Evening star., 1932-04-19
SLUG -FOUR BOXMEN
TO BEAT AS, 15 TO 7
ManuSh Comes Back After
Setting Up a Near Record
for Tanning.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

LnelT DdLS are LOT. AT laSC Cney
are threatening to display in the
championship campaign an often
sive power something like that
which marked their progress
through the Spring exhibitions.
In their last two engagements they
have collected rs safeties, something
of a comeback for a club that gar
nered just 81 hits in its first four
games.
While this two-game batting splurge
netted the Nationals but one victory,
that by Is to over the league cham
pion Athletics here yesterday, it is
hopeful sign. There's power in the
club that makes it ever dangerous
when properly functionfng. Walter
Johnson's charges have served notice
they are not to be trif1ed with when
they are in hitting mood.
OF course that spectacular batting
yesterday was done at the expense of
Connie Mack's second-String hurlers-
even Lee Roy Mahaffey, who started
for the AS, is not to be regarded as
a top-notcher so far this season. The
pitchers slammed here probably are
little stronger than those opposing the
Nationals during the majority of the
exhibitions during the training cam
paign.
However, the Nationals had to have
something to collect Is safeties off the
quartet of slabmen Mack trotted out.
And, even though George Earnshaw set
them back in Washington Sunday, he
was raped right smartly, for IL hits
were cleaned of him.
Perhaps Capital fans will be treated
to a display of some OF this power
during the next four days, when the
Red Sox are to put on three games
in Griffith Stadium in Washington
thereu be no contest Friday unless a
postponement occurs before. The Ma
tionals did not do much damage to
the Boston boxmen in the first three
games Of the seasn but they appear to
be ready to do plenty now.
T1HOSE slugging Nationals had plenty
J. CT fight in them yesterday as they
cerried on the series with the AS.
Undsunted by a three-run lead the
rome side got through two passes and
Foxg's homer over the center field wall
IN the first frsme the johnson band
came right back in the second to tie
the GENE. then gain an edge in the
rext two rounds The AS scored three
times in the sixth. Carl Fischer's last
round on the hill. to tie the score once
more, but in the seventh. with twn
aboard Heinie Manush drove the bah
over the right field wall and the Ma
tienals were in 'front.' to stay.
They went wild in the ninth to make
It an utter rout for the AS Six runs
were registered Sam West and Joe
Judge ramning homers over the right
field barrier. Two were on when Sam
hit and one was waiting on the run
wsv when Joe connected.
There was plenty of weird pitching
Fischer gave seven passes and five hits
before giving wav to Crowder in the
sixth. The General Welded hit and
two walks. Mahaffev granted six passes
and as manv clouts before he was lifted
In the fourth. Merit Cain. Joe Bow
man and Jimmy Deshong followed Ma
haffey in order and thev contrived to
issue five walks and allow nine hlts.
It was Deshong. considered the pest
of the Mack rockies, who TOOK that
ninth-inning lacing.
AHANUSH must have set some sort
lV1 of a record in striking out seven
times in eight consecutive times
at bat before getting on pase. ne
struck out the last two times ne 1aceo
Grove here Saturday, took the count
the first four times he faced Earn
shaw Sunday and after popping i gu.
the fifth time he batted against Big
George in Washington, Heinle opened
his work at bat yesterday with a IAN
But Manush came back in great style;
once out of the slump. The Secono
time Heinie faced Mahaffey he singled
to drive over the Nationals hrst Two
rms. The third time up he walked
and the fourth time sent long ny 10
simmons in left He hit that homer
in the seventh to make his days total
of runs batted in five and IN the nmth
he walked again. Each time henle
drew a pass he Tailed.
In sharp contrast to the oHehsNe
In the Sunday game in Washington
the Mats left-handed hitters yesterday
were very much on the Job. Myer
and West each got three hits and SO
did Judge This trio Of batters &C
counted for the scoring Of seven runs.
<sXIOU can bet We won't see much
i more of Mahaffey this year
said the old heads among the
Nationals after the massacre OF the AS.
Prom now on Connie will throw Grove,
Earnshaw and Walberg at us continu-
ally unless he is forced to start some
body else.
Well, the schedule is such that Mack
can pretty nearly feed the Nationals his
best brand of pitching without seriously
handicapping his club. He can chuck
his top-notcher trio against the Yanks,
about the cnly other outfit he probably
will have to bother about, and still have
those prize pitchers in trim for the
Nationals Which certainly is not
pleasant news to the followers of the
Washington club.
Unfortunately, the Nationals are so
poorly fixed in a pitching way that
they must employ about all they have
when they get into a series with club
of high type like the Athletics Not a
situation calculated to make the going
easy for the pitchers or the club.
WITH Roy Spencer suffering an at
w tack of indigestion shortly after
the club arrived here, in addition
to nursing a slightly charley-horsed
leg. Moe Berg was sent behind the bat
for the Nationals yesterday, and the
Spring pickup did a good piece of
backstopping.
Moe had no easy time of it, for no
self-respecting hawk would be as wild
as was Fischer. The portsider was
throwing anywhere but near the plate
most Of the time, and he had Berg bob
bing and ducking at great rate With
Crowder on the hill, the catcher had
q much easier time Of it.
Berg did not get hit, but he man
aged to get on base twice, and each
time he tailed. He was the sloweSt
catcher on his feet by far.
DESPITE his wildness and general
- ineffectiveneSS, Fischer hurled one
inning for which he deserved great
credit. 1t was the third that Haas
opened with a single. Cochrane fol-
lowed with a slam TO the right-field
wall good for double, but Haas made