Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13
JOHNSON WILL TRY FOR
4 VICTORY OYER MAPS
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Just what ails the American League UNI
pire staff is beyond comprehension In
competent work by all the officials has
become a part Of the sport, and the won
der is that some one does not insist on
radical changes being made in the per-
sonnet of the force.
McGreevey's work today behind the bat
was the worst exhibition Imaginable He
evened up matters to cover his mistakes
and actually called q ball on Johnston
once when he fouled the ball in front of
the plate. Connolly erred on several base
decisions, all of which went against the
Nationals, and, on the whole, the two
umpires could not have given a more I'M
satisfactory exhibition if they had been
paid to do SO. Even the partisan CIeve-
land crowd hoooted some of their rulings
which favored the home team
1t is hardly fair to allow Joe Jackson to
face an ordinary pitcher. The ease with
which he slams the ball around when he
Illustrate the average twirler the moment
he sees the tall southerner walk to the
plate. His exhibition against Groom to-
day was absolutely stckening from a
Washington standpoint. In the first in
ming he cracked out single on the first
ball pitched. scoring Johnston. In the
fourth he hit to the center field fence.
sending Turner over the plate, and he was
there with another single In the firth.
which tied the score. After that Hughes
took no chances with him, walking him
on both occasions. The first time. in the
seventh, Lajoie failed to come through
with two out and two on. but when the
same trick was tried in the ninth the
Frenchman broke up the game with hts
safe drive. s...-
The Maps had a similar experience with
Morgan. with two on in the third ano
two out. Gandil was purposely walked
for fear that he might hit, and Morgan
was not believed to be near as danger
Gus. But Gregg erred in his Judgment
for Morgan cleaned the bases a moment
later with as fine a two-bagger as was
ever driven over Chapmans head
Dan Moeller batted right-handed
against Gregg the first two times up ano
got q single and triple. When he turned
once and popped up a little fly on an
other occasion.
Ordinarily eight hits and four runs
| would prove enough to win a game iof
Groom, but he was simply not there to-
day. The fielding behind him was OF
the best, Griffith's team showing iotS VI
ginger and to better advantage than the
Maps. But 1t is the weakness or the
stick work which always makes it neces-
sary for the Nationals pitchefs 10 Pun
up an alright game.
Early in the season there was no team,
in the league which worked the delayed
steal from first with man on thiIu
more successfully than did the Nationals
A run was scored in this manner no less
than ten times early in the campaign,
but OF late the play has fallen nat. ana
not because the opposition anticipates II,
either. Shanks and Gandil tried to pull
IT i'm the second inning. Gandil had
walked, and after Morgan had gone out
ne managed to steal third. Shanks got a
scratch hit, and while Gregg was holding
the ball started for second instead OF
hating before he got to the bag Shanks
went through and was declared out be-
fore Gandil had got well under way
This same mistake has been made sew,
eral times Of late and one might be leo
to believe that the players nave lot
gotten a play which they themselves
originated.
While it is generally agreed among the