The Washington herald., 1922-06-07
RICE'S Home RUN
IN EIGHTH INNING
IS DECIDING BLOW
Victory Puts Mats in Tie
With Indians for
Third Place.

CLEVELAND. June s.-The Cleve-
land Indians have company In third
position Of the American League
pennant race. the Washington Ma
tionals beating them at Dunn Field
today. > to o. and climbing into a
tie with the Tribe that had won
four straight games before It's old
jinx stopped its winning streak.
Washington for many long years
has been cleveland's fsvorite JInx.
Erickson. who pitched today for
the Grifs. has been another jinx
ever since he landed on the Ma
tional pay roll. The Indians, out
side of forming a pretty good ball
club. are kind-hearted birds who
hate to see Olaf get out Of the
league and 20 back to Copenhagen.
Rice Hemers In EiEkth.
But Olaf wasn't the whole show
at that. Sam Rice and Stanley
Coveieskie shared the spotlight
along with the Dane. CoveleskIe
went right along with Erickson un-
tfi the eighth. when Sammy Rier
broke up the old pitching duel with
a home run to the bleachers In left
center with a runner on base.
Sam is left-hand batter and
Jameson was playing toward
shortstop and u was rolling q
merry clip when II went by
Jameson as he raced toward II In
center. sam sprinted around and
beat Joe sewell's relay standing up.
The Indians have kept Olaf
Erickson In the American League a
long time. He's a great pitche,
against the Redskins. The only
time the Indians beat Olaf Is when
he loses his control. and oft times
Olaf does that. The Tribe waited
and waited for him to do Il today.
but he never quite lost IL. He came
close more than once.
Frequently the Nationals ran
into the diamond and encourages
Issue. Bst Two walks.
That's the boy. Olaf" they said
when he got one over. Don't lose
EN-. Erie" they said when he got
a couple wide OF the plate. Olaf
only walked two batters, one In
the FIRST inning and one In the sec
ones on more than one Indian. but
he always put the third one In
where an Indian had to hit at IL.
And when Olaf got In there II
was hard to hit. That Is no secret
IL was mighty hard to hit. Olaf
had something on his fast one and
something on his curves. He zipped
his fast one In there today. some-
with a delivery according to Carl
Mays.
The tribe made four hits OF him.
One OF these was a double by
Larry Gardner. who Is playing the
bench while Stephenson plays third
base. because Larry lost his recipe
for socking the apple when he was
on the road. Stephenson. who plays
third because he can hit 'em where
they ain't. didn't get a smell today
He grounded out once and sent
three long smashes to the outfield.
Jameson. Eyans and Joe Sewell
were the other Indians to get safe
hits. but only Evans went further
than first base. He singled TO start
the seventh and after two of his
pards had died he stole second. But
McInniS lined to Lamotte.
Joe Sewell's hit started an inning
too. the Midget's single in the fifth
being the first safe blow Of Erick-
son But McInnis hunted into a
double play. His charley horse pre-
venting him from getting to first in
time to beat Harris throw.
Toe Mseh Erick.
Gardner's double came in the
eighth when he batted for Covel-
eskie There were two out when
his smash hit the fence. Graney had
batted for Luke Sewell and fouled
to Charity after Joe Wood had
made the hrst out by flying high to
Brewer.
You can't get away from 1t. thers
was too much Erickson. The In
disns played good ball and got won
derful pitching. CoveleskIe hurled
a magnificent game in the face OF
an error and bad breaks.
He got out of more than one hole
and deserved to win. But II Is al
ways Coveleskie's turn to NEE,
Jinxes and tough pitchers and more
often than not the Indians fail at
their end Of getting a few runs.
Take the first inning. with one
out. Harris singled past Stephenson
anu HiCe poppcu saIe MT oNcT
Stevnie's head. Nobody was up
then but Joe Judge. cleanup man
for the Mats and a great hitter.
But Judge rolled to McInnis and
Brewer grounded to wamby.,
Then take the seventh. Brewer
opened the round with a single
against the right field wall. Smith
hunted. and Stevenson. In youthful
anxiety to get his man. fumbled the
ball and both runners were safe
with no one out.
There was a good SPOT for Covei.
eskie to quit II he were o weakline.
but he didn't. Charity hunted and
Convey. though he fumbled long
enough to prevent a throw to third.
got his man at first. Men on third
and second and only one down. An
other good spot for Coveleskie to
falter. but he didn't. He took La
NOTES tap and ran down Brewer
and then forced Erickson to roll to
McInnis
II anybody asks you this morn
ing what was the matter with the
Indians, lust tell 'em. "ErIck son