Evening star., 1923-06-30

1t seems that Riley has proved one
of the sensations of the Texas
League this season with his slug
eing feats and is leading the circuit
i'll hitting. fact which has attracted
the notice of several big league
scouts. Whether he can do any
thing besides hit is question Joe
Engel is expected to throw some
town within a few days. and the
scouts report will determine wheth-
er he becomes the property of the
Nationals.
Judged by his performances over
& stretch of two weeks ended last
Saturday. Riley will make fine
prospect for understudy to Joe
Judge. provided he can catch base
bali and throw across the diamond.
In that period the young man, who
is Il left handed batsman. missed get
ting a hit in only one game and ac-
cumulated a total Of fifteen bingles
III forty-three times up for the
rather nifty average of $50.
Grlff's arrangement with Ira Thomas.
former star backstop of the old cham
pion Athletics, who now is managing
the Shreveport team, having succeeded
Bill Smith, at present beating about in
the sticks as sleuth for the Bushmen,
was that he could have first crack at
Riley in return for the loan of couple
of players to help the club in it's strug-
gle to get out of last place. Oscar Dom
aldson, the swarthy outflelder obtained
from Tampa, was shipped to Shreve-
port a couple of weeks ago as the first
of the pair and Brillheart makes the
second. The latter goes with a string
attached and will be recalled in the
fall if he makes suitable progress In ac-
qurng the control which deserted him
this season and locates the fast ball that
has mysteriously slipped from his reper-
toire.
To OF George Mogridge belongs a
large share of credit for the fact that
the Griffmen today are not practically
tied with the Red Sox for cellar honors.
as the lanky left-handed veteran twirled
in superb style TO earn a 2-1 verdict
over Alec Ferguson in as pretty a
mound duel as has been staged at
American League Park this season. The
veteran yielded only five bingles all told
first base. 1t was Ira F'lagstead. who
walloped far over Goslins head for the
circuit in the fourth inning. thereby saw
ing the Hose from being blanked.
Rajah Peckinpaugh, aided Mogridge so
effectively that only two of the hostiles
We're left on the bases.
Mogridge and Peck do not get all
the credit. however, for their efforts
were confined to defense, and there
were trio of athletes who performed
some highly essential stunts with the
bludgeon. Sam Rice was the chief
demon with the fail. initiating both
Of the tallies with triples. The first
of these was a crack to left center In
the opening round. Joe Judge then
came along with the safety that cash
I'D the tally. The second developed In
the eighth, a slash TO right that
bounded past Flagstead to the wall.
Peck lifted a short fly to Joe Harris
that Rice could not attempt to score
on, and Ferguson slipped a third
strike over on Goslin. Judge doomed
as too dangerous to daily with at this
juncture and he was purposely passed
to bring up Ruel. This may have i'm
pressed critical fans as a foolish move,
for Ruel has a far better batting rec
ord for the season than Judge. but
the latter was figured to have an
edge. in as much as he is a left-hand
hitter and Ferguson, having been a
battery mate of Ruers, thought he
knew just how to fool him. Muddy
demonstrated he was mistaken by
shunting a single to center that
brought In the decisive marker.