Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-16
JOHNSON T0FACE
THE BROWNS TODAY
Griffmen Have Only Nine
Games Yet to Play Before
Curtain Is Rung Down.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

Jimmy Burke and his sagging entry
from little old st. Looie" will be the
attraction at American League Park
this afternoon in the first of the nine
games that remain to be played by
the Nationals before the season OF
1919 shall have become history. With
the ball park closed tomorrow be-
cause of the parade, u tandem tilt Will
be PLAYED with the Browns Thursday
Friday the Cleveland Indians, pros
pective runnerS-up in the A l.. race,
arrive for four games in three days
and then after lay-off next week
from Monday to Friday. inclusive. the
Boston Red SoN wind up the cam
paign with battles on Saturday and
Sunday.
Walter johnson today will have one
of the two or three chances that re-
main for him to reach the twenty
mark il victories this season. The
kanSan, after a poor start that kept
him under the 500 mark for the
greater part of the season and second
to Shaw as leading hurler of the
team, finally passed the dividing line
and now has a ereditable percentage
of victories considering the standing
of the club he is performing for. In
cidentally he has passed Shaw in the
averages and will doubtless again
finish at the top of the heap of capital
slabmen, as has been his custom fol-
SO many years.
If the injury to Bakers arm caused
by Ty Cobb's spikes in Sundays game
has healed sufficiently the midget
again will be seen at short today. In
one of the games Thursday it is like
ly Manager Griffith will use his latest
acquisition, Al Schacht. ON the mound.
Schacht is a veteran minor Lacquer
obtained from the Jersey City club
of the International League. where
this season he complied an average
N fesxal
losses. So far as is known Schacht
is the last newcomer to be added to
the roster of the Griffmen this season,
although there will be several addi-
lions next spring. including Pitcher
RUDE Schauer of Minneapolis, Short
stop Jimmy O'Neill of Shreveport
and Second Baseman Washburn of
Wichita.
According to the usually well in
formed Fred Lieb, the world series
this year will start Tuesday, Septem-
Der 30. instead of October /. the date
commonly regarded as most likely for
the Inauguration Of the fall classic
Lieb also has it on good authority"
that the old system of tossing a coin
to determine where the set will open
again will be used This year after
having been dfspAnsed with last sea-
SON. when Chicago was selected as
being more suitable for the opening
than Boston.
The dope to the effect that three
games will be played in the first city
before a shift is made and then three
in the second city before another hop
Is believed to be faulty. however.
Cincinnati and Chicago are distant
only q short overnight jump by train,
and despite the admittedly high cost
OF travel these days the wilson of
contesting three games in one city
before the home fans of the con-
rrnk oh
may be seriously questioned. 1t is
much more likely two games will be
played in each city, with single con-
tests alternating thereafter.
BY lengthening the series to nine
games instead of the customary seven
ono team to win i've before the issue
is disposed Of the magnates have run
the danger of loss of interest by the
fans toward the close of the set, and
it Is improbable they will increase this
danger by STIMULATING three games in
the opening town before move is
made.
With the defeat yesterday in Gin
cinnati of the Giants the National
League race was just about ended, 'the
Reds now having to win only one
more game to become champions even
>if they lose all their other contests
and the Giants win all of theirs De-
; feat was conceded by McGraw when
he turned his team over to Christy
Mathewson and left RedIand to conc
east on business.
The White Sox have a little farther
TO travel than the Reds before Cleve-
land s mathematical chance to win is
snuhed out. but as Gleason is anxious
to have the title cinched. so he can
rest his athletes for the big fracas, it
is likely Chicago, by running ION
high, will have the championship
sewed up by the end of this week,