Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
RECORD THRONCS
SEE GR|FFS PLAY
More Than $4,000 Persons
Have Viewed Their Games
on Present Trip.
WIN AND LOSE IN ST. LOUIS
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.


western trip of the season and sets
a new mark for attendance.
Considerable skepticism greeted the
predictions made early this spring
that 1919 would prove one of the
biggest years base ball ever enjoyed,
but, in view of the record-smashing
crowds that have turned out to see
the Griffmen perform on this tour.
there can be little doubt the pre-
season Representations were well
founded.
Since leaving Washington. the night
of July 8, the Washington club has
! played before an aggregate of more
than 175.oOO persons-enough to peo-
I pie mighty good-siZed city. Starting
with morning and afternoon games
! in New York on Independence day,
(which attracted approximately $4,000.
;they drew 10000 in a dOuble-header
1.-THE following day. Saturday; got
$1,000 Sunday and 5000 Monday. a
total of $4,000 for six games in four
+ days at the Polo Grounds. Opening
before crowd of more than 5000
I in Detroit the following Wednesday.
s1hey attracted more than 10000 at
n double-header with the Tigers
Thursday and attained nearly 5000
Friday. Moving on to Cleveland Sat
urday, a bargain show attracted
on Sunday. while Monday and Tues
day grouped Melted $500. The first
three days in Chicago averaged $500
and were topped off by a 10000 throng
that swarmed Comiskey Park last
Saturday.
But what capped the climax was
the size of the turnout for the twin
bill with the Browns here yesterday.
For years ST. Louis has been one of
the weak sisters of the American
League in respect to the support &C
corded it's representative, but it's diff
ferent now. With Burke's machine
knocking for admittance to the first
division and playing bang-up ball. the
sratives are all het up over prospects
for pennant. and showed the extent
.of their interest yesterday, when the
crowd that damned it's way into
Sportsman's Park filled every. nook
and Granny of the grandstand and two
pavilions, with hundreds standing in
back and an overlooking to both sides
of the field. st. Louis sport writer's
assert it was the largest crowd that
ever Witnessed a championship game
at the home of the Browns. The paid
adm issions, which is the basis for all
the figures given above in regard to
the other cities. reached nearly 10000,
the turnstiles recording 1901, to be
exact.
For near tail-ender the business
the Nationals have been doing surely
establishes record. Exact figures
for attendance at the other games in
THE west on the present intersec-
tional clash are not available, but it
is likely all. save the Mackmen, who
alone are beneath the Griffmen in the
standings, have done as we'll, prob
ably better, considering that being
scontenders they naturally would prove
better attractions. Secretary Fowler
asserts the present jaunt has set a
new high-water mark. for the Ma
should know. as he has been keeping
tabs on this angle of the game for
the Washington club for years.
That packed and perspiring mob on
hand here yesterday certainly got a
run for its money. 1t saw the home
guard defeat the Nationals, s to s. in
the opening game by a. sensational
finish in the ninth inning and was
treated to as fine a smuggling match
in the closing encounter as has ever
been witnessed in the memory of the
Oldest Mound city fan. The closing
affair was not so attractive for home
consumption, however. as the Nation
ished by making it even Stephen on
the afternoon with a 1877 verdict. ~
AS a result of remaining practically
stationary, while Boston swamped
Detroit. the Nationals again slip down
into seventh place two or three points
below the Red Sox. But there were
few Griffithian batting averages that
rshrunk from the days doings and
several of the boys fattened their
this true of Menosky, Rice and
Shanks. who each collected five blows.
while Murphy was close up with four.
Mixes hitting was the most spectacu-
Jar. for after collecting a pair of safe
ties in the opener and starting the
-forrid afternoon by whaling brace of
home runs into the right field bleach
-ers. scoring mate ahead of him on
each occasion. Rice also pounded the
-on the sacks in this tilt and one of
his four other cracks went for two
bases.
( In that second ARRAY the Griffs tied
their record for the season of seven
teen hits, established last Thursday in
Chicago against Faber, but gave
themselves a new mark to shoot at in
the matter of total bases attained on
the blows by aggregating thirty-one
1he wallops including three homers,
two triples and a double, in addition
TO eleven singles. The seventeen
=swats they maced Faber for Melted a
total of only twenty-three bases. All
told, the bargain show consumed five
hours and twenty minutes, including
5the intermission between GAMES and
the time taken out for Hank Shanks
who got stepped on in the initial fray.
The players of the two teams after
stoiling in the bright sun for this
length of time on humid afternoon
were ready to quit when quitting time
came The aggregate of forty-n
hits registered and thirty-one runs
scored conveys an idea of how busy
they were.
Eddie Gill started his first major
in and ia ilpd
to get off with his best foot foremost
being taken out in round one after
three walks and two hits had nette6
the enemy three tallies. Craft STEP
ped in with two on base and affected
halt. Molly got along o. X. until the
fourth. when he was nicked for a
brace of tallies and faded in favor OF
pinch hitter in the seventh. This
brought Zachary, the recruit south.
paw, into the game. 1t was his sec
on appearance, having hurled an in
nie9 in Chicago Friday. The big feI
lo~ Moved encouraging form, s.
muck ~ that he may be assigned t.
start N3e third contest of the Sc
against the Browns today. He dis
played more speed than he wa,
thought to possess. and perfect con
troll. Zachary is untutored in thu
finer points of slab duty, of course
and this contributed to his downfall
BY pecking away at Allan Sothoron
the spitball star of Burkes staff. TIL
Nationals managed to knot the coun
in the eighth, when four hits pro
duced three runs. They made a grea
bid in the ninth, when Judge single,
and stole and Rice was purposel,
passed with two out. Murphy thel
lined a safety to left. Tobin's throw
to the plate tagged the first basema1
by a narrow margin.