Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-01

-FOUR games with the club from the
: Mound city are on the slate this week
When the Browns were here in June.
rain prevented one engagement and
that will be played as part of
double-header tomorrow, starting at
o'clock. Single games are booked
for Friday and Saturday.
Browns Have Climbed.
Trouncing the Browns always has
been a task for the Nationals. 1t
should be most trying one now, for
trouncing the men from Missouri
seems to be difficult for any club to
do. Last month they won nineteen
of their thirty games to lift them
selves from sixth place and just a
few points above the Nationals to
third position.
The outfit managed by Lee Foil
really started it's climb when the Ma
tionalS paid their last visit TO st.
Louis. Then the Browns grabbed
three of the four games staged and
went on to take twelve of the next
, sixteen played with other clubs.
The Nationals have encountered the
Browns ten times this season and
finished on the long end of the count
on three occasions only. In most of
these arguments Manager DOME
: Bush had his regular team in the
field, but this time he must face the
St Louis terror with very patchy
aggregation.
The visitors, though. probably will
present their best front. They will
have a powerful attacking agency in
Ken Williams alone. This fence
buster has not lost his penchant for
home runs. Nor has Babydoll Jacob
sons batting eye been dimmed to any
appreciable extent. Others of the
Browns are hitting well, too, and de-
fenSively the club is quite fit. With
Urban Shocker. Shucks Pruett and
Elan Vangilder in great form and
Dixie Davis and Dave Danforth i'm
, proving steadily, the Browns are get
ting good pitching aplenty. Yes, the
Nationals path is not so rosy.
Nationals Well Drubbed.
After winning four games in a
row, which is quite a streak for them
these days the Nationals took a sound
drubbing yesterday in the only game
played with the Tigers. They over
came lead graciously handed the
,Cobbmen by Southpaw JeZ Zachary
and drove Ken Holloway from the
slab after three innings. Then Syl-
Yester Johnson went to work for the
Tigers and stopped the Bushmen. but
Zach, who had wobbled from the start.
fell with thud in the ninth and his
successor Kenneth Sedgwick was
easy prey for the Jungle Cats.
a hit by Blue, a sacrifice, a pass
E. and fielder's choice gave the Tigers
I. a run in the opening inning. and,
\ after two were out in the second ses-
I, sion. they fell upon Zach for three
/ more tallies. Rigney's single, Wood
'alrs sacrifice, Blues stroll. Jones
triple and Cobb's one-bas blow pro-
duced this lot of scores.
Holloway practically handed the
Nationals a trio of counters in their
portion of the second. filling the
bases with passes to Rice, Ruel and
Peck. Charity then poked a triple
to right center. Evans double. sin
giles by Rice and Harris, Holloway's
wild pitch and Haney's erratic heave
gave the Bushmen two more runs and
the lead in the third.
Sylvester Johnson assumed the
mound burden for the Tigers for the
next five innings and the Nationals
found little use for their fails. A
very scratchy hit by Evans was all
SO good, though. He let the Tigers
get ahead again with a single, a double
and pair of sacrifices for two TALES
in the seventh. and, after yielding two
blows in the ninth, departed from the
scene.
Big Inning for Tigers.
Rigney. first 10 face Sedgwick,
hunted safely and the bases were
filled. Woodall sent in a couple of
runs with single, then johnson
Knocked one baser to score Rigney.
Blues scratch safety loaded the sacks
again and Sedgwick. after stopping
Jones clout with his leg, made wild
throw that put the last three Tiger
runs across.
Bert Cole hurled the last inning
against the Bushmen and set them
down in order. A second game was
started with Johnson again pitching
for the visitors and Monroe Mitchell,
recruit from Memphis, slabbing for
the home folk. No runs were in, but
in the Tigers second inning there
4 were runners on first and second two
out and d tWo-and-one count on Blue
at bat when rain ended the davis