Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-28
WASHINGTON AND BOSTON
WIND UP SERIES TODAY
johnson and Mays Probable Opposing
Pitchers-Both Teams Fearful Of Too
Many Double-Headers.

, the team that has the best luck with
| its pitching staff will win it. Even the
| Red SoN would not be able to stay up
| if Ruth, Shore or Leonard, any one of
| the three should slip. The Athletics
are SO much improved that they are
| sure TO be in the fight. ] don't say
| they will make q struggle for the nag
| right to the end, but they demonstrated
| against my team an attack that pre-
eludes counting them out OF the race
! It's too early TO pass judgment on the
| teams.
| Both Harper and Johnson should be
right next week. Great pitching won
for the Red Sox last year. and 1t can
win for me. ! can't win without ana
neither can Barry's team. Chicago is
doing better than it will. Cleveland is
going along at about the speed 1t can
maintain all year. Detroit and st. Louis
are under form right now, just as my
team is.
Last season there were seven teams
in the fight, and there will be one more
this year. Fourth of July will be early
enough to eliminate any team from the
championship possibility class"
In spite of the bad weather preva-
lent early in the season. especially in
Boston. example of which was furnish
ed by the forced cancellation of the
Red SoX-SenatorS games OF THURSDAY
and yesterday PresideG Harry II.
Frazee of the local club opposes any
change to later opening. Asked II ne
intended TO put ur fight to have the
Inauguration of the season set back q
couple of weeks, a movement some
owners have been advocating for years,
Fra8ee said:
We've done better 50 far this season
than the club did last year the year
before. AS l see it. you're Just as
liable to get nasty, chilly weather In
May as in the middle of April It's
gamble anyway The suggestion to
start the season In the west would
a. l. fk.axr ttN.r
cold, drizzling weather in Chicago. as
bad as it has been here. If all the
teams could play all of April in st.
Louis. ] might say open there and stay
there. | am optimistic, despite the bad
weather. The early start in play means
an early start of interest and enthuSi-
assn. The crowds aud the enthusiasm
and / Keep posted on those things
have been bigger and better than last
year.
Another change III his lineup which
Manager Griffith is likely 10 make be-
fore long is the shifting Of Morgan to
second base and sending Foster back
TO his old place at third. Griff is not
through experimenting with his team,
not by n long shot. II Mcbride fails to
keep up the pace 1T which he was
travelling with the bat before he iald
off TO nurse his sore finger. Crane VIII
he placed at short. aSSuredly so If the
rest OF the bunch start to hitting as
Grif expects them to- The pilot fig
ureS that il would be a good thing for
the team TO have sam i'll the lineup,
even though he cannot hit better than
200. just TO get the benefit of his fiashy
fielding
Il have been in base bail long time,
said Griff. referring TO- Crane, but
am free to say that / never saw his
equal as a fielder. He can go as far
as anybody ever could. in any direc-
ton, and get a ball, and can throw
sideways backward, standing on his
head or lying on the fiat of his back
Griffith likes Crane.