The Washington times., 1925-04-23
ZACH WILL
PERFORM
TODAY
Hoyt or Pennock Expected to
Oppose World Champions
in Second Game
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER,
Sports Editor, The Times.

Sports EultOf, 1He AAAhOO'
Good OF Tom Zachary is ex-
pected to face the embattled
New York Yankees at the Grif-
fifth Stadium in the second game
Of the season and this first Sc
ries today, his visavis being
either Waite Hoyt or Herb PEN
mock. Zachary warmed up for
several innings yesterday, show
ing plenty Of smoke and control.
He thought he might be called
upon for some service, but es-
capped to sit in front of the
field boxes and enjoy the victory
of the world champions.
Waite Hoyt pitched pretty
good ball against the champions
over in the big town, yet he was
whipped. The Griffs believe they
can repeat that dose and are
shedding few tears at the thoughts
of tackling him. AS for PEN
mock, Bucky Harris has plenty OF
southsiders to practice against,
so why get all het up over him !
The utter hopelessness OF the
former champions Of the world op-
posing the Griffmen in the first
game of the 1925 campaign in
Washington was shown clearly yes
ter(iay when Manager Miller Hug
gins ran in a bunch of rockies to
Complete a game before the Presi-
dent of the United States and more
than $4,000 fans. The Yankees
ended on the short end or 1O-to-l
count. They looked even worse
than that, too. There was no fight
I'm them.
After that wild man of Borneo
stuff by Ray Francis in the sixth,
nernitting the Griffs to score four
runs on one hit, the proud New
Yorkers curled up and died, Miller
Higgins leading the way by shov-
ing in substitutes.
The last two innings saw OdOm
at third, Wanninger at short;
ShanIxs at second; Witt in center
and 8 battery of youngsters
Henry Johnson and Benny Ben
cough. That was some come
down for q team claiming to be
In this pennant chase. It caused
much comment i'm the crowded
stands.
The Yankees are today in the
second division, q matter OF COM
parative unimportance at this stage
Of the campaign, but unless they
pull themselves together before
warm weather comes along, they
may find themselves among the
same quartet when the final bell
sounds.
Without the Busting Bambino,
the Yankees make a poor impress
sion. He is their triple threat. and
every other team in the league
knows it. Without him, the
Yankees are just a ball club Of
apparent average ability. In the
opening game of the season here,
by the way. they didn't measure
quite up to that average ability.
Walter Johnson had a soft time
winning the ninth Of his twelve
''first games" for the Washington
club. He did not show any great
amount of speed, though he did
"bear down" here and there. He
was always in front and, like. the
wise veteran he is, was content
just to go along.
Urban Shocker, on the other
hand, lacked speed and deception.
He and Steve O'Neill didn't seem
either, and the former Brownie was
by double and two singles. Good
riddance, said everybody.
Three hits brought . rum In
the first. A pass and two hits
repeated the stunt In the second.
Two triples grabbed another I'm
the third. ShOcker escaped harm
in the fourth only to be
slaughtered In the fifth.
Rice led off in the fifth with a
sInacker to left. As Scott dug for
second to head off Rice, Goslin
pounded a vicious roller right
through the vacated position into
left center for two bases, scoring
Rice from first base. Wowow, that
was the real thing.
Judge sacrificed and then Ossie
Bluege, a white-haired boy with
the throng all afternoon because
of his general classy performances,
poled a single to center. scoring
GosIin. That ended Shocker's
duties for the day. greatly to the
Joy of every Washingtonian.
Ray Francis. former Washington
0outhpaw. replaced Shocker and al
lowed Ruel to bring Bluege over
with a smash to left before choking
off the enemy. In the sixth
Francis simply went up. into the
air and stayed there, the cham
pions scoring four runs on three
passes, a hit batsman and a hit.