Evening star., 1932-09-24
THIRD MONEY ONLY
FOR JOHNSON BAND
Game Goes as Weaver Says
After Long Lay-off Due
to Hard Shower.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, September "a.
- The Nationals will have
to be satisfied with third
place money.

w NC rdl4S1lCo W2O2A WILL ~
place money.
They lost all hope for the 81, 400
per man that probably will go to
the runners-up ii. Shibe Park yes
terday, when the Athletics won by
to the first game of a series of
three, to end the season.
Last years champions thus
clinched second place in the 1882
race.
And Walter johnson and his Ma
tionals are wondering whether rain was
not the cause of it all.
1t began to shower early in the game
yesterday, and it was coming down SO
hard in the Mack part Of the fourth
round that recess was declared. The
Nationals were ahead then and Monte
Weaver was going good. But after the
47-minute rest Weaver was not SO good,
and the Athletics banged him from the
peak and did enough damage to Dick
Coffman and Lloyd Brown, his success
sors. to win handily.
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the rain became serious menace to
pitching, fielding and the health of all.
with the AS at bat in the fourth inning
The Nationals had slapped Rube Wal
berg, the starting pitcher for the AS,
hard enough to bring about his disnis-
sal in the third inning.
Roy Mahaffey, the Rube's successor,
also was dangerously slapped. SO the
great Lefty Grove had to finish for
the AS.
TOCHRANE Skidded a one-baser into
~ right to open the fourth for the
AS. Then came the increase in
rainfall which neceSsitated a halt. The
wait stretched out to AZ minutes before
play was resumed. Soon the Nationals
began to wonder whether double
header today wouldn't have been better
for them.
Simmons clouted a homer to score
Cochrane, and later singles by McNair
and Dykes added another marker, and
the Athletics were in the lead, to 3,
to stay.
With Brown southpawing in the fifth
the Mack sluggers went to work and
added two runs. A single by Cochrane,
double by Simmons and one-bagger by
Foxx did the damage.
Kuhel's home run. line drive that
cleared the right field fence. opened
the Nationals seventh. Mahaffey SEEM
ed in bad way. So Connie Mack had
Grove warm up. Lefty went to the
hill in the eighth, but even the great
bne was sagging in the ninth. The Ma
tionals loaded the bases on passes to
Cronin and Bluege with Kuhel's single
mixed in. But double play ended the
ball game.
WEAVER chucked home-run ball to
w Mule Haas which accounted for
the Mack tally in the first. The
Haas homer struck atop the scoreboard
in right center and bounced on over.
1t was long drive.
Jimmy Foxk hit ball hard enough
to earn him his fifty-seventh home run
OF the season in the second inning.
But it was low liner and the new
home-run king got only two bases when
the ball struck the left center wall.
Sam Rice not only hit Walberg, a
southpaw, hard, but he showed speed
in running out his triple in the first
inning and stealing second in the Sec
ond round.
Al Simmons crashed the 3-and-1
pitch to get his thirty-ffth home run
when the game was resumed after the
rainfall in the fourth inning.
Sheriff Harris had chance to slug
one of his Southern League homers
in the fifth, and it would have meant
tie score. He came to bat with
Bluege, who had doubled, on third,
but the Sheriff famed.
Kuhel. who hit a homer to get one
run, had a bright idea in the Mack
eighth. He snapped throw to sec
ond to surprise Bishop there, but the
heave was too high and Bishop ran
to third on the error