The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-21

against the Mackmen will get him
citation. 1t is not big league stuff.
Take the sorry third inning, for
instance, when the Mackmen made
three runs on one hit. two errors, a
hit batsman and three stolen bases.
One was gone when Harris fooled
Perkins grounder. Then Holdings
worth hit Riconda on the shirt, put
ting two on with one out.
Joe Hauser, who has yet to make
a hit in this series, lined to Sam
Rice, who obligingly dropped the
ball, filling the bases. The pitcher
is not yet to be blamed. He is
merely suffering from the poor
work of his supporting cast. Sing
scoring Perkins and Riconda. All
right, still no special blame for
Hollingsworth.
Now it comes. Forgetting all
about the man on second, HOl-
lingSWOrth takes a long Wind-up
and HauSer steals third. That
was not enough Of a lesson and
after tanning Galloway, he lots
HauSer and Miller work double
steal. 1t was dumb baseball on
the young pitchers part, that's
all, the kind of baseball that is
not permitted.
When those two Mackmen got
under way Hollingsworth had the
ball. He stepped back off the rub
Der, held the ball. made a false
move to first base and, when the
damage was done, finally threw to
Muddy Ruel too late TO get Hauser
who stole home.
This was a fine sample of the
dumb baseball played by the Griff-
season. II is to be hoped they get
II out of their systems before they
face the home folks.
There is no need to choose vic
Tins for the third successive defeat
by the Mackmen, but certain things
do stand out, just the same. Goose
GoSlin could have got Heimach at
the plate in the sixth with yards TO
spare. So he tossed wildly to Con
roy in a vain effort to get Sparky
Matthews. Both runners scored.
It is apparent that DOME Bush
has not succeeded yet in getting
his team to play the kind of ball
he wants them to play. The wee
manager, it must be admitted, has
been bothered by poor pitching by
MOgridge and HOllingswOrth and
also by errors on the part Of his
players.
Neither can Bush be charged with
the positively dumb playing exhjb'
tied by his young men. In other
words. Bush has kept a clean slate
in these three defeats. The blame
must go to his athletes.
For three days running the Griffs
have hoped into a lead they could
not hold. They have botched and
bungled grounders and fly balls
They have looked like high school
boys on the bases. They have
looked bad in the box.
Here's a sample of the sort OF
playing by the Griffs. Joe Hauser
who has yet to get hit in this
series, hoisted two fouls that Bill
Conroy might have grabbed with
just a little more ambition. But
how are you going to bawl out Con
roy when he came back in the next
inning and made a brilliant one
handed catch of Galloway's foul for
e the third out with Perkins on third
and Miller on first.
In other words, the Griffs are
mixing up excellent work with the
most Wretched stuff. That's why
we say they must work this out
of their systems and settle down
to business before they are en-
titled to any praise.
Judged by his work yesterday
Hollingsworth is not yet a major
:. league hurler. He walked five bats
men, hit two and yielded three hits
1t is no praise that the AS got
q, only four hits off him. He seldom
got the ball near enough to thu
plate. He gave a wretched exhibi
ton in his seven innings on the hill
The Griffmen were talking las
night about their tough luck. They
are wrong. Their luck has beer
quite as good as the other guys
with the single exception that Their
long drives have seldom effected
much. They have been out
pitched, outguessed and outplayet
their three defeats They have NJ
alibi. They have not produced tn
goods. That's all there is to it.
DOME Bush expects to start
Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary today.
Well, old Zach is fine pitcher.
1.-THE receives better support than
his predecessors have, he may
stop the Mackmen i'm their tracks.
But, on the other hand. If he
given the same sloppy fielding, tn
same headless running and tn
same high school support. he
doomed before he ever walks to tn
rubber. What is the use of kiddin
the folks home about It? We ar
not in the kidding business.
After looking at the Griffs los
three games, we still believe Don
Bush has good ball club, once
begins to play the sort of ball
which it is capable. It has yet
begin. So long as it goes as
has for the past three days
will continue to lose games da
after day, wasting good hits, wo
derful stops here and there, ar