Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-28
PUNCH IS ASSURED
AS GOOSE PICKS UP
Attains 800 Class After
BattIe-NatS Win Third
Straight From AS.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

~ Cling Goose Goslin at last
~ IS in the 800 hitting class,
which may mean much to
the Nationals during the three
game series with the Yankees
Scheduled to open in Griffith
Stadium this afternoon. These
Yankees, while they have not
been setting the league af1re this
Spring. are capable Of doing a
deal of hitting themselves, and a
fellow who can sting the ball as
the Goose has during the past
three days Is a mighty handy one
to have around when Bob Shaw
KEYS bunch is encountered. In
present-day base ball the only
thing to overcome hard hitting is
harder hitting.
Goslin never has been noted as fast
starter at bat; but this year he was
more sluggish than usual in swinging
into his accustomed stride. 1t looks
as though he's there now, however.
The pitchers of the Athletics were just
what the Goose needed to boost his
swatting mark, 1t seems. Before the
world champions came to town, Goslin
could show an average OF only .161.
While the AS were being taken for
three In a row, though, the Goose
dashed the ball so savagely that now
he boasts an average OF .319.
Hits .6s2 Against AS.
All ooslin did during the series with
Mack's mangled minions was collect 9
hits In IS times at bat. That was
slanming at a rate of .692. The big
punch Of the Washington club made
three safeties In each Of the three
games. They were healthy ones, too,
totaling IS bases. The lot included one
double, one triple and two homers.
The Goose hit every pitcher except
one he faced In the series. The lone
exception is RUDE Walberg. Goslin
went to the plate but once while the
left-hander was at work and drew a
pass. The venerable John Picus Quinn,
the renowned Robert Moses Grove, the
rockies Glenn Liebhardt, jr., and Al
Mahon and one of the heroes o. the
last world series, Howard Ehmke, were
pummeled by the Wild Goose OF the
Potomac.
efield since the start of the campaign.
Now that he is in fine hitting stride,
he Is likely to make the Nationals even
more dangerous to tackle than they
have been to date.
COME remarkable walloping of the
- ball was done by the Washington
club In the series with the AS. In the
three engagements the Nationals mus
tered Al hits for 81 bases. It averaged
.387. The AS in 103 times at bat got
but 27 hits for an average OF .262.
'Twas never like that last season when
the Mackian horde ran roughshod over
everything that got in its way.
Goslin contributed heavily to the
Washington attack in the series that
ended yesterday, but several other Ma
tionals helped plenty. Buddy Myer
batted at .545 clip, Sam Rice, who
was in but two of the games, and Joe
Judge each hit for 500, while Ossle
Bluege. after a slow beginning, banged
the ball for 400. Good, sound seeking
there.
DILL BARRETT, new right-hand
- hitting outhelder, procured from
Boston in exchange for Earl Webb,
reported yesterday and was in uniform
for practice. Bill naturally Is ttckled
to be with a club that seems to be
going somewhere. For some years he
has been with outfits that never got
their heads above water. So this
change is apt to make Barrett a better
ball player than he has been for some
time, Conditions were not so good for
Bill when he was with the White Sox
and being traded to a tail-end club last
season did not help him any. He sees
o chance now, though, to really make
good. and listening to Bill one believes
he will.
CIX wins In a row and the last three
- over the world champion Athletics.
That's something for club that
never had winning percentage as good
as 500 from the first week OF the 1928
campaign until the second day Of the
current championship race In the
American League.
No wonder the Nationals are sailing
along in front. They are playing good
all-around base ball and well deserve
to be where they are. Already they
have licked the Athletics as often as
they did in the entire 1929 campaign.
When a club can take four OF five
games played with the world champs 1t
ought to be leading the league.
TTNDAUNTED by a three-rln lead
~ the AS got on Sam Jones yester-
day, the Nationals stepped out to
chase Walberg from the hill and forge
ahead in the second inning, to stay there
the remainder Of the way They got two
tallies off the left-hander in the first
frame when a single by Myer followed
successive passes to Loepp, Rice and
second with a single by Ruel, pass to
Jones and a one-baser by Rice. Ehmke
relieved Walberg and a single by Cos
lin and Myers sacrifice fly pushed over
two more runners the lett-hanoer had
left on the runway.
Thereafter the Nationals hammered
Ehrnke for IL Safeties, including Cos
Inns second homer of the season, to
make their game Total amount TO 10
and their victory figures read IL to 8,
greatly to the satisfaction OF the more
than $4,000 fans, a record crowd 1or
the season, present.
TONES, making his season debut,
started poorly a walk, double,
triple and sacrifice fly giving the AS
three runs in the first session. during
the next six innings, though, he yielded
only five hits, two passes and two runs.
Sam was firing fast in the seventh, so
Ad Liska was warned up and sent in 10
pitch the last two rounds. In the
eighth the AS nicked the submal liner
for two hits and their last run, but the
run was unearned, for Judge KlcKeo
play that should have meant slde-re-
firing out.
PY7HERE was much discussion between
pitchers and umpires over the new
balk rule The officials found 1t nee
essary to deliver lecture on the subject
to each boxman. Three balks were
called, two on Jones and one on EhmKe.
a FTER the AS seventh batting turn,
n Connie Mack conceded victory to
the Nationals and sendt in flock
of second-stringers. Williams, Harris,
Schang and McNair supplanted Bishop.
Haas, Cochrane and Boley. In the
eighth Cramer replaced Simmons IN
left.