Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-06-21

There is more than natural rea-
son for exceptional prowess of port
siders on the local grounds. accord
ing to the players, however. they
claiming that owing. to the location
= of the score board it's black and white
spaces interfere with the batSman's
vision when he is facing forkhand-
er. Moore is Mack's lone lefthander,
aside from two youngsters. Heimach
and Slappey, whose names appear on
the Philadelphia roster. but never in
q box score. so in this respect the
GriffS may be figured to have an edge
aside from that shown by the stand
ing of the teams in the three con-
tests remaining to be played here.
Lefthanderx Show PrOwess
Moore proved far superior to his
orthodox flinging rivals in the opener,
holding the Nationals to four safeties.
while both AcoSta and Shaw failed to
fool the enemy at critical junctures.
Courtney was but little less effective
in the nightcap than Moore had been,
hurting shutout ball for seven frames,
while his mates buSched bingles on
Bob Hasty in three different rounds.
HaSty and Courtney both supple
mented their mound work with eff
feCtive sticking, the former polling
three to unguarded spots, while Har-
Sy connected for single and dOu-
BILE. both a factor in the scoring of
runs.
A tumble by O'Rourke pointed the
way for couple of alien counters at
the outset of the opening encounter;
Dykes getting a life thereon and
scoring on a double by Welch. who
Tailed on Tilly Walkers single.
The Griffs got one of these back in
the second. when Brewer walked.
was wild-pitched to second, advanced
scored on Shanks' single. After
Charity lofted O'Rourke obtained
a Texas Lacquer and AcoSta walked
to fill the bases. but Dykes cleverly
handled Judges rap.
The tieing tally accrued in the third.
when Rice tripled and after Brewer
walked. chased home on Miller's
sacrifice fly.
Wits Homer Breaks Deadlock.
Witt whacked the first ball pitched
in the flag end of this frame over the
right-field wall. Singles by Dykes
and c. Walker followed, but were null
lifted when Harris converted Johnny
Walkers fly into double play.
plain muff of an easy fly by Rice
assisted the Athletics to another run
in the sixth. Johnny Walker was the
beneficiary. and he reached second,
although Harris nearly kicked himself
out of the game, contending Sans
throw beat Johnny to the midway.
Walker took third on Perkins sacri-
flee and scored, after Dugan walked,
on McCann's sacrifice fly.
Milan, having limped painfully to
the bench after attempting to hit for
Acosta in the seventh. Shaw tried his
hand at pitching. Three runs result
ed, a muff by Miller, usually a deadly
fly catcher. making two of them pos
sible. Witt beat bounder to O'Rourke
and was forced by Dykes, who scored.
after Welch popped to Charity, on
Tiily Walkers triple to right, the lat
ter counting when Miller dropped j.
Walkers liner, and still another tally
resulting from a three-bagger Per-
kins lined against the bleacher fence.
One lucky single by Rice was the
extent of the damage done to Moore
after the third. and although the
southpaw's unsteadiness permitted
four Griffs to reach the initial station,
mona got any farther double plays
twice checking them. In the ninth
they had chance to do something,
when a pair of walks and Dykes FUN
BILE loaded the bases with two out, but
Rice succumbed to Moore's clever
hurting.