Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-24
PUER|LE BOX WORK
CAUSES TWIN LOSS
Good Hitting and FIashy
Fielding Result Only in
Pair of Defeats.
PHILADELPHIA, May "a
- Much fine effort by the
| Washington club was vast

PHILADELPHIA, May "a
- Much fine effort by the
Washington club was vast
u ed yester through
puerile pitching. The Nationals
in general were on their toes
seeking the ball to all parts of
Greater Shibe Park and fielding in
flaShy manner, but all they got
out of the pastiming was a brace
of 9-to-8 defeats at the hands OF
the Athletics. And it was moth
ing more than poor pitching that
beat them.
In the first game the Nationals step
ped out to chase George Earnshaw and
Ossie Orwell from the hill in the in
itial round. and they continued their
assault upon Bill Shores to such an ex-
tent that in the first two innings eight
runs were amaSsed. Then Shores and
later Howard Ehmke stopped them cold.
Those eight runs looked enough,
though, until Irving Hadley forgot
what a pitcher is supposed to do and
threw all he had against the Mackian
bats when he was not walking batters
in the fourth inning. Before the round
ended Bob Burke and Paul Hopkins
had a fling at the AS but they were of
no help. The end of the fourth found
the henchmen of Connie Mack on even
terms with the Nationals, eight runs
having been chalked up during the
hectic session.
Game Settled In Fifth.
And the issue was settled in the fifth
round, right at the start of it, too, for
Bing Miller laced one of Hopkins
pitches into the upper left-f1eld stands
for homer.
The second game was more of a nip
and-tuck affair and might have come
the Nationals way had not Lloyd
Brown apparently figured only two outs
we're needed to complete an inning.
The Nationals got to Rube Walberg for
an early lead, but the Macks, after get
ting a run back in round two, proceeded
to nick Brown for three hits in each
of the three following frames, with fine
resultS-for them.
Three runs were made by the AS
after two were out in the third, one
after two welS out in the fourth and
two after two were out in the fifth.
This fifth-inning block wrested from
the Nationals the lead they had gained
the second time, but in the eighth they
put over a marker to tie
The AS didn't waste any time break
ing the tie, however. After. Campbell,
who had relieved Brown. pitched two
balls to FoxX, he gave way to Marberry.
And the AS got to Fred for two hits and
pass after he completed Foxx's walk,
thereby making two tallies. The Ma
tionals put across one run in the ninth
with two hits, but Myer and Rice left
Cronin on second base with potential
tieing marker.
Eleven hits ratified of Washington
bats in the first game and IS in the
second. This totaled just one less than
the AS got in the two games.
But the Nationals outslugged the
Macknen in so far as homers were con-
cerned. Bluege raped the ball into
left field stand once in each game, and
in the second fray Goslin got his
seventh round-tripper of the season,
drive over the right field wall. Millers
homer that decided the first game was
the only four-baser hit by an Athletic.
When Myer hunted with Cronin on
third base in the seventh inning of the
second game it was first thought by
hose in the stands that a squeeze play
was intended end there were many who
thought Cronin lost his scoring chance
by starting from third sluggishly. It
was learned later, though, that Myer
gave Cronin no sign for squeeze, but
instead was endeavoring to drag hit
by Walberg.
johnson today had only Burke left as
likely starter here as Marberry must
be held in reserve. There was a chance
though, that Hadley might be sent back
against the MackS.