Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1921, Page 24

Pennant Bee Buzzing in Bonnets of Local Fans as Griffs NATIONALS NOW ' 2 12 GAMES WITHIN OF THE TOP Mogridge Aided in Taming Tigers, 6-2, by Mates’ Flashy Fielding and Timely Clubbing. Brower Lines Ball Over Wall. 2 T total of fifteen of winning as many BY DENMAN THOMPSO! HAT noise you hear is the buzzing of the bees—pennant bees—in the bonnets oi Washington fans. May 26 from their swing through the west two games shy in a When the Nationals returned as they lost on the road, their fol- lowers were content to hope they would be able to remain in the first division. They were clinging there through an even split in thirty-six contests with the meager edge of half a game on the Browns in place. In the two weeks intervening they have won ten out of fourteen tilts; a faster pace than that maintained by any of their rivals for the onfalon. New York in the same evelaidd has annexed seven and dropped six, while Detroit has had a fifty-fifty break in fourteen battles. " Until the Griffmeén ‘got back on their own lot they were suffering from perhicious anemia in the pitching box, but with Mogridge, Johnson, Zachary, Courtney and Acosta all contributing in successful transfusion operations [ the patient~ has gained in weight, prestige and the standing of the clubs with' the result that today McBride's hustling crew is but two games back of the second-place Yankees, who are trailing_the fast-slipping Indians by only half a contest. Lose Ome in Last Ten. With one exception the Nationals haye copped all of their last ten tilts, yesterday.s 6-to-2 triumph in he second clash of the set with the 'igers being their fifth in a row, the highest run of consecutive wins they bave compiled this season. Business of annexing No. 6 this afternoon probably will be intrusted to John- son. who has turned in victories on his last two starts. It is assured that Barney or Acosta, should the Cuban get the call, will not lack for vocal encouragement, as a huge throng is in prospect, this being the occasion of the benefit for the Washington Boys'. Club. Mogridge had plenty of moral sup- 6,000 bugs on hand, but he received backing of an even mort helpful na- ture from his co-workers, who flelded base balls with accuracy and consid- erable dash when occasion required, and batted them to unguarded spots with. a. consistency that left the re- sult much less a matter of conjecture than the forthcoming fisticuffs between Dempentier and Carpsey or whoever! . it is that all the fuss is being made about. George Keeps Hits Seattered. George was solved for a total of eleven safeties, but in only two in stances were they bunched effectively ‘while the Nationals combed Oldham and Holling for thirteen swats, every member of the outfit save O'Rourke having a finger in the pie. and he contributed a tally eventuating from a pass. But if the other boys had a digit in the dessert, Brower may be said to have used his fist, for, in addition to a whack that netted a tally and paved the way for another in the third, he sent one of Holling’s twisters on a back-yard excursion in the vicinity of U street. Mogridge, Harris and Judge contributed scintillating hits on de. fense, the last turned in his daily quota.of three hits, one more }hln any other pastimer accounted or. l Solve Oldham at Outset. Blue's 1 ng stab of a hot liner from Rice's bat saved Oldham from being scored on in the opener, as Judge was on third the _time through his single and a wild heave stole. But John Cyrus had no such good unéorked by Ainsmith when Josephus ll;l‘ plays, both of o fifth period has won ten and lost five, They’re Still at It DETROIT. Jones, ‘Ainsmith, Oldham, WASHINGTON. Indge, 1b. Rrower, Miller, "1f. Sbanks, 3b! Gharrity, 0 Rourke, Mogridge, p. S R 8l moumunmmug 2l onoonoo Yl pwvmareod ¥l ommiuonoonmiy | misnoornoucs &l onorsousouwny o @l emocntoncpl cosscssormoon Totals . 3 1 *Batted for Holling in ninth. Detroit .. 0001010 Washington ..J0 1 2 11 1 0 Three-base hit—Cobb. Stolen base—Judge. 3 9; Wi 2; aff Mogridge, its—Ofr 223 innings: off Holling. 6 in 313 inniogs. Struck out—By Mogridge, 2: by Holling, 1. Wild pllch—flfll“flr. fi-ed ball—Gharrity. Tosing pitcher—Oldham. Umpires—Messrs. Evans and Moriarty. Time of game—2 hours and 5 minutes. Caught on the Fly Earl Smith has been located. The out- fielder - advised President Griffith by wire today that he would report tomor- row morning, his tardiness being due to bad rpads encountered in motoring from St Louis to his home in Portsmouth, 0. Not content with turning in his daily quota of three bingles, Judge qualified as the india rubber man for a side show with two notaple in- stances of stretching. He speared Brower’s inaccurate peg with one fin tp complete a double play that nipped a Tiger rally in the fourth and saved O’Rourke an error in the ninth, when { he displayed a regular Jack-Dempsey reach in digging a bad throw out of the dirt. Luserne Atwell Blue was garlanded with raspberries by the fans every t{me he appeared at bat—and he's the only honest-to-goodness Washington athlete in either camp. But Lu was unaffected. He got two hits for him- self and turned in & couple of spark- ch robbed Rice safetien fortune in the second, when slashing| «Cobb is manager of the Tigers in saféties to left by Miller and Gharrity, |all the term implies. When Holling with Shanks’ death sandwiched be- tween, netted the fnitial tally of the pastime, and he faded from the pic- ture in ‘the following frame when he ‘was raked fore and aft for a yield of two runs, despite some crafty stuff essayed by T. Raymond Cobb. Judge provided the entering wedge with a whack over sedénd and reach. @ the midway when Harris“shoved a bunt safely past Oldham. Rice’s short fly ‘gavé Cobb the opportunity to at- tempt his piece of strategy. It con- sisted of trapping the ball to achieve & double play, but a momentary fum ble defeated his purpose and he.suc. ceeded only in forcing Judge at third, Bush having no time to toe second be- fore firing to Jones. Brower’s slam to center cashed Harris and sent Rice to third. On Miller's vpounder to Jones 8am was run down on the line, but Shanks cashed Brower with a bang to right end sent Oldham on his ‘weary way to the showers. Helliag Alse Victimised. Carl Holling, who fell heir to the southpaw’s job, called a halt by caus- Ing Gharrity to pop. but was nicked for a in each of the three suc- ceeding sessions. A walk to O'Rourke, Shanks” death, a wild pitch and Judge’'s single dig the business in round 4, when Rice also singled to no avail. Safeties by Miller and Ghar- rity, with Shanks’ suicide, on whigh Flagstead erred, interpolated. was the producing medium in the fifth, and . Brower attended to the work at hand Wwithout assistance in the sixth, when e parked the ball outside the in- closure. , Heilmann' bounder over Shanks’ head. Veach's real single and Flag- sacrifice fly gave the Tigers eir first run in the fourth, and the other aecrued two rounds later, from Cobb’s triple_and another safety by eilmann. Harry was flagged steal- ing, and although walks to Veach dnd Ainsmith and a safety by Jones followed to fill the bases, Holling was url:equl} to the task-of cashing any of them. Threaten Again Only Onmce. Bush, Holling and Blue connected for unsupported singles in other ses. sions, and in the opener two aliens re- corded bingles without either reach- ing second, Blue's single being nulled when Gharrity arrested his effort at thievery, while Cobb's safety was. voided when Heilmann poked 5 force play. On only one aside from the two scoring gessions did the Bengals threaten . Mogridge. This was in the second. when Veach reached the midway on his single and Flagstead's sacrifice. Then Mogridgp himself took & hand in the matter Bv. dashing nearly to the stand to el Jones’ foul. Howard A. French & Co Indian Motor Cycles and Sport Goods entered the fray Tyrus marked off the distance for the younme{- tride from the rubber in making his deliv- eries and then wig-wagged signals to Ainsmith for what to call for. Harris resembled a combination of Johnny Evers and Eddie Collins- in the way he handled slow rollers from Bush and Cobb in the seventh. Stan can snap 'em over The bugs went delirious when Brower sent the ball sailing over the Ford sign on the right-fleld wall in the sixth. Although he has produced all other varieties of bingles in pro- fusion it was the first evidence he has given since coming here of the rea- son for the home run record he estab- lished with Reading in the Interna- tional League last year. If Turkey keeps on at his present gait it will take a flock of derricks to lift him from the line-up. Kirke Gordy, the pitcher from Washington College, ~Chestertown, Md., joined the Nationals yesterday. —_— Win for Eastern Juniors. Eastern Juniors defeated the Ran- a1l Hall Midgets yesterday in a 7- to-4 base ball game. Neither team did much hitting. L Prowe Ut EE PR ET i = suizuu.2hirEiialaEl P L 1" .'-_-SE & TODAY BASE BALL 7224 AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. Detroit Tickets on sale at (] '-n-l: A .{01!.‘".&“‘ " Tickets on sale at Heoht Os.'s, 517 Tth St. ol oscs000cof il cooroonoocosl p——— Complete stock of Rods, Reels, Idines, Hooks, Baits FIRST PLACE AT STAKE Victory Over Tribe Todsy Wonld Give Yanks Lead—White Sox and Browns Score. First place in the American League pennant race depends upon the out- ;‘ame ©of the Yankee-Indian contest in 'e' York today. Rallying in the ninth inning yes ay, the Hugmen scored their second successive victory over the Tribe and advanced to with- in a half game of the pace-setting world champions. It was the fifth ight loss for the Indians. The So: chieved a ten-inning tei- umph over the Athletics in a hard. :l:’!eldlni‘ lllfl:l.yfllllld ltha Browns l.'lll(- n le final inni repulse lhse R‘ed Sox.. S ingles by Meusel, pinch-hitting for Bodie; Baker, Ward and Roth ‘;’IV- the Yankees two runs in the ninth and a 4 to 3 verdict over the In- dians. The decisive tally was made after two were out. The Indians had counted all their runs in the fifth with a batting rally at Hoyt's ex- pense. Uhle was the losing pitcher, but Roth's hit that drove in the win- ning tally was made off Coveleskie. Manager Speaker of the Tribe pro- Tagatead (). | tested the game, claiming that Baker, in the ginth, swung for a third strike before hitting safely. ; Red Faber was a target for Athletic batsmen, but Harris, Hasty, Keefe and Rommel were easy for the White Sox and the latter won, 9 to 7, when three singles and an error produced a tally in the tenth. Home runs were made by Sheely. Welch and Dugan. Singles by Ellerbe and Collins and Pitcher Bayne's double in the ninth netted the Browns enough runs to beat the Red Sox. 2 to 1. Sam Jones, losing pitcher, drove in his club's tally in the fifth. RALLY HELPS PRINTERS Six Runs Tallied in Sixth Inning Pave Way to 8-7 Victory in Departmental League. Slamming Lansdale for six runs in the sixth inning gave Union Print- ers the lead in yesterday’s Depart- mental League engagement, and they went on to_an $-to-7 victory over Post Office. Webb, on the siab for the Printers, had two bad innings, yield- ing three runs in the first and two in the fifth. Hood of the winners got a homer, a triple and a single in five times at bat, and Enderson of Post Office made a homer and two singles in five trials. Bolling Field Aviators, scoring three times in the eighth inning, achieved a 6-to-4 win over the Red Cross nine in the opening game of the Potomac League. Janewits of the Birdmen hit for the circuit. } A. B. Graham Company swam Stand: Oil in a 10-to-3 Industrial Leagus ch.. The winners,hit Bal- singer and Hangett for thirteen safe- fl‘e!. while Vance held the Oilers to six. Elks continmed in their winning stride in _the Fraternal League, beat- ing the Knights of Pythias, 13 to 4. Twelve of the Elks’ tallies were made in the first three innings. Ordnance easily disposed of the Quartermaster Generals in a 10-to-6 War League battle. Martin of the winners made a pair of homers. Western Union defeated Carroll Electric, 7 to 3, in the Commercial League. Three homers were clouted, two by Meinberg of the Telegraphers and another by Smith of the losers. Five tallies recorded in the fourth in- ning clinched the game for the Telegraphers. _ Navy Yard reuted Commerce in a 20-to-2 Government League encounter. Eighteen safeties, ineluding five homers, were swatted by the winners. clinched its hold on second place in the Merchants’ League with an 11-to-9 victory over Swift- & Co. The winners made fourteen hits, against five for the Packers. -- Census nosed out Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing’in a 6-to-5 Colored Departmental League clash. Pearce and Rose clouted circuit hits for the winners. —— Ray Fisher With Outlaws. FRANKLIN, Pa. June 9. — Ray Fisher, former pitcher. for the Cincin- nati Reds, and once-a member of the New York Americans, signed a con tract to play with the Franklin In. dependents, it was announced here to- day. - Fisher recently had been coach- ing the base ball team of the Uni- versity Michigan. fortable sust you could MERTZ & MERTZ Choice of our enormous stock of woolens, every garment made by our experts and guaranteed. - When Summer Comes be Ready With a ' MOHAIR' SUIT —lt is the coolest and the most com- - WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNENQ 1921 the sixth inning yesterday. the ball to Hellmann as the Tiger huried his art te Harry, but he used to play foot ball PIRATES IN' LEAD AGAIN Pittsburgh club maced its way to an easy victory over the Braves, while rain kept the Giants, who were tied with the Pirates for first place. Kle at Cincinnati. The Phillies turned the | Washington, 6; Detroit, tables on the Cubs and the Cards Bfl,{«gt‘hh (:'l";‘l_w;’ % beat the Dodgers. Chicago, 9; Phils., 7 (10 innings) Twenty-five hits for thirty-two bases were registered by the Pirates in defeating the Braves, 16 to 4. Four pitchers were bombarded. In two innings the Pirates batted 5 674 .61 .60 around, getting fifteen safeties in the 18 ‘oo e e third and sixth combined. Bigbee, g g“l_‘ .5';"2' m whitted and Tierney each made four 2 300 11 489 swats. x 13 g2 York and Vaughn were slammed by _ s st the Phils for an 11-to-8 win over the | Philadeiphia . 16 29 355 370 M3 Cubs. Causey and Betts did GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. pitching for the winners. Phila. at Chicago. Phila. at Chicago. Phils made a homer and Rawlings, a teammate, a triple and three singles in f i Grimes got four of the Cubs’ blows. All of the scoring was done in the first inning of the game in which the Cards beat the Dodgers, 4 to 2. Thereafter Pfeffer and Pertica pitched excellent ball. The winners got six hits and the losers five BILL LAMAR GETS EONUS - AND JOINS TOLEDO CLUB | TOLEDO, Ohio, June 9.—Qutfielder Bill Lamar, releaséd recently to To- ledo by the Brooklyn club of the Na. tional League, has signed a two-year contract and will get into the game with Milwaukee this afternoon, Roger Bresnahan’ announcéd today, Lamar refused to report here, but was offered a bonus, according to Bresnahan, and a proniise that his salary would date back to June 1. Lamar was with Toledo in 1918, com: ing here from the New York Ameri- cans. He went to Brooklyn in 1920, after playing part of ‘the season with Louisville of the American Associa.- tion. Pittsbargh, Aztecs southwest. 17:30 o'clock. Lamar is & native of Rockville, Md. Toronto Cans Joe Boehling. TORONTO, June 9.—Joe Boehlin; former Washington pitcher, ha: en released by the Toronto base ball club. He has won only two games for ‘Toronto this season. Babe Ruth, slugzing king whe | spemt a “techuical day” in juil in New York yesterday, man- L from i i Smartly Tailored Suits | To Measure, Special . $99.50 Can't be Dufli-/. : cfed Under $35 = 395 CQ., Inc., 906 F ST. weer; we will ). W_'llat May Happen in Base Ball Today Break First-Place Tie by Beating AMERICAN LEAGUE. 2 . W. L. Pet. Braves, Giants Idle. 2 19 .61 as 22 Phils and Cards Win. | B Hisimemt Solid swatting and fthefeiments Bosten _% % ;E‘i £ ;:‘3"’; combined enabled the Pirates to re- 27 413 426 . gain the lead vesterday in the Na- ‘LSS“T‘N‘-",‘:‘# tional League caampionship race. The Detroit at Wash. Cleveland at N Results of Yesterday’s Games. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Results of Yesterday’s Games. Pladeishiac 117 iadelpt St. Louis, Astec Athletic Club will hold a base ball meeting tonight, at 470 N street Cebh's heavy-heofed gardener pulled the umexpected when he attempted . Pat Gharrity was on the job wi Chicago at Phi St. Louis at Boston. Brooklyn at 8t. Louis. N. Y. at Cincinnati. Boston at Pittsburgh. ‘Brookiyn, 2. New York-Cincinnat! (raia). to Hold Meeting. a perfect peg to Shanks, who is shown 200 pounds of brawa through the air. The hook slide is an unknown Soores High at Singles and Leads \ First place Players are to report at stripped St/ Louis, Philadelphia, Chi- cago, Cleveland and Detroit to get them. But note the difference be- tween New York as party of the first part. and Cleveland and Washington as parties of the second part In winning percentage it is the difference between 742 for New York, .571 for Washington - and .536_for_Cleveland. The margin between New York's win- ning percentage and Cleveland's is only 206 points. How long before she day must come when the big gun will shoot with a bang. denoting sunset for Cleveland, unless, of course, the champions. begin to culti- vate & few prize ears for their own corn exib? . BY JOHN B. FOSTER THE correct way to tell whether a team is playing_championship ball to turn back over the trail and get some figures based on a month’s work. Four weeks will show whether a team is going or coming, as with- ponents. Beginning with the games of May 10, at which time the eastern teams of the American League dropped down on the west to say “howdy” eyes of the fans. ‘When the fan is told that Washing- almost identically as to results since May 10 there may be some scoffer say it is impossible. It isn’'t just the same. From May 10 to June 8, in- thirteen. Cleveland grabbed the bulk of phia, and Washington got its big slice from Cleveland, New York and Meanwhile, between May 10 and June 8, the Yankees won twenty- ? ' is not to gauge ity showing on a single series recently played, but in four weeks the team will be compelled to make the rounds of its op. for the first time this year, things have happened which will open the ton and Cleveland have been playing who will bark out a “pish-tush” and clusive, Cleveland had won fifteen d 1 fifteen from St. Louis and Philadel- Chicago. three games and I eight._They in base ball has index finger and sometim its guide post §r vears. percentage says New York for a month has been winning at the rate 284|of about Six percentage points bet- ter daily than the teams which are immediately its contenders, it begins to look as if some one had walked to the front door and blown the din- ner horn to command attention. That Washington has been .doing as well as Cleveland is another eye opener. Both of them better gety after the Yankees if they hope to celebrate the 4th of July with any enthusiasm. 1f it weren't for the! ten games that Cleveland has won from St. Louis the champions would not be a8 high in the raee as Wash- ington. WAR DEPARTMENT. teal passage to the far Hugmen Close te Top. If the Yankees are not checked they will rumble into first place in the next game played and the long supremacy of the west for 1921 will have ended in the American League. New York and Cleveland are identical in number of games lost and the Yanks have won only one less than 23| the champions. Speaker protested yesterday’s gam on the ground that the umpire did not call a strike on a ball at whicy Baker was alleged to have swung. Baker followed what would have been 3 strike-out, according to Cleve- land's manager, with a safe hit. which was a factor in the Yankees' win- ning the game. It is a protest on an umpire’s judg- ment and opinion, and not one on a misconstruction of the rules, and such protests never have made much hen‘dw:y with the league head. Uhle, who has been the winning pitcher and the mainstay of Cleve- land, was defeated yesterday, and the champions are anything but joyful over the outlook. _Speaker finally has gone back to Wambsganss for second base, retiring Stephenson, the Alabama college man who had done, 50 well for him. *Why do you breald up a winning combination?” some one | asked Tris. He replied with a touch of sadness, “It i ning com- 381 | bination any lon got to find a new one.” OUT-OF-TOWN PIN STARS TO BOWL AT RECREATION Teams from Baltimore and New York will compete against Districy ' bowlers in the annual intercits duckpin tournament; scheduled to get —| under way June 20, on the Recre. tion drives. Eight first-class Balt more quints have filed entries and two fives are expected from Man- 230 | hattan. Entries may be filed with Secr tary Boss or Assistant Secretary Red- mond, at the Recreation. The lists will close next Wednesday at.mid- RENA LEVY TOP BOWLER Bureaus to Team Victory in Women’s Duckpin Tourney. Bowlers of the Washington Ladies’ Duckpin League swept all honors on the Grand Central drives last night at the opening session of the women's annual duckpin championships. Rena Levy, War Risk pip toppler, perform- ing with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing team, scored high at Dgles, with a count of 324 and her 291 was the best total made by the Bureaus when they assumed the lead among teams by bowling 1,350. in the doubles went to Anna McCormack and Mrs. Elsie Ziegler, members of the Money O der team of the Washington Ladies’ League. They scored 595. Yester- day’s scores: BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. Levy Wilding . Gi 92—t278 94217 186535 93284 86—270 179554 88294 70237 sn’'t a ger. 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