New-York tribune., 1921-09-28

Grimes Loses,
But Mitchell
Lands Victory
Brooklyn Drops First Game
to Boston, Then Wins
Easily by Score of 80


BOSTON, Sept. 27.--Burleigh Grimes
lost the first game of the double-header
to-day for the Brooklyn Dodgers by 8
to s, but Southpaw Clarence Mitchell
won the second game for Brooklyn by
to @.
The feature of the second game was
that the Dodgers scored eight runs
from their thirteen hits in spite Of the
fact that the Braves made triple and
three double plays. The triple play was
the second in which the Dodgers have
been concerned this season, the other
having been pulled by them on the
Giants month ago in Brooklyn.
Schmandt had reached second and
Janvrin first for Brooklyn in the fourth
inning of the second game when lack
Taylor lined out to Horace Ford at
shortstop. Ford stepped on second,
doubling up Schmandt off that bag, and
Fords throw to Holke was received be-.
| fore Janvrin could get back to that
base.
Ford also figured in all of the double
plays. He was having Ford day, and
before the second game received low
ing cup and travelling bag from his old
cronies of Somerville, Mass, across the
| IlVcE IL Olu 1fUctous @SOt oAiy NAA ~ "a
field sensationally, but he made three
hits for the benefit of the 5000 fans.
Passes Costly to Grimes
Bases on balls were costly to Grimes
in losing the opening game, as three of
| the six men who drew passes from him
scored. Southworth walked in the
fourth inning, stole second and crossed
the plate on Holke's double. Gowdy
| Eff1o hu Arouyinr
Fi]lingim famed, but Powell hit to GEN.
ter, the first of his three successive
triples scoring Gowdy, and Powell tai
| lied when Olson threw out Christen-
bury.
Four runs from four hits clinched
the game for the Braves in the seventh
inning. Gowdy started with a single
and Fillingim walked. Both went in on
Powells second triple. Christenbury
singled, scoring Powell, and "Christy"
reached home on Southworth's sacrifice
and Holke's single. Fillingim singled
in the eighth after two were out and
came home on Powell's triple.
The Dodgers burched three of their
six hits off Flllingim in the eighth inn
ing, with two passes for FIVE runs.
, Eddie Eayers batted for Ward and
walked Miller rolled to Christenbury,
who tried for force play, but Eayers
beat the throw to second. Olson sim
gled, scoring Eayers, and Johnston
walked, filling the bases. Wheat's dou-
BILE to right scored Miller and Olson,
Myers singled over second, scoring
Johnston and Wheat. Fillingim threw
out Schmandt.
Mitchell Outpitched Pair
Mitchell kept the nine hits off him in
the second game we'll scattered and was
never in danger Garland Braxton. a
young southpaw who has been with the
| Braves all season, started the game for
them and allowed ten~hits and five runs
in eight innings. Cy Morgan. a right
handed recruit from Pittsfeld, Mass.
eastern League), pitched the ninth
and allowed three hits and three runs.
Schmandt drew pass in the second
inning of the second game. Ford's bad
boot of Taylor's blow sent Schmandt
to third, and he scored on Mitchell's
single. Singles by Wheat, Schmandt
and Janvrin, pass to Taylor and a
single by Mitchell accounted for three
runs in the sixth. Johnston singled in
the seventh, took second on Neis's out,
stole third and scored on Wheat's sim
gle.
Olson led off against Morgan in the
ninth and walked. Johnston's single,
| Neiss double and Wheat's triple netted
three runs.
The scores: