The Washington herald., 1922-04-17
GLEASON HOLDS AS.
TOSK BINCLES, BUT.
ERRORS BEAT HIM.
Bryan Harris Whiffs
Eight Griffs-15,000
See Game.
By RAY HELGEsEN.

the subject of baseball appeared 70
be farthest from their collective
minds. They committed error after
error-six in all-and these. cou-
pied with some mediocre baseball
and pair Of lucky hits gave the
Macks a stool victory and set the
Griffs back for their third consecu-
tive loss
OF the hve runs the Athletics
scored, three were the direct re-
suit OF errors. while miscues played
a big part in the scoring OF the
others.
Joe Gleason started his first game
OF the season for the Griffs. Up
to the ninth inning he held the
Macks to three safeties, one a
scratch. In spots he had the Macks
talking to themselves. But with
his alleged crack" support crack
Ing early and often It was too
much to expect the youngster could
g> on indefinitely. In the ninth he
wis touched for a trio of hits.
which. coupled with a pair of Griff
errors and some Class c baseball on
the Nationals part. allowed the
Macks to score three tallies and put
the game away for keeps.
Harris In sRIght.-
Bryan Harris, longer than from
here to there. twirled for the
youngsters Excluding old Doc John
ston) from the Land of Perpetual
Sleep. And the least that can be
said of his efforts Is that he did
good job. He caused eight of
Milan's hi-slings to take nothing
but healthy slaps at the balmy
Easter air and let the next Amer
lean League champions down
with only seven hits Three of
these were doubles and another a
triple. But terrible base-running,
which was on a par with the Griffs'
fielding. aided the Macks in holding
the Nationals to but a single tally.
Connie Mack, who Is said to be
the only manager in the big leagues
who buys the players working
paraphernalia for them. must have
also purchased some monkey
glands when be started work this
spring At any rate the Macks
showed more pep yesterday than
they have flashed In a couple of sea-
sons with Old Doc Johnston. re-
leased by Iris Speaker. in there at
first base driving them on they
looked like an entirely different
team than that which finished last
last season
Gleason set the Macks down IN
thel first two innings without al
lowing a bingle- One man reached
first, the result of a walk. the first
of four which Gleason issued during
the fracaA But he was stranded.
However. in the third the Griffs'
error column began to I'LL. and the
Macks scored the first tally OF the
matinee on a single hit and a pai-
OF errors. one a bad throw to first
by Roger Peckinpaugh and the
other a duplicate throw to Judge
from Gleason himself -
Error. Begin Here!
Galloway drove to Peck to start
and was safe at first when the usu-
ally reliable Rajah threw low to
Judge. Slim Harris then attempted
To sacrifice, but he also was safe
when Gleason carelessly pushed the
pellet over Judges head. Galloway
romped to third and Slim to second
before the ball was retrieved. Earl
Smith captured Young's short fly into
left for the first out. but old Doc
Johnston was credited with a hit
when. in attempting to squeeze GAL
loway over, with the Grin infield
ball long enough to allow Galloway
to score and Doc to reach first safe
ly Walker then drove to Peck and
was doubled with the old Doc. Peck
to Harris to Judge. the Griffs' first
of trio of double killings turing
the afternoon
Judges hit into center and. a tenn
porary Mt of wildness on Slim Har-
ris' part allowed the Griffs to tie the
score in their half of the third. After
Charity ha dgone out to Johnston
unassisted and Gleason had whitfield,
his first of three successive strike
outs. JudGe dropped a single behind
second. He went to third when CAL
Ioway erred on Harris bounder. Har-
ris stole and Smith was passed, FILL
ing the bases Rice then waited
slim out. and he. too. was waved to
first, forcing Judge homo with the
tieing run.
With three on. Gosiin came I'D and
after taking a three-and- two count,
took a terrific swipe at the ball. only
to coll to Harris for an easy out at
first There went the Griffs' best
chance to win the game.
Harris Cracks, but Is Lucky.
Harris and Gleason romped along
stride for stride until the eighth,
when Harris w~s nicked for three
successive hits without a run being
scored on him.
Earl Smith doubled to center to
start With Sam Rice up they evil
IDENTIFY crossed each other, for Smith
started for third and Sam failed to
swing at the ball. Perkins quick
throw to Galloway caught Smith
yards of the bag. and he was run
down between second and third for
the irst out.
Rice followed with a hit to left
but was out trying to steal on the
next play. Goslin then got the third
successive hit of the inning. a sin
gle to center. Shanks followed with
a drive to Galloway and Goslin was
forced at second
Bing Miller. well known in these
parts, started the Macks' lucky
ninth. Bing beat out a. hit to short
and went to second on the next
pitch when Gleason tossed the ball
TO the grandstand. Bing went to
third when Perkins drove a liner
into right field and Goslin dropped
it after making what appeared to
have been a perfect catch. Had
Goslin made the catch this rally
might have been killed of in its
infancy. Bing easily made third on
the miscue and Perkins went to Sec
ond.
Dykes drove to Peck and Bling
was run down between home and
third. shanks making the putout,.
Dykes went on to second and Per-
kins didn't attempt to make third.
with. both Of them at the keystone