Evening star., 1920-04-24

Rice's liner over McNally's head
In the fourth was the first safety
recorded for the Griffs. but in the
following round Harris varied his
offensive tactics which recently
have run largely to walks and sac
rifices. by whanging a slow ball
to left center for two bases. IT
was here Foster pulled his swell
stop at the expense OF Gharrity.
Courtney then demonstrated he
can do something besides throw
base balls by ramming single 10
center that registered Harris
Leonard went in to run for Court
ney. and solid line drives by both
Judge and Milan were unfortu-
nately aimed directly at some
waiting gardener Unsupported
singles by Roth and Zachary In
the sixth and seventh constituted
the only threat the Nationals
made thereafter, aside from the
eventful and locally unsatisfactory
eighth. as the Grins suhslded
without a murmur in the final
frame.
Courtney's defeat was the first
ne has suffered in the majors. the
tall Tarheel having won all three
of the starts he made when he
Joined the club near the close of
1ASI cCdSoH Al JUSti1V W man -
must be set forth that his support
was not Of the best. Two out-and-
out errors by O'Neill while they
did not figure in the scoring. were
not calculated TO encourage box
man, and ONeill and Shannon both
failed Of execution on chances that
could not be set down as misplays.
but had the same efect in faciii.
tating the run-makinc eHorts or
ha HnwaVer t>0nrfney
was hit hard enough to consider
himself lucky in getting off as
easily as he did.
A double play started by Rice on
grabbing McNally's liner and throw
ing to Judge after Hooper had open
ed the pastime with single helped
some in the first round. and Harris
lent assistance with a fine play on
Hooper's hopper in the second after
Walters had singled and O'Neill had
erred on Jones.
In the third Courtney made the ia
tai mistake OF walking Bush. the
first man up. with Hendryx follow
ing. Tim produced his inevitable
safety, this one a double to left that
sent Bush to third. Mc1nnis reached
second when Harris grabbed his
roller and ran Hendryx down. ana
SIuHy IalllSu Will oii ostSA .
clean crack TO center.
Hendryx rammed a bingle past
shannon in the fifth after Courtney
famed Bush on three pitched balls.
and showed surprising speed for a
'.has-been" in Logging 1t to third on
McInnis' safety. O'Neill had a nne
chance to kill off Foster and hold
Hendryx on third when Eddie bounc-
ed a slow one over the pitchers box.
hut in some manner the ball sievec
past him and Timothy reached the
plate.
courtney had a lot of smoke. bu
ras handicapped by inability TO cor
froI his fast ball. The Red Sox. 8
yesterday, were a toug
rlub for a southpaw, and both of tn
0tn~ers Griff sent against them ar
n That persuasion. Hooper was I'll
onlv left hand hitter in the line-u
and the Sox captain can hit 'em a.
Menosky may be back in the gam
today or tomorrow. The ankle I
wrenched in Thursdays game is tn
Same that was injured during the e1
hibttion games with the Giants thrt
weeks ago. Boston's lack of reser'
strength was shown by the fact thu
bush. a pitcher, had to be used in tf
outfield. Barrow expects aid in u
person of Herbert Hunter, the n
chaser who had a trial with II
Giants about four years ago. Hunte
who has been obtained from the Sa