Evening star., 1917-05-31
BY DENMAN THOMPSON

In compliance with the CONSUMPTION
act the members of the Washington
base ball club visited the municipal
building shortly after noon today and
registered themselves for military duty.
Dan Donovan. secretary to the board Of
blanks for the athletes and answered
all their questions, assisted by half a
dozen registrars kept busy daily by
this work. ofethe twenty-five men
available for duty in the lineup Of
draft-George Mcbride. Clyde Milan and
Maurice Craft. Mcbride and Milan have
passed the registration. age, the former
being thirty-six years old, and the latter
thirty-one. and Craft has not YET: attained
his majority. Those who may be called
upon for service under the colors are
Ainsmith. Ayers. Du Mont. Gallia.
aS1TnS aarpG5 Henry EGgs
Morgan, shanks. Menosky. Smith
and Rice. Nine of the players
Du Mont: Charity. Harper, Crane.
Leonard. Morgan, Menosky, Smith and
Rice-were recorded as unmarried. but
nearly all of them have one or moro
members of their families dependent
upon them.
Those of the Grifmen who live out of
town. and most of them do, will have
their cards transmitted by the District
officials to the mayor of the city in
which they live or to the sheriff or
county clerk In case the town has less
than 10000 population.
Molly Craft, whose ankle was
sprained when Risberg collided with
him at the home plate in Chicago, has
gone to his home at Portsmouth, Va.
has recovered sufficiently from his in
jury to resume work.
Fifteen Of the twenty five games Wash
q 0any A<&fl lyy a..
hfths-have been dropped by margin Of
one run. This answers the question:
What is the matter with the Grinmen?
The same old failing, lack Of a punch.
again yesterday, when both morning and
afternoon contests went to Boston with
but q single tally to spare. The holiday
card gave the Red Sox clean record.
marked the ninth consecutive defeat Of
the forces Clark Griffith is plotting, with
9 tie game in Chicago intervening. On
five different occasions yesterday Griff
morning contest Jameson. batting for
Gallia, who had just made hit and who
was himself used in St. Louis as pinch
hitter when he singled over a run. hit
INTO a double play with runners on sec
Ayers with runner on first in the ninth.
popped a foul to Gardner. In the after
noon affair Smith whitfield when sent
in to hit for Shaw in the sixth. with
two on bases. Shanks batted for Rice
in the ninth and walked, and Charity.
who followed him. famed for Jameson.
kind Of pitching the Red Sox present
when graphing with the local outfit Yes
terday afternoon 1t was Bader. former
Buffalo International Lacquer, who has
passes in the seven innings he worked.
all coming in pairs. testified to his un-
steadfness, and in addition he made q
wild pitch and permitted two stolen bases.
but although Washington received the
additional benefit Of six hits was able to
garner only two runs. On four occasions
Jameson, who appeared as an outf1elder
for the first time this season, had oppor-
He walked once. but failed to get the bali
out Of the infield the other three times
His only chance to demonstrate his throw
ing ability came in the first inning. his
| peg to get Hooper at the plate after Hob
litzell had singled being several yards
wide.
Fosters muff of Hooper's foul fly in
the very first inning was the only error
| of the contest, but with 1t eliminated
the result might have been different
as Harry subsequently worked Shaw
for pass. Janvrin was hit by pitch
ed ball and when Hoblitzell singled to
left Hooper scored. Jamieson's throw
| TO LR0 plAte Doing way W1Qe, JanVT1N
galloning to third and Hobby to sec
| ond. Manager Barry then gave the
signal for the double squeeze. almost a
lost art since Connie Mack's famous
old machine was broken up. 1t was
only half successful. Shorten's bunt
was a neat one and Janvrin scored
with ease. but Foster had his head up.
Instead Of pegging Shorten out at first
he took a sQuint to his right, and
seeing Hobby racing in tossed to Ain
smith, who put the ball on the alien
! flrstsacker as he slid in.
Boston's third, and, as 1t turned out.
, winning run, was produced in the sixth
on successive singles by Lewis. Shorten
! and Gardner. Walter Johnson pitched
the last three innings and held the Sox
scoreless.
Sam Rice scored both of Washington's
counters. Each originated with q pass.
and both were made possible by Nor
gan's bate The first Of them came In
| the third round with two down. Rice
got q big lead of Bader and stole sec
| ond. Jameson also walked, and when
Morgan dropped a Texas Lacquer into
left Rice got in.
Rice took second on wild pitch.
after being franked to first in the
seventh with one down, advanced on
Jamieson's out and hit the counting