Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-10

ANi ing ~ Illus III TIE last
v v two games, batting aver
ages of several went
soaring. Once more five of the
seven regulars who hit above the
batterymen are in the 800 class
or bctter-the better means Sam
Rice. The veteran. after slam
ming a homer in the second in
ming of the game in which the
White Sox we're laced, IA to 3. to
assure himself a record of 20 sue
cessive games in which he has hit
safely, went on to collect two
doubles and boost his average
to .405.
The 800 hitters right back of Rice
are Joe Judge with 1874, Buddy Myer
with .354 Sammy West with 1922 and
Joe Cronin with .3l5. While the ster-
ling performances of all these ball
FOUNDERS are pleasing. those Of West
and Cronin are particularly gratifying.
West, after fiounder.ng for weeks in at
tack, has suddenly become a power at
bat, and Cronln has pulled himself out
of a slump. that threatened to reduce
his offensive effectiveness to a discour-
aging level.
West, of course, has been doing his
recent hard hitting against right-hand
pitchers, for he alternateS with George
Loepp as center fielder drawing the
assignment when the opposition has an
orthodox finger on the slab, At the
outset of the season and for some days
thereafter right-handers, as we'll as
pitchers of the other persuasion. were
able to stop Sammy at the plate, but 1t
is different now
For 10 games West has been banging
the ball at a great rate at the expense
Of the right-handers. In these games
he has been at bat legally 20 times and
garnered IS hits. That's swatting at
rate of 448 No wonder Sammy's av-
erage for the entire stretch has scared
we'll over the 800 mark. And recently
he has been hitting for distance, too. It
seems that at last West has his eye on
right-handed pitching And there will
be much more of it for him to look over,
for the opposition cannot send left
handlers to the hill all the time.
Cronir1's recovery of batting proves
is much more recent than Vests. In
fact, it has come about In the last two
games, In which he has made five hits
in eight times at bat Prior to that
Joe went TO bat 81 times in five gaines
and drove the ball to safety only twice.
Like West. Cronin is distance hitter
when in his proper stride and generally
dependable in a pinch.
With these two rounding into good
batting form again, the Nationals ought
to make the going somewhat rougher
for opponents than they have during
the past 10 days, in which they regis
tered but four victories against five de-
feats.
THAT 15-hit bombardment of White
= Sox pitching yesterday brought
about a victory that moved the Ma
tionaIs up TO second place in the league
standing, for while they were lacing
DorIie Bush's bunch In its first appear
snIe of the year here the world-cham-
pion Athletics took the measure of the
Indians over in Philly. Now the john
son band is ahead of the Tribe and
only half game back OF the league
leading AS.
Dutch Henry, left-hander, who used
to pitch for the Giants in the National
League, and Ed Walsh. jr., were the
victims of the Washington batters.
They hammered Henry for five hits and
as many runs in the two innings he
toiled Walsh pitched to only three
batters in the third round, but he was
socked for four hits and four runs in
the fourth. was raped for wasted
double in the fifth and reached for a
triple, double and two runs in the sixth.
After Walsh was peppered to the extent
of a double, single and triple for two
more markers in the seventh he gave
way to Pat Caraway. an elongated left
handed rookie from Topeka. Pat came
In with one down and stopped the Ma
tionals for the inning, but they got to
him in the eighth for run cleaned
from pass, theft and two sacrifices.
r LLOYD BROWN, who pitched for the
= home SIDE also was peppered. The
White Sox got to him for 10 hits, but
their IS netted only Is bases whereas
the Nationals Is Melted 80 sacks. Three
hits were good for brace of White SoX
markers in round one. From then on
through the eighth the left-hander was
touched in lively manner, but he always
succeeded in checking the visitors eX-
cept in the sixth, when they put over
run with two singles, an error and
sacrifice. Twice double plays helped the
pitcher. He breezed through the ninth,
though, retiring the Chisox in order.
II ICES homer was a solid smack.
X The ball went on line over Sec
ond Baseman Cissell's head, landed
in deep outfield and rolled to the far
reaches of the right-center pasture.
Two were on when Sam landed. He
tore around the bases and crossed the
plate we'll ahead of the throw there.
His wallop clinched the battle as 1t
turned out. 1t was big day all around
for Sam. He counted the first run for
the Nationals and scored also in the
fourth inning. All told, he crossed the
plate three times and was credited with
driving over five runs.
Goslin also connected for homer, his
third of the season. It was loft over
the right-field wall and came with two
mates on the runway in the fourth.
Walsh was Goslin's victim. incidentally
the Goose got single in the first in
ming after having gone hitless in nine
consecutive times at bat in previous
games.
AEYER made his first error of the
wi season when he muffed a throw
from Brown in the sixth inning
that il held would have meant the fore
ing out of Kamm at second base and
probably a double play that would have
kept the ChisoX scorelesS in the frame
Nothing for Buddy to worry about he
had. accepted ll6 chances this season
before muffng the throw and later In
the game he took care OF five more
chances. Quite record
DO SPENCER was starting
N catcher for the first time this sea-
son and he was impressive behind
the bat and at bat He helped himself
TO a triple and single in four trips to
the plate.
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