The Washington herald., 1918-07-11
WORK OR FIGHT
FOR JOE JUDGE
Lewiston Board Orders Ma.
tionals' First Sacker to
Report Under Ruling.

That work or fight order that
has placed the hired men of the
national pastime as nonessentiai
by a recent ruling of Provost Mar
shall General Crowder has bounded
down on the local tribe-men Of the
Griffith clan that means the Ma
tionals will be showed all the way
out of the running for the PEN
nant and put in the second division
and cellar class.
All the way from Lewiston, Me-.
comes a ruling Of a draft board
that would rob the Griffmen of Joe
Judge. the first sacker of the Ma
tions. and considered by experts
who have watched him pastime as
another "a la Hal Chase" Why
pick on the home crew in the do
minion of Crowder? But Joe Is the
first of the local team to receive
such orders and gloom. the deep
dark kind that can be cut with a
knife. IL lowering all around to-
day.
Joe Judge, with his defensive
playing, is a big item to the Ma
tionals. while his crashes now and
then make us still in the running.
but Maine is the Maine. as the old
Yankee expression goes. aS1 we
must all await the ruling that will
be handed down by Newton T.
Baker. Secretary Of War.
So many ball players have been
given the gate during the past few
days under this new government
ruling that even the big war over
there. and over here. among the
baseball moguls, has been forgot
ton. as from the player and mogul
it Is censored that Secretary Baker
will be hastened in handing down
his decision.
"Peppery Hughey' Jennings along
with Ty Cobb and company are
booked to exhibit at League Park
during the next four days. Hughey
and his crew arrive here this morning
after somewhat of a tussel with
Connie Mack's Goodies" in the
Quaker Town. Now they come TO
pick upon Griff's hired men, but when
they rush into the local tribe they
will be up against it. although the
Nationals have not been going at top
speed during the past three games
| with the Browns. But the old link
that reached the Mound City long be-
fore the days of Fielder Jones still
! held sway. Jimmy Burke hoped his
crew out with a trio Of victories. The
! Tigers are in for a trimming.
| Today Walter Johnson, premier
hurler Of the American League, and
| figured by many as the greatest slab
| man that ever stepped into the center
! of diamond, will toll on the hill for
the locals while Jennings may start
! any of his beavers in this battle. The
| game is slated to be called at 400
p. m.
Clark c. Griffith may appear like a
| wild mare on a ball field but when
he is approached under ordinary cir
cumstances he is one of the best fell
lows in the world and easy to get
along with. Grir was approached
yesterday on the present big war
among the moguls in organized base
ball in reference to the Perry case.
and what the old boy had to say
would not go good in print here
especially as Griff and Billy Sunday
kick into the same league.
If real card game was on, and
Clark c. was known as card PLAYER
it might be easy TO figure out how he
| guesses the ways and why's, but
some one during the day had made
him hot under the collar (maybe
Jimmy Burke OF the Brownies or
maybe the rain) but John X. Tener,
president of the National League came
in for a good riding from the Old
! Fox.
John T. was wrong from the first
issue according to the Old Fox. as
late as last winter the National
League wished the presidency on him
a trifie against his will and now John
T. has made SO much money in a
| war venture that he has given ur
all hopes OF baseball and does not
care a rap il it never gets by.
The same optimistic views that
Clark c. has on all deals holds good
today as he believes that baseball
will 50 on despite Crowder's ruling
or anyone else and that the National
League will see to it that the Ma
tional Commission stands intact along
with a world series between the win
, ners of the league championships al
the end Of the season.