Evening star., 1924-09-14
Walter Boosts His Consecu.
tive Wins to Eleven, a
Record for 1924.
KEEPS GRIFFS IN LEAD,
GAME AHEAD OF. YANKS
Marberry's Relief Pitching Helps
Barney Score 2lst Triumph of
Year-Peek's Bat Factor.
by JOHN Il. KELLER.

hH JOhN IL. NELLEH.
DETROIT, September 13.-walter
Perry johnson, dean of major league
pitchers. added another line today to
the page of base ball history, on
which SO many notable achievements
have been recorded
He held the Tigers at bay while
his club amassed a score total large
enough to Withstand the belated as
saults OF Ty Cobb and his sluggers
at Navin Field this afternoon, and
although withdrawn from the fray
In the eighth inning, Johnson was
credited with hurlng the Nationals
to a 6-to-4 victory.
The win wash 11th in succession,
giving him the American League 1924
record for consecutive mound tri-
umphs.
Johnson had equaled the prior rec
ord of 10 straight wins established
by Hollis Thurston of the White Sox
during midsummer, by trouncing the
Athletics at Philadelphia last Monday.
Today's victory was his 2lst of the
season in 81 games. for which he is
held responsible and probably cIinch-
ed for him for the campaign the
leading pitcher of the circuit crown he
now wears.
While adding to his laurels, John
son also did much to keep his club
going well in the race for the Amer
lean League pennant that now seems
to have developed solely into a
struggle between Nationals and Yam
KEGS The victory here enabled the
Bucks to maintain their single game
advantage over the three-time league
title holders and present world cham
pions. who made Roman holiday of
the day at the expense of the White
Sox in Chicago.
Blow to Tygers.
And the defeat of the Tigers was a
severe blow to their pennant pros
poets They now are six full games
behind the Natinals with but 13 more
to play. Should the latter win but
seven of their remaining IS games,
the Cobbmen would have to take all
13 of their tilts to nose out the ag-
gregation piloted by Stanley Harris.
And if the Tigers continue to play
as poorly afield as they did today.
they are not likely to finish their
season anywhere near the Nationals.
They contributed to their own down.
fall by committing four errors in the
infield and playing sluggishly in the
outer gardens. They were none too
good at bat, the greater part of the
way either, and not once during the
championship class.
However. there is a great deal of
potential hitting power within the
Tiger fold and enough of it was re-
vealed to keep the Bucks on their
toes in the opening battle Of this i'm
portant invasion of the West. With
johnson pitching remarkably well
and the Bucks showing surprising
batting ability against Earl White
he
threatened to result in an utter riot
for the Tigers. who had been held to
four hits including a homer by Top
per Rigney.
Scare for Mats.
But in the eighth inning, the
Jungle Cats arose in their wrath and
clawed the veteran moundsman so
severely that he had to leave the con-
flict. So hardy was the Tiger at
tack that a comfortable three-run
National lead was reduced to two
runs and possible tallies in the form
of Tigers base runners were perched
on the first and third stations after
only four batters had faced Walter.
Manager Harris lost no time in
removing Johnson from the slab, for
it was apparent he had lost his-cun-
ming for the while. The pilot order
ed to the box Fred Marberry, who
ed pinch pitchers in the American
League this season, and Fred paci-
fed theJungle horde, though not
before 1t had garnered another run
and crawled to within a point OF the
Harrismen.
But in the ninth the Nationals got
to Kenneth Holloway, a right-hander
rushed into the breach after the
peerless Ty had Withdrawn White
h in, of nj, hot
the eighth inning Tiger rally, and
procured a run without knocking the
ball beyond the intield. That sixth
National tally seemed to take the
pepper out of the Jungle Cats for
they were quite docile in the ninth
after the first to come to the plate
scratched single.
The Nationals played a remarkably
smooth game. Their fielding was
faultless and in many respects SEN
sational. Sam Rice played particular
ly we'll in and about the right gar
den. He had plenty to do, but took
care of his six fly chances in splendid
style and followed the last one with
a throw to Mule Shirley at first base
to complete, double play and end
the contest. Goose Gosiin in LETT
was liner Off Cobb's bat that offered
plenty of trouble. Earl McNeely. in
center, was a busy boy, with five
chances, a couple of them quite diff
fcult to handle.
Almost all of the Nationals partook
in the attack upon Whitehill, with Roger
Peckinpaugh celebrating an emergence
from protracted batting slump in fine
fashion. He went to bat five times and
hit safely In the first four. three singles
and a double representing his efforts.
Peck drove intptwo tallies and scored
another. Ossie Bluege and Harris each
got three wallops, and were the only
Bucks to nick Holloway in the ninth.
The thirteen blows OH Whitehill and
Holloway were spread through seven
frames, and in all but two Of them the
Nationals Tailed. Both sides went out
in order in the first round. but both
drew blood in the second. Goslin opened
for the Bucks with a single to left field.
then Ruel tapped to Rigney. The
shortstop, though, with a double-play in
sight, failed to grab the ball firmly, and
there were Nationals on first and second
bases Both held to their stations after
| Manush caught Bluege's fy to short
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