The Washington times., 1912-09-14
BOB THAYER'S
Sporting G,ossi . /.
Every Knock Is a Boost
Enough said.

The less said about yesterdays game
the better, although some regret IL
expressed that Joe Engel did not get
away with the game, after such a good
lead. 1t looked good nearly all the way,
but the vagaries of the game turned the
tide against him, and he failed to reg
lister win. Tom Hughes. by the same
token has not been going any too we'll
or late Hughes may have lot Of
baseball left In him, but 1t hasn't shown
much in the last month.
Princeton. tactics.
Logan Cunningham appears to be put
ting In some good licks at Princeton,
and is getting the pump on the others
II reports are to be taken for what
they are worth. Quick shift plays are
being used with the Tiger football team,
and are meeting with success. Little
rough work has been done thus far.
and 1t is too early to get a line on
what the Washington boy has to work
with. The fact that Princeton is cut
ting out the end run is more or less
significant. o..
Giants and Cubs. .-k
McGraw's Giants will endeavor to
break the hoodoo today. Lew Richie,
the Cub twirler who has been able 70
successfully tie the can to the Giants
all season, will be started by the Cubs,
and 1t is safe to say that the standing
room only sign will be out at the
Polo Grounds today. The Cubs have
little chance to cop, although their sup
porters are pointing to the 1908 finish,
saying their favorites are still able to
show their mettle.
Moeller comes back.
1t is to be hoped that Danny Moeller
keeps up the batting that marked his
performances at Detroit yesterday. He
got three hits and came within an ace
of getting another. When Moeller is
hitting, the rest Of the team does like
wise, and Moellers return may mean
that the slump is over and that the
team may cop out that second place.
Davis tryout unfair?
Connie Macksays Harry Davis was
the victim of a plot. Mack further
says that Davis was beaten before he
started Such being the case why did
Davis ever start and why under the
circumstances did he continue as long
as he did? Politics may have put him
out but politics apparently put him in
when he was not the logical candidate
for the job. Who then is to blame?
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Football changes.
The average football fan is bothering
himself little these days over the chang
es in the rules. 70 him football wifi be
ever the same regardless of the fact
that team is allowed four downs in .
stead of three to make the necessary
ten yards. AS long as lire bucks, tack
ling, punts, drop and place-kicks are
to be the features on the gridiron, the
average football fan cares little for the
changes. When the teams kick off and
then line up for scrmmage II will
look like the same old game.
In scoring wins.
Before another season whirIs in upon
us let us have some specific ruling as
TO what shall and what shall not be
unfair to have pitcher in one league
have his winnings credited in a different
maner than those of a rival pitcher in
another circuit. Suggestions have been
offered time and again, the best being,
perhaps, that a pitcher shall stay
through nine innings of game. There
are many angles to the situation, but
that some legislation on the matter Of
n-ip ha io
Edberfeld a manager. -.
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Kid Elberfeld is to realize the ambi-
tion of his latter baseball days, and will
manage the Chattanooga team next
year. The Kid had one disastrous sea
son as manager which will be long
remembered. but that was before the
Kid became the tractable little gentle
man that the Washington team found
him. The Kids playing days are about
over, as he has been in the hospital for
some time with an injury to his hip, and
while he will be all right in short
while, he intends to keep out of the
game while running the team.
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Do you know them?
Thomas, krug, and Van Dyke are
three players on a famous team. Few
of the fans will be able to recognize
them by their names. Thomas is
catcher, and not the famous Ira
Thomas; Van Dyke is a pitcher VINO
has yet to start in big league game,
although he has been carried for some
time. Krug is a utility fielder, and may
be more or less familiar to some of the
fans. And yet all will probably share
in the worlds series coin, for they are
members of the Boston Red SoX.
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