Evening star., 1924-06-24


recorded in American League history
Nationals and Yanks are scheduled
for but one clash today, while the
leading Tigers are due to stage two
with the Browns in st. Louis Should
the Harrismen triumph and the
Tigers do no better than break
even, there will be a Washington
Having used both of his southpaw
hurlers, George Nogridge and JeZebel
Zachary, to subdue the Yanks the
opening day of the series, Manager
right-hand slabmen during the re-
mainder of the stay here. There were
available for service this afternoon
Paul Zahniser and Fred Marberry,
and in all likelihood the former will
be sent to the mound in an effort
to raise the Nationals to the diZziest
heights they would ever have reached
in the league.
Two notable achievements marked
the dual win over the world cham
pions: The pair of successes raised
the Nationals present winning streak
to seven consecutive games, the best
this season and unequaled since the
club, piloted by George Mcbride.
made such bright run of victories
in the concluding month of the 1921
campaign to finish in fourth place
And Zachary, in the second game Of
the bill, chased to cover a jinx that
had trailed him in this big city
ever since he joined the Nationals. 1t
was his first victory on a New York
field.
Game Margin Now Z to 4.
Another jinx that seems to have
gone out of business is the one that
recent years was wont to make the
Nationals little more than set-ups
for the Yankee maulers. Last sea-
son the Washington aggregation was
drubbed most unmercifully by the
Gothamites, the latter taking sixteen
of twenty-five engagements. But
this year, with half of the scheduled
matches between the two clubs out
of the way, the Nationals are leading
their one-time masters, seven vic
tories to four.
Generally good pitching abetted by
an attack in which little effort was
wasted accounted for the pair of sue
cesses yesterday. In the first game Mo-
gridge held Miller Higgins heavy
artillery to nine hits and really was
in difficulty only twice-the two in
nings in which the Yankees did their
scoring. Zachary granted but eight
SWatS in the second game and two
of the clouts in the Yanks' counting
round were dribbles through the in
field, made possible because fielders
had shifted positions at the last mo-
ment to cope with obvious hit-and-
run plays.
The most pleasing feature of the
work of the pitchers was their ex-
cellent control. Both worked" the
batters carefully, yet neither issued
base on balls and the only free
transportation to first was handed to
Babe Ruth, who took one of Mo-
Zachary it was the second complete
game of the season without granting
a pass. Incidentally, the Yankees
were his victims in Washington on
the occasion of his first game free of
wildness.
Yanks Use Four Pitchers.
So tempestuous did the National
Yankees found it necessary to use
two pitchers in each game. In the
initial encounter sad Sam Jones, who
used to be a veritab1e curse to any
Washington club, started on the slab,
but after yielding eight safeties for
four runs in four and one-third in
nlngs he gave way to Cliff Markle.
Markle, newcomer to the Yanks, al
though formerly in the majors got
along well until the eighth, while in
that frame he escaped real danger,
but in the ninth he was reached for
a homer by Goose GoSlin and the
slam just about blasted the Yankees
spirit SO far as the first tilt was con-
cerned.
Waite Hoyt permitted but two hits
in the first seven innings of the sec
ond tilt both made in the sixth when
the Nationals first scored. But he
was Supplanted by Pinch hitter Joe
Bush in the seventh, when the Yanks
rallied and deadlocked the game, and
Bob Shawkey finished the fray on the
mound. Tre Nationals won off the
red-shirted hurler in the eighth
with three-hit attack.
Two runs were shared right off the
reel by the Nationals in the first bat
tie. Rice opened hostilities with a
double to left field and continued
home when Hendrick let the ball get
by. Then Matthews tripled to left
center and scored as Goslin singled
after Harris lined to Dugan Mat
thews' two-bagger, Harris sacrifice
and Judges single put a third Ma
tional over in the third frame
Successive hits by Ruth, Hendrick
and Schang, the last mentioned swat
ting for two bases, and McNally's