The Washington herald., 1922-07-12
Smith, HITTING FOR
MOGRIDCE, DRIVES.
OVER WINNING RUN
Kid Pitchers One Bad
Inning Gives Nation
-als Close Victory.
By RAY HELGESEN.


The Nationals haven't the only
boy wonder" pitcher in the big
leagues. This was proven conclu-
s.vely at American League Park
yesterday when young right
handler. Ted Blankenship. only 20
years old. held the Griffs to seven
hits in eight innings. Until the
seventh it appeared as though the
Criffs were fated to take some OF
their own medicine, but two-run
rally in that frame gave them a,
total OF three runs, which was just
enough to set the White Sox down
in their first appearance of four
game series. The final score was
to with the Sox on the short
end
Had it not been for Earl Smiths
single to center in the Sc. enth
scoring a pair of his mates, the
youthful EIankenship almost GER
tainiy would have got away with
tho long end Of the score. As it
was he turned in quite as good an
effort as Frank NerriweIl Brill
heart flashed AGAINST the Tigers
last Saturday.
Weakens in seventh.
Blankenship was with the Sox for
awhile last summer. but was
shunted back to the Texas League
for more seasoning. He was re-
called about two weeks ago and
was sent against the Grims in his
first start yesterday.
Until the seventh he held the
Griffs to four hits and a single
tally. Then he weakened slightly
in the lucky inning and the Griffs
ntCked him for three hits. one Of
them an infeld binEle which Donie
Bush beat out, which. coupled with
pass. gave them two runs and
one-run lead which proved to be
sufficient.
George NogridGe started for the
Griffs- He pitched better-than-
average game but would have been
considerably better off if Gleason
had played blind man in center
field instead of Johnny MostiI.
Johnny was responsible for both
the runs the SOx collected His
triple TO deep left center in the
fourth scored Hooper with the sox'
hrst run while his single to short
In the seventh brought the other
Chicago run of the matinee
Outside of MostiI, MoEridce had
the rest of the Sox talking gJto
themselves. Mostil secured three
Of the six hits credited to the clean
hosed tribe so if Mogridge could
have stopped him the Sox attack
would have been punchIess.
Francis Finishes for Nats.
After Smith batted for MoCridse
IN the seventh Ray Francis toiled
on the mound for the Griffs. Null
Hgan. the first man to face him in
the e'Thth. singled sharply to left
out was caught stealing a few sec
onds later. After that Francis al
IoNea nothing resembling a safety
and the Griffs romped to victory
incidentally cutting a fun ran,s
from the SOX' 'ead for third D1are
The Nationals were the ffrst ~
score. two hits in the second Civ
ing them one run and p tempoTarv
lead. Judge opened with A single
10 right and went all the wav bona
as Frank Brewer crashed to tne
scoreooard in right for Z double
Brower was caught at third on
Shanks' bunt Harris sacrificed
hank TO second and Picinich walked
put MogridSe, who has evidently
lost his book on the Secret Of
hitting took a third strike Ieav-
ing MS two pals stranded.
MostlIs debut in the second in
nlng was nothing to rave over. but
MS crash into the spotlight v-ss
responsible for the Sox's first run
and a tie score
IN the second. with one out, Mos
III singled to center. He ran about
thirty feet past first and took his
time In returning to the bag. nor
thinking that an. play would he
made on him. Rice returned the
ball to Harris. who bluffed a throw
TO MoCridCe but. seeing that Mos
I'll was loafing back to the 1ar
with his back turned. snapped TO
Judge and caught Johnny by
yard Gleason opened his heart on
that one and Johnny probably won't
be caught like that again for at
least a week
Action in seventh
But Mostil sauntered back into
the good EraCes of his boss in the
Sox' fourth. With two down
Hooper singled to center and crossed
the plate on Mostil's long drive be-
tween Shanks and Rice. That tied
the score as Falk failed to advance
Mostil
Most of the action was DELAYED
until the seventh. In this frame
the Sox went into the lead by one
run only to be shunted to the rear
by the Griffs in their half of the
inning.
Mostil again started things with
a drive to short on which Peck
made a brilliant stop but had no
chance to catch the gardener at first
Falk laid one down and Mogridge's
throw to second was too late to
catch Mostil, both runners being
safe. Sheely then sacrificed. Mog-
ridge to Harris, who covered first.
Schalk was Intentionally passed.
but the strategy didn't work as
Blarkenship shot one down the first
base line scoring Mostil. judge was
lucky to retire the pitcher and had
no chance to make play at home
Rice took Johnson's fly, ending the
inning.
That brought the Griffs into the
lucky inning one run behind. How
ever, they weren't there long Brewer
opened with a single to right. Shanks
ATTEMPTED to sacrifice him to second,
but BIankenship's toss to Collins, ac-