The Washington herald., 1913-07-14
GROOM TO HURL
LAST OF Series
Lanky Cmver to Face Cleve-
land Today and
Gala IN Reserve.
SCORERS FAVOR JACKSON
Napland Seribes Hand Slusser Ones.
tionable Hits-Faky Charged
: with Yesterdays Defeat.
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Cleveland. Ohio. July l3-Manager
Griffith is almost as bad on for pitchers
with which to use for tomorrow's game
as the Cleveland club. and the outcome
OF the final battle is very much Of q
question. Both army leaders are tonight
preparing alibis In case Of defeat The
Gregg. and Mitchell. Fred Falkenberg
must have five days rest in order to be
effective. and he worked last Friday.
so kahler or Dave Gregg look to be
the only available fingers left in the
Birmingham stable.
Grif has used Groom. Hughes. and
Johnson. and has made up his mind not
to pitch Boehling. as he believes the
southpaw Is entitled to three of days.
This leaves Engel and Gallia. our lead
ing frecrackers. from which to draw.
youth.
At the dinner table tonight Groom
pleaded with the Old Fox for a chance
TO redeem himself, and although Sir
Robert pitched nearly five full innings
Saturday, Grin is going to start him
against the Maps tomorrow, holding En-
gel as the relief finger.
Looking at the final game of the series
through a pair of impartial spectacies,
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the Naplanders have shown almost su-
perhuman swatting powers during the
games just played. consequently Grin
can only sit back. hold tight. and hope
for the best.
1t is easy to see how Joe Jackson
is hitting for better than 400 after
looking over the Official scores of the
games played here between the Maps
and Nationals this season.
Jackson was credited with a home
run in the fourth inning today. when
the best he should have had was a sin
gle and Shanks an error. for the ball
shot through Towards legs when he
played IL badly. grazing his paws as
IL sped TO the fence.
These same Cleveland scorers charge
Falkenberg with today's defeat when
Kahler put the men on the bases, one
of whom scored with the winning run.
Washington fans will remember the
game in the Capital last year when st.
Louis stopped Walter Johnson's win
ming streak. johnson relieved Hughes
after long Tom had put a couple Of
men on the sacks. and a hit on John
son sent over the winning marker.
President Ban Johnson himself ruled
that johnson must bear the burden of
the defeat.
Since then the American League has
adopted a new ruling. charging the
pitcher who In such cases as these was
responsible for the men on the bases
with the defeat. but the local scorers
refuse to abide by the ruling. and Fall
kenberg has to suffer.
The Nationals leave for St. Louis to-
morrow might. arriving in the Mound
City at 100 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday is an off day. the series start
ing Wednesday and concluding with
Saturdays game.
Joe Boehling will pitch the opener in
an attempt to equal the American
League consecutive victory mark Of ten
for this season. held jointly by Walter
johnson and Falkenbefg.
Thus far no unpleasant features have
marred the games between the Ma
tionals and the Clevelanders. but rela-
tons are still strained between the rival
players. and II would not take much
to start trouble.
Joe Jackson Is a veritable demon with
the stick on his home grounds. 1t is on
the road that he slumps, whereas Ty
Cobb does his hest hitting when the
Tigers are away from Detroit.
The Detroit News takes an unkind
snot at herman! Schaeler, as follows:
Herman Schaefer occasionally makes
speeches in Spanish to the audience.
Herman proudly admits that he knows
Spanish, and that he learned the Ian
guage of Alfonso from Calvo. the
Cuban outfielder.
II Mr. Bryan can induce the National
Commission to drink grape juice. II will
be recorded as the greatest diplomatic
feat in the archives of history.
Mr.. Chance is a wonderful guy II he
can reflect upon the Chase deal without
delivering unto himself a swift kick.