The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-01

paign i'm the Capital IL he could
make Eddie Collins look TO his iaur
Take a peek at some Of the thint
we're walloping the Griffs, 8 to g.
double; he stole base, his double
I'm; his infield roller in the seventh
across the plate; his slashing single
rus across with the final TALES of
withoutu error, seven chances. Yes,
of old man Dugan, and no relative
was pretty much the Cammembert
Olaf Erickson. who returned from
New York early in order TO be rested
from his IBboTs on the hill yesterday,
looked sIl right for two innings, but
in the third he was given some severe
treatment By the Mackmcn and IN the
middle of II. his support blew up
with a loud crash.
Olaf faded from the scenery after
that third inning when Ave Msokmen
parsded across the dish on three hits,
a walk. a sacrifice and three errors,
Had his support held together, he
might have stuck around. emerging
a winner However, II didn't seem 10
be his day OF days. not by a joyful.
Courtney Proves Bicos,er.
Harry, Courtney. who followed
Erickson, proved a bloomer. Bunch
ing a walk, two hits aud an infield.
the As scored run off him in the
seventh, making tho score @ to 3, the
Cribs having coppcd a trio of Kinney
in the third.
Courtney must have been all fused
up after soeing his teammates tic the
score in the eighth when Judge roar
cd a triple TO tho scoreboard, Rice
beating out a grounder 10 Griffin,
Roth tripled over weish's head and
came: In on Shannon's long fly to
Strunk,
Anyway, Courtney started that
ninth by giving Strunk safe blow
and dcntinS Walkers shirt with a
pitched ball. p, NJ. c. Clark yanked
him at this juncturc, sending Zachary
TO the Slaughter
Zach found himself facing Fred
Thomas, sent UP In place OF Griffin,
but after the count was two-and-two
on Thomas, Connie pulled him out to
Let George Burns deliver the goods.
schacht Gets Hts TrounciBE.
Just to show that he. too, could do
some switching and add to the trou-
bles of the gentlcmanly scorers aloft,
J.. NJ. g. Griffith pulled Zachary out
and Al Schacht appeared just in time
TO get trouncing.
Burns took the first one. ball but
slapped the next one through the
short field for base, scoring Strunk
from second. Walker raced to third
and Burns got to second, where he
quit to let Dick Burrus run for him.
Schacht may not have been warmed
up properly. He may have been think
ing OF other things. Oh, almost any
thing might have been the reason;
but the facts are that Joe Dugan
cracked one on the nose to left scor-
ing Walker and Burrus and stole sec
ond. He died trying to annex thirH
before Welsh rouled to Shannon so
that he did not score on Perkins
healthy swat to left. Perkins made
light of Milan's whip and so died
stretching that binglc. IT made no
great never-mind for the victory was
decided.
Harris Stirs Bugs.
Little Stanley Harris stirred the
'bugs in the fourth with one Of the
finest fielding bits staged at Georgia
avenue in many moons.
With Galloway on third and Dykes
on first and two down. Amos Strunk
danced slow one down toward Har-
ris. Strunk ranks among the fastest
men in the major leagues in going to
first base. and he'was proceeding I'M
4 UcT forced dratt.
Harris came in with wonderful
speed. picked up that teaser. and,
with his peculiar underhand peg, just
barely caught Strunk by a hair.
run was cut off then and there by
beautiful play and the rooters didn't
hesitate in letting Harris know that
they appreciated II.
But the real clamor arose when the
Grifrmen, shut out without a hit by
scott Perry for four frames. burst
their shackles in the eighth and tied
the score. Then came the real racket.
Judge Hammers A Triple.
Joe Judge started in by hammcring
- hole in the scoreboard with his sec
ond triple of tho day.. The fans were
pounding and ycllr< for some runs,
but Milan's best was a pop to Gallo
way.
sam Rice bounded one at Griffin and
heat the short peg to Perry at first
pcrry's failure to hold the throw let
Rice grab an extra cushion.
Bobby Roth bounced on fast ball
and out it went to center field. Welsh
misjudged the ball, ran in circles for a
second or two and then headed for
tho fence. as the ball went over his
lead. Rice walked in while Roth
hustled around to third. Shannon's
nard slap kicked hy out to Strunk
scoring Roth with the tying tally.
hykcS threw out EllrrbC. but tho
Griffs were In the game and there
was roofing galore.
Tho ninth followed. with its painful
moments, and the Msckmcn had cop.
Tcd their nrst game OF 1920 in Wash