Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08
'R|FFS OPTIMISTIC
OVER WESTERN TRIP
Open in Detroit Tomorrow
NTH ubIe-Header-Team
in Good Condition.
ANKS WIN FINAL GAME
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

BUFFALO. " Y July Speeding
westward the Nationals are today
.luch more optimistic than they were
hen they made the initial campaign
{ the season in the west. They have
cen playing a high grade article of
all. as shown in the series with the
ankees, Athletics and Red SoN. ana
they can maintain the same pace on
his jaunt they should improve their
'osition in the standing of the clubs
considerably.
They clearly demonstrated in New
ork that the league leaders have TO
their hest TO heat them, and that
he possible American League cham
ions have little. if anything. on the
:ationals. The series with the Red
OK and Athletics also showed that
;riffith has mighty dangerous club
{ this stage of the race.
The Nationals received had set
lack on their last western trip, hav-
ng one of the worst road Journeys a
Washington club ever has expert
need. With Milan back in the game.
however, Griffith looks for something
ntirely different this trip. Provided
he Nationals have a successful swing
through the west they may Yet
threaten to crowd mighty close to the
irSt division.
They Will make their first stand in
the west with the Tigers in Detroit
tomorrow, when two games viii he
played They will play there Thurs
Gay and Friday. and then jump to
Cleveland for a four-day stand with
the Indians They won three out of
four games from the Tigers on their
last trip, for the only series on which
they finished on the long end.
Eric Erickson had one bad inning
yesterday and that was enough to
allow the Yankees to stage one OF
their famous ninth-inning rallies and
win the final game of the series by 3
to 2. They knocked in their three
runs in the final session before one Of
them was retired. Until the final
chapter Erickson had the league
leaders eating out of his hand.
He let down badly in the ninth and
Peck's single and Bakers home run
in the upper deck of the right field
stand tied the score. Then Duffy
Lewis got a single and Erickson got
out of the game. Harper appeared
on the scene and he didn't have much
but his uniform with him. Pipp. try
ing to sacrifice, got on as Leonard
fell trying to field the hunt Pratt
raped sharply to right for what
would have been a double under any
other conditions and Lewis came
romping in with the winning run.
ErlckSon gave no signs of weaken
ing before the ninth. Until then he
allowed only four scattered hits and
never was in real danger of being
scored upon Baker was the only
Yank to get as far as third in the
hrst eight innings. He did the feat
in the fourth This was how it hap
pened: With two out Baker got the
first hit of Erickson. a clean single
to confer. Lewis followed it up with
a rap to the same territory. and
Baker pulled up at third. Then Erick-
son stopped everything by tanning
Pipp. In the other innings. besides
this and the ninth. not one of the
Fanks reached second. That was
pretty sweet pitching.
Picinich started the Nationals off in
tho second with what doomed up as a
nice lead for long time. He sent the
ball ON . ride into the left field stand
for a home run. The Nationals didn't
ecore again until the seventh. Then
Erickson opened up with a triple to
center and beat Pratt's throw on
Leonard's grounder to the plate. The
two runs doomed mighty big until the
SanLAAc' ninth