Evening star., 1920-04-21

| PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April FL
The "ashinEton-Philade game
was called or early this afternoon ON
account Of rain.
Courtney worked through the en-
| tire length of the exhibition in New
| Haven, which means he has not had
/ sufficient rest TO be on edge for an
/ other tour Of duty today. and Zachary
| is eliminated from consideration he
cause of having toiled yesterday. This
puts 1t up to Snyder or Shaw, Schacht
having contributed his noble bit Mon
| day. Shaw was due to make his mi
! tial start of the season yesterday. he
| didn't have a thing" when II came
| time to warm up prior to the battle ana
| there is little likelihood he Will be IN
condition to do himself justice today;
/ but. nevertheless, he will get the cali
unless Courtney is picked, for Sny-
der stands little chance of starting
| game until he acquires curve pail.
Notwithstanding that the Macks seem
| to have an edge in the dope the Ma
| tionals must be figured to have pet
| ter than an even chance of making
clean sweep of the series today. just
on general principles
Grins Better Than Macks.
| In the first place. Griff's team. as a
whole, is so far superior to the Atm
s.! letics that moro than shade tne
4 better Of 1t in box work Will be neeo-
ed for the latter to cop. This was
strikinRly illustrated yesterday when
Zachary, who merely threw. rather
| than pitched romped in an easy win
ner due to the general incompetency
| of the Philadelphia team. Preseason
estimates were that this year the
White Elephants would shake on tnae
eighth place habit. but from what has
been seen of them in the last two
days only a disastrous train wreck
can cause some other club to prevent
them from increasing their string OF
BOBBY prizes to six straight.
Despite Zachary's very apparent
lack of stuff, the Macks were unable
to effectively bunch hits off him until
tho final frame. They amassed a to-
tai of fourteen safeties, including
three home runs and as many doubies'
Dugan. with a home run into the le1t-
field bleachers in the fourth, account
required a pair of similar clouts by
Tilly Walker to make 1t appear they
were In tho ball game. Walkers nrst
circuit clout was manufactured IN
the seventh and his second in the
ninth, when 1t accounted for two
with double over Rice's head In
center. Dugan's safety through
ONeill and Pinch Hitterh George Burns
duplication of Strunk's rap which fol-
lowed gave the AS their fifth run.
This exhibition of long distance hit
ting. productive of fivo earned runs, was
enough to win an ordinary ball game,
but it wasn't that kind of contest. as
the Griffs, with only ten blows. had
much more to show for them, due to the
fact that all but two were punched or
followed alien misplays. Of which sew
eral were costly and one literally
asinine. This prize bobble was contrib
uted by Griffin, the hard-hitting and
thinking first baseman. and en-
titles him to front rank as brown derby
aspirant. Charity was on second in
the seventh, through his own efforts
with the stick, when O'Neiu bunted
down the right field line in an effort to
sacrifice. Jim stopped when the ball
rolled right into the hands Of Griffin,
who was blocking his path Instead OF
running ONeill back to the plate. where
he could have tagged him and still kept
an eye on Charity at third. Griffin
turned and ran back toward first. and
then tossed the ball over the head OF
Dugan. who was waiting there for it.
with the result that Charity tailed and
O'Neiu reached second--that's one for
the book. Tho latter went to third on
Harris sacrifice but on Shannon's rap
to Dykes was run down. ONeill
jockeyed on the line long enough to per-
nit Maurice to reach third, however,
and the latter scored when Zach plunked
single through DykeA Cheap runs
those. but not SO cheap as that regis
tered in the sixth. when Zach scored
without the aid of a hit on a walk
Judges sacrifice and successive errors
by Dugan and Walker.
OutAelders Fall Down.
1t was these three runs that consti-
tuted the margin by which the Griffs
won Neither Milan. Rice nor Roth was
able to do anything in an offensive way
to aid in the run-gettng. The garden
ers, who are supposed to form the prin-
cipal punch of the club, were absolutely