Evening star., 1924-08-29
PENNANT PROSPECT
THRILLING CAPITAL
Confidence Strengthened by
Victory Over Yankees in
Drive From Rear.
It's a great old world, this,


Over the PROSTATE forms of the bat
tered Yankees, Bucky Harris and his
never say-die Nationals marched into
the tinseled throne room of the
American League yesterday and to-
day Washington is base ball mad
the National Capitals usually placid
populace is wondering whether it will
be able to dodge nervous collapse
before that crucial series" in New
York ends, for if the team loses to-
day it drops back to second place.
Dignified consideration of matters
of state, automatically arched brows
over the latest dispatches from Paris
and blase references to the progress
of the presidential campaigns over
morning cups of coffee have suddenly
given way to such exClamations as
these-and from the ordinarily un-
ruffied dignitaries of Washington:
Tint Wonderful Eighth.
"Sa -a-a-a-a-y, did YOU see that
eighth inning yesterday, Wow,
Buddy, another half hour like that
and they'll need some psychiatrists to
understand what I'm talking about.
Why, man, when old Goose Goslin
SidHllieu oul tHdt Triple anu Se"eQ
up the old ball game. l just naturally
went temporarily crazy. Am l going
to watch that game today! Well,
just try and keep me away. A half
holiday and the scoreboard for me-"
And, from the mighty to the Iowly.
that is how Washington fandom feels
today. DiogeneS had a cinch COM
pared to the pessimist that might
try to find a man. woman or child
in the National Capital now who
doesn't think it aint gonna rain no
scheduled for mound duty this after
noon, Washington can already feel
itself sitting in the Clark Griffith
Stadium watching Walter pitching in
his first world series. The advance
dope was that johnson would be op-
posed by Joe Bush. the second best
pitcher on the Yankees roster. 1t was
York staff, who was vanquished by the
Bucks yesterday.
Crowd Storms ScorebOard.
Washington has never witnessed a
tumult like that in front of The Star
Building yesterday, where this paper
showed the game play by play with
the assistance of an electrically oper-
ated scoreboard. Some say there
were 0,UUU 1anS out Inere In the
scorching afternoon sun. others con-
tend the number was closer to 10000.
There is only one thing certain about
that end of it-there was some crowd
packed into Eleventh street.
Up and down the scales had gone.
New York got a one run lead. but
Washington came right back in the
next inning and tied the score. Then
the Yankees added two more tallies,
only to see the fighting Nationals,
aided by Goose Goslin's homer, make
the count three all again. The Yanks
came back with run and spirits
were way down when Babe Ruth
crashed out his second homer of the
game, sending man across the plate
ahead of him. giving New York a
three-run lead
Pennock was holding the Nationals
fairly we'll after that; he saw an
other game going right into the Yam
KEGS bat bag and his claim to the
aceship of their hurling staff just
about cinched. And then the whole
world turned upside down for those
Yanks-along came that staggering
eighth. AS one New York paper
rather tersely described the event: "A
team that won't be licked. can't be
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