The Washington herald., 1922-04-13
Earl Smith Drives in Tie
ing Run in Seventh
Inning.
MATS WIN IN EIGHTH
Mogridge Allows Nine Hits,
But Errors Keep Him
In Hot Water.
By RAY HELGESEN.


tiful than ANY in highly touted
Florida. al. st coPpAtely sur
Founded ~ steel and concrete
rtands temporarily housing ap-
proximately $4,000 roaring believers
in Americas national SNORT.
President and Mrs. Harding.
ard Representatives. BABE RUTH.
Peanuts and hot dogs. Women in
summer dresses and men giving
their Easter suits a preliminary
workout. The New York Yankees in
their road uniforms Of gray with
blue pin stripe. The Nationals
in natty new white monkey suits.
\ four-run rally by the Yanks in
the second inning. Sighs and mur-
murings of disapproval from the
managers in the ErGndstand. Steady
plugging by the Griffs. A single
of the hat of Earl Smith, the ohio
Sheriff." scoring the tieing run in
the seventh inning. \ trio of safe
ties by the lower end of the Ma
tionals' batting order in the last
of the eighth. Even George Mog-
Score. to in favor the GrIffs.
GriGs Away in Front.
And another opening of the Amer
lean League season in Washington
has passed into baseball history.
Twenty-Five thousand faces bearing
4contented smiles. \ few murmur-
ings OF late starters. I told you
So" 4 certain amount of neces-
Sary confusion. Empty stands And
the Griffs got away from the bar
rier on their long jaunt to what
may be a championship with VIC
tory over the present champions of
the American League
. George MogridGe. a former Yank.
discarded by the New York club as
useless a little over year ago and
ever since a thorn in the side. of
the champions. hurled for the Griffs.
Sam Jones. once of the Boston Red
Sox. served them up for the athletes
from the Street % Lights. Neither
was in extra good shape yesterday.
Mogridge had the edge on hits. but
the breaks favored his opponent
and after the second, inning. in
which the Yankees scored a quartet
OF runs. only the strongest support
eventually he returned the victors.
MoEridge was kicked for nine hits,
while Sam Jones gave up Is safe
ties. The Yanks. however. played
q steadier game afield than did the
Griffs. The champions failed to err
while Milan's hopefuls committed
trio Of miscues.
Yanks Punch I'm Stands.
Minus the service of Babe Ruth
and Bob Meusel. the transformers
whose paths crossed that of Com
missioner lands last fall and who,
consequently will not be allowed to
participate in any games until May
90 the Yanks seemed to be punch
less with the sinGl exception of the
second inning. Their heavy artil
Iery missing. they didn't seem to
have the confidence which marked
their work last season. The Babe
was at the game. but not in it. He
sat in a box behind the Yanks dug
out and lent his moral support to
his team mates. But moral sup
port doesn't drive the ball out of
the park.
Judge. Rice and Harris were the
scintillating lights in the Nationals
steady attack. Judge and Rice each
of the first sacker's were doubles,
one of them hitting the sign in right
field Both of Bucky's hits were for
two bases. Earl Smiths single al
lowing Peck to score from second
with the tieing run in the seventh
also let's him enter the list of yes
terday's heroes.
The Grirs put the crowd in a
happy frame of mind for a few
minutes by scoring a run in the
first inning after they had held the
Yanks safe in the opening chapter.
Judge crashed one of Sam Jones
shoots to right field to start the
festivities. He went to second when
low ball got away from Wally
Schanz. Peck then flied to Pipp in
his first time at bat as a National.
I. Ward threw Smith out at first.
Judge going to third from where he
scored when Sam Rice doubled to
right. Goslin was an easy out,
Jones to Pipp. leaving Rice strand
ed.
second Is Big Inning.
Both teams scored in the second
inning. The Yanks garnered four
runs on as many hits, a sacrifice
and a walk. Pipp opened with a
walk and was sacrificed to second
by Ward. Harris took care of
Scott's popup, but Pipp romped
home on Schang's hit to center.
Jones took a Babe Ruth crash at
the ball. and it stopped in the
crowd in center field. Miller then
doubled to center. scoring Schang
and Jones' Mogridge found Chick
Fewster's groove. and the Babes
| substitute dropped a Texas Lacquer
| in left. Miller scoring and Chick
| going to third. when Smith sfum-
bied the bounding ball. Baker
whitfield to end the agony.
Harris started the Griffs' second
with a double to center. Shahks
and Charity were easy outs. but
MOgridge crossed the world by
dropping "A single in left near the
foul line. scoring Harris. Judge then
connected for the first of a pair of
doubles. and Mogridge, slid into
Home safely. Scott threw out Peck
at first.
The Yanks made what proved to
be their final run in the third. Judge
erased Mcmillan unassisted. >but
Pipp drove one down the first base
foul line for single and went to
second on Wards fly to Rice in
deep center. Scott scored wally