Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-04

l Y Nationals will visit all
cities of the Western end
of the American League and all
of the Eastern end excepting
Philadelphia Manager Walter
johnson expects to get good re-
suits from such starting hurlers
as Irving Hadley, Carl Fischer,
and Lloyd Brown. 1t will be up
to this trio, the pilot figures, to
keep the Washington club up in
the pennaht race.
Prior to the start of the campaigning
.the manager banked heavily upon his
veterans All Crowder. and Sam Jones,
while Fred Marbsrry was expected to do
q pretty good share of the Slabbing and
do it. effectively, too. Only Hadley,
Fischer and Brown. however. have per-
formed consistently well since the sea-
son got under way. Jones, johnson
feels, may soon swing into good form
and hurl well over a nine-inn1ng route
instead of beiAg the six-inning boXman
he has been thus far. As to Crowdsr,
johnson has little hope of the pitcher
coming through until June.
For a time the Washington boss be-
lieved he had just about the best pitch
ing staff in the American League. The
records of the members of last year
were impressive and Walter had no rea-
son to believe other than that most Of
them would repeat. Despite their ply
steal fitness, though, several have been
quite wabbly In their efforts and 1t looks
as though only a few will have to bear
the brunt of the mound work until
warm weather gets the kinks out OF the
wings of the old timers
AHARBERRY has been something of a
1V1 disappointment to date. john
son during the training season
had an idea the bug Texan would be
ready to function as a starter as we'll
as in relief roles Fred has been some
thing of an in-and-outer in both classes
however. and he probably will not be
picked as a regular performer for some
time.
The greatest disappointment, though,
has been General Crowder. This right
handler who did such excellent pitching
after transferring from the Browns to
the Nationals the middle Of last June
still has to show any real worth this
season. Crowder now has been in six
games and in each was well walloped.
He has hurled IS innings, enough to net
him three defeats Net only has Crow
der's control been faulty. but he also
has been woefuIly weak when the OPP
position had runners on the basepath.
It Is apparent that Crowder has not
regained the fast ball that made him so
effective last season. And without that
fast one the General is Just about help
less on the hill.
TT was Crowder who gave up the runs
i that sent the Nationals to defeat
d. r1-sw ,V% =.
Lloyd Brown and not Al was charged
with the 3-to-1 licking After Brown
had hurled a remarkable eight innings
before being lifted in favor of pinch
batter Crowder came on to take a two
hit FASTING in the ninth that meant
brace Of tallies for the Athletics.
OF course, that muff of a pop fly by
OSsie Bluege hurt the General to the
extent Of one run. but there was moth
ing pleasing sbout his pitching. 1t was
as shaky as that he had shown in pre-
vious endeavors.
The Athletics got seven hits all told,
which was the exact amount the Ma
tionals cleaned of the left-hand hurting
Of George Walberg. But the AS twice
punched hits for results, while only one
Of the seven blows made by the Ma
tionals amounted to anything. That
was homer driven into left-f1eld stand
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save his club from a shutout.
DROWN yielded five Of the seven hits
- made by the AS. Two were clus-
tered in the first frame for tally.
He had two out and two strikes on
Cochrane when the latter lined single
TO center. Along came Simmons with
a mighty wallop TO right field for three
bases TO send over run.
A scratchy single was made on Brown
by Miller in the second inning, then
there was no more hitting by them
until the eighth, when. with two out,
they got two more singles.
Crowder took up the mound burden
in the ninth and after striking out
Cochrane he was banged by Simmons
for homer It was drive that landed
on top of the right field fence and
bounded beyond the park. Thus Sim
mons batting sailed the game for the
Macks
Bluege couldn't hold to a pop fiy
lifted by FoSx and after the second out
of the round was recorded Jimmy scor-
ed as Dykes cracked a two-bagger.
VIIASHINGTON'S hits of Walberg
w we're spread over FIVE innings. The
g.. s'.raa moro fIIkv affairs West got