The Washington herald., 1917-03-20
REGULARS GRAB GAME
FROM YANNIGAN team
King Walter Makes 1917 Debut on
Pitchers Mound.

Augusta, Ca, March 1s-Two safe
knocks for extra bases saved the day for
Clark Grinith's regulars In the game at
sally Park today, when they staged
brilliant ninth inning rally and copped
the cream from the Yannigans by to
| { count.
Ray Morgan's scrappy bunch took the
field in the final half Of the ninth, guard
Ing four-run lead, but Lefty "Kok"
Jameson developed a streak Of wild
ness, which coupled with two errors paw
ed the way for the regulars to rush five
tallies across the pan and save the day.
The Yannigans out-hit the regulars
over the entire course, as three safe
blows were all the Vets could obtain dur
ing the nine sessions. two of these COM
ing in the final inning when Jameson
was doing the moud duty.
Doc Ayers started the serving for the
Yannigans and although he was a trihe
| wild he got away without being scored
upon and no hits were registered against
him.
"smokebaIr' johnson. from Coffeeville.
then took up the burden for the kids. and
Howard Shanks, theA first man to face
the Smoke" gathered a scratch infield
hit. This was king Walter's' 1917 debut
on the slab, and after Shanks' safe blow
the regulars went down in one-two-three
order before his twisters. Little jamie
son set the regulars down in order in the
seventh and eighth. but in the ninth they
jumped on his delivery and grabbed the
game out of the fire.
| Gallia's wildness and two timely hits
paved the way for the Yannigans' first
| tally In the opening, while two hits and
| an infleld out gave them two more in the
second session. Charlie Humphreys was
touched for three hits while he worked.
but not a man reached the keystone sack
while he was on the mound.
George Dumont's twisters were taken
kindly, too, by the Yanigans, and two
runs and seven hits were gathered dur
| ing the final three innings by the pep
perry clan.
In the opening inning after two were
out Menoskey hit to center field, and
when H Milan poled one to the right
| field fence for two bases, the former
Pitt-fed beat Rice's throw to the plate
Moran started the second session with
base blow to center and moved to
second when Ainsmith crashed one to
left field. Mike caught Bert Gallia and
Leonard mapping and stole the third cor
ner. While Ayers was being retired, from
Leonard to ShaDks, Moran raced across
the pan
Moran started the trouble for Du Mont
In the seventh as with two out he busted
line drive between Rice and c. Milan
TOR three bags ana romped across the
counting block when Walter johnson
smashed a safe crack to left field. In
the first half Of the ninth the Yanigans
gathered one more with successive hits
by Ainsmith. Jameson and Morgan.
Jameson started his own trouble in
the final inning when he granted Char
rty free transportation.
Henry was sent>in to bat for Du Mont
and grounded to Sawyer. Sayer and
Moran took turns at booting the ball and
when the dust had cleared Charity was
at the far corner and Henry at second
Joe Leonard then poled a double to right
field. scoring Charity and Henry and
Jameson made things interesting by fill-
ing the bases with passes to Foster and
c. Milan. Leonard tailed when Smith
was retired Sawyer to Judge, but Sammy
Rice came through with telling punch
Of the evening by polling one to the right
center field. driving in the tieing and
winning run. The score: