The Washington times., 1937-05-01
NEW PITCHING STYLE is AID TO BORTZ IN HIGH SERIES
SHES
At Deal With
Griffith
By FRANK BUCK ONEML

Despite conferences between Presi.
dent Clark C. Griffith and Joseph
Vincent Mccarthy during the saty
of the Yankee in the Nations
Capital, the Griffmen are among
the least favored ball clubs in the
American League so far as the
champions are concerned.
The reason is not too difficult
to find. The Yankees have little
desire to help a potential con-
tender for American League hon.
orS.
If the Yankees make a trade
by which a player of true ability
were to come to this city, that
player would be available for use
against the Yankees themselves in
10 games. He would be constant
ly in action on behalf of the Sena-
tors, and Joe Mccarthy figures
that every threat is real threat.
Wherefore, while a trade may
whip up before the clubs hit West
ern soil on Tuesday, the prob
abilities are against such o de-
Velopment.
Griffs Dangerous
Joe Mccarthy regards Washing
ton as a dangerous factor in the
American League race. He real.
ICES that the present lowly posi-
ton of the Griffs is as deceiving
as false dawn. One Of these days
the Washington bats are going to
thunder base bits. One of these
days the pitchers will pitch as
Newsom pitched yesterday, and
RICH then the eli lib Of the club
will begin.
Mccarthy, then, is willing to
look to the West, preferably to
st. Louis, to make a trade. Not
that Mccarthy has buried the
Ratchet with Hornsby, nor that
the Texan has sued for peace. 1t
is just a matter of the Browns
being out of the race, and one
man being unable to aid their
cause '.ppreciably.
Browns May Get Jake
1t may be to st. Louis, then,
that Jake Powell will go before
the expiration of the American
League trading season. Powell
definitely is on the trading block.
McCarthys plar do not include
Powell in any way, beyond provid-
ing a seat on the bench for him
:. A rather swift and dismal fall
for the man who Jared so well in
the last world series. -.
Joe DiMaggio will return to his
regular post in the Yankee out
field, and Myril Hoag will move
over to left field. When Hoag is
not in the game, Roy johnson will
cavort in left.
"HOag is going well enough to
suit me-" said Mccarthy last
night. "He will play most of the
time, and Johnson will play the
rest Of the time"
what about POwell?" the
writer asked Mccarthy.
The Yankee leaders prognathic
jaw jutted out an extra inch or
two and he repeated:
"HOag is good enough for
me-"
1t was learned from friends on
the Yankees that some of Powells
extra curricular activities found
Scant favor in the front offices.
Ability means little when Colonel
Rupert froWns. Leo Durocher
was shipped to other parts, and
not for lack of baseball ability.
Favored BY Break
The GriffS found themselves
favored by the breaks yesterday,
and they beat the Yankees in the
first two innings. They damned
five Of their six hits into the first
two innings, and punched them
around a base on balls and a
couple Of errors.
frankie CroSetti became so flus-
tered at watching Shanty Hogan
numbering down the path for the
plate that he cut loose a throw
which hit Hogan on the shoulders
and rolled to the grandStand.
Hogan scored and Chapman raced
over. the plate from second base.
This was in the second inning.
In the first inning with Kemp
Wicker on the hill, Johnny Stone
doubled to right and scored Chap
man and Kuhel. Wicker is a left
handler, and of course it is known
to one and all that Stone is a
left-hand hitter. There was a
time when the canard persisted
that Johnny could not belt the
southpawS.
In the third inning Mihalic
singled, and after that the only
Griff to reach the lines was Chap.
man, who walked in the seventh