The Washington herald., 1922-06-26
TERRIBLE UMPIRINC
FAILS TO TRIM MATS
In FINAL OF SERIES
Bad Decisions Allow
Macks to Tie Score in
Fourth Inning.
PECK STARS AFIELD
Despite Quartet of Errors Be-
hind Him, Zachary Holds
70 Athletics Safe.
PECK STARS AFIELD
By RAY HELGESEN.


Arbiters Nallin and Moriarity
failed to save the Mackmen from
beating at the hands of the Griffs
yesterday. A neutral observer would
admit that both umpires were of.
At least three decisions, all against
the Griffs, were all wrong" One
of them gave the Mackmen their
lone tally in the fourth inning. But
despite these handicaps the Ma
tionals went on and won by a 2
to 1 score.
Zachary to the hill in an effort to
take the final game Of the series.
That the confidence reposed in him
was not misplaced is shown by
the fact that the Carolinian al
lowed but six hits and though his
teammates committed four errors
behind him, held the A Athletics to a
lone run.
Grins Field Brilliantly.
Despite the four errors charged
against the Grifs, their work dur
ing the matinee was brilliant in
the extreme. Peck's work. particu-
larIy. stood out. The Great Rajah
cut OF at least three safeties. Once
he went into short left center and
snagged a fly that, had it dropped
safe, would have put Zachary in
another hole. Peck handled nine
chances perfectly. His single er-
ror was on a hard hit grounder
that took a bad bounce just as he
was about to snag it. Bucky Har-
rfs also had a good day, cutting OF
a couple of smashes that looked
like sure hits, and, with Charity,
stopping a pair of Mackian thieves.
At that the Griffs might have
been forced into extra innings had
il not been for Bryan Harris gen.
rrosity. Bryan romped into a wild
streak in the Griffs. sixth and when
the dust, had settled Milan's entry
in the Ban johnson sweepstakes had
scored what proved to be the win
ming run without hitting safely
even once
Harris doled out four passes in
this inning. These. coupled with
heIder's choice. sent over the win
ming run. But when Bryan settled
down to real work the Grins
couldn't touch him and so 1t was
lucky the slim fellow picked that
spot to get rid OF some wild tosses'
Macks Get .GIft Rum
Of n
afternoon came in the fourth
when the Macks scored their lone
tally. tieing the score.
Miller was first up. He was
given a life when Bluege. after
picking up his roller cleanly,
threw wide to Judge and forced
the first sacker off the bag. With
Galloway up Miller was caught
stealing. Charity to Peck. Gal
loway then drove one through
Bluege, on which the little third
sacker was given another error.
making two in a row. Galloway
went to second before the ball
was retrieved.
Dykes pushed an easy roller to-
ward short and both he and GAL
Ioway were safe when Peck elected
to try for a play at third. II
seemed to be the consensus OF
opinion that Galloway was touched
out at third, but both umpires
thought different.
That play set the stage for Mis-
ter Nallin's prize boner.
With McGowan up Dykes and
Galloway started a double steal.
Zachary had assumed his pitching
position. but as the pair broke he
stepped out of the box and tossed
to Charity catching Galloway by
twenty feet Dykes went to sec
ond safely.
NalIin, however. complicated
matters here by calling Zachary's
motion a balk and allowing CAL
loway to score. The Griffs tore
their collective hair and raved for
five or six minutes, but failed to
get the umpire to change the dec
ision.
Even after Zachary had given
NaIlin and Moriarity a repeater"
of the motion the umpire refused to
allow the Griffs' claim. Zach
threw his glove on the ground
and was all set to do battle but
all to no avail. The umpire was
obdurate and the Griffs finally re-
sumed their positions after Zach.
Milan. Peck and a couple of 9TH
thought of him as an arbiter
II Babe Ruth had made even
half the fuss some of the Mats
created, chances are he would have
been set down for ten days or two
weeks.
Griffs Score I'm First.
MCGOWAN and Harris were re-
tired on easy popups. But the
Macks had tied the score with a
gift run" and but for Harris sub
sequent wildness that decision
might have cost the Griffs the ma
tinee.
Washington scored it's first run
in the opening inning. Judge was
mainly responsible for 1t. After
getting to a three and two count
he poled one of Harris fast ones
into deep left center and merely
romped to third before the ball
was relayed in. Peck followed
with a single through Harris,
scoring Judge Peck stole and went
to third on Shanks hit to left af-
ter Rice had whitfield. Shanks went
TO second on the throw in.
That brought Bueky Harris up.
He tried to push one past Old Doc
johnston. but the old doctor was
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