Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-05


Western trip, and I be-
Ieve we will show the base ball
public about the finest drive
toward pennant they could wish
to see" Thus spoke Walter john
son of his Nationals shortly after
they had been knocked out of first
place by the Athletics the first of
June. While everything you get
now counts in the long run, pen
nantS generally aren't won SO
early in the season. It's the drive
in the last half of the season that
tells" declared the Washington
manager, and if we are up
around the top when the second
half gets under way, watch out
for u.s."
We'll, here we are" Walter remarked
with broad grin yesterday after the
Nationals had taken a double fall out
of the Yankees.
Now watch our smoke Sounded
good, too, for by the two wins john
sons charges so established themselves
in second place that they cannot lose it
before leaving town to engage in a series
with the Red Sox in Boston and it is
quite possible for them to get out of
Griffith Stadium tomorrow night at the
top of the heap. At least, they ought
to start West next week very near the
top. position johnson firmly believes
will make them contenders right to the
finish.
During the current home stand, the
Nationals have played super base ball
They have won IA of II games. That's
stepping along at a pace of 1924. OF
course, no club can be expected to
maintain such pace, but barring acct
dent there seems no reason to believe
the Nationals will not move along as
swiftly as their main rivals for the
flag and await a break in their favor
Some club is apt to crack under the
pressure and the Nationals can only
hope it will be the other fellow.
nACE-SETTING for the big three"
L of the league has been done by
the Nationals the last three days
They have played and won four games.
The Athletics have been licked twice in
five starts and the Yankees four times
in five engagements. In fact. the Yanks
have taken the count in their last four.
Perhaps the strain is beginning to tell
on them a trif1e.
This New York club, though, isn't one
to be kept down long. 1t has too much
power to be so treated Although it
hasn't been knocking the cover off the
come aroused at any time and rock its
opposition with a terrific bombardment
of long hits. The Yanks have their
siumps, but they seem able to come back
quickly. They have to be respected at
all times.
THAT crowd of approximately $4,000,
l. the largest that ever saw a game
here other than one of a world
series, in Griffith Stadium yesterday
was not treated to any exceptional ex-
Inhibition of batting prowess by the
highly touted Yankees. Instead, the
sharper hitting was done by the Ma
fionals. True, in the second game Babe
Ruth knocked the ball over the right
field wall for his thirty-second homer
of the season and his first in Washing
ton this year, thereby making all
American League parks homer parks
for him, but in the same game Buddy
Myer also Smote for four bases and hit
his inside the park. too. The Nationals
0uthit the New Workers in the opener
of the program and matched them hit
for hit in the second set-to. They
were much the better at the plate and
greatly superior TO the Yankees in the
pitchers box and afleld. Washington
richly deserved its double win.
GAM JONES, pitching for the first
- time since June 5. showed he had
fully recovered from the gland
trouble that swept him from his feet
for nearly two weeks and compelled
him to recondition himself after re-
turning to Washington the latter part
of June. The willy veteran in the in
1tial encounter of the day held the
Yanks to five well spread hits and they
suffered their first shut-out of the cam
paign. Lou Gehrig was the only Yank
TO get as many as two safeties and he
narrowly missed being held to one, for
Joe Cronin ran into left field for a
great bid at LOUIS loft in the ninth. the
ball just bounding off the shortstop's
finger tips. Jones served the Yankees
about everything they did not want
and made them like it.
In the second game Fred Marberry
hurled to his fourth win in a row. He
was unsteady at the start and in the
first three innings was reached for six
hits, one, Ruth's homer after two were
out in the first. This gave the Yanks
the lead temporarily, but after the
third the visitors got only two singles
and two passes of Fred and these
we're scattered over four innings. Once
poised, Marberry had about everything
his way.
D UNS were collected of George Pip
N gras and owen Carroll by the Ma
tlonals in the 8-to-0 first half OF
the twin bill. They hoped on Pipgras
Tor five HITS and pass in the third
and with an error by Dickey at the
plate rang up five runs before the
Yankee starter gave way to Carroll with
two out. Three hits, a pass and an
Ger error by Dickey, all after two
IRE out, were good for two more mark
ers in the fourth and a brace of singles,
a hit batter and fielder's choice meant
the last tally in the seventh.
Heinie ManuSh with two doubles and
as many singles was the big gun OF
the first game offensive, but when he
slid into third base in the eighth in
ming Heinie bruised his right heel and
had two gashes accidentally put in his
right calf by Chapman's spikes. This
forced him TO retire and gave George
Loepp a chance 10 work in left field in
the second match Heinie's injury Is
not regarded as serious, though. and ne
may be back before the Yank series
ends
Ed Wells. left-hander, tried to stop
the Nationals in the 7-to-3 second
game but Ed lasted only five innings.
A pair of hits. each held 10 two bases
because it was driven into the crowd
that stood along the entire front of the
open stand, and an error by ShortStop
Wrestling accounted for two Washing
ton markers in round one and in the
fourth after two were out, singles by
Spencer and Marberry were followed by
Myers homer for three more scores.
Two were out in the NTH, too, when
another brace Of runs was registered.
double with a pop to short left-center
Al,at peitbpr Combs nor Harry Rice