Evening star., 1927-07-14
BY JOHN II. KELLER.


H ETROIT. July ia bal
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must grab everything in sight
and hold tightly 10 what il has grabbed
If it would succeed at Navin Field. Foi
the Tigers pack a wicked punch and
always seem ready TO let it so. The
Nationals certainly discovered this
YESTERDAY when their winning streak
was ended at seven games by George
Moriarty's beneals who took both ends
of a double-header With scores of
to and 13 to 3.
In the first game the Nationals fat
ly refused TO take advantage Of the
many chances they had to beat the
Tigers. Although their starting pitch
er. Bob Burke. lost all his cunning
after getting two out in the third
round and let the home club pound
him for six runs. the Harrismen still
could have triumphed with one or two
wallops coming from their bats at op-
portune moments. For Dick COtfman.
pitching for the first time since he
came back to the Nationals from Jcr-
sew City, held the Tigers in check well
until he turned the mound Job over
to Horace Lisenbee at the end OF the
eighth inning. ;
Sam Gibson. who did most Of the
hurting for the home crowd, issued
u passes and was nickcd for hits.
Ten of the passes and six of the hits
were iammed into the six innings that
followed the Tiger scoring splurge.
Bases Loaded Four Times.
Four times after the third inning
the Nationals had the bases loaded, vet
all they got out of these scoring op-
portuntieS was one run. a total of 10
stranded on the runwayS shows luSt
how much solid smack would have
helped.
Gibson finally gave way to Lii Sto-
ner in the ninth, leaving two runners
on and none out. And the Nationals
were Just as weak against the new
hurler.
In the second game, the Nationals
failed to hold to what they had gained
early They piled up a siX-run lead
off Rip Collins pitching in the first
two innings and managed to keep Hol-
lis Thurston, who had been staggering
on the slab almost from the beginning
of the contest. in the lead through
the sixth session by getting three
more runs off Dad Hankins.
But ThurStOn went down in n heap
in the seventh, battered by a Tiger
barrage that put 9Ioriarty's men well
ahead, while the Nationals were help
less before George Smith. who sue
ceeded HankinS for a three-inning
term.
To add to the discomfort of the Har
rismen. the Tigers raked Garland
Braxton, who has been worked almost
daily during the last week, for two
mora orIyorr hnfcra f1,a cpvanfl1 in
ming ended. so Fred Marberry toiled
in the eighth and he was reached for
a couple of scores.
Eighteen hits ratified off Tiger bats
in the contest. all but five of them be-
ing made while Thurston was on the
hill The Nationals got 13 off the Tiger
hurlers. 1t was a neat old Army
game.
Rice's Homer Starts 1t.
Rice opened the first part of the
dual bill with his drive to center that
became home run when Manush mis-.
judged the ball and ran in, letting it
soar over his head to the front wall of
the center field bleacher. Then the
Nationals left the field 10 the Tigers.
And the latter certainly swept it in
the third round.
Burke walked Woodall at the out
set of the inning and Gibson sacri-
feed. The Tiger catcher made third
base as Warner became the second
out of the session, then the storm
broke over the head of the young
National pitcher
Gehringer singled, Manush walked.
Fothergill doubled. Heimann hit
homer over the left-field wall, Neun
walked and Tavenner hit for a base
That was good for five runs, but
the Tigers were not through for the