The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-04-23
BUSH Is ERRATIC,
BUT HOLDS MATS
TO TWO SAFETIES
Joe Gleason Turns in An
other Good Effort, But
Also Is Unsteady.
WITT CLOUTS HOMER
$4,000 Brave Frigid Weather
To See Game Marked by
Brilliant Fielding.

NEW YORK, April 22.-In one OF
the most brilliantly Yielded games
that the season may hope to pro-
a duce. Bullet Joe Bush pitched the
Yankees into undisputed leadership
in the American League today by
holding the Senators to the meager
total of two hits in a contest that
the Hugmen captured by the score
, OF 4 to 2. Some $4,000 hardy fans
turned out in the frigid weather at
the Polo Grounds and they were
rewarded for their courage and en-
durance by witnessing a bang-up
pitching duel between the veteran
% Bush and a rookie washingtonian,
Joe Gleason. a former denizen of
Shreveport. La.
With no veteran pitchers ready
or willing to cope with the fast
flying Yankee squad. Zeb Milan
trotted out young Gleason and in
vited him to bowl the Rupert
Huston forces over while the SEN
ators were making life miserable
for Bullet Joe. Until the fifth in
ming II looked as II Milan had
called the turn right, but Whitley
Witt plunked an unexpected home
run into the stands at this stage,
sending Bush home ahead of him.
Wally Schang had previously helped
the invaders to a run with a wild
heave to second, and another wish
tors tally had counted on Harris
two-bagger. Therefore, Wits cir
cult clout tied the score.
Hurlers I'm Spotlight.
Despite the many thrilling stops,
catches and throws. the two hurlers
were the star performers of the
afternoon. Bullet Joe was just a
bit wild in the early innings. and
II was the two bases on balls that
he gave in the third inning that
resulted in the two tallies the Sena-
tors pushed over the scoring plate.
But from that point out he was a
whirlwind. Only two men reached
first base from the fourth to the
ninth frame, one on a hit and one
on a base on balls. Joe was out
there working his head off to atone
for the start he gave the Milan clan
with those unhappy passes. With
every ball he served up to the
plate he furnished a deep grunt of
exertion free gratis. and for moth
ing. From Boston comes the in
formation that the grunt in the
pitching of Bullet Joe is just as
much a part of the performance as
Is the whistling by a well-ordered
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machine is functioning properly.
While it is true that the tallies in
the third inning which put Wash
ington into the lead were scored by
nimble athletes who were presented
with free tickets by the Yankee
twirler. it was a wild throw by
wally Schang to catch Charity be-
tween second and third that let the
Washington catcher over the pan.
However. Stanley Harris connected
for a lusty double to left which
scored the second run and might
we'll have scored the first tally. too.
That was all for Washington. They
might have locked up the bat bag
at that point and saved wear and
tear on their bludgeons for the rest
OF the afternoon. as Bush was in
Vincible to the end of the game.
GIeason's Walks Hurt.
Keep right after this bird" urged
the mite manager. motioning toward
the mound where the aforesaid
Gleason was serving a lot of COM
bination sidearm and underhand
slants right past the batsmen.
wen get him yet" Higgins was
right. too. and like his opponent.
Bush. the Senatorial twirler got
himself into trouble by a base on
balls. He gave this free ticket to
SchanE. who was forced on second
on a great play by Peck who took
Bush's apparent hit that bounced
off the shins of LaMotte and
turned il into a force out. Then
little Whitley Witt bounced out into
the middle Of the stage with a ges-
ture Of defiance and smote the ball
squarely into the right field stand.
trotting gayly around the bases
and shooting In Bush ahead Of him.
Having tied the score. the next
thing to do was to go the opposi-
tion a few better. 1t was another
base on balls by Gleason that was
converted into what turned out to
be the winning tally. ScOtty was
the recipient Of the free transporta-
ton. He went to third on Schang's
sixty -mile-a-minute single to right
and scored on a sacrifice fly by
Bush. Norman Mcmillan added an
other run in the eighth on singles
by himself. Ward. and Scott. That
was more than enough to make II
three straight in this series from
the Milan crew, and five out of six
between the teams so far this sea-
son.