The Washington times., 1921-03-07


FIRST time were Hank shanks. Eddie
Foster. Danny Moeller and Ray Nor
gan. though the latter had reported
the fall before.
The nrst thing Manager Griffith
did was to trade "Gabby" Street, the
picturesque batterymate of Walter
Johnson's. to New York for Jack
Knight. Then, at Charlottesville, Va
he began experimenting with what hs
had.
The frst two candidates to tumble
by the wayside were Jack Flynn. frst
baseman. and Bill Cunningham. sec
on baseman. Jack knight and Dutch
Schaefer alternated at fiirst base for
the fisst six weeks. BY that time
Griffith made his ten-strike In get
ting Chick Gandil from Montreal
Gandil had been given q brief trial
by the White Sox in 1910 and was q
hard d-hitting. brilliant nrst baseman
INJURIES HURT TEAM.
The 1912 Griffs would have won the
pennant but for injuries to needed
players at critical times. John
Henry's trick knee kept him out of
many games. He caught in only
sixty-three games that season.
Ray Morgan, despite his light bat
ting average OF .238, was a necessary
cog in the infield machine and an in
Jury to his ankle was . hard blow to
the team late In the season.
But Walter johnson hung up six
teen straight victories. For the year
he won thirty-two and lost twelve,
ranking third to Joe Wood, of the
Red Sox. and Eddie Plank, OF the Ath-
letics.
Bob Groom. tho stringbean finger
ranked next to johnson, with twenty
four victories and thirteen defeats.
Carl Cashion. . rookie, won eleven
and lost six. while the veteran Tom
Hughes won thirteen and lost ten
Other pitchers were used at odd
times, but that quartet Of johnson.
Groom, Hughes and Cashion carried
the bulk OF the mound toll
WALTER ONLY ONE LEFT.
OF all the pitchers with the Wash
ington club, Walter johnson alone Is
left. Bob Groom jumped to the Fed
eral League in 1914, failed there, got
another trial with the Browns and.
failing again, has gone into the coal
business In st. Louis.
Tom Hughes has pitched on the Pa
cifc coast and with Minneapolis In
the American Association since drop
ping out OF fast company. Last year
he was a cop in Minneapolis.
Carl Cashion. with his arm perma-
nently injured, was q utility player
and slugging pinch-hitter for Mime
apolis last season. He has grown
mountainous and 10 almost at the end
Of his baseball career.
Jim Vaughn. grevous failure
h~f fAf
trial here that summer. He WAS q
sas City. Today he is with the Chi
cago Cubs and considered a sterling
southpaw in the National League.
WALKER WAS FIRED.
Dixie Walker. with all the makings
Of a great pitcher except brains and
ambition, was ised by Clark Griffith
in May for taking injuries in opder
to get out of work. He has long
since dropped out of baseball
Barney Petty. for years great
pitcher with the st. Louis Browns
was taken on waivers. He was sup
posed to be a relief pitcher, but his
usefulness was nil and he was re-
leased. Petty is keeping store
somewhere in tho Middle West. all
done with baseball
Joe EngeI, who got into seventeen
games that season, winning one and
losing fve, is now q scout for the
Washington club. An injury to his
arm ruined MIN as q promising
pitcher.
Alva williams. taken on waivers
from the Re1 Sox. played great ball
that season, hitting for .31S in nifty
six games. He has dropped out OF
baseball and Is running his own mar
ket In Massil'.n, Ohio.
AINsMITH WITH DETROIT.
Eddie Ainsmith- the shrill-shoutine
catcher, is now frst-string backstoI
for Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers.
John Henry. Handicapped by q
weak knee and ever-increasinr 9
weight. has dropped out of baseball
Poor health and the loss Of his none,
has so discouraged him that only las,
week he was said to have attempted
suicide by taking poison In Holyoke
Mass
Jack Flynn, who started at nrs'
base, 10 now manager in Springfield
Mass. in the Eastern League. III,
has recommended Eddie Goebel. now
trying for an ontfieid berth at Tampa
Goebel played for him last season.
Herman Schaefer, known far ant
wide as prince Henry" BASEBALL,
greatest comedian, Is dead, passins
away year or so ago at Ssrana'
Lake. N. ". n victim OF the whit,
plague" At the time he was with tn,
New York Giants.
LsPORTE HAS RETIRED.
Frank LaPorte. who was taken ove
from the st. Louis Browns to pla,
many q good game for the Griffs VI
1912. has retired from baseball In
creasing weight did for him NOR
than anything else.
Bill Cunningham, who went 4
Montreal in the Gandil deal, faile'
there and quit playing In a year or sc
Ray Morgan, who finally cinche,
| second base, Is out OF baseball Veal
ankles and increasing weight shove'
him aside
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