The Washington herald., 1920-05-09
ZACHARY'S SOUTHPAW SHOOTS
PROVE PUZZLE TO YANKEES
johnson VIII oppose Mays In
the nnal game OF the New York
series this afternoon.
nv yANN NESS.

With Zachary up. the Nationals
played their third shutout game Of
the season yesterday. taking from
the Yankees the third game Of the
present series. , to o.
What with the ground conditions
bad. and Zachary pitching puzzlers
thai made even Babe Ruth strike
out. the Yankees found the going
rather heavy. In addition to warm
ing the hearts Of his followers with
a shut-out. the Nationals mound
representative entertained with a
NAL inning thrill which gave that
satisfying feeling of admission coin
well spent.
For eight innings Zach allowed
only five hits-all New York re-
ceived during the entire game,-but
in the final period the Washington
hurler showed signs Of weakening.
Ruth strikes Out.
Peckinpaugh, first up. walked
and Pipp followed suit With these
Two On DdSE. Zach was lACCd W
Babe Ruth. Ruth watched the first
shrek 'Strike" He caught part of
foul over the stands. Then Zachary
issued three bad ones. Babe swung
at the next one and made a clean
whole-hearted miss.
Ruth had q wonderful chance to
- kA
ceiving all afternoon, but his final
achievement yesterday gave him nc
grin.
Judge and Harris had clustered
around Zach when he walked Pipp
but the pitcher signalled to let him
do the pitching and the human Ice
berg did considerable tossing. After
Ruth returned to the bench Duffy
Lewis 1ied out to Milan and Pratts
grounder to third enabled Ellerbe
to step on the bag just ahead OF
Peckinpaugh.
EHerbe Works Well
ElIerbe's work at third yesterday
deserves a heaping measure of
praise. In the second and third he
made two clean assists on taps by
Pratt and Ruel. and in the fourth
HN AhION OUT Tlpp Oh Nhc ldNIct
bUnt In the sixth he stopped a
mean drive of Wards, recovered
quickly. and threw out the runner
at first. 1t was a wicked slam and
IL was good work to bring down
the ball. without catching Ward in
the bargain
Pcckinpaugh. next up, sent him
another. and he delivered once more.
At the other end of the game he
also did well, drawing a walk in
the second which accounted for
Washington's first run. Later, in
the fourth. he hammered a single
into Wards leg. and the latter. In
his hurry to catch Ellerbe, threw
past Pipp, sending Frank to second.
Charity Does Work.
On a fielder's choice. Peck threw
to Ward to get Ellerbe, but both
he and Shannon arrived safely. Ell
lerbe's hit finally developed into a
run when Gharrity's long sacrifice
fly to Lewis brought the third base
man home. Ellerbe was also re-
sponsible for the. early start of q
double play in the eighth when
Ward hit to third. Ellerbe flung to
Harris, catching Muesel, who batted
for Shawkey. and Harris trumped
Ward to FIRST.
Ellerbe is a third baseman. His
exhibition at shortstop was decid-
edly poor. for the simple reason
that he does not belong there
Charity and Zachary proved .
good team yesterday. Ellerbe's first
run came in on a mighty drive by
the catcher which never caught up
with him until he was safely located
on third. And with Ed posing of
third, Zachary lined out a single
which brought in his mate.
Seven Straight Hits.
Judge sent Zach over to second
when he scored his seventh consec-
utive hit Joe interrupted his
stright-line record in the fourth
when he flied to Bodie. but he pick ed
up another single in the seventh,
and should consider three out of
four times up a reasonable days
work.
Collins took Shawkey's place in
the eighth, and though the Nationals
collected no runs, Collins could
easily see that Shawkey had been
up against something. Shannon
faOk a walk and Gharrffv cli1nn5