The Washington herald., 1912-08-20

Jay Carl Cashion will be on the mound
during the second combat. and opposed
| to. the Carolina curver will be Steen, the
big right-hander who has made such an
enviable reputation with the Maps this
season
Capital fans to-day will be assured of
/ real treat. as. from where We sit, two
mighty good ball games will be played.
| When Csshion steps into the box at
the start of the second game to-day he
| will have as his battery partner John
Henry, the Nationals great young
| catcher who has been out of the game
| for month on account of wrenched
knee Henry has fully recovered, and
expects TO give a good account Of him.
| self.
Danny Moeller's collapsible shoulder is
not the main cause of his recent batting
slump, reports to the contrary notwith-
standing. 1t appears that the cold con-
tracted by Moeller In Detroit three weeks
! ago has never been shaken on, and
Moeiler has played ball when he should
| have been in bed. The Rochester RAM
bier yesterday felt better than in several
days. and believes that he has at last
shaken the intruder.
Somebody called up Larry Lajoie at
the Raleigh Hotel yesterday. and said:
Il understand that, after this season
you are going to retire from baseball. Is
| this SO?
Larry replied: II don't know who you
are. neither do / know where you OBJ
tained your information, but take II
from me. I will quit playing bali only
when they take my uniform away from
/ me-and from the looks Of some Of the
| recruits who are breaking in. l will be
on the job for at least twenty years"
| As a matter of fact, Larry is putting
up the best game right now he has
shown this season. 81 am feeling right"
says the veteran, for the first time this
year, and no ball player in the world
can put up his best game unless he il
physically fit.''
Manager Davis is shaking hands with
i himself for the reason that Umpire
\ Westervelt did not disqualify Joe Jack
son and Buddy Ryan after what hap
pened in Philadelphia last Friday. Jack
son and Ryan called Westervelt every
! thing they could think of. from a hu-
man bat to names that no respectable
| newspaper would print. and Westy in
| formed them that they were both in
line for big, juicy suspension and fine.
| his threat
The Cubs are quite as likely to run
into a current of luck which will turn
the other way from that which Is car
! rying them along now as they are to
continue winning. In fact, more likely.
They have stayed up about the average
length of time for any squirt in baseball
! to last.
Barney Dreyfus is slipping the Pitts
| burg fans cheering words. Barney is
| said to have broken all records this
spring by coming out in meeting and
giving an interview in which he mathe-
| matically demonstrated that the Pirates
| could not lose the pennant. Since then
| Barney has come to the conclusion that
some base enemy stuck a crowbar in his
| calculating machine when he was not
| looking and made his figures prevaricate.
But Barney has not lost heart. He bids
the fandom of Pptsburg to remember
| that back in 1905 the Pirates seemed as
much out of the running as they do at
this time this year. yet by a whirl of the
wheel of fate the aforementioned Pirates
suddenly went whizzing upward and
came mighty near grabbing the pennant.
One umpire's decision that cost a game
cooked the Pirate goose and put them
out of the running, but they have not for
gotten how close they came to the bunt-
ing that year, and Barney is soothing
himself with the thought that what man
! has done, man can do. But his hench-
men are going to have the scrap of their
| lives If they do any better this season
than land in third place.
THE expectation of a slump by a
strong rival is not a secure foundation
for another teams hopes" says Phila-
delphia writer, yet the Athletics fans
are expecting that the Boston Red Sox
will fail to maintain the pace they have
| shown so far and drop back enough
games to allow the Mackmen to over
come the lead they now have. 1t is the
fine exhibition of its pitching corps which
| has, more than anything else. enabled
| the Boston team to get out in front. and
| IL this should crack II would be all of.
| Conversely the bad start OF the Athletics
was due to the failure of the pitching
corps to round into form. Now the vet,
Grams have begun to win consistently
| again, and IL there was only one more
pitcher to depend upon the supporters of
the Mackmen would be much more GER
| tain of ultimate success. of Carroll
Brown. Herb Pennock. and Byron Houck
the latter seems to show the most prom
ise, and, II not the latter part of this
season, then next year he viii be de-
pendable part of the champions pitching
CORPS"
Pugilists who retire to become pro-
prietors of drink dispensaries always
have one means of advertising left when
all else fails. and that Is to announce
their re-entry to the ring. Jack John
son has learned the lesson and is max
ing the most Of 1t by statements and
ldenials. alternately TO the effect that he
Is or is not to fight again. Not to let
the negro champion get away with ii
alone, Tom Sharkey arises to uphold
the honor of the white race. and as a
tavern keeper white hope" issues a
statement to the effect that he is still
the real champion and would like to
meet Tommy Burns. another come
back" in order to prove 1t. How any
paper can fall for the bunk Is a mys-
terry. "A look at Sharkey's shape is
enough answer.
kirkpatrick. infelder of the Newark
international League team, will be given
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