Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-19
FRIDAY RED CROSS DAY
AT LOCAL BALL PARK
Washington Club to Turn Over Half
Of Its Receipts From Game
to Organization.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.


The Washington base ball club is GO
ing to do its bit in the Red Cross cam
paign to raise this citys share of $780,
600 of the minimum of sioo. 10000 ask
ed from the entire country for the &C
Invites of the organization at home and
abroad. 1t has nominated Friday as
Red Cross day at the Georgia avenue
park and has agreed to turn over so
per cent of its share of the receipts of
the contest that day
Friday Will be the last opportunity
local patrons of base ball will have to
see a major league game until July %.
and with the knowledge that they are
contributing to worthy cause by at
tending, a large crowd should be on
hand to see the battle with the Ath-
letics.
Whether the Griffmen will leave
Washington Friday evening for their
swing around The circuit as occupants
of the cellar position in the American
League race depends upon the outcome
of their three-game series with the
Ma ckmen which opens tomorrow The
Grffs now are in the last hole, one
game in the rear OF Connie Mack s
charges. but regardless of the outcome
of todays games in this city and Phila-
delphia the Nationals can get off the
bottom rung of the ladder if they can
take the Macks into camp.
Walter Johnson is due to oppose the
Tigers this afternoon. and Bill James
probably will start against him, with
Boland ready to be called upon in case
James falterS.
Cobb stole second on every one of
the three occasions he reached first
base in yesterdays game. Harper
wasted lot of time and energy in
trying to prevent Ty from getting a big
lead on him.
1t appeared for time that the
Georgian would have his record for hit
ting in consecutive games broken when
up. but in the eighth with Witt on sec
ond and one out he dumped hunt
that Leonard made no effort to throw
to first. so Tyrus now is credited with
having hit safely in his last fifteen
games
With Milan on second in the seventh
inning and one run needed to tie. Me-
nosky stood at the plate and had three
strikes called on him without offering
at the ball What he was waiting for
only Mike knows. Dauss had been get
ting the ball over the plate with mo-
notonous regularity; in fact, had shown
perfect control. except on one occasion
In the second inning. when Leonard was
passed. II Menosky had taken three
wild swings at the ball he could have
done no worse than be set down on
strikes which was what happened to
him anyhow, and he might have con-
nected-made hit or possibly been the
beneficiary of an error by one of the
opposing felders.
Dauss had the local batsmen COM
pletely bahled Nominally curve
ball pitcher, the Griffmen were con-
stantly looking for hooks and getting
fast ones right over But they failed
to benefit by observation of this fact
as the game wore on.
Bush and Burns, the two Tigers on
the hospital list. left Washington yes
terday for Detroit. there to await the
this evening and is due home tomor-
row afternoon, barely in time for the
game scheduled with the st. Louis
Browns. Sergt. Thorne. the Tigers
the team went with them. these in
Guiding Pitchers Mitchell, Dauss. Cum
bingham and Carroll Jones; Catcher
Yelle and Utility Infielder De Fate.
Upon returning home the Tigers
have as strenuous program to fulfill
as ever caused premature grayness for
a manager-twenty-f games in sew
enteen days-six contests in five days
at Detroit with the Browns. six in four
days with the White Sox at Chicago
six in four days with the Browns at
St. Louis and an additional half dozen
with the White Sox in Detroit in four
days.
National League fans may be given
the treat in the last few weeks of the
season of seeing three games in one
day. the directors of the circuit at
their meeting yesterday having de-
cided that this Will be permissible,
provided the games might decide the
championship.
The playing of three games in one
day was projected by the Athletics and
Tigers a number of years ago. but was
prevented by the American League
rules. However. on September l, 1890,
before the national commission was in
stituted and before the American
League was organized. Brooklyn and
Pittsburgh played three games in one
day, Brooklyn winning them all.