Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-08
WEATHERPREvENTS
BALL GAME TODAY
Johnson and Alexander May
Face Each Other in a Few
Innings Monday.
PLAYERS DISAPPOINTED
AT FAILURE TO MEET
Grifith's Infeld Playing High
Grade of Ball-Dumont Ap-
pears Improved.
BY J. ED GRILLo.

There will he no clash between Wal
ter Johpson and Grover Cleveland Alex
ander at the ball park today, for the
weather conditions were such this
morning that both Manasers Griffith
and Moran called the game off at an
early hour.
If this pair of pitching stars meets
Monday it will be for but a few innings.
for Johnson probably will open the sea
son in New York Wednesday,: and Grif-
fifth would not be likely to work him
more than three innings with this end
in view. Three innings would just put
Walter on edge for the Wednesday
game, but he should not be allowed to
go any farther than that.
1t was quite a disappointment to the
Phillies as well as the Griffmen that
the two pitching stars could not hook
up in real ball game today. Johnson
is in fine form and probably would
have beaten the famous Philadelphlan,
who was defeated by the Richmond
team day before yesterday.
There was lot of Improvement IN the
Nationals hitting yesterday. Besides the
nine safe drives, there were TOUR or nve
balls hit hard which ordinarily, would
Jameson suffered in this way. Foster
got two hits and the last trip up hit
terrific liner right at Niehof. which the
latter could not avoid. Jameson hit TWO
line drives to right, both of which CraVath
did not have to move for. and Judge
opened his days batting with a line drive
to Whitfield in the opening inning and the
next time up seemed to nave pase MT
over first base, which Luderus, however.
knocked down and beat him to the bag
with.
Jamieson's catch of Cravaths long drive
in the fourth inning was a brilliant piece
os fielding. He covered a lot OF
ground on the drive and turned to make
the catch at the right instant. Jameson
is displaying a lot of speed and seems to
be much better ball player this spring
than he was last fall. when he came here
with Judge for trial
George Dumont has a bright future be-
fore him. The young man pitched a splen-
did game of ball yesterday and in his next
game is certain to display better control
than he did yesterday, the lack of which
responsible for the two runs the
Phillies scored off him. Dumont has a
lot of stuff and with little more ex-
perience is likely to become one of Crit
fiths winning pitchers. He is young
ster and has grown a lot since he
made his debut here last fall. and he is
expected to increase further in size
during the season.
at second. Several of his stops yester-
day were of the circus variety.
The Griffmens infield is playing excep-
tionaliy good ball these days. Every one
of the four players in this department is
in good condition and is playing his posi-
ton to perfection. Foster Mcbride, Nor
gan and Judge are a strong combination
and will compare favorably with any in
field in the league.
Cravath hit couple of long flies which
probably would have been effective on the
small playing field in Philadelphia, but
We're easy outs here.
Burns has developed into a mighty
handy catcher This young man looked
mighty good in the world series last fall
and he seems to be in specially good form
this spring. He hit the ball hard every
time up and handled the deliveries of both
Demaree and Mayer perfectly