Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
BEAT TIGERS, Is,
AFTER bowling, 81
Whltehill BeSts CroWder and
Marberry Needs Aid to
Get Split.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

Nationals played to an even break
with the Tigers in their double
header on Navin Field. john
sons charges were set back by a
ninth-inning home rally in the
initial encounter, being beaten,
to 2, but they made an uphill
fight in the second to win, 7 to 5.
With the Second-game victory
they maintained their hold on
first place despite the win scored
by the world champion Athletics
at st. Louis.
It seemed to be "home-run day" here
for four nd-trippers were socked.
In the first tilt Joe Judge sent the ball
soaring into the bleachers back of right
center; in the second Joe Cronin and
Sheriff Harris knocked the sphere over
the left garden wall, while Alexander
pushed one over the same barrier for
the home boys.
AL Crowder and the left-handed Earl
Whitehill were pitching rivals in tie
first encounter and both did well.
Crowder yielded only five hits and two
OF his five walks were intentional. IN
fortunately, two of the passes were con-
verted into tallies. one accounting for
the tying run sent over by the Tigers
In the ninth.
WhitehiIl Is Effective.
Between the first and the ninth
Crowder was found for only one hit,
but the two he gave up in the final
frame upset him and his club. Big
Dale Alexander and Mark Koenig made
the telling drives. The Nationals got
eight hits off Whitehill, but he was
unusually effective in pinches. 1t was
with great difficulty they made the
score in the eighth to pull them up to
even terms with the Tigers.
Fred Marberry and Elon Hogsett,
the left-handed Indian, started the
second, but both wilted. Each was re-
tired in the seventh. Hogsett being
yanked after the Nationals had over
come an early Tiger lead and Marberry
going after yielding hit that paved
the way to tying run. The Nation
ais, though, came back to wallop
Charley Sullivan in the eighth, q pinch
single by Art ShireS putting over the
two runs that tucked away the game.
Lloyd Brown finished the seventh in
ming for the Nationals; then Bob Burke
stopped the home side. Johnson's
charges did not profit at the expense OF
Art Herring, who relieved Sullivan In
the eighth.
All told the Nationals got nine hits
and seven walks In the second tilt.
They also were aided by three Tiger
miSplayS The Tigers got nine hits,
too, and five passes, but outside OF an
error by Harris in the first inning the
Nationals fielded faultlessly.
Tigers Get Early Start.
In the first encounter Of the after
noon the Tigers wasted no time col
lecting a run. Crowder walked john
son, first up in the opening inning, and
Funk singled his brother outf1elder to
third base. Gehringer's hoist to Loepp
was so deep that johnson romped
home after the catch. McManus
doubled after the second out, but Funk
was held to third on the hit, and Rice
took good care of Stones loft.
The Nationals got nothing out Of
Rice'S single and Cronin's walk in their
first batting turn, for Harris forced
out Sam and Judge flied to Funk, but
Judge knotted the count for them in
the fourth. He opened the inning with
a fine homer driven into the bleachers
back of right-center.
In the eighth the deadlock was
broken. The Nationals made three
hits to put over run, but sternng
catch by Funk checked the rally. Rice
singled, went to third when Cronin, IN
a hit-and-run play, dropped a one
crossed when Harris got single with
q high bounder to Koenig, back Of the
pitchers box. Judge sacrificed and
the sacks were crowded when Loepp
was pinked by one OF Whitehills
pitches.
Bluege whacked topper toward short
center that looked every bit a safe hit
to0l< long load off third
Funk tore in, though, and got the ball
at his shoetopS on a dead run. Still
under way he heaved toward the plate
and the ball got away from Desautels.
Cronin had gone back to third, how
ever and the chance to score was lost,
for Whitehill quickly retrieved the
sphere and got it back to the catcher.
Ruel then put up an easy lott to Stone
to leave three runners stranded.
After their flrst-inning drive the
Tigers got nothing more than Koenig's
single at the start Of the second in
ming and Gehringer's walk with one
down in the third until their last bat
ting turn. Then they got plenty.
Gehringer strolled at the outset Of
the home ninth, but was not on the
runway long Alexander, who had been
deity checked by Crowder the first
three times at bat, smote the ball high
and far It landed against the bleacher
wall back of right center for two
baser that easily put Gehringer across
with the tieing marker. Ruel failed to
stop Cronin's relay Of Vests return
and the error let Alexander get to third.
Here Crowder filled the bases by pur-
posely passing McManus and Stone,
but the desperate strategem accom-
plished no good for Koenig crashed the
ball to safety In left-center.
Scoring began early in the second
setto A washington marker was reg
tstered by 'Cronin in the first inning.
After two were out he lofted the ball
over the wall back Of left-center for
round tripper.
johnson started the Tigers on their
scoring way when he opened their first
batting turn with q single and took
second as Harris booted the ball. Two
we're on when Marberry picked up
Eunk's bunt and heaved to Bluege too
ate to get johnson going into third
base. Gehringer popped out, but Alex
ander's single put johnson over and
Funk on third McManus ended the
drive by bounding into double play.
More Tiger counting in the fourth
when the home side hit for q total of
Is bases. Alexander opened the attack
with q homer sent over the left field
barrier. McManus then ratified a
triple on the front of the bleachers
back Of right-center. Stone hoisted the
ball toward right and it landed safely
among Myer, Rice and Judge for an
other three-bagger. The third run
Scrossed after Loepp got Koenig's loft