The Washington times., 1937-12-30

aged the years most ball players may be expected TO sor OF
start falling apart. = ,
In fact YOU need no imagination whatever conclude that
It is Mike has made and kept Griff the sprghty gentle
he is indulging in his round OF golf daily ana cusS
and pttn cause the goes down to deprive him turtner
Of the links. . d.. -
here in my pchn armand know, it's funny thing 1t
was the other arm which fell Must be sympathetic pains
muscular telepathy somethln !!
Putting TUU0 and TUo Together
That very sentence is the po Grff and his rotund
traner-Mke Martin When you're 68 and still refer to your
"pchn arm" there's eternal youth raging and pusatlng
through your being. -
Well I'm glad indeed there's no damage to Griff's
pchin arm" because always feel whenever there is
paucy Of pitching around the old baseball preserves
pinch Martin could strap up the Old Fox and send him in
If you think I'm jestng in such assertion do not
reckon with the established facts.
It is matter of record that OF the greatest pcnlng
done under local auspices has been that contributed by cast
offs crppe discarded by clubs which had grown in
different thereto.
Martins Magic Influence
Mike Martin has long had knack Of waving some sort
Of magic wand the torsos of pitchers supposed to
have seen their days. Then when Mike reports them
ready to CO. Grf them to his throne and gives
them the old jab with the needle.
"Why" Griff will say bengny, you're still young man
You're as good as Stanley going to start
you today and from you're going to pitch reguarE
That's the psychology by which Grf hopes to convert
the 3yearod Eon Hogsett into winning pitcher next
son. Eon Hogse of whom the fans around town have been
speaking dsparagngy since he traded here early this
month for Ed ke the with volts and amperes and other
Famous Griffith Psychology
Too my friends such the psychology which Grf used
successfully Earl Whiteh, who to Washington
when he Hogsets very to pitch championship ball
four ago and help the club into world series He
game therelnD
The psychology applied to other pitchers OF the
same era-men well over the hill in their professional
careers There that Alphonse Thomas year older
than Whtehill; there Alvin Crowder who had once
been traded away, and there Walter Stewart begin
ming to squeak bit in his taor-made togs-born away
back in 1900
Yonder in 1925, when Washington got good smell OF
series play WASH there couple of birds named Coveese
and Reuher each with foot in the home for the aged
And in 1924 didn't have 35yearod left-handed life
saver around here by the name of George Mogridge?
TwO Outstanding Miracles
Didn't Grff and Martin, maybe it Martin and
Grf reclaim Cove and Dutch to the point where they got
to believing themsevesha they again in their prime
Cove won 20 games for Washington the age of "a in the
season of 1925 Reuther 18 the year the age
of 3 Mogrdge Is here when he 32 another
1s when he 33 then 13 the next year, and 16 24
championship year. 80.
And here just year before last miracle of Midas
worked veteran who to Washington from Mont
realm the draft Peter Jabonowsk who travels under
the de something of Appleton drew the Of
fandom when he dragged from the bone pile at the
age of 81 But by midsummer those jeers turned to
cheers for Old Pete turned out be the sensation of the
season. leaving the highly pitchers of the winter
before) groveing in his wake.
So say Griff should Mike for remembering to
forget about that foot brake He's taken the brake off
many pitcher who had stopped-dead still!