The Washington times., 1925-06-03

to revan1p his f1rst-Str1ng piOchlnl
MoRridge, Ruether, Zachary and
have started virtually all games !
in considerably less than one-half
Tom Zachary seems 70 have fAl
q struggle. Coveleskie has been ts
several brilliant games.
Only johnson and RuetIfer seem.
to be able, to turn in complete
games with any sort Of regularity,
and even walter has been getting
the bumps Of late.
Sitting on the bench and pray.
Ing for q chance to strut Ii Curley
ogden, who barely hung on when
the pitching corps was being cary.
ed in the spring. Ogden Is no
longer troubled with the arm sore
ness that made him an Irregular
performer.
/ He has had little duty this
season as 3 relief pitcher and IN
! variably has appeared to A.
vantage. Long rests that kill of
some pitchers have 3 difforeait 81.
feet on Ogden, and his cOl1lpara.
tive idleness has done him no
harm this summer, 10 IL believed.
with Zachary and Mogridge dos
inr q three or four inning trick
nearly every turn each takes, Os-
den may get another ehAnce Tor
regular work.
Zachary ID having q tough time
getting under way. He has started
several games, only to be yAnked-
In an inning or 50. Wildness ie
his big trouble. In one Of those
recent games In Philadelphia ne
started q MacliArl parade with
na sses, and then tried 20 stop i
by sacrificing some OF his sttiff
for control. He got the ball over
the plate finally, but not past the
slugging Macks.
Moeridge had q bad day yesteT-
day when the Yankees won, to o.
Long George pitched two inninga.
He got through the first fairly well,
Welding only q single and hitting
batsman, Babe Ruth, the struggling
invalid.
was nicked for five singles, four IN
! row. the Yankees scoring three
runs. George lasted the inning, but
was given the rest Of the day off.
Alien Russell finished and did
very well until the eighth. In this
frame the Yankees gained partial
revenge for the ninth.inning pun
ishment given them this season BY
the Griffs.
Bobby veach started Russell's
downfall with q single, pinch hitting
for Wanninger. johnson ran Tor
Veach and moved up on Dugans
out. Then Combs walked, which
put the winning run on base. Up
came Babe Ruth, palpably weak 10
the underpinning. but seemingly
strong from the waist up. He has
had no trouble getting steam behind
his swing, az several long FOULS
have indicated.
The Babe hit q long l0Oper that
Rice couldn't quite reach. A few
feet more and n would have
dropped into the bIeachers In
right center for q home run. lt
went for q double, scoring II.
,Eohnsor. with the tying tally.
Then Meusel crashed q homer
that scored Combs and Witt, run
Ming for Ruth, ahead of him, and
salted away the victory. 1t was
Meusel's second four baser OF the
game and his fourteenth this sea
son.
Joe Judge added another homer to
his neat string. With Bucky Har-
ris on first, Joe parked the apple
in a spot well up in the right fled
bleachers. It wss his second OF
Urban Shocker this year, both hit
to identically the same place.
Shocker was no puzzle to the
Griffs. He passed out In the fifth
after the Griffs had scored q run on
singles by Ruel, Rice and Bucky
Harris and had two on with one
down.
With Judge and Goslin coming up
1t was a nasty situation for the
Yanks and Huggins met 1t by drag
ing in the Washington Jinx, Alex
Ferguson. Ferguson famed Joe and
the Goose, killing the rally.
Peckinpaugh had a large after.
noon, In the second he doubled
Bluege home with the first run of
the game. With nobody on in the
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fourth he tripled to right center
and died trying to complete the
circuit.
Ruth made . break 20 HleAd
Rogers drive and were he . well
man. might have caught It. But
he gave up the job. after taking q
q few steps and left the chase to
Combs.
Combs throw and Wards relay
were perfect and Peckinpaugh was
out by an eyelash. In the sixth
Roger singled joe Harris home
from second with the Griffs final
run.
The world champions battled to
the last. They threatened in the
ninth. Rvel singled with one down.
Ruether batted for Russell and after
knocking a foul Of the hairy male
species, struck out. Rice singled
sharply to left and the Yankee fans
sat up and took notice. But Bucky
Harris best was a fly to Witt, end
ing the game.
"SHANO" COLLINS WILL