Evening star., 1922-05-02

their recent winning streak mas rest
a factor in the chase for the flag. A
Workers will be the biggest piece OF
the Griffs have their ears close to the
other break.
The Yankees are temperamental
bunch and the Washington players
are confident that 1t they are crowded
another break Is sure to occur. Joe
Bush is picked for the third run-in,
as he is in the Mays-Hoyt class as to
being touchy and whenever he strikes
a bad day q break with Huggins can
be looked for. Each of these pitchers
has one or moro friends In the yam.
kee ranks and 1t can be seen what II
means to the success Of the team to
have so many players antagonistic
to their manager. With their won
derful pitching staff wrecked. al1ofs
will be floating around in profusion
from the other men and then the
grand blowoff will not be far away:
Reports from st. Louis and Cleveland
are to the effect that the players on
the teams representing those cities
in the American League devoured
with as much gusto as the Grihmen.
Phillips Has Good Head.
Big Tom Phillips is one of the best
fellows imaginable in temperament.
and, being left in Philadelphia over
Sunday, an opportunity was afforded
for a talk with the recruit. When
asked how he viewed being taken out
of Saturdays game. his first expert
ence of this sort since joining the
Griffs, he laughed and said: ITS all
a matter of business with me. / may
think I am capable of going on and
doing better work. but if the mana
ger tells me to retire. that's all there
is to it. -.
q always have figured that the
manager is receiving a salary for just
such work. and if he didn't know more
than i do he would not be running
the club"
Quite lot of wisdom in that sem
tence. eh beau? --.-- --.-.-
Several Of the Griffmen tried to put
a bug in Toms ear to the effect that
the Mackmen had copped his signals
Charity shifted signs couple
times while 1 was being hit. but
couldn't fool them. IT they got our
signs they must be wizards. That's all
I have to say"
For the wind up battle Of the series
with the Athletics this afternoon
Manager Milan said it was hard to
decide on the twirler he would work,
but that Phillips was his first choice.
with Mogridge the second selection.
Manager Mack said he thought he
would send Hasty to the mound. as he
wanted to save Rommel for the open
ing game against the Yankees to-
morrow.
GrIns Lose Batting Eyes.
Outside Sam Rice. the Griftmep ap-
Washington when confronting the
Mackmen yesterday, az their desul-
tory hitting got them nowhere, the
latter winning easily. to s. Erick-
son had nothing in his repertoire to
fool the Mackmen. and after he had
overstayed his welcome for five in
nings and a third of the sixth. he was
asked to withdraw in favor of young
Brillheart.
The big Swede fooled Manager
Milan several times. as he would
retire the third man in such an i'm
pressive manner as to make one
think he had at last hit his stride.
but these exhibitions were only
flashes. Brillheart finished the game
were against him. On the other
hand. Slim Harris had the goods and
looked the artist all over. the two
runs in the final inning for the Griffs
being a gift.
rounds, the Griffs broke the ice in
the third. registering a single tally
on Harris safe one into center, Rfce's
out at first and Judges nifty swipe
into right for one base. In the third
they tied up the score when Peck
singled to right and Charity chased
him home with a four-base swat into
the left-field stand,
For the next four rounds the
Griffs were almost helpless, Rices
the only hit registered. With the
score standing to 8. the Griffmen
made the crowd apprehens by
scoring two runs. and Brewers long
fly for the final out in the ninth |
came close to tying up the struggle.
The Macks started on Erick in the
first round with a single; got two sin
giles and a double in the second; two
singles in the third; a home run by
Dykes in the fourth and single by
Young that was thrown away, as 1T
Fit Galloway; a single and homer
by Walker~in the fifth, and single
and a double in the sixth, when Brill
heart came upon the scene. - -
Twelve hits for total of twenty
hases should be enough to satisfy any
manager that his pitcher needed the
air. Brillheart was nicked for dou-
BILE and a single in the eighth. but
good fielding would have saved him
the two-bageer, as Harris and Brewer
let the high fly fall between them. in
stead of either making an easy catch
of it. i--.-r'--s
In the sixth Earl Smith saved a run
by backing into the left-field wall and
getting GalIoway's fly with one hand
as it was going into the seats.
Smith was credited with only one
hit, but should have had two, as. he
nearly knocked Dykes down with a
hot grounder in the fourth stanza.
The official scorer said Dykes had
erred and it had to go that way. ...Fll
have to break the infielders' legs to
get hits in Philadelphia Smith res
marked. II, r
Eddie Charity made brilliant
catch in the eighth inning, when he
ran back to the grandstand after Slim
Hairs high foul. The ball came
down within foot of the>netting and
no one figured he had a chance.