Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-03
BUNT, ERROR GETS
RED IN FROM FIRST
Fleet Rookie Keeps Head Up
in Sprint to Big Run of
Altos Game.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

Speed tells in base ball as in virtuall
every other line OF athletic endeavoi
Fleetness afoot gets results IN the ola
nond game. Red Barnes proved thi
Yesterday TO the satisfaction OF IN
nearly 5000 fans at Clark Grlfilu
Stadium and the CONSERVATION OF TN
high and mighty Yankees. well on thei
way to a third successive championship
in the American League.
II was Reds nimhle tootSieS that car
RED the Nationals to their third victor,
of the season over the New WORKERS
That the score was only TO speaks
eloouently of the left-handed pitching
done by Garland Braxton and the me
S,,nnorf accorded him whenever thu
Yankees began putting all their power
8 full punch into attack. But IN the enc
it was speed, and speed alone, that de-
cided the issue.
This Young recruit for some time hao
been shaking a nifty hoof IN MS mean
behring's about the center pasture Ior
the Nationals He had run TO the slde
to the front or far back often, to make
seemingly impossible catches. He mac
done a deal Of real sprinting on the
runway. too. But never until yesterday
had he demonstrated just how mucn
his speed could be worth TO his ciuo.
Sam West hunted in the eighth, Barnes,
who had opened the inning with a
single. was almost on top OF the Sec
ond sack as Joe Dugan scoopeo up the
hall and rified il to Lou Gehrlg a
whisker ahead of the bunter. Seeing
the far corner uncovered, Red never
heSitated at the midway station. He
dug for third, and had Dugan started
to return to that base Immediately
after realizing Reds purpose 1t IS
doubtful whether he could have reached
it in time 10 make play on the fast
moving National.
Speed Licks Yanks.
AS It was. the Yankee third Sacker.
who had entered the game only that
inning, was Just a trif1e late in think
ing of the uncovered base and there
was no stopping Barnes. When Gehrlg
made the instructive throw to the far
corner no one was there TO receive the
ball and Barnes. head up all the time,
swung around third and sped home.
Speed had licked the Yankees.
AS a rule, though. more than speed
is needed to overcome these world cham
pions. An opposing club must curb
their attack as much as possible all
the time. Give them only the slightest
chance to launch an offensive and they
are apt to settle the issue then and
there. Braxton gave them few oppor-
tunities 70 60 on batting rampages yes
terday and whenever they began macing
him rather hard his teammates backed
him superbly.
This business of stopping Yankee
onslaughts was likely to be assigned TO
Irving Hadley this afternoon in the
second game of the series. Irving has
not been so successful at stopping the
onslaughts of any club this season. but
he has shown signs OF improvement in
his work lately and Manager Stanley
Harris figures it about time for the
young fellow from Lynn to try again.
Should Irving have anything like the
"Stuff" that Braxton had against the
Yanlzs, these kings Of the base ball
world should find the going troublesome.
Braxton and George Pipgras were
slab rivals all the way IN the opener of
the series and the Washington hnrler
shaded the New Yorker in every respect.
Garland yielded seven safeties while
George gave I'D eight The National
struck out four batters and the Yank
three. Each issued two passes, none
figuring in the scoring, but where Brax-
ton rarely had to pitch himself out TO
q batter Pipgras frequently had 10 go
TO the three-and-two count before dis
posing OF his man. And this heavy
work in the heat did the New Yorker
no good.