Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1922, Page 22

22 ‘SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1922.- _SPORTS. Peckinpaugh’s Work Is Silencing His Critics : Wabbling of Indians Upsets Dope RAJAH STARRING AFIELD AND IMPROVING AT BAT Erickson Handicapped by Wildness and Poor Sup- port in 4 to 3 Victory Scored by Faber at Bene- fit With President as Spectator. Y BY H. H. FRY. UST a few words about Roger Peckinpaugh, the brilliant shortstop J of the Gr . whom the fans were razzing a short time since when he was going bad. Peck was certainly off to a poor start, but when it is cons ed that he was shifted from a pennant-winning team to one with only a ice of landing the flag, it is but natural to believe that his ocked and he was possibly brooding over his hard luck. s Chicago victory over the Griffs, 4 to 3, which was a n's Hospital, and at which President and Mrs. Hard- |, among the distinguished spectators, Peck drove in ns scored by the locals and also handled all his chances ing wes two ot in b : a star with the Yankees, he was a great favorite (the fight for the 1922 championship of the American League, notwith- LOFTY PERCH OF MACKS ALSO PROVIDES SURPRISE| Can Be Beaten Out in Race After All BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, May 23.—At no time during the season of 1921 did the N Cleveland team drop to a level so low in the fight for the cham- pionship as that to which it has sunk on its present eastern trip. For Cleveland even to touch a step so lowly as that of sixth place indi- | cates how great the changes that are taknig place in the early days of { | standing the prevailing opinion in many quarters prior to the beginning | of the year that Cleveland and New York would be the contending teams all of the way. Another fact quite as extraordinary as that of the precarious condi- tion of the Cleveland crait for the moment is the fact that the Athletics have been climbing steadily for two weeks and have reached third place | inning strugg: | their NO. T FOR RUTH PAVES WAY FOR YANK VICTORY EW YORK. May 22—Rabe a . <3 . 0 | has be his belated 1822 home-r Giants Are Shaky and Sprawling and National c;,r;mva:f‘ Hia frat circutt. iow of the s=eason starte Yar ™ Leaguers Now Think That Perhaps New York | nas s ialy that ved the scor o with the St. Louis Browns in teenth, 4 to 3 Camp Skinne is earning a hitter, knocked a single, and J; ing aided in the New Yorker: . the most Yankee recrult, w n as a pin tying run wit season. Cooper's 5-0 v phia put in the Nation fielding costing its runner-up pos As the Gi natl's stell fourth str Pirates are close o aders. The third extra. dny was halted the Athletics an 7 {nning battle of th e ) 3 ) : at §-5. Fo ¢rs. and when the Griffs made their first appear- this year, something they niever attained during the season of 1921 Thie aens ons of & ; e I'olo Grounds Peck was cheered to the echo and Beginning just about this date th inside to Ruth, but not quite enough | Clark of Detrol in th nock the cover off the ball. e and whenever the lon the inside. runs and tyvin sank to elghth 1 He half grooved the roll was called for the wounded or |hall. That won't do. The ball must|cresiand. ard ot missing at the end of the weck the |Snip the corner of the plate to be| pirting, subd Whe: Philadelphia ant would respond | T effective and it must be drop- | Brooklyn, d \ i all present and accounted for at the | Ping and not sailing on a line | dence of a « bottom of the list. The second extra inning game of | cago, Dazzy V . predicted this spring that the | the ser was played by the Browns | (, rour hit Athletics would find more of tf nd the Yan and the Browns | e e 7 | selves this year than they haa thé) AORCHLL B8 ey 00 the nther Tt SODRIERN ASSOTEATEON open to ol With two on in the fourth, the veteran gardener tapped a triple to right, with the result depicted above, where | Jast two seasons, coffers/would | Shers 8! HOChIoE, 0. e retractedl ; Lo = is youns 0| Schalk is shown watching Sheely follow him to the counting station, putting the Gleasonites in the lead, where uu-yx;;g,‘d":,;“h'}"““,h”h" e hema mg;;\;.,m,,,x,i,,m.m,, Tartor: | ghain, 7 2 N o | stayed to the finish loftier perch or are sha ot ; Giants Are Slipping Fast. ke £0=: New G : 3 9 have earned more distinction than any | The Glants are shaky and sprawl- INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. 4 4 team of chronic tailenders with which | ing. 11 thei e ta Syracuse, 9: Rochester, 5 31 I D I E 4‘ l E ‘ AMF Philadelphia_has been pester: ey ey o Sin "i.,',',‘f,’,;,:‘fgl Oniy_ game e £ o . 4 long time. For the first time vay in the stewpan of the west |T———— e, years they are a real third in th, they another western city to e : ol " Outside the agy :¥ might not even come home Judge, 1b.. 7y o that the St. Louis t in the lead. Cincinnati is booming Brower, rf. 4 of | recognize 4 % like a Texas town sitting over Satisgaction ¢ 4 o iy e e i n oil w The Giants can't break or Money can circuit are the inability of even on the trip. Two defeats in § nd to | ick near the top and the | Louls, two in Chicago, one in Pitts- Central High School's nine will en- of Philadelphia to be anchored | burgh and two in Cincinnati out of El' ] H SEASON long-game record for sandlot base ball circuits was estab- lle(f'\xix\ the Baltimore I'ul:rl:‘r'!ln’ In- alllhe,hollmv‘:. ’l;h..l'[ q heap fi.ri.m n gomes includes seven lickings. lmlnatlng > e e 2 ‘lass nines | SUtute team tomorrow afternoon in|only six weeks of a championship race. | They have won four games and navent el lished yesterday when Mount Vernon and Vaughan Class nines | he usant atadium, beEINC| ew Boce oo mambienship race.| They have won four games and haver't Competition went through twelve innings in the Sunday School League. Mount '(v'*'!“ k‘ 1;!1“:4’ Ruth has made No. 1 home run m{‘.n Ht with the west, and gossip is p hita— | < : A e contestants s - 1 oF | e, c o cire atio 2. Gt Y | Vernon took the contest, 12 to 11 The match was hotly fought all the i came. must b | the season of 1923, " Vangfider of St | PEEIAINE 1o circulats in the Natlonal Double plays = i = - i A o ca. | Louis was the c! ering v o | 1ot S hy o Jotmaon to 'Coliins way. Each club tallied in the early innings, but Moune Vernon forged | somited in fime o, permie the, ot was " N Sliieris ) = artor | et can be,beaten out after all ot . y. I v { o det corps dril start o'cloc " 2 am the; s vright, 1922.) e ahead in the sixth. Vaughn came back with four tallies to take the lead | The “Hditimorsans “Have "' * supatte | Kuth did it, not because of tie home | G SOk o o Fa : A iyt 1ok ate sdvantage i pxE Yacei A O~ nine this vear, so Central probably 3 v ve been unchart- < Seruck '“”;x;r:“;,.‘ in the sev ‘hi‘(”-\ n]h e it .u].\ n]v.« 1] the ultxt‘milJ:{n.‘ \ "\m U el Bave e e wg table to put & pi r on the bench| Navy Yard vemquishea Post Office.| her (Ghatrity) rally by Vaughn tied the score in the ninth inning, and each club got a |V Datten endl of thalcount | merely because Ruth had made one |11 to 8, in the Colored Departmental | d and runner across the plate in the eleventh. rn and k. are making | BOMe run, but for reasons of strat League. Douglas of Navy Yard hit| hours and 10 mi ek e dner e vedlbat angilder pitched low and on the ' for the circuit for Mount Vernon and Rodman ch team, Minter and Bowen performing and_ Sparks for Vaughn., Minter, who appea in the annual | championship | worked the first cight innings for his team, fanned eleven batters and rnoon on Central's| 5 | ) g ! S ! erners, undefeated \ , fvins| | FROM THE LIONS' DEN | |made three hits in as many trips to the plate. Sparks crashed into the | Hnty The fVesterners undeteared in| | ROQKIE PHENOM OF THE WHITE SOX i —— hit column with 3 homer. start Hair on the slab stern in- 7] Ly I, it column » T T Cp— i Rteom e WHO WILL OPPOSE GRIFFMEN TODAY tsens BROWNS’ BOSS OPPOSES ! and commercial mounen hus | T e 3 Toputaion for Mime: the sandlotters greatly. ht and President Harding never looked all games go the regula-| Tech's hig tenm has a game a T the leflivetter in his life, and is to be con- HAVING FANS ON FIELD GEa ["“ E2menIBY ‘:‘P",")"“ Alban’s t fternoon. Play w = 00| gratulated on the sivle of summer To moxt magnates the xight of | 07 Nine innings now and the boys|g The junior S [1id he has see:tected an overflow crowd with it at- | have plenty of time to continue play was de d. 9 to 8§, AoRE === b flice richex ix a thi to break deadloc Y. CA ¥, School in a i clean single (0] The fiest lady of the land scemed g el ol i X ten-inning encounter. The Y bovs d_Goslin sco to enjoy every innin' of the scrim-| p % e ynx, = R tied the score in the when il Harris was walked: | mage” “Others in the roval inclosure | :,:',f:,_‘,’_ Batl, owner ol the Browas Scoring twice in the eighth Inning. | Guenc doniie bases. | L the E were Gen. C G. Dawes, Mr. and | tirely unpopulated. Annex No. 1 beat Registers, 5 to 4, in | Trebain, ¥ hurler, ed eight bat- Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy, Mrs. ke to see n real ball game | the Treasury League. Hammerly and | 1ers. The victors im the junior Horace H. Wescott, Mrs. Frederick ot 0 gnme when short files to | o 5 e | Scholastic title, having beaten West- 1|.|r.‘r1» ¢ and Mr. and Mrs. George | i fall among specta- x i 4 @ winners made three | or; Y poys and Mount Vernon. { Christian. tors and two-base hits? | Bits h. : | anserts nagnate. “It = Busineas High easily defeated Gon- Masters Baker, en and Creecy | " Lidr n would x if the powers Shipping Board ensily disposed of | zaga vesterday, 21 to 5. Styles, on MecClellan | and little Mi Price and Shea, Who | that be Inid down a rule forbidding | Army Ordn Federal | the mound for the Stenographers, Judsge apd | done the Aower presentin’ to MAnagers | fams on the field zue engs mmy Deg- | struck out fourteen batsmen. Lo was| Milan and Gleason were introduced to h three clouts in five effc e s | the President by Griff, as was Johnny s the slugging star of the fra svers of the Sox. by h STATISTICS OF MAJORS Station to 1, in Naval atha Air crushed the Potomac the 0ld Bill Gleason might be a bit YANKEE A, C. HITS HARD < | PKS | rusty in the joints, but when it cuit, Weldy, Navy hurler, held the = ng of | comes to the bokay Stuff there ain't Leviathans to four safeties | AMERICATEAGIES run would {5 roo in the pastime that can s H Win. t Was antouch the noted Swede. Some smils un rally in the sixth inning 00 has Wiliyum! Transportation to down 51 fourth and m, 10 to 7, in the Ter- | P und, when Lion George Emmons scored big R. Y. M. C. A. Morning 455 as a auctioneer. Four-hundred bucks | Yankee ietie Club did somfe Both teams hit savagely {for two autographed pills ain’t so|heuvy I in wi double- - {worse! Albert D. Lasker, chairman | headir from the the Van | Treasury swamped Agriculture un- of the Shipping Board, coughed up |Courtiands. Twen der a 13-to-1 count in the Depart- GAMES TOMORROW. $200 for one, while Leroy Vernon of |registered by th £ zue. The winners made Wash, at New York Chicago New: let go a equal|{them being made of cond Baseman Tingle Detroit at Phila. | amount for the other! Mister Ver-|land hur! In the 8-to-4 f them, Clevy non musta heeded H. Greeley's ad- over the Van Courtlands, Buss H == d ivice and hit for the west when the |man, Yank third-sacker, clouted two | and = Quartermasters d | hittin® was propitious! homers, while Figalo of the Y. A. C. warm battle in_the War with the former winning, 5 rkins of the victors got a double and two singles in three trips to the plate. slammed for win over th he circuit in the §-to-5 Her Loaded down with peanuts, raisins v and popcorn about 100 boys from St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum sure enjoyed Tou's, 3 (13 innings) 1adelphia, 5 (11 innings, T called, ratn). Peerleas Athlew.c Club will hold a a double pla |the game as guests of the Lions. |reorganization meeting tomorrow — | Sheely. and t | Thret cheers for the bird who sug.|might at 8 o'clock at 1119 5ih sirect | Railway Mafl Service almost won a | NATIONAL LEAGUE. | | gested this mo northeast. Several members may be|game in the Tpr"‘fl“lfll R. R. Y. M. C. on Harry dropped from t Peerless roster. A. League when it rallied in the sev. New York able speed ! Oh, yes, Caleb O'Connor was there! enth Jnning and scored three times, Pittsburgh the ball | As were Lions Bill Craig, George| Premier Athleue Club recorded its | but Union Station profited by its early | &1 Lot the sixth, | Lewls, Si Hourne, and (harlin Darr!|SIXth stralght victory ina 9-to-1 game | lead and triumphed, 7 to 6. The losers | ( : per hit a|Gracious, didn’t you hear 'em! with the Pirates wman - pitched | outhit the winners, twelve to eight. | Ginciunati e e Fon well for the winne roc 43 : ; 5 & idea how tempus has S General Accounts defeated Com- ! Philadeiphla : 2 SESRT A T T it Taonoss nadnt,"a2| White Haven Athletie Club pointed | merce, 3 to 1, in the Government oir L) T & = 2 the way to the in an eleven- uit. oth ams walloped the ball, GAMES TOMORROW. SRS | told who Johnny Evers was when the elongated blonde was coachin’ at first. Remember when “Tinker to Evers to s a feature irning 10-t0-9 5 igon’s single with the bases loaded d; sided the us- . The White Havens have not bee; but sensational fielding kept the score low. CHARLIE ROBERTSON.- This graduate of the Minneapolis Club of the American Association pro- Boston at St. Louls. N. Y. at Cincinnati. AOS~ETZENNaR 2. ~ " Phila. at Pittsburgh. L lamming out &|Chance” was the battle cry of thejaociated this season and want more| A Commercial Lemgue slugfest be- vided one of the sensations of the current campaign by preventing a single Goub! Goslin fielded his | republic. i R elenhone il o o : Bahor & Rose ane Cerii : 4 e e Position g all of his fomes. Teloplionis challsiges to R 1. | tweeniuBarber/s Hioss| ant iCamroll) player from reaching first base in a game against the Tygers recently. He is four ch them a sen-| The ball amtographed by the charh- | (RCSIRASl MOG SO0, branch 90| Blectrlo tront 10 tors omached a ari- Booked to face Milan's men in the final of the series with Chicago, starting : gl Betn L : oun er 4 C sed t bat down a ng over the|Tacoma, Wash. Mister Hansen slip- 1 ,,:%the Brightwoods, 8 to 7, with a | €S & 2 fielde ped it to his son Bob, and Robert, | civentun rally in the ninth inning —— like a regular little warrior, give the i Gharrity and Peck | sphere over for the benefit of the | aams Neimine chonly enis, Wb led play Johnson. | Children's Hospital. Now, one cheer | J,0omis, Mount Rainier, Md., or tele- oas ”nxlhr‘:]g for Robert! phone Hyattsville 381. chen a dou Pat threw to Triangle Athletic Club Juniors of runk, and when Seat Pleasant lanke the Mohawk nome, Roger shot| | HOW GRIFFS ARE HITTING | |353iore 2% 6. "Staats. winning herr: ck so fast and accurately er, fanned twelve batters. teuched the plate hough he made a desporate ] AB. 3 Diamond Athletic Club overcame the to reach it. The President i\{«nmn FRIE Eastern, 5 to 4. Widmayer and O'Don- S a in the hearty applause. R, 140 41 38 nell batted heavily for the victors. 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