The Washington times., 1920-05-12

Billy Evans and his partner, Hide
brand, made their bow TO the Wash
ington populace. Neither was in
form. Evans ranks with the best OF
the arbitrators. Hildebrsnd is by no
means the worst. Neither seemed
worth a street car token yesterday.
behind the plate Evans missed 'em
/. and seemed to be evening up" more
: than once. In the held Hildebrand
made decisions that semed outrageous
70 the assembled merry villagers 1t
was because he howied against some
i OF. Hiidebrand's work that Joe Judge
| stamped his sggressiveness upon the
minds of the fans. They were all
with him, too. when he took his glove
: and disappeared down the stairway to,
the clubhouse.
Juage Perishes st second.
In the third Judge opened UP with
I a clean single to center. Milan, who
} is not hitting much these days, by
Z the way. bounced one IL Alton, who
swung around and let II ny TO Donie
Bush. Hildebrand ran across and
waved the Griffinan out.
To those In the stands. from all
angles. Judge seemed to have arrived
safely. When he ieaped to his feet
and began kicking against the de-
cision the fans supported him. calling
out many wicked epithcts to the Of
fcial
BY the time Judge came back to
the diamond to start the Tigers half
of the fourth, he had thought of
mum Der OF nice things. which he pre-
ceeded to pour into Hildebrand's own
private ear. Then he was fired, ban
ished. kicked out He went with col
ors dying. believing himself abso-
luteIy justified.
Whether or not Judge was right 1t
means a whole lot to him and TO the
Washington ball club that he has
enough FIRE and pep in his makeup
to put UP an argument. 1t means that
he has more confidence in himself now
than he has ever had since joining
the Washington ball club.
Mere Kicking is Nonsense.
Mere kicking is nonsense, for 1t
usually means that a player finds
himself benched for three days Or
more. It means broken team play,
100, which is costly. Therefore. play
ers who are just kickers, chronic
srouches, lay themselves open TO the
charge of being loafers, eager to be
given vacations.
Joe Judge is not threatened with
falling into this class. He has too
much sense to become chronic
crouch against the umpires. But he
was ruffled beyond control yester-
day by Umpire Hildebrand and just
had to flare up.
The mere fact that he fared up is
good sign. He is keeping awake.
His heart is in his game, or he would
never have complained. He is play
ing to win all the time. That is
why Joe is a vastly improved first
baseman this season, and his Danish
ment yesterday merely emph asizes it.
Hank Shanks replaced Judge in the
fourth inning and added his tenor
tones to the sleeping afternoons do
ings. Shanks has the best tenor since
the days OF Davy Jones.
Tigers Win In Ninth.
As for tho ball game. il wasn't
much For eight frames, both teams
dragged along and the fans slept.
Then the Tigers came to life. showed
over three runs in the ninth and won,
5 to >.
Shannon's error and Jones hit gave
the Tigers a run In the second, the
home team tying it up on a couple
of walks, Ellerbe's single and an in
field out in the same frame.
The Griffs crept ahead in tho third
when Milan forced Judge. went up OF
Iiice's inield hit. reached third on 2
forceh Roth.
a soluble from Harris stick, sent over
another tally in the fifth, the Tigers