Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
BY JOHN II. KELLER.

AVERY time this season the lead
ing Yankees have encountered
clubs that threatened 10 crash
L. into the running for the Amer
lean League pepnant they have
sfo,,tlv defended their position. The
White Sox came East In June Just n
few games back of the New Workers
and suffered severe humping in Col
Jake Ruppert's big stadium, the Ma
tionals splurged 10 the extent Of 10
victories In row up 10 July !, then
were deluged by Yankee runs in three
successive games and later in July
the Tigers attempted 10 tear Miller
IIuggins' club to pieces only to get
an even break in a series Of six en-.
gagements. The New York club is a
fine ball club. much more than Just
a hitting club, and il has plenty Of
winning spirit.
1t demonstrated yesterday the
height Of its playing quality and its
spirit when it turned back the Ma
tionals in a 4-to-3 battle that opened
a series of four games in which the
local aggregation hopes TO do we'll
enough to remain a factor in the rum
ming for the 1927 pennant. The Yanks
met foe worthy of their steel in the
Nationals and won on merit.
The Yanks had to fight all through
the game and did so. every man of
them. And SO did the Nationals even
to the extent of bitter battling with
Umpire Clarence Rowland, which re-
suited in the Punishment of Manager
Bucky Harris and Coach Jack on
slow. There was a chance, however,
that Harris might be back at his job
at second base this afternoon when
the clubs We're to resume their strug-
r-tir h,,k fc vI,oS
who only recently suffered a lay-off
of several days for arguing with an
arbiter, might draw another suspen-
sion.
Ruth Drives Over All Runs.
How we'll the Yanks rose to the oc-
casion was seen in the performance
of Babe Ruth at bat. The Dustin
Bambino came out of a hitting slump
that had begun last Saturday and
socked the ball soundly enough to
send his club to victory. 1t was the
Babe who drove across all the tallies
registered by the New Workers. His
single in the first inning staked them
TO one-run lead, and his loft into
the open stand back Of left-center
Held in the third inning sewed up the
game for Col. Jake Rupperts expen-
sive outfit.
Babes thirty-sixth home run of the
season came when two eliminates
were fooSting on the runway, and it
was a real clout, too, even though it
did soar high and arch considerably.
The Washington ball yard, especially
In left field and center field, is a sig
able affair, so the Babes thirty-sixth
homer would have been a mighty hit
in any park in Ban Johnsons circuit.
The Babe got the better of Lou
Gehrig, his great rival for home run
honors, decidedly in the opening
game OF the series. Each got on base
Tour times in five trips to the plate,
but the Bambino did so with three
hits, another single being cracked by
him in the seventh session, and a
walk, while Gehrig got but one single,
made in the opening round, and a
walk. He reached first base on two
other occasions only by fieIders'
choices.
Starting Pitchers Fade.
Neither of the starting pitchers.
Waite Hoyt for the Yankees and Tom
Zachary for the Nationals, lasted. In
two innings, the first and the third.
Zach took three-hit lacings. These
hali-dozen Safeties constituted the
clouting the Yanks did at Zach's ex-
pense, but they proved enough for
them. Zach also yielded four passes
during the five innings he was on
the firing line.
Hoyt three times had hits punched
against him and twice the Nationals
prof1ted through the clustering of
blows. He gave up three hits for a
tying run in the second round and
two more in the fifth, when the Ma
tionals did their last scoring. Waite
1altered in the sixth after disposing
of the first two batters and was with
drawn from action, leaving behind
him record of seven safeties and one
walk against him.
After Benny Tate batted for Zach
airy in the fifth frame Fred Marberry
assumed the Nationals pitching bur
den, and in four innings was found for
three hits and a pass, raising the
Yankee clout total to nine and their
walks to five. Wiley Moore. who is
the Marberry Of the Yankees. came to
Hoyt's relief in the sixth when Ma
tionals were perched on third and
first bases with two out and proceeded
to fan Ossie Bluege. Thereafter all
Bucky Harris bunch got off Moore
was one single-base hit, to make their
swat Total for the game eight.
All Tallies Earned.
All of the runs made were of the
earned variety. Three errors were
committed during the fray, two being
charged against Mark Koenig. Yankee
shortstop and one against Stuffy Ste
wart. who went to second base for
the Nationals after Boss Bucky was
banished.
Both Of Koenig's errors occurred in
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