Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-07
PENNANTFORM MACK,
JENNINGS PREDICTS
Detroit Leader Says Athletics
Are Class of the
Race.
LOCALS CHANCES KILLED
By INJURIES TO PLAYERS
Enlarged Playing Field Here
Will Not Be Ready for
Some Weeks.
BY J. ED GRILLo.

The Athletics are the class Of the
league. They will win the pennani' was
a statement made by Hughev Jennings
this morning
Early in the spring | believed that
Washington had a splendid chance To
finish on top, but the series of accidents
which the team encountered and which
weakened it greatly has. i'm my judgment.
put it out of the running The Athletics
are going splendidly now and ! don't
look for them TO have any sort OF a
slump unless they meet with accidents.
that it is not getting any the worst of
the umpiring.
My team is going along about as well
as could be expected. 1t is not a team
for the flag, but it is developing rapidly
and in time will be a good bal team"
In speaking of the umpirng in the
American League this season. Jennings
remarked: There are only three or four
competent umpres in the league this
year: the others are absolutely unfit for
the position and every player and man.
ager in the league who has the nerve to
express an opinion will tell you 50. Most
OF them do not know the rules. can't see
and are influenced by the crowds"
Jennings said that he would probably
! pitch Zemlock today. ZemIock is the
| youngster who gave Walter johnson such
| a hard tuss'e in the final game the Ma
| tionals played in Detroit last trip.
| It will be some time before the local
ball park will be enla rged by taking in
J the property. now occupied by the stor-
| age and other buildings.
! The club has been forced to grant
thirty days i'm which the lesees O. the
/; property can move their belongings and
! not until then will the buildings be RACED
and the ground fitted for playing pur-
poses. 1t is hoped that this can be done
/ in time to have the new field ready when
! the Nationals return from their next
trip.
There IS no DOUBT that Carl Cashion
i Will entirely recover the use of his pitch
ing arm after time. The injury is
mending rapidly and Cashion is already
able to warm up. which he does once or
twice a day. 1t would not be at all sur
prising if the injury to his pitching arm
would be the making of reliable pitch
er out of him. There have been other
instances in base ball where pitchers
| who lacked control did not show good
| form until after they had undergone an
experience such as Cashion has had. 1t
may be some weeks yet before he will be
! BILE to pitch again. but there Goes not
seem to be the SLIGHTEST doubt that a
permanent cure will be effected in time.
! Jim Shaw. the Pittsburgh recruit whom
Griffith secured this spring. and recently
! farmed out to Wilkes-B Barre OF the Ne"
York League. is doing some excellent
work there. In the two games he has
! pitched he allowed bLt eight hits and
! struck out fifteen men. He lost the arsi
! game through errors. and won the second
easily Shaw is the youngster who. JACK
Ryan says. has the making OF another
! Walter Johnson. He is built along the
same lines. and has long arms. which
! give him a world Of speed. Shaw is sure
! to be recalled this fall for another trial
with the Nationals. and he is believed to
!; be a cinch to make good. He is but nine
teen years old.
! Mor'ey. the shortstop with New Haven.
and Bill Allen. the outfielder with Mon
! treal. both OF whom belong to the LEGAL
| club. are doing remarkable work 10,
/ their teams. and are sure 10 be with the
Nationals again in the fall. Allen Is + :
garded as ore of the best hitters in the
/ international League and one of its fast
I est runners. Hes only failing is that he
! fields poorly. but inasmuch as he has
/ been playing ball only one season he is
| expected to improve rapidly n this re-
| spect Morley is slated to become some
day the successor of George Mcbride.
! He is now a most brilliant fielder and IS
| hitting Also. and all he needs To ma ie
him a real major Lacquer i experience.
and he is getting lots of thai now. for
] he is playing every day for New Haven,
where he leads off the batting order.