The Washington herald., 1918-06-30
JOHNSON WILL
PITCH TO-DAY
Smokeball King to Face
Carl Mays in Sabbath At,
traction at Park.


in the attraction today.
Eide Barrows. the pilot Of the
red-hose crew. expects 70 pick n
an edge in this series In this sat-
bath attraction by sending In h6
subway hurler to deliver against
Grif's battling clan. One Of the
largest crowds that has ever at
tended any Sunday contest I'm the
District is sure to be on hand, a.
the batteries-Mays and Johnson
Is enough. TO warrant q pitching
duel
At a late hour last night no de-
cision had been received here as 70
whether Ban B. Johnson, president
Of the American League, was WILL
ing to shift this Sunday date from
the Boston schedule. and Manager
Barrows and the Old Fox agreed
to move up Mondays game for this
Sundays attraction.
This game will be played as thu
Monday attraction and should rain
interfere today the regular schedule
will be played out with the Hub
City outfit. Manager Barrows wa
a triffle puzzled in just who he
would start In this game, a. Bush,
Baby Ruth and Carl Mays are ell
gible with Mays ranking a. the
probable selection.
The war savings stamps drive n
the American League Ball Park
yesterday was q success in every
way as the Old Fox collected sIl.-
33l.oo during the fifteen minutes In
which the drive lasted The Foxy
Pilot was the first to offer a thou
sand dollars bid against any other
thousand dollars in the park, ana
he was Immediately covered by Le-
roy Hamilton from Texas, while c.
NJ Pitt. from this city, bid against
c. d. Clark for the ten centurs,.
mark.
Considering the short time n
which the Camp Meigs boys werS
able to push this drive, after II. b
r. mcfarland had made a brilliant
speech. the figures in money m.
well earned. over 1000 fans at
tended this game and most of them
contributed to the worthy cause.
Ad Brennan, the afmous hurIer
from Pat Moran's Quaker City out
fit, is expected to report here today
at game time, and the Old Fox in
ne vi sal A4dlDEI Lng
Red Sox Tuesday afternoon. Brennan
was purchased from the Atlanta
club OF the Southern League, where
he has enjoyed two good seasons.
He should be a help TO the Nationals
with his southpaw singing
We want Buckeye" This club
that meets in the upper tier daily to
watch this youngster warm up in the
bull pen desires TO see him In action.
resolution was passed yesterday by
the We Want Buckeye Club" which
will be presented to Manager Grifith
and il is asure bet that this young
ster will start on the mound again
some time before the team takes a
hike again, as this club is insistent
that they must see more Of this
young lefthander.
|. Babe Ruth. the demon hcme-run
slugger OF the Red Sox, went hftless
before the offerings of Doc Ayers on
his five trips to the plate. Babe
Grabbed before the game over his
two grounded balls OF Fridays con-
test, as he figures he should have
been given three hits along with his
recorded home-run drive, but o. s.
called them errors and they remain
errors.
Nick Altrock entertained the crowd
before the game with his comedy,
awaiting the arrival OF the Hon. H. B.
F. mcfarland. Nick pulled every
thing from A to and was given q
big hand by the crowd when he com
pleted his marble game as a finale.
Clyde Milan threw off the ink IN
the Nationals eighth inning yesterday
when he crashed out a single for his
thirteenth consecutive game.
Fatima Foster did not come through
with the stick for the Nationals, but
he contributed two fielding plays In
the sixth session on McInnis and
whiteman which helped Ayers over
the rocky spots.
Umpire Brick Owens Jumped into the
Rags" o'Loughlin's class on his
work behind the bat Yesterday. as he
was constantly in hot water on hav-
ing the players crab on balls and
strikes. Brick was a trif1e off. but
still ranks among the topnotchers
in Ban B. Johnson's circuit