The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24

Workers had to say about yesterdi
Charles A. Taylor, in the New
York American, says:
"The Washington Senators knock.
ed our world champion Yankees out
Of first place in the American
League race yesterday by capturing
both ends Of double header. The
scores were to 3 and to 2.
The pennant pursuit as the re.
suit Of yesterdays doings is now
waxing exceedingly warm. Detroit,
which did not play yesterday, leads
with q percentage of SAB; New
York is second with .545, and Wash.
ington third with .544. A lively
situation sure enough.
Stanley Harris, the youthful
manager of the Senators, decided
to southpaw the Yanks to death
and destruction. He picked George
Mogridge as his first finger and
J. Tecumseh Zachary as his second.
Both twirled in excellent fashion:
whereas, their rivals on the mound.
Sam Jones and Cliff Marl1le in the
opening contest and Waite Hoyt
and Bob Shawley in the closing
affair, were unable to prevent the
Senators from punching blows"
Everything they got yester.
day." says The New York Times.
was deserved except that IL
Everett Scott had used better
judgment I'm the sixth inning Of
the second game the Senator'S
would have had two fewer runs
and q tie score on their hands.
But good Judgment was one Of
the things the Yanks didn't have,
along with good pitching, timely
batting and team hustle. The
champs played with all the en-
thusiasm and bubbling spirits of
man being led to the electric
chair. The title holders have lost
all their sunshine and ginger, and
their heads are down.
1T was a sad afternoon. The
five-star pitching staff was shot
through and through by the Wash.
ington broadside, and q pair of left
handlers sent forth by Manager
Buck Harris held the Yanl6s to eight
hits In the first game and seven
in the second. Against George
Mogridge in the first tilt started
Sam Jones. Sam was knocked out
Waite Hoyte faced JezebeI Tecum.
sch Zachary in the second section,
worked five scoreless innings and
then had his defense break to pieces.
The Yanks tied in the seventh, but
Bob Shawkey blew his chance in the
eighth, and down sank the champs
to second place.
I'm bright and sunny contrast to
the Yanks' moping lassitude was the
spappy and head-up baseball played
by the Senator's. Every visiting
athlete was on his toes, ledN by
Harris and the greatest pepper box
of them all, Spark Plug" Mat
thews. AS a result Of being on
their toes, the Senators are now on
the Yankees heels, and another
victory today, combined with De.
troit defeat, will send the Harris
outfit hurting to the dizzy heights
Of first place"
"FOr the WashingtOns," says
the veteran w. B. Hanna, in to-
days New York Herald Tribune,
be it known that they are nearer
to first place than they've been
since 1915, and so tickled with
their recent showing is Clark
Griffith, their president, that he
is spending carfare to travel
around and beam. incidentally,
yesterday he saw his two left.
handlers, MOgridge and Zachary,
give an undesirable exhibition Of
time wasting, dilatory work in
the box more so than anything
Griff conceived when he was an
artistic Mt that exasperating SORT
Of thing.
while thus annoying the Yankee
batters the Washington pitchers
also were effective enough to put
large crimps in the home teams
hitting and to do their considerable
bit in the double victory. The
Senators, playing smoothly and hit.
ting timely behind their slothful
pitchers, outplayed the Yankees
each time, especially in snap and
and sparkling on both sides in the
first game, but lack Of Waite
Hoyt's fine pitching in the second
game the Yankees lapsed into lassi.
tude and had a lack-wit fielding
inning most QaHaS1uBs
THE Senator's knocked Sam Jones
out in the fifth inning Of the first
game. Cliff Markle, making his
first temperance as a Yankee,
took up the quarrel in Jones be-
half. Helped by some luck in the
form Of sensational support and
with considerable skill of his own,
he checked the Senators and made
good showing.
Zones and Hoyt pitched many
slow balls, but the Hoyt mixture
was far the most effective, and the
only reason he left was to make
room for a pinch hitter. Joe Bush
was the pinch hitter and made good
by batting in New York's only runs.
"In left handing the Yankees
two defeats the Washington pitch
ers used q lot of side-arIm stuff
and change of pace. That was all
right. The Objectionable part of
their pitching was standing there
holding the ball and looking at
the batter, carrying this to aggra-
waiting lengths.
"Umpires, more's the pity, cannot
do anything about such reprehen.
sible and stupid methods except re-
prove the offender, and the umpires
apparently did that yesterday, after
which Zachary speeded up some.
Such methods are not smart, but
decidedly blameworthy. They may
peeve an opposing batter, affect his
work and to that extent be sue.
cessful, but make a game less in.
teresting to the fan and do the
sport more harm than good.
eff such tactics are necessary to
a NY nnifnhnN.Io a1iOnnu.a Than ifie Air,n.