Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-17

of the Nationals in both reverses. ana
this particularly was true of the open
ing encounter, in which Johnson
staged a tight box duel with Faber-
The tally the Sox earned in the first
inning by means of singles by Lei
bold and Weaver. with sacr1nce
sandwiched between, was offset in
the third. when Picinich walked.
johnson sacrificed, Judge beat out an
inieId bingle. and Val taIned as
Milan was being retired by Faoer-
There was no more scoring until
the ninth. when, with one out teisch
singled to left Here the tough break
developed ]. Collins raped over
frrt. Judge reached it. and double
pIay was in order, but Josephus was
unable to cope with the bewhiskereo
drive end dropped the ball. lie re-
covered in time to effect Shane s
death but then lost his balance and
was unable to throw. all hands oelng
safe Risberg then inSerteu tripie
to the bleachers. and the squeeze
play, exemp1ified by Schalk, gave the
they copied
Sensational Finish in Second.
The second game was not so close
drawn an affair, but it ended in an
even more sensational manner than
the first a ponderous wallop by JACK
son 20 the flagpole with the bases
loaded enabling the Hose to achieVe
a. win at the eleventh hour in over
coming a five-run lead Four OF the
C;riffithian tallies were accumula ted
of Dick Kerr IN the first three in
nincs. the other developing in the
fifth OFF WIKI inson. who succeeded the
Ieft-hander. Courtney. who unoertook
to repeat his success of Wednesday
against the GleaSonS, got along ia
for innings. in winch ne
yielded only three hits and no runs
He encountered trouble in the sixth
whensa pass and a hit batSman. with
a trio of bingles produced three runs
and brought Erickson into the tray;
Olaf stopped the Sox here, hreezed
through the seventh and was knick ed
for a counter in the eighth only be-
cause Milan permitted one of two
Hose hits to bound over his head
In the final frame. after Pinch
Hitter Jourdan had lined to Kotn'
things began to break badly for Eric:
Leibold beat out hit to him and
reached second in safety when the
pitcher took E. Collins dinky roller
and fired wide attempting a force-out
at second. Then Eric fumbled Judge
toss, which reached him at first about
the same time as Weaver, and the
stage was set for Jackson. Joe had
gone hit1ess in the first game. and mad
acquired one real single and swing
ing bunt in the second-poor nourisn-
meut for a guy who is trying to wrest
the batting leadership from George
Sisler. Jackson took his w-k. pigeon
toe hold, picked out one to his hiking
and clouted it a mile over Rice
head. The ball bounded against the
right field wall out beyond the score
board and rolled TO the f1agpole. Joe
making the round trip with ease. 1t
was one of the mightiest wal1ops ever
made inside the grounds at Georgia
avenue A single by Shanks was the
only damage done to the delivery OF
Cicotte who hurled the last round for
the Sox.
shaw and Zach Due Today.
James Grunting Shaw and Jezebel
TecumSeh Zachary are expected to
shoulder the fiinging burden for the
Nationals in the two games with De-
troit this afternoon. starting at 2
o'clock Doc Ayers and Hub Leonard
probably will oppose them. The Tt
gers now are a different looking out
fit than the bedraggled bunch that
was here two months ago. when they
were trying with a lot of success to
prevent the Athletics from settling
into their accustomed niche in the Gel
lar. Again having the services of
Cobb, whose frail leg Was injured a
second time Wednesday. the Bengals
. ere putting up scrappy game. CoDD
Fbeiieves his most recent accident
n elped rather than hurt his leg. he
figures il tore loose some adhesions
rihat were botheringS him. He con-
'fnected for a double and two singles
sFand scored a brace of runs in assist
ling in the defeat of the Red Sox yes
Sferday.
Rice Finally Is stopped.
4 Submerging his personal ambitions
Snut of consideration for team play
Frost Rice chance to maintain his
s.onsecutive hitting streak yesterday.
an the first inning of the opener he
Preached second on wild throw by
sRisberg due largely to the Sox in
sflelder's respect for his speed. He
rolled to E. Collins on his second ap-
epearance. and did not get a good ball
s 10 offer at when Faber walked him in
: the fifth. In the eighth, with Milan
sSen ahead of him. none out and one
iSrun needed to break the tie. Rice
Dassed up his chance to hit and duti-
fully hunted to advance Zeb. Sam
started another string in the second
game when he connected for two bin
giles in four attempts. and also col
lected a pair of steals to boost his
mark for purloined sacks to thirty
eight Both required clever slides at
the finish to elude tagging by Risberg.
During his streak. which started
against Carl Weilmann of the Browns
on June IL. Rice went to bat ia times
and pounded out fifty-one safeties for
. an average of AT. In this stretch
. he batted, in two dozen runs and
I scoreS twenty himself This streak
equals Roger Peckinpaugh's twenty
mine straight of last year. this being