Evening star., 1931-05-21

~ while his sprained left
wrist slowly heals, the
Washington ball club misses the
punch its second baseman pro-
vided when he was in the lineup.
Jocko Hayes, filling in at the mid
die station, is playing a whale of a
game afield. But all he has done
extensively in the West is hit at
a .115 rate, while Myer, before that
tumble on the basepath in Cleve-
land put him out of commission,
whacked for an average of 429 in
this sector.
Manager Johnson intends to rush
Myer into the game as soon as the
player says his hand is sufficiently
healed to permit him to play. Myer still
claims he cannot grip a bat properly
and no one seems to know how long 1t
may be before he will be able to give
his best to the Nationals. johnson hopes
to have this strong hitter back in action
Saturday when the club tackles the
Yankees in New York but Myers wrist
has been so slow rounding into good
trim he may not be ready by that time.
Only last Saturday Buddy's wrist
seemed all but we'll and Trainer Mike
Martin was confident the player would
be able to take part in the St. Louis
double-header the next day. But Buddy
declared on Sunday he was not ready
to step into the lineup and apparently
there has been little improvement in
the wrist since the club moved here
Monday.
In the meantime the Nationals attack
Is considerably weakened. Myer in four
games out this way batted 81 times for
hits. Hayes in z games has batted
&c times for hits. A great difference.
AD LISKA did the pitching in bat
"A ting practice yesterday, and if
there still is anything wrong with
the right arm that sent the under
handler to Lincoln; Nebr.. for three
weeks of treatment by muscle manip-
ulator it wasn't noticeable during the
workout.
Liska chucked with plenty Of speed
and dished up a lot of curves. He
pitched with perfectly free and easy
swing. too. After the drill Liska insist
ed the arm had not been tired more
than it would be normally by such ex-
ercise and that he would be ready to
show how strong it is by pitching to
batters again today.
The pitcher did not get through the
drill without mishap, though. A batted
ball struck him on the pitching wing
just below the elbow. 1t inflicted
painful though not serious injury, but
prompt treatment by Trainer Martin
quickly relieved the pitcher. Had the
drive lanoed on IiSka'S shoulder that
has been causing him so much trouble
the young man could have counted him
self out Tor several more weeks.
Heinie Manush hit the ball that
Lyaf ,1o1l
hit.
MANAGER JOHNSON late yesterday
1S1 suddenly changed his plans for the
final game of the Western trip.
deciding to send Irving Hadley instead
Of Al Crowder to the hill against the
White Sox. This Chicago club has
three or four hitters with great
amount Of power in their swings and
after looking them over yesterday john
son figured Hadley's fast one might
prove more effective against the Big
boys than Crowder's not-so-speedy
stuff.
With Brown slated to hurl against
the Yanks Saturday, looks as though
Crowder viii wait until Sunday to get
start again. At that. it seems well
10 hold him over for a club like the
Red Sox
For the belated start Of the White
lineup. sending the right-hand-h hitting
Dave Harris instead Of one of the left
hand-swing Rices into right field and
pushing up Manush and Cronin in the
batting order 10 install Harris in the
fourth position. Joe Kuhel, who started
at first base for the first time since
hurting a knee in Cleveland early last
week, was placed back Of Biuege in
stead of ahead of him as formerly.
The Kuhei-Bluege shift was made,
johnson explains to avoid having two
left-hand swingers batting in success
sion against the southpaw Glabbing done
by Pat Caraway Of the home side.
Harris is likely to be employed in right
hereafter whenever the opposition
starts a left-hand-r johnson says, and
the batting order used yesterday viii
prevail
Sam Rice generally is to get the call
over Harry Rice for right-fleld duty
against the right-hand pitchers, al
though they probably VIII share the
task in some Of the double headers the
Nationals are TO play
CAD SAM JONES and Caraway waged
- a sterling mound battle in the first
meeting Of the season between the
Nationals and White SoX, and it was
snybody's game all the way. There
were Just tWo breaks in the affair, and
both in favor Of the Washington club.
Each break had 70 90 with the scoring
In the 2-to-0 triumph Of the Nationals.
With two out IN the second inning,
Roy Spencer lifted the ball toward left
field Smeed Jolley ran back 10 the
concrete wall in front of the stand, but
with no chance of a catch. II did
seem, though. that the bali would strike
the wall near the top and bound into
the field for perhaps nothing more than
a two -baser. However. a fan stuck
his hands over the barrier the ball
landed against them and instead Of
falling 70 the field caromed into the
stand for Spencer's first homer OF the
year
Kuhel opened the eighth inning with
a hoist TO right field Reynolds him
dered by wind and sun, found IT diff
cult to gauge the flight Of the sphere
and finally tried a catch above his
head. The ball bounded out of his
hands for a two-base' error, although
it seemed that under the circumstances
handicapping the outfelder Kuhel
might well have been credited with a
double.
sam Rice went in 10 run for Kuhel
and was promptly sacrificed TO third by
f}eancer. A pass came Jones way. then
the squeeze play, with Hayes bunting,
got Rice over the plate.
GO Caraway lost ball game in which
- he yielded only three hits and two
passes. Jones was found by the
white Sox for six hits and two passes.
One Of the passes was Intentional,
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