The Washington herald., 1921-05-14

Possibly the blow will do the
champs q lot of good They had
become overconfident as a result of
their easy victories over the West
-srn clubs of the circuit and were
becoming imbued with the feeling
that when they went upon the field
1t merely was a question of how
large a score they would win by.
Now that Washington has won
three straight they are likely to
realize that they cannot spot the
Eastern teams anywhere from two
to hve runs in the opening round
and win as they did against West
ern teams
Mogridge, while winning about
as easily as Erickson did upon the
previous afternoon, was hit much
harder than the lanky Swede.
Cleveland has not hit pitcher as
hard this year and yet fail to ac-
complish so little in the scoring
way. The trouble was the Red
skins hit the ball too hard. Wood.
Stephenson and O'Neill lay back,
took toe holds and swung with ter
rific force. While some of their
drives went safe, there were fve
that did not for the reason the Ma
tional gardeners turned their backs
to the plate and went back to the
bleachers when any of the right
handed trio came to bat. AS re-
suit of their foresight. they caught
drives that appeared ticketed dou-
bles and triples when they left the
bat
Wood and steve Hit Hard.
Wood and Stephenson, however,
were really the only two who took
undue liberties with the tantalizing
slants dished up by the veteran
left handler.
Wood singled viciously to left the
first time up. Rice went to the
scoreboard to take Smoky Joe S
drive ip the fourth, while Duffy
Lewis ran up the embankment in
left center in the sixth and grabbed
a triple away from the Indian right
fielder. In the eighth Wood smash
ed a triple to left but there were
two out and the smash was vast
ed
Stephenson managed to get both
of his hardest drives safe. Sewell
was on first when the "Ole Hoss
doubled in the fourth Sewell
however, was unable to score as the
ball nit the far concrete with such
Z force il bounded back to Lewis and
Il a Cleveland run was cut OF. Fifth
City fans still had hopes that Steve
O'Neill would deliver hit that
would send two runners across the
plate. but Lewis was equal to the
occasion by chasing back into deep
left center for Steve's energetic
drive.
1t really took errors on the part
of Washington to give Cleveland
the two runs it scored off Mogridge
despite the fact four of the Tribes
seven hits were for two or more
bases. 1t. was a wild throw by
O'Rourke that enabled Joe Evans
to score all the way from first base
and 1t took a wild throw by Mog-
ridge to let Stephenson romp home
from third in the seventh. Evans
might have counted in the first
with perfect play but Stephenson's
seventh round triple would have
been wasted had not Mogridge hit
O'Neill in the shoulder as Steve
was racing to first-
Indian Errors Help
The Indians were guilty of four
and crowded them all into the first
round when the Mats won the game
by scoring three runs Stephenson
had two, as many as he had been
guilty of in all the preceding games
while Joe Evans and Steve O'Neill
each bobbed up with one. To add
to the discomfort Of that inning.
Uhle yielded four hits He was ef-
fective the remainder of the route
but II was in a lost cause with the
ment on Mogridge.
Wonder IL the fact 1t was Fri
day. the thirteenth, had anything
to do with the Indians stealing the
Nationals stuff and making four
errors in the opening round. The
averages. by the way. show the Mats
and Indians to be the worst two
felding teams in the league.
The game was delayed often by
the protests of Manager Speaker
that Pitcher Mogridge was pitch
ing illegallyi when there was
runner on first- Spoke argued with
Umptre-in-chief Wilson and then
with Dineen. who. having been
piteher for many years, ought to
know what constitutes illegal de-
livery.
The best he got out of IL. accord
ing to his statement after the game.
was that the next time Mogrsdgc
va. thus guilty he. Wilson. would
sall IL SO. Speaker, accordingly, or
eered Larry Gardner in the sixth
inning to try for second so as to
make a test case. Gardner was
easily retired. Mogridge to Judge to
O'Rourke, whereupon Wilson failed
TO 60 through with his agreement.
IF Mogridge is allowed to use
ruch movement said Speaker
after the game. mo runner can take
. lead Of more than six feet OF first
base"
Joe Judge, Sam Rice and Frank
Brewer were the three Nats>who in
fiicted the most damage on uhle, the
trio collecting seven of Washing
tons ten hits They were real hits,