Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1925, Page 24

24 Griffs in Detroit With Eyes Wide Open WORLD CHAMPIONS WARY DESPITE RECORD OF FOE Keenly Aware of Power Latent in Outfit to Be Met in Series Starting Today—Johnson’ Homer in Ninth Beats Tribe, 4-3. BY ntered here today in hroug 1 has proved champions will not be lulled by a falsc sense of security into letting the battlefield aware that the jungle cats pack too much strength ged any great length of time, and will be on guard to prevent them from starting their inevitable climb from the depths at the v arc keer to remain subme spensc of the Lolders Detroit ampaign dopc an Leag ue gonfalc of Babe Ruth, their m W place. The Cc prex use ate. True ble showing to they started the campaign minus services of their eader, who suffered a_severe attack of influenza just before the season opened, d that Harry Heilmann was absent r several days due to illness, but e the return of this pair. hitting at © clip expected of two such formida le swatters, the club has been a and now is mired in the swamp of last place with practically two-thirds of its games on the wrong ide of the ledger Fourteen of their first eighteen con tests were dropped by the Tygers- seven sethacks coming and since then thoy is that sistent loser, have won six 5T Pitching Has Been Good. Detroit's decline is attributed princi. pally to weakness in usuall, iciding, has excelled, although the is customary with the Tygers been bLelow the major league standard. On the other hand, the pitching, a department in which the Cobbmen generally are weakest, has heen notably good Cobb has been criticized without reason, it seems, fol ing the defense of his con frequent fts in the line-up. constant juggling ithletes hav reduced efficiency in the infleld vesulted in many effectively pitel zames being kicked away by untimely errors For various reasons the pilo® of th Tygers, whose constant reverses threaten to make him known as the Detroit Crabapple instead of - the Georgia Peach, has seen fit to use both Blue and Neun at first, Tavener 2nd Rignev at short and Haney and Jones on third, O'Rourke alone being kept constantly on the job at second, an odd fact considering the Winter forecast that the midway was the most uncertain position on the tean. Today against Hubert Leonard. veteran southpaw, who returned to the Tygers late in 1924 after a period of absence from the majors, due to a salary squabble with Owner Navin. and who thus far this sea- son has accounted for three of the Bengal’s victories in his effort to stage comeback. will be pitted against Walter Ruether, also left-hander and veritable marvel with his mace, as his average of .379 will attest. Johnson Great and not st his of in Pinch. Ruether has ball far, wide and handsome in both his own games and others, but he will have to keep producing in the emergenci to stay ahead of W. P Johnson as a pinch-hitting pitcher. ~Called on vesterday for the second time this season wield a wand in a tight pi came throt in Cleveland, give the X i 3 victory make it four over Indiar Barney's initial appearance ninch-puncher was in Washington on April 23 when he went up in the ninth inning for Grezg and produced a dou: Lle that gave the Griffs erdict over Pennock of the Y- His manner of delivering was even more sensation: the attendant circumstanc When the eighth inning busted the Tol rived the THE NEW INVINCIBLE SIZE Manufactured by OTTO EISENLOHR & BROS. INCORPORATED PHILADELPHIA, PA. long | DENMAN THOMPSON. Sports Editor, The Star. ETROIT. May 20.—Although in T. Raymond Cob! the h the West, the Nationals will be meet al doormat for the other entrics in the circuit, the s early season flop has proved the greatest upset to the pre- Hailed in advance as a certain contender for the Ameri- | . along with Washington and New York, the Tygers | ¢ flivvered far worse than even the Yankees, who have, in the absence er puncher, a tangible reason for trailing along ch obvious | | 10 bingles to good advantage off Co- | in one stretch | attack, where it | | sewell | out Burns and Myatt was left at third SPORTS. Pinch s Tygers. to be of four games that will end | g a club | first Nationals found themselves on meE short end of a 3-1 count, having been | able to solve the portside twisters of Joe Shaute for but a trio of scattered safeties, while the Tribe had bunched veleskie. | Calling on his reserves in the eighth. Bucky Harris nominated Har- grave to bat for Covey and he lined | a single against the right-field fence. | Matthews was put inte run for the heavy-hoofed backstop after Speaker had robbed both Rice and McNeely of safcties. Wid tallied, following a pass to Stan Harris, when Goslin uncorked a single to center. The Goose then was left at first, with Bucky on third, when Spoke chased r back for Joe Harris' long drive. Trick Stuff in Eighth. Against Mogridge in the fag end of the eighth Sewell opened with a single to center and advanced on Myatt's crifice. Then came a period of managerial maneuvering in which Mogridge replaced by Mar- berry when Uhle was announced to hit for McNulty. Speaker promptly countered by vanking Uhle In favor of Hendrick. When the latter’s roller to Joe Harris at first became a hit because Marberry made no effort cover the bag. Fred was removed. Ogden took the hill and pitched to but one batsmen. Burns, who left| on third by drilling into a double play When neither Bluege, nor Peck was able to get on in the ninth the out- look was bleak. to put it mildly, but Ruel revived hope by socking a safety through Sewell. Adams was sent in to run for Muddy. The rookie promptly executed a clean steal of second, “obtaining such an enormous lead off Shaute that Myatt,could not attempt a throw. Then came Johnson, subbing for Ogden, and after being made to look foolish by chasing after a slow curve, Barney connected late with another floater on the outside #nd sent it soaring a mile high toward the bar- | rier in right. A tied score was as. sured, no matter where the ball land- ed, as Adams was tearing to the plate | from second. but when the sphere dis- appeared on the other ide of the | barrier the game was in. for Russell repulsed the Redskins in the rear end of the round and thereby earned credit for winning the contest Allen did it by stabbing Fewster's hot bounder, and after Shaute singled to left Russ grabbed Jamieson's | smokey smash and converted it into | double play via Peckinpaugh at econd. to summarily Indians Score Early. Coveleskie retired the Indians order at the outset and bore dc escape from a hole in the | th but one run charged against him Line singles by Sewell and | Myatt put Redskins on third and first. | Ruel dropped the third strike on Me- | Nulty, but flagzed him at first as| Myatt moved up on the passed ball. Sewell tallied while Peck was tossing in wn to second, | when Fewster rolled to Bucky Harris. | An element of luck attached to the tally registered by the Tribe in the third. Shaute led by crashing a safety off Bluege's glove and reached third ,/ //,,’;:'//:J) ; g 7) Vi | the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, HUGGINS AND COBB FA HOW GRIFFS ARE BATTING G. AB.H. SB. RBL Pet. 5 4 0 6 0 3 Tate Matthews . Huargrave Ruether . Emoa e, BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, May 20.—The fast third of May brings re two American League clubs that their 1925 sun has al wholly set N Detroit can practically be counted out of the pennant Cobb has enough magnetism and enough generalship about h | his players out of their present slump to some fair point in the | they can look forward to being in the “one, two, three” rat have achieved a task little short of a miracle. Miller Huggins of the New York |behind their normal cond Yanks has a little easier task. He has|time of year, and while it less percentage ainst him, and |impossible, it is highly right, | the return of Ruth to the line-up in|that they will be able erased |the mext week or so should help the |such a handicap. taking |club’s morale. But Huggins has a| The one great help that Speaker's |task ahead of him about as big as|to both Detroit and New short left |any he has tackled since he began|be a prolonged and sadd managing the Yankees. Never has Ty Cobb got such a gen-|the race. It eral all-rdund walloping so early in|be terrible |the season as he has received this|the Tygers & | vear. Usually, if one section of the downward slide. league made life # burden for him. the| And two such deviation other was meat on which he recovered 1 one season, affecting fir with hi® team some of the advantage were thought to be Detroit had | But this y ders. and then the tea been banged right and I both actual leaders, wou th Western and the Eastern sections ng base ball hasn't |of the league. and the Tigers are the | nineties, when Nulty and tallied while Sewell |worst used-up menagerie they have|National Leuague went u; tossing out Peck |been in their history. To think of |in the standings like the This marker promptly was offset by |them as tailenders is difficult, but it |a thermometer. Lutzke, who In the fag end of the |must be done, for that is where they frame poled one of Covey's offerings land if they don't take & sharp into the left field bleachers. The soon bases, fortunately, were unoccupied e laws of percentage will hardly | at the time, Jamleson having hit into |give the Tygers u chance of winning a double play after Shaute started the [the pennant thi ve Of course, round with a line single over Hl\lCEQ?‘lnu\iH' is impossible in base ball, but head. Cobb and his club are forty per cent Mogridge, 1 Nats Meet A.’s Four Times Next Week, Playing Here on Tuesday % * | Russei] Mogridze Zachury . Russeli [ Coveleskie Kelley Adams Marberry. Ogden ... ©0-2008~00~:A0a=00au0200. sossosiank: on Jamieson's Lutzke's bounder to Peck Shaute at the pan, Jamieson third and scoring when little fly fell untouched in cente: McNeely's double and Goslin netted in the opener. than the vest double 1o howe to would, slump @ pass to the Nationals nothing Ruel got no farther bule when he singled in the second and Bluege's triple with two gone in the fourth was unsup ported, but the iffs contrived to tally with only one bingle in seven. It was a sturdy double to r center by Joe Ha who moved a notch on Blueze's long fly to up se M W WASHINGTON. Rice. rf AB | Coveleskie. » SHargrave ~99-0050:sansaanua ETROIT, May 20—By taking th the series to their total up to 8 played thus far on their trck along the frontier advanced to within a single gamc he league-leading dropped their second straight to the White Sox aiter recording nine 1 a row. Whether the Grifimen climb to the top of the hcap by unday depends on the outcome of their cngagements with the T here while the Mackmen are battling the Browns in St. Louis 1t the leadership is in dispute when bl time comes to head eastward, | his it should not long remain so. for the champions are to clash with the A four times next week. one meeting | being booked for Washington or Tuesday. while three tilts are to be staged at Philadelphia the following two days Cleveland 12 contests the Nation. Athletics, of in vesterday to run of victorics up to 8 if next | MeNuity, rf who | Fewster, '2b | Shuvte. ' p ichers to spear Bucky's wallop with | fUhle. gloved hand | [ Hendrick Rarr Speaker all but doubled Matthews | “Rnode off first with a line peg Burns after getting Rice's drive to right in the eighth. Spoke then leaped to ! pull down Neely's wallop in left | center. Totals 33 Butted for Coveleshie in {htan’ for Hargravel in the $Ran for Rusl in the n EBatted for Ogden in ¢ fiBatted for McNults in th : Baited for Uhile in the e . 1 ABat to Cleveland scribes,| amave /o5, Femeter in the into the distant 1eft | Washington 0000 in round cight was the | Clevelund o110 run he has made since majors in 19 The same informants are authority for the statement that Johnson e s (R had some tinkering done with his|only the second right hand batSman to | belleebr Shavi off left arm, the one originally hurt by €et a homer over the right field wall. | Siruek out—8y Shaute, being hit with a pitched ball in|Joe Wood having done it once w I\I\P‘“,::""“" S pelemie, batting practice before leaving Wash- | pastiming as a gardener with the in O inning ington and injured again in @ tumble | Indians. Some Cleveland fans, park- | Ozd he took at St. Louis. ed in the pavilion out that way. also —— asserted that Walter's wallop did not nd. Geisel and By going hitless yesterday Rice clear the screen but went through a | of Feme—?2 hours. ended a streak that carried through|hole a considerable distance down games. Sam has failed to get a |from the top it? bingle in only three other contests this_season, April 14 (opening day) April 17 and April M According Lutzke's swé ! field stand first home entering the Tt develops that while the Griffs | were in Cleveland Dr. Knight pro- fessionally attended both of the Harrises, in addition to Judge and Grege. Stanley had a treatment to| [ | i | Adams. * Nacrifice—Myatt. Johnson. relieve the neck stiffness that first bothered him in the opening series of the season at New York, and Moon : off —Ruel. 'CHASE, RIVERDAL It was was intention of Bucky. the to keep Joe Harris at the initial station until Judge resumes play T - svans | Shirley's apparent overanxiety to hit |y, Leen® receiued Feve The report that Umps Billy Evans | p, ving lunged him into a slump. | ceser 1 boy. who is slated to succeed Ty Cobb pe : Clie e COLLEGE BASE BALL. manager of the Tygers is not being | taken any more seriously here than Southern Association to Miss. club of the At Georgetown—Georgetown, Delaware, 0. anywhere else. | e | League, has been rec: McNeely's bingle in the opening | | “Chase. « npitcher, round yesterday was a liner that | o Laur squarely struck the sack at third and | l.,‘:,‘:kp""‘“"' orth Mobile, regards him as bounded on far enough to net him| ' DUde Lo Chase formerly starrec wo bases. iy, 15 Wiconi, & for Hyattsville High and At Cambridge—Harvard, lams, 1. in this vicinity. At Philadelph boss RIVERDALE, Md.. Ma 33; Carolina State, York Univer- Goslin raced almost to the mond to get under Jamieson's in this frame. dia- Wil little CHARLQTTE, N. C., M | hitting safely in . [ *“Moon" Ducote of the | the South Atlantic Associ day failed to register a Mace nus, Speaker fairly covered himself with | glory in robbing Stan Harris a omer in the, third. Spoke raced to his right and back e to the At Burlington—Vermont, St ancis, 1. ® At Annapolis—Gettysburg, of ¥ St P ST TEE AT SR AT A L SR TR S A SRR NN SN SN NN NN N Y, WHO’'S Wi THIS IS A FACT . Two equipments like the cut above have just been purchased by the Blick Bros., Inc.,, Coal Company, who have given the International Trucks a very severe test and found them worthy at all times. ; Visit Us Any Evening LET US DEMONSTRATE ONE TO YOU Free fnwecflnn—-Nigm Service Sizes: 34—I1—1"4—2—3—5 Tons International Motor Truck Agency, Inc. 228-232 First Street N.W. Day Phone: Franklin 1170 Night Phone: Lincoln 2321-W WEDN TEST OF PILOTING ABILITY race. to on the part of the present id the Yanks their long the teams SOME CLOUT -9232230320~0300% ©393892990-0-~x & = in the ninth Two-buse hits—MeNeely, J. Three-buse hit—Bluege. Ntolen Double plays— Russeli to Teck to d. Harri, K. Hirrix to | Left_on bases— | by_Coveleskle, 1. Losing _piteher—shuute. IS RECALLED BY MOBILE Cotton led. \ went . and Kid Elberfeld. manager of | 25, ESDAY, MAY 20, 192 SPORTS. Tygers Overrated by Fans, Cobb Says HIS TEAM NEVER AS GOOD AS BELIEVED, TY INSISTS Too Much Is Expected of Club That Alwavs Has Been Poor Afield and Since Opening of Season Has Had Big Ca: BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. CE Iphia, ‘aahington New York Detroit | Boston . . | GAMES TODAY. ush'ton ut Detroit. Bosion at_Chieus. alization to most, if not GAMES TOMORROW. Wash'ton #t Detr oston ut _Chicago. ila. at St. Lou) hila. ut St. Louis. ¥, nd. N, Y. at Clevelund. YESTERDAY'S KESULTS, Washington, 4: Cleveland, 3 Chicugo, 4’ Philadelphia, St. Loufs. #; Boston, i Detroit, i1: New Yor D fans liked to believe Only Cleveland, Boston and Chicago, the three low team made more errors i alty List. i Ty im to bring race where ing, he will at Clevel ETROIT, May 20.—\What's the matter with the Ty Tyrus R. Cobb, their manager, made this answer bees ition at this may not be improbable overcome NATIONAL LEAGUE. Wan. Lost. I'vgers are not, and have never as good a | | New vork | : Brooklyn 3 Philudeivhia : | Pittsburgh | Cincinnati | Boston | Chicago 1 St. Louis ....00 10 GAMES TODAY. | Plttsburgh at Bkiv at N. York. could come York would ening slump leaders in | have to up to 481 164 318 2 393 353 AMES TOMORROW. Pittaburgh at N. Y. Chicago at Brookiy. | Cineiunati at" Boston™ Cinei at Phil | St. Louis at Phila. St I at Boston. ULTS. B DAY'S K] .4 | percentage column last year, | Georgian pointed out ¥ pd “That,” he said, “is the real answer to the question, ‘Wi th the Tygers?' Detroit hasn't as good a tcam as the Individual effort ball games. It is the player 1 that drives in 1 “There are no ‘pusl ver, ter w make ¥ wins pun over' teams in the American game the Tygers win means a hard battle through nine inning then advanced another con-| “Then there is George cause to the Tygers' revers-|one predicted much for him and yet—there he i Cobb dismissed rumors n on his club as 1 . He characteriz another favorite theor that one cause of the | the players are high strur s from form st the teams | the probable ms that are Id be some en since the in the old p and down mercury in Chicago. 8: New York. indelphia, 8: St. Lo cinnatl, 3: Boston, 3 | Brooklyn. 0: Pittsburgh, 5. 'CHISOX AGAIN HAND JOLT TO ATHLETICS By the Associated Press NEW YORK. May 20 o ington was winning « |1ana_yesterda i Cobb tributory als “Psychology plays a pr |in base ball.” he said { |that is beaten con ally | by narrow margins (we have lost 10 {games by 1 run), has a heavy psy- chological handicap to overcome.” 1 : nd injury. too, have hit the peramenta © club unusually hard. Cobb said.| *The iwhole thing.” h o While Wash-| “They talk about the Chicago|mers to this: Too much is expected of thrilier at Cleve-| Cubs and that team's ill fortune|the Detroit team. The men have beer . the Athletics suffered | through injury to M. ville,” Cobb|in a slump. That is base ball. The another reversal from Chicago, 4 to 3. | interjected. “We have Blue, Bassler,|are playing hard and wil y ut and_were only saved from a shutout | Heilmann, Rigney, Jones and Doyle, | that I am s 0| by Miller’s home run in the ninth in-|all of whom either are or have been in.| T never claimed 0 | ning with two men on base. IIness or inj > pennant this year 8| The Yankees retreated further ould the Tygers be singled | now. But wil ere o | the depths under heavy Detroit out for failing to play up to predicted | ing, for we are not assed, we are 0 !ting. 11 to 5 [form? What about Pittsburgh, doped | not hopelessly whipped— 01 George Sisler's before the season started as a pennaat | long time to October LOOK! uitching. He extended And the Cubs? Who had the temerity 34 games as St. Louis won to predict the Athletics would play the Amazing values in good Be sure to at d as b of some fans slump is th, combe —o=oF . ¥ o mitm® would win not hitti Red champion 1k of eight games. | pened a Chicago beat the to A homer helped end a ball they have? Who figured Wash-| ¢ s winnin on would be near the top from the A smash start The New Yo National League :\H"Yl: l‘ [‘ | team, as matter of fact, is the | Glants, o club in either ague 8 as enn) :I.;M.»n .lv\-\-v\u of the Nutiona xta:.-‘u:_; Ball clubs are not different from in: S e L alwidy They play different base x'.."!..u‘ ‘v‘“”. _valuable p an 1ball in erent seasons. Two years tobins trounced ago Bot of the Cardinals was The Reds recovel 1 hav 1 - ~23-399030:2 ==. 1] aapnnliunvaons 1 sssonanansnis E. : o o o o o o Q o o o o 0 o o used cars. sec this one. | ve-game o a slump by t | bebind Luque they failed to 0, o | Fletche o/of St — | the winni home run lled. BIG LEAD OF GIANTS overta ) took the Louis the Phillie r| MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS. S AMERICAN ASSOCIATION |—= the g from 13 23 the bases the eizhth. eigh CHEVROLET SEDAN, 1923 Indianapo! Minneapo nth. e e INTERNATIONAL LEAGLE 15: Reading. 10 Baltimore. 5. uffalo, 5 use, 4 ighth. Pre Ro Toronto. nth. 0011 2—1| 001003 Harris, SOUTH ATLANTIC L Columbia. 8: Augusta, 3 Spartanburg. Knoxville. 5-1 SAGUE. base— | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May than 5,000 persons were a Grounds yesterday to see place New York Giants play cago Culie, notwithstanding that Char- ‘ot |ley Hartnett, the leading home Russell. 1 In 1 | hitter of the National League Wipnink viteh- | season, participated in the game Morlurty, Time | Art Nehf, who pitched one-hit me for the Giants a week ago, ap- | peared again, but even this failed .to rouse any enthusiasm Newspaper men were 1 plain the small attendance. - 3 was because the Giants are making | o a runaway race of the early season. | 15 Renevitte. that Frank| In Brooklyn, with the Dodgers meet Sz recently was | ing the Pirat only 12,000 appeared PIEDMONT LEAGUE. team of the|for the great day of the vear, the| Raleizh. 6-1: Winston-Salem the Laurel. | National League's golden jubilee cele. 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