Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05
FLOCK OF LEFT|ES
IN DOUBLE-HEADER
Second-PIace Contest Has
Clubs on Edge-NationaIs
Bag Overtime Tilt.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

A BIG day for the left-hand-
~ ed gentry of the pitching
"A slab at Griffith Stadium.
Southpaws will be much in
evidence in the twin bill this aft
ernoon between Nationals and
Yankees if the rival managers
stick to their overnight pitching
choices. Lloyd Brown and Bob
Burke or Carl Fischer will supply
the hurting for the home side,
while Vernon Gomez and Herb
Pennock will do the honors for the
visitors.
That's the latest from johnson and
Mccarthy. Manager johnson had ex-
pected to use only Brown and Fischer,
but the latter was sent into action
late yesterday when the Nationals were
doing things to the Yanks and unless
Carl feels like stepping to the hill
again today the Washington pilot Will
nominate Burke, the string-bean south
paw, for the job
Plenty of action seems likely in the
double pastiming this afternoon. Al
though the Nationals widened the gap
between themselves and the New York
ers to two and a half games with an
overtime triumph, McCarthy's mlnlons
can wrest second place from the home
boys by sweeping the remaining games
of the series.
The Yanks through their manager
have promised Col. Jake Rupert, the
big contract and pay-oH man OF the
club. they'll get second place for him
this year. The Nationals are out to
tell the world second place is theirs to
the finish. So those checking through
the turnstileS on Georgia avenue To-Day
ought to get a deal of entertainment.
THOSE 1000 and some who were
at Griffith Stadium yesterday got
an eyeful of base ball. Both sides
put everything they had into the fray
and not until the tenth inning could
the Nationals get 5-to-4 verdict in
their favor.
The Yanks did all their run-getting
early, with the Nationals starting their
scoring as late as the sixth inning:
The big wallop for the Johnson band
was furnished by Buddy Myer. who
made three OF the nine hits credited to
his outfit 1t was his rousing double,
driving over two runs in the eighth
inning, that deadlocked an apparently
lost affair and it was. his single in
the tenth that chased across the de-
cisive tally.
Myer made these big hits each time
after two were out. Buddy yesterday
was one Of the boys who never give up.
FRED MARBERRY and Henry john nm,
L son were opposing hurlers at the
outset Of the jousting. Fred left
he
ended. He had been nicked for six
safeties, three passes and all the scores
the Yanks were to get during the after
noon. johnson was not lifted until
after Myers double in the eighth. That
was the seventh hit off him, but he had
given up six passes and four had f1g-
ured In the Washington run-making.
Hadley, Crowder and Fischer followed
Marberry on the hill, Manager johnson
sending in pinch-batters to GUST Fred's
successors. One hit was made off Bump,
two off AL and two off Carl. With two
innings of toll Fischer got credit for
the win.
The left-handed Ed Wells finished for
the Yanks to take the beating. And he
allowed only two hits. Both were IN
that tenth, though.
twice wise stuff" was employed by
the Washington battery and each time
the strategem proved sound. With
Combs on second base and two out in
the third inning, Marberry walked
Gehrig Intentionally and Chapman
obliged by lofting to West. In the ninth
Fischer had a runner on second WITH
two out and Gehrig up. Again Lou was
walked and this time Chapman skied
to Rice.
The Yanks used the intentional pass
in the tenth. but it did not work so
well for them.
A THOUGH the Nationals started
n the tenth smartly, it looked as
though nothing would be registered
by them as the inning progressed
Bluege opened the inning with f1ne
rap to left and barely managed to get
to second base ahead of Chapmans
return. Here Kuhel was purposely
passed. Then Spencer, after twice
bunting fowls. popped out. Hayes
grabbed Fischers bat only to force out
Kuhel, but Myer walloped to center
safely and the ball game was over.
With Combs single, Ruth's triple to
deepest right-center and Gehrig's line
single, the Yanks had picked up two runs
in the first frame. They got two more In
the fourth from Lary's stroll, Dickey's
triple and Lazzeri's one-baser.
The Nationals got back two runs IN
the sixth when Manush and Cronin
put down neat hunts and West walked
to fill the sacks. Bluege's walk pushed
Heinie over the counting block and
Spencer's long fly after Kuhel took a
third strike tailed Cronin. Two were
out in the eighth when Spencer and
Harris, batting for crowder, walked.
Here Myer poled the double to knot the
battle.
OVERTIME games are Yankee poison
~ this season. That tilt yesterday
was the fourteenth extra-inning |
affair of the campaign for the New
Workers, and they have scored but four |
wins and a tie in the extended clashes
Chapman, the Yankee flyer, tried to
negotiate his f1fty-fourth base theft Of
the season in the fifth frame, when he
deliberately challenged Spencer after
walking to first. but Roy'S throw easily
cut down the wouldbe stealer With
the bases full of Nationals in the sixth
Kuhel whacked the ball down the first
base line. everybody who had been on
the runway got home and Joe pulled
UP at third base. but it was only q
tl1ree-ba foul strike, for the ball had
left the infield just before passing the
initial sack. The Nationals are to ex- |
ercise options on their stock now in |
the minors .Liska, Masters and Grit |
fifth. pitchers, now with Chattanooga; |
Moore, a pitcher, with Shreveport; Jor- |
dan, infielder, with Newark; Mcleod, |
inflelder, with York; Powell, outf1elder, |
with Binghamton, and Clark and Banks, |
outfielders, with Youngstown, are to be