The Washington herald., 1919-04-30
HarryHarper's Southpaw
Halt the Red S0x
'arow's Boston Champs
|. Beaten By Grifmen in
Third Game of Series By
Count of 4 to 2-Herb
:. Pennock Is Hammered.

= Credit the Boston Red Sox initial
st-back to the 1919 season to
. sackensack Harry Harper. ''Moxie"
! I'D his loose as a goose" south
srw slants in perfect working
der yesterday and with Clark
: vFiffith's hopefuls doing the wreck
g crew stunt the Nationals man
sed to land the verdict in the
.Iird game of the series with the
E'MoXie" had the old Indian sign
orking overtime on the Cape Cod
ibe. as but four bingles, two of
roe scratchey kind, were recorded
sgainst his ''cockeyed" offerings
-uring the afternoons pastime.
rnly for miscues of his teammates
larper would have rang up a shut
ut as Hal Janyrin had one of his
'ad days at the short field position
hat helped his former clubmen to
heir two runs.
The old hit and run. with plenty of
horse shoes% attached, helped the
capital City nine to its tallies, while
-hstance slams, poor guessing of the
IInpires and fielding stunts. along
With many wrangles. kept the brave
LxO thousand who witnessed the bat
tie in a constant uproar
Eddie Barrow gave up hopes of
grabbing of the long end of the count
after he had watched Harry Harper
do his joint twisting act for two ses-
5iOns, but he attempted to make the
contest a little more interesting by
sending in George Du Mont to re-
beye Herbie Pennock. who was bust
Innza hn fxr-fp Elah i'm,
TIE third frame. while George Perry.
ffOm down in Georgia, gave a one
Tame appearance. when Del Gamer
Was used by the visitors as a pinch
waiter.
Clean hitting by the Griffmen in the
ans paved the way for the counters
>hat were rushed over by the locals,
tut for some reason the Nationals
I'D not produce the necessary wallop
s.hat counts runs.
- Even with Harper camping under
.Gthree-run lead after the second ses-
ion the local clan were in danger. as
andom expected the wrecking crew
,f.the visitors to crash open with its
sarrase fire at any time.
fIAIoXie hurled alright ball through
1T. McInnis' hit in the seventh
zane was the first clean blow to be
sbtained of his delivery. while Sam
nR Rice, by a brilliant piece of sprint
M. managed TO hold Barry's whack
- the eighth session to two bases.
>Pennock was given the "razz" in
.qe second frame when Rice opened
be way with a bingle to center and
5iRs sacrificed along by Shanks. ard
H;harrity drove the first tally across
18th smashing drive to center which
llowed him an extra sack. and when
vt niscucd on Jauvrin's Offering Ed
-te raced across the pah. Picinich
Ii to center. and or an unexpected
-suble steal Janvrin Tailed 4 run.
\ double play killed off the Ma
onaIs in the third. when Pennock
.ias in quite lot of trouble. Du
.Iont got away to q good start. but
q the seventh a triple by Judge and
Fosters sacrifice fly to Ruth gave the
nationals another counter and placed
gorge in the showers. as the eighth
rame saw George Winn doing the
Ionors. Janvrin's two errors along
With an infield out gave Boston their
iTst counter in the fifth, while Wits
ripple and JanvTin's error of Scott's
:rounder placed another across the
lish for them in the eighth.
Griffith was the first major league
manager to be invited to the dressing
room as he kicked on Owens decision
of HarpeT's grounder in the sixth
that led him to the gateway. Owens
missed the play n mile and Griffith
seemed perfectly justified in his ap-
0eal but like all of Ban B. Johnson's
little cZars Bicl1 used his authority.