Evening star., 1918-07-30
By DENMAN THOMPSON.

CHICAGO. July 30.-Grifrs hopes. OF
a pennant received q severe setback
yesterday, when his team was nosed
out. to 0, In . thirteen-inning.e en-
counter with the world champions.
The victory Of -the Red, Sox over the
Browns at st. Louis further strength
ened Boston's hold. ON the lead, the
Barrowites now being six and one
half games ahead, of the Nationals.
1t was a tough game for Washington
to drop.
Harry Harper. with his mind at
ease in regard to his draft status. his
original listing in class 3 having been
confirmed, went In there and hurled as
heady and effective q game as he has
shown this year. The southpaw per-
mitted only two bingles in the eleven
frames he performed and was in dan
ger of being scored on but twice.
Harry was relieved after the eleventh
in order that johnson might hit for
him. Walter did his part In sacrfnc-
ing Ainsmith, running for Piclnicn'
who had walked to second, but as on
a number Of other occasions the blow
that would have decided the oattle
was not Forthcoming and IN the tnir-
teenth the White Sox Manufactured
horseshoe run that gave them tne
verdict True it is they punched a
couple of bingles of Walter. but they
should not have produced tally.
1t was this way McMullen had
popped foul to Ainsmith: when Scnaik
singled to. center Milan allowed the
ball to roll through his legs ana
the peppery Sox backstop was given
credit for a double. Benz famed for
second out Lavan knocked down. but
could not hold Wilbur Goods smash
and Schalk raced home with the only
run Of the battle.
In justice to old Joe Benz, it must be
said he pitched a corking good game
His box work did not nearly ap-
proach in the point of excellence that
of Harper, as no fewer than an even
dozen Griffs reached the sacks by
proved icvincible when hit would
have spilled the beans. The Nationals
had runners on third on four diner
ent occasions and another four times
saw Griffmen at the midway station,
where a hit would have meant vic
ed the sacks on Judges hit and steal
and walks to Milan and Shuttle, yet
could not score. In only three of the
thirteen frames did they fail to get
one or more runners on the path.
The battle bristled with snappy
plays, Collins, Foster and Lavan max
ing stops and throws that elected
applause from the sparse gathering
at Comiskey Park. The latter's one
hand pickup of drive from Benz's
bat. with a man on base, in the elev-
enth, was a gem. Shotton also dis
tinguished himself, Leibold and E.
Collins both being victimized by
Berts brilliant stabs of foul line
What really was the break of the
game came in the eleventh, when
Foster singled to left with two down.
Judge followed with a safety into
right. John Collins made a splendid
throw to Risberg that nipped Joe
sliding into second by inches. Had
Milan been allowed to hit the ball
the game would have been won, as
hitting safely on his next two trips
up.
Grif declined to say which of his
sharpshooters he would send to the
mound for the second time today, but
1t probably will be Cicotte for the
Sox. Using both Harper and John
son in q futile effort to grab the
first of the seriesk Washington's
chances of anneIing a majority of
the set of four contests here do not
appear bright.
What action will be taken with ref