Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-24

Heinie ManuSh gets his
underpinningS in good
trim and returns to the
Nationals lineup there will be
some juggling of the batting Or
der done by Manager Walter
johnson. The pilot does not
think much of the recent offensive
performance of some of his play
erS, and hopes to get more from
the club with a realignment of
batterS.
The new order planned by John
son will have in the lead-off post the
veteran Sam Rice, while Buddy Myer
and Sam West, who have at times
headed the list, will be well down in
the lineup.
Joe Judge will follow Rice at bat,
johnson says, and Manush will go
back to the third notch he occupied
before he was forced out of action at
Boston more than two weeks ago by a
leg injury. After Manush will come
the long hitting Joe Cronin, Myer and
West in the order mentioned. OSSie
Bluege will continue to bat seventh.
When a left-handed hurler is en-
ployed by the opposition, of course,
George Loepp instead of West will play
center field and will be assigned to
Vests position in the hitting order.
Rice has been very successful at bat
lately when leading off in an inning
He has made many hits at the start
of round. But Sam has not. been
30 sturdy extensively with runners on
the paths. Instead he has too often
driven into double-plays. With Rice
ct the head of the order Johnson be-
heves his club will get what 1t should
from $40 hitter.
THESE Browns can be beaten by the
i Nationals, but not easily. In the
series final yesterday Johnson's
charges thought they had the game
nicely tucked away and were about to
coast to the finish when the Killefer
club suddenly flared up to put over six
runs and take the lead in the eighth
Thanks to Joe Cronin, though, the game
was deadlocked in the ninth and the
Nationals went on to triumph 10 to o
In the eleventh.
Joes great contribution in the ninth
was in the form of a homer, his second
of the contest Joe had started the
third inning by parking the ball in the
stand back of right-center and he
started the ninth by dropping 1t into
the stand back of left field and close to
the foul line
Cronin also helped greatly in the
making Of the big run in the eleventh.
Then, after Judge singled with one out,
Joe whacked his fourth hit of the fray,
. one-baSer that sent Judge to the far
corner. Here George Blaeholder re-
lieved Chad Kimsey, but Myer cracked
O two-bagger that drove over the de-
cisive counter.
TIRED MARBERRY and Sam Gray
i were opposing hurlers at the outset
In n al
the better of the early going. He was
nicked for runs in each of the first two
rounds, but Gray in the second and
third innings was well pounded and be-
fore the third ended gave way to Chad
Kimsey. When Gray left the Nationals
held a 5-to-2 advantage and they
boosted that by three runs at Kimseys
expense in the fourth frame.
Then Kimsey and Marberry settled
to q slab duel, with Marberry yielding
run in the seventh. Fred finished the
seventh strongly, but in the eighth the
Browns bombarded him to cover. Four
successive hits were made off him, one
a triple by Kimsey, and only one out
was registered. That came through
break, for Melillo's drive hit Metzler,
who had opened the round with hit,
and automatically retired the runner.
Then Fred walked McNeely and, with
the Nationals lead cut to three runs,
johnson yanked the big Texan.
Al Crowder proved poor substitute,
for he was hit by Hale and Goslin and
the Browns were just a run back OF the
Nationals. Irving Hadley went TO
Crowder's relief and was Immediately
reached by KresS for single that put
across the tying tally. After Terrell
popped to Cronin, Metzler, up for the
second time in the inning, got a
scratchy single that scored Goslin.
Cronin fell as he stopped Metzler's
roller and could not get up in time to
make a retiring throw. Hadley famed
Melillo to end the rally.
Cronin came right back to clout his
tying homer and thereafter Hadley had
the Browns at his mercy. Not one got
on the runway in the ninth, tenth and
eleventh innings. Bump had his curve
ball breaking sharply and showed
plenty Of speed.
zach side made Is hits, and all but
~ Loepp, Crowder and Hadley Of the
Nationals and Schultz, Gray and
Blaeholder Of the Browns crashed the
safety column. Cronin led the Ma
tionals with two homers and two singles,
while West got double and two singles
in succession.
McNeely and Hale got half the
Browns hits, each seeking safely four
times. McNeely made his hits the first
four times up. One of the blows was
good for two bases. He walked the fifth
time up and the last time smacked a
liner that almost knocked Cronin of
his feet.
HALE doubled the first time up, singled
the second, walked the third time up
then got two singles in succession. The
last time up Hale bounded the ball TO
Hadley.
ONE game out OF four from the
~ Browns Not so good, but better
than dropping the entire set
Using so many pitchers yesterday means
q change in Slabbing plans for the
four-game series here with the White
Eox Liska was to go today
CroWder or Burke may work tomorrow
Hadley will be due Saturday and
Marberry Sunday Cronin made
great stop of Melillo's drive in the third
yesterday, then threw for forced out
of Terrell Joe ran back Of second,
cuffed down Oscars smash and heaved
20 Myer, while standing on an ear
Spencer pulled sparkling play when
he got under Badgro's low foul in the
fourth Cronin is collecting a flock
of wrist watches They give EN- in
Chicago, Cleveland and st. Louis to
players making homerS Joe has been
handed i've of the tick-ticks.