The Washington times., 1921-05-12

Jameson opened Cleveland's game
with a perfect single to center. Doc
Johnston worked a clever hit and run,
poking the ball safely past Harris In
to right field. where Brewer fumbled
IL. Jameson was at third and Jonn-
ston at second. Speaker topped one.
The ball rolled down the first-basc
line and with johnson and Judge mixed
up as to which should take 1t, neither
did and Speaker was on first. filling
the corners.
SMITH ROLLS ONE.
Long before the flag-raising enter.
tainment began, Cleveland fans
poured into the ball park. Every seat
was taken IN the huge stand when
the band left it's seats and proceeded
to the plate for the parade to CEN
terrified The band headed the pa
rade, followed by a squad of ma
rines. Then came Governor Davis.
of Ohio; President Jim Dunn, of the
Indians; Uncle Nick Altrock, and the
two ball clubs. The usual march
over, the new flag, emblematic OF
all the hopes and fears of Cleveland
fans since first they had major
league baseball club, was raised to
the top of the staff and floated away
in the stiff breezes.
Did these fans go wild? Well say
they did. They tore the welkin right
open instead of merely ringing 1t.
There isn't any more welkin left in
this part OF the world. that's all. 1t
is the first flag of it's kind ever seea
in Cleveland, and one can easily i'm
agine the int crest and the fervor OF
the bugs.
"If Washington ever gets flag
like that" said George Mcbride, who
has been playing beside the Potomac
long enough to know, "the skirts will
fall apart because Of the racket. And
I'd like mighty well to be the mana
ger of the team to win it."
LOOKED LIKE KIDS.
But Georges hirelings performed
like so many schoolboys yesterday.
and his hope got a bust right in the
eye. 1t was a complete and utter
rout of the troublemakers, an abso-
lutte reversal of their form of the
day previous. To be defeated car
ries no sting, but to be driven all
over the lot, to make seven errors
that got into the book and half
dozen more that didn't, to look like
pigmies at the hat. to have pitching
worse than usually-that Is another
story. the story of the Griff's in yes
terday's exhibition. They fell, IA to 1,
and their one run came on an error.
Walter Johnson started. He faded
| away in two innings. the Indians
slamming him for seven hits, one a
triple, and his mates giving him three
errors in the field.
The Indians led, 8 to o when Court
ney came to the hill.
Tampa is yawning for Courtney. He
yielded ten hits and eight runs. He
suffered some from poor support, IL is
true. but his team suffered from most
vulnerable hurting, while he was out
there on the wind-swept hillock. AS
a matter of fact, compared with the
marvellous Coveleski. both the Wash
ington pitchers looked very bad.
ALLOWED FOUR HITS.
Cleveland's Polish wonder allowed
four hits and Gharrity's double in the
ninth was possible only because
Evans misjudged the drive. Never
did the Griffs get two hits in one
frame. They merely approached the
plate and went back to the dugont
like so many whipped children.
Smith rolled to the box and II
looked like an easy double play.
Jameson was caught at the plate,
but Picinich, in tossing to Judge, hit
Smith on the shoulder. Johnston and
second before the ball could be
.snagged. Larry Gardner singled to
right, bringing Smith across. Shanlls
took Sewells foul fly. Gardner stole
but Johnson whitfield young Stephen
son. The champions were Off to a
healthy lead.
The gale sweeping across the feld
gave Steve O'Neill a triple to open the
home teams second frame. 1t blew
1t