The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-04-21
Big League Differs of a
Day.

allowed to make sacrifices aud trave
miles TO disappointment. should bt
given ample notice even though al
early decision should occasionally, pos
sibly half a dozen times q season, re.
suit in q postponement when a sudder
clearing of the weather might latel
allow the players to gambol on the dia
mond.
While they are keen for contests, the
postponement yesterday did not make
the Nationals sore. It was so raw tina;
little good could have come of it had
the game been played.
As soon as the game was called off,
Harry Harper skidded back to dear old
Hackensack, where he has been stay
ing with his family during the sojourn
of the Griffmen in this settlement of
dissatisfaction and routed Tammany--
ties
Wally Smith hasn't smiled since the
rain started. He mad spent Sunday
with lis family in Philadelphia, and
rushed back here IN expectation of a
game. He still counts Monday lost
on his calendar.
Ing hocnester clup Is here for a
series with the Newark team. Among
the Rochester players VINO cropped in
on the Griffmen were JOHNNY Priest
the Washingtonian. and Jerry Akers'
who was tried out by the Nationals,
and then sent back to the International
circuit
Priest has been going along like a
tour,alarm fire this spring. He sees a
bright chance for Rochester in the
league which felt the full force OF the
Federal blow.
When you talk with Joe Gedeon these
days You have to wear smoked glasses.
AS soon as he struck Main Street,
America Gedeon betook himself to a
tailor and grabbed vest that would
totally eclipse the brightest of lights.
The athletes declare that the waistcoat
makes more noise than Gedeon himself.
which is some roast.
OF a fairly promising player on the
washington roster, J. W. McCopaughv
writes the following lines:
"One man does not bali club make
wot that is no idle dream;
And yet, unless 7 much mistake,
This Walter Johnson is a team
The owner of the Brooklyn FEDS
adopted as the nickname for his /ub
the name of the bread on which he
Washington scribe. saw the unwhole-
some bid for free advertising and
promptly labeled the outlaws the Brook
feds. This is the title now used gem
orally by the newspapermen in referr-
ing TO the club that has never received
an invitation to a banquet or oyster
roast from Charley Ebbets, owner of
the National League club across the
steel span.
One OF the reasons for the deep
rooted enmity of the Griffmen against
the Cleveland team is the stand taken
hv Joe Birmingham against Altorck and
SchsS<r in>1heir famous turn.
The pair scored heavily at Fenway
park and at the Polo Grounds made
so good that New Workers are for them.
AS Al Williams said today. Mick and
Schaef are funny. but not half as
amusing as tine finish the Maps made
last fall or the start they are making
this spring
While Griffith and his crew are pro-
fuse in their praise of the improvement
in the New York Americans, the in
preston is that Frank Chance should
have q stronger second be seman, an
other catcher and good utility nan
in tie elect quartet in the American
League race.
Those who have been believing for
Griffith to go nearer TO the equator
than Charlottesville next spring. should
take a fash at the performances of the
New York Nationals pitchers work at
tell YOU that the utter collapse Of Nc
Graw's twiriers had nothing to do with
the fact that they were rushed from
the sunny South to the chilly North.