Evening star., 1924-04-24


While the Athletics were very
handy with their war clubs accord
ing to the. official score, Fred Mar
berry, Nationals starting pitcher
was not as badly beaten as the ten
Safeties and six tallies CLEANED off
him would indicate. Marberry was
more the victim of his teammates
errors of commission and omission
than of weak slabbing by himself.
Given good support afield he might
have gotten through the seventh
round i'll which the Athletics scored
all their runs INDIANA ged or at the
worst given up but three runs.
True, Marberry was wild in the
early part of the fray. but his wild=
ness failed to help the opposition.
" henever he pitched himself into
mole in any of the first six frames
and he pitched himself into several
deep ones-he always pitched himself
OUT his sixth round was particu-
larly good, the Athletics taking the
count in order with Bing Miller and
" Perkins usually formidable hit
ters, starting and ending the session
by whiting. Marberry gave way to
a pinch batter in the eighth. So By
ron Specie got a chance to slab for
an inning.
Griffs Lacking in Punch.
Not only did the Nationals fail to
perform properly afield, but they
also lacked punch in attack Fred
helmach's Southpaw hurting surely
was not to their liking through the
hrSt seven frames, for they got only
two bingles out of it in that time.
After getting a comfortable lead
Helmach eased in his work in the
eighth and when the Nationals began
clearing their batting eyes found it
impossible to recover himself. Then
In came long Bryan Harris when
only one out was needed to terminate
play and any chance the Nationals
had of taking the contest went blooie
The game was a pretty pitchers
duel until the Athletics Standup inn
ing. Heimach opened the seventh
round by rolling to Doc l'rothro. but
Jimmy Dykes sent the ball whistling
down the left field foul line all the
way to the end of the lot This gave
Dykes a triple, but had Goose Goslin
not been so sluggish in returning the
ball to the infield the Ma ckmen might
have been retired. for he made no ef-
fort to pull up at second base. in run
ming out the wallop and dashed into
third just ahead of Goslin's heave.
Had Goslin made his throw as soon
as he recovered the sphere Dykes
would have been an easy out.
The ball had come to rest among a
nock Of Mack pitchers warming up
10 the side of left field and Manager
Harris thought Dykes should have
been restricted TO two bases on a
ground rule. but mplre- in chief Nal
lin would not have it so. At that,
Dykes should have been retired on
the next play instead of scoring. Sam
my Hale rolled short to Peck and
Dykes never had d chance to beat a
throw to the plate. He tried it.
though, and was trapped by Muddy
Ruel Ruel endeayored to run down
Jimmy and all but succeeded when
he suddenly tossed the ball too wide
of third base to be caught by Pro-
thro. Dykes, of course, wheeled and
dashed home, while Hale raced to
third op the error.
Hauser Gets n Homer.
Then Strand singled Hale home and
romped in ahead Of Hauser, who
knocked the ball over the right-feld
barrier for circuit wallop. sim
mons dribbled through Peck a slow
roller that the official acorer called
a hit The veteran Shortstop fol-
lowed with miserable muff of Mil
ler's low fly. Galloway flied TO Rice,
but Perkins singled Simmons across
the plate and Heimach swatted to get
Miller home Specie had the Ath-
Ietics we'll in tow in the eighth, but
the damage had been done.
The Nationals did all their effective
slamrning in the last two sessions. In
the eighth Goslin's double, Fishers
retirement and RuerS single produced
a tally. Successive singles by Harris,
Pioe and Goslin. Smiths roll-out to
Hale and Chick Gagnon's pinch
safety accounted for the three mark
ers in the ninth. All of this was
done before Bryan Harris toed the
slab. The long HEAVIER had TO pltch
to but one man-Doc Prothro-to END