The Washington times., 1935-04-23

got his two singles and the
double off our Whitehill and
just to prove there was no
fluke to that kind Of hitting.
he romped on Jack Russell for
triple, thereby completing a
perfect day at bat as well as a
fair-to-middlin' afternoon in the
box.
Betwixt and Between
So in this particular game.
a slugging pitcher represented
the thing the Red Sox needed
to make their first visit to
Washington a sort of Boston
Tea Party. In the two previ-
Gus games there were other rea-
sons, but among them, Boston
contrived to make their former
manager, Bucky Harris. look
just little sheepish.
The question now arises as
to how long this sort of thing
will keep up. Will that great
team of Boston's on paper
practically the same team it
had last year-become a great
team on the field?
Will the generous Tom Yaw.
key begin to get dividends on
his tremendous outlay for
stars of the league who shone
for other teams-the Groves,
the Cronins and the Ferrells?
With the season a. week old
today, the Red Sox are already
the most talked-of club in the
league. How long will this
continue? Their victories here
were the result of hard play
ing and plain, orthodox base
ball. Strategy of an unusual
sort wasn't even necessary to
any great extent.
"Frenchy" Was There
"Frenchy," otherwise Pierre
Bon Seigneur. Washington's
No. / ranking baseball fan up
to 1917 who used to run out
on the Washington dugout
roof to root for Walter John
son, Clyde Milan and Danny
Moeller. witnessed yesterday
Griff-Red Sox game. "Frenchy'
used to keep a pub" on E.
Street when that was news
paper row, always closing half
an hour before game time and
hanging a sign on the double
swinging doors which read,
open After the Game" He
Is. now manufacturing a line of
cordials in Baltimore.
The enterprising and imagina.
tive President Ford Frick, of the
National League, is doing a lot
of missionary work for his loop
which is bound to create good
Will OF a far-reaching variety.
Frick is sending annual
league passes to former players
of that loop who put in 10
years. George Cutshaw (remem-
Der him?, who held down sec.
ond for the Dodgers and Pirates
from 1912 through 1921, is the
latest to be so honored by
Frick.
Caught on the Fly
Here is some dope on the
newest National League pitch
ing sensation, Darrell E. Blan-
ton, who pitched a one-hit shut
out for the Pirates over st.
LouiS-he throws right and bats
left-weighs 100 pounds and
stands S feet 81a inches-born
July 6, 1908, at Waurika, Okla,
and lives at Shawnee, same
State-with Albany and Pitts
burgh last year he won ii and
lost 8 games-year before last
he made quite a hit with st. Jo-
Seph, in the Western League,
when he won 81 and lost Z
games-pitched for his high
school at Fort Worth in 1926
and had his first professional
engagement with Shawnee in
1880, with a record of II won
and 16 lost-on July 27, 1888,
he pitched a no-hit no-mn game
against Joplin for st. Joseph,
striking out 81 men and among
the "a outs there was not an as
Sist-from such a record it ap-
pears the 27-year-old hurler has
pitching blood in his veins
manufacturers must be putting
back some of that rabbit in the
baseballS if the 10 home runs
in one game at Oriole Park, Bal
timore, is an indication
Chance Sun, winter book favor.
ite in the Kentucky Derby a
week from next Saturday, has
been hoiSted one point in the
betting to to /, because of lack
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