Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-10
Al NOW IS ON WAY
TO TOP 1880 MARK
Has Scored Six Successive
Wins-BatS in Run That
Defeats MaCks.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

fine record for this season,
considering his poor start. Already
the General shows a better win
ming Observation-Disclosures the
current campaign than he at
tanned during last year, when he
won 18 games and lost Is. And
while the Western clubs are here
the next two weeks CroWder has
a good opportunity at least to
match his winning total of 1880,
for his record for this year now
shows Is victories against 10 de-
featS.
For nearly two months at the start of
this season the General simply could
not make any Roadway in the pitching
line All clubs seemed to take fancy
to his delivery and, generally, he was
pounded from the hill before the game
was well under way. He swung into fine
form late in June, however, and since
has been travelling at a great pace.
TWothirdS of his wins have been
scored since July /, and since August
10, when the White SoX upset him in
Chicago. Crowder has not suffered de-
feat. With a fine bit of work against
the league-leading AS yesterday,
CroWder ran his winning streak to six
games. During this streak he defeated
the Athletics three times, the Yankees
once, the Browns once and the Tigers
once.
In the last 10 days the General has
Varquished the AS three times and the
YankS once. A modern iron man" of
the hill.
Crowder is the only Washington
hurler especially successful against the
Athletics this year He beat them the
last five times he faced them and lost
to them but twice, once when he entered
a tied game late. The General started
against the AS six times and finished
in four of his starts.
Crowder did much more than any
other Washington pitcher to make his
clubs annual series with the Mack
maulers end in a deadlock.
TROWDER had a brilliant duel with
~ George Walberg yesterday before
getting his 2-to-l decision for
the Nationals. The Philadelphia port
slider pressed the General throughout
but paved the way to his defeat with
the one pass he issued in the 10
innings.
This walk went TO ossie Bluege at
the outset Of the extra frame. Roy
Ossie to the middle base. Crowder
twice tried TO sacrifice, but each time
hunted foul. Then the General cap
ped his fine pitching feat by cracking
a single that put across the big run
But six hits and two passes were
yielded by Crowder and only twice did
the AS have as many as two on the
sacks at one time. The General regis
tered seven StrikeoutS, twice making
a victim of the dangerous Al Simmons
Walberg was found for eight hits
and the one stroll that helped bring
about his undoing. Twice he permitted
the Nationals to bunch as many as two
hits, and in each of the rounds in which
this was done a score resulted.
The victory left the Nationals with
an even break with the AS in the %
tussels between the clubs this year
and also restored them to a game and
a-hah advantage over the third-place
Yankees, who for some time have
threatened to gain the runner-up berth
IN the American League.
ONLY one hit was needed for the
~ first Washington run. 1t was a
double by Cronin that opened the
second inning drive that got by Sim
mons in left. Cronin moved up as
Harris was thrown out, then Kuhel shot
one at FoxX. The first baSeman elected
to try to head off Cronin, who was rae
ing to the plate, but the throw to
Heving arrived just too late to prevent
run.
The AS wasted Cramer's triple that
came with one out in their first batting
turn and the Nationals got nothing from
RiceS double in the third Nor did a
pass to Rommel and Cramer's second
hit. single, help the home side in the
same inning. Bluege singled for the
johnson band with two out in the
fourth only to be nabbed in an effort
to pilfer.
1t was in this inning that the AS put
over their lone marker. Simmons had
famed when Foxx lofted the ball over
the head OF Rice and it rebounded from
the center field wall to roll to deep
right-center while Jimmy tore around
the paths for tying homer, his twenty
seventh circuit blow of the year
The Nationals had Crowder on in the
NTH as a result of a single with one
out, but the General got no aid. WAL
berg and McNair singled in succession
with one out in the Macks' fifth round,
but Crowder frightened and Cramer
popped out while foul retired Dykes.
There was no more hitting until the
eighth when Rice got fluky single with
two out only to see Manush ground to
the third baSeman. Two were out in
the Mackian part of this round when
Dykes drew the second and last pass
from Crowder. Then Simmons hoisted
to Harris.
The last hit for the AS came in the
ninth. Heving, who had been struck
out twice, singled with two mates gone
and was stranded as Myer and Kuhel
cared for Rommel
All thereafter was done by the John
son band.
Not day now but what some Mack
springs an ailment. latest to get on
the list of casuals is Bing Miller. the
right fielder pulled UP yesterday with a
stiff neck. other AS out and their
troubles are Bishop. injured shoulder:
Moore, strained thigh; Haas. injured
wrist: Boley. charleyhorse. .Cochrane
has badly bruised leg and Simmons
besides having bad ankles is ridicu-
lousy overweight. but both of these
players get into the game occasionally
spencer got a single in the second
inning only because Umpire Hildebrand
got in the way of Williams, who had
made a nice stop back of second, and
prevented the Shortstop throwing for a
force out on Kuhel in the fourth
inning Bluege stole second easily, but
was tricked by Walberg's notion when
he attempted theft of third and found
Dykes waiting with the ball. the fifth
was hitting inning for both pitchers,
Crowder lining single to center while
Walberg bounced one down the first
base line too hard for Kuhel to check
clearly. :. Kuhels rap in the seventh
bounded off Walberg's hands, but the
pitcher raced over to retrieve the ball
near the first base line and tag out Joe
Rice got dinky single in the eighth.
HE MN hpinp lost in the SIN haNk 0f