The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
ONE BIG INNING IS ENOUGH
FOR CLARK GRFFTTHS NINE

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Fohl and his sixth city tribe yes
terday at the Florida avenue bali
wick when his hired men drove
one pitcher to cover and mangled
the Indians relief hurler. all in
one inning. Doubles and triples
rang from the bats of the Nationals
like spring rain and runs came in
so fast it was hard to tell from
the upper tier just who scored
them. but the final count found
the Nationals out in front by J to
|. The entire seven counters
came in the FIRST inning.
The Foxy Pilot selected Jimmy
Shaw. the Pittsburgh Stogy. to do
the honors in the center Of the
diamond. which he did to the
queens taste. Although the In
dams obtained eight bingles off
his slants. only in the sixth In
ming were they able to bunch hits
off James Aloysius.
Opposed to Shaw was Jim Bag
by, who. by the way. has always
been a hard one for the Nationals
to beat but he lasted less than an
inning when he retired under hre
in favor of McQuillan who Jared a
little better. Only four men faced
Bagby. He walked one and the
other three hit safely. two doubles
and a triple when Fohl gave jim
the shower call and entered Nc
QuiAan to take up the burden. He
was touched UP for four singles
and four runs before he settled
down and stopped further scoring
by the Nationals.
Eddie Foster was the demon slug
ger as he had a perfect day with
a double and three singles in four
trips to the plate besides scoring
one of the Nationals tallies. Shanks
and Lavan were the other Nationals
that fattened their batting average
as they gathered two hits apiece.
one OF Shanks' being a double in the
second.
The Sixth City tripe could do little
with Shaw's slants, although Chap
man singled in the first. but was left
as Hall had struck out to open the In
ming. Speaker hit a high fly to Milan
and Joe Wood also famed the wind.
In the second. after two were gone.
Turner singled to left. but was left
when O'Neill famed. The fourth
showed Wood opening the frame with
single, but neither Bescher, John
ston nor Turner could advance him.
The Indians punched two hits for
a run in the sixth. Evans opened the
proceedings with a hit to center, and
Spoke followed with another in the
same direction which put Joe on the
far corner. and he scored on Woods
roller to Foster on which Speaker
was doubled up with Wood. This
killed the only rally that the Indians
staged, and was short lived as Besch-
er hit to Foster and was out at the
initial sack.
The Nationals did their run get
ting in the first inning and then
settled back and let the other fell
low do the work. Bert Shotton
looked over four wide ones and
scored when Eddie Foster doubled
to left. Joe Judge tripled over
Speakers head Foster denting the
plate with run number two. Milan
doubled to right center and Judge
scored number three run. Schultz
sacrificed Milan to third and Clyde
scored on Shanks' hit to left field.
Lavan hit in the same direction put
ting Shanks on second and he
swiped third and scored when
O'Neill dropped Chapman's throw Of
Casey's roller.
Johnny Lavan stole second and
tried to score on Shaw's grass cut
ter to Turner but was run down
between third and home being re-
tired by McQuillan. Bert Shotton up
the second time in the frame hit
to center for a single, putting Shaw
on third and Jimmy registered on
Fosters second hit of the inning.
Both were left when Judge famed
for the third out.