New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Mays to Pitch
To-day yAgainst
Walter johnson
Mogridge May Be Yankee
Pitcher i'm Other Game;
Legal b attic G Resumed
By w. O. Mcclellan

Owing to a slight shower Of rain at
the Polo Grounds and heavy shower
of affidavits at the Yankee Offices, the
opening game Of the Yankee Washing
ton series were postponed yesterday.
There will be e-header to-day
weather permitting, Of course-wlth
Carl Mays pitching one game and prob
ably George Mogridge the other. Mays
is likely to draw Walter johnson as an
opponent.
Colonels Rupert and Huston took
advantage of the lay-off to warm up
their hard hitting legal team for the
series against Ban Johnson's barristers,
which is scheduled to start to-day.
While the Yankee baseball team has
not been doing so we'll this year, the
Yankee legal rights are said to be hit
ting them right out of the lot.
81 don't like to claim the legal series
offhand," said Colonel Huston yester-
day. "But wait till you see some of
our affidavits. I've been following the
legal sport in an amateur way for
years. So has Colonel Rupert. But
never in my life did I see a better lot
Of writs of habeas corpus than we have
at the present time. There isn't an at
torney on our team who is objecting
less than 300. If the ball team was half
so good as our legal team we would
have had the pennant sewed up by this
time"
Of course the numerous postpone
ments in the legal series have piled up
quite a few double headers, but the
Yankee officials are quite sure that
their attorneys can stand the long
strain that is romng The colonels
are not prepared to state at present
who their lcad-off attorney will be,
but they have several attorneys who
know how to wait out the opposition
and get down to first with an injunc-
tlon like a streak of light.
Attorneys in Training
Ban Johnson's attorneys are training
at the Holland House. Yesterday they
indulged in some signal tipping done.
visitors were excluded for fear hat
there lght be some sigal tipping done.
From what could be heard the John
son barristers are slow on the injunc-
tlons and will depend entirely on fan
ming the heavy hitting Yankee lawyers
with curved restraining orders.
The Yanks, now home for quite a
spell, are preparing to battle to remain
we'll in the first division. That is about
the best that they can hope for now,
eHat ana annoying the leaders.
Times have changed since the days
league and Colonel Tillinghast L'Hom-
medieu Huston wore his iron boiler
trumphantly and majesticaly.
he chance OF real excitement for the
Yankees is a city series. Nothing has
| been done about this vet, but the
Yankee owners, Colonels Rupert and
huston, are willing to take on the
GIANTS at catchweights. Taking snap
Judgment on city series at this
stage of the game, the Yanks will have
to do considerable speeding up to
smash through those Giants. They
may have looked frail during the Gin
clnnati series but the New York Ma
tlonals are not the invalids they may
have looked.
Garry Hermann has called a meeting
| or the National Commission to arrange
for the coming worlds series. Garry
does not claim the pennant yet, but he
believes that it is quite possible that
( Cincinnati will win out in the Ma
tional League
One of the matters to be taken UP is
the proposition to hold the Cincinnati
end of the series in the Speedway Park.
There is rule against this, but an
effort will be made to forget the rule
.ii'o OliNC. IL VIII De argued CnaC the
TACT of the Reds winning a pennant is
in itself so strange and unprecedented
that all rules should automatically be
kicked in the Stats. Then there is the
precedent that all baseball rules were
made to be broken, anyhow.
Brooklyn will entertain the bewild-
cred Braves in double header across
| the Bridge to-day. wind and weather
permitting. The Dodgers, after their
mid-season run of tough luck, have
been annoying lot of the leaders.
Shufflin' Phil Douglas is back with
the Giants. The prodigal pitcher has
not yet been restored to good standing,
but he has promised never to go A. W.
Q: L. again, and the chances are that
McGraw will give him another oppor-
tunity At the same time Shuffli ,
Phil is not Rube Waddell, cone
quently he should not consider that
he is entitled to display the same
amount of temperament as the Rube.
A pitcher has to have lot of stuff to
be permitted that much temperament
! these days