The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-19

| w w CSoAAAAAS WILL q:
He has no
laundering for
st. Louis and ~ %#*3sI'Aal
way stations. Frank Buck" o'NeilI
So he started to prove that he
just couldn't be sent away.
Those II good reasons were all
base hits. Some were doubles,
others were triples, and still
others plain, common of garden
singles. But they all rang off the
bat of Stone for the honor and
glory of the good old Griffs, Lord
love 'em.
A furious rally here in st. Louis
in which he made just IL of
those blows and drove in runs in
thick profusion, definitely put
Stone off the list of men eligible
to trade. Stone has been at bat
IS times on this trip, and has
made II hits, for a good, cool
average of .486.
Ted Lyons, horse collared Stone
in the third game Of the series
with the Sox, when the Griffs
had their worst day with the
stick. They made only five hits
off of the Baylor Breeze" Stone
swinging vainly in three trips to
the plate.
Stone Held Down
He went five times for one hit
and then z times for one while
the team was making ID and II
hits in the respective games
against Chicago.
Gossip waited through the
alleys, and rumors came over the
grapevine.
Stone heard them. He wanted
no part of any river valley except.
the Potmac, or maybe the Hud.
son, and New York was out. So
he just went plain daffy with the
wand and is setting a pace that
makes no less a man than Buddy
Myer work like beaver to follow.
You just don't trade men who hit
486 at time when Harris is
sorely beset by more worries than
just losing ball games.
The outstanding trouble with
the Griffs is the pitching staff.
How we miss Buck Newsom. When
he was hurt the bottom fell right
out of the team. It must grippe
the colorful Buck as he sits
around, his leg on a pillow, and
reads how the wooden shoulders
paraded in such numbers that
some folks mistook them for an
army division under forced march.
They were forced to march all
right: From the box right into
the showers.
Beyond all of the pitching trou-
bleS, there's no leadership on the
field. Harris is dynamo and a
really first rate manager in the
writer's judgment. But the team
on the field is drab. Is flat and
colorleSs until Bolton starts spin
ming under foul flies. Then it be-
comes humorous.
Can't Do 1t All
Myer can't do it all; Harris
can't do it all. Some of the others
haven't the faintest idea of how
to start or where to start.
AS the boys wheel into Cleve.
land today to face a team led by
the indicated Walter johnson,
Jack Russell and Earl Whitehill
are slated to pitch today's double.
!, header. Whitehill has lost two
games in row. He has allowed
20 hits in his last three starts and
has signed a round dozen passes
to first. In addition to all this,
he hit batter. Not at all accord
} ing to the Whitehill standard.
This baseball business is highly
complex. Your agent has in
formed the readers of this paper
for the last week that Whitehill
has a. sore and perhaps a broken
finger.
The great triumvirate, Mike
Martin, Ed Eynon, and Bucky
Harris are without information
on the matter. They've heard
the finger was sore, but nothing
serious. The records remain, and
show that Whitehill has not been
up to form since he stopped
line drive against the Athletics.
. Russell will make one of his
} few starts, his fourth to be exact.
In his last three trips to the
mound Russell has been masSaged
for just exactly 80 safe hits, and
he hasn't been around for finish
in these three games.
just the same, Russell is the
sort who is apt to break out in
burst of speed one of these days
and win any game he starts.
Leon Petit, who went nine inn
ingS to win against the Browns
here is slated to make another
start. He has pitched good ball
consistently as relief hurler. and
there is no good reason to assume
that he is going to be one bit
worse than some Of the warriors
who have outranked him until re-
Gently.
Another enigma will start here
with the Indians. same being
Eddie Linke, the rotund boy Of
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