Evening star., 1921-09-04

6OsCn III the race, Wllli- II ID ilidtIlSl
means of helping the Mackmen to
rupted tenure OF six years.
The one outstand ng reason for ,he
pitiful showing OF the Ndt.Cni.S dur
ing the tobogSan ridv l..ey ncw ar:
the pitching staff. This 5 evidenced
by the fe.u, that in the last n-ne
games a Washing -On pitcn>r ,.s;s
been able to 81 lie route on uny
three OCCASIONS, Mog-iase, Iacialy
and Johnson eacn peitoI ming this
feat. and the last named was ham
mered unmerci1ui-y IN 40 ng 1t. With
the sagging of the mvunu corps the
IHorale Cf the en.,re team mas Suf-
Tered ana the players appeal 10 ne
hrmiy embedded IN the slough OF
desp6nd u.slIte the almost Icantlc
eflor,s of PIiot McBI ide to rally t.e.n.
Make Their Hit. COun,.
The penchant of the Yankees for
placing their hits to the pest pos
sibie advantage was illustrated strik-
ingly again Today wnen, a. -er an
nexing their nrst tally witnout the
aid OF a bingle. tney wasted only two
of the eleven blows computed OF the
combined efforts of Courtney and
Scnachr, whine only lou, "a tile seven
Satellites gdrnered of Carl Mays Dehe-
hIed the IrIl,men.
In their current series with the Ma
tionals, whIcn Was loOkeu forward 10
with some reputation Ii, uo.na.... duo
the previous success enjoyed by tne
Nationals. not only this year, out last
season, when The Gr.l.s JdSt aoou.
knocked the New Workers cut or
pennant, the impotency OIL McBrioe
nIngerS anu the awe-i.spifhhs punth
hacked by the Yankees is strlkingly
shown by the fact that the New 10. A-
ers have registered fity-nine ruSe IN
six games, Just traction undeE Ten
taliles 10 the confess. ahd most OF
them earned on clean, hard cIoutlnG'
GriTn on In Front.
A was the case yesterday. the Ma
t;onals hoped into lead In the nrst
inning. wnen Busn walkeu, s.rea keu
singled to right. and Tailed after
Judge popped to Peck. on Rice's long
fly to Elmer Miller.
Another marker was picked up In
the second when Harris opened with
a safety to center, galloped all the
tossing out Shanks, and counted on
SkarrityS safe jolt to left
The Yanks got one of these back
Ia their half of the second when
Meusel started with a pass. took
second on Pipps death. stole third as
Ward drew tree transportation. and
scored while Courtney was handling
McNally's difficult bounder.
Ruth Hits for Circuit.
One of those always imminent Yam
kee flare-ups occurred in the third
when Courtney, who had pitched hit
less ball up to that time, was with
drawn under fire and Schacht, his
logged. the net result of the yield
off them being half a dozen counters.
which served to lay the game away in
red flannel
Carl Mays opened the assault with
a clout that struck the wall in front
of the right field stand and caromed
off for three bases. Elmer Miller
va. S>anked and Peck singled sharp
l5 ,-- chhanks. cashing Mays. 1t
was here Courtney was bumped right
out of the pastime, Ruth being the
bumper with a little fly that just
cleared the lower railing of the
grandstand.
1t would have been an easy out on
almost any field except the Polo
Grounds. Nevertheless. it permitted
Z. Miller and Peck to register ahead
of the Bambino. who was duly credit
ed with his fiftieth homer of the sea-
son, the 153rd of his career. and now
has to manufacture only four more
circuit cIouts to reach his record
total established last year.
sehacht starts Well.
-Schacht entered upon his duties in
an impressive manner by compelling
both Meusel and Pipp to raise easy
infiield flies, but he slipped a cog in
walking Ward. Then a hit was cred
tied to McNally on a rap Shanks
should have handled, and the pair of
Hugmen raced to the counting block
when Devormer sent the ball soaring
over Bing Miller's head in deep left.
This swat was a regular triple, but
yielded only one base. because the
Yanks' youthful backstop neglected to
touch first and was called back by
Pilot Huggins, coaching there to at
tend to the little technicality.
Schacht disposed of the first six men
in the Yankee array in the next two
rounds. but was nicked for a tally in
scored on Elmer Milier's triple to
right center. This wallop lacked only
a little of being good for the circuit.
Miller being tagged at the plate on
Harri relay to Charity of Rice's
throw
Add Tally In Eighth.
TIL. tanks were turned back in the
sewer n, when Ruth biffed into a dual
killing after Peck opened with a
for IA double. but they added another
marker to their total in the eighth on
successive singles by McNally. De-
v0r ner and Mays, the latters being
a little Texas Lacquer to right that
neither Harris nor Milan was able to
reach.
Following round 2 the Nationals
were able to solve Mays to the extent
of only four scattered singles until
the ninth. when. with two down.
Shanks swatted hook into the lower
tier of the right-fleld stand for the
circuit. 1t was all over when Brewer,
subbing for Schacht. hoisted a foul on
which McNally made a fine twisting
catch close to the stand.