The Washington herald., 1916-05-29
Griffmen to Start Road
Trip as League Leaders
Chicago Victory Over Indians
In Double Bill Gives Nation
ais Game and Half Lead.
RICE MAY WORK TODAY
By WILLIAM PEEr.

with one game remaining to be played
today against Connie Mack's Athletics,
the Nationals will pull up stakes tonight
and hike to Boston to open a four-game
series with Bill Carrigan's Red Sox.
Thanks 70 the Chicago White SoX who
defeated Lee Fohrs Cleveland Indians in
double-header yesterday in the Windy
City, the Nationals today have one and
oEe-hah game lead on the Sixth City
crew. Even II the Mackmen succeed In
slipping IL over on Grifhth's clan today
and the Indians win from FohFs Sox
the Nationals will leave tonight on the
longest road trip of the year leading Ban
Johnson's circuit with one half a game
margin.
The "Old Fox was all smiles when
told Of the success OF the White Sox in
the Sabbath day bill in the Windy City,
but when asked TO make a prediction on
Griffith would only venture to say that
the club would be out there fighting all
the time and hustling to win.
We only play one ball game at d
time, and 1 am not making any predic-
ton on what We will do against those
Western clubs. We will be putting up
a strong fight all the time and the team
as a whole will be hustling to win. We
will fool a lot of those birds, but l
will not make any predictions of a clean
up on this long trip"
Opening with the four-game series to-
morrow with Boston Red Sox which ends
on Wednesday. the Nationals will take
a long jump to Detroit for three games
On June the Nationals meet the In
disns in Cleveland in a four-game series
and hike over to Chicago for five games
with the White SoX when a long jump
will be made to st. Louis for a four
game series.
After the series with the Fielder Jones
Brownies the Nationals jump to Phila-
delphla and then TO New York, returning
here on June s for a game with the
Boston Red Sox.
On this long hike around the West
ern and Eastern wheel the Nationals
are compelled to make four long
Jumps. The first comes tonight when
they board the 6:15 express for Bos-
ton. and after the Boston series a
jump to Detroit and then comes the
jump to St Louis which Is followed
by a two-night and day ride on the
train to Philadelphia.
Here are the dates for this irst long
swing around the trail:
Boston-May 80, 81. June l.
Detroit-June 5. 4. 5.
Cleveland-June 6. I, 8. q
Chicago-June 10. IL. IL. 13. a.
1
Philadelphia-June 20. 81, 22
New York-June %. "a, IS. 81
In the last home game today Man
ager Griffith is undecided on just who
will work for the locals. Sammy Rice,
the spit ball finger. may be assigned
the duty, although the "OId Fox" may
make a last minute shift and place
either Doc Ayers or Jimmy Shaw on
the mound.
As Connie Macks best bets. Joe
on Saturday the Athletics pilot will
no doubt send Sheehan or CrowelI
against the GriTmen today
After breaking the hearts of the
New York faithful by losing thirteen
out of the fifteen games played in the
East-after grOveling in the cellar un-
til quondam admirers insisted they
ought to be called mushrooms" in
allusion to the only fruit that is said
to grow at the lowest depth-the
Giants have done it! They've won six
teen straight
Starting West for the opening game
in Pittsburgh on May 9, they were a
sad aggregation. Sad. sore, sick. and
seemingly all in. Fans are wondering
what took place on that brief railroad
d
shipment Of dynamite on that train-it
might have been McGraw-and when the
despised Giants toted their bat bags out
to the ball grounds that fatal afternoon
they had more fight in their systems
than ony Of-those mythical wild cats.
With sixteen straight, two garnered at
the expense Of Boston yesterday, the
Giants are In shooting distance of several
timehonored records that were made ten
or more yearsNago. Just two more games
and they will equal the record of the
Giants, pennant winners for the first time
IN 1895, when they won eighteen games
straight. Let them hang on and win
three more, and they'll equal the top
notch record of the major leagues that
Of nineteen straight made by the White
Sox in 1896, and with one more win the
Giants will equal the seventeen straigi .
made by the Nationals in 1912.
Walter Pipp, the former Catholic Uni
versity first baseman, had difficulty In
hitting the left handed pitchers last
year. But he seems to have remedied
the weakness in fine style This season
he Is swatting the southpaws as readily
as he swats right handlers
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