Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-23
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

AUGUSTA. Ka, March 23.-Today's
contest with the soldier team from
Camp Hancock, scheduled to start at
2:30 o'clock, finds the Griffmen in fairly
good shape and all able to go at least
! a seven-inning route despite the fact
that the regulars have been working
out only six days, on two of which
practice was somewhat curtailed owing
TO rain. This was demonstrated TO
Manager Griffths entire satisfaction
yesterday, when an intraclub game,
the first of any kind played by the
Nationals this season, resulted in >
TO victory for the regulars over NICK
, Altrock's Yanigans. aided and abetted
by some distinctiveiy individual de-
cisions on the part of the pilot, VINO
designated himself as official guesser.
Manager" Altrock discreetly re-
Trained from publicly proclaiming has
views on the subject of the brand OF
arbitrating offered. but some of the
southpaw persuasion who halls from
New Jersey and who yesterday was
impressed for service in the outheid'
not to be too specific, confided to MS
fellow conspirators on the Iirresuiars
! bench that Rags O'Loughlin at his
worst never had anything on Grill as an
umpire
The game really demonstrated moth
ing except that Bert Shotton has lost
none of the speed that has caused him
to be regarded as the class of the
league in getting down to first base
and that Rice's work as fielder this
season is likely to measure up fully TO
the high standard of stickwork ex-
pected from the Nationals only 800
hitter. Shotton laid down bunt in the
sixth inning that caught all the Yam
nigans, including Altrock, who was
pitching at the time. asleep. and the
Keystone station in close to nothing
! fiat" He gave another beautiful ex-
hibition of footwork in the second,
when he sacrificed Ayers to second
The real feature of the ARRAY. aside
from Griff's umpiring. of course. was a
running catch by Rice of line drive
a few feet from the fence. Sam got the
ball going full tilt within a stride or
his gloved hand. This daring bit of
daylight robbery deprived Cass. who
had hit the ball, of a two-base wallop
and cheated the Yannigans out of
run, as Waldbauer was reposing on
first at the time.
Yancy Ayers started in the box for
the Regulars and presented the 1anni-
gans with run in the opening round
via the wild pitch route after walking
Cass and Shanks and blinking George
Mcbride in the ribs. Johnny Lavan
turned in a regular Lavanesoue double
play in this session, gra bling Char
rity's hopper on the run, stepping on
second to force Shanks and firing the
ball to Judge ahead of the backstop.
This exhibition of speed and dexterity
caused the umpire-manager to grin
with satisfaction. Ayers held his mis-
fit aggregation of opponents at bay
during the next two innings and was
succeeded in the fourth by Lynch. who
got along swimmingly until the sew
enth and final frame, when singles by
Altrock and Shanks. Gharrity's long
double and a spasm of wild throwing
by Foster. Rice and Lynch himself
coupled with hit batsman. a passed
ball and a stolen base, netted three
more ta1lies for the Yannigans.
The Regulars obtained running
start at the expense of Albert VALID
bauer. the Richmond right-hander,
nicking his delivery for a quartet of
counters in the opening stanza. Singles
by Slrotton. Foster and Ainsmith fig
ured largely, but pa sses issued to Milan
and Rice and a tumble of Morgan's
grounder by John Ripley also were
factors. The Harrisburg youngster was
trif1e nervous on the occasion of his
first game with big league players a
not unusual fact. and made three mis-
cues in the course of the matinee a.
being boots of ground balls. Ainsmith
deserted the Regulars and went to first
base for the Vans in the fourth, when
Aitrock yanked WaIdbauer and sent
himself to the mound. Berman took