Evening star., 1923-06-18


Speakers success with his Redskins
to date has been achieved without
any unusually strong pitching. Uhle,
with nine won and six lost. and
Coveleskie with one less victory and
the same number of defeats. being the
leaders. although his youngsters
Boone MeteYier, Edwards and Shaute.
and the veteran Morton have done
their share.
The most surprising thing about
the Tribe is that their leader him
self. who has Il lifetime batting aver
age of about $50. is pegging along
below the charmed circle. the princi-
pal punch of the club being furnished
by Charlie Jameson, Washington dis
card. who is sporting mark of 1862:
Glenn Myatt. the receiver from Mil
waukee, who is hitting at $50 clip.
and Shnrtstop Joe Sewell. rated at
324. Walter LutZke, the sterling
third -sacker from Kansas City, has
mere .261. and Homer Summa. the
fychaser from Wichita Falls. who is
filling Joe Woods shoes in right field.
is but ten point better,
Frank Brewer the popular Nir-
einian. who was SWapped for Joey
Evans and has been on the shelf with
n broken bone in his foot for more
than week since he walloped pair
Of homers al the Yankee stadium.
showed up today and expects to get
back into harness. Brewer had
beaten Louis GuiSto for the job at
first base and was clubbing for .266
when injured
There were two unusual angles to
the final game of the set with Chicago
Yesterday. which the White SoX won
In eleven innings. to B. to attain
three victories out of four and send
the Griffs stopping into the last place.
First. there was the pitching eS-
hibition of Grier Friday. who allowed
only four hits. but walked fourteen
nf the opposition and lost the game
hr forcing runs over the rubber.
Oddly No. was the club swinging
of Bluege. who struck out five times
in as many trips to the plate. taking
healthy swipes at the ball on each
occasion.
Friday impressed observers with
his potential worth. despite his un-
steadiness. displaying sharp break
ing ball that was difficult to hit when
he did get it over Umpire Naliin
appeared to be somewhat severe on
Friday. as he made the youngster cut
the plate every time 10 obtain
strike. The fans were with the re
cruit. who was making his major
league debut. from start to finish,
and gave him every announcement.
Leverett hit Friday on the head with
a fast ball on his first appearance
at bat. The youngster was game and
wanted to continue, but Manager
Gleason and Captain Collins waived
Friday resuming his work on the rub
Der in the next lining after receiving
professional attention from Trainer
Martin.
Bluege's exhibition simply dumfounded
the spectators, but instead of being
razzed, the crowd seemed to Sympathize
with him. On two out of the five occa-
sions he whitfield Bluege could have won
the game with anything that resembled
a hit.
Three passes and sacrifice fly by
Sheely landed the first run for the
Chisox. 4 hit. two passes and another
sacrifice fly put one over In the second.
The third tally resulted from pass,
sacrifice and kamm's hit. From then on
to the eleventh and final round. the SoN
went runless and Friday scattered but
four passes through seven innings
Then came the blow-off. Mostil was
hit by pitched ball and Sheely walked.
Fali moved the runners up with sacri-
fee. hut kamm famed to the great JOY
Of the crowd. Schalk was passed pur-
posely, and Strunk was substituted for
TIeyerette. Amos drew a pass, forcing
Mostn home. and another walk to
Hooper allowed Sheely to trot to the
plate. Mcclellan wound up the inning
with a grounder to Peck, forcing Hooper
at second.
The Griffs went runless until the fifth,
when they got to Leverette for four
safeties and a pass, which resulted in
two runs. With one down Ruel hit
safely to left. and Friday sent him to
second with Il. single to short right.
Rice lofted, but Pecks single to center
scored Ruel and Goslin's wicked single
70 right scored Friday. Judge was passed
purposely. but Bluege left the runners
stranded by striking out.
The final run for the Griffs de-
veloped in the seventh. Friday led
off with a long fly to Hooper. but
Rice crashed a triple to right. Peck
walked and Goslin was hit. filling the