Evening star., 1922-09-17

Francis blew in freakish manner.
nc started pitching. Judge opened
the game with single and Harris
tripled him home. Oldham steadied
then and held Washington safe.
The Tigers packed bases In the
third on Bassler's single. Olham's
walk and a. bunt single by Haney.
None out. Francis showed some ex
rellent twirling right here. Jones
forced Bsssler at the plate and Cobb
fied TO Rice. Oldham scored after
the out, but Veach forced Jones and 1t
was nothing more than tie score
Francis Goes to Pieces.
When Detroit came to bat in the
nth the count was still one and one.
Haney singled to center. Jones bunt-
ed. Francis picked up the ball and
made a late throw to second. Cobb
hunted. and this time Francis threw
was late. Bases were filled. Francis
hecame lost. He pitched four balls
to Veach. walked him and forced
tianey home. Fothergill singled Jones
and Cobb across Cutshaw bunt,d,
the third bunt of the inning. For the
third time. also. Francis neideu ,ie
bail: this time he was SLOW and ma,c
Il late throw. also wide one. the
error filed the bases. Rigney flied, but
Bassler singled and Veach scored.
Nationals Get INTO ACTION.
In the following inning Jones
walked. Francis struck out Cobb.
but Jones stole on the third strike
and continued to third when Lapan
threw the ball to center. Veach's
single scored Jones. Fothergill sin
gled Veach to third and Warmoth re-
placed Francis. Veach scored while
Peckinpaugh threw out Cutshaw, but
that was all for the inning.
Had Francis kept his head on the
hunted balls he probably would still
have been pitching in the seventh. and
II was in this inning where he would
have received the break.
Nationals Get Into Action.
Shanks, first up, hit to Rigney, who
l.apan walked. Peckinpaugh flied to
Cobb, but RiGney made J. mess of
La. Notes Erounder and the sacks
were jammed. Charity was sent in to
pinch bat for warmoth and Oldham
struck him out. Judge delivered,
however. a slashing two-bagger off
the right field screen, clearing the
iases. and when Harris followed with
his third hit off Oldham. a single,
Judge also scored. Oldham tossed out
Rice.
Erickson took the hill when the
Tygers came to bat In the seventh.
Oldham walked. Haney famed. Rice
1nuffed Jones' hy. Oldham reaching
third. Milan took out Erickson and
substituted Brillheart. Cobb singled
Shanks made wild peg to second
Jones also scored.
After Goslin grounded in the eighth,
Shanks singled. With the count three
and ono on Lapan. Cobb took out
Oldham and sent in Olsen. Lapan
singled, but he was the last National
10 reach first. Brillheart kept the
sacks clean in the eighth and that is
about all that happened this after
moon.
Small Crowd on Hand.
NiInu's team plays here tomorrow
season in Detroit on Monday. the
smallest Saturday crowd OF the year
saw today's game, but that was be-
cause of chilly weather
Milan hnd a rookie battery work
ing for two thirds of an inning while
the new left-hander Warmoth was
pitching. Lapan caught the entire
game. He grounded out once and
lifted three flies to Cobb. When
throw and did not attempt to peg
when Rigney went down later on.
Blue, the only native of Washing.
ton in the major leagues e. did mot mot
Haney, who has been third basing
for Detroit, did the first -basing In
Blues place and Bobby Jones played
third
Rjguey hit a low line drive to
center i'm the eighth. There did not
.eem to be a chance in the world
for Rice to get the ball, but he made
he catch. grabbing the ball just of
the grass blades. while running at
top speed. He somersauhed but came
M. with the ball and the applause!
nf the mob.
When Hnrris was caught off first
hare in the third inning. seven De-
troit players tried to tag him. They
ran him up and they ran him down
and finally Stanley slid back to first
safely Cutshaw had the ball there
ahead of him but failed to tag him.
Nr. AltrocIk gave q. distinctly novel
and praiseworthy performance here
this afternoon. He pulled some new
stuff and got a great deal OF ap-
plause. He put the groundkeepers
10 rout this afternoon and every
time Cobb came TO the pitchers box
20 consult with Oldham Altrock got
into the discussion and offered ad-
vice to the red-headed left-hander.
stanley Harris was the big man
ut bat for Washington. He is poison
for Oldham. He made two singles.
"A three bagger and got a base on
balls in four trips while Oldham was
pitching.
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