Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

i L with his average OF .oou,
has been lifted from the
lineup because for three weeks
he has not been seeking the ball
to any helpful extent, but the big
fellow will not be out of the game
long. When he derricked Manush
yesterday Manager Walter john
son announced the player would
idle only for two or three days,
and that he expected the rest
would bring Heinie around to his
true batting form. In the mean
while, one of the RiceS will look
after left field.
Manush's failure this season to hit
up to the standard he set last year has
hurt the Nationals considerably. He
was a power in their offense after COM
ing to them from the Browns in mid
June last year, driving over many runs
with his long liners and piling up a
good score total himself.
This season ManuSh has had trouble
at bat all the way, but since the Ma
tionals got back from their last swing
around the West his trouble has been
! more pronounced. BY the end of the
' clubs second Western invasion of the
campaign his batting average had
shrunk to .315. Now it is but .299.
loss of l6 points in less than three
weeks.
Since they came out of the West the
Nationals have had Manush in II
games. In them he was at bat 70 times
1T oi,,{a civ
ting back to this part of the league has
hit the ball only at a rate of .232. Not
much help in that kind of batting.
Johnson, though believes that after
brief rest Manush will be more free
at the plate, timing his swing better
and getting more snap into the swing.
Should johnson be right, the Nationals
should step along at a much livelier
PACE after Heine returns to the lineup
They have done right well with him
batting weakly. A stronger Manush at
bat should make a much stronger Wash
lngton club in the race.
XTTHTLE they are making no Roadway
w in the chase for the pennant, the
Nationals are losing no ground to
the le2gue-leading AS anI the third
rlace Yankees. They persist in win
ming with them, which is as much as
can be expected of a club that has had
several Of its generally dependable play
6rs fall into slump at the same time.
Scoring over the Tigers, to 3, yes
terday- in Griffith Stadium, the johnson
band registered its fifth successive VIC
Ftcry and clinched the four-game series
with the Harris horde. Beating the
Tigers this year has been one Of the
best things done by the Nationals.
To win, the Washington Club bowled
over Elon Hogsett, left-hander. and
old SO in four rounds. Not so long ago
they were saying around the circuit
that left-handers We're plain poison to
the Nationals. Well, this HogSett wasn't.
He took an 11-hit pounding in his four
rounds six of the hits being punched in
the second for as many markers
After Hogsett left, Charley Sullivan,
right-hander, assembled the hill for
the Tigers. AS Sullivan pitched it was
well for the johnson crew that he had
not started. All cleaned off him in four
innings in the way of hitting was a
single in the eighth.
Fred Marberry went the full way for
the Nationals and though he yielded IL
hits the Tiger bats were not swinging
so merrily as that total might seem to
indicate. Six of the visitors Safeties
were Smacked in the last three innings,
four clustered in the eighth producing
two tallies. A cluster of three in the
third inning had netted the Tigers a
marker. After that big second inning
Marberry never seemed to exert himself
IT was Joe Kuhel who started and
i finished the six-run offensive in the
second session. He singled and after
Bluege lofted out there were successive
singles by Hayes. Hargrave, Marberry,
West and Sam Rice.
The Tigers kicked in with three errors,
two helping in the run-making. john
son in right chucked wildly by third
after picking up Hayes hit and let Jack
reach the middle base. That put the
Washington runner in position to score
with Kuhel as Hargrave smote the ball
to safety Vests hit scored Hargrave
and Rice's counted Marberry. Rice,
though. would have been held at first
base had not Walker heaved hectically
over third to the grandstand. The error
moved Sam to third from where he
scored as Cronin was thrown out.
A bobble by Gehringer then put Har-
but after Kuhel walked he was tagged
when double theft was attempted.
Singles by Hayworth, johnson and
Walker meant a run for the Tigers in
the third, but the Nationals came right
back to tally with Hayes triple fine
drive to the left field corner, and Har-
graves double. The Tigers made their
last bid IN the eighth when successive
one-basers by Johnson, Walker Geh-
ringer and McManus were good for two
markers.
old MAN SAM RICE, subbing in
~ left for the resting Manush, had a
great day. Stepped to the
plate four times for three singles in a
row and a walk Koenig was the
busy boy of the Tiger batting order.
Mark socked four successive sin
glss for a perfect game at bat. -.
We; made a sparkling running catch
in LIT center of Pinch-batter Uhle's
drive in the fifth. these Tigers
have no faith in seven" luck
seven times have they played the Ma
tionals in Detroit this season for only
two wins seven times have they
played them here for only one win
Marberry's victory over them was
his seventh successive win since COM
ing back to the hill after leg injury
nut him out of commission in late
MAY it was the Tigers seventh
straight defeat and the score
against them was to 3 they
must look on seven" as unnatural"