The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-27


easiest thing I've ever done to keep
going all these years and refuse to
| quit in the face Of shower after
shower of raspberries.
Perhaps these are not the exact
words that Mr.. Griffith used, but
they sum up the feelings that
were expressed by him in his
hour of triumph. It was q mo-
ment Of wonderful glory TO Clark
Griffith when he could look out
over the baseball world and know
himself to be king Of all he saw.
| He had AIexandered the works.
His majesty 10 now reaping the
material reward Of the long years
OF perseverance, and patience, wor-
rying and taking chances.
Approximat ely $4,000 people
clicked the turnstiles Of his magnif-
icent stadium during the four-garne
series Just played by the Griffmen
and Yankees. This figure is the
rapid-fire estimate of Edward b.
Eynon, jr., secretary Of the Wash
ington baseball club.
Enough people to jam every
crook and Granny Of the Griffith
| Stadium saw the first clash be.
in New York. Fair-sized crowds
| witnessed the other three games in
the opening series.
Mr.. Griffith's world champion
performers were greeted in Phila-
| delphia by a crowd the like Of
| which they seldom had seen. Every
seat In the enlarged Shibe Park
was occupied. The aisles were
| filled.
The CROSSWORD Of iron beams
/ In the grandstand resembled trees
loaded with monkeys. Intrepid
fans were those up there. OF the
same class were q number that
watched the game from the roof
Of the gTandstand. Even the
fence I'm right and center field
shared in the burden Of accOmmO-
dating the crowd.
Thousands Of fans were turned
away. The roofs OF houses over
looking the fence were loaded with
| humanity.
Yet it was not the opening game
: of the season in Philadelphia. The
| AACU OOA tAdO OCCu bhCAO OEAJAO tAAO
Griffmen. That baseball.wild throng
| had turned out to zee the home
team embattled with the world
champions.
Such a drawing card has the
Washington baseball club become.
The fans of New York, Philadol-
phia and Washington have flocked
to see it. Boston, in the East. and
Detroit, Cleveland. Chicago and st.
Louis, in the, West. have yet to
take their initial peak Of 1925 at
the fighting. colorful champion
team led by the youngest manager
in baseball and owned in major
| part by a man whose moral Sodr'
Rage harmonizes with the spirit Of
his dashing hirelings.
BASEBALL is humming in the West.
ern territory Of the American
League. The stream OF wealth that
pours Griffward may swell into a
| flood.
Some $500 Washington bugs
paid to witness the only Yankee
victory scored in the series con-
CIuded here. Their disappoint-
ment over the Griffmen's defeat
was tempered by the thrill Of a
red-blOOded battle. In winning,
to 2. the Yankees showed some
of the class that made them
formidable I'm the last pennant
campaign and triumphant in pre-
viOus flag races.
They stole a bit OF the Griff-
mems thunder by winning with a
ninth-inning punch. The big kick
supplied by Babe Ruth's able sub
stitute, Ben Paschal, who biffed a
fly into the centerfield stand.
That home run took all the hap
plness for the time being from the
life Of Walter Ruether, whose splen-
did pitching for the Gr1ffmen had
won him a hand time and again
from the loyal rooters, although the
brilliant efforts of his mates helped
him out Of several tough places.
Sam Jones pitched a trifle better
than Ruether and deserved to win.
His masterpiece was the tanning Of
Mule Shirley in the third with the
bases loaded. for the third out, after
having passed Goslin on purpose.
The Goose had C0urtod this
possibly injurious respect when,
in the first inning, he doubled
Harris home from first. Ruether
himself scored the Griffmen's
other run, in the fifth, which he
started with a clean single. Lei
bold sacrificed him to second and
he counted on Rices single.
Paschal singled, stole, and scored
on Pipp's double in the fourth.
Ruether's playmates helped him
nobly in the seventh. Paschal
walked to start 1t. Pipp scratched
an infield hit. Paschal. caught nap
ping off second. was killed off. Ruel
to Peck to Bluege, Pipp making
second on the play
Ward hit to Bluege. who made a
dive to touch Pipp coming down the
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