Evening star., 1916-08-24
PITCHER SCOTT IS SUSPENDED
AND SENT BACK TO CHICAGO
Veteran Twirling Star Charged With Failure
to Live Up to Training Rules-Manager
Rowland Appears DISCOURAGED

The result was that when Smith
faced left-handed pitching in the games
here it was the first he had seen during
the entire season. and he naturally was
severely handicapped thereby. but in
due time he will learn to cope with the
seuthpaw There is no other club so
well supplied with left-handers as are
the Browns. SO brighter days undoubt-
edly are in store for Smith.
Judged on his showing in the first
Manager Griffith to adopt the same sys-
tenn with Jim Shaw that made Reulbach
and Joe Engel successful pitchers;
Let Shaw pitch to the batters before
the game he is to pitch and he probably
would have control right from the out
set.
Shaw was scored on four times in the
first three innings. during which period
he was hit safely four times. But after
the third inning Shaw began to display
real form. only two men reaching the
bases in the next six innings.
After the third inning but two hits
were made off of his delivery and he
walked but single man. Shaw should
to let him pitch to the batters before
the game might have the desired effect.
Joe Leonard has all the earmarks of
being a wideawake, game ball player,
who is not only good fielder. but has
shown himself to be a timely hitter.
Yesterday Leonard ordinarily would
have been given credit for winning the
first game. when. with AinSmith on sec
ond in the eighth inning, he came
through with clean-cut single te
right. on which. however. Ainsmith was
thrown out al the plate.
1t was the first time during Ain
smiths career as a member of the Ma
tionals that any outfielder ever has
been able to throw him out at the
plate on single. Ainsmith is ex-
traordinarily speedy and does not lose
any ground making the turn at bases.
but yesterday in the first game he
must have gotten a bad break away
from second, for he was thrown out
by Miller's perfect throw.
Without rejecting on Joe Judges
ability as base runner and thinker.
there is no doubt that he prevented
the tying of the score in the tenth
inning. when he stood some distance
from the third base bag and watched
Miller catch Jamieson's line drive be-
fore he made any effort to return to
the bag.
If Judge had stopped to think that
if the ball went safe he could walk
home from the bag and that he must
be on the bag to score the run if the
ball should be caught and had run for
the bag as soon the ball was hit.
he could not have failed to tie the
score.
When the fans learn that the man
who is on the bench in charge OF the
team has grounds for every move he
makes in a ball game, some of the
ridiculous demonstrations such as oc-
CURED in the tenth inning of the first
game, when Griffith substituted Will
liams for Charity. would not occur.
Not during his stay with the team
has Charity ever impressed any one
with his ability to lay down a sacrifice
bunt. 1t is the only weakness the
young man has displayed in the games
he has played here, and knowing
this, Manager Griffith substituted VIII
liams. who is very clever at that
feature of the game. with the result
that the two runners were moved to
third and second. respectively. on a
perfect sacrifice.