The Washington herald., 1921-03-27
Johnson Opens in Box
For Youngsters, But Is
Hammered Hard. Judge
Gets First Circuit Blow
For Mats.

behind Walter Johnson in the fourth
snd deciding game of the series
<his afternoon netted the Washing
ton Regulars ive runs. apparently
patting the game on ice But Ollie
Facker. -the Sweetmilk Kid" trip
led In the ninth frame scoring two
runs and the Yannigans snatched
the game, 10 to .. Young Tucker,
Who was recently sold to the Char
leston Sally" league club, played
only one inning. coming to bat
when two men were out and two
men on bases. Two runs were
needed to win and one to tie at this
point. Ollie looked over one Of Jim
Shaw's slants, a high one, and on
ne next pitch drove the ball past
sam Rice in right center for three
bases johnson had all the old smoke,
but there was not much on the ball
The disastrous session for the
Yannigans was the third frame,
when Zeb Milan started the fun
with a single to left. Milan was
tagged of second on the next play
when Shanks grabbed a grounder
OF Sam Rice's bat and tried to hog
the big part of a double play. The
throw to first was wild and Rice
went to second.
Walter In Hot Water.
Duffy Lewis scored Sam on a sin
gle to left and Walters first heave
10. Harris hit the second baseman
on the head. Stan recovered quick
", however, and ambled down to
first. EIlerbe waited until the count
was three and two and picked out
a fast one for a bingle to right,
scoring Lewis. O'Rourke drew a
base on balls and Eschmann mussed
up Gharrity's blow when he made a
great stop but a poor throw to frst-
Harris scored on the hit and Eller-
be scored on the error. Courtney
popped up to Picinich and when the
little catcher threw to center field in
and effort to head Charity on.
O'Rourke scored from third. Joe
Judge ended the agony by going
out. Shanks to Brewer.
This was the last inning for the
big Train" Walter looked to be
IN the pink OF condition. but his
old fast one was not breaking as
OF yore-
The Yannigans started the scor-
ing in the first inning. Goebel led
on with a screaming triple to left.
and scored a moment later on
shanks' single to right. Courtney
settled down after this. however,
and IL was one. two. three for the
Vans until the third.
Regulars Get Busy.
The Regulars scored in the sec
ond inning, when, after two were
gone, O'Rourke doubled to right.
Charity waited patiently and drew
a pass. Courtney surprised the fans
by poking out a base blow to right,
and O'Rourke counted.
The Yannigans came back in the
third. and counted twice. Johnson
was out. O'Rourke to Judge. Goebel
secured his second hit of the game,
a single to left. Shanks followed
with his second wallop, a double to
right, GoebeI pulling up at third,
Courtney uncorked a wild pitch,
and Goebel spiked the pay station.
Shanks going to third Brewer
hoisted a long fly to Milan, scoring
Shanks.
McHugh scored in the fourth after
a single to right an error and a
kacrifice fly of Walters bat. The
next damage was done in the NTH,
when the Vans went into the lead.
Goebel, first up. skied to Lewis.
Shanks drew a base on balls and
went to second on Brower's
rrounder to Judge. Miller was safe
on Harris error. Shanks going to
third. Shanks counted when Foss
singled to right Eschmann singled
and went to second on wild pitch.
MeHugh counted Eschmann with a
single to right.
Judge Hammers Homer.
Both sides then went scoreless un-
I'll the eighth, when after one was
away, Shaw got a lift on Esch-
mann's error, and Joe Judge hit one
to the race track for a home run
This run gave the regulars a run
lead and things looked dark for the
Vans with Shaw going great guns"
However. the unexpected happened.
Ollie Tucker. the youngster who has
.been made the butt of all training
camp fun poking, was called out to
replace Red" McHugh in right
held. Ollie started by messing up
Judges long hit, and Joe scored the
aforementioned circuit clout. Ollie
had his turn at bat, however, with
two outs, two on bases and two runs
needed to win. Ollie delivered with
the longest hit of the day, scoring
Miller and Foss ahead of him and
counting a moment later on Torres
single to left
I Tuck's run was badly needed.
however, as the Regulars managed
TO squeeze one more marker around
IN their half of the nintn. Tucker
erred on Rice's blow to right and
Sam took two bases on the hit.
lewis got his third hit of the day.
scoring Rice. This was as far as
the Regs could advance, however, as
MEX Altrock frightened up and re-
tired the next three in order, two
of them popping out and the third
going out. Foss to Brewer. The
fannigans won the series, two
games to one, the fourth contest re-
sulting IN a tie.
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