Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
NATIONALS R0UT
!. TIGERS IN OPENER
Save Shaw by Pounding
:, Dutch Leonard for a
= 7.to-5 Verdict.
MANY FIELDING THRILLS
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

BY DENMAN THOMPSON.
WELDING their bats with unwonted
susto. the Nationals combed the fork
handed slants of Hubert Leonard for
an. even dozen bingles and sent a
holiday-size throng home to supper
In good humor by chalking up a rs
Win in the opening clash of the series
with the Tigers yesterday. Georgia
avenue and environs rang with the
music of base hits, the sum total
of4safeties registered approximating
the number of notches on Sergt.
Ydrk's gun. As matter of record,
the Jungaleers' aggregate of sWats
exceeded that of the Gritfs by one,
but they were not inserted at suCh
opportune junctures, and, despite the
fact they had the additional beneit
Of three passes. a wild pitch ana
a6race of fumbles. they finished two
Tables in the rear.
Big Crowd Sees Fun.
That the close to 10000 shirt
eleeved spectators were to be treated
to an old shioned smuggling bee be
came evident early when the Grif1s
hoped on Dutch Leonard and chased
three markers over the pan in the
az difficult to fathom as a movie plot
and by the fifth the Tigers had
drawn up to even terms. making 1t
necessary for McBride's charges to go
out and win the game all over again
in the seventh.
not lacking. Young, Cobb. Foster and
Milan all turning in commendable
bits of work. Perhaps the most meri-
torious of these was Zeb's catch of
F1agstead's long wallop toward the
jury box in the eighth. Cobb's clutch
Off short liner from oFster's bat in
round ran it a close second. Young s
bids for fame cropped up on dash
plays over in front of second to rob
Rice and Foster of safeties, while
Fosters contribution was one
handed stab of an almost perfect hunt
that deprived Heilmann Of binsle.
Tigers Are Crippled.
The luster of the Nationals
triumph was somewhat dimmed by
the fact that it was a .patched-up
Tiger team that was vanquished,
three of Jennings regulars-Bush.
veach and Ainsmith-being under the
weather with injuries or ailments.
Brshs absence necessitated shifting
Yppng from second to short and play
inE Ellison on the keystone sack, the
use of Shorten in left field and the
veteran Stanage back of the bat.
Stanage came through with a pair of
bingles and foiled the two attempts
made by Rice to take liberties with
hia. wing. Ainsmith's speed might
have given the Tigers an additional
ran in the second when Stanage ad-
vauced only one base from second
on Leonard's hit, but otherwise
Osar's work hardly could have been
ifhproved upon. Young contributed
81 els
bad on Fosters Texas Lacquer that
WAS a factor in the scoring of the
locals first trio of runs. The ball
was hit a mile high and dropped not
more than thirty feet back of Young,
who made no move. Bush would have
canped under 1T.
=. Bob Veach Is Missed.
shorten fell short of filling yeach's
shoes. He had nothing to do in the
fiefd and did nothing at bat in five
attempts. barring one neat bunt that
advanced a mate Veach has been
cg9testing with Cobb for the honor
okaeading the league in hitting. An
ipdication of what Bob might have
desss. was furnished on the eighth,
Nfsa. pinch hitting for Leonard. he
lespSd a double into right field. 1t
was a Texas League biff. to be sure.
bhN.it Melted him two bases and
peS shim and Stanage in position to
txlIY-on Ellison's single.
htS that bounded into his territory.
o. of which cost a run, but got his
uvu41-bfngle in the sixth, whereupon
a2@xs forgiven. Bob's miscues will
BE- forgotten. for they didn't figure
b. a. nal i ssS sss s sam. " Ssea
tignt and the fumbles lost the game.
j sCstart Early on Leonard.
Those three runs in the opener
were. manufactured with the bats Of
judge. Foster, Milan and Charity.
1fifan's whack produced the first and
Gharrity's blow, a terrific swat over
Cobb's head for three bases, the other
The Tigers got a pair of them back
ii Abe next round after two hands
hA4 been retired. Flagstead raped
one by Foster and Jones unlimhered a
TEXAS Lacquer. A wild pitch moved
tlfem mp and they counted when Stan
age singled and Murphy fumbled the
in-tfe third on his hit. Murphy's sec
ond yniscue in handling IL and an out
but-1t was not until the fifth that the
vfefors were able to get a run over to
tiessit UP. and then it was Cobb who
paved the way with his third straight
safety. a double to left. Shorten's
suicide moved him up and Heilmann's
single cashed him. Flagstead fol-
lowed with another bing1e and both
advanced after Rice got Jones' long
ny, but Stanage left them on.
Roy Grover Gets Started.
With the count knotted and shanks
AWAY in the seventh. Grover unlim-
bered his first hit a. q Griffman, and
vnovo6 mn IN Ohio a. rrf6co Iud on
got q life when he stopped q hook
with his thatoh, and Fosters rap to
center sent Grover home, Roy just
beating Cobb's toss to the plate.