The Washington times., 1930-07-05

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the Monument lot last night
and $4,000 saw the Griffmen
declare their independence
from the Iew York Yankees
in a Yankee Doodle double de.
feat.
Both exhibitions were breath
taking, but I'll bet you
burned-out SKI rocket against
a stenographic copy Of Sen
ator Fess' speech there are
more people talking about
those two Washington victories
today than there are about the
Boston Tea Party, Paul Re
vere's ride or Washington cross
ing the Delaware either.
Which may be a right anna
teurish way to get around to
the subject matter at hand,
because we saw both the games
and the Monument lot pyro-
technics, but to save us all We
can think about today is that
single percentage point Separat.
ing Washington from the top
of the American League stand
ings, and along with Clark
Griffith, Walter Johnson, Art
w. ShireS and half a million
associated and allied Washing
ton fans, we are hoping against
hope that by nightfall this
glorious day of July S in the
Year Of our Lord, Nineteen
Hundred and Thirty. long may
she flutter. that percentage
point will have been removed
and several others put between
us and second place.
Not that being a whisper
behind the leader on July
4, or July S for that matter,
isn't a very advantageous if
not strategic position for any
ball club, but more that if we
must win this pennant we might
just as well start now and clean
the thing up right.
This thing of fooling along
all spring and half the sum"
mer with six or seven other
ball clubs that just don't seem
to be able to unload their lum-
ber is o. K, but the Soothsay-
ers, wise men, scribeS and
PhariSeeS do say that a club
must be up there or thereaboutS
by July 4 If it expects to make
a dent on the flag: and if
Washington isn't both then I was
reading the paper upside down
on the way down to the factory
this morrSa>g.
Incidentails the bugs who
saw yesterdays twin murder
along with that of Wednesday
wherein the Browns were given
both a shave and a haircut all
in one afternoon, ought to drop
out to the ball park one day
soon and give the club rebate,
or whatever it is a customer
donates when he gets more
than his moneys worth.
In the Brown bargain they
saw two very tight games,
games which were so close from
beginning to end you'd have
thought a couple Of Scotchmen
were pitching.
In the Yankee obSequies yes
terday, and on the other hand,
the games were quite loose in.
deed. From the outset there
seemed little doubt which team
was going to win. PipgraS SIM
ply shouldn't have left his hotel
yesterday, and after he went
back it was apparent they had
sent a boy on a mans errand
when Carroll came into undo
what had been done.
Babe Ruth gave Washington
ianS an exhibition of real Stom-
ach when he played ball with
that busted fin. If you've never
lost a claw off one of your flip
perS. boy, you don't know what
is agony, and If there's any
doubt in your mind about that
statement, Just take a hammer
and crack off a nail and then
go out and try to swing a bat.
Outside of that it was a
rather dull Fourth around here
and what the ell President
Hoover finds around q fishing
camp when there is so much
more to be seen at home-Well,