The Washington herald., 1922-05-24
EXTRABASE MTSBY
pat CHARITY And
PECK FEATURE WIN
Errors Put Francis in
Hole = Griffs Take 8
Of 4-Game Series.
By RAY HELGEsEN.


In the lives Of the Great Rajah
and Patsy Charity II one is to
Judge by their antics against young
Charley Robertson yesterday. Char
ley is the youth who recently set
the Detroit Tigers down without
allowing a man to reach first base.
But yesterday was another day. and
Peek's triple and Gharrity's double
In the seventh inning. with the
criffs tagging two runs In the rear,
and two on the paths. was the
punch that gave the Nationals a
to 2 victory over the Sox and
three games of the four game series.
For six innings Robertson and
the Sox looked like winners. The
youngster who recently blew into
baseball's Hall of Fame was setting
tht Griffs down In order. allowing
them but two hits up to the fatal
seventh. Furthermore, Peck had
pulledd a pair of blunders and Har-
ris had erred once. which. coupled
with a bit of wildness on Francis
part and three solid hits-had given
the occupants of the American
League cellar a pair of runs.
Thus Peck's triple in the seventh.
with two of his mates kicking up
their heels on the paths. was abso-
lptely necessary to keep the $4,000
Beauty" from being heralded as the
goat.
Double steal Fails.
The Grifs collected their first
Of six hits in the opening inning.
but a chance to score was knocked
in the head when Harris was cut
down at the plate on an attempted
double steal.
Harris was safe at first when
Mulligan pulled Shelley off the bag
with a wide throw. Rice lifted to
Mostil. but Bucky romped to third
on Judges slashing single to right
Brewer fouled out to Mcclellan.
With Goslin up. Bucky and Judge
ATTEMPTED to pull the double steal,
but Bucky was caught at the plate
Robertson to Sheely to Schalk
In the second SheeIy robbed the
Griffs of a possible chance to score
by pulling one of the greatest and
luckiest plays of the game. Goslin
was an easy out to start. Shsnks
walked. Charity swung late at
wide one and drive 1t to Sheely's
right. No one-least of all,
ShaRks-had any idea that the first
sacker had a chance to get the ball
But Sheely switched his left mitt
towards second and somehow or
other the ball found his glove and
stuck there. Sheely merely walked
to the bag to retire Shanks, as
Hank was almost at second.
Brewer starts Rally.
Frank Brewer started the rally
In the so-called lucky inning which
gave the Griffs the game and turned
back the sturdy Robertson.
Brewer, first up. lined a single
into right to start Hooper played
the ball perfectly. else Frank would
have made second. Goslin forced
Brewer at second on an easy chance.
Collins to MulIigan. Shanks then
singled over Mulliga's head. send
ing Goslin to third.
Here's where Charity makes his
debut-leading the Great Rajah
into the limelight by the slightest
Of margins.
Robertson was throwing a dirty
ball. Half of it was almost black,
while the other half was white, in
dicating to everyone except Nallin,
umpire at the plate, that it had
hardly been discolored in such a
manner naturally. Charity asked
Nallin to throw in a new pellet. but
the boss refused. which didn't make
Pat feel any better. Pat realizes.
however. that while it is possible
to buck fate an umpire's last word
Is final.
Charity couldn't even see the
first one Robertson threw. Neither
could Nallin or anyone else, but
the umpire ,calltd IL a strike. Pat
fouled the next one into the left
field stands, thus getting rid of
the dirty" pellet and forcing the
use of a clean one.
On the next pitched ball Charity
swung hard and the horsehide came
10 rest some place in center field.
Goslin scoring and Shanks going to
third.
Gharrity's co-star enters here.
Peck had already bobbed twice,
and In the very nature of things
the fans were none too friendly
while he was in the field But
when he went to the plate things
had changed considerably and they
gave him a rousing welcome, evil
dently sensing what was to come.
Peck Triples to Center.
Peck took his stance and lined
the first ball Robertson threw into
center. 1t rolled almost to the
signboards. Shanks and Charity
tcored and Rajah went to third be-
Fore the relay was completed There
was only one out. and the possibil-
ty Of at least another run loomed
until Francis flied to Hooper In
hort right and the outfielder's per-
feet peg to .Schalk caught Peck,
krying to score, by four feet.
Francis held the Sox safe after
that. He walked, the first man to
lace him In the eighth but struck
put the next. and the next pair
we're easy outs on foul flies. Goslin
making a good catch of Schalk's
kouI near the left-field boxes.
The Sox scored their first tally
bn three clean hits. double play
Keeping them to one run. sSohalk
Bingled to left to open. went to
bird on Sheely's single to right and
bcored as Peck. Harris and Judge
Killed off Sheely and Mcclellan