The Washington times., 1938-07-06
CHAMPS SPEED.
TOO MUCH FOR.
DR., PEPPER TEAM.
By BOB ADDIE

The customers seem to go for
world champions in Washington.
A couple of days ago it was the
Yankees, baseball rulers, who lured
a capacity crowd to Griffith Sta
dium. Last night, it was the
Briggs Beautyware team from De.
troit, head men in the Sottball
business, who separated some 5000
odd (and some not so odd enthusl-
aStS from their money. -,
However, like the local baseball
team, the home town SottballerS
didn't have much luck trying TO
pin royalty's ears back and our
DR.. Pepper outfit wound up on the
light end of a So score.
STAGE FRIGHT
The DR.. Peppers were doing all
right until a couple of Dad breaks
chased in most of the Detroit out
fits runs. The local kids were q
bit scared of all those people ana
a couple of times they threw the
ball around as if it had a disease.
Maybe the bright lights got EN-
and they thought they were dong
a Juggling act before the footllghts,
but the Peppers gave the cham
pions quite q tuSSle before tney
Succumbed.
The trouble with our side was
thew couldn't see the pitchers any
better than the Spectators-al-
though the Peppers had better
vantage points. Briggs started a
boy called Tornacki who, it was
said. wasn't very fast. We wish
YOU could have seen those balls
whistling past the Pepper batters.
The locals looked like pylons at
the national air races as Tor
nacki's "Slow" balls whizzed past.
In all, the Peppers got only one
hit and they bisected the air tu-
tilely IS times on that third strike.
Briggs only got five off Abe Rosen-
field but errors helped as much
to beat Abe as the hits.
MORE SPEED
Phil Fox, of the DR.. Peppers,
got the lone hit-a Scratcher down
the first base line. Then Tor
nacki blew up and walked four
straight men, forcing in two runs.
Tornacki was yanked in favor OF
Ed "Fireball" FigelSki. If Tor
nacki was fast, you should have
seen Figelski. The Peppers didn't
make a hit and Ed whitfield nine
His fast ball made Tornackis
look like a bowling ball stuck in
the mud. All you saw was Figel'
skis Windup then "plop"-the
catcher had it. We still don't know
how Umpire Abbie Clark called
balls and strikes. He must have
done it by Sound-listened for the
spot where the ball plopped. Ed
was burning them in so fast the
catcher's mitt was popping like
firecrackers at a Fourth of July
celebration.
In case you're interested in the
details of how Briggs won, it all
happened in the fifth inning
IKolke doubled, then Toviagc
dropped a bunt down the first
base line which RoSenfield GOV
cred.
FREAK PLAY
Abe made the mistake Of trying
to tag the runner and the De
troiter did a fast Suzi-Q, evadec
Rosenfield's lunge and was safe
It looked as if Toviago had Steppec
, out of the baseline but the umE
said no. While Rosenfield burned
at the decision, the Briggs bo!
wasn't fiddling around. He legget
lit to second while Kolke went OF
> to third. Pieper, the next mai
> up, dropped a single over frs
> which the infield kicked all owe
. the field while all three runner
q scored.
: Three pinch-hitters batted TO
Z the Peppers in the last inning AM
all three struck out. Oh, well, tn
fans had fun and the District Soft
ball Association made enougl
3 money to send the Peppers t
6 Chicago for the national tourns
2 ment.
3 1t is to be hoped our boys don
6 meet up with Figelski agar
9 Eddie could throw medicine ba
l and the Peppers could use paddle
even then we'd lay 2 to l the
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