The Washington times., 1917-06-25
GRIFFMEN DECLINE
TO REMAIN In HUB
So They Take Gasoline E1-
curSiOn to Nutmeg State.
FOSTER OUT FOR TEN DAYS
Four Pitchers Available for To-
days DOuble-Headsr.

BOSTON, June 25.-There are a
nock OF conscientious DIRECTORS
among the Griffmen. II there is any
thing they are "agin," IT is spending
a Sunday here, so Griff arranged 1t
30 that they would not have TO en-
dure the day of in the classy Back
Bay. Late last night they blew In
from North GroVersdale. which Is
somewhere in Connecticut"
With a rookie named Russell twirl-
ing, they beat a team UP that way
composed OF New England leaguers
and semIpros. Grin said that he had
forgotten the score. and that some
body had pinched the official card,
but did not anticipate that the van
pushed battlers would petition for
recount
Everything is $50 so" in the camp OF
the Griffmen. Eddie Foster has dis
located finger, 1t now appears, and
this means that he will be unavail-
able for at least ten days. Grin took
this latest mishap philosophically. 1t
is one of those well-known breaks"
and the only thing you can do is make
the best OF II.
Hard To Understand.
10 ndTu 10 unuCTbNhn0 WY AhS
Griffmen do not win more games.
The team Is practically the same one
that proved so troublesome to the
Red Sox last season, yet they have
only triumphed once in eleven starts
thus far this year.
Griff has four men available for
slab duty today-Jim Shaw, the only
Washington pitcher who has bested
the Sox this year; George Dumont,
portsider: Harry Harper, and Bert
Gallia. It is probable that Dumont
and GaIlia will draw the assignments,
Mays being the Red Sox entry In
one of the Rrapples. Who will twirl
the other is uncertain. 1t will have
to be one OF Barry's second string set.
May Hit Ball Today.
The Griffmen may be able to hit the
pill today. Saturday surely they must
have checked their batting toys out
side of the park. Perhaps today. Mon
day always being a tough day for the
sox, after their Sunday gasoline
wagon excursions the Griffmen may
get going.
The fans are interested in Dumont.
Manager Jack Barry thinks pretty
well of him and the Sox have always
had to go some to beat him.
The crepe hangers will be at Fen
way Park today. That suspension
that Base Ruth Is due to draw, many
think will be the little thing that will
push the Sox out OF the running.
shanks and JanVrin-
Local fans put Howard Shanks IN
the same class with Harold Janvrin-
Howard is surely a versatile kid.
At shifting that old lineup around
Griff is a wizard. Twice Saturday he
crossed up the boys that get out the
probable line-ups" for the afternoon
papers. After GRIN got through shift
ing EN- around the lineup did not ap-
pear even nearly probable"
Nick Altrock will never wear out
his welcome here. He has not made
any addition to his sketch, but II
takes just the same.
So used were the Sox to having
Rippy williams breeze into q game
have not got used to his absence.
Every now and then they peek over
to the Griffmen's dugout to make sure
that Rippy is not there waiting with
his big stick to come out and do some
damage.
MenoEky At Home.
Mike Menosky must have been right
at home down Connecticut way. Mike
used to go breezing around the big
towns down that way when he was a
Colonial Lacquer.
Nick Altrock's old "An'tee'go'nist,"
stonewall Jackson, is now the official
announcer at Fenway Park. when
Stonewall was just a rooter Nick and
he used to indulge in some great yer.
bal battles, Nick being the only one
to get a decision over him. As an an
nouncer stonewall is pretty much Of
false alarm and Nick will have a
chance to give him a ride or two be-
fore the Griffmen leave town.