The Washington times., 1922-08-12

I0dayS bargain encounter Is rel
caused by any postponed games.
gridge and Jezebel Tecumseh Zach
perform for the visiting team ag'
Pennock or Alec Ferguson. Manag
20 win both games and then 20
morrow.
The first game OF this two-day-
series was one-sided until the eighth.
The Griffs, behind perfect pitching
from Walter johnson, big favorite
here, We're leading, to 0. when the
Frazee frazzles staged four.run
rally. That was the final count, s to
4. favoring the Griffs.
Joe Judge, usually calm and cir
cumspect, kicked himself out Of the
game in the fifth when Ruel was
called safe at first by empire Guth-
rie. Joe howled so much that the
arbitrator waved him to the show
ers. Brewer replaced Judge and
Manager Milan went to right field,
where he showed to advantage On
holding Leibold's slam in the eighth
to q single. 1t might have gone for
three but for Milan's fine fielding.
The Red Sox pulled a triple play
In the ninth just when the Griffs
seemed certain to score few more
runs. Rice and Stanley Harris
singled in succession. Ruel picked up
. Milan's bunt and got Rice at third.
Pittenger shot the ball across to
Burns, doubling up Milan. Stanley
Harris dug for third as Pittenger
tossed across the diamond, but
Burns return to Pittenger beat him
TO the bag. .-..2 .t....
Real football weather greeted
the players ON their return from
the West and assisted the unpopu.
larity of Harry Fraxee In keeping
the attendance figures down to a
thousand or so.
For a couple Of frames nothing
happened. Then the Griffs showed
a run over in the third, Walter John.
son contributing the wallop that did
it. Fewsters wild throw put Peck
on. Picinich rolled to Pratt. John
sons hard drive to left sent Peck
pattering over the pan.
The Griffs collected three singles
and a double in the fourth, yet they
scored but a single run. With one
gone, Goslin burned q single to left
in his own approved style. He gal.
1oped to tnird when Brewer doubled
along the right field foul line.
Shanks' hot single bounded off Rip
Collins shins and in came Gosiln.
Roger Peckinpaugh, who was a
marvel all day in the field, by the
way, scratched a single off Collins
glove, filling the bases. 1t was up
to the battery to do something, but
it failed. Picinich fell a victim on
strikes and Fewster tossed out John.
son, leaving the bases loaded.
Walter johnson cinched his tri-
umph i'm the sixth when he drove
the winning run over the plate with
his timely single over Del Pratts
head.
Goslin started off in that sixth
with a vicious single to center,
advancing when Fewster threw out
Brewer. Shanks tore off a single
20 left, scoring Goslin.
Peck came through with a fine
double to right. and Sharks reached
third. George Burns scrambled
around and bagged Picinich's foul
fly, and 1t was up to johnson.
All the great pitcher did was to
slam a single over Pratt's head,
and Shanks and Peck easily tailed.
Sam Rice failed to come across,
merely lifting a fly to Leibold.
The Griffs made no more runs
during the game, but the poor old
Red Sox,y peeved at the sarcastic
remarks of some Of the faithful
fans, staged an insurrection in the
eighth that came within a run Of
tying the score. That rally put
some life into the fans and sent
them home in a happier mood than
had heen eNneCted
johnson MAY have eased up,
seeing that his victory was well
I'm hand. He may have simply
lost his stuff. II isn't known
which. But Il is known that the
Sox scored four runs.
John Collins came up for the
other member Of the Collins family
and politely popped to Stanley Har-
ris. Memo Leibold didn't like that
ana so he shot a single to center.
The rally was on.
5bhnny Mitchell waited for four
bad ones and got them. Rice grabbed
a long fly from George Burns bat,
making two out, and the fans groan-
ed Then Del Pratt, who got three
blows during the fracas, slammed a
triple to left center, Leibold and
Mitchell scoring. He had some luck
with that triple for Rice first mis-
judged 1t and then fell down. II
was poor fielding by a man with
Rice's reputation.
Joe Harris walloped a healthy
double to right and in came Pratt
fram third. Mike Menosky whacked
a single to right, scoring Joe Har-
ris, with the fourth run OF the frame.
Karr came up for Fewster and rolled
to- Shanks. The rally had ended
wKh the home brigade a run be-
hihd That's the way the game was
fiHished, neither side doing anything
I'M the ninth.