The Washington herald., 1920-05-21
SOX BELATED ATTACK DEFEATS NATIONALS IN A SIXTEEI
LATE BOMBARDMENT OF SOX
BEATS GRIFFS IN OVERTIME GAME
By JACK NYE.

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Fifteen innings of classic base
ball were staged when the Ma
tionals clashed with the White Sox
at the local park yesterday. only
to be nullified in the sixteenth when
Walter johnson and the rest Of
Z Griffs boys blew sky-high. allowing
the Windy City representatives to
romp In with a 13 to 5 victory.
That weird inning turned a hair
raising battle. repletes with spar
king features. into a bowling farce
with the laugh entirely on the home
brigade
1t was another OF those heavy
hitting affairs. The Griffmen sprin-
kled their eighteen hits along the
entire route, but the visitors had a
different system. Eight Of their
seventeen wallops were reserved for
the last two innings and included
most OF their extra base efforts. In
these two rounds they fired four
triples and a couple of two-sack
shots. sending the famed Walters
fast ones back at him with much
more speed than he could serve
them up.
Roth's Errors Costly.
At the end of the fifteenth each
team had counted five times.
Things looked rosy for the Ma
tionals and perhaps the game might
nave been going yet had not Bobby
Roth made 1 two-base error on
Jourden's easy fly just when the
hopes were highest.
The visiting first sacker was the
hrst man mp in the sixteenth and
when the right ielder's unaccount-
ney appeared to be somewhat
shaken. Just what he offered Nc
Mullen Is not known. but the sphere
was propelled to left field for three
bases and the havoc was under
way. The Sox more than batted
around before they had their NIL.
Keeping the National outfielders
busy retrieving their long hits.
Score Eight Runs.
When the smoke of battle had
lifted and McMulIen had famed on
his second trip up during the round,
eight runs had been registered and
a great ball game had gone to hang.
In addition to Roth's expensive
bobble. Charity and Ellerbe caught
the erring fever. the usually con-
sistent catcher achieving the un-
usual feat Of making two errors on
one play.
Red Faber travelled the entire
distance for the Sox and it may
here be observed that he travelled
in fine fashion. He got of to a
poor start when he was greeted
with two runs in the first, but 1t
didn't take his teammates long to
get that back. In the third his wild
fling allowed Harris to score from
third with the tally that tempo
rarily tied things until the fifteenth.
but that was the only time his good
right arm wasn't doing his bidding
in intelligent fashion. Not once
during the sixteen innings did he
dish out a free pass. giving an
inkling of the ease with which he
was travelling.
Use Three HurIcrx.
Three pitchers were used by Pres
ident- Manager Grif1th in trying to
get a decision over the business
like Mr. Faber. His first expert
ment was n soUthpsw. Mr.. Court
ney. hut Harry was nicked for one
in the first and fielded like a wild
man in the fourth. wher two more
runs were registered against him.
Southpaw pIchIns hel6 no more
charms for Griffith and he trotted
out Ole Erickson for a heat. This
gangular youth had all the. neces-
sary requirements and things might
have developed far more satisfac-
torily had IL not been necessary to
lift him for 2. pinch hitter along
about the tenth. Ole toiled with
every evidence of success until
that frame. allowing but two
hits. His interest in the strug-
gle was also evinced by a brace
of bingles. the last of which
saw him give way to Shanks. who
had definite orders to score, but
didn't carry them out. Mr.. Faber
expunged him at the platter. TAX
ing his high bounder with enc hand
after a monstrous leap skyward.
The incident only added TO the
growing respect for the big Sox
hurler.
Judge Hits Fabcr.
Fabers' future looked far from at
tractive when Judge greeted him
with a clean hit in the first and
three other hits broughSin a couple
of runs. but it is wei that the fu-
ture is still hidden from the ken
OF ordinary mortals.
In the second JoUrden's double to
left and Schalk's single gave the
visitors one, and in the fourth they