Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-06
WASHINGTON PLAYS
EXHIBITION CONTEST
Game Takes Place This After.
noon at Beaver Falls, Pa,
Where Shanks Broke In.
YANKEES IN HARD LUCK
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

D oGNMAN i4dOMESON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
! BEAVER FALLS. Pa, July &-Griff's
perky athletes arrived in this city of
15.000-odd inhabitants this morning to
do battle with the local prides of the
diamond. by way of filing in an off
day en- route from New York to De-
troit Beaver Falls principal claim
Shanks, the merciless Monacan) To
honor Howard on his first appearance
before the home folks in a major
league uniform a half holiday has been
declared in order that all the natives
may visit the high school park. where
! the game is to be played. In the val
ley" in which Beaver Falls Is situated
are several towns, with combined
population of about $4,000. within a
or 10 cent car fare distance, including
Beaver and Freedom, and in addition
| East Liverpool. with a population of
about $4,000. is only seventeen miles
| away. Shanks thinks the park will be
| packed and damned.
wild Bilr' Donovan's troubles are
pfltng up. The Yankees are without
his services as field general. the man
| ed for what he said to Umpire Dineen
| in the afternoon game Wednesday. 1t
| was on the play on which Menosky
stole home with the winning run. Don
ovan contended the pitch was the third
strike on Ayers. who was at bat, and
| that it should have retired the side
Donovan couched his argument in such
offensive terms as to draw the wrath
Of Dineen. In addition, Catcher VOL
| lers is out Of the game with an injury,
| and Ray Caldwell has not been seen
by any of his teammates since he broke
| training in Boston recently and was
| suspended
| On top of this comes tho discovery,
| made in an examination yesterday. that
Pitcher Urban Shocker has green
stick fracture Of a bone in his pitch
ing arm. brought about during prac-
| tice in Boston. 1t is believed Shocker
least two weeks.
Hughey High and Frank Gilhooley, two
| Of the Yanks' regular outfielders, have
been out OF the game for some time with
injuries and the latter did not accompany
the team when 1t left town last night.
The Yanks have lost eight out of their
last ten games. one having been a tie.
From pennant contenders they have skid
to be lucky to stay in the first division.
Their prospects on the eve of their In
vasion OF the west. assuredly. are not
rosy.
Shaw issued only four passes in his
game and displayed lot of stuff. tanning
seven Yanks and causing twelve Of them
| to pop up flies.
Gallia got into ono jam in the second
contest from which he was lucky to es-
cape. With one down. he walked Alex
ander, and Love surprised the 5000 as
sembled fans by pounding out single
that sent the catcher to third. Gallia
then passed Maisel, bringing up Peckin-
paugh. dangerous hitter in a pinch.
Peck caught one on the end of his bat
and drove 1t on line to Leonard, who
completed an unassisted double play by
stepping on third.
Slow footwork by Gallia cost the Ma
tionals run in the fifth. After he had
walked and Judge had famed, Shanks
sent him to second with line drive to
center. Milan then poled long single to
right, but Hendryx's throw nailed Gallia,
who went into the plate standing up.
The Griffmen opened their second inva-
sion Of the west with a record on foreign
fields in the east this trip Of eight games
six games with the Red Sox in Boston,
won two and lost three in Philadelphia
and picked three victories as against one
defeat in New York. Oddly enough, Wash
ington's worst showing was in the series
with the weakest outfit Of the three. and
Of the league, for that matter. What 1t
will be able to accomplish on the frontier
| remains to be seen. but II Dumont recov-
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fault of the pitchers that Washington does
not do better than split even in Detroit,
Cleveland, Chicago and st. Louis.
1t did not take Hans Wagner long to
reach the conclusion that managing a ball
club Is not the job for him. President
Dreyfuss gave the base ball world some
| thing Of a surprise when he installed as
| manager Of the Pirates Hugo Bezdek, a
| man who has not had even minor league
experience as pilot 1t Is unlikely that
the former athletic director Of Oregon
University will be able to accomplish any
thing with the bunch of misfits he fell
| heir to- but he is said to have brains and
| the ability to manage men