The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08

uniform is expected to face the.
excelIentIy in his three victories
siderably with his deceptive curve
Mack's choice. That will mean p
though they whipped him last wei
| to start, Sam Gray will probably
The Griffmen have now won four
straight from their closest rival for
remnant honors, two in Washing.
TON last week and two here yes
terdav. The Athletics are all but
ont az the hunt for first-paace
rlories. vet they showed plenty or
fiphtinp spirit yesterday. They
forced Walter johnson to pitch his
head OFF all the way, staging q se-
rious batting rally In the very last
frame for their lone run.
In the afternoon they ruined
stanley CoveIeskie in the fifth,
punching two doubles and two sin.
rlea with walk and sacrifice
nv for four runs. In the seventh
fhev drove him from the box, and
only. Baumgartner's inability to
stop the Champions In the eighth
kent them from breaking their los.
ing streak. The Athletics have
cracked sadly, but they have not
quit. They are still making
dying fight of this years campaign,
already unique in baseball history
The morning game saw doe
| Harris pound the pellet into the
MINER. tier Of the left field pa
viIson. Waiter johnson pitched
brilliantly and evenly to . hard
fongI1t1 victory, and Roger Peck.
innsngh performed mliraculOusly.
n anything stands ont above the
rasf. It's Peck's great stop Of La
,r,asss liner I'M the third frame.
Groves had singled with one out
and gone to third on Cochrane'a
furo-baRRer to left. Two were out
and no runs scored when Lamar
hammered what seemed certain TO
~ 4. single to center. That would
have given the Maclxmen two runs
and the lead. It might easily have
started q furious batting bee. such
as the AS have staged so ire
quently this season.
AS the ball shot on its way to-
ward the garden, Peck was seen 70
dive across its path, holding his
gIoved hand outstretched hardly
five inches from fthe. dirt. As he
lay on the ground the ball landed
sQuarely in his glove and the vet
eran squeezed it tightly so that
al four umpires could see tnas
he had robbed Lamar of hit and
cut off two Philadelphia runs.
PecIEs brilliant stop quite took
the breath away from the big
| crowd. Where he had taken his
y share Of abuse earlier, he walked
to the bench. amid scattered
cheers and handclapping and was
| given an ovation when he went
to bat in the fourth.
Lefty Groves gave Johnson 2
/ fight for four rounds. Then john
sons single, a walk to Bucky Har-
ris and Rice's clean rap to right
! gave the Champions a run. Joe
| Harris added another with his stu
pendous drive into the left field
seats in the eighth. That run was
needed, too, for the Athletics got
nasty in the ninth, two singles and
Poole's double giving them a run.
Bing Miller overran third on Poole s
hit and was cut down. ending the
tussel at a most interesting juno
ture.
The afternoons struggle was one
sided in favor of the champions
for five innings in which they
scored five runs off Jack Quinn.
Then the Athletics who had done
little or nothing with Coveleskie
suddenly rose in their might and
administered to him a sound whip
ping, scoring four runs on four
hits, pass and a sacrifice fly.
In the seven they tied the score
and drove the Shamokin coal miner
to the bench.
AT no time during the afternoon
game was any class shown after
the first two or three innings and
in the eighth the champions forged
ahead when they belted three
bingles in, connection with Bishops
error, Rice's sacrifice and Hank
Severoids long fly to Lamar.
The MacIEmen were an set for
trouble I'm their half Of the
eighth, Win BallOu was ON the
rubber and Holt beat out q slow
roller down the first base line
for. a beginner. Hale followed
with q smashing single to GEN.
ter and Bing Miller capsized the
TUuHk HUI ACA Will - SSgNO6O NV
off his shin to Bluege, who nailed
Hale at second. Holt Tailed on
that play.
Jezebel Zachary hurried in from
the right field bull pen and Jimmy
Dykes replaced Smith at bat i'm
mediately beating slow hopper to
Bluege. WEIGH came up for Baum
gartner and. sent long fly out to-
ward the left field wall. Goslin
made a, long run and what seemed
marvellous jumping one-handed
catch, humping against the wall
and falling to the ground.
When the ball was seen rolling
on the ground Umpire Evans ruled
WEIGH safe and that started argu-
ments everywhere. Bucky Harris
and Muddy Ruel, most strenuous of
all the Griffs in their, complaints,
drew screams of abuse from the
irate fans. Finally play was re-
sumed with the bases TANNED and
but one run needed to tie the
score.
/. Bishop rolled to Bucky Harris
who tagged WEIGH. The latter sue
cessfully blocked the Washington
managers attempt at a 'louble3
play and so Umpire Hildebrand att
once ruled the batter out. More
aI,YsN and catcalls and hurry burlyS