Evening star., 1922-04-16

onship.
Both teams used southpaw pitchers.
Coach OReilly trotted the veteran
Sam Hyman to the slab. while Prince
ton put its faith in Trudeau Thomas.
the red-topped athlete who gave the
Giants a scare in New York last week,
Thomas went the route and was ef-
fective during the first six innings.
but got himself in trouble with
wild pitch, and was the victim of
poor support in two innings.
Hyman Driven From Slab.
Hyman apparently has not rounded
into form. He found it difficult TO To-
cate the plate and suffered sound
drubbing in the opening. session. He
got by the second in fair style, but.
faltered again in the third and wsS
relieved by Jinx Jenkins, another
left-hander. after two Tigers had
been retired. The Tigers had garner
ed five tallies off Sam, but Jenkins
was different proposition. He kept
the five safeties he yielded well scat
tered and would not have been scored
upon had his mates done their work :
properly
There was little to enthuse over in
the fielding of either team, although
Thomas made one play for which he
was applauded vigorously. In the
sixth inning, Flavin connected with
one of the red-thatched heavens
curves and rifled the ball toward the
mound; Thomas had not recovered
from the follow-through of his pitch,
when the sphere struck his out
stretched gloved hand with such force
that the hurler was swept from his
feet. He clung to the ball. however.
Had the drive been more directly to-
ward the Princeton pitchers body, he
undoubtedly would have been serious
ly injured.
Most of the batting honors OF the !,
fray were garnered by Cooper,
Princetons first sacker. He stepped to
the plate five times and on each oc-
casion registered a hit. Two of the
blows went for doubles. His clouting
was directly responsible for half of
the Tiger tallies. Paul Florence,
Georgetown's versatile athlete, also
crashed into the noteworthy batting
column. with lusty fourbase smash
over the center field bank in the
eighth inning.
Tigers Start Brilliantly
The Tigers opened play as il they
would romp to victory. McAlvaine,
first up famed but MacPhee was
safe on Flavin's error. Botting singled
and Jefferies walked, crowding the
sacks. Stinson forced MacPhee at the.
plate, then Hyman walked Berg to
force Rotting home with the first run.
Cooper's single scored Jefferies and
a pass to Gotshalk sent Stinson in
with another gift tally. Thomas ended
the nightmare by tanning.
Georgetown could do nothing with.
Thomas in it's start at bat and despite
pass and single Princeton was
unable to bother Hyman in the second
inning. The Hilltoppers, however.
proved themselves to be near-hitless
wonders in their turn. Some lurid
Princeton fielding mixed with pair
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runs.
Eddie Murphy began by scratching
single off Thomas glove. Florence
rolled to MacPhee. Tiger second sack
er, and the latter elected to retire
Murphy He failed to touch the run
ner and both hands were safe. Malley
bunted safely, filing the bases. Berg
messed Flavin's rap and Eddie Murphy
crossed the plate. Hyman struck out.
but while John Murphy was at bat
Thomas uncorked wild pitch that
tailed Florence and Malley and moved
Flavin to third. Flavin and John then
worked the squeeze play for the
fourth score.
jenkins Checks Princeton.
Princeton did some healthy hitting
to~resume the lead in the third hnn1ng.i
Berg fouled out, but Cooper slammed
to left for two bases. After Gotshalk
had grounded to shortstop. Thomas
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across the plate when McAlvaine
crashed a triple to the left-leld bar
rier. At this stage Jenkins replaced
Hyman and made an easy out of Mac
Phee.
In its third turn Georgetown went
to the fore and maintained its ad-
vantage to the finish. Only one hit
was needed in the making OF th1ke
runs. Sheedy got to second when
MacPhee made a wild toss to first
base. Kenyon walked and MacPhee's
error on Eddie Murphy's roller jam
med the bases. After Florence fouled
to the catcher, a squeeze play was at
tempted. With Sheedy tearing for the.
plate, Malley bunted safely. Thomas
grabbed the ball and tossed it far be-
and Eddie Murphy to count and NAL
ley to reach third. Bottings good
catch retired Flavin and Jenkins end
ed the inning by grounding to short.
During the next three innings.
Georgetown went out in order. .
double play helping to retire them IN
the fourth, but Princeton counted IN
the fifth John Murphy's error on
Bergs tap and Cooper's double pro-
duced the score. The Hilltoppers got
busy again in the seventh, getting a
run after two were out with triples
by Sheedy and Kenyon. The last tally
went over in the eighth, Florence's
homer accounting for 1t. Princeton
staged a brief rally in the ninth after
the first man had been retired; Berg
and Cooper singled. but Gotshalk pop
ped to shortstop and Breen, batting
for Thomas, was checked, jenkins to
Sheedy.
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