Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-27
MAPS HAVE BEATEN
LOCALS NINE TIMES
TaiIenders as Successful as
Athletics Against GrIff-
men This Year.
AYERS AND SHAW LISTED
FOR DOUBLE BILL TODAY
Athletics Lead Is Increasing Every
Day and New Record for Vic.
tories Is Likely.
BY J. ED GRuLO.

| Cleveland and Washington have played
sixteen games to date, and the Maps
have nine victories to their credit, nav
| ing made a better showing against the
Nationals than against any other team.
/ The Maps nine victories equal the num-
Der of games the Athletics have taken
from the Griffmen to date.
| II is possible the visitors will add
couple of victories to their string this
| afternoon, when they are carded here
for a double-header. Griffith Will use
Ayers and Shaw against them, but
Birmingham will have clever pitching.
as he has Hagerman, Morton and Steen
| to draw from. The Maps are here for
three games, playing the final tomorrow
| The nine victories the Maps have
scored beats any mark they have reach
! ed against the Nationals in recent
| years. Heretofore the Cleveland team
i always has been the easiest kind of
, mark for the Nationals. But the worm
has turned iii the present campaign
Lajoie is playing first for the Maps.
! and the veteran seems to have regained
| his batting eye now that ne is playing
regularly. Reports from other cities
where the Maps have appeared are to
the effect that T.ajoie looks perfectly
at home t. first base. and it is the judg.
ment of many critics that he should
have been played IN lnat position se'-
eral years ago
The race in the National League con-
tinues to be one of the hardest fought
in the history of base ball: Twenty-f tour
points is the margin between the first
and the fourth team. and matter OF
a victory or two can put any one OF
these teams in the lead
The Giants still have an advantage
Their lead is by a margin of but half a
game to be sure, but they are hoidlne
on with tenacity. 1t was the wonderful
Mathewson who made the even break
That eliminates Matty from considera-
ton for the next four or five days. and
it is questionable if the other twirlers.
Demaree and Tesreau. will be able TO
going to have easy sailing in St Louis
either. for Higgins team is always
troublesome. and seeing chance TO
win the flag is sure to put forth It's
very best efforts
1t would not be at all surprising to
find the four contenders see-sawing dur
ing the remainder of the eastern IN
vasion and that the question of which
one will win will not be decided until
the closing weeks of the season.
Dan Moeller is having the best year
of his career as a National. Moeller has
been a most consistent performer in
every department this season. He has
hit well, fielded splendidly and dis
played a lot of speed on the bases. AS
a lead-off man he ranks with the top
notchers, getting on the bases great
deal. Moeller must be numbered among
the most competent of outf1elders in
the American League.
The weakness of the western teams
has made it possible for the Athletics
to gain so long leaa in the race that
the outcome has not been in doubt for
several weeks. On but few occasions
have the western teams been able to
give the Mackmen a setback. On their
last trip west the leaders lost but one
or two games. and they have duplicated
this record since they have been home.
What is more. the team seems to i'm
prove as the close of the season draws
near, because of the excellent work the
entire pitching staff is doing. 1t would.
therefore. not be at all surprising i'll
the Mackmen hung up a new record
this year in the matter of games won.
Had Boston made better start in the
race there might have been a chance
for that team to win this year. But the
Carrigans have not been near as con-
sistent an aggregation as the Mack
men, and their several winning spurts
have been more than Offset by losing
streaks. That Boston has the strongest
team among the Athletics rivals must
few breaks it might stand a chance to
win a pennant. though something
would have to happen to the Athletics
to make this possible.
Manager Griffith announced this morn
ing that. while he had received no official
notice from President johnson anent
the playing of the game September |. %
per cent of the receipts of which are to
! go to the Red Cross Society, he said that
he expected to get communication from
| Johnson within the next day or so and
that the game would be played with the
understanding that the stipulated per-
centage Of the receipts be set aside for
| the purpose mentioned.