The Washington times., 1929-08-28
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LEADERS
By Bob Thayer

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the Griffmen and Red Sox,
are playing the best ball IN
the American League today.
As much was evidenced
prior to yesterday. And ID
any doubt existed before then
it doesn t now.
Getting together in the first Of
an abbreviated series These two also
rams displayed brand of ball that
would shame the pace-setting Phil
adelphia Athletics and New York
Yankees.
Fourteen innings of he-man bat
Ting. or rather 15 1.3, were neces-
sary before the Griffs turned back
Bill Carrigan's soldiers, 5 to 0.
six thousand Washingtonians
were on hand to witness the tri-
unphant Homecoming of their
favorites. There should be many
more today when the rival factions
close their sit here.
Pitcher MyIes Thomas, the
brainy, little ex-Yankee, who
was q sensation on the recent
road hop, will be shooting for
his fifth straight win with
(iriffmen while big Ed Morris
will travel against him.
Thomas has been working in a
neat change of pace with his fast
one and as a result has been pitch
ing some bang-up ball. Since he
has already conquered the Red
Eox twice and extended them to
the limit in one other battle he is
confident that he will cause trouble
today.
Checking out after today's mix-up
the Griffmen are to depart for New
York at midnight. There they
are to undertake a four-game sched-
ule in three days.
The demoralized Hugmen will be
battled in a doubie-header at the
Yankee Stadium tomorrow, while
two single games will follow.
Returning here for a Sabbath
& struggle with the Athletics the
Griffs will then take off for Bos-
ton where a Labor Day double.
header and two single games viii
precede a long home stay.
Ad Liska, the costly young sub
marine bali merchant, is to join the
Griffs when they pull out for New
York tonight while Lloyd Brown,
who is sporting sore, southpaw
slinging arm, will remain behind.
LiSka probably will be held i'm
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to break into a starting turn
shortly after his long lay-Off Oc-
casi0ned by t0nsil operation.
. Sammy Rice's three-base knock
to deepest center along with Buddy
Myers snappy single over Roth
rocks head in the fourteenth yes
terday, resulted in the downfall of
Danny MacFayden and the Boston
Red Sox.
Backed by miraculous support
and also coming through with some
fine pitching on his own hook, Mac
Fayden fought off defeat until that
- fifth overtime period.
The bespectacled pitcher had him.
self presented the Griffmen with
a two-run gift In the fourth after
sammy Rice had doubled and
Goslin walked. Swapping up Myers
attempted sacrifice he was all set
to force Rice at third but his bad
throw to Reeves rolled into left
field and Rice and Goslin registered.
To offset this break. however,
MaeFayden was accorded air.
tight support, phenomenal out
field work by Bill Barrett and
his associates being particularly
spectacular.
Sad Sam Jones started for the
Griffmen but retired. one run to
the good in the eighth. Garland
Braxton, who was credited with his
twelfth win Of the year, relieved
Jones with one down and two
aboard in the seventh and after
allowing one more run he tightened
and pitched great ball the rest Of
the way.
Scarritt's single, q fIelder's choice,
Regan's single shot and a doubla
steal registered the first Sox run
in the fifth.
Goose Goslin slammed his fif
teenth home run of the year over
the right field wall in the sixth
while Rhymes boot of Myers
grounder along with Jones sacri.
flee and Judges single produced
another Washington run in the
seventh.
The Sox then clustered three
runs and tied the count in the
eighth, Braxton relieving Jones be-
fore the rally was stopped.
A single, Myers error, a base
on balls and a double brought
Braxton to the slab and after a
pass and single had accounted for
another the lean Southerner pulled
himself together and prevented fur
ther scoring.