The Washington herald., 1922-08-02
FRANCIS, ZACHARY
And ERICK ARE HIT.
FOR Il WALL0PS.
Griffs Make Three on IA
Blows-Face Chicago
a Today.

CLfstdtbASD. OhtoX Aug Jim
Bagby staged one Of the handsomest
Ct riebacks ever: Larry Gardner
q he five hits on five TINS at bat;
The Indians fathered tWenty-one
re xkzS<rsseve o'Neill made clean
teal Of SECOND base: Cleveland beat
Y IS is xpn. and yet today's two
hsrt Entertainment at Dunn Field
vEss Disappointing for the reason
TIE tcore was but II to 3 and two
tfir4s Of the fans were pulling for
the INDIANS to score eighteen or
nsnet-en runs.
I'd see. Cleveland fans are re-
v~ratful That 1S-to-6 defeat hand
ri u the Redskins by the Mats on
Saturday Afternoon sort of got I'M
der Jfir skin and they were pull
ing tsrd fpr the Tribe. to at least
tie - NQs high-record score IL
they I'D Got beat it. But. iris.
spesTf spoiled the party when he
put on a little comedy and tried 70
scors from third base on pop fly
hit By Scwell to second baseman
Harrs in the seventh round. As
two tloubles and a single followed.
SpeaEer could have scored. The
Tex& grizzly hurt himself a. the
plate and left the field limping.
BaEby In Old Form.
1t -was Bagby of 1920 that 5000
fansssaU-worRing on the mound for
the tndians today. not the Jim Bag
by who. has been so 'unlucky
throaSh the, first half of the 1922
Fourteen hits were made
of him but hits apparently meant
nothing 10. the astute Georgian. The
more hits made by the Mats the
more unconcernedly the pitcher did
pitch and from the first to the ninth
Innings. Washington went score
less, having eleven men left IN the
oases. When tn. Mats landed on him
for a double and three singles in
the opening round. scoring two
runs, the odds were to l that Jim
would not last more than three in
n nGs- But when Jim harked back
TO 1920 when he led the American
League pitchers with thirty-one vic
tories and brought out his nom
chalant ball the Washington bats
men, became mystified and proceeded
to hit il weakly in the air ore
some energetic Indian infielder.
Nonchalance always was one of
Bagby's best bits of stock in trade.
II meant nothing to him that the
hrst two Mats to bat in the fifth
inning hit safely. as II merely
meant that just two more Mats
would be left on the bases when
the rnf1nh
token it took three hits to give
ninth.
Seven In Third.
1t was the same Bagby that led
the vicious attack on Pitcher Raw
Francis. of the Mats. in the third
Inning. For two iaRings the Red
skins had been shifting the ball
hard. but to no avail. as the Nat
|outf1elders played with their backs
TO the wall and thus were in a
position to clutch the screaming
drives the Indians sent their way.
without any noticeable diminution
question of how. long could Francis
stave off that terrific attack, and
his finish came much more quickly
One was down when Bagby DOH
bled to right in the third. but be-
fore the third out could be regis
tered. Cleveland bad scored seven
runs on three singles. a double.
two triples and home run. Man
lager Milan must have thought
those seven runs were mere flukes.
for Francis still was on the mound
VIXEN the fourth inning began. but
when the onslaught continued
without any noticeable dimunition.
Eilan sent Zachary back for more
punishment. Zach got IL, where
upon Erickson. who was driveA
from the box Sunday. came back
for another treatment. He got 1t.
the Indians punching two singles
and three doubles with two passes
for five runs in the seventh.
Rice missed a home run bv a cou-
Die of inches in the first when the
Wind carried his drive back. The
sall HIT on the screen a few inches
rom the top.
Evans robbed Picinjch of a triple
I'm the second by catching his liner
with one hand close to the Iert field
|oieachers-
Several hits an inning were
wasted by the Nationals. when the
|oatters could not deliver Eleven
washington base runners were left
|stranded on the sacks.