The Washington times., 1914-08-18
Eeb Milan Will Return to Team
Within Week; Gleason Gets Trial
Grmens Star 0uteIder Expects to Practice With Outfit To-
day, Wires Being Removed From MoutlFLst Will Be
Shown CantiHon for Him to Choose Four Men,
By THOMAS KIRBY.

advantage for the Griffmen. In the
ninth his work was even more puerlle.
He gave q pass to the first man, fell
in attempting to field bunt on the
next; then came a sacriflce MT ana d
boot by Mcbride, and wild pitch, net
necessary to give them half OF the
days double bill.
From where came Johnson's sudden
attack OF wildness no one knoWs-lt was
one of those things that cannot be eX-
planned about baseball. But wheh @ il
did arrive the big pitcher was helpless,
and had an ordinary spectator visited
the park for the afternoon without
knowing either of the pitchers he would
have picked Ayers as the star ana
johnson the one who might some day
was as steady as a perfectly regulated
pendulum, while johnson was most err
ratio when 1t appeared as though ne
had victory within his grasp Inc oe-
scription of the pitchers hest explains
the reasons why Washington won one
game and lost the other on Manhattan
island yesterday.
Particular interest Is attached to to-
DAYS game as II marks the first ap-
reorance OF Mike Mitchell. That the
patrons of baseball will like his work
"
greatest sort of a factor in bringing
the Griffmen home with even as good a
record as they have made. Mitchell Is
of the vicious type Of batter. He hits
hard, can throw as well or better than
any man on the club. is fast. although
his style of running does not indicate
great speed. and. withal, is popular
with his new messmates and should
soon be well up on the popularity list
among the fans.
To the combination Of weak hitting
and pitching wildness that at times
challenged description. may be blamed
for the failure OF the Nationals to come
home with a more impressive record
than eleven victories in twenty-one
starts.
Sweeping through St Louis and De-
troit in good shape and six wins to two
defeats was the record in these two
cities. Then came the setbacks at
Cleveland and Chicago. The spirit or
the team naturally waned after these
experiences as the Athletics were all
the while gallopinE along at a speed
that was widening the gap that was
wrecking all the pennant ambitions and
aspirations of the Griffmen.
At Philadelphia the club gathered it.
self together to make its final stand
One look at the two teams I'm action
however. was enough to convince even
the most biased that If it is to be
L d,
the Athletics for 1914
Barring the Chicago Cubs when they
were trimming the Detroit Tigers in the
worlds series. the writer has never
seen team superior to the one that
Connie Mack is driving pennantward
The pitchers who wavered in the early
season have come back, the clouting
brigade that has caused dread in the
heart of every pitcher who ever faced il
is as good as II ever has been, which
is fulsome praise. while the fielding
could hardly be improved upon.
When one team is winning twenty
three out of twenty-five games and the
other is losing ten out of twentv-one
It Is not hard to decide which is the
better collection.
Yesterdays games showed that Frank
Chance OF ce more has his pitchers in
good shape. Warhop gave Ayers a
mighty battle and in the second game
Fisher. keating. and Pieh each per-
formed creditably. although uncertain
helding was decided handicap to the
three in their terms of service