Evening star., 1915-09-13
GRIFFITH To KEEP
ROCKIES IN GAME
Pleased With Showing of
Youngsters, Manager Will
Continue to Use Them.
HARPER DUE TO PITCH
AGAINST INDIANS TODAY
Cravath Has Proved Himself One of
Most Wonderful Sluggers
Game Has Produced.
BY ]. ED GRILLo.

The second game Of the final series
with the Cleveland Indians will be
played here today, starting at $3.50
o'clock. Harry Harper is slated to do
the pitching, though Griffith may
change his mind and send Boehling
back for a chance to redeem himself.
There will be no change in the teams
lineup from Saturday. Sawyer will
again play second and Foster third,
while Barber will be in left and
Mayer in right.
Just which one of his pitchers he
will use Manager Fohl of the Indians
probably will not decide until a little
while before the game. His entire
staff is ready excepting Collamore, who
worked Saturday. and there is little
to choose between them.
Griffith was much impressed with
the showing of the youngsters in Sat
urday's game and he will again watch
their work carefully today. He is par
ticularly anxious to get a line on
these recruits so he will know some
thing about them by the time the next
training season rolls around.
Had the Griffmen displayed the same
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have during the past month they would
now be real contenders in the race.
Aside from the change in the infleld
which made a whole lot of difference
in the teams playing. many of the
players who had been slumping with
the stick earlier in the season awak-
ened and now are hitting nearer their
real mark. This is true of both Milan
and Gandil and both blame their failure
earlier in the season to the fact that
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dition because of the cold weather at
Charlottesville during the training
period.
Gandil and Milan are now leading
are both of them will pass the 800
mark by the time the campaign closes.
What a difference there would have
been in the locals standing If this pair
had been hitting to form during the
early months of the season!
Joe Jackson, in the Detroit News, ad
mits that Jennings is not having any
luck in picking up good pitchers. James
and Lowdermilk have not made good
with a vengeance, while Klepfer, the
Chicago recruit sent to Cleveland in
the Jackson deal, beat the Tigers. Here
is what Joe has to say of the game:
Strange that other clubs can land
troit does not seem to be able to do SO.
Klepfer, who beat the Tigers at Cleve-
land was not good enough to pitch for
Rowland. but was plenty good enough
to beat the hardest hitting club in base
ball with no perceptible effort. He
might have had shut-out but for two
errors. one by Roth and one by himself.
"As narrated in the story, Klepfer
faced Cobb and Crawford with bases
filled in the eighth. and neither could
hit him. Cobb got on, scoring run,
ON the pitchers tumble. Crawford flied.
Klepfer won mainly because he made
them hit. He gave but two bases on
balls. and one of these came with two
out"
Gavvy Cravath has proved himself
game has ever produced since he broke
into the National League. To date
Cravath has made 101 extra base hits
for the Phillies this season.. He has
hit twenty-one home runs this season,
and, with any kind of luck. is sure to
beat the record held by Buck Freeman.
during his career with the Washing
ton team, when one season he made
twenty-five circuit clouts.
Cravath has done his share of helping
the Phillies to the lead in the present
race. He has scored and been re-
sponsible for many runs this season by
reason of his terrific clouting.
The story is told that few days ago
President Ban Johnson was inspecting
the Phillies' grounds in company with
Jimmy Isaminger, the Philadelphia
scribe. Johnson remarked, upon see
ing the short right-field fence: THAT
is a very short field" Whereupon
Isaminger replied: "Yes, that is the
best ball player on our team"