The Washington times., 1920-07-06

ington. In other cities they're simp
parked behind ropes in the outfield.
field to flank some Of the infielder:
in the gardens. Here, however, tn
They sort o. take the team to themi
Washington boasts the largest play
ing field In the league. but with the
crowds sof the past few Days 1t has
comfy sort o. look when the home
team is ready to maui the eternal day
lights out of the enemy. Take yes
terday afternoon, for example. -.
All the seats we're filled. This goes
for the grandstand. the pavilion and
the jury box. At the back OF the
lower stand the fans stood five and
six deep. They trickled down and sat
on the steps. They stood around at
the top of the upper tier. They filled
the AeId boxes. those new contrap-
tions found necessary this season Tor
the first time.
Finding the attendance running
away with the facilities, Secretary
Eynon ran the extras out on benches
in front Of the field boxes and In front
of the stand, even behind the plate.
And still the fans 'csme. men and
women. pouring out upon the grass.
OUT UPON FIELD.
Finding nowhere to go, they formed
q long crescent In left feld. extending
out in front Of the Jury box. Some
stood SO near to the field boxes as to
cause their occupants to stand. This
made the front rows in the pavilions
stand and brought q roar from the
bugs of Down in front"
Tim Jordans minions roamed
through the mob. dispensing soft stun
and peanuts and popcorn. Major
Gessford's .minions strolled around
with little to doS Washington fans be-
ing Of the tame, or house, variety.
And out of the field Clark Grinith's
minions swamped the, New York Yam
KEGS. Really. the Yankees have made
arather poor impression with Capital
fans. .
On Sunday Jim Shaw simply para
lived them, S to 2. Yesterday morn
ing Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary nosed
them out, 4 to 3. while In the after
noon AL Schacht made them look like
suckers, winning to 3.
HE HAS SOMETHING. -.....
Al Schacht must have an Indian
sign on the Yankees, when they're
here, anyway. For instance. on May
6 he opposed Bob Shawkey, Rip Col
Inns and George Mogridge at Georgia
avenue, upsetting them, to l. ROCK
EN- Ruth came up four times and got
one measly single to center field.
Schacht got a hit and a walk and
reached first a third time on an error
by Battering Babe Ruth, who was in
right field that day.
That day in May the Yankees man.
aged to collect six hits off Schacht
and score once. On July they got
seven blows and three runs, which
wasn't near enough, for the Grins
collected eleven blows and nine runs
taking advantage Of mound weak
nesses Of Herb Thormahlen and Bob
McGraw.
Al Schacht made himself solid with
the big crowd yesterday by his all
Ground good work. We once said he
was omnigerent, but he thought this
was an. insult, and 30 we'll merely
say he piched fine ball all the way.
poled a double to right field, got in
a. sacrifice, took a walk ana struck
out. We hate to insult any player,
even such a hard-working cuss as Al
Schacht, so we'll let 1t go with what
is here written. He was the goods.
He'll understand that Schacht started
under a severe handicap. Only mo-
ment before T.. Lawrence Phillips had
announced In clarion tones that "Mr.
johnson had suffered an injury which
would keep him out Of the game AS
thousands were present just to see
washington's no-hit. no-run pitcher.
this announcement didn't go down
any too well, and Schacht was booed
a bit in the beginning.
In the first Ave innings theN Yam
KEGS made just two hits. and 1t was
not till the sixth that they got an
other run on three hits. BY that time
the Griffs were far ahead and Schacht
a hero with the gang. -.
THEY ATE PEANUTS.
Tim Jordan came up to the pest
box and we said. "How many peanuts
have you sold?' .'-
Lets see." replied the mathemat-
we sold 1900. Today 1t will about
twice that
,"I mean in hundreds of thousands"
we interjected.
"oh, thought you meant sacks"
said he. - '.s -
mo, individual peanuts" he re-
marked. ....
But Tim declined to dope this out
Ho was talking sacks. Demon
Thompson said that, allowing Ave
peanuts to a sack. the fans yesterday
in two games ate 22,500 peanuts.
But that doesn't seem right to us.
We'd allow at least seven peanuts to
n sack. which would bring the total
UP to $1,000.
COUNTS DRY ONES.
You don't make allowances for the
dried up onos,' explained Demon
Thompson. So we made another cal
culation. We allowed thirteen peanuts
to tho sack, thus playing fair with
Tim Jordan, who's a guy, and that
brought the total of peanuts eaten UP
to bS,500.
George Moreland, whose particular
bent Is statistics, looked over the
mob and. after eliminating the dis
peptics, free thought folks, pest box
denizens, tight wads, oui1a board ad-