The Washington herald., 1913-05-11
|GANDIL OUT
Of GAME With
ABROKEN TOE
Nationals Great First Stacker
| viii Not Play for Two
Weeks.
GRIFFITH TO KEEP MUM
Will Not Open His Mouth to Umpires
on Ball Fields Again.
Other Gossip.
By WILLIAM PEET.

Chicago, ILL.,, May .10-Chick Gandil.
the Nationals first sacker. consulted q
foot specialist this morning and was
told that one of the small bones OF
that he may have to warm the bench
for two weeks.
As soon as the Washington Club
reaches st. Louis, Manager Griffith will
send Gandil to a hospital for the purpose
of having the foot placed under an x
ray, so that the proper treatment can
be prescribed 1t is believed that a
slight operation will be necessary.
Gandil's loss to the club is a severe
hitting the toboggan, as neither Al Will
Jams or Germany Schaefer have shown
that they can fill the big fellows place.
Griff made switch this afternoon
when he kept Williams on the bench
and worked Schaefer on first, this was
done principally because Williams seems
to be in batting slump.
That all the umpires in the American
League have been ordered to make
things hot for Griffith and Danish him
from the game upon the slightest provo
cation, is the belief of the Old Fox him
self, and for this reason today he put
up q good sized wager with a friend
that from now on he would never open
his mouth to an umpire on the ball
field
'Tm going through with this. too he
said to the writer. ''The minute I give
any of these fellows chance to put
me out of the game they have been
ordered to do so, and I am not going to
be kept off that bench. so have decided
that in the future viii not speak to
them 1t looks as il Grid knew where
OF he spoke. Probably the run-in the
OLD Fox had with Dineen in Washing
ton has precipitated the whole trouble.
The Washington players blame the ex-
trernely cold weather here for their poor
showing the past three days, rather a
novel excuse. when they trained down
in Charlottesville last March. where the
ing mark. but the answer is that the
majority of the players are Southern
born and simply cannot stand the gafr
The Nationals are in a horrible batting
slump at present. and if the team hopes
to make a respectable showing against
ST. Louis there will have to be quick
change.
Tom Hughes has been nominated to
face the Browns in the opening con-
test tomorrow The Nationals left on
the o'clock train tonight for the Mound
City, and will stop at the Planters
Hotel
The writer had a chat with the vet
eran catcher, Billy Sullivan, who is still
on the pay roll of the White Sox, and
who is used very much the same as Griff
uses Jack Ryan. to help coach the young
pitchers. Sullivan came through with a
nj of for TAA II
L consider Henry the best backstop In
the American League. He is even supe-
rior to Oscar Stanage at throwing To
bases. He is as good a hitter as any
OF them, and, for receiving and holding
up a pitcher, he can't be BEATEN
Such compliment from a ball PLAYER
or Sullivan's caliber means something.
Nobody in the East fully realizes what
an idol Frank Chance is to the majority
of Chicago fans. and how closely the
former Cub leader has been watched
since he has been at the helm of the
New York Highlanders
No sooner had Grif and the Nationals
reached the Windy City than teIephope
calls by the dozen, followed by visitors
demanded to know what the trouble was
with the New York club. how Chance
was getting along, and countless other
questions.
On May IL. Frank Chance Day. here
every seat in Comiskey's ball mark has
been sold. and the biggest crowd that
ever watched ball game In the Windy
City will be on hand. just to welcome
the old Cub leader and show him how
much they think of him.
The extreme cold weather in CHICAGO
does not bother the Nationals one hit
Any bali club able to survive March
spent in Charlottesville could do bust
ness around the North Pole
While the Sox We're shivering to death
last Friday, the Climbers appeared TO
enjoy the chilly blasts and displayed
more PEE than at any time since hft-
ting the Western trail