The Washington herald., 1922-07-27
HOMER IN NINTH BEATS TIGERS, 5TO 4
SMASH BREAKS, IA
tie, MATS HITTING
IN PINCHES TO WIN.
Pat Replaces Picinich in
Eighth When Val
Abuses Umpire.

DETROIT. July 2s.-At last. A
game has been won by an attack
on an umpire.
Yes. sir. ask the Nationals. Mr..
Val Picinich. temperamsntal back
stop for the Grifr aggregation. will
be called first to testify.
In the eighth inning of today's
fracas between the Mats and Tigers
the eccentric Val wound up and
heaved his face protector. otherwise
known as a mask. right at Umpire
Guthrie. a new one in this loop.
Then Val tasted the showers Val
had hardly gotten wet under the
clubhouse waters following his re-
.tirement from the game than his
husky successor-Patrick Charity
LEANED on a fast one of olsen's
and circuited the bases with the
Z winning run. the score being TO 4.
Homer Breaks Tie.
Pats smash came with none out
and none on in the ninth. 1t was
a terrific clout and sailed high and
far over Tyrus Cobb's dome in cen
ter field. 1t has to be long one
when Pat makes the rounds
So il came about that Val and the
umpire won Washington a game.
Val won by a double in the third
and a wild pitcn in the eighth.
Some record for a catcher.
1t is possible Val might have
homered in the ninth. The odds are
he Nouldn't have. The next three
Mats were easy outs. so the game
might have been going on indef-
initely otherwise.
Cobb Hits Hard.
George Mogridge thus won his
third consecutive game. He al
lowed fourteen hits. but kept 'em
scattered.
in the opening frame. Jones and
Cobb singled after Blue had flied
out to Harris. veach made it three
singles in a row. and Jones crossed
the pan. Heilmann. however. added
to the Griffs' double play record
when he poked to Peck. who tossed
to Harris, who relayed to Judge to
complete the inning. Cobb and
Jones each got three hits during
the days festivities. and Tyrus took
a hog lead or batting honors in the
American loop. Sisler going hit
less.
Mats scsre Three.
Well. we must get back to Val.
Val came up in the third and
smashed a wicked one toward Rig
ney. the ball caroming off the lat
te-'s glove. Val caromed to Sec
ord. Mogridge laid down a neat
sacrifice. Jones to Cutshaw. who
covered first, and Val took third
Rice caught one to his liking. and
shot triple out centerfield way
Val crossing with the tieing run.
Harris managed to get in the way
of one and ambled to first. rubbing
his shoulder. "Bucky" sure is an
artist at it. Judge sent up a high
foul near third. which Jones gar
nered. and Harris shot down to
second shortly after on a neat steal.
Rice holding third on the ply. Cos
lin drove one which just eluded
Cutshsw, and Rice and Harris
Blue It totaled three runs on as
many hits.
Tigers Tie II Again.
The Tigers got mean right away
and before Milan had time to re-
jOice over the two-run lead, things
were snarled up in p vicious knot
again Blue flied to Goslin to open
the Tigers half of the third, but
Jones and Cobb made themselves
troublesome, 81 far as the Mats
were concerned. Jones singled to
SeUter and Cobb walked. yeach
doubled out ccslin's way and Jones
srampered over the plate. Cobb re-
posing on third. Not satisfied with
his treatment yesterday on the same
trick, Picinich tried to pick veach
off second. Cobb was home before
the peg had gotten well started.
1t was the tying run and he was
credited with a steal. Cutshaw then
flied to Goslin and the inning was
over.
To keep the scoring going, Shanks
opened the Griffs' half of the fourth
with a single through the box.
Jones made a beautiful back hand
stop of Peck's drive and retired tie
shortstop at first Cutshaw then
made wild heave on Picinich's
grounder and Shanks romped home
and Val reached second. Mogridge
struck out. but Rice walked Hsr-
ris drove one to Jones. who retired
Val on force play at third for the
third out
Things went along indifrerentiy for
the next few innings. each side get
ting binRles that meant nothing at
occasional times.
However. in the eighth. Heilmann
drew a pass to start proceedings and
took second on Cutshaw's sacrifice,
Picinich to Judge. Rigney drove one
to Harris and while Bucky was re-
firing him at first Heilmann scooted
to third. Woodall then Slapped one
downs the third base line and Umps
Guthrie declared II safe. Heilmann
scoring with the tying marker The
decision brought the entire Washing
ton outfit to the plate in battle array.
ilan-claimed the ball rolled foul. So
peeved was Val that his mask some-
how or other left his nit and flew in.
the direction Of Umpire Guthrie. Ac-
companying Val to the showers was
Shanks, who had also put in some hot
words Lamotte went to third and
Charity took Val's place behind the
bat Olsen singled to second, but
Blue flied to Harris
After Charity had rammed out
his homer in the ninth the Mats went
down. in order
Jones singled to open the Tiger
ninth, but Cobb forced him at Sec
ond. Lamotte to Harris, and veach
flied to Goslin. Heilmann ended fes-
tivities by forcing Cobb at second.
Peck to Harris
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