Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 38

- 88 SPORTS Manager Harris May Use Bench Warmers in Effo BUCKY LIKELY TO CALL ON TOBIN, JEANES AND REEVES Also Considered Probable That Pilot Will Utilize More Extensively the Services of Morrell and Ogden in Place of Veterans. BY JOHN B. KELLER. TROIT, June 4.—Everything else having iailed to bring the Na- tionals out of the slump that has engulied them since the middle ; of May, Manager Stanley Harris may resort to the use of some of | the material that so far seems to have been of little use to his club. 1t would occasion no surprise were the pilot to hurl into the breech | such reserve talent as Johnny Tobin, Tex Jeanes and his latest acquisition. Bobby Receves, late of Georgia Tech. There is a great’ chance, too, that more use may be made of Willard Morrell. recruit pitcher, while Curley Ogden soon may get pitching assignments more important than those in games agamst the Red Sox. | These fellows certainly can do no worse than the athletes that Boss | Harris has been employing, and there always is the chance that out of them may be developed a player of sterling worth. Any way one con- siders the proposition, it's a good gamble. Probably the real trouble with th IN THE STICKS, TOO | in the gossipy column of a Canadian | sports writer published vesterday in | Toronto. He referred to the | as Senators, as most of the base b ‘writers outside of Washington do. and | g H mentioned that the name was appro- | Gasin, rriately fitting, smacking 1 and its noble ruins. The Canadian ! writer then proceeded to name some of the club’s “noble ruins” that nearly £ill the roster There may be a deal of base ball yet remaining in some of the Athletes associated with the Natfonals, | 1" but. if so. most of them have failed to | = c236su=3 Washington ball club was revealed | Washington. of s-33=332953us> 8 2lassss-sa Totale show it this season. Not one of the elderly pitchers of the staff has dis- played any consistency in his work Even Walter Johnson has lost in his last four starts and generally has heen unable to withstand the gaff of a fuil |} route. Peck Already Shelved. Of the infielding lot, Roger Peckin- paugh, only last vear accounted the American League player most valu- able to his club, already has been | aside. Of the outfielding mater ! Harris has indicated that his punch | ts gone. Moon occasionally may sock <olid hits, but his value as a defens player evidently has decreased con-| bly. While Manager Harrls does | ot admit this to be true. he lost| little time in changing his plans after | fir: determining to make a regular | gardener of the veteran. In view of all of this, there s every Jikelihood that Boss Bucky will resort | to the employment of men who hereto- | fore have been on the bench most of | Mickey Heath and it cleared filled | Heath singled again in the | the season. There cannot be less pos- | sibilities among them than in what has been employed. Johnny Tobin i no youngster as base ball goes, but in practice he shows aigns now of being ready for plenty of work. Johnny has not scintillated asa pinch batter, 'tis true, but it may be that if used regularly he would develop into a fair attacking force. There seems no doubt as to his fielding ability. He is a good judge of lofts and liners, and possesses a much bet- ter throwing arm than Earl McNeely. Tobin can cover as much ground. probably, as Earl, and_certainly far more than Joe Harris. He is a better bunter than either of these players. and Jequally as clever on the base paths as the player who has been used with Goose Goslin and Sam Rice in most of the recent games. Jeanes Good on Defense. Jeanes, too, appears to be a clever defensive player. He gave a fine dem- onstration of his fielding ability in a letics. The A's were slamming Walter Johnson was pitching against the Ath- letics. The A.'s were slamming Walter fearfully that day, and had it not been for the excellent performance in the fleld that Tex gave before being with- drawn from the fray Johnson's defeat would have been more decisive. Jeanes has yet to demonstrate his ability at bat, but it is questionable whether he has had a fair test in this respect. Now that Ossie Bluege s been shifted to shortstop and is giving promise of becoming a remarkable | player at that position, Manager Har- ris is turning his attention to third| base. Buddy Myer so far does mot| seem to grasp the fundamentals of the position, and he has one great 1t wildness in throwing to the Buddy, though, appears to be improv ing steadily in his hitting, and may | remedy the defects in his fielding if | given a little more time. | lege where he though he has a peculiar throwing, gets the ball away and with plenty of speed on it. He has appeared to considerable advan- tage in daily drills at third base recently and in baiting practice has heen socking the ball savagely. Bobby so far has been little more than pleasant young fellow to have around the club, but he may get an oppor- tunity to show something before this Western swing ends. Morrell Is Showing Promise. | Lately Morrell has given promise of becoming a likely pitcher. The young New Englander has plenty of con- fidence in his ability and has some- thing on the ball to back up that tonfidence, too. He is a keen student »f the game, especially his particular part of it, and that’s more than can be said of most recruits in the majors. Dgden seems ready to do more than start against the Red Sox. He. too, is ronfident he can do some worth-while pitching and soon may he given a chance to prove it. Manager Harris today was not pre. pared to state what line-up he would ®tart against the Tigers tomorrow in | the first game of the series of three | heduled here. He did intimate. how ver. that Stanley Coveleskie probahly | would do th> pitching. A® that. it's the spitball veteran's turn to go to the hill. Beating minor league clubs was not dlone much by the Nationals during their Spring training season in Florida | wnd in Canada yesterday the hold dver American League champions ook another sock on the jaw from the bushers. Before 5.000 rabid Toronto fans. the Toronto Interna- tional Leaguers stopped the Harris- ten, the regular outfield, 6 to 1. Checked by Kid Pitcher. The Maple Leafs used a 20-year-old touthpaw, Carroll Hubbell, all the way, and this voungster, who was farmed to Toronto by the Tygers, all but curved the Nationals to a coat of Whitewash. He yielded only five, hits, Bucky Harris getting a_double and & single, while Earl McNeely, Ossie Bluege and Joe Judge each grabbed n single. Hubbell also issued four ‘:u!ea‘ but it was erratic fielding be- ind him that acounted mainly for the tally made by the Nationals in the third round. The Leafs pummeled the National pitchers for nine safeties. Eight of these blows were made off Harry Kelley. who tolled through the first four frames. and the other off Willard ! Morrell, who graced the slab during | the seventh and eighth innings. Fred . Fountain Pens Repaired - | Keys Duplicated, 25¢ Ml,c News Depot, 902 G N. TORONTO. 3 ===F als33359599==320-F oaniSuna=3 9333¢i=~37 ~|983235-323523057 UBD=2DasF = £ Totals. . .. . Batied for Kelley in fifth. +Batted for Marberrs in seventh. #Batted for Morrell in ninth. Washington 00100006 0—1 Toronto. . . . 01 1 to Harris to Judge. Firs O Hubbell, 4; off Kelley, 2. Hubbell. Marberry. used hetween these recruits, did not let an opposing batter reach first base. One of the three blows off Kelley in the first inning was a homer by sacks. hird and_ counted _when Miller oubled. The blow off Morrell was homer by eighth. :9595™ ol 5292359333922 Herman Yayne in "“l THE EVENING STAR WASHINGT ITHE JUNE BU Genss: DEMENTUS AMERICANUS —— Harmless Habilat: SAND LOTS AND BALL PARKS. Roosls tn bleachers and on fences: gives vent to shrill cries when agitated. i exi1sts on box scoves X B.B.DOPE PRINTERS LOSE LEAD AS PHONE NINE WINS Presenting a revamped line-up to the Union Printers yesterday in the Commercial Base Ball League, Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. chalked up its second win at the ex- pense of the Typos, 7 to 2, and alldwed Chevy Chase Dairy to go into a first- place tie with the Typos. Phipps opposed the Printers on the hill for the Phonemen, while Haney hurled for the losers during seven frames before being relieved by Hutch- inson. Bobby Stevens, star Western High shortstop, played at short for the winners. War Department pastimers con- tinued to breeze along in the Potomac Park circuit. With Burke on the mound they registered their sixth straight win by taking the long end of a 7-to4 count in a match with Shipping Board. FEach team ac- counted for eight hits. Brinkman of Post Office earned a seven-inning shut-out victory over Veterans' Bureau in the Departmental oop. The count was 11 to 0, the losers collecting a total of 5 hits to 11 for the winners. Southern Railway showed the way to the Pullman tossers, champions of the Washington Terminal Y. M. C. A. League, 7 to 5. Madigan pitched for Southern. General Accounting Office had a in the Government race, winning_from Treasury in five in- nings, 17 to 0. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Jersey City Reading ....." Parks and Frei; and Lynn. Newark Baltimore Eleven innin 8 5. colhesterficld and Schulte: Parmham and Oniy two games plaved. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Columbus .. [ Indianapolis " . 4+ 9 Facth and Hruska: Hill and Hartley. . : i 9 "as Swaney. Marquis. Ellis 5 o 1 KR St. Paul . Milwaukee Kolp and Hoffman: Danforth and Me- Menemy. 8- 91 © D6 13 ngsworth, Wil Sukeforth. O8O S TS i an ‘and Heving and Devormer. SOUTHERN 'ASSOCIATION. H 10 5 11 Rogers, Love an: Meane and Me: Shina son. Middleton and R. 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The Concordians, who trimmed The Evening Star nine yesterday, 6 to 5. to make their season record five wins in seven starts, are without a game for Sunday. Any unlimited pilot wishing to obtain some spirited oppo- sition is requested to call Manager Bonifant at Atlantic 83-J between 6 and 8. Liberty base ballers play tomorrow at Walter Reed Hospital, the game starting at 2 o'clock, and go to Alex- andria_Sunday for a tilt with the Cardinals. For the Sunday game the players and rooters will meet on the District side of the Highway Bridge at 1:30. The Palais Royal nine has the use of diamond No. 3 Sunday, between 11 and 1. For a game call Manager Clark at Adams 3098. The undefeated Hartford Unlimiteds, formerly the Mount Rainier Seniors, hope to stretch their winning string to five games Sunday when they tackle the Stephen nine at Riverdale. ‘The Stephens have completed work on their diamond and are now arrang- ing an extensive schedule. 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D UPLICATING the smashing drive of 1925, which lifted them from pit to pinnacle, the Pittsburgh Pirates once more have brought off a mighty push from an eighth-place getaway to pound loudiy at the portals of National League leadership. In second place after a_sensatios the Chicago Cubs, McKechnie's behind the leading Cincinnati Reds. The climb of the champions thus | matched almost to a day their pace | of a year ago, since it was in the first | week of June, 1925, that the Corsairs landed in the contending position. They remdined there until the first week of July, then leaped out in front to show the way for the remainder | of the season, except for one week in_August. While Pitcher Yde was checking the Windy City bid yesterday, 3 to 2, the pacemakers ran into a rioting Hub brigade which had battered and bruised Brooklyn Wednesday. Red- land forces, playing the first game of an Eastern invasion, fared no better than the Robins, breaking under a storm of base hits which extended Boston's run total to 36 for three games. Wally Pipp replied to the assault with a counter-attack of four hits, but team figures at the finish showed an overwhelming vote in favor 17 10 5 The New York Giants restored their percentage mark to .500 by another decisive triumph over the Phillies at 10 to 5, their fourth win in the series of five games. The result gave the standing another shake-up, pushing | McGraw's team past the Cardinals to | tie Brooklyn for fourth place and plac- | ing the seventh-place Quakers on the | brink of the cellar | The Yankees finished their Eastern | nal spurt, which yesterday dislodged cohorts today stood only three full games could gather only three safe blows off the delivery of Myles Thomas. 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