The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-02
A'SPUT SLUG
. ON CR|FFM|EN
Cold Drink Gentleman Loses to
Observation-Disclosures Lose
to Mackmen.
By KIRK MILLER.

In a stage setting which voula
have done credit to Moose Factory.
the Philadelphia Athletics yesterday
put the slug on Mister George M
gridge, whamming that young man
out Of the box In six innings Of frap-
ped baseball and winning the fur-
lined game by 5 to I.
Washington was lucky to get on
so easy. IL none OF the players got
pneumonia. Connie Mack and George
Mcbride may be grateful to some
b0dy's Judgment beside their own.
When the game popped open at 4:lS
o'clock, the players needed fog horns
to keep from colliding with each
other and when it flivvered out TO
close two hours later, they needed
electric heaters to thaw out their
frigidity.
From the washington's snairs-eye,
IL was an ignomoanious defeat.
What with liberal errors on the
domestic side of the ledger and alto
gether difficult handling of wet ball
under any circumstances. the game
might well have been postponed until
weather which wasn't cut out for ice
hockey.
Br-r-r-r-r!
To Mr.. slim" Harris. OF Philadel-
phia. we doff our dicer. That young
person. tall and gangling. who would
hardly knock 'em cold in a compe-
tition where divine form counted,
sure had a hook on his ball that
would make a sickle look like a
straight-edge. And stun"
CONNOLLY COULDN'T SEE EN-.
Why. even Umpire. Connolly couldn't
see EN-!
The only real batting rallies Wash
ington showed were when Milan and
Rice were hit by pitched balls in the
third and seventh. II Mister Harris
had hit enough batters, the Griffme n
might have won, but that seemed to
be their only loophole TO a victory
yesterday.
Promptly at game-starting time.
Mister Lawrence Phillips assembled
mound and announced to the faith
full few that the management had
sent out for set OF web feet for
all the players. and that IL il stopped
raining by o'clock the play would
go on.
After lettering around for eighteen
minutes after the appointed hour.
the fans were disappointed by seeing
the players rattle out on the field
without the promised webbed hoofs.
FIRST INNING NOT EXCITING.
The first inning was totally dumb
But in the second the AS started
right in to grease Me game, two runs
having passed through the eye OF a
needle before the aliens retired
Clarence walker used the bad jude-
ment to get grazed by a pitched ball
Frank Walker whitfield. Perkins got
a single to left, advancing Clarence
after which the third OF the Walker
triplots also whitfield.
BAN.
Galloway shakes out a double after
both men on bases had graduated
one sack on a wild pitch. The result
was two runs off OF two hits and a
nest egg for the victory.
Third and fourth didn't develop
much. but in the fifth Washington
seemed to come to life a minute. Mo-
gridge got on with a short fly past
the infeld. Judge forced Mogridge
Milan's base on balls put Joe on sec
ond and Rice scored the little first
baseman.
To retallate, the Athletics put over
one in the same stanza. Harris flied
to Sammy Rice. Dykes BANNED
through the box and advanced on
Dugan's single after witt had flied
out to left. The cutest little tumble
that ever turned a home fan sick oc-
CURED on c. walkers drive, Mister
O'Rourke getting the error and Mister
Dykes scoring. IL was a great inning
from the viewpoint OF the Devil-not
Washington.
MORE SALINE SOLUTION.
with the game pretty we'll sailed
away. the AS sprinkled a little more
saline solution aboard in the sirta
by .nimbly scattering across another