Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-09
OTHERS APT TO co
TO MINOR SCHOOLS
MiIIerS Get Pitcher Under OPP.
tion-Buy First Stacker.
ChiSox Rout GriffS.
BY John B. KELLER.

BY JOHN r. KELLER.
Reconstruction of the Nationals for
the. 1899 American League champion
ship campaign is under way and one
or two players now with the club may
follow Horace Lisenbee TO the minors.
The pitcher, notified yesterday of his
release under option to the Minneap-
oils club of the American Association,
was far from being success in the
big show this year. but club officials
hope that more active service with the
NillerS than he got with the Nationals
may bring about return to the form
that made him so valuable to the
Washington outfit last year. There are
some others who are not shining lights
now as Nationals who might be bene-
flied by brisk schooling terms in the
minors and they are apt to get this
AS soon as the club officials are able
to place them advantageously.
The departure of LiSenbee will not
reduce the numerical strength OF the
Nationals more than a day or two,
according 10 President Clark Griffith.
The club has bought from Little Rock
Of the Southern Association First Base
man Boss for immediate delivery. Boss
Is l9-year-old in his first year in
professional base ball and most prom
ising player, by report from Scout Joe
Engel. who watched the youngster per-
form. Boss is said to be feet ii
inches tall and to weigh around 1875
pounds. He bats and throws from the
left side and has been improving as
hitter lately, Southern Association
records show
LlSenbees failure to shine on the slab
this season hurt the Nationals cause
considerably Last year, his first
In the big show. the young fellow
from Tennessee performed in startling
style and finished the campaign If
tenth among the hurlers of the league.
He was the second best member of the
Washington corps. being excelled only
by Irving Hadley. This season. how
ever. LiSenhee never performed inn
pressively. Lack of control. fault not
revealed last year. was the main cause
OF his ineffectiveness
Records Tell Story.
A comparison of records for last year
end this clearly show how great was
LlSenhee's form reversal 1t follows:
1927 record-Games, 80; complete
games. II: won, Is; lost, g.: innings
pitched. 242; opponents at bat, 902:
hits Yielded, gel; opponents runs,
ia: earned runs granted. 96; Sacri-
-
balls issued, IS; strike outs, los; wild
pitches. 0; average Of earned runs
granted per nine innings, 3.57.
1928 record-Games, I6; complete
games, 8: won, q; lost, s; innings
pitched, 70: opponents at bat, Ala;
hits yielded. 102: opponents runs,
IS: earned runs granted, 81: sacri-
fee hits, 10; batters hit, S: bases on
balls issued, 81; strike-outs, Is; wild
pitches, /; average Of earned runs
granted per nine innings, $50.
The records tell the story of Lisen-
bees failure Seventeen victories last
year and 10 of them in the first half of
the season. Two victories this year in
half a season, and he went the route in
but one of his wins. Lisenbee may be
benefited by getting more work with
the Millers than Manager Stanley Har-
rss could afford to give him with the
Nationals. considering the way he per-
formed. The pilot still believes the
former Memphis star has plenty OF
pitching ability, and hopes he win do
well enough in the American Associa-
ton to warrant another big time next
season.
A fair sample of Lisenbee's pitching
for the Nationals this season was onereo
by him yesterday when he hurled the
ninth inning of the game in which the
White Sox routed the home club. Is 70 2:
In the lone round Lisenbee yielded
three singles. as many passes and a
trio of talIieS. He had nothing with
which to baf1e Blackburne's bunch.
Four Pitchers Pounded.
However the game already had been
lost before Lisenbee appeared on the
scene. Irving Hadley. Tom Zachary
and Bob Burke had contributed gen.
erougiy toward the visitors success.
Only Fred Marberry Of the quintet OF
hurlers sent TO the hill by Manager
Harris was able to check the White Sox.
He pitched 10 only one batter after re-
neving Hadiey and registered a strike
out to retire the side.
All told. the White Sox cleaned of
the Washington pitching 20 hits for %
bases and passes. The Nationals got
to Ted Lyons for 10 safeties, of them
good for bases. and passes Ted
was none too steady and with any
kind of hurting the Nationals would
have had more than an even chance
TO trim him. But the handicap built up
by sloppy singing proved too great
70 overcome.
Hadiey was woefully weak from the
start. Three singles and two passes
of him were mixed in the making Of
three White Sox taliies In the first In
ming and triple. two singles and a
wild chuck BY Muddy Ruel who threw
poorly TO the bases throughout the
game, added two more runs TO the Chi
cago score in the fifth before Marberry
was rushed 10 the mound.
Two singles. double and a triple
were Socked al Zachary's expense In the
sixth. This attack was good for two
more White Sox markers The Ma
tionsls who had reached Lyons for a
run In the first frame with brace Of
one-basers and an inneld retirement,
came back in the sixth 70 put them.
selves within three runs Of tie. Five
singles produced the trio of tallies
then made.
But the White Sox rushed far ahead
again in the seventh while Burke was
In the box. They got TO him for a
triple, two singles and a walk after two
were out. and three runs resulted Had
the pitcher Kept his head up, however
and covered first base promptly when
Bud Clancy grounded 10 Joe Judge after
Bill Hunnefeid tripled, the Sox would
have been BANKED In the frame But
Judge had 10 wait for Burke TO reach
the sack and Clancy got there just
ahead Of the throw when a third out
ought 70 have been recorded
A tyo-bagger. q single an infeld out
. pass and two-ba6e mum Of q loft u
right by Carl Reynolds melted the Ma.
tipnals three rdr7se IN the eighth, biji
the ChiSox reached Lisenbee for enough
IN the ninth 10 put them six runs Il
the good once more. and the game wal
gone.