Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06

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base ball fan, the stories OF
Grimes, Root and Neht nave
o,,eer twists to them this season.
So far as Pittsburgh is concerned the
ma ior league season Is almost hall over.
IF the work of the Pirate pitchers were
spread on chart today, what Would II
cnver most2 The work of Burlelgn
crimes. Where would the Pirates De
without Grimes? Vic Aldridge, Tor
whom the Giants traded Grimes 10
pittsburgh. would have collapsed long
ago under the pressure at which GRIMES
works. 1900. s,,,,,
-Four times Grimes has won from
Chicago. and he has yet to pc deleatco
bv that club. The Cubs are better oaC-
tiers than the Cincinnati Reos' aoiile SOM.
folks think: yet for every game tnat
grimes has won from Chicago he has
lost one to Cincinnati. He has been IN
six games against the Reds and has
won two and lost four, He has peen
crowded into games in all directions,
Grimes has worked in four games
against st. Louis. He won one game
and lost three--and yet the games IN
which he lost. with one exception, could
have been won by the Pirates II they
had been playing ball as they were eX-
pected to nlav. Grimes has won two
from Boston and lost none. Twice ne
mas beaten the Giants and lost none to
them. He has broken even with Brook
lvn. with one victory and one defeat,
and has lost one game to Philadelphia.
Grimes Hard Worker.
Grimes has been in more games than
any other pitcher on the Pittsburgh
team and in twice as many as some OF
the pitchers He was engaged 10 De
used now and then to strengthen q
pitching staff that presumably could
lift the scalps of leading rivals. lie
has been a Grimes and a Meadows
combined with a Kremer and Hill.
Charlie Root can't get started Tor
Chicago. That's why the Cubs are
singing sad refrains, And there is no
other Root on the Chicago team. For
while 1t looked as though Sherifi
Blake might be second Root. he IS
good, but no Root.
Root has lest four games to Cincin-
natl this season and won none from
the Reds, He has won one from ST.
louis and lost three. He has won one
from Pittsburgh and lost one. The net
results for Root in the Western end
of the National League to date are two
victories and eight defeats. That $
something of a turnover. In the East
Root has won one from the Phlilles
and lost one, Won one from BROOKLYN
and lost two, won one from New York
and won one from Boston.
The Cubs were going ahead in the
Spring on the basis of Root as the
corner stone of the pitching stan, with
Carlson next. Carlson hasn't been IN
physical trim to take his turn. Pat
Malone, the Minneapolis recruit, started
poorly. but has done fairly we'll since.
Art Nehf is the pitcher who deserves
the nlaudits of Chicago fans. 1t Is the
pitching Of Nehf, intelligent and arts
tic as pitcher and released because
he was through--that is, released oy
other clubs-that has been keeping the
Cubs on the right side OF the ledger
He has won three games from Cincin-
natl. two from Brooklyn and one from
Boston, and has lost one game TO New
York and two to Pittsburgh. That's q
lot of help to the Cubs from a veteran
pitcher who was said TO be through.
After winning the first half of the
Pacific Coast League. the San Fran
cisco team has begun the second hall
at a pace that will soon leave the re-
mainder of the circuit daZed, II 1t is
maintained.
Probably that is as it should be, con-
sidering the strength that was shown
by San Francisco in the first half OF
the season. If the team were to run
we'll behind at the moment when II
appears to be in its prime, the fans OF
the coast would Immediately becomc
suspicious of all divided seasons--if they
hadn't been suspicious OF them before.
Missions of San Francisco appears to
have been developed into better
team, but Oakland, with its high-priced