The Washington herald., 1921-05-02

Other members of Connie Mack's CO
The score was 5 to I and the
that single tally. 1t was present
Raw weather ChiIl. Fans. =
There was. nothing merry about |
the month of May as 1t was usherea |
In yesterday. The sound trouncing |
Of the Grifs would have chilled the |
ardor of the fans without the aid |
of the Weather Man. But the biting /
wind and a nasty, driving mist,
starting shortly after ? o'clock.
added to the misery of the 5000 /
loyal bugs who dotted the stands.
Arrangements had been made to
take care Of 1000. but most of the
ticket-holders took one look at the
sky and decided to stick by the
old hreside. The others wished they
HAD done so before the day was
done
Mr.. Grifhth and Mr.. Mack went
into executive session with Umpire
Tommy Connolly at $3.50, while the |
rain was still splitting.
Let's play" said Griff. This |
amt so bad" He was thinking |
about the gate receipts. perchance.
4 dunno" pused Mack. as he
viewed the skies Don't look so \
good to me"
Say. these blue suits we umpires
wear are made Of paper or some !
thing" -chimed in Connolly. Any
how. they Amt waterproof"
"All right. Let's wait till and |
see II 10 doesn't stop" agreed Grif |
In q conciliatory mood. The motion |
was put and carried.
MoEridse Raped Hard.
At the stated time the rain ceased,
but not the wind hurried con- |
ference and the players took the |
field Connolly took his place be-
hind the plate, shivering in spite |
of the-borrowed sweater under his |
coat 1t was a Philadelphia sweater.
mackinav and harched to the first |
base kne. So the umpiring was |
dfty-nsy
what happened thereafter is |
largely a story of the, activities of |
the visitors. They whanged George
MogridEe heavily for six innings,
duringaashich period they counted |
all thsfruns- Mogridge gave way |
to aipch hitter and Schacht |
also rAtsEed to allow a better. batter |
to striks out. and Courtney took |
care OF tse final inning. |
All of this time Bryan Harris was |
twisting them over the plate in |
amazing fashion. The cold and rain |
didn't Eorry his waterproof arm.
Seven-bits were compiled OF Har-
ris, but they were mostly half
hearted = affairs Nine .Grinmen
famed the breezes. and the hard
part of IT was that the strikeouts
usually came with men on bases.
Duny whIns Thrice.
Take the case of Duffy Lewis. He
was pie for the cold-blooded Har-
ris. Three TINES he>struck out when
a healthy hit would have meant
some run making. His saddest cx-
perience was in the NTH when he
nearly broke his back trying to con-
meet with three mates on the SACKS
pining for a ticket home. Ii
Charity. our 400 hitter. struck
out twice when he also could have
done some damage. MogriGSe,
shsnks and Bing Miller were tie |,
other victims. IL
In addition 10 their failure TO do
any damage with the stick, the
Grtfs played sIoppily afield. -Four
errors were charged against them,
Milan, Harris, O'Rourke and Shanks
being the offenders. As luck would
have il, however. "Blackie's". was
the only misplay that counted In the
run getting. He wild pegged aytaIly
in the nth.
Sacks Fall. One Run.
Washington gave Harris little
trouble until the fifth. but in that
round they filled the sacks with
one out and things appeared to be
ripe for one of those winning raI-
lies for which they have become
famous. But such was not to be,
and one run was the sole result of
their efforts. 1t happened this way.
Aogridge dropped a Texas Lacquer
behind third, but was forced by
Judge. Milan walked and Harris
beat out a blow to short, which
Galloway knocked down in brilliant
fashion Here was the big opportu-
nifty and Duffy Lewis was UP. He
famed as the fans grosned. Harris
raped a hot one to Dykes, who
booted it and allowed Judge to
score The bases were still full
when Shanks popped to Dykes for
an easy out.
In the sixth ORourke walked and
stole. but never got further than
third with one out in the ninth
there was another faint glimmer Of
hope which fiivvered. With out out,
Milan walked for the third time
during the afternoon and Rice
dropped a hit into center. Up came
Lewis again, and-one, two, three
he vhifed- Shanks skied to Tilly
walker for the final out.
Maeks start Early.
II was in the second inning thst]
the Mackmen scored their first two
runs OF Mogridge. c. Walker was
hit and Perkins singled, after F.
walker had famed ]. Walker also
struck out, but Galloway doubled to
rfkht, scoring two. 1t looked like
poor Judgment not to have passed
Galloway to get to Harris, for the
pitcher straightvay whitfield.
Hits by Dykes and Dugan and
ORourke's boot on c. Walkers
xrounder counted another in the
NTH. The nnal two were runs up
in the sixth. Perkins, j. walker
and Galloway singled in succession,
the catcher scoring. and the short
stop succumbing to Milan's wing
when hi tried to stretch his rap
into a double. Harris skied out, but
Dykes raped J. walker home.
Jimmy tried to steal on Charity, I
but never got away with It.
A walk and two errors put !
Schaeht in q hole in the seventh, but I
. double play. shanks to Charity /,