The Washington herald., 1921-07-10
Harry Courtney Blows In ::
Second Round When FohTs
Sluggers Score Five Runs
Urban Shocker in Fine
Form - Smith Gets a
Homer and Charity
Falls" for Hidden Ban
Trick.


No. July swim Urban shoeker
pitching again them the. -Sz-
tionals discovered the folly Of Try
ing 70 pass the rowns after rfvfnE
them a margin OF I've runs In the
second inning and todzys game was
lost by the third pIacers. II to q
They had enough ammunition 20
overcome that handicap had they
punched their safe hits a the
Browns did, but Shocker was. su-
preme in the pinches barring a few
spots.
Then the difference between
shocker and Harry ourtney .w.s
the control. 1t wasn't enough 20
have the Browns open the second
with four straight hit but the
elongated southpaw mussed up
things further by pushing a run
over the plate with a long wfid
streak and Jim Shaw coming IN
from the warm-up station Was
afraid of Kenney Williams as an
over-the-fence swatter and In ued
another pass which forced in the
second run of the inning.
Barring the second the Nationals
were all to the mustard but all
innings count and the big splash for
the home side was the econd- II
started with a double TO right BY
Williams and Jacobson hit one clear
out of the lot over the left 1eld
fence A fresh rally was started
when SEVERED singled to left ana
McManus hunted safely.
Slick STUFF Faus
Some slick tut was tsied BY
Charity when he whipped down 20
Judge TO get McManus OF FIRST. but
the runner was hep to the plot ana
slid back TO the base. while this
was going on SEVERED tripped over
10 third Then NcManus stole sec
ond. Austin lined far enough TO
Miller to allow SEVERED 20 park
home with the third run Shocker
walked and il looked as ~ the
inning would clio when ourtnsy
Oreezed Tobin. A long procession
Followed EIlerbe walked, filling
The bases. Sisler drew another
ticket and McManus scored. Shaw
then relieved Courtney and walked
williams. putting Shocker over.
Rice cut down three more runs ov
going 70 the fence FOR Jacob>on's
long drive.
There were moments in the early
part of the MATINEE when the Ma
:ionals threatened SbockS' splitter.
Judge started the game with a sin
gle. The next two went down
Smith singled but a slow ball fooled
Miller for a 9op to Austin. Shaw
started the third with a single and
Tobin made a leapIng catch OF
Judges liner. HARRY singled 20
center but there it stopped as Rice
flied TO William and Smith fsnne5.
The first real spurt was the
fourth. Miller hunted safely.
Shanks popped 70 EIlerbe. Char
rit was thrown out by Ellerbe. A
single by o'Rourke and a double
by Shaw scored two.
f.. smith Gets Homer.
Earl Smith was up in the hfth
with no one on and two down and
hit over the right field fence That
wa the last disturbance for the
Nationals while the Browns con-
tinued to smash 'em high and far.
getting one in the fourth on a
triple by Tobin and single by Sisler.
Shaw followed with three ciphers
when tho Browns broke loose again
In the eighth and finished Jim's
day of labor SEVERED. McManUs
and Tohin singled and Ellerbe dou-
bled for three run Sisler greeted
Schscht with a single. scoring FL
lerbe Williams tripled and Jacob
son doubled. That was more than
enough.
Manager Mcbride may change the
south7aw string for tomorrow's
game by using Erickson. either the
swede or Mogrid@e against Van
glider.
Just the luck for the Nationals TO
Rave Shocker reoin the club to be
rein tatcd and upset another game
for the third placers.
Part Of the second for the Browns
was due to a walking procession
with three runs in and tive -out
Courtney walked Fllcrbe and Sisler
end disappeared. Shaw. opening on
Williams. also pas ed the batter.
The three straight free tickets
forced two runs over the plate
Earl Smith was the horne-~run
hitter for the Nationals, driving
one over the right field fence. Earl
did that frequently during his ca
reer with the Browns.
The first batter hit Shocker safe
1y in five of the first even in
ninEs but only one completed the
circuit. Singles by Judge IN the
first. Shaw In the third, Shanks iu
tho sixth and Shaw in the seventh
were in the useless class.
1t is inple ting to win with
hitting. The Browns had Is-hIts
for 20 bases yesterday and II for
2e today.
The hidden ball trick. worked bv
Jimmy Austin. closed the game
Charity was on second when Judge
ropped TO Sisler for the second out.
The ball pas ed over to austin ana
Charity missed the play entirely.