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As Joe Moore, Giant lead-off man, strolled from the dugout toward the plate to start the game, a grey pigeon fluttered down on the field and strutted gravely to the pitcher's box. Umpires shooed it away but it refused to go far. Throughout the game it fluttered and padded around the park. The pigeon's first position, the pitcher's box, was occupied for Washington by a good-looking left-hander from Iowa named Earl Whitehill. For two days the Giants had had their way with six Washington pitchers. Whitehill put a stop to that. His fast ball and wicked curve, shrewdly mixed, kept the Giants down to five hits. Three times a Giant got as far as third base, never farther. Fred Fitzsimmons, a knuckle-ball expert, was in the box for the Giants and he had an unhappy time. Buddy Myer, first Senator at bat, cracked a single. He got to third while Ott was trying to field Goslin's drive off the right field fence. Manager Cronin knocked a ball toward the pitcher's mound and in fielding it Fitzsimmons slipped on the wet turf. Myer scored. A moment later Fred Schulte drove Goslin home.
Buddy Myer, who had made three miserable errors at second base in the opening game, was working hard to square himself. In the second inning he shot a two-bagger screaming past Bill Terry, scoring Bluege for the Senators' third run. Again in the seventh Myer came to bat, ; with Catcher Sewell on second. He shot ; another single into right field and Sewell trotted home. Washington 4, New York 0. Fourth Game, Against the centre field fence of the Washington park Owner Griffith had erected a temporary stand of 800 bleacher seats for $1 customers. At the crack of Bill Terry's bat in the fourth inning, Washington's Centre Fielder Schulte,raced back toward the fence. The ball shone white in the sky, a perfect fly for Schulte. But it plunked into the $1 bleachers and Terry got a home run, first score of the game. Immediately afterward the Giants filled the bases, but Monte Weaver, pitching for the Senators, steadied down and struck out his man. In the same inning Carl Hubbell, who was again pitching superb ball, permitted the first Senator hit of the game, but there was no further excitement until the sixth when Heinic Manush knocked one past Terry at first base. In a flash Second Baseman Critz fielded it, Hubbell rushing over to take the throw at first. Umpire Moran called Manush out. Livid with rage, Manush poked the umpire, was banished from the field. In the seventh Hubbell joggled the game back into the fire again when he fumbled an easy grounder from Kuhel. A bunt advanced Kuhel to second and a sharp single by Catcher S:well drove him home, tied the score. Through eighth, ninth, tenth innings neither pitcher gave ground. In the eleventh little Travis Jackson, whose knee injury would have kept him out of the series but for Johnny Vergez' appendicitis, laid a bunt down the third-base line, beat it out. Mancuso sacrificed him to second. Up to the plate stepped ''Blondy" Ryan, the onetime Holy Cross quarterback who made sport-page headlines last summer by quitting a hospital to rejoin the Giants, heralding his approach with the telegram "THEY CANNOT BEAT US, EN ROUTE." Ryan sent a hot single into left field, saw the winning run go home on Jackson's wobbly legs.