The Washington herald., 1917-08-14
Gotham Yankees Are Easy
For Griffith's Nationals
Locals Defeat New York
Club in Free Swatfest,
9 to 5.

Did Jeems O'Day plant the water
melon seed in the Florida pasture, .
was the question asked on all sides
at the Nationals .ballwaek yesterday
afternoon Grin's hired men sure ng-
ured on IL being somewhere near wa
termelon time, as they just handed
the New York Yankees the lambast-
ing of their. young lives and won a
battle that will long De remembered
by local fandom-
The Nationals just stepped into the
slants OF Bill Donovan's selection of
pitchers and tailed enough up TO
count a s-to-S victory. From the way
the Nationals slaughtered Bill Dono-
vans heavy curvers II was sure wa
terTnelen time for local fandom. as
fourteen real base whacks, many for
extra bags were rung up against the
Gotham tribe.
The bat work OF Joe Judge, Clyde
Milan and Eddie Foster were the
main faetvrs in the Nationals victory.
Harry Harper. the junk dealer from
Hzckensack. N. J., admitted after
feur sessions that the route was a
bit too lengthy and George Du Mont.
Of Fargo fame, finished out the route.
While Donovan's slashlng Yankees
were ripping open Harper's delivery
the Nationals were playing a regu-
lar tattoo on Ray Fishers slants- The
Vermont schoolmaster did not have
anything in his assortment of twisters
that could fool Griff's clouting clan
and Rube Schoker, of spit ball fame.
was called in to do the rescue act
at the termination Of the second ses-
sion. But Rube failed in his efforts
as our crew just hammered him as
much as Fisher and Nick Cullop, of
the southpaw sJants, finished out the
route after the sixth session.
The way that Grin-s crew went
to Fishers delivery would mark them
up among the worlds champions in
stead of a trailing aggregation. After
Judge had gone down. Howard Shanks
looked over four wide ones and moved
to second on Milan's clout to CEN
ter field. Rice then forced Clyde
at second base. but Fatima Foster
came through with a telling punch for
two bases to right field, and Shanks
tailed. Rice going to third on the
play. Morgan followed with a double.
scoring Rice and Foster. and Mike
Menoskey could not see any of his
teammates stranded. so he tripled to
the right garden. and four tallies
we're checked up for the Nationals.
In the second session a hit by Judge
and a crack in the ribs for Shanks,
coupled with Pipp's error. added an
other tally to the handicap that the
Nationals were awarded, but Dono-
vans crew with an error and a slash
drive by Pineh-hitter Walters only
netted one run.
II was one. two, three for the Ma
tionals in the next session. but Har-
per wcs compelled to throw up the
sponge in the fourth session. when
three hits, a stolen base and an error
by the lengthy southpaw netted the
Gothamites three tallies.
1t was here that Griffith changed
his pitchers. and George Du Mont,
the Fargo Express, allowed but four
hits and one run for the route of
this swatfest. Grif's gang was
slightly peeved when they came to
the bat in the fourth session, and they
just hammered out a quartet of tai
lies to show the Yankees that their
batting work was still in sTatting
order.
Leonard, hitting for Harper. singled
to right field. and Judge followed
with a blow to left. Milan then
crashed to center and the bases were
loaded. but Rube Schocker offered a
little generosity and cut loose a wild
heave on which Leonard and Judge
dented the PAN Milan, the batter,
crashed to center field and went to
third On Rice's single to the infield.
Foster then pushed one through the
crowded inner works and two more
tallies were across the dish.
Henry's double in the fifth and Mi
lan's single in the sixth. along with
Judges infield hit in the eighth. all
went for naught, as the punch was
not forthcoming. and the Nationals
could not add to their total. The
score:
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