The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-19

"I'll admit that the Detroit clul
ratified DOME Bush this morning,
each day, but it seems to me tt
the load every day.
81 won't be certain, but after
Slim Harris, I'm inclined to f
horses are pulling the hay, the
yesterday"
And yet there was consolation IN
the opening defeat of the year, 3
to l, by the Mackmen. Tor
instance, consider those two terrible
drives by Goose Goslin and Roger
Peckinpaugh. But for. the changed
conditions at Shibe Park, cutting
away three rows of the left field
bleachers and the erection of a
twenty-foot screen, both Gr.ffinen
would have hit for the circuit. That
would have tied the score in the
ninth.
II rain doesn't halt proceedings
today, the Griffs are going back
after the victory they thought
sure was coming their way yester-
day before some $1,000 fans,
mostly men and including the best
band we have ever heard at q
baseball park, band that played
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ancient marches and mere jazz.
But rain may bother the teams
today, which will give George
Mogridge and Ed Rommel another
day to think up ways of fooling the
Toe.
You folks back in Washington are
luclxier than the travelling scribes.
Your papers today have Washing
ton in fifth place. Over here they
are eighth. Yep, the Griff's must
hop right out of the tail-end posi-
ton today by winning. In Wash
ington. they will merely stagger up
from fifth into the first division.
And II they lose, they will be buried
deeper in the mire here, while in
Washinton they won't drop so far.
Let's think about pleasant
things, the world is filled with
the other kind. For instance, let's
talk about Barney johnson, who
Is going to win q whole lot OF
games for DOME Bush this year.
''Iow do you feel today?" we
asked the veteran pitcher this
morning.
pretty good" was his reply.
''That game was good workout
for me- AS / went along felt
better and could we have tied it ur.
/ think / could have pitched extra
innings without any hurt to myself.
When it is recalled that johnson
went eight innings yesterday for
the first time this season and was
supported by a mere four bingles.
we'll the skies are not so doggone
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more hits than that before he has
ably when he faces the Yankees
In New York next week.
johnson was not at his best I'm
the early innings against the Mack
men. For instance, Bryan Har-
ris hunted I'm the fourth. Were
johnson going at top speed, Har-
riS would have never been able to
pull that sacrifice bunt. No, not
In q thousand years.
To our wholly unprejudiced eyes,
Johnson needs work. He needs a
lot of pitching. something he did
not get during the training season.
Before yesterday he had pitched
only five frames. Not enough, not
enough, by a whole jugful. He
may win now and then during the
first few weeks of this season, but
he won't become a dependable
finger until he has several COM
plete games under his belt.
The Mackmen got all their hits
yesterday in the first four innings.
Had the Griff's done any hitting,
they might easily have won, for
johnson was making monkeys Of
the. enemy through the last four
innings. Dykes was the one guy
to get on and Peck's sorry peg did
that. 1t was not through any
weakness of Johnson's.
However, before Slim Harris the
Griffs looked like scI1OOlbOys.
After they made their run in the
first inning on Judges double,
followed by GoSlfn's single, they
really never had a chance to
score except for those two awful
clOuts by GOslin and Peck.
Goslin made his try for the cir.
cult in the eighth. Though a left.
hand hitter, he hammered the ball
out well nigh to the bleacher in
left. Bing Miller backed up against
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the bleacher and dragged down that
drive with his gloved hand.
He was loudly appiauded. and he
deserved 1t, for it was a brilliant
catch by a good bail player. Last
year, before the Improvements, that
wallop would have been a home
run among the blue shirted fish
in the bleacher. Yesterday it was
an out, showing how the world
advances.
Roger Peckinpaugh's great drive
came with two gone in the ninth
and the half frozen fans well on
their way toward the exits. He
got two bases on his slam, Miller
failing to reach 1t. A year ago
that drive would have fallen among
the customers for a home run.
An Peck got was two bases,
which probably suited him as he
had not done anything before
exeept~tO make wild heaVe on
Dykes in the sixth. Muddy
Ruel's puny roller to Slim Harris
left Peck ON second and ended
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