Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-03

long, he continued, and they'll win
season. perhaps. 1t takes some tim
after tearing apart two-tlme penn
long"
Griff. although enthused over the
6-tu-5 victory scored by the Nationals
in the opener of the Yankee series
yesterday. did not make any rash pre-
dirtions concerning the outcome Of
this years race. THAT was II mighty
sweet win for us" he commented. "A
fine one for the fans to see. too. II
showed that our club still has plenty
of fight in it, despite It's recent slump
that sent it far down the ladder.
Good Word for lanks.
We have or eyes on second place
In this race right now. The Ianks
are 50 far ahead that catching them
will he difficult for any outfit in The
league. They are not playing such
tiptop base hall at present. hut then
one must remember that they are
going along with a makeshft outfield.
With Bob MeuSel in the game
regularly and the Babe in better
physical Shape-he has. a charley
horsed leg and Il sore knee now--it's
a far stronger club and worthy
leader.
But the bunch We have out there
now appears to be bunch OF fighters.
They seem to have that spirit that
carried the club to such heights In
1924 and 1925-the spirit that never
let them know they were licked. Our
pitchers. although We have only
few of them right now, are getting
along better. This warm weather
ought to work wonders with Stan
Coveleskie and Dutch Ruether. Wal
ter Johnson does not need any kind
of weather 10 make him better. He
has been good right along. but has
been very unfortunate in not winning
more often
And our attack seems to me to he
improving steadily. II so often hap
pens that the addition Of a hard hitting
youngster TO lineup will inspire the
other members of a club to greater
efforts. This Danny Taylor Is a
powerful boy who does not hesitate to
take a swing at the hall and when he
meets 1t the ball travels And the
fellow who repeatedly socks that bali
is going to drive it to safe territory
frequently. Well, in the few DAYS
Taylor has been with the club the pep
of the other members appears to have
increased.
Club More Peppery.
This doesn't mean that any i'm
N
by a long shot The other fellows
have TO do their bit But it's base ball
history repeating itself. A new mem
Der with ability seemingly never fails
to make the others play the brand of
base ball they are capable Of playing.
And Taylor is not the last of the
youngsters to come to our club this
season and during the interval be-
tween this and the next champion
ship campaign. True, oldtimers prac-
tically carried us to two successive
pennants. but their usefulness is
about gone and we aren't rebuilding
with more oldtimers. No, sir. It's
young blood from now OH, and before
long We'll have a peppery bunch of
young hall players with plenty of abil-
ity to make Washington a factor in
the American League race once
more
And from what the fans about town
are saying, they'll he with Griff and
the Washington ball club to the fin
ish in this new order of affairs.
Griff's contention that an able new
member spurs the club veterans to
greater endeavor seems to have been
borne out Yesterday. After the
Yankees had staked themselves to a
3-run lead at Dutch Ruethers ex-
pense in the first six innings, 1t was
Danny Taylor. who Joined the club
only last Wednesday, that inaugu-
rated a rally in the seventh to drag
the game out Of the fire.
Taylor Heads Rally.
Up to the seventh inning all the
Nationals had cleaned off Myles
Thomas, Yankee slabman, was lone
run. That was made in the second
inning with a pass, a wild pitch and
q couple OF sacrifices. But with one
gone in the seventh Taylor ratified
a triple off the right-field barrier and
a deluge of hits followed, to net the
Nationals five tallies.
Boss Bucky singled Taylor home.
Rice hit A. one-baser and Goslin's
single to center scored Harris and put
Rice at third. Judges triple TO left
center was good for two more mark
ers and put Thomas out OF action.
Bob Shawkey. who finished the frame,
disposed of Bluege, but Myer riNed
a double to left and the Nationals
were two runs to the good.
After one was out In the ninth the
Tanks got back one of ths runs when
Gehrig propelled the ball into the
sun parlor back of left center. That
let Ruether. out and brought Fred
Marberry to the hill. Babe Ruth
batted for Paschal, but the BAN
binos best was high fiy to Goslin.
and Myers nifty stop of carlyle's
drive, followed by Judges equally