Evening star., 1919-04-01

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abled them to get q draw with the
| regulars in the vesper siesta- The
scores were, respectively, IS and
9-9.
Walters first herculean clout gave
rise to all manner of arguments about
the distance from the plate to the fence.
John Dugan stepped it off with his best
foot ball referee stride, and announced
1t was 1874 yards. Griff's estimate was
that it was considerably less. and after
pacing the distance offered to bet real
money it was much closer to 121 yards.
Harry Harper took him up, wagering
that Dugans enumeration was more
accurate than Eriff's. tape was
reQuisitioned and an accurate meas
urement from the plate to the .oint
where the ball disappeared over the
fence disclosed the distance as exactly
1913 n yards. This Griffith is tough
guy to argue with.
The fence itself is at least twelve
feet in height and the ball cleared II
by several feet. so it can be appre-
ciated that the feat was a noteworthy
one. There was a high wind prevail
ing on both occasions, but it was
blowing almost directly down the first
base line, and as the first drive passed
over the fence in almost dead left
center and the second some twenty
five yards nearer to the flag pole di-
rectly in center field. it is more rea-
sonable to assume the gale retarded
rather than aided the flight of the
ball.
Craft started for the Yannisans in
the morning game and got fine
young trOuncing at the outSet-a
pass, a brace of errors and four hits.
including Milans triple. giving the
regulars quintet of tallies. A three
hagger by Rice in the third paved the
way for another marker. Hovlik sue
ceeded Molly. starting with the NTH,
and was not scored on IN the re-
naming three rounds.
lynch. telling for the regulars, per-
n.itted but one tally in the first four
frames, McBride's single and Harpers
double producing it. Flaherty re-
lieved Adrian and got by IN the hfth,
but yielded two runs in the sixth. and
then met his Waterloo. Leonard.
first up in that memorable seventh
and final inning, was walked by Fla
herty and scored on three-bagger
to. right center by Ellerbe. Charity
also drew a pass, and 1t was then
that Johnson spilled the beans. his
homer producing three counters and
giving the kids revenge for the defeat
hey suffered in the initial clash Sat-
urday.
Harper started for the Yannigans
n the afternoon and was given rude
-eception, seven SafetieS, in addition
TO a couple of free tickets and some
sloppy work afield.. giving the i,esu-
lars six runs in the three rounds he
worked. Altrock. who umpired the
first game, then assumed the mound.
Three runs were chalked up on him
in short order, but only one of them
was earned, a trio of errors account
ing for the other two. He breezed
through the last three stanzas.
Ed MatteSon continued his good
work of Saturday by letting the Yam
nigans down with two scattered hits
and one run, directly traceable to
misplay. in the four innings he held
forth for the Regulars Hereafter.
Griff has announced, Matty will be
shifted over to the Yanns in order to
see what the Regulars can do in fac
ing his twisters.
Bill Harrington. the southpaw. went
to the mound when Matteson was
motioned to the showers after the
fourth and was given an enthusiastic
clubbing by the makeshift combina-
ton directed by George Mcbride.
arm is all bound and he
had trouble getting anything on the
ball his first inning out, when Char
rity's triple developed into run.
Four hits. together with a pass, a
sacrifice fly and an error. gave the
Yanns four runs in the sixth. Enter
ing the seventh and final frame three
tallies short Of a tie Leonard started
with a single. Went to third on
Ellerbes one sacker and scored on
Picinich's long looper to left. Sam
Agnew, catching for the Regulars,
kNI u yv1ep L.
Johnson pop up and the left handler
did-but up SO high and out so far |
that it was lost in the weeds on the !
other side of the park, Ellerbe scoring /
ahead of Walter and making the |
count draw at nine all.
Next to Johnson. Rice and Shanks, |
with four hits in seven attempts, were |
for batting honors for the |
day.
The Yannigans pulled two fast |
double plays against four for the Regu- /
lars.
Ellerbe provided the fielding features
and also showed up strongly at bat,
getting a quartet Of safeties, includ-
ing brace of triples. Jim Shaw had
a rough time of it in batting practice.
He was given a terrible bombardment,
the climax coming when a line drive
from Davis bat knocked his cap off.
"Tiny" Maxwell. former all-Ameri-
can foot ball lineman at Swarthmore,
now a base ball writer on q Philadel-
phia newspaper, paid the Nationals a
visit yesterday, following close on the
heels Of Jim Nasium, another Sleepy
City scribe, who also is making q tour
Of the training camps.
Horace Milan jumped over to
s. c.. Saturday night to
see his wife, and failed to return in
time to get into a uniform yesterday.
It.appeared for a time yesterday
that Fred Harveycutter, the WASH
ngton fan. who. sojourning with the
team and assisting in the keeping of
the grounds for the benefit Of his
health. would have all the work on
his shoulders, as Reds" the club
eoy Tfn little on q, ssr9s Grs dpa in the
induced Reds to get back on the
job, much to HarveycUtter's relief
Phillip T. Philpot, southpaw pitch
.r now playing with the University
IF Georgia team, will be inspected by
Manager Griffith during his stay here
Philpot has quite a reputation in this
section and has done good work dur
ing his varsity career. He Is de-
,cribed as big. husky fellow, still in
his teens. who has speed and curves
n abundance. Griffith has had talk
With Philpot's father. who lives here,
md the latter has indicated his will
ngness for the youngster to play pro-
,essional base ball. Philpot is ex-
,ected to come to Augusta this week
rom Athens Ga where the school 10 |