The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-14

The hottest part Of the schedule.
81 now under way. Indeed. it has
been on ever since the New York
Yankees came here on July A.
Beginning July 8, the Griffs must
face the Western clubs continuously
until August 81.
On July rs they open their Sec
Ond tour of the West at Cleveland
Returning home on August 12, the
GriffS begin another series OF bat.
ties with the Western clubs, headed
by the Cleveland Indians.
Not until the Griffs open their
final series of the year i'm New
York, August 20, do they measure
their strength with an Eastern
entry IN this pennant chase.
If the fighting Griffs are to
break a record by winning big
league pennant, they must dot it al
the expense of the Western clubs.
They have but four more games
with the Yankees, six with the
Philadelphia Athletics and but
seven with the Boston Red Sox, a
total OF seventeen in ALL
The Griffmen have Seventy-three
more games to play before the cur
tain falls on the 1924 campaign.
Seventeen are with Eastern clubs
and fifty-six with the West. They
have three times as many games
coming with the stronger half Of
the circuit than they have with the
weaker. This shows better than
anything else the difficult position
of the club.
1t will be well when the Griff
hurling corps recovered completely
from its double-header medicine.
For the past week each and every
one of the gang has looked bad
under the strain of daily endeavor
Marberry and Zahniser were no
exceptions yesterday, though the
home brigade luckily COPIED, Is to-
IL. The principal reason for the
Washington victory was the excep-
tionally weak pitching offered by
the Indians. AS major league
contest-well it wasn't. 1t was
minor league stuff, sending many
fans home early.
In five frames Marberry walk
ed five Indians and allowed four
hits. Zahniser was in there
three and two-thirds innings, dur
ing which eight hits came to the
foe and six free tickets to first
base. If that is good pitching
well, it just isn't, that's all.
The wretched work of the Cleve,
land fingers gave the home boys
their win. The visiting pitchers
swapping his first base job for the
fo ell
johnson in comparison. Turkey
allowed two hits and no runs in
his two innings and got a big hand
from his many friends in the stand.
Uhle was driven to the showers
in the second and then started
pitching parade, Clarke, a big
lasted three and one-third
frames. Roy, a real Indian hurler,
lasted one-third of frame. Cheeves
bluffed through two-thirds of a
frame before Brewer came along u
halt the Griffs' monotonous attack
1t was sloppy exhibition lasting
two hours and forty-five minutes,
about twice too long. The Griffs
scored five runs in the first two
frames only to have the Indians
tie the count in the fifth. Then
the Griffs grabbed couple more
in their half of the fifth and piled
up eight in the sixth.
z There were some clever bits dur.
ing the slaughter, notably the hit.
ting of iris Speaker and Joe Judge.
Speaker got a single, double and
home run, gently waiting the onion
over the right field wall in the
fifth, tying the score at the time.
Judge walloped two doubles and
two singles.
81 Roger Peckinpaugh, Sam Rice
and Buc'.y Harris offered some
brilliant ding, dotting the other
wise WI etched exhibition Of the
natl hal pastime.