Evening star., 1921-09-01

: Their terrific power OF attack. shown
by the ease with which they dubbed
&c Griffmen into submission Tuesday.
was even more impressively demon
strated yesterday when they combed
Zachary, Schacht and Courtney tor
twenty-one blows, to -aling -thirty-oae
bases. Every member of the regular
cast obtained at least one bingie.
while a quartet of them connected for
three.
Meusel Makes Long Homer.
Babe Ruth was confined to a swing
ing bunt and double, but Elmer
Miller. PeckinpauGn and CoiiIns .cn
connected for triples and Bob Meusel
.whaled the longest hit ever made In
the grounds at Georgia avenue,
blow that exceeded even Harry He'll
manns famous swat by carrying on
near the center-field end. AL Scnacht
was the victim.
Meusers was not the only circuit
clout of the afternoon. Joe Judge add
ing one to. his collection when he
ripped a drive past Ruth to the
bleachers. Griffithian swa:s were nu-
merous and long. their total of four
teen including three-baggers by Milan
and Rice. but their smuggling fell so
far short of New York,s that 1t made ad,;
six of their blows in one round, put
the other eight came singly. while tae
Yanks grouped cIouts in four differ
ent sessions.
Judge Hits for Circuit
Judge got the Nationals of to
lead in the opening round with
clout to the jury box for the circuit
1t was a stiff drive that Ruth at
tempted to corral on short hop. the
ball bounding past the Babe.
Unlocked for aid with the willow
from Rip Collins enabled the Yankees
to go the Griffs one better in round
2. The contribution of the big box
man. with whom a single is an event.
was clout over Milan's head for
three bases. which cashed Ward and
McNal,y. on the paths by virtue OF
one-basers each.
The Grins tied it up in their half
when Harris walked. stole second and
scored on Shanks' single to right
and again assumed the lead in the
third. when. with two gone, Milan
pasted a triple over Ruth's dome and
reached the platter in safety when
Holman muffed Wards relay.
Zachary breezed through the third
and fourth. only six man racing nlm'
but met his Waterloo in round g.
Hoffman started by beating out
rap to Harris over second and was
: forced by Collins. Elmer Miller'ss
triple to left and singles by Peck and
: Zachary. followed. producing two
runs and terminating Jezebefs ten
ure. Meusel greeted Schacht with
single that cashed Peck. Charity
then picked Ruth off second and Pipp
popped foul.
. One more inning was enough for
sSchacht, who was hammered for six
sruns on as many hits, including
s''record" home-run wallop by Meusei.
Ward leading off with walk. and
sMiller. Peck and Pipc being factors.
Bling Miller was charged with an
serror with a wide heave which moved
stwo Yanks up a notch.
: Courtney was the next victim. only
zone bingle was charged against him
lin the seventh. rap Off his shins by
Ward. but PASS and couple OF wild
-heaves by. the southpaw netted the
-Yanks a pair of runs. Three more
Italics accrued in the eighth on a
spass. another wild pitch. a double
against the scoreboard by Ruth and
ssingles by Meusel. McNally and Hof-
imam. Run No. II developed in the
sninth from Peck's triple to the jury
.box and Ruth's death.
Grins Stage n Rally.
:: Little attention was paid to the run
washington acquired in the sixth.
.when Rice was wounded. Miller
walked and Charity singled. but. not
sswithstanding the margin by which
they trailed. the fans sat up and took
.notice in the seventh, when both COL
-lins and Quinn were driven to the
showers under fusillade of six
blows. which netted the Griffs hand
full of runs.
5 Singles by Bush and Milan and the
.wounding of Judge clogged the base
lines, which Rice promptly cleared
with triple to the limits in left.
Exit Collins and enter Quinn. Sue
<cessive bingles by Miller, Harris and
.Shanks netted two more runs and
placed runners on first and second
with none out. This was the stua-
-tion which confronted Hoyt when he
entered the fray. The rally then end
ed suddenly when Charity lined to
-McNally. who started a double play
and Courtney whitfield with Harris on
third.
= Bingles by Bush and Miller in the
eighth and ninth. respectively. were
the yield off Hoyt