The Washington herald., 1922-07-16
GRIFFS TAKE FIRST
OF SERIES, HITTING
WRIGHT IN SECOND
Mogridge Allows Eight
Safeties But Keeps
Them Scattered.
By RAY HEIoEsEN.

By RAY HELGESEN,
Only the proverbial luck OF an
inebristed person kept the 81. Lous
Browns at the top Of the American
League yesterday. For. while the
Nationals were handling Fohfs
sluGgers a 1-to-O shutout, the Chit
cago white sox got a S-to-z deci-
sion over the Ysnks in twelve in
nings. And because OF the Yankees
defeat the Browns are stin leading
the league. a half game in front Of
the Hugmen
Fresh fIom. a setback at nee
hands OF the nearest rivals. the
yaHks. the Browns dropped int,
Washington all set 20 slug clyde
Milan's toflers for -four straight de-
feats. But the FIRST thing they ran
in TO was George Mogridge's re-
Gently recovered southpsw whfp
and so the westerners will have ta
put on their intended massacre At
least until today and itll probably
be even longer n Rodney's hopefufs
flash the brand Of baseball which
they displayed yesterday.
Grins Came Go Life.
approximately 10000 seekers st.
ter baseball truth watched the
Griffs come back TO life against
their old Jinx. And ~ any, OF then,
went away dissatisfied they were
surely hard 90 please.
The Nationals were outhit ana
outlucked- They got only sK safe
ties of the combined offerings OF
Wright. one of Fohl's young right
handlers. and Dave Danforth. Whils
the Browns nicked Nogridge's ef-
ferings for eight hits. However. all
the Griffs' hts were clean while at
least three Of the Browns safeties
were Of the scratch variety.
Rodney had originally planned to
Use Walter johnson against the led
ers. But al game time Nogridce WAS
feeling so good he asked for I chance
&c work and so Milan decided 70 save
the Big Train" until today or to-
morrow
Wright drew the huriing assign
ment for the Browns He held the
Grifis safe in all except one inning.
the second. Allowing but four hus
all told he was unfortunate IN mat
th;,-e OF them were Nunched IN that
fran md thee. coupled With IN
error by the usually reliable Marty
McManus. gave The GnTs their only
tailies.
Judge started the second inning
with a fy to right which Tobin pulled
down after a long run. Browef. who
by the wav went hltless after tea
straight games in which he had ht
safely. then drove a hard grounder q"
McManus The second sacker fie,dsI
the bslI cieanly enough but his thTo%
to SisIer WAS high and Brewer was
safe when Sislsr was pulled on tn'
bag.
Broyver Caught at Third
Shanks picked this spot to insert
ore OF his infreQUent hits, a single
to center. Brewer went down %
second fast enough but ae seemed
&c loaf rounding the bag. apparently
undecided whether or not To try TO-
third Finally he picked up speei
and headed for third. but jacobson
perfect throw to Ellerbe beat him b"
an indefinite number of unnecessary
feet. Shanks took second on the
throw and scored a moment later A.
gucly Harris dropped Texas
Ieaguerer in right near the foul lin"
Picinich walked and then came "a
omen that couldn't possibly mecn aiiN-
thing but that the GrIfs were faio-
to win. Mogridre, probably by mis-
take. picked up an Erickson Model
bat. strobe to the plate and promptly
slugged single 10 center. Harr-s
scored and Picinich went to third. bat
was stranded with Mogridge when
Gerber tossed out Donie Bush
The Browns might have realiZc1
when Mogridge connected safely
( that all was not well. nespt-
/ georges recent assertion that any
one can hit IL he knows the secret
lion
by their absence. However. he was
right, yesterday, evidently havin-
pored over his copyrighted book the
night before. when the pastim-
ended George had the respevtahi-
batting average Of 1000. having HIT
safely twice on two offcial turns
at bat.
Big Guns Fail I'm Ptnch.
A pair Of hits in the fourth, the
only inning in which the Browns
were able to get more than one
safety, put them in a threaten ug
position, but neither Jacobson o.
williams. the big guns Of their
heavy artillery, could come through
in the pinch.
Sisler beat out a hit 70 Bucky
Harris in this inning with on
down. McManus sent him TO SEE
ond with a short single to right
and he went TO third while Jacob
son was forcing McManus Harris
TO Peck. With the tieing run On
first Ken Williams got to a three
ard two count and then swung at
a wide one for the third strike.
Pic.n!sh dropped the ball but re-
covered in time to catch Williams.
who was taking his time, at hrSi
From then on the Browns couldn't
do a thing with the lean portsideT
and the Griffs were almost as help
! less against Wright. In each Of TIE
| last fnnr innings The RrnMns man