The Washington times., 1937-04-29

ShortSfopTops
Team With
.500Avg.
BY FRANK BUCK oNEnL

BY FRANK BUCK O'NEALL
Despite the fact that Cecil
Travis sustained no fractures Of
the right knee in sliding into
third base yesterday afternoon,
the period Of the young stars dis
ability remains narrowing I'm.
certainty. If fluid forms on the
knee, Travis may be lost to the
team for two weeks, two months,
or the rest of the season. PLY.
sicians at Georgetown Hospital
declined to hazard any opinion on
this matter. The club physician
would not make a definite state.
ment this morning.
X-ray photographs Of Travis
injury disclosed no fracture, and
the young shortstop was per.
mitted to go to his home. He
was warned to rest for a day,
pending advice by the Washington
club doctor.
Travis was injured in the
seventh inning, sliding into third
base on a single by Buddy Lewis.
His spikes caught in the ground,
he said, and his leg buckled under
him.
The tide Of misfortune that
swept the Griffs into the cellar
Of the American League, reached
its peak in sweeping Travis out
Of action. Travis leads the team
in hitting with q 500 average.
The drawlin' Georgian may or
may not be the Washington Base
ball Club, but he certainly is a
most important part of the Or
ganization. It must follow that the
club can't get any lower than
eighth place with Travis out Of
the lineup, but it's an everlasting
cinch that it won't do any climb
ing to dizzy heights with him out
Of the line up.
Hits Two off Gomez
His hitting-he made two hits
off Lefty Gomez yesterday-is
bound to be missed even more than
his glove. Ossie Bluege will hold
down the shortStop post today and
hit seventh, moving Buddy Lewis
up to sixth place. This order may
hold through the Western trip if
Travis should develop water on
the knee.
Loose pitching and weak hit
ting, the twin evils that have
logged the Griffs throughout the
season. plunged them into defeat
again yesterday. Joe Cascarella
started for Washington and was
under the showers as early as the
sixth inning. He pitched five
complete frames, allowing five
runs, scored on five hits. He gave
five bases on balls and in addi-
ton managed to hit a batsman.
It was all quite jolly-for the
Yankees.
sgd Cohen relieved Cascarella
and Dick Lanahan finished the
game. Lanahan gave four bases
on balls in the two frames he
worked. Cohen looked like q
pitcher.
The very gallant but exceedingly
goofy Castilian, the same being
Vernon Miguel Santiago Pedro Ell
Florio Gonzales Guerra Gomez
pitched for New York, and gentle
men, the naughty descendant Of
the Dons did a mans job. The
only Griffs to get to third was
Travis, md Mihalic, running for
the injured shortstop scored the
run that saved Washington from
a Shutout.
Gomez threw a ball that was
live, as they say in the clubhouse.
Gomez bore down especially hard
against AL Simmons, and gave the
puissant Pole a very sour after
noon. AL got one walk, forced q
runner and hit two loud flies. Not
too loud, to be sure; just loud
enough to be heard.
Hogan Back Today
Travis got two hits off Gomez,
one an infield blow to Frankie Gro
setti and the other a clean wallop
to the outfield. Myer and Lewis
also got hits, so that four left
handed hitters did practically all
of the walloping against Gomez.
The right-handed swatting was
done by Walt Miles, who relieved
Hogan for the day. Hogan, it may
be said, will be back in harness
today.
Against pitching Of the calibre
that Gomez offered the Griffs
looked pitiful. The Griff pitchers
looked worse, by comparison, than
the hitters. They were three and
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