Evening star., 1921-06-20

ana lOSt SIX games, anu no" dIC Ill
from their total of thirty-four gal
when their climb started.
Boston alone made 4 showing as good
as Washington in its home stand against
the invaders. just closed. the Red Sox
being charged with only five reverses
against ten wins. The Yankees won ten
and lost seven. and the Mackmen took
only four out of thirteen contests. Only
the White Sox Of the western contingent
won more games than they lost on alien
territory. taking eight out Of fifteen
games. The Indians annexed seven in
fifteen, the Browns hooked seven and
dropped ten and the Tigers won five
and lost eleven.
Sections Well Matched.
e. The results of both interSectional
meetings show east and west to he very
evenly matched. the frontier teams win
ming thirty-four and losing twenty seven
at home and losing thirty-Six while
winning twenty-seven on the seaboard.
the eastern clubs now having margin
on their rivals in the aggregate, 63 to
81.
New York has the best east VS. west
totals with 20 won and l3 lost Wash
fngton is second with 10 and Is. and
then come Chicago. II and 13: Boston.
Is and "A: Cleveland. l5 and 10: st.
Louis; is and l6; Detroit. l3 and ls:
Philadelphia. and 10.
In the twenty-five games Washington
played on its own pasture from May -
to yesterday Mogridge showed the way
to McBride's fingers. whose records.
won and lost. were: Mogridge. and 1:
Schacht. and 0: Courtney. and l:
Acosta. . and l: Erickson. ! and 0:
Zachary. and >; Johnson. = and 4.
Mackmen Are Not Weak.
Although still foundering. with alb
0olutely no prospect of emerging
from the dark cellar which has been
hni ha f.lfi inn ha Of Six
sons. the Mackmen have well es-
tablished reputation for slugging.
and IL the Nationals make the mis-
take Of taking them too lightly they will
and half in the rear OF the Yankees
when they invade the Polo Grounds
next Friday to do battle with Miller
Huggins' second-place outfit.
Unless they drill on at their best
gait they also may see the Indians.
who now. possess an edge of four
full games on them. increase this
advantage. for the Speakerites for
more than two weeks now will be
engaged with only western clubs.
for the world champions. despite
their inability to more than break
even with eastern teams.
1t is likely Acosta and Courtney
will each start one of the games
here this afternoon. although Erick-
son. shaw and Schacht also are prob
abilities. Aside from Bryan Harris.
who toiled Saturday. every one of
Connie Mack's hurlers is available.
with plenty of rest. for the battles
today.
Davis Pitches Fine Ball.
1t required a superlative brand of
pitching by Frank Davis to enable the
Browns to exc out one lone victory in
the five games they played in Wash
ington and then they attained FL
verdict in ten innings only by the
margin of a passed ball Davis ex
hibition of hurting in these days of
pitcher mauling and to battles
was a decided novelty to the nearly
$4,000 fans who packed the stands
and provided a crumb of comfort for
Lee Fohl who had seen every other
one of his staff of ten fingers in un
auccesSful efforts to stop the Grif
men. But Dixie had to be good for
he was opposed by Walter johnson.
whose work was reminiscent of the
days before he injured his mighty
right arm and before they started
manufacturing base balls out of bet
ter material" Furthermore Dixie and
his teammates got all the worst of
the breaks until that in the tenth,
which settled the issue.
Nine innings filled to the brim with
sensational plays and tense situations
found the clubs deadlocekd at 1-ail.
Lamb opened the tenth with a clean
shot to center only to be forced when
Shanks ferried Sisters roller to
ORourke. Williams second double
and his third safety of the afternoon
too dangerous and was purposely
passed, filling the bases. O'Rourke
then made a spectacular leaping stab
on Jacobson's bounder and forced
Sfsler at the plate with an offbalance
peg to Charity. Johnson had two
when a high delivery ripped through
Gharrity's hands to the stand, scor-
ing Williams with the decisive run.
McManus then grounded to O'Rourke.
Browns First to Score.
Retired in order in the opener. st.
Louis registered the initial tally of
the pastime in wound when Will
liams led with vicious double to
right center and SEVERED followed
with blow of similar proportions to
left, Hank being left at the midwa"
when Jacobson. McManus and Lee a.
raised flies.
A pair of walks was the extent of
the damage done to the delivery OF
Davis until the fourth. when Rice and
Miller scratched safeties to McManus.
only to have Shanks rap into double
play. O'Rourke was winged in the
fifth and caught stealing after Char
rfty and Johnson both had whitfield.
hut in the sixth the Griffmen worked
a runner around the circuit to tie 1t
up. and without the aid of anything
resembling a bingle. pass to Judge
was followed by Harris sacrifice. Rice
- then bounded to Sisler, whose toss to
Davis, covering first. retired him. But
Sam crashed into the pitcher. who
was knocked sprawlng and before
he could unscramble himself Judge
had chased all the way home from
second with the tying tally.
=Tobin got no farther than the in
itial station after beating out a bunt
In the third. and next round Williams
languis:led at the midway, which he
reached through his single and wild
pitch by johnson. With two gone in
the sixth, SEVERED walked and took
third on Jacobson's single. Jake TAX
Ing second on Miller's throw-in. Then
McManus popped to Harris.
Many Threats Are Made
From this point threats were made
in every round. although the clever
ffinging of Johnson and Davis and
the sensational support they re-
ceived prevented any scoring till the
fateful tenth In the seventh Brow