The Washington times., 1913-06-16
Griffith Saws the Nationals Got the Maps NuberJoe Boehing
GRIFFMEN'S DARING
FRIGHTENS GREGG
Once on the Bases Washington Lads Run Wild Making Mon
keys ofNaps and Causing Strong Men in the Crowd to
Weep-Shanks and GandiI Raise Ructons on Lines.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. June fd--Through
the murk Of the battle shines the dew
ilishly daring base-runnins of those
Griffmen. and the Forest City fans Will
never forget what. thsy saw In the
ninth inning Of yesterdays slaughter.
When they find things tilted their way.
even BY the smaH1st.sr fraction Of an inch.
Clark Grffith's boys cut loose and romp
around with the careless abandon Of the
circus tight-rope performer. Hank
shanks and Chick Gandil are down on
the black books Of the fans hereabouts
for what they did to Dave Gregg In his
debut In the big show.
When 1t was quickly reaching train
time and the fans sitting on the grass
In the garden were beginning to think
Of home and mother. Birmy trotted out
Dave Gregg. Dave Is . mere boy. He's
full brother to vean. vean II q regular
pitcher from the Southern section.
Therefore. wiseacres suppose that Dave
should also be- pitcher: Well. here
goes:
Gandil opened with double to left.
almost killing a tan out there. LAports
skied. but Turner'S tumble put Shanks
on. ,first and Gandii at third And
here's where the bad stun begins With
Gregg fondling the pill. shanks strayed
OF the cushion. yelled at Dave just
what he was going to do, and did 1t.
The kid twifler had never seen such q
thing in all his young life. ana 30 he
stood there with open mouth. ,still fon-
ding that pill. too. by the way: And
then that big rough-neck, GAndfi, nad
to 60 and rush across the platter. CIV
Ing Dave two things to observe at
one and the same, time. not to mention
the fondling Of that pill.
Not content with that marvellous bit
of work. Dave worked . life-sized balk
and Shanks went to third. Carisch
hurled wildly toward Lake Erie and
Shanks tailed. Ouch! Henry had bin
gled. So thereupon, using the greafese
OF SKILL Dave plunked Tomasso Hughes
right In the short ribe. But when
Dave came out of q trance and retired
the big Washington receiver.
Griffith had considerable fun with the
Maps. He kidded them all along.
when we come around here the next
time" he yelled. well throw you
cellar" Griffth says II couple Of his
young twirlers will only show him
something he'll overtake the Athletics
and win the Burgee.
He's the same Old Fox. Only Grin--
that's him. It was his eagle eye that
saved the game in the fourth inning.
There hadn't been anything said about
ground rules. the thfobbing. sweating
multitude having camped. along the
hit the challkmark and then bounded
into the mob. Jackson went to third
and the National players let the play
go ahead. Grin hoped out Of the cave.
however, and confabbed with b. Dfneen.
The latter agreed to the field rules and
jackson trundled back to second
Joe Boehling will make q pretty neat
twirler II he only learns that the plate
isn't q pendulum and 1t don't swing"
Control Is the one thing the youngster
needs The Maps couldn't touch him
ing to put the ball, but when he started
to float a la Genee into the perspiring
ozone, he had to stick II over for luck,
and the Maps whaled 1t good and
proper.
Grover Land had Boehling's number.
Twice he worked the hit and run, and
Joseph didn't seem able to waste one or
shoot through with bad ball for
Grover to whack. Land. by the way,
catcher, and Birmingham Is making a
mistake to work him as the first string
chap. He'll lose q lot of games by
using his bean as a temple Of ivory, Nj.
Land will.
Don't take those three stolen bases
by Terence Turner too seriously down
by the banks Of the Potomac. Two Of
them were given to him as a gift by |
J. Henry. There were two out In the |
"a AuA hoh ina
and Turner on John let Terry steal at |
will. the latter getting second and |
third. That's merely a negative theft |
ing. and nothing at stake when the pill |
fery came.
at the showing of their pets after the |
glowing tales that were bruited from
the read about the wonderful work Of |
the Napmen. They looked bush at sew