Evening star., 1932-08-17
HITS At .389 RATE
IN LAST 45 GAMES
Rises From .311 Hitter to
Ranking Lot of Majors.
White Sox Upset.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

GOOD DdlteE Sluiilpo az
" times, but being a good
n batter he always swings
back into a fine hitting
stride. Heinie Manush of the Ma
tionals, who last year dropped in
hitting average to .307 after a
string of seasons in which he was
among the best Swatters OF the
American League, again is soaring
toward batting heights.
Manush now is with the ranking bat
ters of the Junior major loop, boasting
an average of .345, and the better part
Of that average above the 300 mark has
been built up by the big boy since the
second half of the campaign got unoer
way.
Heinie swung into the July batting
with a batting rating of just 81. III
45 games in the last AZ days, however,
he has stung the ball so saVagely tnat
he has picked up a matter of "a points
which is brilliant batting in any COM
ranv over such a lengthy stretch.
Manush has been particularly severe
m nitchers in the last l8 games In
four of these games he failed TO con-
meet safely, but in the other IA ne
raped a total of 90 safetles. Many
were three-hit games for him, as was
Yesterdays. And since July =! Helile
has wailoped the ball for the neat
average of .309 -.
In Stride. Manush is one Of the best
hitters in the business. He's proving
that beyond all doubt these days.
AL CRoWDER is bent upon scoring
n at least 90 hill victories this sea-
son and after f1oundering about Tor
q time it looks as though the general
will reach his goal.
When he scored over the Wnlte SoH
Yesterday in the opener of the series OF
four games the Nationals have Win
them, Crowder ran to five his Strlng OF
successive victories. And the five have
been ehalked up in the last IA days.
that's stepping along at great rate. >,
Crowder now has a pitching record Oh
16 wins against 13 defeats for the CAM
paign. He opened well and enjoyed
brilliant streak, then ran into plenty
of trouble and for more than SIX weeks
getting a game was something peyono
him. -
But the general has deal OF cour-
age. He's always in there ngntlng, re-
gardless of what the opposition may 40
to him. And this courage very hkeIy
will get him to the 20-victory mark, too
a T that, Crowder was especially 1or-
n tunate yesterday in getting that
win over the White Sox, for when
he was supplanted in the lineup by
pinch-batter the score against the Ma
tionals WIS 3 TO 0. But snappy
eighth Inning rally meant four runs ana
a 5-to-3 triumph for his CLUB.
Up to that home eighth inning the
general had been nicked for II safeties
totaline l6 bases. The White Sox had
threatened to find the plate in each OF
the innings up othe fifth, when they
clustered four singles and a pass 1or
trio of tallies.
When threatened outside of that fifth
round. however, Crowder managed to
brace and keep the aliens away from
the counting block or the aliens them
selves by poor work on the runway
managed to throw away scoring
chances.
1t was well this happened for through
seven innings Milton Castor OF the
Fonseca curvlng corps was in fine fet-
tie. Only four hits were made oil MN
over this string of rounds and the only
run cleaned Off him was due to Wllo
chuck by one of his supporting cast,
CASTOR weakened III the eighth,
though to yield a pass and two more
hits, and these with another mlsplay py
his support proved his undolng. WITH
one out in the inning, he turned Jhe
game over to tie veteran spitb2ller, Red
Faber. Red finished well, even Though
the last Washington run was registered
while he was on the hill.
Monte Weaver went in to face the
White Sox after the Nationals had
forged ahead and he set them back IN
order in the ninth.
TREsS started the White Sox scor-
n ing attack in the fifth with a
single. He stuck at first base as
Berry and CASTOR went out, but reach
ed third when Funk singled. Then
came a squeeze play, with Hayes bunt-
ing, and Kress got home. Hayes bunt
was SO good that he got hit from 1t
by beating to the base Spencer's heaVe
Blue walked, then Appling singled two
more runs over.
But Appling also paved the way to
the Washington rally in the eighth.
The Nationals went into this inning two
runs to the bad, their lone tally haVlng
been made in the sixth when the tITo
baseman. after picking up bounder,
threw wildly over first to let Myer
counted as Manush grounded into re-
tirement. Reynolds, batting for Spencer
at the outset. of the eighth, drew pass,
then Appling let roller from Harris,
batting fer Crowder, go through for
two-base errcr and the rout was on.
REYNOLDS scored and Harris moved
up as Rice was thrown out. Myer
cracked a single to tally Harris End
Manush tripled to register Myer at the
plate. Here Faber relieved Castor.
Cronin found Red for long fly that
enabled Manush to dent the final base.
TACK HAYES, once a popular men,
Der OF the Nationals, flashed a
fine game for the visitors . he
got triule. a double and put down
the bunt that sent ove- his clubs first
run afleld he had 13 chances and
accepted all, handling eight of them
ir the first three innings -. at the
outset of the fourth, he went to the
grass back of first base for spectacu-
lar stop of Manush's hot one, but
couldn't get the ball to Blue in time
ynr q uiay. Umpire Guthrie had
an off-day on the bases. Rice
clearly beat to first Hayes throw IN the
sixth inning, but Bill waved Sam out
and in the sixth Blue was at least a
yard off the initial sack when he took
a relay from Hayes, but the official de-
cided Bluege had been retired for a
dcuble-play umpires will get that
way occasionally. The win clinched
the annual series with the White SoX,
the count now standing II games TO 3
for the Nationals with to play.
A CUBAN outfielder named Ysmael
n Morales has been picked up by
the Nationals, but will not be
eligible for service until next Spring :.