The Washington herald., 1921-04-15


Two Of the Mats veteran outfield-
ers, who have been hitting weakly
since spring training began, took
advantage of the occasion TO dem
onstrate that they have found their
batting eyes. Zeb Milan and Duffy
Lewis led the stickers with three
bingles apiece, one of Duffy's being
a double to center. Zeb had a per-
feet day at the bat and also scored
a trio of runs. Outside of that the
old timer didn't have much to do.
There was nothing imposing
about Hugh Duffy's pitchers. He
used three men and none Of them
started and went along until five
runs had been scored before the NTH
was over. He has always had a
hard time with the washingtonians
and this season has brought no bet
ter luck. Allen Russell. the invalid
of last season. then worked two in
nings and a fraction. yielding but
one run. Fullerton. a husky Bos-
ton product, finished and during his
stay the total was boosted two
more. All of the Boston slabbers
were wild and when they put the
ball over 1t was picked.
o'Rourke II Likely Guy.
Boston showed a complete form
reversal after their snappy work in
the opening game. They fielded slop-
PLY, four misplays being charged
against them. On the other hand,
the Mats fielded like fiends, es-
pecially this Mr. Frank O'Rourke,
who is holding down short. The
Irishman is making friends with
each appearance. He started two
double plays yesterday and other
wise distinguished himself, snag-
ging near-hits with deadly precision.
Frank is still throwing awkardly,
but he gets them across the diamond
in plenty OF time. So what's the
diff?
HustIing Hank Shanks interjected
a fine piece of work when he re-
versed himself under steam and
fiattened out on his side to snag
Gharrity's wild peg to third in one
of the early innings. 1t was a re-
markable stop.
O'RoUrke's skill helped to keen
Schacht out of trouble in the first
inning. Witt walked, and was fore
ed by Foster. Then Menosky lam
med one near second base, but
Frank gathered it in. touched the
sack and whipped the ball to Judge
for a neat double play 1t was fast
work.
Mats Begin Scoring Early.
In their half of the first the Mats
rang up their first run. Milan and
Rice singled. with one out, and
Lewis shot a safe one to right,
counting Zeb.
LiebOld hammered a drive to right
in the second for two bases. barely
beating Milan's peg to the midway
sack. was sacrificed by McInnis and
scored on John Collins fly to Lewis.
Duffy made a great peg to the plat
ter and almost extinguished the
fleet Memo.
This tied things temporarily, but
Milan's walk, two infeld outs and
Harris single, which bounced off
Pennock's props. put the Mats ahead
again in the third. After that they
steadily piled up runs.
PennOck Forced TO Retire.
Pennock got into deep water in
the fourth and retired after three
runs had been scored Charity
opened with a long fly to center
which Collins dropped. after hav-
ing made the catch. Schacht walk
ed and Judge hunted the two along.
Milan scored Charity with
single to left. and Schacht made a
thrilling sprint home when Me-
nosky juGEIed the ball. zeb pulled
Up at second. and counted on
Judges short fly to right, which
Liebold missed by inches. After
Harris had singled and Shanks had
walked, filing the bases. Russell
replaced Pennock and retired the
side when O'Rourke forced Hank
at second.
Another Washington score came
in the sixth. when Lewis drove one
of Russell's slants to right for two
bases, was. sacrificed to third by
Harris. and -rotted home on Shanks'
long fly to Menosky.
Harris PLIERS Twice.
With young Fullerton doing the
hurling in the seventh, Charity
opened with a walk, and scored a
few seconds later on MiIan's third
single. Fullerton was also wobbly
in the, eighth. and hit Harris after
Lewis had been retired. Bucky inn
stole second Shanks
walked. and a double steal was half
Harris reached third,
but Shanks changed his mind W en-
he got half way to second, and
came right back to frs That
stun 70 led the youth
full Muddy RueI mpletely After
all this fancy base running. how
ever. the Mats were retired without
another run.
Boston's second and last run fl
tered over in the fifth. when a
walk to Ruel. singles by Witt and
Foster, and an infield out brought