Evening star., 1927-06-23

Macks here this afternoon. the
Nationals will entran for BoS
ton, where, tomorrow, they are
TO begin a series of five engagements
with the Red SoX, all but one 10 he
staged in Fenway Park. Sunday
Bucky Harris & Co. viii snow in
Washington against Bill Carricans
crowd, but all hands will jump back
to the Hub that night.
Thus far this season. the tiery-hosed
outfit has been the one soft lot III the
American League for the Nationals.
They have licked it in nine of twelve
games. But it must be remembered
that the Red Sox scored wins in their
last two meetings with Clark Griffith s
hirelinss. and. with the latter playing
as they are these days. almost any
thing can happen. The Nationals are
looking forward to no easy pickings
in the impending series,
In their games here, the HarriSmen
have been real fighters, but they have
been fighting either themselves or the
ball. They battled against themselves
in the ninth inning of the first en-
gagement yesterday. but thanks to
the gameness of their pitcher. Horace
Lisenbee, they managed TO set 4-to2
victory. Then. like the nice 500 play
ers they are. they battled against the
0dTnlleSS nOTSenlUG IN the second SSlIO
and were thrashed, 13 to I.
Liz Yields But Six Hits.
In raising his season record to nine
wins and three losses. Lisenbee held
the Macks to six hits and three
passes. But one of the runs was
earned off him and it was not that
made in the ninth inning when Hor-
aces teammates were all but froth-
ing at the mouth and running around
in circles. The pitcher, though, cody
stuck to his task and after his wild
clubmates had settled to some extent,
proceeded to strike out two batters
when the AS had a runner on third
and potential tying tally on first
base.
The National did their scoring in
the first game at the expense of John
Picus Quinn and Joe Pate, hitting the
former in each of the five frames he
worked and reaching Pate in all but
one of four rounds
They started we'll against Sam Gray
in the second engagement. too, but
Al Crowder had nothing with which
to baffe the AS and the game was
over in so far as the Nationals We're
concerned after two innings.
Gray did not have to work hard,
once his club was in command. Bob
Burke, who relieved Crowder, pitched
fairly well, but was rottenly sup
ported.
The second game was not out of
hand long before Harris retired a host
of regulars. The team was even worse
after the reserves got in action.
Some Poor Base Work.
Some atrocious work on the bases
was done by the Nationals in the early
rounds of the first engagement. After
singles by Harris and Speaker in the
first inning brought nothing with
Goslin drilling into two-ply killing.
Ruel threw into the discard a scoring
chance in the second session. With
one gone, Muddy hit to right and
turned second. even though the ball
was on it's way from French to Bishop
AS result, he was trapped easily and
run down.
After singing in the third frame,
Harris darted from the first sack
while Speaker was at bat and was
caught without battle. But three
hits. mixed with a poor chuck by
Simmons, brought a brace of runs
in the fifth. Reeves singled and Lisen-
bee sacrificed. Then McNeely singled
Bob home. Harris shot a single to
center long enough to get McNeely TO
third. Simmons, who retrieved the
sphere, heaved it to the grandstand
barrier near the National dugout and
Earl counted.
The AS f1ared up in the fifth that
Cochrane opened with walk Dykes
singled Mickey to second and Boley
sacrificed. Cobb was rushed in to
bat for Quinn, only to pop to Bluege,
while Harris took good care of Bishop.
1t was different in the seventh
though. Cochrane opened this inning
with triple past McNeely and crossed
after Goslin caught Dykes long drive
Two More in Eighth.
In the eighth the Nationals came
right back to get two tallies off Pate
Quinp's successor. McNeely doubled
and Harris dragged a single past the
pitcher. A wild pitch let McNeely
score and Harris moved to second
After Speaker sacrificed, Harris reg
istered following French's catch of
Goslin's hoist.
Then all was fairly quiet until the
last half OF the ninth, when the Macks
got busy and the Nationals dizzy.
Simmons drew a pass as a starter.
when Hale sent terrific drive to deep
left. Goslin got his hands around the
sphere, but dropped it, and Simmons
pulled up at second. Reeves took
Cochrane's grounder, with an easy
force play at third in sight, but his
throw was low, and as the ball bound
ed by Bluege to the dugout Simmons
scored, Hale reached third and the
batter pulled up at second. Bluege
did better after clasping Dykes
bounder, throwing to Ruel to get Hale
at the final base for the first out of
the inning.
That moved Cochrane to the far cor
ner and left Dkyes at first, with po-
tential tying tally. Mack sent in Col
lins to bat for Boley, and Eddie
watched third strike go by, but not
without protesting violently against
Umpire Van Graflan's decision on the
pitch. Then Poole went to bat in
Pate's place, and waved gently for
final strike.
Both sides saw the counting block
in the first inning of the second en-
counter. The Nationals used two of
their three singles to get a run, but
the AS got three tallies with two hits.