The Washington herald., 1917-07-25
JOHNSON'S PITCHING
TOO MUCH FOR TRIBE
Smoke Ball" King Shows Old Time
Form in Beating Indians.

Foxey Griffs downtrodden Nationals
handed Lee Fohrs pennant contend
ing Indians from the Sixth City yes
terday afternoon at the Florida
Avenue park. Grifrs hired men
coupled q little inside baseball along
with q timely swat and trimmed
Cleveland 2 to 1 in one Of the best
pitching duels that has been witness
ed at the local balliwick this season.
Lee Foil JstiIl insists that his In
dams are IN the running for the old
bunting In the American League race.
and IN order not let anything
slip by he sent his best bet, Stanley
Coveleskie to the firing line in the
opening battle OF a six-game series.
Stanley sure performed his part Of
the afternoons ceremonies in a credit
able manner. as two blows was the
allotment that he handed the Ma
tionals.
Sammy Rice's crash to the right
field wall followed by a long sacrifice
fiy by Howard Shanks proved the un-
doing OF a perfect evening for young
Coveleskie, as opposed to the big
Pole" was the Nationals big
Swede."
Not since the opening game Of the
season. in Philadelphia, has Walter
johnson shown as much stun as he
handed out to FohPs tribe yesterday.
The big smoke had his curve ball
doing all sorts of stunts and rarely
was compelled to put full speed on
his fast one.
After the opening session, 1t was
just a case of too much Johnson" as
the Kansas cyclone held the visitors
at bay during thes remaining innings,
Joe Harris obtaining the last blow
on him in the second. Due to an err
ror by Howard Shanlxs, in the fourth.
an Indian reached the initial sack.
but the old one, two, three order was
the new bill Of fare served the tribe
by the smoke ball king.
Johnson got away bad in the first
frame. Jack Graney looked over four
wide ones and was safely perched
on the midway cushion by Ray
Chapman's neat sacrifice: The mighty
Spoke" Speaker then allowed his
big bat to have a little bit to say
in the evenings battle, by polling
q sharp grounder between Leonard
and Shanixs. Graney was well under
way when Speaker clouted and hao
easy romping to the plate as Menos-
key failed to make a play on him.
Bobby Roth sent Speaker up a pes
by low bridging Walter Johnson.
Both runners took advantage of a
little of Van Wrinkle mapping that
johnson and Ainsmith were having
between them and pulled a double
steal, but their efforts on the paves
went all for naught as the Big
Swede" frightened up and fanneo
wamby and Moon" Harris. wamby
protested so strongly on UmpirS
Tommy Connelly's decision that he
was handed the gate for the after
noon
Joe Evans, the Mississippi bear
cat, who happens to be the only one
Of the tribe who was pulled in the
first Federal draft, opened the second
frame by beating out an infield hit
which fell Just out of the reach of
johnson and Ainsmith. Evans also
found life with two down in the
fourth inning when Howard Shanks
made low peg to Judge which pulled
the latter OF the bag, but 1t was
nothing to the Indians after this
session as but two balls were hit out
Of the fnfield and five-were sent back
by the tanning route.
~ CoyeIesxie's bad frame came in the
fourth Foster went down from Chap
man to Harris, but Milan drew free
transportation by looking over four
wide ones. Sammy Rice then sent
Bobby Roth on a long journey back
to the right field wall. Roth made a
great try and a fast relay on the
play, holding Milan at the far cornor
and Rice at second. Howard Shanks
then tied up the count by sending
a long fly to deep center.
Milan had easy romping to the plate
and when Rice attempted to move
up to third, Speaker pegged to Evans.
The ball took a bad hop just as it
reach the third sacker and bounced
over his head. Rice headed for the
plate and arrived just ahead OF
Evans relay. CoveleskPs failure to
back up the play cost the winning run
and the old ball game. The score:
d.