The Washington herald., 1919-11-26

Lest You Forget Record.
We will give it to you. The Wash
ington teams wonderful record be-
gan at Boston on Memorial Day.
when johnson blanked the Red Sox.
Then the team went West and made
a clean sweep of the four-game Sc
ries with Chicago. Detroit. st. Louis
and three at Cleveland as it rained
the fourth day which was June Is.
Washington came home and won the
first game against the Athletics. June
Is. Then the team went to Phila-
delphia where they opened in a dou-
bic header. In the first game ii looked
all Washington, but with two strikes
and two balls called, Baker hit oy eT
the right field fence. tying the score.
The Athletics winning out in the
tenth. thus breaking the winning
streak.
Following is the complete record OF
those games:
Against score Date Pitchers
May . Boston 5OIOhnson. O'Brien
June St Louis s3Hughes. Nelson. Hamilton
June ST Louis G5irOom. Lake. 4 Brown
June D ST Louis I1IHushes. Bamgartnes, C
Brown
June St Louis - johnson. Powell
June Chicago 81 Hughes. Benz. Peters
Mogridge White
June Chicago elNiusSer. johnson, Walsh
June Chicago 4:Groom, Lang.
June Chicago 7lIuhnson. White
June Detroit 4,Hughes. WiIlett
June - Detroit 7%EIse. CAshion. MuIIin
June II DVtruit S.irOom. Csshion. johnson
June Z Detroit 81 johnson. Co,instOn.
Works
June I5 Cleveland 6. room Georgs Bl.pdinu
June Is Cleveland LSs Hughes Handing Eable,
June ID Cleveland Sc ashton. Groom, Mitchell
Stesn
June Is Athletics i3Iohnson. Plank
Henry Causes Defeat.
When the Athletics won the eight
eenth game from the Nationals III
Philadelphia the Washington catcher
vas the cause, Of the loss. johnson
had two strikes on Baker and two
men were gone. On this fifth pitch
Baker fouled and Henry dropped the
ball: on the next pitch the slugger
hit the ball over the right field fence
tying the score, as 1t stood 10 up to
that time. In the tenth inning the
Athletics scored the run that broke
the winning streak.
This trip and the confidence it gave
The players made Washington for the
entire year. When the team arrived
home the fans said wait, this will not
last. The team is not there. But 1t
was there, as demonstrated by the
wonderful game they put up against
every team except the Athletics who
won thirteen out of twenty games
they played against the Nationals.
Had il not been for that setback.
probably the long-looked-for ambition
of the fans would have been realized.
Roster of Club.
When Griffith took charge he found
a lot of players on the list, but after
lot of hard work at the training
camp he wound up by starting the
season with this team: Schaefer or
Knight. first: Morgan. second; Foster.
third. and the old reliable Mcbride at
hort. with three speed merchants in
the outfield-Milan. Moler and
Snanks.
But something was lacking. That
something was hard-hitting first
Easeman. The position had bothered
Griff for some time and he began to
look around for the kind of a man
he wanted. That man was, found
playing first base for Montreal. One
morning the fans of this city were
uprprised when word was sent out
that Washington had paid $4,000 for
Chick" Gandil. This was the high
est price ever paid out for a player
by Washington. The result justified
the paying of the price. With Gan
iii at first the team was braced up
wonderfully. With his hard hitting
he was placed in the cleanup po-
sition and the club won many games.
The addition of Gandil was what
made it possible for the team to win
IT," seventeen straight games.
This added to the winning streak of
Walter johnson when he put sixteen
10 the clubs record by winning that
many consecutive games.
Johnson's Record.
Walter johnson was the first player
o establish a record after the
pitchers had been moved back sixty
feet five inches. The old records of
Keefe. Radbourne, WEIGH. Luby and
Mccormick were all made when the
pitcher had to pitch but fifty feet
and had the advantage OF having a
box to pitch from.
Date Pitcher Runs Opponents Run.