New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
Two Colonels and Squire
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played Off IN the respective borouvhs
tomorrow afternoon, which will mean
that operations will be carried on Mon
day as originally scheduled. The
only difference clearing weather would
make would be that between a Frida~
and Monday crowd.
Preparations for record crowds
to-day and tomorrow at both the polo
Grounds and Ebbets Field have eons
on apace. 1t looks very much now
as It capacity will be the rule at hotb
ends of the bridge. A number of rsm nem
ticket booths have been provided Of
the Polo Grounds, both at the Speed
way and Eighth Avenue entrances
which should greatly relieve conges.
ton. "s
Clark Griffith announced yesterday
that he would surely start his h;y
ace. Walter Johnson, TOMORROW after.
noon. Higgins is likely to counter
With Jack Quinn, for in the old days
Quinn beat Walter Johnson with far
more regularity than any other Amer
lcan League pitcher. If Thormahlen
does not tedl this afternoon he and
Shawkey will both be ready in cases
OF emergency tomorrow afternoon.
MAJOR g. H. Clifford. late of the
Eleventh Engineers, will toss out the
ball Tor the Yankees first SUNDAY
game here. The honor is appropriate.
as it was for the benefit of that reei,
ment-then the First Reserve Engineer,
that the first championship game Of
pail ever contested between major
league teams on a Sunday in New York
City was played by the Yankees and
Browns at the Polo Grounds. The gates
at the Polo Grounds will be opened
at 1880 tomorrow afternoon and a con
cert by Franks Band will begin Mt
l:S0. At Ebbets Field, where there
will be band and everything. Al
Smith, jr., son of the Governor of New
York, will throw out the ball.
Clark Griffith yesterday suffered p
Calamity worse than the loss of whole
series. He lost for an indefinite period
the services of Outfielder Clyde Milan.
who was operated on in a Washing
ton hospital yesterday for appended
tbs. Milan cannot possibly return to
the game before the end of two months.
if that soon
For the time GriA will be forced
to use Thompson, pitcher, in his gar
den. The Old Fox is trying to secure
an outtielder of experience and still
seems to have some hope of putting
through that old three-cornered deal
involving his CLUB, the Giants and the
Cardinals.
McGraw returned yesterday from
Pittsburgh. where he went to see
Hickey about getting Catcher Gonzales
According to Mac, the three-cornered
deal IS right where it stood when it
was blocked by Barney Dreyfuss. Need
less to say, Mac returned empty-
handed
Griffith was in consultation with the
Yankee officials Yesterday It is pos
slole II he fails to land an outfelder
elsewhere that Higgins may lend him
one of his recruits until Milan recov-
ers. This would protect Huggins from
castlng loose too soon from material
which he highly regards and would
give the young man selected addition
al experience.
- Some time before next THURSDAY
Hugglns Will have to get rid of a
couple OF players, to come within the
roster limit, unless the American
League should subscribe to more
generous number. He wishes to make
no mistake on turn back. He will
soon have another pitcher on his
hands, as Walter Smallwood. first ser
geant, Company A, 3lOth Field Artil-
lery, just arrived on the Pretoria,
called at the Offices yesterday. Small
wood, who was at St. Mihiei, expects
to be mustered out within ten davs.
The Fighting Sixty-ninth" will be
the guests of the Giants and Cubs at
the Polo Grounds next Thursday after
noon. Dan Brady, the bell-cow rooter
OF this regiment and the Giants. has
arranged programme in keeping with
the occasion.