The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-19

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K1rL Mliier in and out
of the box in order to play
safe with a game already in
the bag. Smart handling OF
moundsmen is equal to a
cluster of hits or any other
measures when it comes to
winning ball games.
For two days in a row, Harris
has showed expert skill in reliev'
ing his hurlers when the Ath'
letics threatened, and you may
call it luck that Bucks maneu-
vering of his twirlers worked
out satisfactorily, but credit has
to 60 to him for doing the mas
Terminating that saved games
which were bordering on jeop-
ardy.
Harris Wastes No Time
Wednesday he got Whitehill
out of there just in time to stem
the oncoming Athletics, who
were rapidly catching on to the
weakening southpaW's deliver
les.
Yesterday Bucky came back
with similar foresight after
Bump Hadley had gone through
six innings pretty we'll unscar'
red, only to get in over his ears
in the seventh, which saw the
Athletics score four runs, to
come up within a single marker
of the nice advantage Washing
ton had piled up.
When the clock whirled up to
the eighth inning, Hadley did
not go back to the treadm1ll,
but in his stead Ed Linke, the
lad who can be very good or
very bad, responded. 1t was not
Linke's day, for between two
walks and a single he contrived
to fill the bases.
Harris was standing on the
dug-out steps, one hand strok-
ing his chin. He knew he had
to gamble. He did. He let
Linke pitch once to Roger
Cramer, a .311 hitter of last
year, and the pitch was a ball.
Rolls the Dice Again
That gamble didn't pan out,
so Bucky rolled the dice once
more. He thumbed out Mr..
Linke and thumbed in Leon
Pettitt. who had toiled eight
years in the minor leagues in
order to get this chance which
he was confronting.
I don't recall a rookie hurler
stepping into a more torturous
spot. He Slung two curves
across the corner Of that plate
that had Cramer blindfolded.
Then Master 1oettitt tossed over
his third pitch which Umpire
Geisel called ball.
Bucky Harris differed with
the pronouncement and lost no
time dashing over to the plate
to go on record. He got nothing
except the satisfaction of reliev-
ing his mind at the expense of
Geisel, who was upheld by his
partner, OrmSby, umpiring near
second and in good position to
observe the pitch.
There Was the Game
Meanwhile, Petit had the con.
ISOLATION of knowing his boss was
in there fighting for him and he
let loose the next throw, which
was a sweet sinker over the out
side of the plate, and strike in
anybody's book-even Geisels.
THERE WAS THE GAME!
The one-run Washington mar
gin had been saved by def
handling of hurlers!
Petit came back in the Ath.
letics' ninth to strike out both
Foxx and Johnson, thereby vim
dicating Harris choice of him to
90 into the breach.
That kind of coordination is
going to win a lot of ball games
for your Griffmen. Those first
two games mark washington. as
a team that can hold it's leads
a weakness which has character.
lied many previous editions
thereof.
Incidentally any question in
the minds of the fans about the
condition of Joe Kuhel's ankle
ought to be pretty well settled
in view of piece Of running he
was called on to do in the fifth
after he had singled to left
Bolton followed Joe to the bat
and pounded out a long one
baser to right, whereupon Kuhel
set out for home and made it
without a symptom of a weak
ankle.
IRONMEN DRILL
The Gichner's Iron Works wi