Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-09
BIC HURLER HOPES
TO SCORE 70 WINS
Is Expected to Be Ready
When AS Are Next Met.
GriffS Down Tribe.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

w yHEN that important
NAI three-game series with
v v the Athletics rolls around
the last week of this
month, Fred Marberry, now
nursing broken right wrist, ex-
poets to be ready to show his
pitching wares to the league lead
ers. With the fractured joint now
incased in a plaster cast, the big
Texan donS a uniform and exer-
cises daily at Griffith Stadium
that he may keep his legs in trim
and not pick up weight. Within
two or three days after the cast
is removed, Fred firmly believes
he will again have his salary
wing in condition for use. Mar
berry has plenty of pluck, and is
ant to be in there against the AS.
And when he gets back to the game
Marberry will want plenty OF work,
Fred has set as his goal this season at
least 20 victories. To date he has scored
10. but as the season will have little
more than month TO go 10 tne hnls ,i
after he swings back into action ne IL
have to toll overtime to bag the seven
wins needed to make the total of 20.
He figures the wrist injury ne suS-
tanned in a game of the double-header
An New York last Saturday viii cost MN
four or five games. That's what l
would have pitched in the time wllI oe
on the bench" says Fred, and as was
going along so we'll pelleVe "ouiu
have continued to win"
In the game in which he was hurt
Marberry registered his ninth straight
win He has reason to believe he was in
shape for fine winning streak
OPENING the five-game series with
~ the Indians yesterday, the Nation.
ais scored 5-to-4 victory, yet Iosl
cround to the Athletics The AS en-
Taeed the White Sox in twin bill In
PhiladelphiA and took both Tits, there
bv increasing from seven and one-haH
to eight the number OF games they are
up on the Washington outht;
In trouncing the indians the Nation,
ais for the first time In weeks SpotCeo
a foe a flock of runs, then stepped Out
to triumph. Remember how they USED
to do that in the early part OF the cam
naiprninp? Perhaps it was because they
wanted tn cheer their leader, Walter
Johnson, back on the bench for the flrst
time since his bereavement, tnat tney
put on the sparkling finish that upset
the Tribe.
r EFT-HANDERS were pitching rivals
IL at the outset of hostilities. Carl
FISCHER. pitching in his second big
league affair and in his first on the Ma
tionals' lot. opened fire for the nome
side. while the red-thatched Mllpurn
Shoffner began for Cleveland. FISCHER
othar start was against the Indians,
Tnen he hurled six rounds and WIS
loser. He went six yesterday. then gave
way to a pinch batter, so Lloyd Brown
came on to get credit Tor the Wasnlng-
ton win. Shoffner was chased from tne
hill in the sixth session. The Nationals
had been counting on MN LOT TWO III
rines and in the sixth they nickeo nm
for enough to tie the game before Pete /
.JablonoWski was rushed to the Slap
,Jabby got his in the eighth TO become
loser :,
ssfeties to 10. Eight OF the Cleveland
hits and all the Cleveland runs were
made off Fischer. Carl had deal OF
speed and registered seven strlke-outs,
but at that his control was faulty. Al
though he issued but four passes. ne
went to a three-and-two count WITH
many batters and two OF his walks were
converted into runs in the ITloe Dig
scoring round. Fischer gave rign.
good account of himself. though, ana
with better support might have hurried
to victory.
of the washington hits and was
slammed safely in each inning. so was
,Jabby in the seventh and eighth, two
blows off him after two were out In Vhe
eighth putting over the big run.
HANUsH and Cronin elaborated to
NJ shave across the decisive tally in
the eighth Heinie whipped
two-bagger down the right neio me
and scored when Cronin followed WIFI
a single driven between Montague anu
Goldman to left field. The hit con-
Guided a perfect day at bat for joe
Previously he had cleaned oouole,
two singles and a pass of Shonner.
II was Cronins double, Judges in
field single and the forcing out OF
Judge by Bluege in the fourth inning
that put over the frst tally lot the
Nationals. A hunted single by Myer,
Rice's walk and Cronin's single ac-
counted for another marker in the ffth
In the sixth West singled and Spencer
frinled Then after Shoffner had
pitched a wide one to Fischer, Harris
relieved the pitcher at the plate and
crooked a two-bagger to drive over
the tying tally.
IT was an error by Rice that helped
i the Indians toward their first run
With one out in the third inning
the fidgety Porter rifled the ball to right
for a single and clrcled the bases 40
the veteran Samuel let it get by.
Montague walked at the start OF the
Cleveland fourth and following Gold
mans erasure Shoffner poked bunt
past Bluege for pair of bases. Seeds
sacrifice hoist counted Montague and
Porter, who strolled, scored with Shof1-
ner when Morgan doubled.
u ICE is TO play regularly in right
n again. although he claims the
heat has worn him down
talk with President Griffith con-
WINGED Sam he could make got of 1t.
Washington hurlers made
three wild pitches, but they did not
affect the Cleveland scoring
Fischer made TWO while Morgan was
up in the sixth and they moved Seeds
from first to third base Seeds
might have scored On the second one
lad ne not tripped over Bluege when
turning third, for Umpire Campbell
inadvertently kicked the ball that
bounded by Spencer and the catcher
could not locate it quickly.
Brown wild-pitched a fourth ball tn
Goldman in the seventh and Montague