The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-05

through balmleSS Gilead, they
return in seventh place, having
won 8 games abroad and lost Is.
It is quite the caper when things
are going badly with team at
this stage of the season to point
an accusing finger at the manager
and make references to next year.
Let anyone should harbour the
idea for one second that the fail
ure Of the Griffmen was in any
sense the fault of Stanley Ray
mond Harris, let the writer say
here and now, that no manager
in baseball could have done any
better than Bucky did on this tour
through defeats wastelands.
This season will be written in
local baseball history as the year
Of impossible pitching. Even with
the records of the trip spread be-
fore you, and the charts of the
individual pitchers available, 1t
is almost taxing the credulity OF
reader or witness to believe the
testimony spread upon white pa
per. So desperate did the plight
of the Griffs become that Red
Kress, an infielder. had to be
drafted for relief pitching duties.
Appropriate End
It was appropriate. all things
connected with the ill,starred trip
being considered, that the Gfiffs
should drop into seventh place
despite the fact that Earl White
hill contributed his pitching mas
terpiece of the year. and that the
boys played their greatest game
in his behalf. Whitehill allowed
only six hits in eight innings, but
he couldn't stop Rabbit WarStler
in the ninth, nor could he stop
NewSom.
Warstler tripled and Newsom hit
an infield single to Travis to pro
duce the winning run. WarStler
was a pain in the neck all day.
He had three passes in the first
game, while in the second he
cracked a single, a double and a
triple. He drove in one of the
two runs in the nightcap and
scored the other.
There was much debate on the
way home last night over Bob
Johnson's catch of Travis foul
fly in the ninth that scored Myer
with the tying run. The writer
thought it a dumb play, but the
boys argued that it was all right
at home, where the run was the
tying run. On the road it would
have been a stupid play for John
son. So that's that as far as we
are concerned.
The Griffs won eight games and
lost Is. That gives them a tidy
1881 for the tour. Linke walloped
Schacht in a barroom-style brawl,
but as Harris said ruefully this
morning. there were no percentage
points for the fight.
Earl Whitehill has not. won a
game in month. He started six
times from Chicago to Philadel-
phia and lost five. Once he was
taken out and Belve Bean defeated
the st. Louis Browns in q SlugRing
fest. In a round so innings,
Whitehill allowed II hits. He put
rs men on bases, what with bases
on balls and hit batSman. The
opposition scored SO runs on him.
This is not Whitehill pitching.
HadIey Wins One
Bump Hadley figured In five
games. winnino one, losing three,
with one deciSionless effort. In
80 % inningc Hadley allowed 40
hits and enough runs to give Har-
ris some highly uncomfortable
afternoons. We Will skip lightly
over the misfortunes of Bob Burke,
who won one game as a relief
pitcher l. Chicago, but who didn't
startle the universe by a long way.
In II innings Burke was laced
for ~ hits.
Linke and Russell were children
Of misfortune. Russell was hit
viciouSly most of the time, al.
though he turned in a nice relief
job in lTew York.
And now we come to the Griff
pitcher who won three games on
the trip. He is none other than
Leon Petit, the trim little left
handler who has starred in relief
roles most of the time. Petit beat
st. Louis, Cleveland and Detroit,
but he couldn't get past the Yank-
ees. Petit hasn't all the stuff in
the world, but he certainly gets
the most out Of a limited roper.
toire.
There was nothing wrong with
the hitting of the Griffs, and
striking general average there
was nothing wrong with the run
producing. They were beaten in
number Of high score games.
The writer ventures the opinion
that if Buck Newsom had been
with the team, five games would
have been won that were lost, and
three that were lost would have
been saved.