The Washington herald., 1921-06-05
HAMMER WILKINSON AND KERR
FOR FIVE RUNS, BREAKING TIE;
HARRIS HELPS WITH2TRIPLES
Bucky Also Adds Two to
His Total of Stolen
Bases.
ACOSTA is PITCHER
Cuban Midget Blanks Chi
cagoans in All Save One
Round.
BY JACK NYE-

Staging another one Of those big
innings for which they are becom-
ing famous, the Nationals grabbed
off a second victory at the expense
Of the White Sox yesterday, score
9 to + -.-
The feat was accomplished by
batting Roy Wilkinson from the
box in the eighth and giving Dick
Kerr a taste OF the roughhouse
stuff when he volunteered for re-
lief duty. Five runs resulted from
that explosion, putting an end to
the hopes OF the visitors who had
tied things up in the seventh by
getting TO Acosta for their quartet
of runs. The only thing that kept
the Mats from climbing into third
place was the fact that Detroii
refused to lose to the Apathetic&
wIIkIasos I.enectfve.
Wilkinson, who started for the
Gleasons. is one of the few remain
ing members of last years stan
anU Was entirely too wild to be
effective. In addition to issuing Eve
walks and hitting one batter, he
was nicked for an even dozen hits,
three of which were triples.
Bucky Harris and Hank Shanks
were the boys who obliged with
three-cushion shots. the second
sacker getting a brace Of them.
Bucky's batting average for the
day was perfect. as he drew two
walks and raped out a single In
addition to his pair Of extra base
smashes. The peppery-- second
ssckeT also took few liberties
with the whip of Ray SchalI.
sNipins couple OF sacks and run
ming his seasons total OF thefts I'd
to IL. -
Cuby Acosta drew the mound-ss-
signmcnt from Mcl;riGs and piue'hed
well enough to win He allowed IL
hits. but NJ two uf them came in
the same round except in the I'M
lucky seventh when fvc large
blows accounted for four rams. For
the rest ~ the time the micget
cuban MAS traNoling along without
Shanks jusI missed a homer in
the fifth when he drove the bs!l
to the wall IN deep center just be-
yond tho end Of the jury box. u
would have been good for the Gig
cult under ordinary rircumstsu noes.
but Amos Strunk made a very rapid
recovery and his relay TO IN, plate
by way of johnson uipped HANK
just as he was sliding in. II wss
one Of the heftiest hits Of the Ses-
son and brought the fhtrd ssCk~r
a generous outburst OF applause.
Another hitter was Joe Judge
whose three hits will help his bait
I ting mark cnnsidera hlN They c"n-
tributed much toward the hnaI YER
dict. as one Of them came in the
ninth with the bases loaded.
Mats Get Two In FIRST.
Wilkinson got in trouble in the
| first inning and was nicked for two
runs in short order. Judge opened
with a single. but was out stealing
Harris walked and stole both sec
ond and third. Rice famed. hut
Brewer was hit on the leg aRe
trotted to first. Miller lifted
short hy into left and Ernie John
son made tn" serious mistake Of
muffing il. which allowed Harris
and Brewer to score. Shahks drew
pass but Charity popped &c
SchaIk
Two more Washington runs were
added in the fourth when with one
out Acosta and Judge singled. Hsr-
ris cracked a three-sacker 70 left
center. counting both his mates.
Acosta Travelled along, allowing o
hit in nearly every inning until the
seventh. He wasn't in any danger
to speak of up to that time. In the
seventh however. he lost his bear
ings and was touched up pretty
heavily. with one out johnson
singled and so did Mulligan. both OF
the hits being weak affairs. Collins
hit a clean single to right. scoring
johnson. Hooper drove a long ~
to right center, which BrcweT
reached but could not hold. NUM-
gan crossing the pan. IL was two-
base hit for the former Boston OUT
feIder Falk's fly to Miller counted
Collins and Strunk's double to CEN
ter brought Hooper home. Sheely
ended the rally with a pop ny 70
Judge.
Evans Halts Buckley.
In their half of the seventh the
Nationals threatened but Their hopes
were nipped in the bud by Umpire
Billy Evans. After Harris had
singled, Rice laid one down and
beat il out. with a sacrifice needed
Milan replaced Brewer at the bat
Harris. however. took too long Q
lead of second and made a dash "a
third when Schalk pegged through
The ball hit his hand as he slid in
to the hot station and rolled into
the dugouL Buckley continued home
but Evans ruled him out for inter-
ference and sent Rice back to frst
The fireworks were touched of I'd
the eighth. when the Mats -cltnched
the verdict. Shanks opened the
frame with q single and wentrto
third on Gharrity's safe one.
o'Rourke forced Charity at second,
but Acosta walked. filling the bases
Judge singled to right, scoring
Shanks and "Blackie." and Harris
sent line drive 10 right center
for three. registering Acosta ana
Judge. Harris counted while Sheely
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