Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-10
on this afternoon.

The Reds are cocky bunch today
as Il result of the 6-to-2 sinner they
hung on the Nationals yesterday a.
Clarkshurg in weather admirably
adapted for the gridiron, but entirely
too cold for base ball. The diamond
was laid out in the old fair grounds,
where a race meeting was conducted
on the half-mile track last year.
piece of paper weighted down with
stones served as the home plate in
lieu of a better device, and at one
point in the second inning the con-
test was halted for ten minutes while
the athletes with the aid of a pickaX
dug up boulder weighing about 200
pounds from the immediate vicinity
of the pitchers box.
Reds Pitchers Best.
For about the second time since
the tour got under way the Reds
flashed pitching superior to that of
the Nationals. and this explains their
victory, which was fairly earned. 1t
was battle between Luque and
Erick son for four innings. in which
each team got one run. but in the
fifth the champions landed on Eric
with much gusto and by chasing f1ve
tallies over the rubber settled the
outcome beyond any rea sonable doubt.
AL Schacht. who hurled the last four
frames for the Griffs. displayed his
usual heady and effective brand of
work, holding the enemy to two bin
giles and never being seriously threat
ened.
RUDE Bressler, who finished up for
the Reds. got by nicely in the seventh
and eighth, but encountered trouble
in the ultimate session, when Rice,
Roth and Shannon collded for sue
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of markers. Harris. who has not been
hitting at all well of late, gummed
the rally by permitting himself to be
called out on strikes for second
time, and Groh grabbed O'Neil's hop
per and tagged Shannon to end the
battle that gave the Reds their fourth
victory to match against the seven
the Griffs have hung up to date.
Washington was the first to score.
O'Neil making the circuit in the third
on his line single to right, Picinich's
sacrifice and Judges safety to center, on
which Joe was tagged trying to reach
second. The Reds evened it up in the
fourth. Neale's walk and theft Of sec
ond, followed by Meyers safety, turning
the trick.
In the fifth Morans men staged their
most profitable inning of the trip, get
ting to Erickson for half a dozen bin
giles. two for extra bases. to anass five
runs. Rath started with a walk and
kopfs bunt between Shannon and
O'Neill gave him credit for a hit. Groh
advanced them with a sacrifice and
Roush sent them home with a long blow
to left for three bases. Roush scored on
Duncan's double to center. and the lat
ter tailed on Neale's safety over second.
Greasy moved up on Meyers death, took
third on Eric's bad peg to coatch him
mapping and reached the plate on Al
lens single. Luque also came through
with hit, and it began to appear Eric
never would get the side out, when
Rath, on his second appearance of the
inning, lofted to Milan.
Entertain the Players.
The athletes were right royalty en-
tertained in Clarksburg. They were
transported from their train to the ho-
tel in machines of public-spirited citi-
zens, who also arranged banquet and
dance in their honor last evening. A
ma ority Of the Washington players.
headed by President Griffith, attended
these functions. but the Reds were rep
resented only by Earle Neale and Larry
kopf. the others of the champions, IN
Guiding Manager Moran. boarding
train Immediately after the game for
their homes in this city.
It was a big day for Neale. The Reds
outfielder earned much of the fame he
attained before DeCOHllIS d DlS iedsueI
at Norwood Park, where the game yes
terday was played, as a collegiate foot
ball and base ball star while he was a
student at West Virginia Wesleyan Col
lege, at Buckhannon, and since has at
tanned additional prominence through
coaching the foot ball team of Marietta
College, at Marietta, Ohio
Neale lost his bet with Scout Nc
Cam of the Reds that Clarksburg
would turn out the largest crowd of
any Of the cities on the spring tour
with the exception of Washington
and Cincinnati. The paid attendance
yesterday was announced as 1850,
which is less than half that record
ed at Jacksonville and Charleston,
but a fair enough turnout consider
ing the state of the weather. An
idea of how chilly it was may be
CLEANED from the fact during the
night on the trip from Roanoke to
Clarksburg a right sizeable snow
storm was encountered.
The victory registered yesterday by
the Reds should help boost the at
tendance here, where the fans have
become peeyed over the rather con.