Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-09


johnson and Stan Harris divided
the honors of landing the opening
game of the western trip. The former
for his splendid pitching and the lat
ter coming through with the timely
hit that practically put the game on
ice. While the day was not excessive
~ hot, it was of the murky, close va
riety and Johnson was on the verge
of collapse several times. The dark
gray suit showed that he was sweat
ing abnormally. but the homer put
new energy into him and he finished
the game in high speed style. Har-
ris came up in the seventh. Roth be-
ing passed purposely to get him. as
there were two out, but Stan fooled
them with a clean single to left ana
Milan and Bobby dashed over the
rubber for three runs on the inning
Back Of johnson the Grinmen play
ed good ball. the one misplay charged
against them being a high throw 10
third by Picinich on ball hit IN
front of the plate. The Browns: on
the other hand, played sloppy pail
making six errors. two or Wnch hs-
ured In the run getting. .-
GriRs First tO~score.
sThe Griffmen were first to score,
Rice FASTING a clean single into left
in the third, stealing second and TAX
ing third on Sothoron's bad throw to
Gerber to head him off, and then trot-
ting home on wild pitch. Inc
Browns tied 1t up in the same inning
on Severeids double to left. sacrifice
and Gedeon's out at first. the last
named making a perfect bunt in try
ing to dodge out of the way OF
pitched ball.
Both registered a run in the sixth,
Roth walking and coming home on
Harris fluky double to right. Stan
hit the ball and it got away from
Sialer. rolling into short right. with
no one near II. every Brown Leg ap-
uarently taking X for granted that
the great first baseman would surely
nab the ball. Sisters homer into the
hight field seats did the tying-up act.
Then came the rally in the seventh
lone of those affairs for which the
Griffmen are becoming noted. john
son led of with his great slam for
four bases. Shanks fouled to Seve-
reid, but Milan slashed a clean single
Williams momentarily fumbled the
ball. Rice died on a roller to short.
while Zeb raced to third. Roth was
given free transportation to first for
the third time. and quickly stole sec
ond. Harris then came through with
his timely rap to left and Milan and
Roth dashed over the rubber.
The Browns final run went up in
the ninth, when Williams landed a
homer in the right field seats, but
WaItef look Things easy. Harris get
ting Austin at first and then tanning
Gerber. SEVERED hit safely to left,
but Collins. as pinch hitter, was nil.
as he forced SEVERED at second and
the inaugural contest Of the western
invasion wasours.
johnson Robbed OF Hit.
Gerber and Sisler robbed johnson of
q hit in the second inning by two
exceptionally clever plays. Gerber got
the ball on the run back of second
and threw to first without looking.
The toss was short, but Sisler leaned
away over and took the ball on a
short bound, getting the out by a half
step.
Griff has made shift in his pitching
selection for today. After saying pos
itively he would start Jim Shaw, he
now has shifted to Zachary as his
first choice with Shaw second. Jim
pitched almost a full game yester-
day warming up in expectation of
Johnsons collapsing. This probably
accounts for the shift.
Sam Rfce's steal in the second in
ming was one of those delayed affairs,
he getting under way with Sothoron
holding the ball. The yells of his
teammates doubtless startled the
pitcher as he turned hurriedly and
threw wild to second, while Sam, of
course, dashed on to third. The error
proved costly as Sothoron put over
wild pitch that sent Rice home.
Joe Gedeon pulled boner in the
third and the spectators gave him the
razz good and hard. With SEVERED
on third Joe hit the ball toward first