The Washington herald., 1922-06-25
ERICK'S WILDNESS
IN OPENING INNING
BEATS NATIONALS
A's Get ADdy to 2-Run
Lead and Are Never
Headed.
NAYLOR STOPS MATS
Rollie Holds Milan's Men Safe
While His Mates Pound
Two Pitchers.
NAYLOR STOPS MATS
By RAY HELGESEN.

II there Is such thing as a steady
streak of wildncss Erick Erickson had
II yesterday in the first inning of the
game between the Nationals and the
Athletics which the latter won by an
to scora. E-ick passed the first
two men to face him. grooved a ball
so that the third man was enabled to
lay down a perfect sacrifice and
walked the fifth batter, after having
vhiffed young MCGOWAN. who is la
boring in the cleanup position for
Colnie Mack
Having loaded the bases with three
walks Erlck proceeded to get Perkins
TO a 3-and-2 count. He was then
forced to shoot the next one down
the old alley and Perkins lifted it into
left field for a safety. scoring Young
and old Doc Johnston, two of the
three Msckmen who had been free
tieketed to first Miller, the third
recipient of a pass, went to third on
the blow but was stranded with Per-
kins when Harris tossed out Gallo
way.
Erick Easy for AS.
That's the story of the Mack's first
inning Erick just wasn't there. He
mad all the stuff he ever had, and
mats plenty. but he couldn't get the
pellet within reaching distance of the
batsmen- In fact it's a wonder that
some OF his tosses stayed inside the
park.
Furthermore. when the strongest
man In baseball did get the horse
hide over he was slipping 'em down
the alley and as a result the Macks
mad only to swing their wood and
run until told to stop by the coachers.
Three of the six hits the Macks cob
Iected or Erickson were triples, all
hard hit smashes. That in itself
shows JusI how much stuff Erick had
on the ball when he routed il over
the plate
Tom Phillips found his way into
the pastime in the fifth inning after
the Athletics had scored runs off the
Swede. But Tom though considerably
slead'er than Erick, had little MORE
Success than did his predecessor. He
vas touched for three hits and three
runs.
ROllie Naylor. who oppossd tho
Griffmen. had one of his good days
The Griffs nicked him for a total
of eight hits. but except in the
third they were scattered. and Nay
Tor always seemed to have re-
serve in an emergency. He didn't
pull his customary "blow-of" act.
In fact. he was good from the first
TO the ninth. and after the first
three innings. when the Macks had
collected four runs. all the Griffs
had left was little hope. but no
punch at all.
As Score Two In Third.
\ fast double play. Rice to Har-
ris. stopped the Macks in the sec
ond round but they picked up
where they had left of in the third
and stored another pair of tallies on
two safeties. both long triples, and
walk EriCksOn's fourth and last.
II was the last merely because the
sympathetic Milan sent the Swede
TO the showers an inning later.
Johnston and Walker both skied
out to open the third. But Erick
wasn't satisfied without having
someone on base, so he passed Nc
Gowan after having had him in a
hole. two and nothing. Miller here
loosed triple down the right field
foul lins. That's something BinC
rarely dOes-hit to right-but he did
yesterday MCGOWAN scored on that
crash, and Bing followed him over
the counting block a moment later
when Perkins caught a fast one and
drove it almost to the flag pole in
center. The ambitious catcher tried
to make home on the drive. but was
cut down at the plate. Rice TO Har-
ris to Charity
Patsy pulled a nice play in get
q p fna kI1- -i1F
about 10 feet from the plate, to-
ward third. Perkins was coming
like an ocean-Foing liner. So what
does Pat doo He simply sticks his
spikes into the baselines and says
to Mister Perkins. come on, SOM!
Perkins came. But he might just
as well have romped into the Rock
of Gibralter. You know what hap
pens when an Irresistible force hits
an immovable object-or do you?
Perkins tried to knock Pat from
the line and continue his jaunt
home. But Pat was all set and
when Perkins hit him they both
crashed tC the ground, Pat with
the ball in his right fin and a
grin on his face as he saw Mo-
riarity wave the pugnacious Per-
kins out Perk claimed Pat had
bloSNCu us way 10 Ine pldte out
Moriarity wouldn't listen. And.
anyway the Macks were so far
ahead there wasn't any real need
of arguing the matter.
Young greeted Erick with a
single to center to start the fifth.
Johnston laid down a perfect sac
rifce- Walker then tripled to CEN
ter. That let Erick plow his way
to the nice cool showers and
brought Tom Phillips into the hot
sun in the middle of the diamond.
Griffs Rally . Little.
Tom preceded to strike out Nc
Gowan but Miller scored Walker
with a single to center. He stole
second. Gharrity's throw to Harris
being shoulder high. but was
stranded when the hard-hitting
Perkins lifted to Brewer
Three hits in the third inning
had brought the Griffs only a sim
gle tally. With two down, Erick
pulled his annual hit down the
right field foul line. Judge sent
him to second with a blow to CEN
ter and Peck scored him with a
single to left. Judge going to third
and Peck to second on the throw
in, Rice hit the first ball pitched
to MCGOWAN in right to end the
inning.
The Grirs' second and last tally
arrived in the seventh. Harris
singled through Galloway and
o scored on Brewers double to left.
Charity fouled out Brewer went