The Washington times., 1928-08-11
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By Louis A. Dougher

BY Louis =. Dougner
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. II.
Many changes are fore
Swallowed. IN the ranks Of the
Griffmen before the 1929
campaign opens with fat
salary cuts being handed out
to some Of the players re-
tanned in spite Of d most dis
appointing season this year.
This has not been prosperous
season for the washington club.
especially at home Threatening
weather. or even rain on Saturdays
and Sundays has hurt consid erably.
To make matters worse, the
fsriffs have saved most Of their
noer pIaying for the home or
rllard. Their one really good
ap1lrf was IN the West In early
june when they won nine out
0f twelve games and pulled
themselves from the cellar to
within q stride Of two nf the
first division. just what will
bs done with fhe outfit re-
mains to be seen.
An excellent nucleus is present in
Braxton Jones. HadIey and Gas
: ton. pitchers. Judge, Cronin, BIuege.
Reeves. and Hayes, infielders; Cos
lin. Barnes. and Rice, outfielders,
and RueI and Kenna, catchers. A
few others not included In this list
may be retained. 1T is certainty
that President Griffith viii be ac-
tive in the trading marts during the
coming winter.
Goose GOsIin's weak throwing
arm places him IN q peculiar
position. III II is weak next
sprirp. he may Be unable to
retain his regular berth. ex-
cent at great cost to the teams
defense. That. too, will render
him Of little use IN . trade.
President Griffith Is worrying
plenty over this unexpected situa.
ffon. IN condition, Goslin is the.
most valuable player on the ciuD.
with 4 dead arm, he becomes little.
more than pinchs hitter
Yesterday d defeat was the twelfth
III the ~ games played by the
Griffs since leaving home july %.
Despite their frequent defeats. the
Griffs have been playing good ball,
though Ill has come Iii streaks. It
III possible Tor short winning
streak to put them right up in the
first division and the players hope
to succeed in that during their
long home stay getting under way
tomorrow.
Old Jack Quinn was absolutely in
vincible yesterday That's why he
won. 8 to o. and faced but 20 bats
men. Fine double plays helped him.
Of course, but his pitching was alb.
aoiutely excellence itself. The Grfffs
were helpless before him.
&. For three frames he retired
the side IN order. West scratched
single 10 start the fourth only
! to Be doubled up. Harris sim
gIed to open the sixth and he
was doubled up. Quinn hit
BIuege with ii pitched ball IN
the eighth and a double play
snuffed out Ossie just like that.
Harris led off in the ninth with
70 triple to the right field corner
and Tate singled to deep short with
one out Nothing happened, though,
for neither West nor Rice could do
anything with Quinn. The Griffs
simply were not scoring. that's all.
Milton CASTOR proved soft Tor the
As. They got one run in the first
when Bishop walked. went up on
Gaston's own. bad peg to Judge and
scored on Cochrane's safe slap to
center.
The third frame was terrible for
the washington hurier. With one
down Bishop singled to short and
Haas doubled Cochrane's fly
scored Bishop and simmons single
scored Haas. Foxx tripIed TO right
and counted when Cronin's error let
Miller live.
or Tom Zachary was on the
rubber in the fourth and got
away with IL for three innings.
hat in the seventh the As
added another run. Again
Bishop doubled. Haas rolled
TO Zachary, who got Bishop mt
third. 4 wild pitch put Haas
on third to count when COch.
rane flied to 6oslin.
For no reason whatever the As
grabbed two more talIies in the
eighth Bing Miller slammed
home run into the, left field stand
with one down. That hurt. but
Orwell followed with thrss-hagger
to left. scoring on Boiey's double to-
the right field corner.
lovely Barnes turned his right
ankle in the second inning. making
a diving attempt to grab Bing Mil
ler's two.basger to short center.
Sam West replaced him.
The fsriffs never had real
chance to win with Quinn on the
slab, To make matters worse, they
knew It. They played sleepy base
ball. parading to the plate and
back to the bench as though 1t
was all in tbs books A Washing
ton fan looking at that game
would have torn his hair out in
lunches and spat curses in a
stream Yet, the two hours after
the game were laughing at 1t.
This il ole reason why Clark Grit
fifth II planning to collect a new
BAH club next year.
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