The Washington times., 1936-06-03
CECIL TRAVIS ROBS HARLAN Cliff OF SIX FOR SIX DAY
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BY FRANK BUCK O'NEILL

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Ian Cliff and the glory that goes
with a "six for six day at the
bat in major leagues. Not that
six hits in six times at bat In a
single game is the major league
record. It isn't.
Years before the present gen.
Grafton Of ball players saw the
light Of day, the late Wlbert Rob-
inSon, roundeSt, yet the squarest
Of the famous Old Orioles of Bal.
timore, cudgelled out seven hits
in seven trips to the plate.
And this reference is timely at
that, for Robbie once played in
st. Louis and was a prime favor
ite with the old timers.
Even a "Six for five day" is
good enough for most of the
teams, and that, in the final
summation is what Cliff had. He
had a triple and a double, along
with a trio Of singles, every one
Of them as clean as a hounds
tooth. He had one single to
right, and all the rest went into
left field.
Drove in One Run
Yet for all of his hitting. Cliff
drove in only one run. Twice the
bases were empty. In fact, they
were empty when he shot a
triple down to the left field
fence in the fifth inning. Twice
his wallopS were just deep enough
to put men in scoring position.
Once he fired with a man strain
ing at the bonds which kept him
prisoner on the lines.
Cliff gathered the laurels for the
afternoon, but the Griffs gathered
in the gall game, which was more
to their liking. It was a dizzy,
terrible looking thing, that trav.
esty on the national pastime. The
Browns made 10 hits in all, as
compared to Is for the home
talent. There was one near rec
ord that the Browns missed in all
OF the heavy firing Of the day.
In the fourth inning the Griffs
fired three consecutive triples into
the game. Cecil Travis sliced a
drive into the left-field corner, and
then followed Kress and Kuhel
with belts to the center field
fence.
Spray Field With Hits
Messrs. Bell and solters got q
great workout in that fourth in.
ming. Three lesser hits sprayed
the torn terrain in left and center
fields.
The whole affair was one of
those Dizzy battles that test the
stamina of players and spectators
alike. The Griffs shot into the
lead and gathered Is runs in four
innings. Now that is a lot of runs,
and for the moment it looked as
if they might erase as the seasons
record that 25-to-2 score which New
York made against the Athletics
when the Yankees ran hog wild.
AS it developed, it was most for
tunate for those Griffs that they
did their scoring early. From the
fifth to the eighth innings the
Browns took charge with q ven
geance, although not with suffi-
cient power to satisfy Rogers
Hornsby, who stood on the side
lines eXhorting them to greater
deeds.
It was explained after the game
that Deshong lost his effective.
ness because he had peeled the
skin on a finger Of his pitching
hand. He finally was forced to
retire. Strange in a sense, that
this should happen with Bill Din
neen umpiring on third base.
Won Final Game In '03
Bill pitched and won the final
game of the 1908 world series be-
tween the Boston Red Sox and the
Pittsburgh Pirates with his finger
so torn that every ball he pitched
was marked with a bloody smear.
Cecil Travis is the frankie
Frisch of the outfield. Cecil goes
tearing after fly balls, and
catches most Of them, but on
practically all Of his efforts he
loses his cap. Travis has a mar.
velous arm, and he shot down
two st. Louis players yesterday.
The kid is going to put a stop
to those venturesome souls who
go racing around the base lines.
In passing it may be said that
the Browns used the customary
quota of hurlers. Van Alta, Lieb-
hardt, Tietje and Mahaffey lab
ored at odd intervals.
It will be Earl Whitehill for
the CriffS and lack Knott for