Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-30
ROOKIE GIVEN CROWDER'S
TURN In SERIES WITH AS
All to Be Held For Shot at Yanks While Lsenbee
Johnson and Bump Share Present Set Starts.
Get Runner.up Berth With SIS Win.

| to keep his Elephant herd in second
| place. Robert Moses Grove, one OF
the speediest of southpaws that ever
graced a slab, started against the Ma.
tionals, only to be punished as he had
been so often before by men wearing
the Washington uniform.
| Grove toiled six innings before CIV
| ing way to pinch batter. and in that
| time gave up six hits and two passes.
The Nationals clustered all but one of
the blows in two innings, and each
| time they tailed Sam Gray, of ortho-
| dox persuasion, assumed the pitching
assignment for the visitors in the
seventh. He yielded a tally then, and
in the eighth was slapped for two eX-
ira base hits and a run almost before
he could turn around, so Joe Pate.
Comics ancient left-hand looper, was
sent in to quell the disturbance.
Judge Comes Back Strong.
With the return Of Joe Judge to
first base after a six-day lay-off. given
over to nursing an infected finger. the
Nationals put their regular lineup on
the field back of the pitching box, and.
except in two instances, it functioned
perfectly.
The period of idleness certainly did
not affect Judges batting eye. He
cleaned a single and a triple off the
Philadelphia hurting. driving one run
over and starting another that in
creased the Nationals margin OF safe
ty after the AS had drawn danger
ously close.
Three singles and a sacrifice ac-
counted for two National markers in
the first frame. Rice hit for a base
and raced to third when Harris sim
gled Goslin's hoist to Simmons. fol-
lowing Speakers Whit, got Rice home,
and Judges single dro~e Harris
across.
After wasting singles in the first
and second sessions. the AS chalked
up a run in the third without a hit.
Following a. long run, Speaker made a
two-base muff of Boley's loft to left
center. Sacrifices by Grove and
Bishop then came to get the Macks
into the scoring column.
In the fourth round the visitors
got two hits and a pass and had the
bases filled with two out, but Boley
grounded to Bluege. The Nationals
were more fortunate in their half
With one gone, Ruel drew a pass, and
after Bluege popped out Reeves sin.
gled Muddy to the middle sack
Thurston shot a one.baser by Hale
to score his battery mate.
Cochrane Gets Homer.
In the sixth the AS had Hale at
second with one out, but Coehrane
and Dykes were of no help. When
Gray came to the slab in the seventh,
the Nationals converted a pass to Har-
ris into score. Bucky swiped second
and tailed as Speaker hit two-base
Texas Lacquer to right.
Cocfrane, who had done nothing for
his side in the sixth, certainly was a
fine contributor to the AS cause in
the eighth. Lamar, who opened the
inning with a single, was forced out
by Simmons. Hale put up a fly to
Harris, but Mickey slammed the
sphere over the right-field barrier
close to the foul line. and the Macks
were just run back Of the Harris
men.
One of these markers the local
crew promptly offset in their last bat.
ting turn. Judge started the eighth
with a rousing triple against the
right-field fence, and Ruei followed
with a double to left. Then Pate came
on the scene and all ended.