The Washington herald., 1921-07-27
Miller Drives in Winning
Runs With Smashing Double
McBride's Men Celebrate Return Home By
Playing Snappy Ball and Beating
Leagues Best Pitcher.
by JACK NYE.

Heedless OF the feelings of the
ans, the White Sox boss did his
IarnSest to spoil the joyous home
coming of the GrIffmen yesterday.
rhe generous thing would have
seenl to tell "shoyeI" Hodge or
.oms of the lesser lights to go gut
.hera and pitch. In view Of The
-ecent slump of the McBridemen,
he Kid might have figured that
De- could still hold the edge under
hose conditions. And how happy
would have made the bugs
What he did. however. was to
rive the high sign to Urban Faber.
he peerless spItoaller. who leads
he league by a healthy margin.
He figured on making a sure thing
,f Il. regardless of the conse-
iuenres-
Dir. Faber Gets n Licking.
The only slip in the program was
.hatithe Grifrs. eheered by a warm
reception from a flock of home
fans. went out there and knocked
Mr.. Faber right OFF the Christmas
tree.t They licked him without the
aid bf blackjacks or brass knucks.
The score was 2 to o.
Playing a prominent part in tho
PROCEEDINGS was JeZebel Tecumseh
Zachary. the silent -southpaw. Jez
looked like a regular pitcher. He
goose=egged the Sox to death, ex-
hibiting an extremely parsimonious
streak IN the pinches, such as they
were.-JThough touched for seven
hits. sas compared to FIVE of Faber.
Zach, carefully refrained from hav-
Ing soue Of those bad innings.
Faber. on the other hand. dropped
his Watermelon in the sixth and
saw much-to-be- victory
60 ALTERING away.
with Zachary pitching in pleas
ing fashion. the rest Of the Grihs
set about the business of playing
baseball. They did some sparkling
work afeId, especially the outfield-
ing 1gentlemen yclept Samuel Rice
and CLYDE Milan. They refused to
be sFed by Faber's reputation and
kept. pestering him until they got
theip two runs over in the sixth
Miller Drives I'm In.
Bing Miller, the swarthy youth
witfa home run hitting proclivities.
naturally played an important part
judge on second and Rice on first.
Joe lad reached his station by dint
of a5clean single. followed by Sans
strofi on four bad ones. Finding
the stage thus set. BinE picked
one pasf Sheely at first like rifle
shot-fa< a couple of cushions.
Unasr any other conditions It
might Be stated that .Bing followed
this STUNT by pulling a bone. As
It was. the fans agreed that 1t was
a mere oversight He reached Sec
ond just ahead of Bratchl's return
peg. but thought Earl Smith on
the coaching line was motioning
him to beat II for third. Hence, he
never slowed up and was an easy
out
There was astonishment on BinE's
face as he was tagged out and Nc
Brides was evidently peeved. But
the bugs gave him the old hand as
he strolled to the bench and every
thing was lovely. The mistake cost
nothing. as Harris, next up. ground
ed weakly for the third out.
Flock of Fans There.
By the manner in which the fans
turned out yesterday, they indicat-
ed that they were famished for
baseball. They were just as cheer
full as IL the Mats had been winning
consistently on the road and were
generous with their applause. 1t
was noted that Messrs. Miller and
Shanks got the biggest hand on their
first appearance at the plate. a
delicate recognition of their good
work on the road.
There were groans when Faber
was announced as the Chicago pitch
ing choice and tht gentlemen who
usually wager a cigar on the re-
suit refused to be inveigled.
1t wasn't long, however, before
IL vas apparent that Zachary was
going to take care of himself
and II soon became a question of
who would weaken first. The mighty
Faber was that unfortunate party.
During the first five innings, the
Mats gathered exactly two bingles.
In the first inning Milan beat out
q hit to Collins and in the second
Shanks dropped a Texas leagucr
INTO right center.
In the fourth. the Macs almost
scored without the aid OF a bingle.
Milan, first up walked, but was
forced by Rice. Miller cracked one
were safe when the shortstopper
fumbled. Harris forced Miller. send
ing Rice to third. Then after much
iockeying Stanley pilfered second for
his twenty-hrst steal of the year.
Shanks had a great chance to do
scored without the aid of a hit.
oneJ
Game Won I'm Sixth,
p Then came the sixth when Judge
raped clean hit to center and was
sacpinced by Milan. Rice worried
Faber for another pass, and Mr.. MIL
Ter shot his two-sacker to right
After that the Mats did nothing
worth speaking about with Faber's
saliva offerings.
Collins nicked Zachary for a hit
N he first inning and Bratchi dit
toed In the second. In the third
Shelly also bingled, but none of
these gentlemen got anywhere. Zach
was in real danger in the fifth
when Faber singled and johnson
doubled with two down. Mulligan
thoughtfully lined into Shanks'
pawn.
Rice cut on a potential three
oagger in the sixth when he raced
! far over to take Sheely's drive and
Milan robbed NestiI of ar extra
base hit in the seventh by another
running catch. Chicago's hopes rose
IN the ninth when Falk opened with
\ single. but Harris took in SheeIy's
rap and started a fast double play.
Erickson or Acosta will be sent
sraln4f tn, Gov ta1,,, ,.,Ltt. g..