The Washington herald., 1918-05-22
Two Rallies. Are Halted by
Brownies Out6elder.
Grifs Lose 4 to 3. \

Dan" Demmett by a brilliant peg.
from right field killed on a perfectly
Eood rally by the Nationals in the
eighth inning of the second game In
the series with the Brownies yester-
day at American League park and
the Nationals took another setback
BY q to count.
Demmett halted a rally that looked
nod enough to give the Nationals
the verdict, as four solid whacks
we're obtained of the delivery Of Bert
Gallia In this session. Ray Morgan
attempted to score from second base
on Layan's solid whack to the right
garden but Demmett quickly ended
all hope by his brilliant peg.
Bert GaIlia the curved ball artist
whom Clark Grifith sent to the
Browns in last winters deal for
I.avan and Shotton, drew the assign
nnent against his former teammates,
while Jimmy Shaw stood the burden
for the Nationals.
Shaw allowed the Brownies three
hits In the first six frames, but they
went to him for a fare-you-well In
the last. three. After the Nationals
had evened the count in the ninth.
Jimmy Shaw base-on-balled himself
out Of the game.
Grifhth shook his lineup in oruer
to get the Nationals out Of their
present run getting slump. placing
Joe Judge as lead OF and Eddie
Foster second. Shotton was moved
10 fourth position and Lavan to sew
enth. The combination worked fairly
well as only two batting rallies were
staged which resulted in the home
tribes three runs.
Judge opened the fray with a single
TO right field and moved along when
Foster grounded out to Sisler. Milan
hit a sharp one to Jimmy Austin who
threw to the right field stands max
ing Il easy romping for Joe to reach
the plate
The rally staged by the Nationals
in the third was halted by this same
Demmett. Foster hit to left. but was
caught stealing. Milan drew free
transportation and attempted to go
10 third when Shotton hit to right
feId, but Demmett was there with a
brilliant peg. nipping Milan just as
he slid into the bag.
The Brownies had a two-run lead in
the eighth when Demmett again halt
ed-the procession. After Foster had
popped out. Milan started the fire.
works with a triple to right field.
Shanks singled to center and Tobin
Juggled the ball long enough for him
TO reach the half mark. Morgan fol-
lowed with a double to left, scoring
Shanks. Demmett's peg to the plate
on Lavan's single to right caught Ray
by a yard.
The Browns got their first two in
the fourth when Sisler tripled to left
and was squeezed over by Gedeon.
shaw booting the ball around the in
field Jimmy followed this miscue
with two wild pitches, which placed
Gedeon at third base. from whence
he scored on Demmett's slow ground
4 er to Lavan. Shaw made il possible
4 for the Brownies third tally when he
wild pitched again. Sisler beat out
an infield grounder and stole the mid
way sack. Jimmy moved him along
peg with a wild heave. making it
easy scoring for him on Demmett's
hit to center field.
Gerber scored what proved to be
The winning tally for the Browns in
the ANAL chapter when he hit to right
held with one down. Gallia popped
out. but Tobin and Austin both beat
out blows to left field. The Pitts
burgh stogie then presented the
Brownies with the winning tally by
granting George Sisler a base on balls
which forced Gerber over the pan.
The score: