The Washington herald., 1919-05-03
Nationals Triumph OUer
Connie Macks Quakerites
Jimmy Shaw's Big Bat
Helped Grifmen to
Land Opener.
By JOHN A. DUGAN.

Philadelphia, Pa. May Fin the
main bout of the afternoon we have
Joseph AloySius Dugan. of Philadel-
phia, Holy Cross, New England and
elsewhere. and James Aloysius Shaw.
OF Washington, Pittsburgh. Bethle-
hem. and ID. J's." should have been
the announcement by the megaphone
boy at Shibe's Field today when the
Nationals and Athletics rnally hook
ed up in the inaugural classic of the
American League in this fair city of
brOtherly love. in which the Griff-
men exhibited a real punch and
landed the verdict against Connie
Mack's hopefuls by a 7-to-2 count.
Joseph Aloysius and James Alo-
ysius furnished the crowd with most
of the excitement. Joseph obtained
the usual Philadelphia decision over
James. after five settos in which our
James had the best of the milling.
but Joseph landed the kayo wallop
in this round that FASTENED James
to the towel and it was up to the
big and mighty Walter Johnson to
step into the center of the ring and
do the hero act of outpointing
Joseph and the balance of the pep
perry battlers from the stables OF
Connie Mack in the remaining four
and one-third rounds of this all star
attraction.
Joseph, by lone one-base wallop.
simply knocked James Aloysius out
of a chance to play the hero, as in
the fifth with two down Joseph did
the little trick that forced Clark
Griffith to call his big train into
action and James passed out under
the boots and howls OF the fans.
James had been staging quite few
tricks in this hero-act stuff of the
dime novels for four innings, as on
the two occasions he was allowed to
swing the willow he hammered the
ball into the left field bleachers for
home runs while his heaving of the
pellet for the first four rounds
would have made even Christy
Mathewson pronounce him a world
bcater.
The bIow-off came for the would
be hero in the fatal NTH when
James took a lob dose. as the tennis
boys say it, and away went the
Pittsburgh Stoke in this hero of
heroes stuff once a day and as the
ball player travels. Getting back
to real facts. these Quaker City fans
just fiocked to the support of Connie
Mack and his tribe for the opening,
but owing to the fact that the fight
ing Twenty-eighth Division along
with Admiral Sims were visitors
here at the same time with the old
national pastime the gathering was
not what was expected and the
many ceremonies for the opener
were mOrely timid bouts.
This was no fault Of Connie ss
the Sphinx pilot attempted to give
the 5000 fans regular show. and
the slips in the all-star inaugural
can be checked back against the
Victory Liberty Loan. If any Ger
man in America desires to he
snapped off the top of the City Hall
as the loan drivers here grabbed of
all the stars. and as they talked
overtime at their many stops. they
missed part of the battle.
Uncle Nick AHrock worked over
time with his comedy in entertain
ing the fans. but when Nick was
,ady to hit the hay the battle got
urGcr way. with Mrs. Connie Mack
throwing out the first ball to Um-
pIrc Dincen. The crowd soon for
got that other things were sup
posed to have been given them when
the game got under way. and they
even forgot about Victory Loan
drives and Uncle Nick. But here
is how the mill was fought from
start to finish.
Kinney hung out the Indian sign
in the Nationals first frame by
forcing Judge, Foster and Milan to
ground down. and Jimmy Shaw
cquailed his performacc by taking
Shannon and Roth on strikes and
making KOpp foul out to Charity.
Rice drew pass to open the Griff's
second and moved up a notch when
Shanks laid down a neat sacrifice
to Kinney, but Charity failed to
help things along. as he hit an easy
fly to KOpp. JanvTin took the walk
ing route. but Picinich ended the
Nationals chances by grounding to
Kinney.
George Burns was set back by the
whiting act and Witt and Thomas
were easy picking on infield balls in
the Macks second attempt. but James
AlOysius Shaw surprised himself with
a circuit ride as he crashed the second
ball heaved by Kinney into the left
field blcachers for a home run, which
wa the initial hit OF the inaugural.
helped the Griffmen to their next
counter as Kinney pulled a balk, NOV
r.,@ JOc along while he took another
peg when Foster grounded Sout and
Gcntcd the dish on Milan's long sac
rifle" fly to Roth.
Joe bI-au was the first of the slum-
bcrland tribe to see the initial corner
lie looked over four wide ones and
stole second when Picinich threw wild
to Janvrin but Kinney's efforts forced
him down at the hot corner. while
after Shannon got life by being hit by
twister. Kopp ended the inning by
flying to Milan.
Kinney tiShteped up on the reins in
the fourth and Shanks. Charity and
Janvrin did the one, two. three; while
Shaw found Roth and Burns marks
Tor his smoke and Witt. who was
passed. took the count, Picinich to
Janvrin when he tried TO steal After
Picinich had dropped out James .Nloy-
sius performed his willow whipping of
home runs by driving another into the
left field bIeacheTs for a merry walk
around the paths, but there was no
further damage in run getting. as
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