The Washington herald., 1921-07-19
Poor Throws by O'Rourke
And Harris Trim Mogridge
Rice's Misscue Also Hurts; Sothoron Hurls
Well but is Lucky; Tribe One Game
Ahead of Yanks.

ing Washington never was an easy
task for Cleveland. Beating Wash
ington with George Mogridge in the
box has been considered an almost
impossible feat Yet 1t was none
loo great a task for Allan Sotho-
ron, the comeback sensation Of
1891. at Dunn Field today, as Cleve-
Hand won, to 2. When Allan
trounced the White Sox. no one got
excited, because it was conceded
Chicago has a rather weak hitting
team. When Allan relieved Mails
against the Red So& and won, still
no excitement. The Red Sox are
crippled Wait till Sothoron pitches
against a real ball club.
Well. they ought to call WASH
ington a real ball club. 1t is one
of the best hitting teams in the cir
cult. and has the best base runners.
Nevertheless, Sothoron today stood
that club on its eleven heads. hold
ing eleven batters to six hits
sothoron Always Elective.
Manager Speaker paid Sothoron In
picking him to pitch such an i'm
portant game. 1t showed that the
Texan reposed great confidence in
the hurIer who was canned by st.
Louis and Boston. for a defeat
meant that Cleveland would be In
second place today.
Not a hit did Sothoron allow until
the fifth inning. He allowed two
in the fifth, but escaped trouble
because of his own careful fielding
when he killed off an attempt of
kthe Mats to work a squeeze play.
Tho Mats, however, broke through
his defense in the sixth and regis
/ tered two runs, the only tallies they
hung up during the battle for AL
Ian was himself again from then
on and pitched most effectively.
In the effort to southpaw the In
dians out of the first place. Acting
Manager Milan, or Manager Nc
Bride or President Griffith or pos
sibly all three. decided that ii
would be wisdom to shoot a left
handler against the Redskins for the
third successive game. Having al
ready called upon Courtney and
Zachary with ffty-fifty results
George Mogridge. who has beaten
Cleveland twice this year, drew the
assignment.
Errors Beat George.
Mogridge, who is comeback
himself, but of more ancient
vintage, scarcely can be blamed fol
the defeat he sustained, as errors
aided the Tribe in scoring two oi
Whfla ha I
hit harder than Sothoron, he had
much better control Where Soth-
oron passed five batsmen and hit
another, the veteran side wheeler
did not give walking papers to a
single Redskin. But Cleveland won
fnefertheIess for the reason that
Messrs. Harris and O'Rourke. infielG
colleagues. didn't have as perfect
| control as Mogridge.
George Burns scored Cleveland's
winning run and George did il
merely because he had more live.
than our old friend, the family
mouser. With Sewell on third anC
no one out in the seventh, Burn!
hit to O'Rourke. The Nat short.
fielder made a few motions, pulling
Sevell back to third and then Gu
loose with a throw to first. Th'
effort pulled Judge off the bag. Hi,
honor made a stab to tag Burn!
but the latter slid and avoided The
communicating touch.
Here Are the Errors.
Washington's board of strateg,
convened On the eleventh ballo
it was decided the infield shoulC
play back and try for a double
play inasmuch as Nunamaker, tn,
batter, has not won any medals fol
speed during the last few weeks. L
was excellent strategy. but the ex
ecution was faulty because Har.
ris overestimated the heighth oi
O'Rourke. Nunamaker hit to Har.
ris- A double play possibly would
have been consummated but Har.
ris threw too high to O'Rourke and
again Burns slid in safely as tn,
shortstop jumped in the air to keeI
the ball from going to left field
In the meantime Sewell was wei
on his way to the drink of watel
which is the first reward for scor,
ing a run. Sothoron batted fol
himself. After an unsuccessful at.
tempt to sacrifice he fouled t.
Picinich. DR.. Joe Evans ther
slapped single to center. Perhap.
II would have scored Burns anyway
but Rice made it sure by giving il
a oneside kick
That's all. Burns scored on twS
and one half errors, Cleveland had
won another ball game and still
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