The Washington herald., 1922-05-23
CRIFFS' BID FOR Tie.
IN NINTH IS CUT OFF
BY DOUBLE KILLING
President Harding At
tends Game-Robertson
To Pitch Today.
By RAY HELGESEN.

Erick Erickson yesterday proceeded
to prove that though President
Clark Griffith no longer has to sign
Harry courtney's bI-monthly slip.
the Griffmen are Cstill well supplied
with twlrlers who rate high in the
erratic league. Erick was sent In
to slip the White Sox their third
straight beating. He failed. mostly
because in his attempt to emulate
Handsome Harry he went too rar
In all he passed six of the Sox. hit
batsman and generally comported
himself along the lines 1t was
Harry's wont to do when the lean
southparW Eraced the Nationals
bench. Mostly because Of the walks
which were doled out to them the
white Sox wen. 4 to ,.
Erick was effective enough when
he could get them over. But he was
rarely able to find the plate and had
himself in a hole on almost every
batter Furthermore. in his at
tempts to extricate himself from
some of the holes re was forced to
cut down on his stuff and as a re-
suit the Sox got to him for seven
hits. three of which were triples
Gleason Picks FRber.
With Gleason sending Urban
Faber to the hill for the SoN, Milan
figured he might just as well send
the Swede to the sl..ushter as ans
other of his none too heavy string
of hurIers. now that George Mo-
gridge will be out of tEe game FOR
a corple of weeks.
NAt that the Griffs hit Faber hard
er than had been expected. getting
to him for the same number of
hits the Sox collected of Erick, in
cIuding a double and a triple. But
Faber was loaded with control and
except for one bad inning-the sec
ond, when the Griffs scored a pair
of runs on three hits and a. hiJ
batsman-always had the Griffs well
in hand.
The game was for the benefit OF
the Children's Hospital. About g.,
900 persons including President and
Mrs. Harding. attended. A pair OF
basebaIls autographed by the mem
bers of both teams and the President
were auctioned off before the game.
Each brought 5000 Albert Lasker,
chairman of the Shipping Board
buying one and Gen. Charles C
Dawes getting the other.
The President stayed until the
final putout. refusing to leave un-
| til the Griffs' ninth Inning rally
had been cut of by a fast double
| play. leaving them still one run in
the rear.
Erick Forces I'm Tally.
Erickson's worst bit of wildness.
a streak which probably made Har-
ry Courtney. lolling in the Sox
dugout, green with envy. was forced
upon the paying customers in the
Sox' second. The big Swede walked
four batters in this frame, which.
coupled with an entirely unnec-
| essary sacrifice. gave the Gleason
ties their initial tally.
Strunk opened with a walk. Falk
sacrificed Erick to Judge. Schalk
and Sheely walked. filing the bases.
Erick then gave Mcclellan three
straight balls followed with a pair
of strikes, which cut the heart of
the plate, but couldn't get the last
-
of the Sox' hot corner also walked
forcing in the first run and leaving
the bases crowded.
Hooper attempted to wait 'em out.
but with a three and two count
fouled to Charity. Faber had pre-
viOusly lifted to Harris in short
right
The Griffs made their greatest
bid for their third straight in the
second. Brewer opened by driving
q single between Collins and Sheely
Into right. He romped to third when
Goslin doubled down the left-field
foul line-a lucky safety. as the
ball hit the handle of his bat on
half swing.
Shanks whitfield. and Charity was
hit by a pitched ball, filling the
bases with only one out. Peck then
| drove over Ernie Johnson's head.
scoring Brewer and Goslin and
sending Pat to third. Erick whitfield
and seemed glad to get away from
the plate and Faber's smoky shoots
Harris walked. again filling the
bases, but Rice lifted into Falk's
hands. The latter had played Sam
perfectly, hardly moving a step to
take his low drive.
Shanks' Error Hurts.
That looked like the ball game
until an error by Shanks and an
other streak of Erick's wildness.
coupled with Hooper's triple to the
wall in right, gave the Sox a pair
Of tallies in their fourth.
Schalk started the trouble by
driving at Shanks, who pulled
Judge on the bag with a low throw
to first Erick hit Sheely. McCIel-
Ian struck out, and Faber popped
TO Judge In the middle Of the dia-
mond before Hooper caught a fast
one on the end of his bat and pulled
II into right field. The ball took
bad bounce on the field boxes,
and Schalk and Sheely scored and
Hooper pulled up at third before
the relay to the infield was com
pleted. Shanks and Judge erased
johnson. ending the inning.
The Sox' final run was scored in
the nfth. Collins tripled aEain.,
the sisnboards in right to start,
strunk walked. Falk flied to Harris,
and Collins scored on the squeeze
play, Schalk laying the ball down
perfectly, but Erick throwing him
out at first.
Milan's men made a great bid
for At least a tie score in the
ninth. but q double killing stopped
them after one run had scored.
After Collins had tossed out
Brewer. Goslin tripled to the left
held corner and scored on Shanks'
rfngia betVea1 MrCl.llan ana TnLz