Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-30


At Washington this season the
Browns have not been one whit
troublesome. but in st. Louis-wow.
The Nationals visited the home of the
Sislermen last month and were treat
ed so roughly that bat one game of
four was hagged. 1t seems that the
Mound City crowd, no matter how
nowerless it is against other CLUBS, Is
a championship combination when u
stacks up against the Nationals on
its home lot
While Manager Harris has not an
nounced any formal pitching program
for the st. Louis series, he mas salu
that George Murray, recently pur-
chased from Mobile of the southern
Association, will be given chance
10 show his slabhing wares before the
set Of enea cementS Is ended. Inefe
is some likelihood that the newest
member OF the Champs staH VIII ne
called upon to start tomorrows game,
Ga that Walter Johnson and Dhtcn
Ruether. who toiled in the first two
tflts here, max have four days OF resi-
before they ascend the hill again.
Although much heavier in appear
anre than when he was last IN the
American Ieague-the 1924 season,
with the Red Sox--Murray seems 70
he in fine fett1e. He carries ms
greater weight we'll and IN pltchlhs
drills SO far has been mueh more
speedv than he was in MS lofl''ei
term in the big show.
Nucleus for Young stan.
~ Murray can make the grade TINS
time the aNtionals should nave ~
least three good men as nucleus ~
a Young pitching staff at the outset
of the 1927 campaign FREQ Ma
berry. while he was well beaeeh .ls
last time he started. has demohstra,eu
that he is a fairly dependanle nestn.
~ ~ contests and quite strong
net ab ~ % a route. And Alvin
Crnv'5ar in his 10 innings against the
White SoS Yesterday vas about ~
in,nressiye a 5 he was IN his DEBUT a.
. National last saturday. "a
tthouph wild - Crowder issued ~
naSses during his terms on the sia
tho rhisox could not PUNISH MN ~
,,.n,t artent whenever he located
~ ,,late They reached him for onlN
six hits in as many innings. ana hao
his control been better IN one lralhe
the Ntionals probably would nave
won in regulation tlnhe'
only IN the fourth round wren -
DaSSed tND udltSlS' Wy
yildness get him into real trouble
Then after TWO We're ohl y.
aba ssd home the pair who had
walked After q pinch batter IN the
eleventh. eliminated trowder Mar
herr,. finished the game, but in none
too smooth manner.
Sox Use Two Hurlers.
The chisox had to use two pitchers.
Ted Rlankenship, who started, was
none too steady in the first couple Oh
innings. hut lie went along Wen
thereafter until the sixth. when ne
was struck on his right hand by
Buddy Myers line drive ana suffered
fracture of the thumb. That
brought Ted Lyons To the box. 1he
Nationals had found RlankenShip for
five hits and two passes. and they got
nine hits and three passes off Lyons.
Six of the safeties off the reliet hufler
were not made until the eleventh in
ming. however
When Blankenship left the fray the
Chisox were a run 70 the good. but
the Nationals, who lately have de-
veloped the habit Of frequently stag
ing late rallies as they used 10 do IN
their championship seasons. showed
over a tying tally after two men
We're out ia the eighth and went on 70
knock the props from under Lyons
I'm the eleventh,
The game was just as hard fought
as the number of innings played in
dictate Several times after croWder
and MarherrN were free with franks
the Chisox seemed on the verge Of