The Washington times., 1918-08-04
RAIN THREATENING
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FROM SILVER FOX
BY JOE s. JACKSON.


DETROIT, Aug. 4.-Somebody Is
always taking the Joy out Of life for
those Nationals, though Mr.. Griaith,
with the result Of SATURDAYS 1o-to-1
victory here known to him and with
fond memories Of his successful one
hand fight for Q full-distanes season,
Is happy enough. His henchmen
here. with no one to cheer them.
have their worries, however.
Now the clouds are bothering them
They are fearful that rain viii cut
In on the Sunday double-header. and
cause it's cancellation. That would
force them to remain here for. Mon
day, for q play-oR- A day In Detroit
II worth . cycle In Cleveland. Of
course. but Just that enc day on may
enable the Tigers to get back into
their stride Also. Mr.. jennings ath-
ietes are notoriousiy poor performs
ere when q mob Of their admirers IL
On hand Crowds make the Nationals
80 at their best
There should be some crowd at
the Sabbath Trays. too. II the weather
man holds on the threatened spill
In this connection. conditions must
be considered. pre-bellum outpour-
lngs being no longer possible. There
would have been a fllsd park here
on opening day, but the street car
men went on strike that morning.
tieing up every car line In town.
About $4,000, the record here for the
year. got to the 1sld in some way or
other. It rained here Memorial Day
morning. and Roosevelt was a killing
counter attraction later in the day.
MAY Land A Record.
Johnson has . chance to quit base
ball with another record TO his credit,
the 1918 attendance In Detroit CIese-
land opened the local park in 1919
to 24.3s2 paid. johnson. pitching .
Sunday game against Zamloch. IN
1913 broke that, with 24.455 Two
years later. in . Sunday double-heAd-
er. he beat himself. with 2s.0Tl. The
present mark, 25,ss4, set BY cleve-
land on opening day OF 1919 Is the
only one that exceeds the two John
son performances.
Grif.s men wish to look at . crowd
OF 10000 or 50. before going 10 work.
Also they wish to win two games.
They have II figured now that they
are again in = pennant hunt. Their
dope IL that Cleveland will knock
down Boston once more, and that
they will sweep the series here
Then they plan to go to Cleveland
and hammer that hapless outnt for
about three decisions, while Detroie
is beating Boston, thereby making Il
a free-for-alL Some OF the dope II
good That which has the Tigers
clawing the Red sox doesn't seem
good advance stun.
TiserS Hurting had.
washington looked at Detrottas
best twirlers on Friday and Saturday,
Dauss and Boland being the lads.
Neither went the full route. and IN
each contest the GFifmen collected
fourteen safstiss. Including some ex-'
ira bases.
There's something wrong with the
pitching star that lets Washington
do that and with a team that scores
but one tally in three days. and that
on an error. which Is the BengalS
record. Figure that from the dope.
They looked even worse when
watched on the field. Grifrs lads
caught them at q lucky moment
Saturdays game was won because
the Tigers couldn't hit Jim Shaw
with men on in the first three innings
when they had all kinds OF chances
TO score, and because there was al
most no time at which the Nationals
couldn't hit any Detroit hoxman.
Howard Shanks was the offensive
star, though his record. in cold type,
isn't quite so fiossy as Schulte'S Tha
merciless Monaoan did some great
hit-and-run work and figured in the
scoring Of six tallies.
Mr.. Altrock returned from Jackson
on Saturday night, and reported his
visit there a triumphal occasion All
OF the eonvtctS wished him to stay,
but Nick saw no rooms that looked
inviting. He still has the scenario
or his new pantomimic stunt locked
In his trunk. 1t went big at the state
prison. None of the Griffmen has
seen It even IN rehearsal.