The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-30

Then johnson was seen taking
his place on the rubber. He at.
tempted to pitch, but found his con.
troll gone. So hard had been
Schang's drive that Walters whole
hand was numb. He could not con.
troll his fast one and was unaS:e to
throw a curve.
Reluctantly he marched ont Of
the box and over to the Washing.
ton dugOut while a majority of the
big crowd applauded him for what
ne is, as much as for what he
was. He was an invader, battling
against the home team, bat me
was the Great Walter johnson
and the crowd let him know IL.
johnson said today that he X.
pected to be on the job again
against the Boston Red Sox in
Washington. With Mike Martin
caring for the injury, the leagues
leading finger felt certain thar he
would not miss a single chance at
the enemy from now till the pen
nant is decided.
There wasn't much to the Rsne
which gave the Griffmen their real
margin of advantage over the
Yankees, Indeed, 1t was monutun
Gus, though frequently johnson was
In trouble but never so badly off
that he could not escape. Had he
remained to the end, he would
probably have added another white.
wash triumph to his long list, but
as 1t was the Yanks managed to
get one run across, giving the Griffs
the victory.
In the second frame GosIin
singled and Judge followed with a
healthy triple to left center.
scoring the Goose. Bluege fan.
ned, but Muddy Ruel showed how
TO use the squeeze play, bunting
to Bush along the first base line
and scoring Judge. Those runs
were sufficient to give the Griffs
the game, but they kept pecking
away at Joe Bush and succeeded
in getting three more.
In the sixth, with two out,
Goose Goslin, VINO has been a
tough egg in this series to date,
lifted the ball out over Ruth's
corrugated dome among the sun
fish in the bleachers. He was
applauded loudly for the effort, the
lone homer Of the afternoon.
Again there were two gone in
the eighth when the Griffs broke
loose and grabbed a couple Of un.
necessary tallies. Rice shot a hot
one through Wally Pipp into right
field for two bases and Goslin fol.
lowed with a clean single to the
same sector. Rice galloped over
on that and Goslin got to second
on Ruth's futile peg to the plate.
Judge raised iigh fly close to
the foul line in right and Ruth was
camped under it in time. He snag-
ged it, and then to the amazed
disgust Of the home boys, he let the
ball. fall to the ground. Goslin
hustled across and Judge reached
second where he was left on
Bluege's fly to Witt.
johnson was not invincible. He
famed seven YanIxs, but he al.
lowed six hits and walked four
bIOl1es, besIdes hitting another.
What was mOst impressive,
though, was his ability to bear
down hard In the tight places.
The team gave him fine support
and the Yanlks did not look
dangerous, no matter how many
were on the cushions at any one
time.
Pipp and Schang hit safely in the
second with one gone, but were left
when Ward famed and McNecly
came through with pretty running
catch of SCOTS liner. In the next
inning Johnson put on all he had
and famed Bob Meusel with two on.
In the fourth two walks and a
bunt filled the bases with none out,
yet the Yanks could not count, Bush
whiting and Rice making a neat
catch up on the right field bank of
Wits liner.
Again, in the seventh, the Yanks
had two on with two out when
Meusel watched third strike hook
across the pan.
The long lank Yank looked sick
on that exhibition, too, posing like
statue for several minutes after
the decision.
Pipp led off in the eighth with a
walk, going up when johnson threw
out Schang. Ernie johnson came