The Washington herald., 1920-06-15
Lay off Because Of Rain Big
Help to Fox,s Hospital List
By JACK NYE.


developed into regular summer
Ghund srstorm just as the game was
due to begin today. driving the scat
tered bleachcrites into cover and
causing a day of idleness for Pres
ldent Grifith's justly famous trav-
elirg hospital The turn of events
was not unwelcome, as IL gives
Doc Martin another twenty-four
hours in which to work on the va
ffous invaIids. the loss of whom
has projected the Griffs into an
Unexpected losing streak.
,.I'resident Griffith's disposition IL
not improving at all as the result
II four straight defeats, after such
promising start against the
Browns last week. The less of Har-
ris and Milan. in addition 10 Joe
Jndge. would have been bad enough
N itself. blt the failure OF Court
1ey. Shaw and Schacht to snow any
Improvement has made matters
worse
=. Big Three Ready.
Since the team departed Tor the
Western trip, johnson. Zachary and
Erickson have showed that they
rre ready, but the rest of the s ao-
hing department has been dismal
disappointment.
shaw made a miserable start in
St Louis. giving way to Schacht,
whose pitching was even more IN
effective. Harry Courtney was Civ
en- e chance to demo nstrate MS
worth here in Sundays game. He
was hammered hard. and showed an
amazing lack of control 1t may
De that Griff. will be forced to fall
back on Snyder and Carlson, who
at least .showed promise in New
York
Harris Has Mumps.
All hope that Stanley Harris
might return to the game oefore
leaving Chicago was abandoned
when the second sacker, who has
been nursing an injured arm, de-
ytloped something akin to mumps
last night and was ordered to re-
main in bed by Trainer Martin.
Due examination developed the fact
that Stanley was suffering from
swollen glands and will be under
the weather for several days. In
his absence Red shannon is holding
down second capably, but there are
few better second sackers IN the
league than Stanley. His timely
hitting is not being duplicated by
his understudy.
One ray of sunlight seen through
the rift in the dark clouds Of un-
certainty, however. is the fact that
zoe Judge was prepared to resume
his duties at frst today, despite the
fact that his spike wound had not
fully healed. With his injury pro-
tected by a shin guard. Joe worked
ont with the rest of the bunch when
IL looked as though there might be
a game. He announces that he Will
be scooping them up at the old po-
sition tomorrow. Joe's return to
duty should instill new life into the
team and his batting will supply
some badly needed punch in the
pinches.
Milan Limping.
Zeb Milan, who is still nursing
a strained tendon in his leg, is
also ready to get back into the
game, though he still travels with
a perceptible limp. His absence
and the failure of Jack Cafvo. both
in the field and at the bat. has had
a. telling effect on the team. Zeb
was batting like a wild man when
he hurt himself and today moves
in the select circle of the first five
hitters, with a mark of 1857. He
is the leading swatter among the
Nationals. having passed Judges
mark after Joe's enforced lay off.
Hank Shanks has taken advantage
of Judges absence to demonstrate
that he is a pretty classy utility
man. His work around first has
been high grade ever since the team
left home. and his batting eye seems
to have come back again. His aver
age for the trip is around 800 and
he is getting on the bags as often
as any member of the team.
Zachary to Work.
In Sundays game Hank drove the
ball far over Jackson's head in the
first inning and completed the cir
cult on FeIsch's error. II was the
longest hit of the day. though
Felsch and Weaver furnished plenty
of competition.
Zachary will do the hurling for
the Griffs tomorrow in an effort to
bring the team out of the rut into
which it seems to be falling. If he
works as smoothly as he did against
the Browns, when he blanked them
last week. he has a splendid chance
to triumph over Eddie Cicotte, who
is Manager Gleason's pitching
choice.
Cellegisn Missing.
Griffith is planning to put in a
want ad in an effort to locate
pitcher Olson, the Cornell star. who
was supposed to report to the team
here. Olson hasn't put in his ap-
pearance yet and may be lost in the
wilds of the city.
Pepco W. Eagles.
The Pepco Athletic Club will
tackle the fast Eagle nine tomorrow
on the Monument Grounds at $50 d.
m Pepco's second contest of the