Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-01


One large. Juicy frame early in the
fray, when the cannonading of the
Mackian artillery at the expense of
Olaf Erickson, abetted by nefarious
work afield by the Griffs, had Melted
fistful OF taflies for the AS, and they
nicked Southpaw Courtney. who sue
ceeded him, for another in the sew
enth. AS soon as his mates had
amassed what appeared to be a COM
Portable lead. Walter Kinney blew
sky high to the extent of trio OF
counters and Scott Perry was rushed
into the breach. The reformed tailor
had the Nationals sewed up in knot
then they ripped his seams with
salvo of long distance clouts. There
were so many ragged edges visible
c. McGillicuddy was on the verge OF
for Naylor to do some hasty
hemstitching. when Dykes patched
the situation with Bill Bradley peg.
The Grtffs pressed the wrinkles out
three counters to balance the runs
and this was the situation when the
ninth opened.
Five shifts in Ninth.
Strunk started with drive too
mean for Harris, and when Walker
was winged Courtney got the hook.
Zachary a fellow portsider. succeeded
him and faced Fred Thomas, nomi-
mated to hit for Griffin With the
count two and two Thomas gave way
to George Burns and Griffith count
cred by hailing Al Schacht from the
left, scoring Strunk. sending Walker
to third and making second on the
throw-in. Burrus here was assigned
to run for Burns, and with Walker.
counted on DuEan's line drive to LETT.
Joe pilfered second and after Weich
had given Shannon a grape-1ufce high
ball near the foul line. Perkins drilled
q safety over third only to be ex-
plunged trying to stretch 1t.
In the lAast half Harris started
where his mates had left off in the
preceding canto with bingle past
Burrus. O'Neill was put In to run Tor
Picinich. who walked. and another
leaf from Mack's book. Grin picked
Calvo to do Schacht's sticking, put
the cuban succeeded only in forcing
ONeill. Calvo proceeded unmoiestea
to second, Perkins made nne eaten
Of judges foul and Dykes shared
Milan's liner to end as hectic q ses-
sion as the most rabid sensatioh-
seeker could conjure up.
Erfc's Support to Blame.
Erickson was not so badly man
handled a. the dve runs the Macks
totaled In the third would indicate.
His support chiefly was to blame. For
instance, although Perkins opening
drive was a solid affair. Ellerbe re-
layed Milan's throw to Shannon In
plenty Of time to erase him at third.
but Maurice instinctively waited with
the ball in his hands until Perkins
had slid into the bag before tagging
the runner. This prevented any
chance OF Shannon being spiked, but
is a costly way to play. as was dem
gle followed. Perkins should have
been the first out and on Kinney's
roller to Ellerbe the side should have
been retired without any tallies. in
stead OF the five that trickled over.
Ellerbe's toss to Harris for force at
to complete q made-to-order double
play Stanley muffed the ball. Then.
after Dykes had failed In his effort
to sacrifice and Strunk had walked.
Walker lifted = ny to Roth that was
good for one run. but two resulted,
Roth's peg bounding past shannon.
and there vas NO ono ps 3aan sn nm up ,
life and . chance to tally with Strunk
ON DugAn's double.
Neither OF Ellerbe's misplayS ng-
ured In the scoring, but both illus
trated his faulty style. Frank at
tempts to hsld to tho side balls that
he should get squarely back Of. The
South Carolinian has yet to break
into the hit column. but made both
Dykes and Galloway step fast to keep
him out of it yesterday.
A nifty bit of work by Harris pre-
vented the Athletics from increasing
their run total in the eighth, when
with two Macks on the lines he dash
cd in and got Strunk's roller to Judge
with a snap peg. Courtney also at
tempted to cover, and a collision be-
tween this pair and the fast flying
Strunk was narrowly averted. Harris
cleverly handled Picks low throw to
erase Amos on a double steal in the
seventh. Incidentally STAINS bingle in
the ninth marked the sixth consecu-
tive game in which he has hit safely.
Milan was halted after getting the
ball into unguarded territory in half
o dozen contests,
The triples off Perry by Judge and
Roth in the eighth which. with Rice's
tnfleld tap sandwiched in between, and
Shannon's deep drive to Strunk en-
abled the Griffs to knot the count.
were as lusty blows as ever were
held to three bases. Roth's rap would
have rolled to the centerfield corner