The Washington times., 1936-08-22
GriffmenWaitinQ
Proves Vain as
Triumph
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL

BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. %.
For one inning the Griffs looked
like champions against the Ath-
leticS yesterday. For eight in
nings they lived in happy antici-
patton of staging an uprising
whenever they wanted to-"
A few innings went along and
they didn't rise up to any great
heights, but very few people COM
mented upon this, and the Griffs
just kept waiting.
Before they knew what hap
pened, the game was over and
they found themselves amid the
debris of their own crumbled de-
fense.
Beaten? To be sure, my good
fellow.
Hod Lisenbee pitched for the
Mackmen. Now you know as they
know that Lisenbee used to pitch
for Washington, but that was
ever so long ago, and he's been
out of the league for long time,
just coming back with the Ath-
letics.
j In the first inning the GrlftS
really hit Hod as if they owned
him and they built up hopes
which collapsed and carried the
boys with them in the fall.
BIanked In Last Five
After the fourth inning they
got no hits, and they got just
seven all day.
81 would have bet that any
inning we were going to bat
around" said Johnny Stone at
dinner. Il kept awaitin' and
awaitin' for something to pop.
Looks like we could not pop
corn"
That's the way 1 felt" said
Carl Reynolds. "NOw here's the
situation. We thought he was
going to be easy. We went up
there to swing and swing our
heads off. l bet Joe Cascarella
that Hod would be out of the
box in four innings. I was
fooled. We tried to knock the
ball out of the lot. That's bad.
The home run comes from
natural swing, not from press
ing. It's like golf. But we for
got that. He looked so easy
and he proved to be so tough"
"That's the way it was with
me-" chirped r ed KreSS.
"Whaling and betting like a
tough golfer trying to knock the
ball three miles. Just can't be
DONE"
Sorry For NewsOm
While these boys were bewail-
ing their own fate, Buck Newsom
sat apart like patience on monu-
ment, smiling at grief.
For once in your life you felt
sorry for Newsom. He pitched a
whale of a ball game from start
to finish, and with break in the
luck would have won a 2 to 1
pitchers battle. That's the way
the game should have ended.
In the first inning Johnny
Stone fumbled a ball hit by Bob
Johnson and let it roll for three
bases. 1t cost run. Later with
Dean on base Johnson hit low
liner to centerfield and Chapman
dashed in. It was do or die with
Chapman and he put the ball
game to the touch in an effort to
make a catch that would cut off
all chance of the Macks scoring.
The ball dipped and ducked
away from Chapman, who dove
and rolled toward the diamond as
the ball rolled to the centerfield
fence. Another hit followed and
two runs were over the plate.
They were enough to win.
NeWSom struck out eight men
and if ever a man looked like a
champion in full control of a sit
uation, this NeWSom looked like
champion in that ball game. He
was beaten by bad luck.
And so we return to Hod LiSen-
bee with his funny looking stuff
that was so soft the boys thought
they could beat him whenever
they wanted to start. Maybe
they're right; maybe he didn't
have enough to win but the fact
remains that from the fifth in
ming through the ninth they
didn't get fresh with him. And
that will serve as pitching in my
book.
VOTE AMERICAN
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