Cheered on by a band of lusty rooters, many of them of feminine gender, who journeyed over from the nation’s capital to see them in action, the Washington Pilots helped the Baltimore Black Sox pry off the lid of the East West League by taking two of the three games played on Saturday and Sunday. The District tossers, with Chet Brewer, the lanky emery-ball server, pitching one-hit ball, blanked the Lundymen, 3 to 0, in the opener on Saturday, and after having been daubed with a 5 to 0 coat of whitewash in Sunday’s first game, came back strong behind Nipper Jim Winters to tack a 10 to 1 defeat upon the Baltimore clan in the second tilt.
Pilots 3
Black Sox 0
Frank Warfield, cagey major domo of the Pilots and former generalissimo of the Baltimore nine, shot the works when he sent Chet Brewer against Willis Flournoy in the opener. The big westerner literally turned the Sox wrong-side out as he hopped the horsehide in and out. Brewer toiled and also spun while his mates gave him almost flawless support. He was never in danger.
The pilots tapped “Pud” Flournoy, Sox Southpaw, for an even dozen blows, but they were scattered, for, in no inning were the visitors able to manufacture more than one tally, runs being scored in the fourth, sixth and ninth innings. In the fourth stanza, Frank Warfield singled, stole second and scored on Jim Mason’s single. In the sixth, Durant singled, advanced when Warfield walked, and scored when mason slipped a single through short. The final marker came in the last stanza, when Bert Johnston doubled and scored when Roosevelt Kinard singled off Lundy’s glove.
Pilots Line-up, Durant-Cf, Frank Warfield-2b, Jim Mason-1b, Bert Johnston-Lf, Jones-Rf, Roosevelt Kinard-3b, Willie O’Bryant-SS, Foreman-C, Chet Brewer-P
Black Sox Line-up, Buddy Burbage-Lf, Crush Holloway-Rf, Dick Lundy-SS, Mickey Casey-C, Tom Finey-3b, Pete Washington-Cf, Dave Thomas-1b, Dickie Seay-2b, Willis Flournoy-P
Pilots 0
Black Sox 5
Revenge was in the hearts of the Sox in the first Sunday game as Eddie “Lefty” Holmes, a Florida product, held the Pilots hitless until the eighth. A quick double play, Dick Lundy to Dickie Seay to Dave Thomas, nipped an impending rally in this session. The second Washington hit came in the ninth when Jim Mason singled but was later caught trying to round into the third station. Holmes had been previously spared embarrassment when Pete Washington raced from centerfield to deep left to snare Johnston’s high fly, to make the last out in the sixth frame, and when Lundy made a spectacular stab of Mickey Casey’s low throw to second.
The Sox chased Webster MacDonald, the submarine ball king, to the showers in the eighth, after having bombarded him for ten hits. Bun Hayes, who relieved him, was wild, walking four men in one inning to force in a run. Lundy proved to be the batting star of the first fray, collecting three hits, one a double, in four official times at bat.
Pilots Line-up, Durant-Cf, Frank Warfield-2b, Jim Mason-1b, Bert Johnston-Lf, Jones-Rf, Roosevelt Kinard-3b, Willie O’Bryant-SS, Foreman-C, Webster MacDonald-P
Black Sox Line-up, Buddy Burbage-Lf, Dave Thomas-1b, Dick Lundy-SS, Mickey Casey-C, Crush Holloway-Rf, Tom Finey-3b, Pete Washington-Cf, Dickie Seay-2b, Eddie Holmes-P
Pilots 10
Black Sox 1
The Second tilt found the Pilot’s with the key to the delivery of Oliney Allen and Norman Yokely who relieved him. They blasted Allen for six hits and four runs in the four innings he was on the mound and touched Yokely for another half dozen bingles and as many runs in the six innings that he toiled.
Four runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and in the eighth were score by the Warfieldmen, every player on the team, with the exception of Roosevelt Kinard, third baseman, who was relieved by Sam Warmack, accounting for at least one safe blow. Willie O’Bryant led the parade with three this and a brace of runs. Nip Winters was in form as he scattered the seven Sox hits along the route. Only on one occasion after the first session was the Nipper in danger and that time in the fourth with two out and the bases loaded, Tom Finey on third, Pete Washington on second, and Dickie Seay on first. Robert Clarke, pinch-hitting for Allen, hit to Willie O’Bryant who forced Seay at second for the third out.
One casualty occurred during the contest when Robert “Kiki” Clarke, veteran Sox backstopped, was injured when Mason collided with him at the plate as the former was trying to block out a run. While the injury was not believed serious, nevertheless, painful and Clarke was relieved by Mickey Casey.
