Evening star., 1921-06-03

Mogridge. also a veteran. having
passed his thirty-frst milestone
owns a 1921 mark of .714 from five
victories and two reverses. The
southpaw indicated last Monday that
he is at the top of his stride by
banking the heavy-hitting Yankees
with two singles. If this pair hook
up there should be a pitchers battle
of proportions at the Florida avenue
stockade.
Courtney Hurls Well.
Four thousand fans yesterday saw
the Nationals ring up their fourth
Pale Hose. through a combination OF
pitching prowess by Harry Courtney
and a punching Of bingles by his sup
porting cast off Kerr, the wee. Court
ney limited the visitors to half a
dozen blows and one earned run.
while McBride's performers collected
twice as many blows and profited
greatly by massing three-fourthS OF
them in two rounds.
Falk registered the initial tally OF
the pastime for the Sox in round 2.
when he started with a clean single
to- right Mostil beat out bunt to
Shanks The bases were loaded when
Courtney failed to get the ball over
for Sheely and Falk counted while
O'Rourke engineered a double play
on Yaryan's roller. with the assistance
Of Judge.
The Nationals could do little with
Kerr in the early rounds. Harris
got single in the opener and after
being trapped by Collins on Rice's
bounder reached second when Sheely
hurled the ball into his ribs and was
wild pitched to third. where Brewer
left him. Miller's double to start the
second was wasted when Skanks
Charity and O'Rourke lofted. Harris
was tagged stealing after walking in
the third and in the following frame
Rice, Brewer and Miller proved easy.
Different In the Fifth.
But it was different in the fifth
when three clean-cut bingles and
two rather fiukey ones were punched
for a quartet of markers: Shanks
took second on Gharrity's safety to
left and scored when O'Rourke du-
plicated this blow. Charity and
O'Rourke moved up on Courtney s
neat sacrifice. and Tailed when
Judges crash caromed of Kerr,s
vanced on Harris death and counted
when Rice slipped a single past
Collins. Sam swiped second, but died
there. Brewer popping weakly to
Sheely.
Set down in order in the third, the
Sox got an athlete as far as second
in the fourth on Hooper's single and
Falk's sacrifice. Kerr reached the
midway in the fifth on his safety
and a passed ball, and Hooper again
attained this station in the sixth
when Harris fumbled MoStirs roller
after Harry. had walked. A lone
walk accrued to them in the seventh,
but in the eighth they picked up
their second run. Harris paved the
way for it by trying to toss a
grounder from Collins bat before he
got it. Hooper's single sent Eddie
to third. and he scored, after Falk
had hoisted a short fly, on Mostils 9
Miller got under with some effort.
single put a pair of Sox on with two
down in the ninth. but Hooper failed
to get the ball past Harris.
Three More in Eighth.
Shanks and Judge hit safely in
the sixth and seventh, respectively.
but it was not until their last turn at
bat that the Nationals again were
able to score. Then they shovel
three over. Rice started with a.
bingle, Miller walked, and with two
down Sam scored on a single to left
by Charity, Miller also reaching the
platter when F'alks heave to the
plate got away from Yaryan, while
Charity attained third, in position
to tally on ORourke's safety to right
A bum chuck by Kerr put Bla.ckie
on third, where Courtney left him.