Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13
HIT FOR COOL $50
IN F0UR-GAME SET
Rice, GoSIin WaIIop Well.
Burke Stars on Slab in
Final of Series.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

of the Nationals are famed
for their proves at bat, but
N the Nationals themselves
have not been at all backward re-
Gently in slapping the base ball.
For club that in preseason cal
culationS was figured weak at hit
ting, the Washington club has
done right we'll extensively. Dur
ing the past four days, while en-
gaging the White SoX, the Nation
ais were especially powerful in at
tack and only poor fielding in one
of the quartet of games kept them
from sweep of the series. All
they did against Chicago pitching
was hit for a cool $50. That's
great batting in big time.
In all, II members of the Washington
club participated in the White SoX series
and IL drove the ball to safety OF the
half dozen who failed to hit, four are
pitchers, one catcher and one an out
fielder who took part in only one of the
games, and in it stepped to the plate but
twice.
Sam Rice, carrying on his successive
game hitting streak, did remarkable bat
ting in the four-game set. He collected
nine hits of assorted dimensions for an
average of .563. Goose Goslin, who had
been in slump before the Bush band
arrived in Washington, ran second to
Rice in number of hits and average.
The Goose slammed eight safeties for
rating of .533.
Muddy Ruel finished third with an
average of 500, but Muddy was in only
one game, so Ossie Bluege, Joe Cronin
and Sam West really should be con-
sidered above him. Each was in every
game of the series. Bluege got seven hits
for .467, Cronin six for 400 and West
six for 1853. These batters actually
batted.
A pitcher and a catcher broke into
the first 10 of those seeking in the
series. Lloyd Brown got a hit in the
game he pitched to get an average of
1888. and in his two games Roy Spencer
made two hits for an average of .286.
Joe Judge batted between Brown and
Spencer with five safeties for .294, and
Buddy Myer in three games only batted
at $50 with three hits before an illness
that had developed before the series
started forced him from action.
Eleventh in the list of hitters is Jack
Hayes. He took Myers place at second
yesterday and smote one safety for a
mark of 200.
In the series the Nationals in 143
times at bat made SO hits for 70 bases
A fine record for a club not rs+"i power
full extensively.
DOTH Myer and Spencer. who were
~ missing from the Washington
bench yesterday, were expected to
be In uniform again this afternoon as
the series with the Indians started
Myer, who had been suffering with
severe cold for a week. on Sunday COM
planned of eye trouble, which later was
attributed to sinus affection resulting
from the cold. Buddy was given i'm
mediate treatment by a physician,
though, and this morning was feeling
much better. Spencer, badly bruised
when Reynolds slid into the plate and
knocked him down in the game Sunday,
was not so seriously hurt as at first
thought. So far as Roy is concerned the
bruise is painful enough. but he is of
the type who will not be kept out of the !
game long If he has a chance to crash |
the lineup.
TOE ENGEL, who scouts for the Ma |
tionals when he is not presidenting |
for the Lookouts, has been looking |
over material for the johnson band the |
past few days and is to come to Wash |
ington the latter part of the week to |
report any progress made in the hunt |
for new players. No hint has come |
from the president-scout as to what he |
may have picked up.
While waiting for Engel to make his |
report President Clark Griffith has been |
scanning the box scores of the minor |
clubs with which he has farmed some |
Of his hopefuls. Particularly pleasing |
to Griffith are the performances of |
Gordon Phelps, bouncing Bowie boy OPP
toned to the Hagerstown club of the |
Blue Ridge League. In three games
Phelps went to bat IA times and socked
nine safeties, several home runs. Phelps
ie lHf ixo HrrnlI I1a IIan
agement is using him as an outfielder
instead of putting him behind the bat, |
his usual place.
DOB BURKE up and did things"
- yesterday, so the Nationals still are |
but halt game behind the league
leading world champion Athletics. After |
a fioppy first inning, in which the
White Sox with f1uky single and an
equally fluky double, a wild pitch |
and lurtd heave by Cronin got two |
runs, the young left-hander, starting !
a game for the second time this sea-
son, settled. All the White Sox got |
thereafter consisted of two doubles and |
single spread over the three innings |
following the first and two passes, one |
in the fifth inning and one in the ninth. |
After that fioppy first round Burke was |
chunk of ice on the pitching hill.
Having spotted the Cnisox a brace OF |
talIles, the Nationals went on to win by |
the comfortable score of IS to 2. Three |
pitchers were punished by the home
side, in all IS hits being gathered. Al |
Thomas started for the White Sox, but |
he had kink in his pitching arm and |
after yielding hit and a pass, with a |
two-strikes-and-o count against |
Judge, gave way to the left-handed Bob |
Weilsnd. Bob checked the Nationals |
the remainder of the first inning, but |
was nicked for single in the second |
after he had issued two passes and his |
teammates had kicked in with two |
errors. Three runs resulted and before |
Ted Blankenship could quell the Ma |
tionals double by Cronin and a kick |,
of the hit by Moore in left Melted two /
more markers.
With four hits and a pass the Ma |
tionals got four runs off Blankenship in |
the fifth. Doubles by GoSlin and Bluege |
were good for score in the sixth, and |
in the seventh three singles and a |
double. all hit after two were out meant |
three tallies. Just one of those games.
D ICE waited until his last batting |
N turn to get a hit and extend his |
string of successive games with safeties |
to %. He rifled the ball past CiSsell to |
right field for long single.