The Washington times., 1914-09-10
MACKMEN HAVE NOT
C|NCHED THIS RACE.
So Says Manager Griffith, Who
Thinks Red Sox May Yet
Make Struggle Interesting.
IS BIG BOOM TO BASEBALL
If Carrigan Gets Aid From
Western Clubs, Boston May
Stage Worlds Series.
By THOMAS KIRBY.


ped the front place in our league is
absolutely wrong. They have a great
advantage, but if the Boston Red Sox
can get any help in the coming trip
which the Eastern teams have to make
through the West, there is the strongest
sort of a chance of the series for the
worlds title being decided in Boston"
This was the opinion expressed today
by Clark Griffith as he vented his ad-
mitted antipathy against the Philadel-
phis Athletics.
Considering the fact that baseball
has this season been forced to go
through one of its worst years l don't
know OF anything that would be a bigger
help now than to have the two Bos
ton teams grab that championship
series from New York and Philadel-
phia,' said the Washington manager.
SO successful have been the Boston
Nationals that their squirt has over
shadowed the Red Sox, but if they can
hang on and get the aid from the West
ern clubs, that l think they will. there
will be a change from Shibe Park as
the scene of the worlds series"
While the victory of yesterday kept
the Nationals from tumbling into fourth
place, another interesting development
was the fact that the Boston Red SoX
once more stopped the Athletics.
As matters now stand, there are but
seven games separating the two teams
that are uppermost in the leagle, but
the difficulty that Boston will have to
overcome is the fact that there is such
q short time in which they can catch
the team that is now proving as disap-
pointing as they were encouraging in
July. For some reason, that cannot
be explained. the Athletics have sud
denly quit hitting, and when that weak
ness sets in they are as good as beaten.
Still, it looks from a distance as
though the margin which the Mackmen
opened through their spurt will be suf-
ficient to carry them into the worlds
series.
Joe Boehling is once more able TO
work out with the Nationals in prac-
tice. He put in about an hour yester- |
day and showed no i'll effects of the |
test on his injured knee.
No praise for Jack Bentley in his last !
two starts Is too eXtravagant Against |
the Athletics on Labor Day morning
the silent left handler showed to marked
advantage when he held the Mackmen .
10. two hits and YESTERDAY against the !
Yankees he repeated the performance. !
AS on his previous start Bentley had to !
keep going all the way as the Nation |
ais were giving him only the slightest |
sort of help in the matter of making
runs.
The Nationals got but one run and
that came in the third inning when half
of the Washington hits were clustered
and resulted in one run. Moeller, Eos
ter and Milan punching singles in a
line that led UP to the lone run which
was recorded for the afternoon
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It is impossible to attempt to place
any real dependence on future perform |
ances of young pitchers. but if Jim Shaw !
and Jack Bentley can continue to show !
the form which they have demonstrated |
in their past two starts 1t will mean |
material additions to the Griffithin !
stah.
Shaw had a bad midseason and his |
failure was a distinct disappointment, |
but now that he has commenced to
come through his exhibitions should be |
the biggest sort OF an asset 10 Griffith
in, trying to hold on TO third place.
Bentley was SO Inexperienced at the be- !
ginning of the gear that he was carried
along principally 10 gain experience.
But now he has come through in good |
shape and is being counted upon as one |
of the most reliable OF the slabDiSts.
The story that is coming out of the
West to the effect that Bert Gallia is |
likely to flop to the Federal League
rather than return, to Washington IS
causing no great concern to Griffith.
While he was sent to Kansas City,
tionals and will be one Of the men
Griffith has to depend upon as d
pitcher when the Nationals start
training in the spring.
The utter failure Of the Nationals
10 get men over, after they had reach
ed the scoring zone was demonstrated
five times yesterday. Each time a
man got on the ms n following would |
fail palpably. Milan being the only
one who could come through with the
punch, and II was his hit that put
over the run that climaxed the CON
test
Jack Bentley had the Yankees pop
ping the ball up from the beginning
10 the end Of the game. Seventeen
men went out by the aerial route and
Of these ten were from the first dozen
men who faced him.
THE BOX SCORE.
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