Evening star., 1921-04-28

plctely ruined for the bunch of amb
from George Mcbride.
Yesterdays S-5 triumph. their
touted and high priced aggregation
OF those preceding in its garrison
thing. 1t Was almost a counterpart
cracked after hurting seven hitlcss
mission in the eighth and ninth.
The submarine ball expert was vic
timized again yesterday. although the
stigma of defeat attaches to the name
of Bob Shawkey. who hurled all but
twO-tnirdS of one inning, and until
he began to fade. near the close. gave
The Gotham rooters rosy visions of
lifting the Yankees out of the slough
of deSpond which now embraces five
consecutive setbacks.
Lewis and Shnnks star.
Each day develops a new Eationa
hero of attack. Sunday it was
O Rourke, Monday Milan. and Tues
day Rice. while Yesterday Shanks and
Lewis co-starred in the daily presen
tation of "bringinS home the bacon.
these columns that in addition to
messing up an lnordinately large
number of chances around the not
corner. Shanks had proved some thing
cf fvvrr at the business of pro-
ductive poking. And he had too, but
! hereby hurricdly nolle pressed, in
view of the titanic biff he unwrapped
in round eight yesterday.
1t was a clout for three bases to
such distance that no one had d
rchance to get near it, and. there be-
ing couple of mates on the runways
at the time, it put the Griffmen in the
ball game and gave Lewis his chance
in the final frame. This session open
ed with the count three-all. and when
,, Mogridge was disposed of little basis
existed for the belief that much head
way could be made against the offer
ings of Shawkey. who had yielded
| only five bingles, scattered over as
many innings.
When Judge rammed his third hit
of the afternoon to center and Milan
had obtained his third free ticket.
NJ. Higgins decided to summon Mays
from the bull pen as "A precautionary
measure. 1t appeared to be wise
move. at that, for Rice's best was a
little roller to Pipp that succeeded
solely in advancing his pals. and 1t
brought up Lewis. who had only two
infield taps, easy fly and base on
balls to his credit in four previous
appearances. there being some one on
ahead of him on three of these occa-
siOns.
Duffy Hits in Pinch.
IT was here that the reason for
gerous guy in a pinch was illustrated.
After popping a foul into the right
field stand George Edward met one
on the snout and drove it on line
over Ruths head for two bases. That
settled the issue then and there. three g
dispirited Yanks dying aerlaliy In the
fag-end of the frame.
Mogridge pitched impressively in
the three innings he worked: which IS
considerably more than can be said
of Jim Shaw, who was in trouble in
all but one of the first six stanZas.
J. Aloysius yielded six bingles and
four passes during his tenure, and
may be accounted lucky to have es-
capped with only three tallies charged
against him.
The Nationals varied their custom
Of recent days by grabbing lead
for themselves at the expense of
Shawkey in the opener, Judge com
pleting the circuit on his single to
center walk to Milan and infleld
rollers by Rice and Lewis. With
Zeb on third. Harris hit wicked
liner straight into the hands of Peck.
This advantage lasted but momen-
tarily. however. Shaw saw to that.
With Fewster disposed of. Peck got
safety and Shaw walked Ruth and
Pipp to FIJI the bases. Meusel sent a
long drive to Rice that scored Peck
and when Sans return bounded bad
lv Ruth reached the plate ahead Of
ORourke's peg. but Charity got the
ball back to Mickey in time to efface
Pipp at second.
Harris Leaves Three On.
Absence of punch when it was
needed spoiled a fine opening given
the Nationals by Shawkey's unsteadi-
ness in the third. After ldge had
SHOT double over first base Milan
and Lewis walked. with Rice lofting
harmlessly in between. 1t was up to
Harris but his soft roller TO Peck
resulted in an easy dual killing.
With two away in the flag end of
this frame Shaw again paved the
way for the alien scoring through
inability to locate the plate for Ruth.
Then Harris and Milan helped the
thing along. Stan butterfingered a
hot smash from Pipp, which was re-
corded as Il hit. although Stan was
gwen an error because Ruth was
enabled to obtain an extra base.
MeuseI hit cleanly to left. scoring the
Babe and reached second with Pipp
taking third. when Milan, as usual.
allowed the ball to dribDle through
his legs Rice called Il halt by get
ting under Bodies fly.
From the third to the seventh only
one National got on the bases, Milan
beating out roller to Fewster in
the fifth, and taking second on Chick $
bad peg, where ne ulcd Wheh rice
raised an easy fly.
Fail in "Lucky Seventh"
In the so-called lucky frame they
had IA fat chance to knot the count.
Shawkey proved too formidable for
them, although Milan narrowly miss
ed sinking him. With O'Rourke out,
Charity singled between Ward and
Peck. Batting for Shaw, Brewer drew
pass and advanced a notch with
Pat. when Shawkey let loose with Il
wild pitch. Bob famed Judge. how
ever. and after Milan raped one into
the left field bleachers that went foul
only a couple of feet he rolled weak
ly TO Fewster.
The manner in which the Nationals
knOttcd the count in the eighth was
highly dramatic. considering their ut =
ter passivity during the six preced-
ing rounds. Rice coaxed walk foI