Evening star., 1930-06-24
MORE DASH, DARING
IN REVISED .GR|FFS
Hit Sharply to Win Twice
Over Indians and Gain
Second Place.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

EW DlOOQ, ulOTG lie. NSW
M players, more spirit. The
Washington club seems
to be cashing in on the
several trades it made imme-
diateIy before the time for the
bartering of talent in the major
leagues was up. Manush, Crowder,
ShireS and Harris are not winning
ball games daily for the Nationals,
but their addition to the ranks
appears to have put more ginger
into all hands. There has been a
noticeable increase of dash and
daring in the play of the Wash
Brown and White SoX players DON
ned its uniform. Evidently
shake-up in organization every
once in while does no harm.
The playing of the Nationals still is
spotty. They still blunder as major
leaguers should not blunder. Now,
however, the Nationals are lighting
back much more than they did in the
three weeks before the trades gave them
new talent. And this fighting back has
helped nightly. Since the first of the
deals went through the Nationals
haven't PLAYED as good as $3.50 base
ball, but they have done far better than
they had for some time.
During their slump before the trades
Manager Walter Johnson's charges won
but four of 13 games and those wins
were well spread. Still feeling the ef-
fects of the deal of punishment they
had been taking. they did not get along
so we'll right after the first deal was
put through, but they have picked up
well enough to win four Of their last
nine engagements. A much better
showing than winning only four in 13
starts.
New blood, more life. New players,
more spirit. Looks as though the
trades have done the Nationals good.
d EGARDLESS of what happens to
N them during the remainder of the
series. the Nationals cannot be
overhauled by the Indians during the
stay of the latter Winning to and
to 2 over the Tribe in the double
header yesterday. the Washington club
not only swept past che Yankees to
second place in the league standing, but
increased their advantage over the
fourth-place foe to three and one-half
games.
The Nationals went half a game
ahead of New York, which has not been
Ltf6 DdIa Gdl4t-aDu lbS own sl0b
as it did IN the West. In fact, since
returning from their swing around the
far sector of the circuit the Yaakees
have not played as fast as the Nationals
by 90 points. The long-hitting New
Workers ratified many hits on the short
fences of the Western fields, but with
the outfielders of their opponents hav-
ing more room and playing deep in
Yankee Stadium many drives that
would have gone for hits out West are
being caught.
THAT quartet of newcomers contrib
! uted greatly to Washington's sue
cess in the first game. OF the nine
runs made by the Nationals, eight were
driven over the counting block by Har-
ris ShireS and Manush. Harris, with a
single and double, pushed three across
and was responsible sor the tallying of
another when he drilled into f1elder's
choice. Shires, who collected two sin
giles and double. drove over run each
time he hit Manush got three hits,
one a double. but it was with one of
his singles ne scored a teammate.
Heinle also crossed the final base three
times and Harris went over twice.
Crowder, the remaining member of
the quartet, started on the slab for the
third time since becoming a National
and went the route to his second VIC
tory. Al did not have his stuff ap-
parently in the first two rounds, when
the Tribe got to him for six safetieS and
four runs-three of the runs crossed in
the opening inning-but thereafter he
was hit safely only six times. two OF
the blows being punched in the ninth
to put over the final Tribal marker
And then a wild chuck by Myer was
needed to help Falk tally.
TN the second game Manush failed to
/ drive the ball to safety in four ef-
forts, but Harris and Shires were
prominent in attack. Art got single
and a double, but it was his pass in the
second inning that paved the way TO
the Nationals first run. 1t was Harris
only hit, a triple. that sent over in the
third inning what proved the big marker
of the fray.
Marberry did the pitching against the
Tribe in this encounter and turned in
about his best game of the season, a
game even better than that in which ne
held the Red Sox to fewer hits some
time back. For seven rounds Fred yield
ed nothing more than a single and a
double. He slipped in the eighth, and
the first three batters to face him hit
safely to put over two runs. Then Fred
braced, and though another hit fol-
lowed with two out and with one gone
in the ninth the seventh Tribal safety
was made of him, he never was in
much danger after the first retirement
was recorded in the eighth.
IN the opening tilt Of the bill, the Ma
i tionals batted against the left-handed
Walter Miller and a right-handed
rookie, BeIve Bean. With a pass, an
error and single they got back in their
first batting turn one Of the three tallies
the Indians had rung up. In the third
they chased Miller, when they combed
him for three hits, pass and two runs,
all after two were out. Bean relieved
Miller in this frame, bnt did not have
to often to batter, because Shires was
caught trying to swipe second. They
hoped on Bean for four hits and three
runs in the fifth, though, to make him
the loser, and collected three more runs
with three hits and a pass in the
seventh. All told, the Nationals got l3
hits in the fray
They batted against Hudlin all the
way iri the second set-to, and get nine
hits and two passes. In each of the
eight innings they went to bat, the Ma
tionals hit safely. 1t was a pass to
Shires and singles by Bluege and Ruel
that put over the first marker in the
second inning, and Bluege counted as
MarDerTy IOICeO Out hue4. WIN CWo
out in the third frame Cronin walked,
and raced to the plate when Harris
tripled. That proved sufhcient.
CHIRES did much fancy fielding
y around the initial sack yesterday in
addition to his neat hitting, and,
IN consequence, the veteran f1rst-sacker,
Joe Judge, who suffered charley -horsed
leg IN Cleveland more than two weeks
ago. may delay little longer returning
10 his YnoSt tn assure complete recovery