Evening star., 1921-03-20

A touch of formali,y was given by
the presence of the city officials.
headed by Mayor Brown. who tossed
out the first ball. and the crowd of
more than 1000 which availed itself
of the only opportunity it will have to
see two major league clubs in action
was not disappointed. Strictly speak
ing the contest was not fair criterion
of big league base ball. because of the
somewhat bushy fielding. but enough
f1aShy stun was uncovered to give the
| natives an inkling of how the game is
played in the big show.
Nationals Use Three HurIern.
Harry Courtney. who started in the
box for the Nationals. because of his
urgent plea to Manager Mcbride.
George Mogridge and Jazebel Zachary
did the f1inging for the hosts and got
away with it in pretty fair shape.
Each of this trio. who represents in
its entirety the left-handed element
of the Nationals pitching roster. was
scored on.
Courtney made the visitors present
of the first tally of the matinee at the
outset. when he walked Lebourveau.
who was sacrificed to second and wild
pitched him to third. Wrightstone
completed the job with a single to
center. Ralph Miller followed with a
galloped far in to clutch Jack Miller s
short fly.
Courtney retired after the second
round when a clean single and a hit
batsman put him in dangerous pre-
dicament from which he was extracted
into left field OF grab Lebourveau's
drive.
MOgridge Starts Poorly.
third and also got off to a poor start.
Rawlings walked. Wrightstone singled
and all hands were safe when Ralph
Miller laid down bunt toward third.
Instead of dashing in for the tap
Ellerbe laid back waiting for Mogridge
to act, with the result that the ball
wasn't fielded at all. With the bases
safety to center that produced a pair
of runs.
The Phillies made no headway
against Mogridge in the next three
frames. however. one of the two who
got a life through the pass route be-
ing snuffed stealing by Charity and
the other dying in double play,
handled in snsppy fashion by Ellerbe.
Harris and Judge.
Zachary had disposed of two in the
seventh inning, in which he made his
appearance. with Picinich receiving.
Wneh rawlings got Two DaSeS on
short bounder that Rice failed to
snare with one hand. O'Rourke's two
base wild heave of Wrightstone' s
roller then accounted for the only
tally chalked against Zach. double
by Peters in the eighth being the only
Philadelphia's early lead was short
lived. four safeties, a walk and a sac
rifice fly netting the Griffmen a quar-
tet of markers in round 2. Harris
opened this session with a stiff jolt
to right and took third when Ellerbe
bounced one over Wrightstone's head
for two bases. Neither advanced while
O'Rourke was being tossed out. Char
rity walked and then Shanks. batting
for Courtney. who had gone to the
showers. ripped single to center
that scored two of his mates and
placed Pat on second. The latter tai
lied on n line drive to center by
Judge, who took second on the throw
in, while Shanks legged it to third.
Hank crossed the plate after Enzmann
got under Milan's fly.
All this was done at the expense of
Lefty Weinert, who made the Griff-
men a present Of another run in the
fourth. Harris again hit safely. this
time to left. and Ellerbe sent him to
third with a real blow to center.