The Washington times., 1935-06-17

OAA certain xaf
player. 1t is
C n vable ~ :%sasa<
that another Frank Buck" o'Nein
club might ask for waivers upon
another player.
And in the inscrutable ways of
baseball, each club asking for
waivers upon a player of its own,
might claim the player of the
other team. Thus, by exchange
Of waivers. the little book of reg.
ulationS might be circumvented.
If all of this is very oriental.
let's make it brutally plain. 1t
just happens that the Griffs
want Knott, right-handed pitcher
of the Browns. Hornsby wants
one or more men on the Washing
ton club, proving that he is an
optimiSt. Now the only way a
trade can be made is for waivers
to be juggled, and they're still
trying to do that. Maybe We'll
get Knott; maybe not.
If the set, grim face of Bucky
Harris may be taken for a guide,
the Griffs will have to fight it out
on the present line for the rest
Of the summer.
And What Summer
And oh, my hearties, what a
summer this is going to be along
the Potomac. Right now we're
sixth, but there's no telling when
Well be in seventh place, what
with Cleveland and Detroit loom
ing ahead in the schedule.
President Clark Griffith is in
Chattanooga, according to the
very veracious Edward Eynon,
looking over talent in the South
ern League. Gossip tells us that
he is trying to lure that hard hit
ting, lefthanded outfielder, Miles,
from the Lookouts. We don't
need another left-handed hitter
on this club, which right now is
food for southpaws. We want
pitchers; real pitchers. Pitchers
who can win.
Including yesterday. Washing
ton pitchers have gone the route
six times in June. In the other
games we've had two, and on oc-
casion three pitchers in there
flinging.
Since leaving home the Griffs
have had just one well pitched
game. Leon Petit held the Browns
to three runs, giving them seven
hits.
Some of the excellence is taken
from Pettit's performance by the
fact that he gave six bases on
balls in the Chicago series. Earl
Whitehill held the White Sox to
seven runs, winning a special
bonus for low score in that series.
But Whitehill was not so hot yes
terday. The afternoon Showered
rain and st. Louis hits impartially
while Earl was on the mound.
There is little profit and less
pleasure in reading over this Oft
repeated indictment of the pitch
erS. Not only have they been
woefully weak, but now further1
complications have developed. Cop.
pola, the 20-year-old kid, has a sore
arm. Bean has a sore side, Burke
and Hadley have miSeries in their
salary whips, and of course it.
logically follows that Bucky Har.
riS has a sore headache.
The western road winds through
no balmless Gilead, let it be said
now. There is nothing the mat
ter with the attack beyond the
normal restrictions of good pitch
ing by the enemy. In the first
six games the Griffs scored Al
runs to 48 for the enemy.
Outhit Rivals
Breaking even the boys outhit
the rivals in the first half g.
dozen games by a matter of one
blow. They made 73 hits to 72
for the enemy. The totals of yes.
terday's scrimmage with the
Browns brought the totals of the
trip to date to 4 victories and 4
defeats, an average of 500. The
GriffS have made LOT hits and 73
runs as compared to 95 hits and
66 runs for the opposition. Those
hits and runs properly distributed
would have made the records of
this trip read differently.
Sam Holbrook has increased his
rating with the Griffs as re-
suit of his long-distance swatting
on Saturday. He is the only Griff
who has hit two home runs in
one game, and, brothers, he did
it the hard way. There are
mighty few men who have hit
that ball over the center field
fence and into the stands as Hol.
brook did.
Holbrook didn't hit yesterday,
but it stands to reason that he
must miss occasionally.
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