The Washington times., 1920-08-19

too bashful to ask for a chance to
have been good place TO have used
him. anyway, after that fifth inning,
thus permitting Charity to cool off.
AS for Jim Shaw. the big Pitts
burgher didn't seem anxious to work.
He kept looking at the bench and,
doubtless. heaved sigh of relief
when Jose Acosta, the half pint
Cuban, climbed the hill. Reversing
the process, II might have done Shaw
considerable good to have been COM
PEELED to go the distance. That's
what the fans thought. anyway. for
they kept yelling for Manager Grif-
fifth to make him pitch"
YOUNGSTERS ARE WELCOME.
II the same policy is used toward
both the Chicago and Cleveland clubs,
IL might be well to use all the young
sters as fast as they report from
now to the close of the campaign.
Three more games are to be played
with the Yankees. so let the young
sters face them, too.
Washington fans know, for in
stance. that Hank Shanks can play
first. second, third. short and any
where in the outfield. Yet they have
been told that Shanks Is not a regu-
lar. If Shanks isn't regular with
the Griffs this year, we'd like to
know.
To our way OF thinking. Hanks
the most regular on the team, He's
the only guy ready to step in and
play anywhere. doing a pretty good
job of it, too. no matter where he Is
placed. But II Hank is not consider
ed one of the regulars for the future.
1t may be well to use some Of those
who may develop.
The third exhibition OF the Griffs
against the Brownies was pitiful. Jim
Shaw had nothing. Acosta little more.
The visitors trounced the home guard,
13 to ., while nobody watching them
wondered. The Brownies. behind
good pitching by Urban Shocker.
looked like a major league outfit. The
Griffs were qualifying for Olympic
Marathons, with Shaw and Acosta on
the hill. Indeed, Hank Shanks ran
himself to death in left field. chasing
those steaming drives.
NASHVILLE NYE LOSES.
There were some funny things
noted, at that, though the fish prob
ably didn't get therA- For instance,
there was the sad plight of Jack Nye,
from Nashville. Tenn. 1t drizzled for
while and Nye from Nashville tore
himself out of his fancy plush Turk
ish rocker in the pest box and seized
a perch in a box. Along comes a guy
in a funny hat and says to Nye from
Nashville, say he, you'll have to get
out Of this box"
All right" humbly replied Eye
from Nashville. AND HE DID.
That's the strange part of 1t. The
guy with the funny hat probably
thought that Nye from Nashville
might have selected any one of the
other $500 empty seats in the upper
tier. Furthermore, Nye from Nash
VILE topped that other guy by some
eighty-three pounds.
Another funny thing was that we
got the large. heavy, soft, over-stuffed
library chair that Demon" Thompson
had obtained for himself the day be-
fore. The other large, heavy. soft,
over-stufred library chairs ARE in the
factory now" and so Demon" wGs
compelled to occupy a fancy plush
Turkish rocker.
AND THEY CHEERED.
in the left field pavilion and they
cheered. But the amusing thing
about it was that they cheered when
ever the home guard succeeded in re-
firing the foe. There seemed note
of sarcasm in their boyish treble,
though there probably wasn't.
Long before the slaughter ended a
| long string Of invalided men from the
Government hospital in Anacostia filed
down through the stand, across the
field boxes and out of the park A
wag suggested that Griff grab a few
for use In the box, his own collection
being quite as wild.
owing to the weakness OF their
Of ho ii
portunities to turn In some fancy field
! ing. Jimmy O'Neill, "Bucky" Harris
and Frank Ellerbe each took advan-
tage of the opportunity with nifty
stops of bad bounders. Frank Brewer
made a running one-handed pickup OF
grounder in the garden. too. worthy
of passing mention.