Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1924, Page 24

o 4 SPORTS. THE EVENING ST. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1924. SPORTS. Title Now Is Within Grasp of Nationals : Fine Catching Assured in World Series ONLY BAD FORM REVERSAL | George Mogridge Was a Rah-Rah Boy Before He Reformed | RUEL BEST IN BUSINESS, IV.—George Anthony Mogridge. CAN ROB THEM OF BANNER BUT HIS AIDS ARE WEAK With Yankee in Cleveland, Griffs Invade Chicago Holding Two-Game Advantage Over New Yori. Zach and McNeely Star Agai BY JOHN HICAGO, September 22—Two the Nationals stand in their | American C League char remarkable form reversal can bring representati Manager St ctub would achicve its goal—that of flag in organized base ball history—i ter New Yorker on even ns with the 10t be stopped in their run to o0d cnough to match the at is all from now or an e pennan e Naticna the erday t s their > in lead | Goth- | Detroit Now All But Out. urday her probubly veteran then, but it and o his and McNeely Star. much to last uthpaw while Mc- | starred on paths and afeld. helped considerably his third th virt base the Browns but | ven frames and kept Cthe se of th have h them lows. itout in had Um- favor of third appears obertson for | frame after tak- | . but owens followed. bettered by | otal at the time, but Goslin's homer in the next frame evened matters, and McNeely by a daring bit of base running that in- | volved traveling to third on an infield out b ahcad in the sixth McNeely & starred in the seventh when he dashed from | left center to ri t center for a re- arkable catch of Pinch Batter Hank vere s long fly The clout ap- peared good for at least two bases when it left the bat, and likely would have scored Wa Gerber, who was on first, but ad McNeely grab- | bed it for the t out of the day. in t trird out of the throw frc and fou block Nationa 1 Griffs Rout Jinxman Davis. The Bucks were called upon to face | their arch-en Dixie Davis, but he | so puzzling as on former oc- casions. They slammed him safely in each of the seven innings, accumulat- ing a dozen hits all told ery man National line-up except Peck into the hit column, Judge| leading the 1ot with a double and a brace of singles In addition to their free hitting, the put a lot of smart base Wall their last game of the vear the Browns. playing like rehl wpions before the appreciative Louis fans The first scorinz came inning that McNeely opened triple to left-center. Harris bhut Jacobson so deep that McNeely scored and Rice took sec- ond. Judge's single to center tallied Bucks into with chat st vith a fanned. Rice walked and Goslin flied to i | in the third | | | ter the catch | Wo were out when a run was put + across in the fourth. Peck grounded to erber, but Ruel bunted toward | third and got to first base ahead of | Robertson’s throw After Zachary fanned, McNecly strolled. Harris then lifted a Texas League single to right to get Ruel home. Browns Take Lead in Fourth. The Browns, who had been able to reach Zachary for only one single, went to the front in the fourth. With Tobin out of the way, Robertson beat out a roller to Peck in deep short. Sisler scratched a single to Bluege. Robertson stopping at sec- ond. Williams flied to McNeely and Robertson dashed for third after the catch. He came in standing up and it seemed that Peck, who had grabbed Harris' relay of Earl's heave, had the runner tagged out, but the umpire’s ruling favored the Browns. Then Zachary wild-pitched Robert- son home and Sisler to second, and McManus' single tallied the Browns' manager. Jacobson pushed the ball into the left-field bleachers for the circuit and the Browns, with a quar- tet of markers, were ahead. In the Bucks' fifth Goslin lost no time in tying the court by smashing pionship Harris not so lor Is will Nationals | | nipped | a topped ball that | frame the ball into the right-field stand for a home run. Judge followed with a single, but the ne%t three Nationals were easy outs. Then McNeely's Browns. B. KELLER. up and seven to play. That is how sig contest with the Yankees for the An about it seems that only a most the defeat of Washington's i the drive toward the pennant o expressed his belief that his getting the National Capital its first into the Windy least and all his men be- I'hey are not over Yankees game for I'here is a great be determined 1d the Yankees f it got Today City at Harris title d to do. winner for 1924 wi 1 be B n 4 ASHINGTON L] 3 E. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gerber egn. © Davis. Sevareid* Bl suasissnued Bl aounovans Zlorcarronod el ornnmcons> Totals *Batted for Rego Washington St. Louis Two-base hit—Judge. ely, Home runs—Jacoby Stolen bases—Bluege. Judge lin. Bluege Peck to Harms. Harri Left on bases—Was) Base on balis—Off Struck out—By Zachar pitches—Zachary. U and 43 minutes. 0 0 to Judge. 1. same—1 hour \ Sisler whip- b The a good throw s was wild and plate the on to their Bucks the sev round w and Blue bat. Jud was 50 clos: er bunted that ball, had a ¥ at first | nd when e blow Mudds t was the | cad ross d the ter sprinte to th o Tart CAUGHT ON THE FLY Your more for the Bucks mean the Yanks must win all of their seven games to take the flag wins Bluege made « sensational one- hand stop of Sisler's grounder in the | first inning and threw out the batter. Williams narrowly escaped serious injury when he tried to get to Mc- Neely's triple in the third frame. The Brown left fielder fell over the metal drum on which the infield canvas is recled and bruised his legs severe Judze robbed Davis of a seemingly sure hit in the fifth when he jumped to his left, scooped up the pitcher's sizzler and beat the batter to first streak now has He got his bingle ixth inning. It was neither Robertson nor Davis could get o in time for a retiring throw. Rice's hitting reached 28 game: vesterday in, the In the sixth inning McNeely ran almost to second base to get Rob- ertson’s looper. He juggled the ball a moment, but did not drop it. ‘Judge and Bluege pilfered second. Judge made his steal in the fifth after Bluege and Peck had been un- able to sacrifice. Bluege's steal was a delayed one made in the second while Davis was holding the ball. POTOMACS PLAY TODAY. Washington Potomacs of the East- ern Colored League, halted by rain vesterday, hoped to open their threc game scries with the Baltimore Blac Sox today at 3 oclock in Griftith adium MATTER of cight days kept George Anthony Mogridge in A professional base ball. Itrwas just that long between the last pay day for the Galesburg club and the | day George’s pal from boyhood was | relcased by the club. And George necded the money those days That was in the Spring of 1911 when George and his pal went from their home town of Rochester, N. Y. to alesburg, 111s; ugreed that if cither 1 led to make the professional g the other would quit the busine with him. The work of Georg | pal did not satisfy the manager the Ce a4l Association outfit and | drew a releuse When George learned of it, he no tified th management he wa “through whereupon the manag: [ ment notified George he would b | stuck for cight days salary if th, | was so. George quickly caleuluts the amount needed for railroad fur the 1,000 miles back to Rochester a: | —he has been in organized base bi :(\IV}I"A!‘ i Was Grade School | t Galesburs job was the | Mogridge tackled in the professio: rinhs, but he had been buz | around dismonds since childhood. 1 ‘\\ s« born in Rochester, February 1| |18 and even in tho days 1 ensely popular there, six years old when he ! 1 his way into the pitch position with an eclementary sch | nine and at the age of 10 he hur a two-hit game against a rival schos tenm. According to the pitcher though. all the opposing batters wer. left-handed, A few ycars later, George was scur around with other boys of hi hborhood, raising fun for uni for a club that in a few was able to take the measur: all other juvenile teams in R r. Georg had made such for himself as a pitcher that 16 years old he was gned by © Labels, @ semi-professiona um representing a company that arketed a product afterward taboo- Box Star. fir Iwas imn | was bar left-hand ryin Their Rivals Solved Problem. The Blue Labels’ great rivals were Flower City Athletics, they clash- cquently in Sunday games in and | about Ilochest and when George | pitehed against the Flower City crowd. he usually gave it a sound rubbing. At last, the Flower City realized the only way to over Blue Labels was to get off that mine and that it ing him the following sea Then the Flower City nine beat | the Rlue Labels for the Championship f Rochester. About that time Rochester Uni- ty needed a4 good southpaw fling- George was pressed into ser- He was a varsity slabman two and during term Rochester enjoved considerable success on the diamond. Then George got a bid from | Galesburg and joined that club in the early part of 1911. | “The White Sox took burg in midseason and later sent to Milwaukee of the American ociation, retaining an option on He came back to Chicago, only ids er an viee Gale him " | to be sold to Des Moines of the West- ern League, where he pitched in 1914, | The Yanks acquired the lanky south- paw the next year and he remained with them until just before the pen- nant epidemic hit New York. Came to Capital in 1921, Manager George McBride brought him to Washington in 1921 and the Rochester portsider has been travel- ing at a good rate since, especially against the Yankee clubs managed by Miller Huggins. Mogridge, widely known as the “smiling southpaw,” becaus of the grin he invariably wears, pitches as much with his head as his arm. He is an adept at “getting the goat™ of a batsman by compelling him to wait for unduly long periods between de- liveries He has learned that an overanxious hitter is the easiest to dispose of. (This is the fifth of a series of articles about the Nationals, whose semsational work has been the outstanding feature .| of the 192; season.) RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES The week's major league totals of games won and lost, hits, errors and opponent’s runs and home rums, in- cluding games of Saturday, follow: AMERICAN LEAGU W. L. R. o 2F PRI Chicago. . ... adelphia. Washington.. New York. Detroit. Boston. ... St. Louis. Cleveland NATIONAL LEAGUE. L. R. H. E.OR. a1 4 - LT LY Pittaburgh. Chicago .. New York. Cincinnati Brooklyn . St. Louis. Philadelphia. Boston vonwaantd FRENERNE HERE IS ALL THE DOPE IN BOTH MAJOR RACES By the Associated Press. HE Yankees die gamely as the stretch on the road, playing t vital which was lacking in the Ya; game lead. The Griffmen, game to play, can cinch the penhant with only seven lose one and still or lose two and HOW GRIFFS ARE HITTING . 8B. RBL Pot. = 500 342 ‘341 37 a1 a23 317 318 207 204 283 284 217 271 264 285 233 Lefler Goslin . Martina . Rice ... McNeely Judge Tate . Johnaon . Leibold Russell Ogden Ruel Bluege . : Harris . 127 522 143 Taylor ...... 24 70 19 Peckinpaugh 147 507 134 Zachary . .... a8 Shirley .. 73 Miller .. 10 Mogridge o7 Hargrave 33 56 14 28 13 21 69 46 14 482 137 105 @cz23cs0nubalieosasehn Bafid8es8350 sacia 164 Nationals fight to live. In the final he same number of games with the same teams at exactly even odds, Washington has had something nkee attack, and has earned a two- tie the Yankees. even if the latter win their remaining seven games. Detroit could tie Washington only by wining all of its games while the Na- tionals lost all of thers. The National League race is at- tracting interest even from the sen- sational American struggle as Pitts- burgh, pivotal figure in the present triangle, meets New York in a three- game series. The Pirates have fought their way to within one and one- half games of the Giants by taking two of three from Brooklyn—losing by a narrow margin yesterday in a ten-inning fray by a score of 2 to 1. The Giants were shut out by the Cubs, 3 to 0, in the only other Na- tional League game. 1f the Pirates win all of their re- maining games they cannot be head- ed by either Brooklyn or New York, as McKechnie's team has three more games to play than Brooklyn, which it trails by one game, and two more than New York. By winning two of theee from the Giants and capturing its five remain- ing contests, Pittsburgh could still beat the Giants if the latter won their three games with Philadelphia and also would outpoint the Robins if Brooklyn loses onme of its five games to play, George from | g =1 \ T (2 = == UTTLE GEORGIE WAS A STAR S0UTH- PAW EVEN AT THE TENDER AGE OF SIX. T 2 = 190 / £ 7 X V'L DOCK YOu : EIGHT DAYS Py . SO WORK OR. /}/ = M RAISING FUNDS FOR I;Ni FORMS. CHIP IN%W IST” MIGHT DECIDE RoosT DO | EVER G and Dodgers Both 1| WEAR THE CHING the leaguc that catchers in our the players of There clubs str races so season t the two cxceptions, this season. and the Wally Schang liant old fellows have of six w HE LEARNED the racc EARLY HOW © GET, THEMALE. De 34 of his profession with a split finger RAH Y RAHTY ROCHESTER! | SEORGE 15 A REFORMED RAH' RAH! BOY. HE TOOK A COURSE IN ACOUSTICS AT ROCHESTER. UNIVERSITY AND SOUTHPAWED ON THE VARSITY NINE AS A LITTLE SIDE LINE. part Ath % “THE ROCHESTER. RAMBLER QUIT HIS FIRST PROFESIIONAL JOB,BUT CHANGED HIS MIND QATHER THAN WALK 1000 MILES HO- == Jo WORLD SERIES TO START OCT. 4; PRICES ARE FIXED n Washington on Saturday, Octo- Is retain the advantage they now hold unless a tie in the National League HE world series of ber 4, provided over the New Y necessitates a play-o This was definitely decided yesterday at a meeting in New York of the club representatives o leading teams with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis The first, second and sixth will be played in the League city and the third, fifth in the National Le Games will be played on 1 open ames ) pavilion, bleachers, $1; all re- served except the bleachers. The big concrete stand extending from the left cld line across to center field will come der the pavilion classifica- days, the teams traveling tio the only bleacher scats being If a'seventh game is necessary, the|those to be erectad in center field owners of the two contending teams | east of where the scoreboard stood. will meet and toss a coin to determ Prices will be the same this year in which city the deciding cont last if the games are playved in will be held. All world series games | New York. Box seats will be $6, will start at 2 o'clock, Eastern stand- | lower grandstand. reserved, $5; upper ard time. ®randstand, unreserved, $3; mezza- If either league race cnds in a tie|nine, in the Yankee Stadium, $3, and the President of the leazue in which | bleachers, $1. the tie exists will call the owners of | If Brooklyn gets into the series the tied teams together to arrange|Prices will be: Box seats, $6; lower for a series of three games to de- | 8tands, §5; upper stand, $3; left field, ternine a winner. In the event this| $2, and bleachers, §1. All seats ex- is necessary, the dates for the world | cept bleachers will be reserved. series will have to be changed | For games in Pittsburgh prices will New York and Washington in ”"!h(' Box seats, $6; first seven rows in Ameriean League and Brooklyn, New | (he lower stand and entire balcon York and Pittsburgh in the National | $5: remainder of, the lower stand, 34 League were reprosented at the meet- | [ERt and left feld stand ing. Detroit was not represented eachers $1, all reserv s 1o ented. | hicachers owing to the fact that the Tygers| The price quoted in each instance virtually are out of the running. | The s”»hcdule hiceit e ny ans|Rze exclusive of the customary 10 nual classic was made out and other | BT Cent war tax. which, of course, details prelimina to the big «rryrs‘m:” mustibe b were discussed. Thdse in attendance, incluged Bawara 1 tynon. it sec.| TEN TEAMS TO BOWL IN REVENUE CIRCUIT retary of the Washinzton club; Bar- Ten téams will make their bow in ney Dreyfuss, president, and S. L. the opcning games of the Internal | Watters, secrétary, of the l"nuburfihi Pirates; Col. Jacob Ruppert, nrem-‘ | Revenue Duckpin Bowling League to- ht at 6 oclock in the King Pin dent, and Edward Barrow, secre- tary, of the New York Yankees: Charles H. Ebbets, president, and Stephen McKeever, treasurer, of the|alleys Brooklyn Robins: James J. Tierney. Tonight's schedule follows: secretary, and Judge Francis X. 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