Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-12

tn URING the next three days
pitchers of the Washing
ton staff will have plenty
to do If statistics concern
ing the Indians mean anything.
This Cleveland ball club that is
scheduled to open a series of three
games in Griffith Stadium tomor-
row afternoon is figured the hard
est hitting ball club in the Ameri-
can League at present, and has
driven more hurlers from the slab
than any of it's rivals in the cir
cult. Something to keep the fling
erS of the Nationals right busy it
would seem.
The Indians have been moving at a
swift pace this season. Despite many
casualties that have had Manager
Roger Peckinpaugh changing his line
up from day to day, the Tribe has
managed to stick right around the top
of the league. Hard hitting, OF course,
has had much to do with this, but the
Indians have much good pitching and
probably are somewhat better a1eld
than they were last year.
with its regular team in action the
Tribe Is almost the same as 1t was in
1929 In playing personnel Lately,
though, the veteran Joe Sewell has been
forced from third base by illness, there
have been frequent changes in the out
field and at shortstop, and Lew Fonseca,
who led the league at batting last sea-
son, still finds it impossible to perform
regularly at first base. He was a pretty
Ill man last Winter.
Fonseca very likely will start at first
base against the Nationals, though, and
Johnny Hodapp will be at second. On
the other side of the inf1eld Cleveland
has been using recently Jonah Gold
nla4I, clever fielding shortstop, but
not sturdy hitter, and John Burnett,
who Is filling Joe Sewell's shoes well at
third. Burnett has been the property
of the Indians some time. although
last year he was farmed to New
Orleans, where he batted above 800.
Goldman was recalled from Albany.
That old reliable, Charley Jameson,
the young Eddie Morgan, Earl Averill,
who starred for the Tribe last season
when he first came up, and Bob Seeds,
q purchase from Kansas City, have been
used extensively in the outf1eld by
Manager Peck this Spring. Luke
Sewen has done most of the catching.
Wesley Terrell, the sensation of big
league pitching in 1929: Willis Hudlin
and Melvin Harder, who was recalled
from New Orleans, have done some good |
hurting for the Tribe. So has Clinton |
Brown, a recall from New Orleans. The |
~1isdiaris think they have IN Pete Jao-
lonowski, purchase from Columbus a |
fine young slabman, and they still have
that pain in the neck to the Washing
ton club, the 1eft-handed Walter Mil
Ter. There are plenty others TO round
out q formidable mound corps.
WITH first place waiting for them
nm -. lie
able to step in. Every time they
tried to make any progress toward the |
berth they might have had after the |
Indians gave the Athletics such a sound |
1acing, Ted Lyons, who Is just about !
SO per cent Of the White Sox pitching
stan, put on the brake. Ted was good
after q first inning in which run OF
him was honestly earned, while the
washington pitching was not so good
and the washington fielding was fuzzy,
so the Nationals took 5-to-3 licking
in 10 innings and remained in second
place.
TT seemed the Nationals did every
i thing that could be done to present
the White Sox with the third game
of the series. Not one of the three
runs the Bush band got before the
tenth was an earned run. Four errors
contributed to their making. True, the
washington ta1lies made in the fourth
were spotted, but had the game been
played flawlessly from the start the
Nationals would have checked in with
l-to-0 win in eight and one-half
innings. There would have been no
overtime.
ssDUMP" HADLEY opened fire for
ID the Nationals. Bump" stuck !
around until one was out in the |
eighth inning He was lifted after
Reynolds had opened the round with
a single and been sent to second by
Shires' sacrifice. During his term
Bump" yielded seven hits and seemed
Just as good as before when he was
yanked.
Fred Marberry did the relieving, and
Fred did not seem strong at the start
of his work. He issued pass after
getting q second out, then was reached
for a single by Smith, who had twice
before made base hits off Hadley, and
1t was only q fine peg to the plate by
Rice, who flelded Smiths hit, that
kept a run away from the ChisoX. Fred
was found for hit by the first nnand
up in the ninth and a sacrifice and in
field out moved Autry to third before
Metzler was erased.
Fred was well battered in the tenth.
Reynolds began the round with single
and after Shires went out scored as
Watwood thumped triple. Kamm fol-
lowed with single and the Chisox
were two runs to the good plenty for
them with the way Lyons was pitch
ing.
DUT that tenth inning never should
- have happened. The Nationals
were too generous in handing runs
to the White SoX. A single by CisSell
at the start of the game was followed
by a wild chuck by Hadley when he
tried to cut down Bill at second after
picking up Metzlers bounder. Then
Myer made two-base wild throw after
picking up Reynolds sacrificial bunt
and later Spencer dropped Bluege's
throw to the. plate, that If held, would
have retired Metzler. Two unearned
rum. Smith opened the seventh with
a single and continued to second when
West booted. Jolley batted for Riddle
and singled to score Smith, but Smith
could not have counted from first on
the hit. The next three batters were
retired in order, the first two of them
popping out. So Smith never would
have reached home. One unearned
run.
off Lyons the Nationals got IL hits
~ and a pass. A single by West,
Rice's walk and successive sacrifices
by Goslin and Myer earrc: - run of
the right-hander in round one. In the
fourth Judge and Bluege singled with
two down and both crossed when Smith
ran into left near the chalkline and
dropped Spencers loft. Two unearned
runs. Thereafter the Nationals had
several chances to score, but always
found Lyons too strong for them in
pinches.