Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-03


in either of the big leagues.
Joe hit for a double, triple, a
home run, single and double,
in order. Left field was his ia
vorite spot for hits. His two
doubles and home run were pro-
PEELED that way. His single and
triple were driven to right. The
homer was a loft into the left field
bleacherS and was his eighth hit
of the kind this season. The
triple narrowly missed being a
homer. It landed high against
the screen in front of the right
field open stand.
In the early part of this decade Ed
Charity. then catcher and now a
coach with the Nationals, set an Ameri-
can League record for total bases in a
game in this city. Playing in Fenway
Park one afternoon Ed nicked the OPP
position hurting for two homers, as
many doubles and a single, making his
total for bases Is. That record was
surpassed few years later in cham
pionShip campaign and also in world
series, but Cronin's is thought to be
the best made in the American League
at least in the past two or three seasons.
Helped Gain Victory.
Joe's batting helped greatly toward
scoring a 10-to-7 victory over the Red
Sox in the first part of the twin bill.
With his five hits he drove over four
runs and scored three himself. Besides
Cronin'S, nine other hits were credited
to the Nationals. All but one of the
Washington safeties and all but one of
the runs were made off Danny Mac
Fayden in the first seven innings. Ray
Dobbens, a left-hander recruited from
the Holy Cross team, finished in the
box for the home side.
Myles Thomas hurled to his sixth
straight victory and his third over the
Red SoX during the string. Tommy
yielded Is hits, and it was well the rs
tionals had amaSSed a good lead at
MacFayden'S expense, for five of the
SafetieS off Thomas were made in the
ninth round, when the Red SoX got
had done much pitching in the first
eight frames and plainly was quite tired
in the ninth.
The Red Sox had everything their
way in the second part of the double
header, which they won, z to 2. In this
game chickens came home to roost.
Three one-time decentralization Cas-
ton, Bob Reeves and Elliot Bigelow-
upset the works for the johnson band
ties, spread over six sessions, while
Reeves got single, double and triple
and scored two runs and Bigelow had a
perfect game at bat with double and
three singles that pushed over two tall
lies and enabled him to register two
himself.
Irving Hadley started on the hill for
the Nationals and Irving lost the game
in the first five frames. Before Irving
IN ictgo IN he no
had been reached for nine hits and six
runs. The man left on by Hadley was
pounded across by the first batter to
face Liska. The Red Sox got a second
blow off Ad before he left at the end
Of the sixth, and one hit off Lloyd
Brown to make their game total an
even dozen.
Lots Of Home Runs.
Home runs were plentiful during the
double sketch. In addition to Cronin's
four were hit. Joe Judge got his fourth
of the season in the second inning OF
the first game and Goose Goslin his
eighteenth of the season in the fifth
inning of the second game. Both were
lofts into the right field stand. Charley
Rufing picked up MacFaydens bat in
the seventh session of the initial tilt
and rammed four-baser into the left
field stand, the ball bounding from
there to the street beyond the park.
Jack Rothrock opened the Red Sox
fourth in the nightcap by dropping the
ball into the right field sun parlor.
Plenty of thrills for the long-hit lovers.
The Nationals had five runs to their
credit before the Red Sox tailed In the
first game, Vests walk, Tate's single
Cronin's double and Judges homer fig-
ured in the making of four markers in
round two. and in round three Tate
was sent home by Cronin'S triple. A
brace of singles and boot by Rice OF
me Of them meant tally for the Red
Soy in the third, but the Nationals
came right back to ring up Two more
runs in the fifth, when Cronlns homer
more in the seventh with Vests life on
Todt,s error and three successive sin
giles. .,. s
+hree single in the eighth added two
runs to the Red Sox total, and after the
Nationals, with Cronin's two-bagger and
two sacrifices, got a marker on Doppens
in the ninth the home slde came
through with four more Then tne
firing Thomas was pounoeo 1or tntee
Tn the second setto the Red Sox had
three good scoring innings. A triple
double and single. with wild pitch by
Hadley tossed in, netted them two runs
in the first frame.
Nationals Score Again.
with Rice's double and two infield
retirements, the Nationals got back one
of these tallies in the third. But the
CarriVan crew chased over two more
markers in the fourth inning. Then
Hadley was found for homer oy Hosn-
rock, two singles and sacrhce:
Goslin's circuit drive helped the Na.
tioraIs only q little in the NTH. ana i
was made insignificant by the Red 500
onset in the latter part OF the same
round. Then two singles and q ooupl'
chased Hadley to the showers, ana pc
fore Liska could check the REQ Sox they
had three runs for the round.
Rothrock was a sensation af1eld anc
at hat in the middle of the second en-
counter. The Red SoX center fieldel
made a rolling catch Of Hayes hoist u
short center in the fourth inning. ant
began the home side fourth with
homer.
Hadley was fine pitcher when Their
were runners on. He retired the Ret
Sox in order in the second and tnirt
innings OF the second tilt. In the frSt
fourth and nth frames, however, wheI
the flrst man got on he appeared help
less.
Both Liska and Brown, who followet
Hadley In the second game, seem TO D