The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
Fourth Place, Also First Dr.
vision, Likely to Be Settled
Here This Week.
OTHER SPORTING GOSSIP
To Date Donovan's Club Has Edge on
Locals in Number of
-.
Victories.
BY WILLIAM PEET.

| BY WILLIAM PEET.
Grifith's Nationals return home tonor~
row after a successful invasion Of the
West, and will on Tuesday open . i've
game series against Bill Donovan's New
York Yankees at the Florida Avenuo
Park. =.
This little engagement with the
! Gothamites probably will settle once and
for all the Nationals right to finish in
the first division, but unless the Griff-
men play better ball against the New
Workers than they have yet shown we
hate to think Of what may happen.
The Nationals and Yankees have mse
on four previous occasions this year ana
the ma jority of games have been won BY
the Donovanites. 80.
Against the Western clubs, especially
Chicago, the Nationals have looked To
be a 50 per cent better ball club than
New York. yet the fact remains that
the Yanks to date have had all the
better of the various meetings when the
Nationals were encountered. Just why
nobody can figure out.
Wild Bill Donovan deserves a heap Of
credit for keeping his club up in the
race He has apparently succeeded
where Frank Chance and Harry Wolver.
ton have failed. 49,.
The Yankees are scheduled to reach
the Capital tomorrow night and have
with them three brand-new players, all
of whom may be seen in action here.
The newcomers are Ernie Kruger, q
catcher from the Omaha club. of the
right-hand pitcher from the st. Joe club,
of the same circuit. and Kemp Shelton,
an outhelder, purchased from the Coz
lumbus club, of the American Associa-
ton.
If Griffith's pitchers. Ayers. Boehlins.
johnson. Harper and Gallia can continue
the fine exhibitions they have shown dur
ing the Western trip. which closes in st.
Louis today. it is hard to see where the
Yankees have much of chance to grab
OF the majority of the games played in
the series. which starts here on Tuesday.
but stranger things have happened.
For the final game of the series in st.
Louis this afternoon Walter johnson In
slated to pitch against George Sisler in
an effort to bring out big crowd.
1t is just possible that these special
attractions are booked in ST. Louis to
offset the games which are staged by the
Feds-an admission that the so-called
outlaws are gaining in power
b In a copyright article AL Demarree, the
artist-author-pitcher of the Philadelphia
Nationals. has the following squib about
Walter Johnson: walter Johnson recent
ly allowed six hits and six runs in ons
inning. and in his next game allowed
eleven hits and eight runs in six innings.
THAT doesn't sound possible. but it's
true.
Walter has been amusing himself by
playing the outfield while not busy pitch
ing. Wonder If this hasn't anything to
do with his effectiveness as a twirler 80
1t is just barely possible that Mr.. Dem.
aree has not scanned the newspapers
carefully. for had he done so he would
have observed that Johnson. has played
the outfeld in only three or four games
this eason and IL can be truthfully said
that Johnson's outfield activities have had
nothing whatsoever to do with injuring
his pitching exhibitions. II there In Q
twirler in the American League who can
show better results for the number OF
games in which he has worked than Wal
ter johnson We would like to know his
name.
There Is a baseball writer in Philadels
phia who appears,to be sadly misinforms
ed. Listen to this dope: "Joe Cantillon'a
old mans home team. In Minneapolis. II
staging a remarkable finish. Six weeks
ago Minneapolis was in seventh place,
with apparently little hope of pulling up
higher, when the team of veterans got
started on a winning streak Minneapolis
is now three games behind the ST. Paul
leaders. and with seven games to be play
ed with the leaders, Cantillon has hopes
of winning out.
1.-THE work Of, this team Is Interesting.
in view of the fact that Cantillon has no
fewer than eleven former major league
PLAYERS. all of whom have passed their
thirtieth year. Cantillon has so many
veterans on his team that Minneapolis
has been termed the old mans home for
several seasons"
As a matter OF fact. the 1915 Minneapo-
lis club Is composed for the most part Of
youngsters who have been shipped to Joe
Cantillon by Clark Griffith.
Outside Of Catcher Billy Sullivan. First
Baseman Aubrey and Jimmy williams
the Minneapolis crowd Is a brand-new
a aggregation. for those old spawned play
ers. who once were hired. have been
chased
Should the two Boston teams win
the pennants in their respective
leagues this season. the Braves will
have one advantage over the Red Sox.
The Stallings OUTFIT has played at Fem
way Park In the intercity series. while
he new grounds built by James z.
for his team win be unfamil-
lar territory to the Csrrigan continS
gent.
Of time In baseball. Look at "Rube'4 :
Marquard and Herb Pennock. Mar@
guard started this season with NeSD
Fork by pitching a shut-out gannn1
against Brooklyn and not allowing ~
hit Now he has been sent to tt
Toronto club. -. 4 /.
Herb Pennock opened the AmerionS
League season In PhiladelDhia -
holding Boston TO one hit. Ne 40 :
,oon released Boston. aua The. 49,