The Washington herald., 1922-04-25
FOUR HUB HURLERS
FAIL To HALT MATS
SLUGCING STREAK
Griffs Collect Ia Hits
Brewer Gets 1st Homer
Of Local Season:
By RAY HELGESEN.

known on Washington's Rialto, the
Griffs came into their own yester-
day and win themselves a healthy
victory from Hugh Dufry's highly
advertised sIuggers by a l1-to-S
score"
"Yessir," continues Argyle, them
boys certainly were pert yester-
day. but as says they were SO
fr'enly. what with pounding four
Boston hurlers and sendin' old JACK
Quinn to the showers as early as
the second inning. But what can
you expect? They been knocking
at the door for five days now, and
anyone'u tell yuh that II yuh jus
stick it out long enough yuh jus
gotta win sometime. Amt that
reasonable?
yep: the boys cut themselves a
nice piece of dessert yesterday.
And, lemme tell yuh, IL the boys
pound the old agate every day like
they did yesterday il won't sur
prise me IL they eat cake all sea-
son. / repeat, they certainly cut
themselves a nice slice yesterday"
Under certain. conditions. Argyle.
jr.. is extremely lOquacious. He
was last night, as the above will
testify. But il seems that he only
wanted to tell US what a swell
beating the Griffs handed the Red
SOX, and. as we already knew all
about that, We very tactfully
slipped him the air.
Argyle made a graceful exit, but
came back to tell US not to forget
10 Say something about Frank
Brower's home run. with two on, in
the sixth"
At that. \. n. jr, was about
right.
Hugh Duffy trotted out Jack
Quinn, alleged to be the oldest
pitcher in the American League, to
face Zeb Milan's new batting or.
der.
But the Grirfs seemed to have no
respect for age.
Four consecutive beatings at tic
hands OF the Yanks left them as
irritable as a poisoned pup. SO
when Quinn showed up they pro-
ceeded to take il out on him. Old
Jack lasted exactly one and two
thirds innings. It was Frank
Brewers whistling double over his
mead into center that made Duhy
decide his old veteran had had
enough for one day. So Duffy
radioed Jack the bad news and sen,
a youngster named Fullerton. no re-
lation. we understand. to Hughie OF
percentage fame, to the mound.
Hits, Runs. on QuIn%
Quinn had been sheIled fS<seven
hits and as many runs in the short
time he graced the mound. Three
Of the safeties were doubles. TAX
Ing il by and large Old Jack didn't
look like the Old Jack of old.
In all the Griffs pushed eleven
runs over the pan and all OF them
were scored after two were out
Not once did the coming champs
tally with one one out or none out
Nope. They waited until two had
been killed off in each of the four
scoring innings. Then they pro-
ceeded to do what the Red Sox in
their best Bostonese classed as
dirty work"
Mogridge, we neglected to state
hurled for the Griffs. The lean
southpaw was none too good him
self. but with the support the Griffs
were giving him and the hits they
were getting out of their collective
system he didn't have to have much
In all he was touched for an even
dozen safeties. but they produced
only a trio OF runs.
Three hits ratified off the Bos-
tonese bats in the first inning. but
due to an unusual double play in
which MoEridGe and Judge col
laborated to erase a pair OF run.
ners only one run scored.
-shano" Was Lucky.
"Shano" Collins pried the lid nf
by beating out roller down the
third base line. 'ShaHo" was lucky
Everyone. including Bobby La,
Motto. still subbinC for Hanh
Shanks at the hot corner. thought
that the ball would roll foul. Col
Inns thought so. too. Twice ht
started toward fist and twice HI
stopped en- route to glance at tht
horsehide. waverinG between fail
and foul. Finally he decided to rur
II out. Events proved his thirC
guess was right as the pill re.
manned inside the diamond. and La
Notes throw to Judge. accordinl
to Umpire Wilson, was too late by
a step.
EIme- Smith. who last season
sported a Cleveland monkey suit
tried to sacrifice Collins to the mid
way station. His effort was a fail
ure as he popped to MOgridge in tn,
center OF the diamond. Mogridg'
here set the stage for the only dou
BILE killing of the game by drop
ping the ball. 1t was unintentiona
on Georges part, but it proved
lucky fo- the Griffs. Collin,
thought Mogridge had held tn,
ball. so he shot into fourth speed
trying to get back to first Mo
gridge. however. tossed the pelIe
to Judge and Joe touched Collins
before touching the bag. thus com
pletlng the two-ply killing.
With two gone Pratt singled
through the box to center. 10,
Harris then crashed into center ant
before Rice had retrieved the bal
Pratt had scored and Harris reste,
on third.
Grins start Hitting.
The Griffs got this run back and
a couple more in their initial turn
at the bat. Earl Smith and Bucky
Harris were easy outs at first be.
49, Pee started the fireworks with
a single to center. He scored wher
Judge doubled to center. and Judge
counted when Brewer poked a sin.
gle into left. Brewer took second
on the throw to the plate. and
scored when young Pittenger threw
Peck's grounder past Burns at first
Charity famed for the third out