Evening star., 1920-07-16

Don't be surprised if we step out and
rab a flock of games. starting right with
oday. for unless I'm badly mistaken our
(itching will be better from this time
orward than it has been at any time
his year. Johnson has fully recovered
md both Zachary and Shaw are in
plendid shape. Then with this young
ter Courtney showing something and
srickson's trick knee ready to behave,
We are well supplied with fingers. And
his is without even figuring on Snyder.
who Is going to do a lot of pitching
Tor US, or the newcomer. Workman.
when these hurlers do start doing
he kind of work they are capable of
We are going to upset lot of predic-
ions about this American League race.
We've had everything but the proper
lind of pitching right along. Our in
will not seriously handicap US if We can
keep at least four of them out of the
hospital all the time
Grih is planning a little ivory hunting
Expedition on his own account when the
present home stand is finished. He ex-
bects to hop out of town couple of
hays before the Nationals are due to
bike west and give couple of highly
Recommended athletes the double-o. The
president has a pretty good record as
] scout at that According to his as
tertion. he has made two scouting trips
Tor the Nationals, landing Joe Judge
pn one of them and Stanley Harris on
The other.
Twin Bills Today and Tomorrow.
A heavy shower that broke over the
ball park about an hour before game
fime and made the soggy grounds sog-
Eier yesterday resulted in the battle be-
Ing called of, although it developed that
contest could have been played. As a
Fesult, Nationals and White Sox this
afternoon are in the throes of double
header. which winds up the visit of the
fsleasons. Starting with a double-header
tomorrow. the Tigers will be here for a
fve-day stand, a single game being list
I'd for next Wednesday, an open date in
fhe schedule. The Tigers will be fol-
lowed by the Browns. The following
Sunday the Mackmen will be here for
bne game. Then the Griffs will pull up
stakes for another swing through the
vest
The single game scheduled to be play
ID at Philadelphia on Monday. July 26,
will be transferred to Washington and
be played on Sunday, October 3, the final
he Monday in question travelling to
cleveland, where a couple of postponed
yames will be run of in the form of a
on Tuesday. July %. the
3rifs moving on to Detroit the follow
ng day and retracing their steps to
arfy scheduled games there, finishing
The western swing with visits to st.
louis and Chicago.
Griff expects to have delivered before
The Nationals open their next long home
stand huge tarpaulin TO cover the en-
tire infeld. This will make il possible
% play. even though it should rain right
lp to game time, and will prevent a re-
currence of the situation which arose
yesterday, when the game was Cancelled
N good faith. although it turned out
hat a contest easily could have been
staged, many fans making a useless trip
10 the park as a result
Ruth should Get ut Least Fifty.
In connecting for his twenty-ninth
home run of the season yesterday
Babe Ruth has compiled as many cir
cult clouts in three months as he was
able to amasS in more than five
months to set an all-time major
league record last year. With the
present campaign but little more
than half completed, the mastodonic
nauler will amass more than fifty