Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-18

DoING their scoring early, the Ma
- tionals yesterday trounced the
White SoX, II to Z, to cop the
series. 2 games to l. They collected
81 hits of Vic Frasier. Jim Moore, Bill
Wehde and Hal McKain and scored
against each of the quartet of right
handlers except Wehde, who pitched the
sixth inning.
Sammy West and Joe Kuhel With
four blows each, led the Washington
attack. in which every player in the
lineup participated.
The Nationals stepped out to tuck
away the game in the first two innings,
and 1t was we'll they did. AL Crowder.
who went the route for them, was not
sparing with hits. The White SoX
combed him for IA and had two big
innings in which they clustered 10 of
their safeties for six runs.
With their victory the johnson band
kept the gap between it and the league
leading Athletics at a seven-game width
end increased their advantage over the
third-place Yanks. who took another
drubbing from the Indians, to five and
a half games
The Yanks may find the task of over
hauling the Nationals a bit too tough
for them.
IN the first inning the bases were full
i of Nationals most of the time and
four runs were registered West
doubled, Manush beat out a bunt and
Cronin was hit. Harry Rices walk
forced over the first tally KuhelS single
bounced over the pitchers head sent in
the second. Bluege's stroll forced over
the third and after Hayes took third
strike the fourth was made as Spencer
raped into forceout.
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ond session by one run and did all it's
scoring after two were out. Cronin
walked, took third as Harry Rice singled
and after Harry swiped second two
TALES were chalked up when Kuhel hit
for a base. Here Moore relieved Frasier
and walked Bluege. single by Hayes
scored Kuhel, then Blucge scored as he
pulled double theft with Hayes In
the steal Hayes made third when Kerr
chucked poorly to the plate and that
made it easy for him to cross with the
fifth run of TIE round as Spencer
singled.
Vests single, Cronin's two-bagger
and Harry Rice's long hoist accounted
for washington run in the third: then
there was no more scoring until the
sixth, when the White Sox picked up
three runs. Successive singles by
Reynolds, Fonseca and Fothergill and
Cissell and Tate accounted for the
tallying. With another five-hit attack
the White Sox got three more mark
ers in the seventh Reynolds, Fonseca,
Fothergill, Kerr and Tate doing the
seeking.
With a bunting attack the Nationals
tapped McKain for two tallies in the
eighth. Kuhel and Bluege got singles
with bunts and after Hayes forced out
eli hU PNltNn
Manush showed over the runs.
Fonseca's two-bagger, Fothergill's in
field erasure and Kerr's retirement in
the ninth gave the White Sox the last
marker of the argument.
CPENCER jammed against the grand
stand at the games start to haul
down Blues foul. Hayes
looked good in the second inning when
he rushed into short center for an over
shoulder catch with one hand of
Tate's topper Cronin escaped
being charged with time at bat in his
first two trips to the plate he
was hit on the back with one of
Frasier's pitches. then drew pass.
West opened each of the first
three innings with hit. doubling in
the first inning. . Hayes made a
double-error in the fifth he
fumbled a grounder to put Tate on
first, insisted on chucking the ball and
got another error when his weird throw
let Tate continue to second base.
Bolton relieved Spencer behind
the bat for the Nationals after the fifth
inning he got hit in the
eighth. Jolley, who hit homer
when he batted for CRUDE Thursday,
picked up Wehde's war club in the
seventh and popped to Bluege for the
inning-ending out.