Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-31

4 SIedC plu W ISS all GllS UdI-
ting lead of the Washing
ton club he held last year, may go
far toward keeping his club in the
second position in the race it held
with only a game advantage over
the Yankees, who were to be en-
countered here today.
Last year Manush finished the season
with the most respectable average CT
$50. He was to enter todays engage
ment with 1881 average of 1927, quite
a few points below hat of last year.
But 20 games ago-on August 9. to be
eXact-Heinie had an average OF only
.305.
In 20 games he has picked up %
points and as he has been batting re-
Gently he seems likely to carry on in
great fashion to the finish Of the cam
paign.
Unfortunately much of the fine hit
ting Manush has done in the past three
weeks has been wasted because the Ma
tionalS' pitchers have been getting along
poorly. However. an individual carrying
such punch into battle is bound to get
favorable results for his club occasion
ally and as the Washington club has
progressed lately favorable results every
Cnce in a while help.
For the figure fanciers the complete
batting statistics Of Manush'S 20-game
streak are given. In the score of con-
tests he was at bat 81 times, scored Is
runs, made SO hits of which five were
doubles, one triple and enc homer.
put down two sacrifices and drove over
five runs. HIS streak average is .444.
And Manush has been going ahead
the past week. despite a very sore leg
that would keep many player out OF
action. But not Heinie. The club
comes first with him and he would have
to be seriously injured to force him out
of the lineup. A great fighting spirit
Is ManuSh's.
VITASHINGTON'S ball club may be
w down to the point where it must
scrap desperately to cling to the
rlnner-up berth, but It looked no weak
ling yesterday when it bowled over the
league-leading Athletics in 5-to-1 en-
gagement in Griffith Stadium. The
Nationals had everything the AS did
not have and looked winners from the
outset of the fitting.
AL Crowder was on the slab for the
home side and Al pitched about his
best game of season tina has not
been SO bright for him. He limited the
AS to seven safeties, allowing them TO
cluster blows in but enc frame. Then
with three hits the House OF Mack
registered it, lone run.
Before that run crossed, though the
Nationals had pummeled Ed Rommcl
for three tallies so it did not mean
much They got nine hits of the
knuckle-b aller, four times punching two
in a frame, and each time the punching
was done there was scoring
The Nationals played faultlessly afleld.
but the world champions made three
errors and one figured in the run
making against them.
1.-TWO hits, a pass and wild chuck
L netted the Nationals a brace OF
tallies in the opening frame. Myer
singled and made third as Rice and
Nanush were he2ved out. Cronln
walked, then West topped the ball down
tie first base line for single tnat
tailed Myer Rcmmel picked up the
sphere and threw it far past tlrst oase
to let Cronin score also.
Two were out in the second inning
before the johnson band began the
making of it's third marker 1t came
from Myers two-bagger and Rice'S
single. .,.,-
With one out in the visiting fifth,
DYKES, williams and Rommel singled In
succession to put over the one run the
AS got: then Bishop drilled into
double-play, with Myer making nl1ty
stop of Max's drive.
The Nationals got that run right
back One was out when Manush paved
the way to the fourth Washington tally.
which he carried across. He smacked
double and legged it home as Cronn
singled.
Singles by Kuhel and Spencer and
Myers long fly accounted for the fifth
Washington score that made the rout
of the AS in their last game here this
season complete.
THAT win in Washington yesterday
made the Nationals standing with
a club that is so far beyond the
remainder of the league it seems in a
class by itself something to boast OF
The AS have licked the Nationals 10
times this year, but the Nationals have
licked the AS eight times and
they'll be battling them tomorrow and
Wednesday in Philadelphia :. Odd
locking team the AS had on the field
Simmons, Cochrane. Haas and
Bcley not in the lineup and a
I'D to the batters =. Manush did some
thrill-making fielding, three Of his four
chances being exceptionally difficult
His one-hand grab of Cramer's loft in
the first was a WOW Miller Is an
old-timer, but he still can go and get
'em He proved this in the fifth in
getting under Vests hoist after hard
run Rommel had one good inning,
the seventh . He famed Manush-
and that's something-then made Gro
min and West go after bad ones to
become easy outs Walter Masters,
pitcher farmed to youngstown of the
Nfidatlantic loop not so long ago, came
back to the Nationals yesterday and
was Immediately shipped to the Look
outs The Nationals farm in Chat
tanooga wants all the help 1t can get
to finish in the first division of the
Southern Association.