Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-01
CAN'T HIT, HAS SIGN.
ON MATS THIS YEAR.
Getting Game From Browns
Usually TaSk-Marberry's
Blunt Ends Battle.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

4 NE OF the great mysteries
of the current base ball
~ season is why the Browns,
well down in the second
division, have been so difficult for
the Nationals, right in the thick
of the pennant fight, to trim. It
doesn't seem right. This st. Louis
club is not blessed with a lot OF
consistently good pitching, it does
not set the world af1re afield and
1t is the weakest batting aggrega-
ton in the American League.
Yet it has defeated the Nationals
six times in nine starts and is the
only club that has the edge over
the Johnson band for the season.
Now the Nationals generally take the
field against the Browns with six or
seven hitters of the 300 class in the
lineup and they take it usually with
pretty good pitching, too On the other
hand, the Browns haven't lot of con-
SiStently good pitching as mentioned
before ans but one regular clubbing in
the 800 class. What's their power over
the Nationals?
According to unoficial figures, the
season batting marks of the Browns
FROM the top Of their lineup down
Though the catchers are: Bic, first
base, .230; Badgro, center field, 1876;
Goslin, left field. .277; Kress, shortstop,
277; Gullic, right field, ais: Melillo,
secend base, .313; O'Rourke, third base,
.253; Terrell, catcher, .233; Manion,
catcher, FOG.
McNeely, occasionally used in the out
field, has DATED for only $50 and
Schultz, who was in the outfield in the
first series the Nationals had with the
Bro~'ns, was hitting for only 1858.
when he was with the Browns here in
May and that was the only series he
played against Washington. The best
hitting regular pitcher ST. J,ouiS' has is
Walter Stewart, with an average of
.216. Chad Kimsey has q much higher
average, but he does most of his bat
ting in emergencies.
Here's club with a grand batting
average of $50 The Nationals are hit
ting for .2e9. These are unofficial fig
ures up to today. "a birthplace team
last year, the Nationals beat the Browns
Is times in % starts. Always around
the top this year, they klve been
trimmed six times in nine starts. Try
to figure it.
WHATT a tough tus s.!s the en-, Nationals ma,
game from. the Tro~41s. Super
error sby Red Kress and some final
inning fancy strategys in which Mar
berry wa. the biggest factor, were need
ed to score the win, for STeoI@e RlaeS
lFolder did neat. bit OF pitching for the
st. Louis crew.
Mulberry hurled a splcndR1 game,
yielding but -four safeties~ spread eyer
three innings and two passes Only
once did the BROWNS nave as many as
f,1yn of time That
in the eighth. when Sammy Hale, who
has Supplanted Frank O'Rourke at
third, opened the round with a Texas
Lacquer to center and LII Blue, after
two were out, drew a pass. Fred then
frightened, and Badgro's best was a
hoist to Dave Harris in right
Kress was the only Brown to pass
second base and he completed the cir
cult for his sides lone tally. First up
in the fifth, Kress lofted a foul toward
the Washington dugout. Joe Judge tore
after it, but stopped when another step
would have put him under the ball
,Joe'S not to blame, for another step
might also have tumbled him into the
dugout. Then Kress lofted the ball into
the open stand back of left field for
homer.
Outside of the eighth inning, already
mentioned. but five batters other than
KresS reached first base. Cronin's
tumble put Blue on at the start of the
game but GoSlin forced Lu for the sec
ond out and was caught trying to steal.
The Goose singled with two gone in
the fourth, but was too daring with
his lead off the sack. and Marberry'S
third throw to Judge nipped the run
ner. ORourke doubled with two out
in the fifth, and Badgro walked with
two out in the sixth.
What a game Fred pitched! 1t was
his third win in row and his seventh
of the season. He evidently is in form
once more after being an uncertainty
for so long.
OFF Blaeholder the Nationals got but
~ eight hits and three passes. and
one of the passes was Intentional.
It figured strongly in the Nationals
victory, though. The pass was given to
Sam Rice, who picked up Roy Spen-
GERS bat in the ninth to get into his
first game since Friday. Judge and
Bluege were on third and second bases
by virtue of single and a double, re-
spectively made after one was out when.
Blaeholder purposely tossed four wide
ones to Rice. Up to the plase STROBE
Marberry, and down the flrst-base line
he hunted the first pitch to him. With
the squeeze on, Judge was almost across
the plate when Fred tapped she ball,
and as Blaeholder, who flelded the bhnt,
made no effort to throw to first, the
washington pitcher went on to his Sec
ond hit cf the game.
Cronin started the ,irst Washington
tally when hys opened the second if4ning
with a single. Harris retirement ad
vanced Joe, thu Judge got "a single
with "a grounder that Kress checked
back of SECOND base. The hSc, of course,
ser1 Cronin to third, and he scored
when KyeSs tossed wildly past Blue.
MANAGER JOHNSON. has Crowder
wi and Haley Is finish the series
with the Browns. Cfowdsr was
to 60 this afternoon, with Hadley in lille
although E9ica yua,of