The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-06

W1LM pTluG, dull lag AlAA ~ go -
inning, when the fading champion
lost that game. 5 to 3.
Returning home the big Indian
hurler recovered and began knock
ing down the enemy again and on
wednesday he upset the Yankees
tor the fourth time this season
In other words, Uhle should be al
his best once more when he OBJ
poses the Grikfs. That is just what
they want for they have been
knocking over the stars out here
In the west ever since leaving
During the spring trip Al
Thomas, of the White SOx. let
the Griffs down with two hits. .
real one BY Peckinpaugh and g
scratch by Johnny Tobin, but last
week this same Thomas failed TO
weather the eighth frame, yielding
five runs In that session. The VIC
tory went with those runs.
ATwo days later Ted BIanIxen-
shin. the best pitcher In the
white SOx field, tried his luck, he
was pitching effectively against
CrOwder until the sixth inning
when Buddy Myers knocked him
into the hospital, breaking his
thumb with q sizxling hot drive.
Milton CASTOR and Tom Zachary
are George Sisters two best pitch.
ers. In the opening game at St
Louis Gaxton was driven from the
slab In the very first inning, 3
pass and four hits turning the
trick. However, his support was
filled with holes that day. which II
probably his abb. The next day
Sisler trotted out Zachary. whose
work all season has been super.
fine. The loose.limbed left.hander
moved cut of the lime-light in the
fourth inning. His team won, but
not on his account. Nine hits and
six runs were chaIked up against
him by his former eliminates.
Ernie Wingard another southpaw,
faced the champions in the third
contest, but he failed to last
through the third inning. vanishing
before a storm of base hitting. In
the final game Joe Girard. still an.
other left.hander, struggled along
for seven frames, but Goose GOsiin
with a home run drive over the
right field stand. knocked him loose
from his moorings. Though win
ming two OF the four games the
Browns never once succeeded in
keeping their starting pitcher in
action beyond the eigtIn inning.
Coming here to Detroit the Griffs
continued their high class murder
Ing Of opposing pitchers. Earl
Whitehill is classy southpaw, one
Of the ella sstest in the league. Like
the others before him, Whitehi1l got
his in the eighth inning OF the
opening game, McNeely's hot shot
scoring the tying run, sending the
Tiger southpaw away from there.
In the second game Jumbo
Wells tOed the slab when the bat
tie started, but he wasn't there
at the end Of the fourth, shower
Of biingles driving him to the
club house. The Griffs were sim.
ply keeping up to their standard.
Yesterday Art Johns, who had
the distinction Of handing the cham
pions their first coat Of whitewash
of the season. failed to last two
innings. Walter Johnson's home
run over the left field fence, with
two runners on, spelled the Tiger
southpaw's downfall. +
. With less than two months to go
the Washington pitchers are gen
orally delivering the goods. The adj
dition of General Crowder and
Slniler Murray SENS to have acted
as tonic upon the other members
of the staff and when, defeats
come they are usually because o.
fielding weaknesses behind the Har'
rus hurler or the utter failure Of
the Griffmen to get hits at the
right places. 1t is now no longer
fair to blame all the defeats, or
even many of them, upon the poor
caliber of the Washington pitchers.
The hurlers are holding their own.
Most noticeable in the work OF
the Griffs on this second tour of
the West is the sterling batting by
Rudy Myer. and Goose Goslin., In
the first 10 games on this trip
Goslin has walloped the bali to the
tune OF ATS, climbing up among
the five leading hitters IN the
league. The big boy is going like
a prairie fire these days. y
Right behind Goslin comes Myer,
the kid shortstop from New Or
leans. He is showing fielding weak
ness frequently, largely because OF
lack or experience, but in those 10
games he has hit for $3.50, a tidy
mark for a cleanup batsman. Cos.
hin has been responsible for IL runs,
but Myer has driven 10 ITALICS over
the platter in the same time,