Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
SLAM IS SAFET|ES
FOR 126 TRIUMPH
Get Hits off Five ShaWkey
HurIerS-BroWn Winner
After Jones Fails.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

of the five pitchers Bob
A Shawkey sent into action
yesterday in Griffith Sta
dunn, the Nationals scored their
second successive win over the
Yankees and increased their sec
ond-place advantage over their
closest rivals in the flag chase te
five and one-half games. In all,
the Nationals collected Is hits
and 6 bases on balls in registering
their 12-to-6 triumph.
Rufing, Wells and Johnson were the
hurlers maltreated by the johnson
band. Rufing started. but was with
drawn after throwing to four batters
with results damaging to the New
York cause The left-handed Wells
then was nicked so that the Nationals
totaled four runs for the first inning.
Ed was slammed for four more runs in
the fourth frame. before giving way to
johnson, and the third hurler took a
1our-run seeking in the sixth.
Holloway then had his turn and was
raped, too. although the hits off him
. only pushed across runners Johnson
had left on. A pinch-batter showed
Holloway aside so McEvoy had a
chance to pitch one round against the
Washington bunch.
sam Jones opened fire for the home
sIoe but Sam was not so good and left
in the fourth round after the Yanks
had pulled up to tie at 4-all. This
gave Lloyd Brown a chance to put over
his fifteenth victory of the season. In
six innings the Yanks cleaned only
five hits off the Washington southpaw.
The first seven players in the batting
order did all the Nationals hitting,
D1,Ar Ill
three hits each. Harry Rice was the
only Yank to get as many as three
hits, but Tony Lazzeri found Jones to
his liking and slammed a homer and
q triple OF the somber slabman. The
homer was drive into the sun parlor
back of left.
Ruffing was warmly greeted by the
Nationals, so warmly he failed to last
the first inning. Myer opened with a
triple, then Sam Rice socked the ball
against the right field fence near the
top for three bases. Manush singled
ana Cronin walked. So did Rufing-to
the shower. Wells, relief hurler, walked
Judge and was found by West for
single that registered Cronin at the
final base.
Jones was walloped for two markers
IN the second session. Lazzeri began the
Yankee attack with homer driven into
the open stand back of left-center
Cooke walked and after Dickey skied to
Sam Rice was scored by the successive
singles from the bats of Chapman and
Wells. In the third Harry Rice singled
only to be forced out by Gehrig, but
Lazzeris triple tailed Lou Dickey's
single and Chapman's double In the
fourth enabled the Yanks to deadlock
the game and also brought Brown to
Jones relief.
The Nationals shattered the dead
lock in the same inning. Spencer walk
ed and so did Myer after Brown struck
out. Sam Rice got single with a
grounder to Chapman because no
Yankee thought to cover first base.
Chapman, determined to throw, turned
and chucked wildly past second into
left field. The error let Spencer tally.
Myer reach third and Rice second,
Myer crossed after Combs bagged Man
ush's hoist and Cronin's triple let Rice
romp to the plate. An infleld hit by
Judge put Cronin over with the fourth
run Of the rally. Then johnson took
over the pitching task from Wells and
famed West.
The sixth was another four-run ses-
sion for the Nationals. Sam Rice
singled, Msnush doubled and the bases
were full when Lazzeri grabbed Cronin's
roller and failed to get Rice as the
veteran dived back to the third sack.
Judges single scored two runs and
drove johnson from the slab. Almost
the first thing Holloway, fourth Yankee
hurler did was uncork a wild pitch
that let Cronin reach third base and
Judge second. Then Vests single
showed the two runners over the count
ing block,
Two Yankee markers were chalked I'D
in the seventh. Combs walked as a
starter and pulled up at second when
Larry hit for a base. Harry Rice cracked
a single to score Combs and move Larry
to the far corner. AS Gehrig forced
out Rice, Larry tailed That was all
the Yanks could do to Brown.
Babe Ruth was out of action yester-
day, having wrenched back muscle
when chasing Cronins double in Thurs
days engagement. He did not even
don uniform and was to 90 to New
York today for treatment of the trouble
Manager Shawkey kicked himself out
of the pastime in the fourth frame
when Umpire Nallin called Chapman
out at the plate in an attempted double
steal 1t did look from the press box
as though Shawkey's kick was justi-
fable.
Sam Rice got a single in the fourth
frame only because neither Gehrig nor
Wells went to first base to cover after
the batter had tapped to Chapman.
The New York second sacker with no
chance to get Myer plunging into the
middle sack made wild throw that
helped the Nationals no little.