Evening star., 1924-09-02

They will swing into action aga
Manager Stanley Harris will have his
for lengthy drill to prime them t
season. those with the Red Sox on I
the Yankees right at their heels and
tomorrow with the Bostonians. wi
HarriSment must be well prepared t
That they should do if they
marked their play yesterday against
that scored those 5-to-3 and 4-ro-3
None but nervy aggregation would
the Athletics in the ninth inning OF
could have pulled the second tilt on
afternoon.
Grabbing that pair of games yes
terday was not done as easily as
many fans had anticipated. judging
from comment coming fl ON them dur
ing the two tits. But the Bucks
had not expected anv easy time after
learning that Stanwood Baumgartner.
clever southnaw hurler. and Ed ROM
mel, former leading pitcher of the
American League and right now one
of the best right handlers in the cir
cult, were slated to toe the slab for
the Macks
Hard Day for Nationals.
And the Bucks had tough day of
It, too. They had to fight hard for
everything they got. Those Macks
behind their good pitching appeared
to be anything but wobbly second
division combination. With the first
five batters of their order blazing the
way in the morning, they gave JeZe-
bel Tecumseh Zachary, National port
slider. good argument and all but
knocked the props from under the red
thatched finger in the ninth.
In the afternoon the venerable Joe
Martina. who had Succumbed to Ed
Rommel in 1-to-0 game staged here
the day after the Bucks returned to
this city at the head of the league
for the first time this season. depart
cd from the field after six uncertain
= innings. in which he yielded all the
visitors tallies. Allen Russell graced
the hill for an inning, then gave way
to a pinch batter. Fred Marber-y
struggled through the last two frames,
and to him went the victory.
Baumgartner was none too gener-
Gus with safeties. but the Bucks
earned off him more runs than the
opposition collected. 1t was Joe Judge
who settled the issue in the first
game. This revivified hitter slammed
a triple, two doubles and single
off Baumgartner. and 1t was the
proved the blow putting the game
beyond the reach of the AS.
Rally Tells in p. VI. Fray.
Victory in the second game was
due to the grim fighting qualities of
the Bucks. abetted by fielding slip
up of Jack Chapman, Athletic Short
stop. The Harrismen, trailing in the
ninth frame, staged one of the eX-
plosive rallies characteristic of
them this year. but they had started
similar ones twice before in the fray,
only to have them stopped by Rom
mefs mastery hurting.
And had Chapman taken care Of
his department of the game, Rommel
would have stopped this third vigor-
Gus onslaught of the Bucks. But the
shortfielder muffed a chance for
third out and gave Mule Shirley a
great chance to distinguish himself
as pinch hitter. Mule seized the op-
portunity, and Earl McNeely, who had
been clouting strenuously albeit
frutlessly, followed with wallop
that made it two wins in day for
the Griffs.
Some may claim Lady Luck was
with the Bucks. Well. if such a
dame exists. she probably is good to
have around d club. But we would
rather believe the splendid spirit of
keeping at 'em that has marked the
work of the team since it got it's
BILE for the second Labor day win.
This same spirit must have counted
quite bit, too, in the ninth inning
of the first engagement, when the
Macks. with a trio of fiuky hits,
threatened to unbalance Harris bat
tling bunch.
Tally Early in Afternoon.
The Bucks began the afternoon en-
gagement in good style, hanging up
a run in the first frame. Simmons
two-base muff of Leibold's fly and
Rices single to center accounting for
the marker Then the AS began
pecking at Martina. whom they hit
in all of the frames he hurled and
got three scores, while Rommel held
the Nationals at bay.
Buege's lurid toss after fielding
Bruggy's roller, Rommels single and
Hale's sacrifice pdt Mackmen at third
and second bases in the third inning.
Lamar chased the pair home with
wallop to right for base. In the
fifth, Lamars triple with one out of
the way and Miller's sacrifice fly gave
the Quaker City bunch it's final run.
The Bucks lost chance to get a
run back in the sixth, when Tate,
pinch hitting for Martina, singled and
McNeely did likewise. But Harris at
tempted sacrifical bunt forced out
Idte, Wnlle rice ana GOSiln were VIC
tins of the fly catchers. Judges
double and Bluege's single, though,
got back a tally in the seventh and
Bluege got as far as third base before
the final out Of the round was made.
1t seemed the Nationals last chance
fiiyvered when McNeely opened the
eighth inning with a triple between
Simmons and Lamar and had to die on
third as Harris fouled to Hale. Rice
became short infield victim and Cos
ling was thrown out by Hale.
Big Time in Ninth.
But that long awaited rally came in
the ninth. Judge began the round
with a single to center. only to be
forced out by Bluege. who had tried
to sacrifice. Ruel flied to Miller, then
Chapman gave the Bucks chance for
the tilt by faltering on Peck's hot
hopper. Bluege took second on the
error and scored the tying run when
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