Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-10
PILOT ANTICIPATES
! STRONGER ATTACK
Regards Nationals as Out OF
Batting SIump-Red Sox
Easily Beaten.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.


M to be getting out of the
l Y batting slump that had
them down for nearly three
weeks Manager Walter Johnson
looks for another flock of vic
tories during the remainder OF
this home stand.
II believe we are ready to go,
and go we'll once more" said the
pilot this morning. Those who
were not hitting out West appear
to be swinging into their true bat
ting stride again and I expect
we'll score a lot of runs from
now on"
The 2o-hit affair yesterday. coming
right after the 11-hit game that was
lost to the Athletics on Wednesday, in
dates the club is out of the slump at
last, johnson thinks. up to Wednes-
day we hadn't done much at bat for
several weeks" he said. Every once in
q while we'd do some fair hitting, but
the good-hitting games were too rare.
There was a noticeable improvement
on Wednesday. though. The club got to
Lefty Grove in good style. And yester-
day almost every one in the game hit
hard. There is power in the club when
it is going right, and I expect that
power will be revealed a great deal
hereafter.
1T was very pleasing yesterday to see
Crnroip, anh ManIISh whn had
been having plenty of trouble at bat for
some time, hit so we'll. There was moth
ing fluky about their batting, They
Stepped into the ball and swung whole
heartedly Nothing like those weak cuts
they had been taking.
I'm sure the club is ready to make
Roadway again." is the way Johnson re-
CARDS the situation. Just watch us go
from here on
EOR the last two games of the series
i with the Red Sox Manager John
son plans to trot out his left-hand
pitchers. Carl Fischer was to get the
assignment this afternoon, while Bobby
Burke will be sent to the mound tonor-
row.
The Red Sox have in trim for service
here the bespec, acled Danny MacFay
den. big Ed Morris and Hold Lisenbec,
former National. They might also use
Jack Russell, who has trimmed the Ma
tiona's three times this season, al
though he toiled only day before yes
terday against the Yankees.
Milt Castor is expected to pitch in
this series. The former Washington
hurler who went to the Boston club in
the deal that brought Myer back here
has had an ailing arm much of this
season and has had to nurse 1t care
fully While the Red SoX were out West
last month CASTOR took day off TO
visit an osteopath in South Bend, lad,
and while the treatment helped some
the pitcher has not been doing much
work since.
THERE was plenty of action in
L Griffith Stadium yesterday as the
Nationals opened their series with
the Red Sox and by far the greater
club For the third time this season
Johnson's charges collected as many as
20 hits in a ball game and made much
of them as their 14to-1 victory shows.
The win was doubly sweet to the
Nationals, coming as it did when the
Athletics were being soundly drubbed
by the Yanks. 1t narrowed the gap be-
tween the American League pace
settlers and the second-place Washing
tonians to five and half games.
The Nationals did their heavy hitting
at the expense of the venerable Wiley
Moore and young Ed Durham, both
right handlers. Hits were made by all
il the game excepting Jack Hayes. who
cid not break into the affair until the
eighth inning the catcherS, Spencer
ana Hargrave. and Walter Masters,
Washingt on's newest pitcher. who made
his major league debut in the ninth
inning.
Eight Of the hits were cleaned off
Moore four in the first frame, giving
Nofi Yaolc
four more driving Wiley from the slab
in the third before batter was retired.
It was a big day for Sam West. He
socked two triples and as many singles
in five trips to the plate. Myer, Cronn
and Harry Rice got three hits each
with Buddy and Joe slamming for the
circuit. Both homerS were drives IN
side the park. Myer getting his OF
Moore in the third and Cronin his OF
Durham in the eighth.
Cronin alone did enough to sew up
the game for the Nationals, his bat
ting accounting for seven runs, TWO
of which he carried over.
Fred Marborry did the hurting for
the Nationals in the first eight innings
and yielded but seven safeties. TWO
punched in the sixth netted the Red
SoX their lone marker. Masters was
hit by the first batter to face him in
the ninth. but the next drilled into
double play ana the JElIQ pdGIeI put
up an easy fly.
CINGLES by Myer and Harry Rice,
y triple by West and Bluege's one
baser meant three runs for the Ma
tionals in the first frame then seven
hits in the third got six more markers.
There were three base thefts in the
third, Cronin and Bluege negotiating
a double steal in which Cronin scored
and Marberry surprisingly pilfering
third.
Three of four singles OF Durham and
boot by Right Fielder Webb figured
in the making of two scores in the
sixth inning and in the eighth there
were three more TALES when with two
on the runway Cronin banged his
homer joe had to leg it to get to
the plate and he slid across only a
whisker ahead of the throw to the
catcher
Rain fell from the fifth inning on,
but it did not slew the Nationals at ALL