The Washington herald., 1921-06-21

Clyde Milan's bat in the seventh.
as the Athletics had taken sV
kindly to his servings that therv
was little or no sense in allowing
hfm to remain. Jim Shaw finished
the game that had already been
Every batter with the exception of
Moore took a rap from the Wash
ington beavers. Moore was stingy
with his base hits. as Washington
got only four. but, on the other
hand, twice that number walked
from Moore's wildness.
Mack's men were in hitting
mood in the first. Aside from
Wits circuit clout, welch and Nc
Cam doubled. Tnly Walker and Cy
Perkins tripled.
COB -iH-the Navy until Norfolk
grab6Gd-him out of the service to
twill in the virginia League. was
quite conspicuous during the after
noon for Washington. He connect
cd for two hits in each match,
triple being accredited to him in
the hrst. and a pair of two-ply hits
in the second match.
Although beaten in the second
game. Bob Hasty pitched good ball,
considering that pitcher these
days of the lively rubber cement
gets away we'll If he allows less
than ten hits. Washington got
eight of him in the second game.
Judges single and Rice's double
gave the Nationals their first run
in the opening inning ORourke's
single to center, Courtney's bingle
and Judges long fly gave the Ma
tionais another in the third. Emmet
McCann's wild heave for two bases,
after two had gone out in the
NTH, resulted indirectly in two
runs. Courtney followed O'Rourke's
good break with a double to right
that put the first run over. Judge
singled ITO left, and Tilly Walker
would have had Courtney had cy
Perkins held the ball at. the plate.
The mishap of Cy's was partly ex-
cusable, as he suffered a lot of pun
ishment by receiving in two games
in which he was badly bruised by
bad pegs and foul tips
This was the most damaging inn
ing for Bob Hasty and IL was more
ors1ess the fault OF young McCann.
the former West Philadelphian.
Hasty's work for the remainder of
the game was Of high class.
O'Rourke got a single after two
had gone away in the seventh and
this did not matter much. The
bristling play of this inning was
Johnny Walkers catch and the
tumble he took over the low wall
separating the crowd from the right
field foul territory on Shanks' wind
carried foul.
In the eighth Sam Rice doubled
to right The ball was hard hit
and struck about two yards low of
going over for a homer into Twen-
tieth street Witt leaped for the
ball. which bounded back Hasty
finished well on the hill but not
so good at the bat. He famed in
the Athletics half of the ninth with
McCann, his hitting chum of the
lower peg of the batting order.
watching the side retired. Hand
with the French army in the world
anatomy over there, pitched great
ball. Only four Athletics got to see
first base In seven innings. His
pitching opponent. Hasty, beat out
a scratch single following McCann's
bang to center for a single in the
third. In the sixth Hasty punched
. nice single to center that looked
good for a rally. This was all the
hitting that had been done against
Courtney, the southpaw, up until
the eighth
Hasty was forced at second by
Witt with oRourke taking the play
unassisted- Jimmy Dykes then
forced Witt and Courtney put the
rally on the blink by causing welch
to ny to Rice, whose running catch
was cheered heartily.
In the eighth McCann bear out
an inneld tap and scored on Hasty's
third hit. this being a double to
center good enough for McCann to
score. Things looked rather dis
eouraging for Courtney, the man
with the self-reliance. He walked
Dykes. welch cracked a hit OF
Shank shins that caused Courtney
% gaze about Washington's bull
pen. where another finger was
warming up. There were two out,
however, and the third was Tilly
Walker. with Harris playing on
Tiily at FIRST
After Johnny walker had gone
away In the Athletics dying half,
Cy Perkins lifted the ball into the
LEFT neld bleachers for a homer.
Dugan flied to Harris, but Mccain
continued the annoyance for Court
ney BY waiting him out for a pass.
The crowd roared for Hasty to kno,
the count IL possible, but the big
fellow took three swings that SET
the crowd loose.