Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-15
JOHNSON SITS ON BENCH
WHILE BOEf1LING LOSES
Appearances Indicate That Griffith Has in
Mind Walters Demands for Next Year
in Not Working Him Much.

could realize what had happened the
Tigers not only had overcome his ieao
but had jumped to the front themselves
by scoring four runs in the latter haif
of the third, the inning in which the Ma
tionals did large majority OF their
scoring An error by McBride-it was
excusabie, perhaps-started the trouble
and then followed a walk, and in less
J time than it takes to tell II four runs
were over the pan.
Later in the day the Nationals got the
one run necessary to tie the score. but
Cobb changed the result when he pulled
his stunt in the eighth. more expert
enced pitcher would not have been Wor-
ried by Cobb's antics on the base INES
but Boehling fell for them.
Eddie Foster was the run producer LOT
the Nationals yesterday. In the thlru
inning after Henry had singled and
Boehling was given life by Galnor
error, Foster came through with nome
run drive over Cobb's head after MoeNer
had advanced the two runners with a
| sacrifice. 1t was terrinc Smash Whlcll
Cobb played badly, first coming In on the
ball and then finding that 1t was yards
oyer his head, made a rush for the ball.
but too late to nail Foster. who crossed
the plate without much trouble, sendlns
two runs in ahead Of him. In the siXtn
! Foster started the rally which tied the
score and had the pleasure of scoring the
run which made this possible.
yeach. on the other hand. caused
Boehling's undoing. Though lett
handed hitter. he was not at all BAL,
| fed by Boehling's southpaw shoots, ana
| his two doubles both came at the time
when they did the most damage. Three
| Of the Tigers five runs were driven IN
| by Veach his double in the third CIV
| ing the Tigers enough runs, two, 70
make the total for the inning four ana
70 dviv in "a
against the scoreboard allowed Cobb
| to score the run which won the game.
/ For some unaccountable reason La
| porte was played in place of Shanks.
Shanks is apparently all right again.
and Laporte went to left. Laporte, of
course is not an outfielder. and, while
| he caught everything that was hit that
way that he should have caught, his
efforts were SO clumsy that any one
| who sat in the stand and was inter-
ested in Washington winning had fits
| whenever he ielded a fly. Laporte also
! kept up his record Of not hitting when
there are men on the bases lie had
| a chance in the second. when Morgan
singled. but he promptly hit into
double play on the first ball pitched. He
had another chance in the sixth. when
| there were two men on the bases, ana
| he popped up little fly to Bush In
| the ninth inning, with one out and none
| on the bases, he singled but had to
be taken out to let faster man, AIM
smith, run for him. Ainsmith tried to
steal second and was thrown out a
city block. ending the game.
| Griffith's mania for wanting to corral
all the left-handed pitchers he can find
seems to have caused him to overlook
the very glaring fact that If he ex-
poets to have anything to say about
where the pennant will fly next sea,
son he had better get busy and
strengthen his outfield. There Is not
chance for any team to cut much or a
figure in a race when it lacks the bat
| ting strength in the outfield that do the
Nationals. Milan is really the only man
who should be figured on for that de-
partment and he is not having good
year with the stick Both Moeller and
Shanks are brilliant, hard working ana
fast players. but they lack the offensive
strength. and 1t Is this which is caus-
ing the Nationals the most trouble In
| their games
Yet with this fact staring Griffith in
the face he has made absolutely no
efforts to get outielders. His scouts
are looking for pitchers and virtually
nothing else. These are instructions.
TO date but one outfield recruit mas
He is Spencer of the Petersburg club
or the Virginia League. He was pougnt
early In the spring when ne was hittins
like flend, but since then he has fallen
on badly. and there Is nothing 10 IN
dictate that he stands a possible chance
to help Grifith's weak hitting outfield.
Johnson will do the pitching today, and
1t Is not at all doubtful that Mark Hail.
Jennings recruit, who, on two occasions
Jennings intended to work Hau yesterday