The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
JONES KNOCKED OUT WHEN
NATSRALLYAND SCQRE3RUNS
NEICHTH; RUSSELL FINISHES
johnson Hurls Well for
Seven Rounds, Then
Slips.
RECRUITS IN DEBUT
Brottem and La Motto Get
First Chance, and Show
Up Well.
ny JACK NYE

ny sACh ME-
Some Of these days the Nationsls
are going to hand a drubbing TO
Deacon Sam Jones. the ninslns
party from Boston. and then there
will be cause for celebration
The Deacon stopped the Mats on
opening day. and can't get over tho
habit He got credit for his fourth
win over the homeiings yesterday,
but IL Is encouraging TO note thst
he couldn't do Il BY himself. Ausp
Russell stepped into the bresch-tn
the eighth. when the locals were
taking liberties with their Nemesis,
and shu; them o just in time. The
consequence was that he Besnes.-
ers got away with a to 8 decffion.
Until the interesting eighth u
was refreshing game. largely be
cause IL svas a pitchers' battle.
which is out Of the ordinary for the
Grfns- Any time they lose by one
run II lie something to brag about
Duei for Seven Rou.as
In the FIRST seven rounds lone,
ano Walter johnson staged a fancy
duel. with the visitor h,xtne
slightly the better Of the arru-
ment. Two InfeId hits were an
the Deacon had given up and both
OF them were made by Sam Rice's
bludgeon. One was a slam near
third base. which Eddie Foster was
lucky To knock down. and the
other was q drive 10 McInnis, which
the speed boy converted into a hit
BY reason Of his ability 70 pick
EN- up and lay EN- down. All mis-
time Jones hand't been scored o..
In the meanwhile johnson was
doing some pitching himself. He
struck out six in the seven frames.
but the enemy has registered
run In the fourth on Fosters tvo-
sacker and McInnis' single past
Shanks.
II was anybody's game. with the
result hingeing on the first one ito
crack. Barney was the party and
IL looked like a hopeless battle sin
the eighth when Dufy's men mired
in a couple Of singles and a triple
with pair Of walks. counting
three runs.
Rally Fails by One Ru..
But funny things happen in base
ball. Mcbride decided some pinch
hitting wouldn't hurt, and il al
most ruined Jones. Zeb Milan
hobbled up in the eighth 10 bat for
Tony Brottem, who was making
his first appearance in the lfne-up.
All zeb did was to drop a single
into center. Bobby LaMotte -rsn
for the crippled veteran. Then PAT
"a
ORourke and whacked another
single to the right field. which cut
LaMotte on third. johnson ->ok
heart and. with the count thre.
and two. shot a drive TO left for
one base. counting LaMotte. Judge
cheered tS fans by doubling 10
right center, giving Charity a
ticket home. This was the end or
Mr.. Jones
Russelfs first act upon taking
charge OF the mound was to walk
Harris. which filled the sacks
With nobody out and the clean
up guys at bat things looked
lovely
Rice's best effort was fly 10 Lie
bold in center. upon which John
son refused to take chance
Brewer grounded out to McInnis.
Barney scoring the third run. hut
Bing Miller ingloriousIy struck ont
when single would have tied the
count. Such is life,
MoEridge finished for johnson.
working the final frame without
damage. but the Griffs didn't have
any more rallies in their systegZ
despite the fact that Shanks opened
the inning with q walk. Ellerbe
wound il ell up bv batting for
Mogridge and grounding to Scott.
thing he should have known better
than to do. IL was certain death.
as usual.
First 10 Tally.
II WAS not until the third that the
Red SoX put a man on first, Scott
getting to johnson for the first hit.
Four strikeouts in the FIRST two
innings lent weight TO the belief
that Barney was in for a fine day.
In the fourth Foster doubled to
right and counted on McInnis' drive
just inside third base.
Here Is the story Of Barneys
downfall in the eighth. Jones
walked and Foster singled after
1.iebold had skied to Brewer. Men
osky forced Foster. but Pratt shnt
three-sacker 70 left center. count
ing Jones and Menosky. HendrYx
also drew . pass and McInnis came
through with another pinch hit
counting Menosky. That was all
but twas enough.
Brottem worked well in his nrst
\ American league game. having
little dificulty in holding up John
son. The game also ssw the debpt
OF young LaMotte. the Florida short-
stop. who ran for Milan in the
eighth and then finished at short.
He didn't have much TO do, but dis-
played a strong whip on his only
chance. This Kid shows n lot pf
pep and Il wouldn't be surprising
/ 90 100 him GET a real chance before