Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
powerful INDIANS
ARRIVE TOMORROW
In Great Comeback After
Long SIump-Marks Made
in ChisoX Rout.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

bI JOE1N ID.
A CLUB that threatened to
~ tumble out of the league
race, so poorly was it going
then came back to soar
again to a respectable height
lands here tomorrow to open a
series of four games with the
Nationals. The Indians, the Vests
lone outfit In the first division OF
the American League tussle, will
arrive with a reputation for being
able to fight back valiantly as an
aggregation calculated to make
trouble for all corners.
Before the season opened the Indians
were highly rated by many base ball
experts daring to predict the order of
finish in the circuit. The Cleveland
club had not fielded so well in training
down South, but it had flashed much
good pitching and plenty of batting
power. 1t was the power in attack
more than anything else that made the
Indians so impressive.
They started out as though the wise"
ones were right. The Indians were
away to a fast start, but suddenly
land machine. The Tribe began losing,
and did not stop losing until dozen
games in a row had gone to its oppo-
nents.
But once that losing streak was broken
the Indians got their heads up quickly
and were on the Warpath once more.
They reeled off string of 10 successive
wins and have broken even with the
opposition in their last four engage
In n
York they have defeated the Yankees
twice in three starts and are right at
their heels.
nERHAPS a tightening of defense
L had most to do with Cleveland
shaking off its slump and resum-
ing winning ways. With F'onseca at
first base and Manager Peckinpaugh
experimenting with several players at
third base, while the slower Jameson
was substituting for the fashy Vosmik
when the Nationals last played them in
May the Indians were too Sievelike.
They let many games dribble through
their hands.
Not until Willie Kamm was procured
from the White SoX in exchange for
FonGeca and Morgan restored to the
first-base Job he filled SO we'll last year
did the Indians begin to become danger
Gus again. Kamm proved just the third
sacker needed to give good inner
Gordon and when Vosmik won back
from Jameson the left-feld patrol the
Tribe began clicking in fine way.
Their support strengthened the
pitchers who had been wabbling fire.
Of the Indians became even stronger
than it had been. The Cleveland club
has about everything now to make it
a rough customer. Looks as though
the Nationals will have plenty to do
the next four days.
THREE straight from the White Sox
= and six out of seven from the
West since it began its first in
vasion Of Washington this season. The
Nationals apparently have much on
the clubs of the inland sector of the
league.
The third win over the Chicago club
scored yesterday was the easiest the
johnson charges have had to chalk up
in their home stand against the West
ern clubs. Their part Of the 18 to 4
score was the best they have registered
this season and they clinched the game
with another record count for them in
the 1881 campaigning.
When the Nationals tailed eight
times in the second inning, they en-
joyed their plumpest scoring bee since
the curtain went up on the league this
season. They had been through several
six-run rounds and at Philadelphia on
April "a they actually scored seven
runs in the seventh inning only to be
beaten out by the AS.
DOLLING up their big count the Ma
IN tionals pummeled four White Sox
hurlerS, all right-handers. AL
Thomas started, but gave way in the
second session to Vic Frasier. who in
turn was relieved in the fourth frame
by Jim Moore. This third hurler was
derricked in the sixth so Red Faber
got chance to finish.
Thomas took the beating as the Ma
tionals collected 20 hits off the quartet
of moundsmen. The johnson band
began modestly, getting only one run
in the first inning. In the second,
however, it shelled Thomas from the
hill with a four-hit blast and after
Frasier had walked pair he took a
hard pounding.
Then the Nationals had three fat
innings in which they all but walloped
the ears off Frasier, Moore and Faber.
The ChisoX hurlerS were wild, too, and
seven times during the fray the Ma
tionals had the bases crowded.
Everybody in the Washington lineup
hit safely and scored except Bill Har-
grave, WHO went III % CaUCn dIUeT Roy
Spencer had been hit on the hand while
TT bat in the fourth inning. And every
body in the lineup except Spencer par
ticipated in the driving over of runs
With four singles, two made in the sec
ond inning, and a walk, Bluege had
perfect day. Cronin raised to 16 the
total of consecutive games in which he
has hit safely by collecting two doubles
WHEN the Nationals were not getting
w runs Bob Burke kept the White
SoX well in check. They nicked
him for eight hits and three passes, four
of the hits and one of the passes being
punched in the third and fourth rounds
to net the visitors three markers.
The fourth Chisox tally was the re-
suit of homer driven into the open
stand back of left center by Johnny
Kerr at the outset Of the ninth inning
1t was good day for Burke on the
hill and he probably will regard it an
even better one for him at bat. Bobby
helped himself to three singles in five
trips to the plate, which just about made