The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-20

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KIRK miller rather be
smitten almost anywhere else
buff that isn't taking a
roundabout way to tell t b e
story.
When you win a ball game
from Clark Griffith, that is
a very personal matter.
You've touched his tender
est spot. It's no way for a
nephew-in-law to treat even
a distant relative, but it was
all in the spirit of good clean
fun and I imagine out at the
Sixteenth Street Griffith
household it was all taken in
the best of good grace.
So the prodigal son who had
been sent hence returned like a
sheep in VOLTS clothing. 1
thought there was a suspicious
look lingering around that
guilty smile which Joe was
wearing when he posed at the
Washington dugout before game
time for photographs with
Bucky Harris.
Joe Looked Guilty
Joe reminded me for the
world of the cat just about to
swallow the canary.
Then he whirled into the
game and after manner
served notice on all hands that
for every game Washington
wins from Boston this year.
the Senators will think they
have been in a battle of Bunker
Hill.
You see it was Patriots Day
up in Boston whence the Red
Sox hail, and Joe simply had to
turn in a victory to make every
thing fitting and proper. The
Braves had dropped their
morning game and not know
ing how they would fare in
the afternoon, it was simply
up to the Red Sox to deliver
which they finally got around
to doing, but not without an
uphill climb.
To make the attempt as aus
picious as possible, Joe decided he
wouldn't give himself any the
worst of it, so he flung Robert
Lefty" Grove in Washington's
general direction, with only very
Indifferent success up to the mo-
ment in the seve tn when
Alvin Powell must have been
thinking he was still in Albany
and piddled around too long on
Dahlgren's drive to center-an
error which let the Red Sox tie
the score and set the match to
tibet inflammable Boston desire
to forge ahead.
Before the ensuing onslaught
was stemmed they were in front,
8 to 4.
The remaining narrowing de-
tails don't mean anything. I
hope that out of the holocaust
Powell learned the important les
son that in the majors you've got
to play hard baseball so seconds
out of every minute. I feel
Bucky Harris had a heart-to-
heart talk with the Takoma
tiger about this!
Of course it wasn't Alvin'S
fault that in the same inning
when AL Thomas replaced Burke
on the mound, Alphonse didn't
happen to be any steadier than
Burke.
Cronin's Bat Swings
But to get back to that fellow
Cronin, his very audacity in re-
turning to what the boys like to
call the scene Of his former tri'
umphs to set down his erstwhile
teammates, was punctuated
pretty definitely by his savagery
at the bat. He got ringing
doubles and triples, and as he
pulled up at the bags seemed
to almost shout to the throng
which was strongly feminine:
chow D'Y LIKE THAT"
There was considerable inter
est in the spring shape of Lefty
Grove which can be said to be
not too good and not too bad,
He had his old time speed, but
Washington was nicking him
for nine hits during his skin
ming tenure. However, Grove
showed no signs of the old lame
ness that has beset his shoulder
a year back. But, as happens
to any fireball pitcher, when he
was hit, the effect was far
reaching, even Bluege getting a
triple, as did Stone.
And for those of you not close
enough to hear him, let me say
that AL Schacht is back in town,
as clipper as a grasshopper in
harvest time. His chatter has
lost none of its sprightlinesS and
his whistle is more piercing and
reverberating than ever.