Evening star., 1924-06-27

Although checked in their mad rush
toward the record of seventeen in a
row, established by the Washington
club a dozen seasons back, when it
was a Philadelphia team, as yester-
day, which. .>roveG the stumbling
block. the Nationals to a mal are con-
fident they have been halted but
momentarily, their attitude being
voiced by the source of their inspira-
ton and will-to-win when Helmsman
Harris said Were liable to start an
even longer run of victories today"
Not in size alone. but in the extent
of its enthusiasm did the huge throng,
which included President Coolidge
and members of his family. demon
strate the appeal base ball of a win
District. From before noon, when
the gates were opened, until long
after the first game had gotten under
way at 1:30 o'clock, steady streams
of humanity passed into the stadium,
and, once parked, cheered howled.
whistled and stamped at the slightest
provocation.
Plenty of opportunity for exercising
their lungs was afforded during the
afternoon. too, for sensational fielding
feats abounded, Matthews, Peck, Rice,
Bluege, Riconda and Strunk each
contributing spectacular bits of de-
fenSiVe work.
Although yielding a total of eight
by his teammates, Walter Johnson
was master of the Mackmen at all
stages in the opening encounter, not
withstanding that two of the alien
marked the 1O5th shutout victory of
his eighteen seasons of big league
service, and his whiting of three
Mackmen raised his total of strike
outs to 3,146.
1t was Standwood Baumgartner. one
of the left-handerS on Connie Mack
roster, who was victimized by Harris
bunch of scrappers, the latter bunch
ing bingles off him in three dl1erent
rounds.
Grifs Score in Opener.
Following their recently acquired
custom, the Nationals broke into the
run column in the first inning of the
opening encounter, Harris and Goslin
turning the trick with extra base
blows. Bucky got his. double down
Matthews had proved easy victims for
Baumgartner. Goslin's contribution
was a singing liner that rolled to
the scoreboard, Goose reaching third,
where he was left when Judge bound
ed to the box.
For the next four frames the Griffs
could do little with Baumgartner,
Peck getting a pass in the second and
Rice being similarly favored in the
third, Sam getting as far as the KEY
stone on Matthews sacrifice, only to
be left by Harris and Goslin. but they
nicked the Mackian southpaw for
pair of tallieS in the sixth. Matthews
started things with a single to center.
Baumgartner fielded Harris bunt and
threw wildly past Bishop. both hands
being. safe. Goslin's swinging punt
moved them up a notch and both
tailed when Judge lined double
against the right right field fence. Jose
phus took third on Ruel's death and
was left when Peck flied to Strunk.
Return to Attack in Eighth.
After an intermission of one round
the Nationals returned to the attack
in the eighth and hammered out an
other pair of tallies. With Matthews
disposed of, Harris poled double
over Strunk's head, Gosln walked
that scored his manager. Ruel then
inserted a safety to center that cash
ed Goslin. Judge was tagged trying
to reach third on the bingle when
and pegged to Riconda. But that
didn't matter and neither did Peck's
foul pop to Perkins to end the frame.
The Mackmen several times were in
a position to do some damage to
him in the pinches.
Strand reached Walter for a ringing
triple to left center with two gone in
the opener, only to have Hauser fan.
The latter got a threebagger for
himself under similar conditions in
the fourth and Simmons also walked.
but Riconda was unable to help,
hitting into force play.
In the fifth Baumgartner bunted
into a double play after Perkins
singled, and a walk to Bishop, fol-
lowed by Hauser's safety, in the sixth
was wasted when Rice gathered In
Simmons bid for a bingle. while
Riconda's scratch hit in the seventh
was wasted as was bingle by
Strunk in the eighth.
1t was in the ninth when the Mack
men had their best opportunity to
score. Simmons started the final
frame by scratching single to Peck
in deep short and Riconda came
through with a real single to right.
Galloway then lined to Goslin. Both
AS advanced when Bluege gathered
in a hot srnush by Perkins off john
sons shine and the issue was put up
to Sam Hale, summoned by Z. NC
Gillicuddy to bat for Baumgartner,
but Sammy was victimized by John
son, who famed him for the final out
OF the game.
RommeI Outpitches Martina.
Joe Martina delivered a whale of a
we'll pitched game in the nightcap, an
effort that would have earned brack-
cts under ordinary circumstances, put
he had the misfortune to be pitted
against Eddie Rommel on one of his
good days, and on these occasions
there are no better fingers in the
business tnan Ine SudkeTto"H hHuC-
kle-ball expert.
The lone tally of the pastime ma
terialized in round two, when Sim
mons connected solidly for a double
to left and completed the circuit on
sacrifices by Riconda and Galloway,
the latters being of the aerial va
riety. The only other chance the
enemy had to score off Martina was
furnished in the fifth, when Bruggy
got somewhat fiuky double, and
that was offset when Rice f1elded
Rommers bingle on the run and flag
ged the stocky catcher with an ac-
curate heave to Ruel.
Exactly thirteen Of the Grinmen
had been turned back as fast as they
came up by Rommell, when Judge
poled a single to left in the fifth. He
moved up on Ruel's death and reached
the far corner when Riconda fumbled
Peck's smash, but Rommel emerged
from this difficulty through the SIM
pie expedient of whiting Bluege.
The only other Washington bfngle
also was achieved by Judge and de-
veloped with two gone in the sew
enth, but a moment later Josephus
lost a race to second with Frank
Bruggys arm. Ruel was favored in
the eighth with the only pass Rommel
issued, ard was forced by Bluege