The Washington herald., 1911-08-07
By WILLIAM PEET.

afternoon in a double-header and three
more games to come, the Nationals should
boost their Won column a little.
Manager McAleer will most likely
work Tom Hughes in the opening bat
tie with "Gabby'' Street behind the bat,
while in the second fray Dolly Gray,
who has worked only three innings since
coming home. will toe the slab.
Powell and Petty are on the cards for
the Browns, but it is not known posi-
lively just who will work for Bobby
Wallaces crew.
Thursday the New York Yankees come
here for five-game series. The Yam
KEGS also have a postponed game to
make up, and Friday will be the day for
that double-header. most likely. This
will be a busy week for the Nationals,
and if the rain holds off, the McAleer-
ties may add a few points TO their per-
centage.
The showing of Jay Carl Cashion
agaiIst the White Sox on Friday is still
had everything, and the fans think that
he is a coming wonder.
The Philadelphia Record comes across
with the following:
Once again the Athletics lead the
American League, the position having
been gained this time largely through
the four straight defeats of the Detroit
team at Boston, for the Athletics won
but three games out of six during the
week. On July l. just one month back,
the champions led for a day, but slipped
back by losing their last game of the
series to the Highlanders, and following
that with a rather poor showing on the
Western circuit. Three straight from the
Tigers on their return to their home
grounds put them within one game of
the leaders. a week ago to-day. but De-
troit took the last two games of the
series and Went ahead again. But at
Boston tie Tigers seem to have gone
altogether to the bad, while the cham
piOnS here took occasion TO rub it in on
the tailenders by grabbing three from
the Browns making fourteen victories
over st. Louis, with but on defeat so
far this season. The one .efeat was
sustained yesterday, when LAX was we'll
nigh UnhittabIe. To hold frs place the
athletics must beat the Chi ago White
SoX in the series that starts tomorrow.
Up to date the Chicago team has proved
stumbling block to Mack's men, the
Athletics having lost seven of the ten
games played. The two teams have a
postponed game to play off here. and by
taking all five the champions can come
pretty near solving the pennant problem.
Three out of the five will very likely
keep them at the top, for the Tigers
Will hardly fail to drop a game or two
to the Highlanders, whom they play be-
fore going home to meet the White SOX
on Saturday next. During the latter
series the Athletics will be playing the
BOstOns, the one American team that is
showing greatly improved form. The rec !
ord between the two teams now stands
tie at five games each. AS soon as
they have finished with Boston the cham |
pions will go TO Chicago for another tus-
sic with the Chicago White SoX, which |
SO far have proven much harder to beat |
at home than when on the road.
1t is not often that Connie Mack can |
justly De criticised in his management of |
his ball team, for he knows the game !
from A to L and unusually PLAYS ball for |
all there is in ii. But last Monday he |
was surely caught mapping when he al |
lowed the Tigers to win the game in the !
tenth inning for no other reason than |
that he had no pitcher warmed up to
take Krause's place.
Arthur Griggs has been released out
right by Cleveland to Toledo.
Griggs is the young man who said that
he could not make good in St Louis
on account of the rigorous manner IN
which Jack OConnor handled him.
Others who could not work under |
O'Cunnor were Bill Bailey, Pat Newman.
and Bill Graham.
Where, oh. where, are these great ball |
players to-day?
Somehow or other It looks like O'Con- |
nor had the goods on this bunch!
These are sore days, for Fred Tenhcy. !
manager Of the Boston National League
team.
With the franchise owners fighting ever
since the annual meeting Of the league
last winter and dissension in the ranks,
Tenney scarcely knows whether he is
efoot or horseback.
To make matters worse, the Boston
fans who have stood by the club loyalty
despite the fact that It is running eighth
and losing ground daily, have become
dfsgusted and threaten 20 sever their
allegiance unless the team braces and
plays ball.
Fred Tenney must be a game chap to
stick on the Job in the face of condi-
tions which would discourage q heart
OF oak. His determined fight against |
odds speak well for the chances a team |
under his direction would nave II COM
posed OF men capable Of putting up q |
decent fight
II is said in the Middle West that
Pitcher Troy Brown, Of Paducah, re-
Gently purchased by the Phillies for a,ood
is one OF the crack twirlers Of Indiana
University, who is playing summer ball
under an assumed name. =
Says Paul Bruske, of the Detroit
Times, IN his Saturday issue:
Well. the blow has fallen.
The Tigers are now In second place
and by a margin which precludes their
regaining the league lead for the rest
OF the Eastern trip. and perhaps for a
period even longer than that-we hate
TO think how long. as a matter of fact.
Licked yesterday by Boston In the
fourth consecutive game. with the Ath-
lefics performing the expected and COP
ping both their combats from the Browns,
the Tigers are net only down, but good
and down.
VIII they como backf
This is the question that Detroit bugs