Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

race-hit They did it with a Yer
from infield scratches to fence-bump-
ing three-baggers, furnishing music
for the ears of the fans. They played
no favorites. either, all four of the
boxmen Mack trotted out being ac-
corded a ,warm reception. Ellis John
son. who started for the visitors and
failed to last the first inning out, is a
spit-ball pitcher with lots of speed.
who last season performed with the
Vernon club of the Pacific Coast
League, now piloted by George Stovan.
Hill, the left-hander who succeeded
him, halls from Waco of the Texas
League where he put in three profit
able seasons. Keefe. the right-hander.
who was chased after four hits off his
delivery had produced two runs in the
fourth round, is a youngster Mack has
listed under the head of promising"
whose previous experience was OBJ
tanned with the Goddard Seminary nine.
Seibold, who worked from the fourth
inning on, is product of the sand lots
of Philadelphia. Mack had him play
ing at short for the Athletics for a
time, and last season he was with the
Wheeling team of the Central League,
ord of seventeen games won and six
| lost. Seibold appears to be a good ball
player; he handles himself well. Just
how successful he will prove in the
remains to be seen.
Fourth place is the goal the Griffmen
Will strive for tomorrow when they
meet the Mackmen in the third game of
the series. George Du Mont will work
for the locals. If he comes through with
anything like the brand of pitching he
flashed at the Polo Grounds against
Caldwell Thursday nothing but hard
luck and gobs of it will beat him with
any kind of offensive support. Either
Joe Bush or Elmer Myers will oppose
him, and whichever one of this pair is
not selected for duty will get the as
signment Tuesday. Washington now is
right on the heels of the Browns and
Indians If they are able to win to-
morrow and the st. Louis and Cleve-
| land entries fall down again the clan
| of Griff will be in the first division to-
morrow evening at dusk.
Mutterngs of disapproval mingled
with the applause which greeted
Shanks' substitution for Judge at bat
| in the first inning. Hank is prime
favorite with Washington fans. and
| there were perhaps very few who were
not glad to see Shanks break into the
game. but Judge has been playing
splendidly. especially on the offensive
| and many of the bugs figured Joe
should be given chance to show what
| he could do against southpaw pitching
| in view of his splendid record with the
stick to date. Manager Griffith volun-
teered this explanation for the move:
| Il wanted to give Shanks chance
| Griff said. but my principal reason for
| putting him in in place of Judge is
| that | do not want to encourage other
clubs to work left flanders against US at
every opportunity. Shanks can hit
| southpaw twirlinG, and this fact is
| pretty generally known. The shift was
not a reflection upon Judge. Our plan
of campaign is to get away from our
somewhat overbalanced 1eft-handed hit
ting alignment whenever possible. This
policy was formulated early in the sea
! son. and is well understood by Judge
| who has no cause to feel and does not
| feel in any way discouraged because of
| the change.
| The sending of Merito Acosta to the
| Baltimore club by Manager Griffith
makes four Washington players turned
| over to Jack Dunn's team this year the
others being Jack Bentley, Turney Bar
| Der and Alva Williams. who became
| International Leaguers as result of
| the deal for Sam Crane. Acosta is in
! good condition, having played quite a
| He should earn a regular berth in the
] outfield for the Orioles. to whom he
| goes on an optional agreement.
/ Molly Craft did right well on his first
! appearance of the season in the box for
I Washington. In his first inning, the
1 seventh, he got away unsecured on. In
| the eighth couple of passes, with hit
sandwiched in and followed by two
errors and two sacrifice flies let in
/. three runs. In the ninth Lawry's easy
I fly. which went for a double when
| Smith ran so far in that ii fell ten feet
back of him. paved the way for an
other run. as an intield out and
Growers sacrifice fly permitted Lawry
to score
Ping Bodie. the former White Sox
fence buster. got two hits in front OF
him and one to the rear In the fifth