The Washington herald., 1920-04-10
Moran,s World Champs Win
When Ole Erickson Wobbles
BY GEORGE L. MoRELAND.

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Those Reds 5Ue thought do0rr-
trodden, aOith fire in eve,y eye,
marched forth as Scots to Flod-
den resolV'rd TO do or die. And
hence the doiorous story 1phieh
mnst appended be-the Reds aot
sir and glory, the Grifs defeat
and three.
The Cincinnati Reds this after
/ noon furnished a partial answer to
the vexed question of how they an
nexed their title of world cham
pions last season. The solution was
| brief. but compelling. 1t consisted
OF a batting bee, in which Moran's s
men unlimbered their heavy artil-
lery and knocked the shoots of
SWede Erickson, the Washington
twirler, to all corners of the lot.
When the dust cleared from the
field they had annexed six hits and
five runs, two more than they need
ed to win the game. The final score
was s to , in their favor. This
gives the National Leaguers three
out Of ten games played, and with
that report they must face the home
folks tomorrow. The Reds will
make "A desperate attempt to win the
two battles to be staged on their
| own lot. For the Nationals, Man
ager Griffith declares that the op-
ponents' dream is an idle one and
that they have triumphed for the
last time.
Eric Is wobbly.
Erickson was wobbly from the
first inning out. and was lucky to
escape as long as the sixth without
a pounding. After Griff had mar
shalled his replacement forces and
sent Schacht to the rubber and the
tow-headed hurler to the icy show
ers the Washingtons played air
tight ball. But II was too late.
Clarksburg fans, including Gov.
John ]. Cornwell, were treated to
world series ball for the first few
innings. Both Loque and Erickson
pitched in fine form, though the lat
ter was touched up for two hits in
both the first and the second.
Nationals Start Scoring.
The Nationals scored first in the
third. O'Neill delivered a humming
single to right field. Picinich sacri-
feed him to second, and was only
caught at first by inches. O'Neill
came home on a long single by
Judge, who was cut down trying to
stretch it into a double.
Three doubles in the ninth netted
the Nationals two more runs. Rice
| sprinted down to second to beat
the throw-in from his hit to left
while Roth hit far over the head
of See who had replaced Duncan
| in this frame. Rice scored and a
\ moment later Roth came over the
pan on Shannon's smoking double
| shannon was run down on Harris
] tap to Groh.
The Reds started their scoring in
| the fourth and it fell to Neale,
whose home town is Clarsburg and
who therefore, according to base
ball tradition, should have had a
| terrible day. to open the ball. He
walked. stole second and chalked
up tally on Meyers succeeding
| single.
The disastrous sixth started with
Erickson's issuing a pass to Rath,
head Of the Reds batting order.
Kopf tried a sacrifice and wrought
better than he hoped when his bunt
popped over Shannon's head, and
both runners were safe. Groh COM
mitted suicide and Rath and kopf
perched upon the third and second
sacks.
! With the classic situation of the
bases full and the crack stickman
at the bat, Roush delivered. Up to
. this time he had failed to connect
at all, but he got a toe hold and
hit the first ball pitched over Milan's
head for triple.
The Nationals howled over the de-
cision at third, claiming that Shan
non had blocked off Roush, but Um-
pire Carpenter called him safe. He
crossed the plate when Duncan
cracked out a double on the failing
Erickson. Another run was chalked
up as the former came in on Neale's
| single. The home boy continued
his high-class work by stealing and
advancing to third when Erickson
tried to catch him mapping off the
pivotal sack. He scored on a hit
by Allen. his third of the game.
This finished the scoring for Gin
cinnati. although they threatened in
the eighth. making two hits OFF
Schacht. The next man was easy.
however.
O'Neill made his first error of the
season on ground ball. fumbling
a grass-cutter from Meyers bat in
the seventh. 1t was an excusable
bungle, as the ground around his
position was anything but smooth.
Tentative selections for pitchers
for the contest at Cincinnati to-
morrow are: Snyder and Zachary.
while Walter Johnson and Shaw will
do the hosors in the last game Sun
day. The weather encountered con-
tinues cold though lack of wind
today made for more certain fielding.