Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-06
WASHINGTON TAKES.
II OUT OF q T|LTS.
Gives New York Its Worst
Beating Since Red Sox
Were Cruel in IL.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

n lew YORK, September g.
M Seventeen out of 81 games.
v That's what the Nationals
have done to the Yankees
this season. According to the
most statistical of the older group
of base ball scribeS here, It's the
worst licking the YankS have
taken from a rival in a season
series since back in 1912, when
the Red Sox beat them 20 times
in % starts. But it seems the Ma
tionalS will have to be content
with second place this year.
Including today's engagements the
Athletics had II more games TO play TO
finish their string and the Nationals 20:
Should the AS win but 7 OF their II
games-and they are likely to win more,
many more. than THE Nationals
To get first place would have to win 10
of their 20 games. That's a tremen-
Cous order for any club.
The Nationals, though, are determlnel
70 battle the Athletics to the last ditcn'
ThereH be no handing the flag to the
Philadelphia outfit until the johnson
hand has no possible chance of over
hauling it, AS both clubs have been
playing recently there1l likely be no
fiag-clinching before the final week OF
the campaign.
THERE was little to the pastiming
i here yesterday other than the
Nationals The Yankees were
frounced. IA to 5, and beatcn II to
before they saw the plate. SO et1ectlVe
was AL Crowder that the home side ola
no counting until the eighth inning.
The Nationals picked up comtortaole
lead off George Pipgras in f1ve innings,
cot more runs off Ken Holloway In two
innings and rocked Lou McAVoy In tne
ninth for final block OF scores.
All told the Nationals collected Is
safeties and 6 passes and were assisted
nv s Yankee errors and some slipshod
New York catching. the home side re-
ceiyers twice letting pitches get py:
OFF Crowder, the Yanks got 10 hits,
in the last two innings, and passes;
Sam Rice and Buddy Myer also kicKeo
in with errors. but the misplays ala not
damage the washington cause
TRowDER was in real trouble only
~ once in the first seven frames, Tor
he kept the hits he yielded over
that stretch well scattered. In tne
sixth, though he walked the nrst EWo
batters up. then Rice dropped RUIN
hoist TO fill the bases. Here Crowder
showed his rnettle. He famed Gehrig,
while Lazzeris best was loft to Harris
IN such short right that Combs did not
dare try for home after the catch. ana
Harry Rice fouled to Spencer. No power
in that Yankee attack. There was
fash of power by the Yanks IN the
eighth, however. Then Ruths triple
was followed by walk and three singles
IN The ninth Ruth again figured in
the Yankee attack. He lofted the ball
into the bleachers back of right-center
for his forty-fifth homer of the season.
When the hit was made Larry was on
FIRST by virtue of single.
It may have been a complimentary
homer, Crowder wasn't putting much
on the ball after his shutout chance
was gone.
EVERYBODY except Bluege on thu
IL Nationals side hit. Manush led
with three singles and a double
but it was Sam Rice, with two doubles
and a sacrifice ny, who drove in the
most runs. His clouting accounted for
four crossings.
-Four successive hits and an error
Melted the Nationals three runs after
the first out had been recorded in
round 4, and in round two singles,
with pass sandwiched between, were
good for two more runs.
Two singles, a double and sacrifice
meant three runs of Holloway in the
sixth. and the same pitcher was nicked
for three more markers in the seventh,
Then a base on balls, single, triple
and double-all made after two were
out--were responsible for the scoring.
The three runs of McEvoy in the
ninth we're the result of a pass, a
double, a single, two sacrifices and an
error.