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Show Washington Happy Now That Boehling Is in Shape Again pM - . .-.. if 21 : - t f ' i VW . '" $ S ' j ASM7NGTON fans are happv now , that Joe Boehlinc, the elutvs princt- Ipal soullipaw. has signed hip conlract. : DoehlliiL,- was of little use to -A'ar-n-( inslon la year because he suffered suf-fered an injured knee earlv in the se.isnn and was forced to adorn the beneli the rest of the campaign. nut there Is every reason to expect that he will be as good this year as ho was In r.'l.i, when he was one of the season s phenonif. It -,- against Cleveland that Iloeiillng made his start. Griff had tried him out ' a few times with Indifferent success and I was about to send him to the minors when I he found hi nisei f v.' 1 1 1 iou t n fl rs i s i ri 11 1 pitcher to work tn a Kundnv am-! In ; Cleveland, to pi.ty which name tin W'aii-j W'aii-j inw ton mid Ovebnd ciuhs jnniptrt to the I sixth city from Wnsinnrcton. So C.riif decided de-cided to give his iou th paw a fin ad chancn. Boehilnc: won. He did not show anylhinir ivorideri'ur in tho way of burlolopy. hut he won, which was good enough for him, as the victory pave him eonlidenee nd be started out to triumph in nip next ten contest!;. Should he come back this year and elve Washington another fiuch exhibition exhi-bition of pltehluc,, the Senators wilt be able to pive the Re,l Sox and Athletics a hard ha tile for the title. Griffith uncovered a couple of near-stars near-stars in Jim s'haw and Poe Ayres last season, while Harp.:: ami Ilentley showed conslder.iblo promise. Take those four youngsters, add Johnson and IloehllnK, Clallia and F.Uh'el and ou hae a pltehini; siafl tbtit Tiu rank' hiirh up close to the Leonard. Foster, Wood. Collins, Shore. GrecK combination at Hoston. and tiie Si oil. Brnz. Faber, Cicotte. Russell, Wolf-, Wolf-, sans outjit bos?ed by Rowland at Chi- C.-igO. . . |