The Washington times., 1937-07-12

cts something Of an indiCt-
ment Of Travis" Doyle con-
tinued. He put away the pencil
as If satisfied with his figures.
ut means that he isn't hitting
in the clutch.
But I'm getting away from
the point. There's only one way
to stop the Yankees, and that's
to handicap them.
"Take this team, and we'll 90
on from where 1 intended to
proceed. The Senators never
figure to beat the Yankees. They
haven't the pitching power.
John McGraw was right in his
figures when he said that pitch
ing was IS per cent Of the game.
But In the case Of Washington
the figures do not apply.
DOESN'T RATE WITH GOMEZ
"Take Monte Weaver out there
now" said Doyle. "He Is thor
OughIy game, and q fine pitcher.
But he doesn't rate even money
with Gomez. And now lets do
some work on the lineup. Every
man on the Yankee club Il a
fence crasher. CrOseth, RofIe,
DiMaggiO and so on right down
the line. There's a home run in
every bat.
'Now how are we going to set
these games at evens?" asked the
sage Of Broadway. "Well, we
might fix by figures the differ
ence in run production Of teams;
fix the earned run average OF
the pitchers, and the total base
production Of teams. Then you
might start Washington three
runs up in the first inning, the
Athletics five runs up, the
Browns four runs up, for st.
Louis drives in a lot Of runs.
with Detroit the Yankees
would start them One-half . run
up, or something Of the sort.
THREE OUTS IN OVERTIME
"The Yankees might be forced
to take two outs in their innings
after the fifth-play the sixth,
seventh, eighth and ninth with
two out against three, or give
the other side four outs against
three. If games went into extra
innings the Yankees could have
their three outs again.
But wouldn't that mean that
the Yankees would win all the
extra inning games?" asked
Billy Gibson, former manager
of Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard
and other fistic greats.
"Well, they might lose now
and then" agreed Doyle, "but 1t
certainly would make . game OF
it."
Doyle went ahead to Shov
polo, golf and certain othe
sports were played on q handicap
basis, and fine results wer
obtained. His idea is move
enough to command a lot o
interest.
This writer sat and watches
Yves Terrell try to beat tn
Yankees with a flock Of sloV
stuff. He threw the nothing
ball repeatedly to those fenc
busters. Terrell tried to get tn
ball inside so that the Yankee
would pull the first two, foul
But after q bit the big batSmel
simply shuffled back in the boz
timed the slow stuff and knocke'
it all over the lot.
Ready to End Try
The Griffs were patheti
enough in the first two game
to leave a definite impression
upon all who saw them tina
they were now ready to call 1t {
season and gracefully-yes
gratefully-accept the coming o
the first and fifteenth Of eacl
month. Those are the big leagu
pay days.
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it out. Perhaps the most seriou
indictment to be read against som
Of the players is that they ignore,
the all-star game on July Z an
went to the movies, or the baect
or wherever ball players go on thei
off days. It seems entirely res
Sonable that young SquirtS in thel
sophomore year in big league bass
ball would go out and watch me-
like Arkie Vaughan, Dick BarteI
and some of the others.
You can't tell, even a youn
player Of the washington BasebaI
Club, proud defenders Of sixtl
place, might be able to learn Som'
thing.
Two Of the men who are fightin
it out to the end are Monte Weave
and Johnny Stone, and Of course
there are others. But Weave
fought Gomez through the blistel
ing heat until he had to be relieve
in the eighth inning Of the frs
p - liz