Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
MEET AS 8 TIMES
BEFORE TRIP WEST.
Now Up to Boxmen to Hold
World Champs-Indians
Beaten in Final.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

u rivals of Connie Mack's
world champions are being told by
their managers these days. II
beating the AS will help, the Ma
tionals will have opportunities
aplenty to get ahead before de-
parting for the western sector
next month. Including today's
double header here, Walter john
sons ambitious gang has on Its
schedule eight games with the
world champs prior to the swing
around the West. Winning a ma
jority of these games certainly
would help the Nationals and the
defeats would do the AS no good
A great chance for the Washing
ton club to get to the top OF the
league once more.
To date, the Nationals have been the
only lot able to give the Athletics
real battle. They, only, have taken more
than one game from the Mackmen ele.
plant herd Yankees, White Sox and
Tigers have vet to score over the AS
this season Looks as though any early
season checking of the champs is strict
" I'D to the Washington bunch.
These Athletics make corking good
ball club, one difficult to beat. But
with all their strength, they are not
travelling as smoothly pennantward as
they did In the early going OF the 1929
campaign. Nor are the AS the clipper
crew they were. Great front runners,
but in the ruck they seem to worry
much more than they did under SINH
lar conditions last year. Despite tneir
leasue lead and their recent streak
they are not clicking as well as their
power warrants.
If the Nationals are able to carry
the fight to the Athletics in the string
of games between now and the de-
parture for the West as they did in the
series in Washington last month, thereu
be some dust-biting by the Mackmen
brigade. On its game, the johnson
band is nothing to be trified with. And
It should be on its game whenever. Its
pitchers hold up.
The Nationals are likely to get their
hits and they are likely to field wei,
too. In this eight-game string with the
Athletics, however, they'll 60 only as
well as their pitchers go.
TOMORROW and Sunday, the Ath-
l. letics will be the guests of the
Nationals in Griffith Stadium, in
Washington. A pair of games that
should draw many people to the ball
park Manager johnson has not def
nitely selected his pitchers for these
contests, but he has intimated Lloyd
shots at the world champs.
DIETER than even break with the
- West for the Nationals. When
they licked the Indians yesterday,
4 TO 2, in Washington, they made their
record for the first brush Of the sea-
son with the quartet Of the far sector
Of the league read seven victories
against six defeats.
But one series was lost and only one
won. The Browns surprisingly trounced
the Nationals in two of three games,
but the White Sox were downed three
times in four battles. Unfortunately, the
Tigers picked Washington as the spot
for their best showing in the East.
After being walloped right and left by
other clubs, the Harris horde came back
for an even break in four games In
Griffith Stadium. Well, the Tigers had
to win some time. Outside Of their hit
ting in one game the Indians We're not
10 snappy. They were poor afield, and
In the last of their two games 1t was
seen that careful hurting rather than
dazzling speed and bewilder1ng curves
could subdue them.
GAM JONES, the somber squire Of
- Woodfeld, was the careful pitcher
in the final of the Tribal set. Sam
showed no speed to blind the Indians
nor employed curves that had the bat
thumbed the ball to the plate in such
manner that the Cleveland batters had
to use all their power to get anything
into their hits and thumbed 1t with
superb control.
Ten hits the Indians made while Jones
was pitching to his fourth successive
victory of the season. Once Sam pinked
Q batter. one OF his pitches lanomg on
willis Hudlin's left wrist. There was
30 little on the ball, though, that Hud-
lin suffered only slight bruise. Not q
pass did Sam issue, and he didn't pitch
strike-out stuff. But one OF the Tr1oe
was struck out.
sam did keep those hits scattered.
however, in all but two innings. In
the fifth the Tribe clustered two singles
and a double for a run, and they got
another in the eighth with a single and
q double made after two were out.
A well pitched ball game.
IUDLIN was hit early by the Ma
i l. tionals for victory. They got nine
safeties off him all told and used
three of these to great advantage IN the
first and third rounds. Sammy west
smote Hudlin's first pitch OF the Tray
for three bases and scored when Goose
Goslin drove a single over the SECOND
sack. At the outset of the third ROUND.
Jones drew the first of two passes issued
by Hudlin and West followed with q
for q home run. West was the busy
haitian IN fhaSa fWO innings.
Nothing more off Hudlin in scoring
way until the seventh. Muddy Rue
started that inning with single ano
Jones sacrificed West famed, put
sam Rice came along to raise to Is the
number of successive games with mus
by ramming two-bagger to right ano
Ruel crossed.
TT was a field day for Rice. He had
i eight changes, catching seven drives
in right and once throwing to Judge
to complete a double-play. Sam could
have made the two-way erasure him.
self for Hudlin was away from first al
the crack Of the bat when Jameson
lined to right in the third inning and
kept going. Rice made q nifty running
catch, coming in, and could have con-
tinued to first. Instead, he tossed II
Judge.
BUDDY MYER came back to thu
ID game after a two-day absence spen
in nursing a sinusitis. He appeared
none the worse from the illness. Man
ager Johnson dropped Buddy from
fourth to fifth place in the battins
order, but Buddy got his hit, single
the last time at bat.
TERMINALS GAIN SHUT0UT.
Rapping out IL hits behind the stead.
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