The Washington times., 1937-09-17
Gri14. BrOWns Game off:
Doubled TOMORROW
VET SIMMON
HITS IN STRIDE.
IN TIGER FINAL

Today's opening game of brief
two-game series between the GriffS
and st. Louis Browns has been
postponed on account Of rainy
weather and wet grounds. A
doubleheader will be ployed to-
morrow with Ray Phebus pitching
one of the games for the Griffs.
The Chicago White Sox come
to town Sunday for twin bill and
Ken Chase and the Eastern Shore
League sensation, Kohlman will
be the Griff hurlers. Both to-
morow's and Sundays bills will
start at 1870 p. m.
The Griffs played the Detroit
Tigers yesterday.
It looked for awhile as If they
would lose yesterdays battle to the
Tigers before they finally righted
themselves and won by a score Of
Z to 6.
AL Simmons refuses to be read
out or declared out Of Washing
tons considerations for 1888. The
veteran left fielder made four
perfectly good hits against the as
sorted varieties of Tiger pitching.
He ran the bases well and made
one gallant slide across the plate
with a run which was quite eS-
sential to the success of the Wash
ington arms.
FAST RUNNING
One Of AIS hits was an infield
thing, which called for fast run
ming.
That one hit more than any Of
the other three gave critics Of Sim
mons cause for pause. Veteran
ball players first slip in their legs,
but AL proved that the props are
still all right by fairly flying down
to first base. He covers the field
well enough, and he ranks second
to Johnny Stone as run producer
on the team.
The longer Stone plays with the
Griffs the more firmly he estab-
fishes himself with local fans. He
is one of the men on the team
with power to hit the fences. He
does it frequently enough to gain
the respect of all enemy pitchers.
He is the only man on the ball
club who has a chance to drive
in 100 runs for the season. He |
has 81 to his credit with 10 games
to play. He will have to average
slightly better than one run per
game, but that is not an impoS'
sible task for Johnny.
FIRST HOME RUN
Jimmy WaSdell is certain now
that he is a big Lacquer. The kid |
firSt-Sacker cracked his first major |
league home run; ringing smash |
that cleared the rightfield wall.
Wasdell made his homer off Roxie
Lawson, who bids fair to win 20
games or more for the Tigers this
year. In these days of the lively
ball, 20-game pitchers are rare
birds.
That homer was Jimmy's only !
blow of the afternoon, but that
need cause no worry. He will hit |
unless every indication Of baseball
form goes absolutely haywire.
Jimmy BloodTorth hit a couple |
of balls hard yesterday but failed |
to get any of them safe. Blood
worth comes out of the minor !
leagues with the reputation Of be- |
ing a dangerous hitter, but not
one who hits often. He batted
.286 in the Southern Association,
but did lot of clubbing with men
in scoring position.
jimmy DeShong had quite a
day, all things considered. He
came close to being knocked out
of the box, and IN fact, there was
much comment when Harris left
him in the COX after Detroit
scored five runs in the fifth inning
to take the lead. But DeShong
did a lot Of hitting. He drove in
the winning run, andsthat makes
a great day for any pitcher.
Elon Hogett and Ray PhebuS
are the probable pitchers today.