The Washington herald., 1914-09-05
Shaw Finds New Yorks
One Club He Can Beat
Youngster Has Already Handed in Three Wins Out
of Four Starts, Two Being ShutOuts-Umpires
Praise Him-GoSSip and Comment

contributing to the victory with a home
run drive into the left field stands.
Upon the occasion of the New Yorks'
first visit to the Capital this season in
May, Caldwell slipped the youngster a
4 to defeat pill. the only time this year
the Yanks tripped him up. Jim gained
revenge when next the Chancemen were
here. winning handily over McHale and
Cole, I to l.
Probably the best way to get a line on
a young pitchers ability is to ask one OF
the umpires.
The writer had a chat with Bill Dineen
early in the spring when the subject Of
young pitchers came up for discussion.
"Grin has picked up a corker in this
fellow Shaw" Dineen declared Hes
got a fine fast ball and a great curve.
He should win a lot of games foF Wash
ington this year"
silk O'LoughIiu talked the same way,
adding: SHAW is a little green, but he's
got the stur, all right
O'Loughlin handed out the answer
when he said SHAW is a little green"
for that has been the trouble with him
all year. Inexperience has been Jim's
great drawback.
Manager Griffith predicted this from
the start, when he told the writer in
Charlottesville last March that Shaw
would win lot of games for Washing
ton, but that he would also lose a great
many on account of his inexperience.
With his pitching stan at present in
bad shape, Griff is forced to work Shaw
in his regular turn, and this is the best
thing that could possibly happen to the
youngster
Unless all signs fail he should be a
whale of a pitcher next year. i
The benching Of Ray Morgan for fail
ure to keep in condition and the an
nouncement that every regular would
be forced to hustle to hold his Job next
year comes as no surprise to local base
ball writers.
Griffith has been up against a tough
proposition this season. No manager in
the league has treated his players with
more consideration than the Old Fox.
Some day the boys will wake up to
this fact.
Tommy Rice. former sporting editor
of a Washington newspaper who at
present writes baseball for the
Daily Eagle, of Brooklyn. n. Y. was
questioned recently as to the date on
which the New York Giants moved into
first place last spring. He handed out
the following answer:
81 know not and neither do care.
This is my sixteenth year in major
league baseball, and until last season,
when the Dodgers finished sixth, had
never been attached to anything better
than a seventh place club. No man
living knows more about tail-enders than
I, but go elsewhere with your questions
concerning the first division and the
clubs therein"
On Thursday Eddie Collins, the Ath-
letics' second baseman, sprained his ankle
during a ball game against the Boston
Red Sox. Not only did the Athletics
lose a couple Of games, but they have
possibly lost the services of Collins. Los
ing two games or a dozen by the Mack
men wouldn't be noticed only in Boston.
but the loss of Collins will be a serious
thing. What Collins is to the Athletics
will be shown while he is absent He is
without question the best all-round ball
player In the game today, and the main
cog in the Athletics well-oiled machine.