Evening star., 1929-06-03

@HIs Irving Hadley can pitch. The
Washington club has some
bunters. These we're made
known yesterday at Griffith Sta
dunn, when the Nationals nosed
out the Browns, 2 to /, in just about
the most interesting base ball game
played here this season.
Hadley, after taking his licking most
regularly since the beginning of the
season and never finishing anything he
started, performed like the capable
pitcher he can be, and went route to
his initial victory of the campaign.
Bump allowed the Browns but five
safeties and two passes. and in the
course of the pastiming struck out
seven.
After the first inning, in which the
Browns did their scoring, the going was
not always smooth for Bump. The first
two Browns to bat in the fifth frame
got on the runway at one time, but
then a double play relieved the situa-
ton after Hadley had hurled third
strike by George Blaeholder.
In the sixth, when the Browns re-
sorted to bunting Heinie Manush beat
out tap with one gone, but he was
hooked when he tried to Swipe second
as Fred Schultz missed the ball with a
vicious swing. It was we'll Manush was
hooked, for Schultz with his next swing
tripled But Fred was stranded at
third base, for Capt. Joe Judge deftly
shared Wally Schang's liner to retire
the side And in the next three rounds
the Howleymen were retired in order.
For seven innings the Nationals had
cleaned but five hits and pass of
Blaeholder. He was pitching good ball,
too. Goose Goslin had made two of the
hits-one double and the other a
triple-but no one could help him.
And in the seventh. when the Nationals
clustered two safeties and had two on
bases with only one out, Blaeholder was
too much for them.
It was pass to Buddy Myer, though,
that paved the way to tying tally. 1t
was issued at the start Of the eighth,
and Sam Rice followed with two
Dagger, driven under Red Kress, st.
Louis shortstop, to score Buddy. Then
in the ninth 1t was revealed that the
Nationals have some bunters.
Joe Cronin began the round with a
lusty double, driven to the right-field
corner. Judge, with neat sacrif1cial
tap, moved Joe to third. Here Man
ager johnson sent in Stuffy Stewart to
faster afoot than Joe. The Browns
clustered about Blaeholder and much
poWwowing ensued. but what they told
him did not help their cause at all.
Jack Hayes, sent up with orders to
bunt, let a wide pitch go by, to be
called Ball one" Then Blaeholder
served hook that cut the heart of the
plate, and the game was over. Stewart,
rushing toward the plate with the pitch,
was across with the winning run before
Hayes bunt reached the pitcher. It
was the finest type of squeeze play.
1t really looked as though Stewart
might have scored even had Hayes
missed the ball, so fast did he move in
from the far corner. And Hayes got a
hit with his bunt, for Blaeholder, after
picking up the ball, found no one at
first to take throw. Finally, after
much urging by Schang, the pitcher
shot the ball to Lu Blue, but Lu was
yards of the sack when he got the
sphere, and Hayes was across it.
Cronin ran his consecutive game hit
ting streak to Is games when he singled
in the seventh inning yesterday. Joe
went to a three-and-two count at the
time before meeting the ball.
Prior to bunting single in the sixth