Evening star., 1922-09-25

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+ This will be one Of the busiest weeks
Clyde Milan and his colts have put in
for many a moon. the exhibition
games being a mere -bagatelle when
it is remembered that. beginning
Thursday and continuing through
Saturday. the Nationals play three
double headers with Connie Mack's
Athletics. Those three twin bills were
made necessary by rain which deluged
Shlbe Park earlier in the season.
The Griifs have played a neck and
neck race with the AS to date. each
club winning eight games i'll the six
teen matinees that have thrilled Cap
ital or Quaker town crowds.
Crifs to Close Mt Home.
After the set with the Mackmen the
Nationals move down to Washington
again to end the series at home on
date for the big leagues. On that day
the Yankees, again the champions of
the JohnSonian circuit. will be the
last piece de resistance for the Milan
clan this season.
Those Yankees, curses on them. have
won fifteen of the twentyone tilts
played with the Griffs this season and
to large extent the figures resemble
what the Nationals have done to the
White Sox. The Sox won the last
series OF the season from the Ma
tiOnals. taking two Out CO the three
games played and defeating johnson
and Zachary, but when the real
numerals are trotted out it is found
that the Sox won only seven out of
the twenty-five games played with
the Nationals in 1922. and as matter
of fact the Griffs took five series from
the Chicagoans.
1t was the awful wallop the Ma
tionals gave the Sox in the second
series here late in July that knocked
the Pale Hose out of a pennant chance
or at least something better than
fourth place. The Griffs took that
entire bunch of four, and after that
for several weeks the SoX dubbed
around trying to get back to a point
somewhere near the place the Milan
ese knocked them from.
Francis Rescues Mogridge.
In weather almost as chilly as late
November, the Nationals took that
fral from the Sox yesterday. When
George Mogridge. old mate of Red
Faber on the Des Moines team in the
Western League and some years ago,
floundered in the ninth in the face
Of Sox batting rally, Milan jerked
him and sent Ray Francis to the tur-
ret. The rookie Southpaw stopped
the start the Hose made, and sad
lened throng of fans hurried home to
get warm. 1t was a bitter pill for
the Sox, as they had hoped to make
it three straight and then pedal down
to St. Louis Friday next and with
what they hope to gain from the
Browns, cinch third place in event
of Tiger slip and cut in on some of
the world series coin.
Faber was on the crest in the last
game of the Washington series here
and gave way to Rookie Ted Blank
enship when the Griffs got to Faber
in the fifth, for their fourth run.
Clownish Nick Altrock found a new
occupation for the day. He carried
huge banner for a local politician
running for county treasurer.
The first hit of the game was made
in the third inning by Mulligan in
the third frame, single to center,
but it didn't mean anything.
Fifteen thousand fans braved a
cold day to, see the final of the series
and. the last game in Chicago. this
season for the American Leaguers.
Overcoats. muffiers and hats that
needed shaves prodominated. The
wind blew gale all through the
foul.
/. The wind certainly played Brewer
an awful trick. 1t blew Mulligan's
ball almost foul, then it dropped fair
near the line in the fifth. Then, to
make things worse, the big right
fielder accidentally kicked the bali to
the stand and Mulligan got a two
base hit. That was the inning the
the Griffs. ~