The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-24
GRIT IN
LAST ONE
TODAY
Close Second Long Home
stay With White scx and
Hike West Tonight
Bx LOUIS A. poUGHER

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Griffs close their second long
home stay today, battling the
Chicago White Sox. Tonight they
viii be on their way to Cleveland
where tomorrow win be spent
strolIing through the streets or
visiting the movies. It is an open
date in the American League, the
clubs travelling Westward in order
to open the second invasion OF the
frontier by the seaboard clubs on
Saturday. Manager Harris be-
Heyes his team will be benefited
hy q good nights rest In hotel,
which explains tonight's getaway.
After today's performance the
lighting Griffs viii have only nine.
teen home games left on their
acheduIe. In the remaining forty.
three battles they will be playing IN
alien lands.
Beginning saturday at Cleveland.
the Griffmen will play seventeen
games In the West, one double
header being booked for st. Louis.
Tour.day visits will be made every
where. the team leaving Chicago for
Washington on August 10.
BY defeating the Chicago White
aox. 4 to 2, yesterday the Gritfs
have now taken three of the four
victories In the series and today
mean to cop the fourth. They
failed to bother Hollis Thurston in
che opening clash Tuesday, letting
him ring up his tenth straight vic
tory, but they rudely broke Urban
Eaber's streak yesterday.
Faber, following . surgical OPP
Grafton on his pitching elbow, got
away to q slow start this season.
It was not till June 80 that the
veteran spitballer began to show
his real class on the hill and since
then he has been running neck.
and neck with Hollis ThurstOn.
On this trip, for instance, the
White SOx have won eight games.
ThurstOn won four Of them and
Faber three. The rest Of the
staff contributed ono.
Faber, going in as a relief hurIer
against the Griffs in Chicago on
June Is, pitched five innings. allow
ing four hits and two tallies. Five
days later the Indians defeated him.
TO 8, collecting twelve safe blows
off his delivery. On June % the
Browns knocked him off the slab in
two innings.
The great White Sox veteran
finally got under way on June 80
when he won from Detroit, ID to 4,
allowing eleven hits.
On July he held the Indians to
seven hits and won, s to z.
Coming East on this second trip,
Faber upset the naughty New York
Yanks, to s, on July ., allowing
ten hits.
Moving up to Boston, Faber
mounted the slab against the Red
Sox on July "A. He was wild az a
nladman that day, issuing seven
passes, but the hard.hitting Bos.
tOnians found him for q measly four
blows and he won, to 2.
Faber rung up his fifth straight
win against the Mackmen last Sat.
urday. The score was 10 to 4 and
the veteran kept the twelve hits
well scattered.
One inning suffieed to smash
Faber's winning streak at the
Griffith Stadium yesterday. In
that lone frame the fighting Griffs
scored four runs on three hits,
two walks, q passed ball, couple
Of atr0ciOus pegs by Buck Grouse
and sacrifice.
Ruel, with q single to center. was
the only Griff to reach first base in
the first three innings, but the sky
cleared In the fourth. Leibold led
off with walk, stealing and reach.
ing third on Crouse's bad throw.
Bluege put up q pop foul NY for
Grouse, but Goslin singled, scoring
Leibold.
Goslin stole second and rot to
third on another wild peg by Grouse.
Judge took q walk. Ruel singled to
right. scoring GoslIn and sending
Judge to second.
Harris pumped q smart single to
center, scoring Judge and putting
Ruel on third from where he count.
when Peck worked a squeeze play
with perfect hunt to Faber. Those
four runs won the game for the
Griffe.
Firpo Marberry battled Faber al,
the way, holding his own in all but
one frame. In the fifth the Pale
Hose scored their runs on singles bv
Archdeacon, Fish and Shelly. Falk
followed with a hit, but he and