Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
BREAKS AID GR|FFS
|. IN COPING, 6 TO 4
Burke's Rescue Acts Factor
in Strengthening Hold
on Second Place.
BY JoHN-B. KELLER.

Dd1CAGO, september 13.--
Blessed by the breaks Of
~ the game, the Nationals
made it up on the white
Sox in this series of four games by
taking today's tussle, GA. They
got OF to fine start at the ex-
pense Of the left-handed Pat
Caraway and later picked up
more ground when this lanky
hurler went hay-wire. This flock
OF markers helped greatly, for Irv-
ing Hadley, after going great guns
for five innings, blew in the sixth
and let the home side do all It's
scoring. Bobby Burke came on to
hold the White Sox at bay the
last three rounds.
Day by day the Nationals are
strengthening their hold on second
place, They now are nine games up
on the Yankees and can finish In the
r1nner-up notch in the league chase
by winning only 5 Of their. remain
ing Ns S yo1s even sS. though IL:
with q string of triumphs.
The White Sex got only seven hits
on the Washington hurlers, four OF
them OF Hadley. They clustered three
of these blows with as many walks to
do their scoring In the sixth.
An even dozen safeties were made by
the Nationals, but many were scratchy.
Caraway yielded eight Of the hits, He
also gave five passes and three OF them
forced his retirement in the sixth ses-
sion. Ed Walsh, Dutch Henry and
Red Faber followed Caraway as Man
ager DOME Bush desperately endeav-
ored to pull the game out Of the IRE.
Sox Go Down Fighting.
AS they did on Friday, the White
SoX sank fighting. After two were out
In the ninth, they nicked Burke for
two singles and had runners on third
and second bases when Johnny Wat
wood grounded out to end the struggle.
Only one real hit was made on four
away when the Nationals collected four
runs OF him In the first inning, ale
though four safeties were slapped. Aft.
er Myer was erased, Rice opened the
attack by beating out bunt to the
third baseman. Manush then. got
scratchy single, driving the ball through
Caraway. A pass to Cronin crowded
the sacks. eJudge popped toward short
left, but Appling let the ball fall over
his head for double that scored two
runs. Along came Harris with real
poke to left for q base that chased
over two more markers
After Hayes rolled out, Spencer was
hit by pitched ball. That let Cara
| way pitch to the entire side In the in
ming He famed Hadley, but the Ma
tionals were on to good start.
= During the next four rounds the
Nationals wasted some hits and passes
and were not helped by Appling's nuff
of T9TaNr fvaPe HNfE Geag
however could do nothing to Hadley
over similar stretch. Ryan walked In
the second inning only to be caught In
a side-retiring double play. Watwood
singled in the fourth and never got be-
You'd the initial sack, while Ryan, who
walked again in the NTH, was forced
, out to end the inning.
Two more runs were CLEANED OF
Caraway in the sixth. With one out
when Rice doubled. Manusf's hoist TO
Reynolds got Myer home. Then passes
to Cronin and Judge loaded the sta
tions. Here Bush derricked Caraway
| and sent Walsh to the hill, but the new
hurler forced tally across by walking
Harris before Hayes skied out.
Hadley Loses Control.
It was well the Nationals got this
brace of tallies, for Hadley forgot where
the plate was when the White Sox came
up for their sixth turn and they
combed him for four runs. with one
out Bump walked Cissell and Watwood,
then Reynolds poked Q single to right
to tally Cissell and move WRtwood to
Watwood counted. Barnes drew q pass,
then Appling singled, scoring Reynolds
and sending Barnes to the far corner.
The fourth run was registered when
Fothergill, batting for Ryan, dropped
Texas Lacquer in center. The rally
ended when Tate, ninth up in the
round, forced out Fothergill.
After that Burke took good care Of
the situation.
Appling; rookie shortstop with the
White Sox. found it difhcult to get un-
der lofts in short left field. One went
over his head for q double and he
dropped another before finally clinging
to pop. He looked good when han
ding hot grounders, though.
Hayes became ambitious in the fifth
and tried to steal home as Caraway
wound up. He was barely nipped at
the plate at that by Tate's stab.
Cronin made sparkling play by tax
ing Watwood's grounder in the first
frame. Joe ran back of second for q
one-hand scoop and while OF balance
made fine peg to nag his man.
Keeping Cronin of the rllnways In
this series is no soft task Up ive
times Friday, he got on i've times. Up
five times today he was on i've. times.
Two hits, two passes and an error did
1t in the Saturday game.
three-run lead on four singles and A
base on balls. Whitney's home run with