Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-27
By DENMAN THOMPSON.
Sports Editor. The Star.

@ HE country may be split on the
question Of whether Amer
ica's greatest need is a good
Il scent cigar or a place to park
the fiivver, but there is no
division of opinion in Washington on
the point that what the Nationals
require most for success in the Amer
lean League race is more Boston
teams.
Against the Mackmen Harris out.
fit has been able to snare but three
of a dozen contests, has but a pair Of
wins to show for its six clashes with
the Browns. is credited with an even
break against the White Sox and a
slight edge on the Indians, Yankees
and Tigers. but of the IA times they
have played Carrigan's clan to a de-
cision only a trio of tits have been
entered on the wrong side of the
ledger.
AS a rule, when one club possesses
a 5to-0 lead in the fourth inning and
in the course of the fracas accumu-
lateS runs on IS hits, totaling an
even score of bases. it will simply
breeze in under the wire. This doesn't
apply when that team is the 1927 edi-
ton of the Red SOx and the Harris.
men are their opponents, however, as
\ Sabbath assemblage of about $4,000
at Clark Griffith Stadium can testify.
Griffs Hit Often and Far.
For, to Offset Boston's totals the
Griffmen anna ssed Is safeties for an
aggregate of 81 bases and chalked up
runs, thereby making of their third
straight victory the eighth consecutive
reverse for the SoX.
In company with Carrigan's band
the Nationals last evening entrained
for the Hub, where hostilitieS will be
resumed this afternoon, with the pos.
Sfblllty that ere they return to tackle
the Athletics Wednesday they will be
in third place in the flag race, as they
now are but one game removed from
the niche occupied by the skidding
White Sox
Half a dozen of the bingles the
GriffS collected yesterday served no
purpose other than to fatten the aver.
ages of their authors, but the other
nine were so effectively grouped in
one round that the best efforts of the
visitors to shake the jinx of defeat
were frustrated.
1t seemed in the third when the
Nationals loaded the sacks with none
out on safeties by Reeves, Johnson
and McNeely, only to be turned back
empty handed as Harris drilled into
a double play and Speaker died aerial
1y, that this was not to be their day,
but there was an entirely different
story to relate in the following frame.
GOslin's Homer Starts 1t.
Goslin set the wheels in motion by
waiting one of Tony Welzer's offering
over the right-field barricade, and Rice
and Ruel emitted singles in an attempt
at emulation. Lofts by Bluege and
Reeves followed, but Johnson then
lined double to left center good for
two runs and the fun was on in
earnest
: McNeely's Texas Lacquer scored
Walter, Harris whacked a single off
the glove of Marty Karow, the Ohio
State graduate, who is performing at
the far corner for the Sox, and
Speaker propelled bingle to right |
that sent McNeely in. Up for a second |
time in the frame, Goslin drilled q |
double to center that cashed his boss |
and caused Weller to fade from the |
scene in favor of Danny MacFayden |
who was greeted by Rice's second |
safety of the session to tally Spoke |
and Goose before a roller by Ruel |
ended the festivities.
This juicy frame gave the Griffs a |
margin of three runs over the Sox, |
who first had horned into the run |
column in the second when Myer pro- |
PEELED a synthetic circuit clout to |
center in round 2 and picked up a |
quartet of tallies in the fourth with |
the aid of four bingles, pair of sac
rifices and bum chuck by Bluege.
Marberry Relieves johnson.
Compelled to do considerabl leg
work by his defensive maneuvers and |
activities on attack, Johnson was Civ. |
ing evidences of strain and in the |
sixth, after two hits and another pair |
of suicides had Melted the Hose an |
other tally, his duties were delegated |
to Marberry.
Fred's task at the time was made |
easy when Ruel and Reeves teamed |
up to balk an attempted theft by |
Tobjn. He also got through un. |
scathed with a pair of aliens on the
runway in the seventh by compelling
Myer to hoist, but was saved serious |
trouble in the eighth by a bit of |
FAULTY Boston base running.
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