Evening star., 1925-10-07

FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON-L Meadows, the
first bespectacled pitcher ever to par.
ticipate in a world series. put one
right over for Rice. the first man up,
Sam rolled to Wright. who tossed him
out at first. Stan Harris took wide
one, inside, then bounded to Traynor,
who made a nice stop close to the
line and tagged him at first. Mead
ows hooked a strike over on Goslin,
twirled two wide ones. and then made
Goose bite at a low hook for a sec
ond strike. On the neg, ball pitched,
Goslin bounded weakly to Grantham,
who awkwardly fielded the ball and
stepped on first. No runs.
PITTSBURGH-Joh first de.
livery to Moore was high and wide.
Moore met the next pitch and sent
q lazy looper to short center, which
Rice got under after a sharp sprint.
After throwing one ball to Carey,
JohnSOn'S second pitch, which was
high and inside. struck Carey on the
right arm After hrst-aid inspection.
Carey took his base. He was the first
man TO get on the runway in the
series. Cuyler took one strike. and on
the next delivery. a ball. Carey at
tempted to steal. but was cut down
on Euel's fine peg to Peck This was
the first evidence of use by the Pirates
of their much-vaunted speed, Carey
being the fastest of the Bucca neers
and the champion base stealer of the
National League. Johnson then made
Cuyler swing futilely for third
strike. No runs.
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON-With the count
standing two and one, Judge ground
ed TO Wright. With one strike and
one ball called on him, Joe Harris
lined drive to right field. which
went over the railing in front Of the
temporary seats and was knocked
bS a fan hack into the field having
passed out of the playing inclosure,
the walop was legal home run, and
after hesitating at second base, Moon
got official sanction to continue
around to the scoring pan. Bluege
swung and missed a low curve for
a third strike, with the count of
two strikes and one ball, Peck f1yed
to Carey. One run.
PTTTSBURGH-Ba took one
ball and then lofted to Rice in center.
After two straight balls. Traynor
lined "A single to right. Wright fouled
back on an attempted hitand-run play
and Traynor had to return to first.
Wright then bounded to Judge, who
threw to Peck. forcing Traynor. but
Peck dropped the ball and could only
make the play on Traynor too late,
however. to attempt duoble play,
which otherwise would have been pos
sible. Johnson had two strikes on
Ora ntham when the latter fouled off
one. Three straight balls then fol
lowed. the last nearly getting away
from Ruel. who recovered it. however.
in time to hold Wright on first base.
Johnson then victimized Grantham
with third strike. No runs.
THIRD INNING.
WESTINGHOUSE hit the first
ball pitched to Traynor. who made a
diving catch of the liner near third
base and got a fine hand for his effort.
Johnson took two strikes, both quite
low, then looked over three wide ones
before rolling to Wright. Up for q
second time, Rice again hit the first
ball pitched, and this time dropped it
safely into right field for a single.
Harris mildly protested Meadows half.
balk motion on the first delivery, a
ball. Another bali followed and Rice
then was picked off first base on
Meadows toss to Grantham. the
Pirate pitchers craft fooling Sam. Nc
runs.
PITTSBURGH-Sm met John
sons first delivery and lofted softly
10 Joe Harris. Meadows fouled Bar
ney's initial delivery and looked over
four straight wide ones to get his
base on balls. Johnson hurled wide tc
Moore, making Ave successive balls
had thrown. Barney then slippe