The Washington herald., 1922-06-08

MlSCUES FIGURE In
OVERTIME BATTLE
won BY CRIFFS, 9-S.
Brower's Double Scores
Winning Run-Francis
Knocked From Box.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. June. -
Washington fought a great uphill
night with the Indians today. and
after battling for eleven strenuous
Innings were rewarded by victory
and third place.
Weird play by the Tribes infeld
presented the Nationals with a pair
of tallies In the first frame without
the aid OF a hit. That brace of
runs was all the Milan clan were
able to accumulate for the next six
Innings.
Never was the saying. "A game
10 never won until il Is over" truer
than today. For seven innings Guy
Morton held the Mats.
Judge Turns Trick.
Ingthe meantime the Indians had
Adriven Ray Francis, Coast League
sorthpaw. from the rubber. and had
settled down to the mere task OF
playing out the string because the
rules called for nine innings. Then
II happened.
with one out in the eighth. Rice
drew a pass. Joe Judge, always a
most dangerous batsman against
Cleveland pitchers, hit one against
the right-feld screen. 1t glided
dowr the wire netting, hit against
one of the steel uprights. dropped
to the wall and then rolled through
the BARROW crack between screen
and wall. dropping into Lexington
avenue. A home run. of course,
with Rice scoring ahead of him.
Brewer. followed with single.
Smith hit a torrid grounder to
To
double play. and the way Wamby
tackled It he apparently thought the
same thing. But the pesky pill took
a high hop over the second sacker's
head. and Washington had two on
with only one out. Both Brewer
and Smith promptly scored when
Charity singled to center.
smiths Drive Gives Lead.
That was all that inning and
Cleveland stiTl led, Z to s. But
there was more trouble in the ninth
and 1T started the same way, with
a pass to Rice. after one was out.
Judge made the second out, but
with two strikes on Brewer. a
sharply breaking curve hit the bat
ter on the knee. Smith. who had
done so much damage in the eighth,
now stirred up a lot more trouble.
He lifted a high fly to left center.
Jameson, Understanding its car
rying power, ran a few steps for
ward and then saw his mistake. 1t
went for 20 bases, both Rice and
Brewer scored and Washington was
leading. s to 7.
The Indians, however, did not
give up. Gardner was sent in to
bat for wamby. Turk, a recruit
7
rubber for Washington, Francis
having been knocked from the box
and Tom Phillips removed in favor
of a pinch hitter. When three wide
ones had been pitched by Turk,
Manager Milan recalled him ana
sent Walter Johnson to the mound.
Brewer Finishes II.
The speed king finished passing
Gardner and then felled Evans, but
Stephenson was not so easy. He
singled and so did McInnis, Gardner
scoring the tying run.
The Mats went down easy in the
tenth. while the Indians put forth
efforts that all but brought victory
to the Redskins camp. Luke Sewell
led of with a double to right and
moved to third on a sacrifice by
Graney. In came the Washington
infield, and when Jameson slashed
a grounder toward right field. Har-
ris pounched upon II. Making a
clean pick up and a perfect side
arm throw. he nailed Luke at the
plate.
The substitution of Graney for
Morton brought Walter Mails in TO
fellow Guy on the rubber, his first
appearance in the box for several
weeks. He disposed of Harris and
Rice without trouble and appeared
to have Judge struck out. Judge
singled to center. He scored the
winning run a moment later, when
Brewer doubled to right center.