Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
LEFT-HANDER FINE
AFTER Wild START
Steadies After Fourth to
Finish BriIliantIy-Win
Off BIaehoIder.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.


~ six, the Nationals yester-
day bagged the final of the series
with the st. Louis club, 2 to 0. The
win got the Nationals the set, it
being their third in the four
starts against the Browns. Also
it increased the Nationals adj
vantage over the third-place
Yankees a half-game, rain keep
ing the YankS idle in New York.
Brown pitched q weird game at the
outset but Steadied after the first four
rounds to finish well. In the four
funny frames the left-hander issued
three passes, made two wild pitches and
yielded a hit a frame. Twice the
Browns filled the bases, but once a
double-play got Brown out of difficulty
and once he took care Of the situation
himself.
After those four innings, though but
II batters faced Brown. One got q
single in the fifth frame and another
a single in the eighth. Three of the
six hits cleaned OF Brown were made
by Alex Metzler, little outfielder.
Blaeholder spread the Nationals hits
over five frames. Four times the home
side clustered two In an inning. The
clusters In the fourth and eighth pro-
duced the tallies. Joe Judge and Buddy
Myer with extra base blows paved the
way to the scores. OSsie Bluege and
Sam Rice drove them across.
Some Funny Frames.
The first scoring threat was made by
the Browns. They filled the bases in
the second session, but got nowhere.
Kress singled and after Terrell lined
out Melillo and Schultz drew passes.
Cronin, though, made a nifty stop Of
n'PnurIatS hOt me hack 0f SacOnd and
Q double-play ensued.
Singles by Cronin and Judge in the
second were wasted by the Nationals.
Cronin died stealing before Judge hit,
and though West walked following the
second single. Bluege skied out. and
Spencer forced out Judge.
Again the Browns filled the bases In
the third. With Blaeholder out Of the
way Brown fumbled bunt to put Blue
on. Metzler beat out slow one Myer
got on the grass back of first, and after
West bagged Goslin's hoist Blue adj
vanced to third. Here KresS walked to
crowd the sacks, but Brown knocked
down Ferrells bounder and the scoring
threat had passed.
The Nationals got two more singles in
the third after one was out, but 1t
Melted them nothing. Myer and Rice
made the hits, but Manush forced out
Rice and In turn was forced out by
Cronin.
It looked as though the Browns
surely would find the plate in the
fourth when Melillo opened the inning
at third as Cronin heaved out Schultz
and Brown after taking O'Rourke's
tap ran down Melillo unaided. Two
wild pitches let O'Rourke reach the
far corner before Blaeholder famed.
cp;N~ Find Plate
The Nationals dented the plate in
the fourth. Judge began the attack
by bouncing a double OF the right field
fence. Vests infield erasure advanced
the Griffs' captain to the far corner
and he was scored by Bluege's single.
Judge got his third hit Of the game
after two were out in the sixth. 1t
was a drive past Goslin in left and
was good for three bases. 1t did no
good. however, for West grounded TO
KreSS.
help the Browns In the eighth, but the
Nationals managed to comb Blaeholder
for another tally in this inning. Myer
began the frame with triple and
crossed when Rice singled. That was
ali. though. for Manush forced out Rice
and was caught when he tried to stea!
while O'Rourke and Blue TOOK gooo
care OF Cron1n.
west was the busy boy IN center
0eld Eight chances came Sammys
wav and he handled all. He had 10
sprint far for some.
A. Judge batted, he heightened the
.,istence Of his drives. Up three times,
he singled in the second inning, doubled
IN the fourth and tripled in the sixth.
Myer and Bluege got back on the job
again. the former after nursing lame
on the bench: Both did well against
the Browns.
ONLY 1 hour and "A minutes needed
for the series wind-up. That's just
minutes longer than the Nationals
shortest game. Brown pitched IL
against the White Sox August IL.