Evening star., 1924-07-16

After permitting the world cham
plon Gothamites to grab the first po-
sitlon, the Nationals apparently have
awakened to the fact that when hit
ting falls off good fielding as well as
good pitching is needed to keep a
club in the pennant race. In the
series with the Indians. the Washing
ton aggregation after losing the first
game recovered itself defensively and
ran string of four consecutive VIC
tories, yesterdays final of the set
with the Tribe being 4-to-2 affair,
mainly by backing up clever hurting
with steady work afield
Tribe Gets Five Hits Only.
There was deal of good pitching in
yesterdays fray, mostly on the Ma
tionals' side. Walter johnson. fol-
lowing three defeats in a row, tanned
the Tribe batters in fine fashion to
victories and six defeats. johnson
held the Indians to five wallops and
had but one unsteady inning the
eighth, when the visitors from Cleve-
q pass.
Opposed to the dean of major league
pitchers was Stanislaus Coveleskie,
another old-timer. The veteran spit
baller, however, failed to show his
stuff" at the outset and spotted the
Nationals to two-run lead, a great
handicap for him considering the way
Johnson was shooting them over
Stanlslaus had another wobbly inning
later when the Harrismen clustered
three safeties with a walk But the
Tribe slabman was good enough to
keep johnson on his toes. He allow
ed all told but eight blows and really
had the Nationals guessing after his
unfortunate first round
That opening session was a hectic
anair in which free Transportation
to first base was much more frequent
than any other means of reaching the
hri Of
round was provided by Memo Leibold
and Tom Taylor, who negotiated a
double steal that resulted in the first
tallying of the fray. Rice proved an
easy out at the start, but Leibold
coaxed Coveleskie into granting a
frank and Taylor singled the chubby
outfielder to third.
LeiboId Steals Home.
When Myatt all but climbed into a
held box to snare Goslin's foul, the
worried for they stepped on the gas
while Coveleskie was pitching to
Judge and the Nationals were a
marker to the good. Taylor had
clearly and Chicks return to Glenn
was entirely too high to bother
Leibold. who slid to the plate in
brilliant form.
Coveleskie, APPARENTLY upset by this
demonstrating stunt, proceeded to jam
the bases. Judge strolled and Ruel
took a pitch in the ribs Then Peck,
after looking at two strikes and foul
ing off a half dozen pitches, finally
saw the fourth wide one float by
and Taylor got a cheap run. Bluege
ended the lurid inning when he flied
to Jameson, but the latter had to
race almost to the bleacherS to get
Ossie'S drive.
There was no more action until the
sixth when the Nationals got their
second brace of markers. Ruel be-
gan the round with a lusty double,
while Peck walked. Bluege at
tempted to sacrifice, but bunted Ruel
into retirement. johnson forced
out Bluege with a roller to Sewell,
then Rice scratched a hit past
Brewer, registering Peck while John
son stopped at second. Leibold
crashed a single to center that let
Walter reach home.
Indians Count Late.
The Indians were practically help
less until the sixth, when they Jammed
their way into the scoring column
With one down, Speaker walked, and
was pushed to third when SeWeH
bounded a double off Judges glove.
Myatt flied to Leibold in deep center
and the leader of the Tribe counted
easily after the catch.
In the eighth the Tribe threatened
to go on the warpath, but was stopped
after showing tally across. McNulty
began the session with walk, only
to be forced out by Jameson. Speaker
fouled out, but Sewell sent Jamie to
third whit a one-base blow to center,
and Myatt, who had knocked in the
Indians first run, came through with
another single to center that tailed
Jameson. Brewer, with the potential
uiDDiney rim 1Ofte TO Judge.