Evening star., 1922-09-19
GR|FFS TODAY OPEN
| SERIES IN ST. LOUIS
Drop Final in Detroit, lis,
Three of MiIan's South
paws Being Pounded.

|CT. LOUIS, September lo.-Clyde
- Milan's Nationals today open
- a series of three games here
that mean little to them one way
or the other, but are of the utmost
importance to the pennant-ambi-
tious local outfit. On past perform
ances the visitors figure to be
lucky if they get one victory out
of the set, as in their previous nine
teen clashes this season St. Louis
has won thirteen games and Wash
ington six. If the Griffnen run true
to form they will materially aid the
Browns in their quest for the
American League gonfalon, but
should the visitors pull the unex-
pected and grab a couple of the
contests the title aspirations of the
Fohlmen will be dealt hard blow.
Of the SEASON in Detroit.yesterday the
Tygersswon, 11-5. the fourteenth time
this season that they have defeated
Washington. The Nationals took
eight games from the Tigers.
Only one other eastern team has
DccIl hS SlFOHB bCAi oiS tIiAS
year. and that is New York. The
Yankees have beaten the Tigers as
many times as Washington. but lost
only eleven games to them. There
are three more games to be played
between the Tigers and Yankees. and
this series starts in Detroit this aft
ernoon. If Detroit can continue as
strong against New York in the pres
ent series as in previous meetings
this year the Yankees pennant
chances will be seriously injured on
Navin Field.s
Showing OF Tigers Peculiar.
Detroit's race this year has been
peculiar. The Tigers will not lose
to an eastern team on the seasons
play. The best New York can do is
to tie them To date Detroit has won
f1fty-six games from the east and lost
twenty-six. :
Had Detroit been able to do any
thing against her three western op-
ponents the Tigers would be the
champions of the league. They have
and lost forty three. They have been
| lambs in their own territory, lions
against the east
In the final game Clyde Milan wanted
Jehosophat Besselievre Brilheart to
try his luck against the Tigers again.
| last. Milan. being hard up for pitching
| material, started Brillheart. young and
inexperienced. against the Tigers. He
won by 4-to-2 score and Griffith was
so beside himself as a result that he
rushed into the clubhouse after the
game and raised Jehosophat'S salary
s100 a month to show him that when a
| man gives the best that's in him it
does not go unappreciated.
; BriIIheart No Terror Since.
, Since that game Jehosophat has not
! been anything like a terror for Detroit.
| They beat him the second time he
started against them and they beat him
again yesterday. He was lifted in the
| fifth inning with the score tied and
Tecumseh Zachary replaced him. Foth-
ergill scored. giving Detroit the lead.
and since Washington did not tie the
score after that 1t is to Jehosophat's s
debit account that the game goes.
There was lefthanded tan-ie all
around. Milan used three pitchers. all
| lefthanders. Zachary lasted one inning,
! was pounded for five runs, and War
moth followed him Three more runs
were scored off Warnoth.
| Sylvester johnson, Detroit's high
! priced recruit. a Highlander, started the
game. In the fourth inning, when De-
troit was two runs behind. he collided
with Joe Judge at first and was knocked
unconscious. Oldham replaced him in
the box.
Oldham has long been a tough bird
for the Nationals. and he was a hard
egg yesterday. Washington made two
runs off him, but that was a mere
trif1e. for Oldham himself batted in
! five Detroit runs. Twice he came to
| bat with bases loaded. The first time
i he doubled and the next time he
| tripled. Five runs is all the entire
! Washington team scored.
| Syl johnson Is Unlucky.
| Sylvester Johnson is the unluckiest
| pitcher in the league as far as in
| juries are concerned. During the
| spring training season his right wris,
was fractured by a pitched ball. Or
three different occasions since tina,
time, he has been laid out with in
| juries, and once on account of a
surgical operation. Cobb did not
! start pitching him until last month
; and he has won six games and lost
two. He Is the only pitcher. with