Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1921, Page 18

. ’\Johnson Proves He Is ‘SPORTS. 'WALTER DISPLAYS FORM IN BEATING MACKS. 3-1 "'A'll.ows Ten Hits, But Is Strong in the Pinches, and Blanks As for Crowd Exceeding 13,000. 8% Innings Before T terday, 3-1. Thousands of the huge great hurler who had reached the another generous outpouring of fans—more than 13,000 of 'em—who were among those present on the Sabbath will tell you that the doleful dirges BY DENMAN THOMPSON. HOSE who were ready to consign Walter Johnson to the base ball scrap heap in view of the fate that befell in the opening game of the season will have to revise their estimates following the im- pressive exhibition of flinging he gave in subjugating the Athletics ves- throng that turned out for the cur-! tain raiser and saw Barney driven to cover in four innings under a fusillade of nine safeties charitably recalled his wonderful feats of the past and referred in mournful tones to the sad spectacle of the once end of his string as “all in.” But were out of order and the obsequies premature. Johnson was solved to the extent of ten safeties. including a trio of triples, and on three occasions his support wavered. In only a single inning did the Mackmen fail to get one or more men on the bases and once they had them loaded. It was the fact that al- though frequently menaced he had the stuff to invariably pull through that made his performance stand out. He really deserved a shut-out victory. and while the lone tally chalked up by the A’s with two out in the ninth inning is recorded as having been earned. Duffy Lewis really was to blame for it. Gains the Needed Confidence. Today Walter is a tired athlete, hav- ing done more real work in one after- noon than through the stretch of the training season. His salary wing also may be a wee bit stiff from the un- usual sustained effort, but there are no aches mor pains and with proper Test he may be expected to return to the hill in due time and give an even better exhibition by reason of the toil performed and the confidence it gave him. Those were the two things he needed, especially confidence. ‘When that mighty flipper failed him for the first time in his career last sum- mer Johnson was just plain scared. Spring training never has been the or- deal for Barney that it is for many hurl- ers who have to carefully nurse and coddle their wings to get them in shape after a winter of inactivity. He never had a sore arm before and when it did cave on him he was more apprehensive than the average moundsman, especial- ly considering that the nature of his ailment never was exactly determined. Even when in his work-outs at Tampa and in the exhibition games down south he worked without feeling any of the pain he experienced last season he still was dubious, fearing that at any mo- ment the dreaded twinges that caused his early retirement in 1920 might re- appear. Mental Hazard Is Carried. Now, having gome the full route in a grueling contest in which he had to travel at full speed practi- cally all the way. without an ache of any description developing. his apprehensions have been dissipated ‘The mental hazard has been carried and he may be expected from this time forward to prove effective in the proportion to which his arm at- tains strength. ‘Walter cannot go on forever, it is true. He never again will be abl~ to display the dazzling speed sus- tained that was his a decade ago, but if the hopeful promise of the showing he made yesterday is borne out he may reasonably be expected to turn in twenty or more victories this season. and there are not many in the game today who can be relied on_to do that. Johnson did not have much stuff in the first inning and was nervous. yes. nervous. Three hits shot off Mackian bats and O'Rourke tossed in an error, yet the enemy failed to score. Over the remainder of the route the visitors got no more than , one safety in any ome inning and none at all when they could do any ' damage. Gets Out of Jam in Opener. Dykes started with a bingle and “was nipped stealing. Witt also hit safely and reached second when O'Rourke backed into centerfleld and muffed C. Walker's fly. He tried to score. when Brasill singled to left, but Lewis cut him down at the plate, and Dugan popped. Welch hit into a double play after J. Walker singled in the second. Johnson fanned C. Walker following ‘Witt's triple in the third. J. Walker's safety in the fourth was unsupported and the fifth was barren, Galloway i and Dykes both falling victims to strikes. Witt connected for his sec- ond three-bagger in the sixth. He was trapped on C. Walker's weak tap to Johnson, and, although Tilly sneaked around to third, he was left there : when neither Brasill nor Dugan could hit the ball'ss far as the pitchers box. Shows Stuff in the Pinch. Johnson's most Gangerous predica- ment was in the seventh, when + O'Rourke fumbled Welch's grounder, Galloway singled and Dykes drew a pass, the only one Barney issued. Here the tieing runs were on the bases with iwo out and Witt, who had con- nected for a single and two triples his first three times up, at the plate. Johnson fanned him on four pitched balls, sneaking a hook over for the decisive strike. ! ‘With two out in the eighth Shanks How Griffs Are Hitting @. AB. H. SBRBL Pet. 111 0 1 100 9 4 2 50 2 0 o .00 2 3 1 e 2 0 1 4% ¢ 4 3 le00 i 1 o 333 € o 5 316 21 6 1 3 288 v 5 z s : ¥ 4.0 2 30 8 3 1 s ° 0 o o 40 ‘000 e o <000 10 000 | 10 ‘000 | e o 000 ! 10 o0 | Howard A. French & Co. Distributor for Indian Motorcycles 424 9th St. N.W. Used Motoreycles SEVEN RACES DAILY Special Pemna. R. R. train leaves Union Statiom 13 o’elock moon—direct to course. Speetal B. & O. train leaves Union Station 12 o’cleck moon. Purier and dining cars. Admizssion—Grandstand and Paddock, §1L.65, including Gov- ermment Tax. FIRST RACE AT 2:30 P.M. AB. R. . A E. &L 2 0 3 0 o o 3 0 0 0 10 0o 0 0 0 0 0 Rrazill. 1b. 4 0 g Dugan. 3b. 4 0 4 0 J. Walker. ¢! 4 0 3 0 Welch. If.-ef. 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 1 Shannon 10 o o Totals. . TR, 2 WASHINGTON. AB. R. E. Judge, 1b. T [ Milan, rf. 4 1 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 2 Pleinich, c. 3 0 0 Johnson. p. 3 0 o Totals 27 3 I8 12 3 *Batted for C. Walker in Sth. 1Batted for Moore in 9th. Philadelph 00000000 1-1 Washizgto 20100000 x—3 Two-base hit—Rice. Three-base hits—Witt (2). Dykes. Stolen base—Harris. Sacrifices— Lewis,” Rice. ~Double plays—Shanks to Har- ris to Judge; Moore to Galloway; Dykes to Brasill; Dugan to Dykes to Brazill. Left on bases—Philadeiphia, 10; Washington, 6. Base on balls—Off Moore, 4; off Johnson, 1. Hits— Off Naslor, 4 in 1 Inning; off Moore, 4 in 7 innings. Btruck out—By Johnson, 6; Moore, 1. Wild piteh—Johnson. = Losin Pitcher—Naylor. ~ Umpires—Coonolly and Mo- riarty. Time of game—I hour and 55 min- utes courted trouble with a poor throw of Dugan's hard smash. The latter reached third on J. Walker's single to right, then Welch succumbed. It was with two hands retired in the ninth that the A's managed to score. Dykes hit sharply to left. Lewis tried to check the drive on & short hop and it bounded past him for three bases. Johnson then uncorked a high heave that shot off the tip of Picinich's glove and Dykes crossed the plate. Witt ended it by fouling to Shanks. ffmen Chase Naylor. Washington's scoring efforts were confined to two. innings. Before the first round was ended they had ham- mered Naylor for four hits and two runs and sent Rollie to the showers. Judge, started with a safety and reachéd third on the hit and run when Milan banged the ball through the spot vacated by Dykes. Brazili worked fast to erase Rice, with Nay- lor covering firct, Milan advancing and scoring behind Judge when Lew- is propelled a single to center. Duffy showed unsuspected speed of foot in trekking to the far corner on Har- ris’ safety to right and then was run down when Shanks failed to connect with the ball on the squeeze play, but not until he had jockeyed long enough for Harris to reach third, where How- ard left him. Roy Moore was on the slab in the second inning, and eased by, despite safeties by Picinich and Johnson, but Rice uncovered what was necessary for a tally in the third. Sam started with a drive against the right fleld for two bases, took third on Lewis’ neat sacrifice and scored on Harris’ infield smash, sliding into the plate ahead of Dykes' throw. Johnson's single in the seventh was the only safety obtained off Moore thereafter. Three Griffs managed to get as far as second base through combinations of walks and errors. but the left-hander picked two of them Cff and the other was stranded. Barney Uses Effective Hook. Johnson fanned half a dozen of the A’s. He wasn’t “bustin’ it by” all of ';m.kbut made good use of a deceptive ook. Dugan robbed O'Rourke of a hit by clutching his wicked liner in the sec- ond. Temperamental Joe also contrib- uted the f‘lurennlly of the d at the expense of Harris in the sixth, when he gloved Stan’'s smash to his left and ferried it to Brazill. Maurice Shannon was gtven a mild razz when he appeared to bat for Moore in the ninth. The former Griff- man popped foul to Picimich. Mocre showed the Griffmen a lot of stuff. Had the left-hander started the game there might have been a differ- ent story to tell. The Mackmen are well endowed with Walkers, Tilly, Johnny and Frank all getting into the box score. As many runners might help them more. Lewis made a fine running catch of Dykes’ long fly in the third, grabbing the ball on foul territory. —_—— Duke Reilly, former outflelder with %&nwflh has been signed by 8t l IR One ; 9 HEVROLET Model “T” Truck has made a reputation for dependable performance with ity loads. capacity Strength and quality of ma- terials with proper weight result in unusual economy of operation. CHEVROLET MOTOR CO., 1218 Commecticut Ave. THE EVENING STAR, "WA'SHINGTON, D. U, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 192I. Far From Being <All In” : Cold Weather Prevents Game Here Today Federal Judge Kemesaw Mountain Landjs, h‘ch commissioner of base ball, photographed “in action” at the opening game in Chicago, when Catcher O’Farrell of the Cubs rapped out a home run. base ball” is a real dved-in-the-wool fan and never misses a game if his) fes permit him to be at the ball pa M Langdon Athletic Club, 9 to of Simonds for fourteen safeties. F ed only five clouts and struck ou catcher, made a homer that scored Langdon attempts at theft. The Mets will meet Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at 1207 E street northeast. They have a game next Sunday with the Grotto nine. Lefty Serrin pltched the Knicker- bockers to a 6-to-4 victory over the War Department All Stars.” He grant- ed only four hits and fanned twelve hammered and batters The winners O'Brien for a triple, six doub six singles. Winston Athletic Club slugged its way to two victories, defeating Speedway Athletic Club, 9 to 0, and Naval Hospital, 16 to 9. pitched both games for the winners. Leviathan Athletic Club wants games with teams in the 17-18-year clasa Send challenges to the club at 1229 Pennsylvania avenue southeast or call after 5 p.m. Hysxienic Laboratory nine is anxious to make engagements for Wednesday and Friday this week. Teams inter- ested should communicate with Man- ager L. Blair Miller, 25th and E streets, or telephone West. 875. Treasury team of the Departmental League will encounter the Govern- ment League Aggios at 5 o'clock to- morrow afterncon on the east dla- mond of the Ellipse. Ploneer Athletic Club opened fits season yesterday against the Mohawk Juniors and won, 14 to 13. Diggs of the winners made a homer and three singles in five times at bat. Dreadnaught Athletic Club battered its way to a 14-to-2 victory over Peerless Athletic Club. Barnhardt made four safe clouts for the vic- torious Alexandrians. Peerless also lost, 0 to 10, to Clarendon. Mohawk Athietic Club, which de- feated Randle Athletic Club, 14 to 4, wants games. Challenges will be re- ceived by Manager E. Loehman, 1507 D street southeast. Record for the Week of Big League Games The week™ record in the major leagues of games played, won and lost, with ruas, hits, ervors, men left ou bases and runs scored by opponents, tn- cluding games of Saturday, fol- E PRSP RRT) PRUISHTRIES |- JOori wawrmrmont B wmmenpnm Ton, Worm Drive N.wW. | =1 MIMIQE]EMiEHHMMEIEE!éI /, METS, IN BATTING MOOD, TROUNCE LANGDON NINE ETROPOLITAN Athletic Club carried its batting eye with it when it journeyed to Langdon yesterday afternoon and drubbed the There will be mo contest at American League Park toda the necond game with the Ath- letics havink been called off on account of the frigid state of the atmosphere. President iMith, after shivering all the way from hin home to the office, glimpned the “cloudy and much colder” ‘weath forecast and promptly announced there would be mo clash this afternoon. The next vixit of the Mack- men will_be for one day onl Sunday, May 1, n0 that todn postponement will not be played off until the Series starting June 29. A doublcheader will not be necessary, as the revision ©of the xchedule moving the xame listed for July 1 to Sep- tember 11 leaves July 1 open. AR GANES SCARCE Mays of Yanks Blanks Red Sox, 4 to0 0, and Braves Again Down Dodgers, 4 to 2. Snow, rain and cold weather wrecked major league schedules yesterday, on threo of seven games listed being held. In the American League a blanket of snow covering Navin Fleld at Detroit kept Tigers and Indians idle and prevent the playing of the remainder the series. Wintry blasts from the north accompanied by snow flurries caused a postponement of the Browns-White Sox clash at St. Louis. ! at Chicago and wet weather at Cincin- nati stopped Cards and Reds in the tional League. The Yankees were able to blank the Red Sox in New York. but the National League champion Dodgers lost to the Braves in the at Brooklyn. Carl Mays, slabbinz for the Yankee for the second time this season held his opponents to four hits, and the Red Sox were downed, 4 to 0. Babe Ruth went hitless in three times at bat and the re- mainder of the Yankees did not club so heavily, but they combed Sam Jones for two runs in seven innings and got to Myers for a pair in the eighth. Despite morning_ rains which bogged the field, 000 fans attended the first Sunday game of the season. Playing before a crowd of 15.000 at the Brooklyn inaugural, the Dodgers dropped their fourth game in five starts with the Braves. The latter won. 4 to mauling Pfeffer for the tallies. Mitchell, relief pitcher, checked the Bostoni after the sixth. When the Dodge threatened in the eighth Oeschger was replaced by Fillingim, but the latter had to be relieved by McQuillan before the session ended. The “dictator of organised rk. 5. The Mets slammed the offerings lynn, slabbing for the winners, yield- t thirteen batters. Mask, the Met B-r-r-r! No Game Today RETURN OF YOUNG WHJL al it was too cold for Pirates and Cubs| -ason’s opener | SPORTS. ST SO0 AN Tech Plays Eastern Wednesday and Western and Business May Clash Saturday. Schedule conflicts have necessitated ‘MEAN MUCH TO GIANTS Probably Has No Superiors Among Outfielders. Athletics Make Great Impression in Their .."‘s':. (333":5?2;5.??".??1»‘ AR : s stadi Tech ar m tomorrow Eastern (Games Against Yankees. e o lrts lamtdl Wadnee ernoon, and Western and B the book for a Frjlav contest, may BY JOHN B. FOSTER. SRR S EW YORK. April 18—With Yoing. right fielder of the Giants, play- | . Tomorrow afternaon at 3 o'clock ¢ ing regularly this week against Boston, New York will be a bet- {against Baltimore Polytechnic Inst er te. Tn p— H & tute These teams clashed in Ba 1'( team. His injury was water on q:e kncf. which is the Qoss|‘hle Smone L asiy thin sepRth® a8’ hattiel result of two collisions which he has experienced in play, both of which | througn nine Innings to a i-to.1 shook him up savagely. Brown appears to have the call at center field |Sinee then the Centratitcs have dev. for the Giants. \Valker, who played right field while Young was being | 0ed rapidly and should ¥ Bive Marylanders a sturdicr batt lturn mateh with | Academy _is scheduled for Friday.” The Blue and White the Virginians last month Central Stadium was not seleoted as the plaving ficld for the championship series games until some time o the Mount Pleasanters had pre their schedule. It was und that in the event of conflicts in dates A Military Central lost treated, will probably be retained as utility outfielder. He fielded well and batted well in the game against the Philadelphias. It may be that Walker will go to center, although that is doubtful. With Young back, the Giants are a|the managers have been compelled to stronger team than they were against | pl their juveniles whether they delphia here probably no | wished to or not. Soma of the newly er in cither league who is su-|arrived boys probably have earned perior to him as he plays today. His a petionitoihimtagtel permanent berths for that reason. veloped him finely. taunto ’ is one of the H the Centralites would have the prof- leading \»;u]cr of the Nation: Bodic made his thewsandth hit the |erence. a powerful and generally . . 5 Whether Western and Business wil thrower. a very dangerous man at bat | Other day. “They're all down in the | "G ja wil be determined e when runners are to be advanced, and that he hurries all intielders who try to zet the 1 to first base ead of him. It is ret that he is counted upon as a big factor in the speed plan of the team. Opposing nines will be crowded on every play by the New York outfit, books.” said Ping. “No funny busi-|initely within a day or two. Some of ness about my hits. I've hit her all the ! the players of both teams are em way from the Pacific to the Atlantic|Ployed on Saturdays and may be un- ocean and back.” able to get into 4 game that day. | Hold-Outs Are Ineligible | | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. full of vim. Brazill gives indication of being a ball player who has just £ot to his own. With a badly injured hand, which was so painful that he could not close it upon a bat without hurt, he went through the New York games without a whimper. Even if not a natural first baseman, he is such a good ball player that he has given confidence to the Athletic in- field. Connie Mack has as good a third baseman as there is going in Dugan, and he plays a better game than he did last year because he has a lot of confidence in Brazill and says that he do that he will have to be a pinch bitter, and he is likely to be cuchred by a good curve pitcher. ment must Ko to the commis- sioner, Judge K. M. Landis. who™ will ‘force their luck to obtain . P B e 5 : a by using the speed which! | After Season in 10 Days e o P et & That is in line with| | CHICAGO, April 15—A blow Tndianapolis Tolrdo. postponed: cold. | other campaigns which have been Suc-| | at base ball “hold-outs” wnas de LouisvilleColumbus. wet grounds. cesstul pennant winners for New York. | | - Athletics Are Impressive. s brasiae SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Ihelifisst rouna) hetweenithefiAth: (| SIAatimIeyers maie meecsniovhe: Sharianovga, 3 Moviier 3. Totice - ail to report to their ciul Little Rock, 4: Memphis, clics and the Yankees convinced a| | \ithin ten days after the openc Birmingham-Nasnvillc, poctpoued, eold ' great many thousands of hase ball| | ing of the championship measom | |weather. | fans that ‘the Macks are mot to be 1 would be placed on the ineligible s sneezed at. The fight which they put list, and that the lications It i= about conceded that Meusc! up against New York was spirited and i of such players for tate- can't play the outfield. and if he can’'t < “By Their Clothes, Men Judge Men” Spring Suits has. Dyl:(e[s :\Iarll] little to do in the ‘That Dress You Up as You series. ul Galloway v i With the mew firet baseman. Thowsh Should Be Dressed in the Herman Leit | two runners ahead, and stopped six Upper Ten team vanquished Sterling Athletic Club, 5 to 3. Neither team did much hitting. Carroll Council overwhelmed Keane Council, 8 to 2,.in the opening game 10f the Knights of Columbus League. The winners bunched hits effectively in several innings. Eddie Carroll’s home-run smash that cleared filled bases in the second in- ning gave the ks a commanding lead, and they went on to an 11-to-7 win over Gibraltar Athletic Club. The | Gibs “outhit the winners, twelve to nine. Alexandria Athletic Aswociation took {the measure of two District nines, downing Yankee Athletic Club, 16 to 3. and the Railroad Administration, 110 to 0. | National Athletie Clab trounced Sil- ver Spring. 16 to 8, and desires more action. For games communicate with M. R. Lewis, 814 14th street northeast. Linworth Midgets scored their third congecutive victory by walloping the Pipetown Juniors, 25 to 4. Leary held the losers to seven hits. Aztee Athletic Club romped to a 12-to-8 win over the Spartans. De- chard's batting accounted for half of the winners' tallies. Contello Post pointed the way to Snyder-Farmer Post of Hyattsville in a 9-to-1 engagement. Snow pitched g0od ball for the victors. CAN LEAGUE. L. 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Hamilton, the new pitcher, caught the manager's eye when he earned a 1-t0-0 win over Foster, considered one of the best pitchers with the league. Sale of box seats for the league's first game here started this morning at the Bohrer street entrance to American League Park and at 1235 Pennsylvania avenue. THE GARDNER LIGHT FOUR EVIDENCES ONE STEP FAR- THER IN MOTOR CAR CON- STRUCTION—A BETTER CAR AT A AOWER PRICE—MADE POSSIBLE. BY OVER 33 YEARS' SECCESSFUL EXPERIENCE IN BUSLDING GOOD VEHICES AND NGO, Wayne Smith & Co. 224 and M Streets N. Telephone West 2007. Style, fit and good wearing qualities are features that recom- mend a Mertz Tailored SUIT. Street the Athletics lost the first game by a top-heavy score they were playing as well as the Yankees until their pitchers broke under a succession of scrawny infield taps. 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