The Washington herald., 1912-07-30

How do they do It! All the
this question, and following it up wi
rock the boat, burn the bridge,
stretch the clothesline, or put the
Burns detectives on the Washing
ton Club to stop Griff and his SUI
perior surprisers.
.Lucky Rail- Team"
These Western critics hate to admit
previous blunders. When the Nationals
galIoped through everything in this neck
of the woods last June the cry went up
They We're awfully lucky-playing way
beyond their speed:
Here we are again and we start out by
slapping four defeats IN a row on the
Cleveland Maps, not the worst ball club
ir the world by jugful. and everybody
Is trying to figure out how we do 1t.
The light is family dawnlng upon the
so-called Western experts that Washing
ton will have to be reckoned with before
the 1872 pennant is decided. II the scribes
could only hear the various members of
Griffs Climbers discussing the situation
in calm. business-like manner they
might call In a brain expert or two, per-
haps. At any rate nothing in the world
can change the opinions of the Washing
ton players. To a man they believe that
the American League pennant will fly
over the Capital of the United States
when the 1912 curtain fops.
Fenr No One.
Here's how they figure it: The Ma
tionals kicked the stuffin' out of Gregg
Sunday, the only great finger in the
league who hal up to date escaped. In
Detroit the only man they fear is Dubuc.
and Grift has already doped out a
method, so he claims, which will bring
forth a victory over the Frenchman.
In Chicago, If Ed Walsh starts, he will
never finish, for Walter johnson will OPP
pose the famous spitball finger. AS for
won two games from the Nationals this
season, and every Mound City finger has
been hammered hard.
Now that Cleveland has been sent to
the scrap heap, Griffs Climbers cannot
see why they should not repeat their
previous Western victory march and win
every one of the sixteen games sched-
uled. They are confident now that it will
take more than the Western clubs can
show to stop them.
No game being scheduled to-day, the
Nationals spent the afternoon at the
North Randall race track, looking over
the Grand Circuit nags. and making n
few piker bets. Walter johnson wagered
s. on a roam mare because she looked
exactly like one of the horses on his
farm. The mare never finished, and Wal
ter swears that he will never again play
the trotters.
Team Leaves Cleveland.
Manager Griffith hustled his whole
gang on board the 1915 boat tonight.
and when the boys wake up tomorrow
morning they will be in Detroit, and will
have the first opportunity this season of
witnessing two rival American League
clubs jump at each others throats, as
the Athletics and Tigers wind up. the
series in Detroit tomorrow afternoon
and every member of the Nationals will
be at the game. roofing hard for-not
the Athletics, that's a cinch.
1t leaked out to-day that the only rea-
son Griff did not send his club over TO
Detroit on the Sunday boat was because
the Philadelphia players were stopping
at the same hotel the Nationals pro-
posed to lodge, and as there is consid-
cradle bitter feeling ii was thought best
not TO give the rival players any oppor-
tunity to see each other, although Gan
dill and Collins are such warm friends 90
that both will probably express deep re-
gret at Griff's action.
laid up for two weeks with water on
the knee, is expected to join the club in
Detroit. Just how serious is Henry's
injury cannot be determined until the
first time the 7collegian goes behind the
bat
Hughes Pitches Tomorrow.
The Nationals open up a four-game
series in Detroit Wednesday and Tom
Tughes will Probably work. as the vet
eran has had a good long rest and is
in fine shape. Walter johnson will not
the latest probably when Detroit pitches
Dubuc.
Players OF rival baseball teams no
they did in the days of the Spiders.
Giants orioles. and Pirates. Instead,
they hobnob with one another. After the
first game here Sunday Walter johnson
and Vean Gregg, the opposing pitchers,
repaired to the clubhouse. and after dom
ming their ''cits" clothes they went to
the upper deck of the grand stand, where
they ''sat OUT the second game together.
Gregg and johnson are fast friends.
Danny Moeller's injured shoulder felt
so good this morning that the right field
er told Griff he wanted to play Wednes-
day. It seems that Moeller has been un-
der treatment recently by an osteopath,
who has so massaged the shoulder mus
cles that Moeller does not suffer the in
tense pain when the bone slips out, as
was formerly the case, and Danny. who
has started hitting again like a fiend,
will be in his old place against the Tigers