The Washington herald., 1922-03-30
YOUTHFUL TWIRIER|
GETS FIRST CHANCE
AGAINST BIG TEAM.
Courtney's Wildness
Gives Regulars 81 Win
Over Yanigans.
By RAY HELGEsEN.

heart the Nationals' 17-year-oid
southpaw. viii get-his hrst chance.
against a major league outft to-
morrow In st. Petersburg. when he
Is scheduled TO face the Boston
braves in the sixth game of the
sbring series. Brillheart has shown
YsucS form in practice that Milan
has decided TO get a look at the
kid under IRE and for that reason
the youngster will start tomOrrow'sI
fray as
Milan has not yet decided how
many, innings to let the kid port
slider hurl- Brillhesrt is in better
shape than any other hurler on the
squad and the Linden Flyer is half
inclined to let him go the route,
always providing that the Braves
don't show too much fondness for
his offerings ss -
Dangerous Dan McGrew and
Erick Erickson will also be taken
along tomorrow. McGrew will fol-
low BrilIheart II Zeb finally decides
to let the youngster' work only
part of the game. and Erick Is be-
ing carted to the Sunshine City Tor
use in an emergency.
YannIgans Beaten.
The Yannigans lost another
chance to beat the Regulars this
morning when the veterans were
returned the victors in a seven
inning game by an Stool score
The wiIdness of Courtney prevent
ed the kids from at least tieing
the score. "'Andsom AIRY" was
Acked for only FIVE hits in the
ven innings. but he was SO wild
The vets couldn't get near MS OF
ferinEs- He walked nine men,
3ridaed his system of a balk and
| erred twice.
Woodward and Francis hurled for
the Regulars and together were
nicked for eight hits. Woodward al
lowed five and gave four bases on
balls, but he balanced his wildness
by whiting a half dozen of the
youngsters.
Courtney had Goslin, who made
such h splurge yesterday with nye
hits, absolutely helpless. Goslin did
MT get anything that even resembled
a biugIe. furthermore. despite the
fact chat the Official scorer was
nice 10 him and no errors were
chaIked against him, he looked bad
in the field Twice he stumbled and
fell in trying to field balls which
should have been easy outs. Another
time he utterly misjudged a drive.
coming in for IL instead of going
out. and the result was that Smith
was credited with a triple on what
should have been at the most a sin
gle,
Francis waIloped.
The ,Yannigans crashed three solid
hits of Francis in their half Of the
seventh and tied the score at four
!. all. LaMotte doubled along the left
- foul line. Brewer singled to
night. LaMptte scoring. Goebe flew
to Goslin and Bluege hit to left.
BroYer moving to second. Francis
theR pit Picinich, filling the bases.
Gleason drove to Harris and Pici-
Mich iran into Bucky and was
touched out, Harris completing a
double play by throwing to Judge.
Peck started the Regs' seventh by
| fying to Goebel. Milan walked and
stole second. Rice also walked. Cos
| lin drove to Lightfoot, who ran Mi
| Ian down between second and third.
4 thereby showing his minor league
class 'as he could just as we'll have
touched third for force out. Harris
doubled to center. Rice and Goslin
scoring. Shanks tripled to left, Har-
ris scbring and Hank following him
in when Lightfoot missed Smiths
return throw. Milan then called the
game. evidently figuring that Court
Eey had taken a healthy enough
beating for one day.
Johnson, Ralph Miller. Eddie
DigEes, Turk, Keifer and Danny
NOone will leave here Saturday
night and go direct to- Washington.
instead of making the return trip
with the club, Milan said today.
The Nationals only have accommo-
datiOns for forty persons on the trip
North. and Milan, therefore. is
forced to send some OF the squad
~houe early. He picked those who
n least advanced. They will work
but at American League Park until
D the squads arrival in Washington
week from Saturday. Johnson
win be in charge of the early squad.