Evening star., 1926-06-02

Only sam Jones continues to lag
back The hop apparently has de-
serted his fast ball This iS only early
June. but the Yankees look better TO
me now than when picked them to
win in early April.
Macks Displaying Grit.
Washington has been f1oundering
around. and if there is any club which
how caN give the Yanlls real battle
Il must be the Athletics. The Mack
men broke the recent sensational win
4 ming streak Of New York. | still find
4 the Athletics hard TO figure. a ter
rifle hitting club last az, leading
3their league in club ba;tinS with .301,
4 the team is sixth in batting with regu-
lars Hauser and Galloway still listed
under .al5. Outside of the pitching
+ of the veteran Quinn and the eA-
pensive lefthander Grove The NH
'etics' twirlinG has been nothing extra.
But the club has a fine spirit. and
has pulled out lot OF games on
sheer grit.
Washington's veteran pitchers are
mot standing up now, and the team is
slowly slipping back. Walter John
Pson, Big Barney" continues to do
|Eood work, but Coveleskie is going
poorly this season, and Joe Bush has
|been more or less of a bust. The
Nationals would have been much bet
ter off if they had retained Zachary
and Rallou. The former is pitching
good ball for losing club.
White Sox Going Well.
Everything considered. the White
Sox are playing the best ball in the
western sector of the American
i League. Hunnefeld hit so we'll when
he substituted for kamm at third that
ne has been regularly installed at
short Johnny Nostil is having the
greatest year of his career. and the
Sox have developed quite d robust
punch. They are topped only by the
|suegins Yankees in American League
team hating.
With both Speaker and Jameson,
two of the former outstanding batting
lights OF tho Indians. hitting under
250. the CleN elG nderS- are comire;
down. Like the Brooklyn Nationals.
he Indians were playing over their
heads and were due for reaction.
The Indian pitching staff is improved,
but this improvement. is cuun'eracted
by retrogreS sion in the outneld.
Browns Have Perked Up.
The Tigers are fighting hard to
overcome the drawbacks of their
pitching staff, with the venerable SO
year old younester Ty Cobb reading
the charge in person. Since returning
to the West the Browns have perked
up hit after winning only one game
on their Eastern trip. There is no
sadder disa ppointment on the big
leage wheel than Sisters unfortu
mates. Not only are the Browns next
to last in the standing at this writing
but are last in hitting and fielding
and they have the poorest pitching.
That almost makes it unanimous.
The Boston Red Sox fought the
Yanks hard while furnishing five vic
tories to New York's great winning
streak. but their rallies always fell
one run short. There is the making
of a pretty good club in Fohfs new
in Boston. BY another
year or so it will he f2ctoT.
. Dodgers Rapidly Fading.
Incle Bobhy's Brooklyn Dodgers
have spoken their little piece in the
National League and quietly have
taken seat we'll in the back part of
the class The Brooklyns suffered |
one losing streak in which they shot
all the way from first TO fifth before |
Uncle Robinson could check the |
downward flight of his Robins.
However, | never took the Dodgers |
seriously, at least not as serious pen |
nant contenders. Even with the |
blond giant of the prairies. Dazzy /
Vance. in his 1924 form, the Brook |
lyns would be lacking in champion
ship caliber. Developing pitchers al !
ways was one of RoblnSOn'S s claims to
and he has got a lot of
good service out of Petty. McWeeny
and McGraw this Spring, but even |
good staff of pitchers needs runs TO /
win.
Father Time Taking Toll.
Father Time gradually is making |
his presence felt to such old-timerS as |
Zach Wheat and Jack fournier. |
Wheat. now the senior National !
Lacquer in point of service. isn't |
through with the needed hits |
in the pinChes like the Zach of old. |
F'Ournier. never a fast man, has !