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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE LAST ONE FOR 86 YEARS May 29, 1918 ... While it was cold at Fenway Park, the Red Sox succeeded in making it a frightfully torrid day for the Washington Senators, taking both ends of a doubleheader by scores of 4 to 2 and 3 to 0. The feature of the night game was Sam Jones' thrilling victory over Walter Johnson. Jones outpitched Johnson, holding the Nats to five scattered hits. It was the third game he has started since he came here in the Speaker deal two years ago, and it was his first win. Only three of the Washington bunch got as far as second base off Jones. He was never in any jams and the further he went the better he looked. The other half of the battery was Sam Agnew who get no less than three base path navigators who tried to steal on him, breaking up a double steal in the third, when he nailed Burt Shotton muscling into third base. The exhibition by so Jones greatly impressed manager Ed Barrow that the ball, which figured in the last put out of the game, was presented to Sam by Everett Scott after the game. Carl Mays and lefty Harry Harper opposed each other in the curtain raiser and Mays was several shades better than his opponent. Harper's wildness paved the way for the runs that were registered in the first inning, and some solid batting swelled the count for the Red Sox in the seventh. Had the Senators won the second game, it would've been protested by the Red Sox as Washington played Sam Rice. His name is on the voluntary retired list. Rice left the Nationals in training camp to enlist in the Army at Fort Terry. Being granted a furlough until Friday night, yesterday morning, Rice hopped a train and came here to see his old teammates. He arrived just before the first game ended and Griffith put him into a uniform. Although Harper was announced in the outfield for the second game, it was Rice who came to bat when Harper's turn at the plate came up. A formal protest was entered by manager Barrow and the game was allowed to go on. It was so chilly that the players had to work fast to keep warm and while a number of good plays were put over, Harry Hooper's one-handed stop which held Clyde Milan's blow to a single in the seventh inning of the second game was one of the best. Another was Amos Strunk's throw home, which doubled up the fleet Shotton. Singles by Shotton, Joe Judge, and Kid Foster produced a run for the Senators in the opening inning of the first game. A long double to left by stuffy McInnis drove in two for the Sox in the same inning. Eddie Ainsmith's single, Harper's sacrifice and passes to Shotton and Judge, and Foster's smash that Carl Mays knocked down, let Washington tie it up in the third inning. Shotton was thrown out at the plate by Strunk. After two were out in the seventh, Dave Shean, Strunk and George Whiteman's singled, with two runs scoring as Shotton made a bad job of fielding Whiteman's hit and letting the Sox win the game 4-2. In the second game, the Red Sox scored one in the first inning. Harry Hooper beat out an infield hit and stole second base on Amos Strunk's single to left. Hooper was held at third and Strunk then sold stole second base. Whiteman walked, filling the bases and Hooper scored after Stuffy McInnis' sacrifice fly to Shotton. Sam Jones had two men on in both the first and third innings, but blazed through and after the third inning was never in any danger. Strunk's triple, his third hit of the second game and his fourth of the afternoon, drove home two Sox runs the eighth inning to make it 3-0. |
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