The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-13
CASCARELLA TOPS GRIFF HURLERS IN 0NE-RUN LOSSES
Team Fails
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Italian
BY FRANZ BUCK O'NEILL

Joe CaScarella today visited the
Indian camping grounds on road
to the home of the first Great
White Father seeking a medicine
man. Be the Prophet of the Mes
siah Crow or Blackfoot; Sioux or
Pawnee, CaScarella will not ques-
ton. All he wants is TO be ridded
of the curse OF losing one run
gameS. He will furnish the neces-
Sary sacrifices. A shock of wheat,
a hawks wing or whatever the
chieftain demands.
Joe has read the story Of the
aboriginal American and knows
that each spring the medicine
chiefs Of the Sioux and Arapahoe
accelerated the northward migra-
ton of the great bison herds with
a great feast and dance. The chiefs
called it the make the buffalo
come" dance. And then there was
the beautiful symbolic dance to
speed the ripening of the corn, and
the rain dances of the primitive
peoples.
Runs In Need
So Joe has it all figured out that
If the miracle of speeding the ar
rival of one source of life and the
ripening of the golden maize, could
be accomplished, surely the In
dams could do something about
getting him a couple of runs in the
pinch. He decided to take the mat
ter out of the hands of the Griffs,
for they seem to be helpless. The
boys get runs in clusters for Jimmy
DeShong. They've done right we'll
for NeWSom at times, and also for
all the others. But Cascarella,
alack and alas suffers from
drought in runs.
There was that game yesterday
at Griffith Stadium. Joe lost a
heart-breaking battle in the wilt
ing heat to the Browns by score
OF 4 to 3. Behind that effort we
find a defeat by a score of 2 to l
at the hands of the Cleveland In
dams on June 20. Then came a
gripping but losing struggle with
the White Sox, and still another
one-run defeat by the New York
Yankees on July 4.
They were all we'll pitched
games: sufficiently well pitched
to warrant victory in each case,
but there is a run blight cast on
the Griffs when Joe goes out on
the hill. Almost any pitcher work
ing against Cascarella can still the
washington bats. Wherefore, fail
ing to win in the usual way, Joe
seeks the proper invocationS to the
Great Spirit.
Fractions of time and dimen-
sion combined to beat Cascarella
yesterday. In the sixth inning he
missed third strike by an eye
lash, the umpire said, and Lyn
Larry drew a base on balls. Harlan
Cliff, always a tough hombre for
the Griffs, put down a bunt and
Cascarella after feinting throw
to second on Larry, suffered poig-
nant woe when he found no one
at first base to take his peg to
get the hitter.
Moose SolterS, of course, moved
up the runners with a sacrifice,
and then Beau Bell made Dave
Orr bunt. You know the kind
that old Stalwart used to make;
he Whacked the ball to the fence.
Bell got a three Dagger over the
head of Cecil Travis and two runs
scored. With only one man on
base instead of two, the blow
might not have been so damag-
ing. Under the conditions, it was
lethal.
Win in Seventh
The spirit that has plagued
Italian Joe SO long this year went
to work again in the seventh.
He hit Carey, losing control Of
the ball and pinging Carey
squarely on the seat of his
breeches. A wild pitch and a
single, and there you had the
winning run.
Paul Ivy Andrews was credited
with the game after pitching six
good innings. He was relieved in
the seventh to permit Ed Coleman
to hit in his place. Coleman
found Carey on base, there as re-
suit of being wounded, and de-
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