The Washington herald., 1922-05-09
MOCRIDCE SLOWS
|MNINTH, ALLOWING
ST. Louis TWO RUNS
Umpire's Dineen's Deci'
sions Hand Body Blow
To Griffs' Chances.
By RAY HELGESEN.

most dangerous opponents for nnal
honors in the American League. be-
gan their initial Eastern invasion
BY handing the Nationals a belated
and more-or-less undeserved. but
hever-the-less effective, defeat at
the Georgia avenue lot yesterday.
The final score was to 5. And in
addition to the beating the Griffs
for any ball club-a ride into the
took what is always hard to take
league cellar where they are now
the sole occupants Of the place
made famous by a staunch sup
| porter of baseball. one Andrew Vol
stead.
A combination Of circumstances.
| which included a number of healthy
| clouts. many of them of the extra
base variety, in a ninth-inning rail-
| ly and some terrible. not to say
neen. Donnie Bush's sparring part
ner. forced the Grifs into the spot
beneath the kitchen stairs.
bottlc Dlnccn.
Dineen cannot be held legally re-
sponsible fod the Browns victory
or the Griffs' defeat, but anyone OF
the 5000 unbiased observers who
witnessed his. mediocre work yes
| terday will take an oath that the
big arbitrator was far from right
on number Of occasions. And
what hurt was that the Griffs
IL - . h. ~ o
end of the decision. In fact one
fan. totally unnerved after watch
Ing Dineen's work for eight in
nings, hurled a pop bottle at the
red-faced umpire with the evident
Intention of doing him bodily harm.
Probably Dineen was not born to
die at the hands of a bottle hurler.
At any rate the mazfac's lone shot
| missed him by many feet But II
could have nicked him in some
vulnerable spot for all DOME Bush
or Nick Altrock would have cared.
And there were a number of rabid
fans in the rightfield pavilion who
were of the opinion that a few more
bottles hurled in Dineen's direc-
ton wouldn't do any harm.
Dfneen was unquestionably "on
on a number of occasions, but the
a half-hearted attempt on his life
was the calling out Of Mosridge
at third in the Griffs' eighth. The
lean southpaw had walked and
moved to second on Harris hit to
right. Rice then drove to Gerber.
and the latter elected to get Mo-
fridge at third. He threw to FL
Ierbe. but the Guv'nor was too far
from the bag. Mogridge was
Pruett could have been worse. But
cept the aforementioned Dineen
thought 50. BUT Bill waved No
grfdge out and that settled that.
BiIrs Decision Hurt.
That decision made two out
while IL Mogridge had been called
SAT- there would have besz three
on and only one out As 1t Nap
pened Judge struck out ending the
i-<!rz a5d the Browns came on In
the next to cIout out two tallies
OF the firing Mogridge and collect
the ball game.
Lee Foil dashed a quartet OF
hurlers on the unsuspecting popu-
lace to get the verdict, while Milan
used two. Mogridge and Johnson.
OF the four Brownies who worked,
Urban Shocker was the only one
though a young collegian named
Pduett could have been worse. But
Shocker was poison to the Ma
tlonals- Incidentally he gets credit
for winning the game though he
pitched only two innings.
Dave Danforth, for whom the
Browns. agreed to give up eleven
players. started for the Browns.
Judging by the form he displayed
yesterday. the eleven players who
70 to Columbus in exchange fol
him must be terrible specimens.
Danforth had absolutely nothing
and after the Griffs had hammered
him for nine hits and four runs in
three innings, he was given the
air in order to allow a pinch hitter
to bat for him
Young Pruett, a southpaw with
a wonderfully easy motion. followed
Danforth and managed to get by
for four innings. allowing only =
single tally. The Kid was wild. but
when he got them over he was e.
fective and though he frequently
was in Trouble bdilllant fielding
aided him to pull through with only
one-run blemish on his record.
Hogridge Erratic.
-
name not known or necessary. took
up the Browns burden in the eighth
He threw six straight balls and was
removed from there pronto. Foil
was in no humor to take unnecces-
sary chances when only one run be-
hind. Then Shocker. And so far
as the Griffs were concerned that
was the end of their run making,
even their hope of any additional
tallies.
All this time Mogridge had been
pounding along, erRtic. it's true,
but getting by. Then with the
Griffs leading by a single run, came
the terrible ninth, Mogridge's
Waterloo. his removal to the Isle OF
Eiba indicated by the showers and
the injection of Johnson. But john
SON entered the fray too late The
Browns had alreary blasted three
hits and the tieing and winning
runs of Mogridge.
Jacobson tripled to left center to
start the hectic ninth. He scored
when SEVERED singled to left and
Severeid counted on Ken Williams
double to the scoreboard in right
johnson stepped in here and forced
the disguised Ellerbe to foul to
Bush McManus then flew to Rice
and williams was doubled at third
when he attempted to make that
station after the catch.