM
letics ganered six runs from six hits.
In the first game on Monday the Ath-
letiCs got eight runs from eleven hits,
while Washington got two runs from
ten hits, and one OF those was homer
In the second game on Monday Wash
ingtOn squeezed two runs out of nine
hits, and the Athletics five tallies from
thirteen hits. In other words, the Ath-
letics made forty hits and twenty-six
runs in the four games, while Les Mis-
cradles made thirty-One hits and five
runs. Distressing, is It nOt2 YES!
Give some of the young pitchers a
chance. They cant be worse than the
veterans.
A wild fan writes I'm today hammeriBg
the team and the manager for hitting
at the first ball pitched when there are
men on bases This cOmp,Glp. is not
founded on facts. Besides, sheTe have
been a number of harsh criticisms Of
the team for not hitting at the first ball.
Fans have complained nat when a
team is going as badly as Washington
- at present the only thing 10 Try is
the old army game, and slug the ball on
ali possible occasions. until the men
have met the leather often enough to
gain confidence in themselves. These