Evening star., 1932-09-17
TRIBE STRUGGLING
70 BOLSTER PECK
Anxious to Prove Worth of
Manager-CroWder Shines
in Win Over Tigers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
y7yyr5Y AyD Nl,s- C@x.@

~LEVELAND, Ohio, September
1.-THE Middle West is
" having its last look at the
Washington base ball team
for the season of 1882. The
Nationals close their Western en-
gagementS for the year in series
here, where they will have plenty
of tough opposition.
There has been some talk here of
replacing Roger Peckinpaugh as man.
ager of the Indians The anti-Peckin-
paugh movement was given boom by
the Wesley Ferrell incident. Ferrell,
one of the so-called prima donnas OF
the major leagues, did not like his as
SignmentS, did not like this and that,
made some public statement rejecting
upon Peckinpaugh'S ability to handle
pitchers and the arguments finally
came to a suspension for Ferrell.
AS result of the suspension, it was
rumored around town that all the ball
players were up in arms against Peck
inpaugh. But the boys went out to
prove that Peck is really a good guy
and fine manager and that he stands
anything you care to that when another
season opens Peckinpaugh will be man
ager of the Cleveland team.
Washington will get the benefit Of the
"do-it-for- Peck" attitude. The going
will be rather rough here in three games
and Alvin Crowder cannot pitch every
day.
Crowder pitched the final game in
Detroit yesterday and he has rarely
hopn hottpr He hold the TiOprc tn
hits. He walked only three men and
he won by an 8-to-3 score, enabling
the Nationals to continue their fight
for second place.
The team came up well behind
CroWder. Cronin made an error, and
so did Bluege, but both misplays were
eXcusable, and Cronin did some brilliant
fielding as we'll He made two dazzling
catches of foul flies in left field terri
tory. West, Rice and Kuhel also con-
tributed spectacular plays. Myer made
one that was far out of the ordinary.
The Nationals hit well together yes
terday, something that they did not do
in the previous two games. Only three
of their ten hits did not figure in the
run scoring.
Alvin Crowder won his twenty-third
victory OF the season yesterday. He is
charged with Is defeats, He had plenty
a. 2rst s'I1I two batters Who faced him in the
seventh and both scored. he gave only
one other base on balls.
BY winning yesterday Washington got
an even break for the year with Detroit
Each team won IL games and lost the
same number 1t is the first time since
Stanley Harris took charge OF Detroit
that the Tigers have been able to get
as much as an even break with the
Nationals.
They are having ladies' days in De-
troit for the first time this season.
About 5000 were out yesterday, and they
screamed Justify for nine innings.
Sam West was back in center field.
He killed three-bagger for Davis with
a brilliant running catch in left center.
He got only one hit, but that drove IN
run.
By beating Detroit the Nationals sent
the Tigers below 500 percentage. 1t
was Detroits seventy-first defeat OF the
year.
Buddy Myer walked three times.
Twice he scored and the third time he
was thrown out at the plate.
Charley Gehringer made two swell
plays in the first inning, but neither
helped Detroit. He dived behind first
base and stabbed Rices drive with his
gloved hand, but could not recover in
time to make a throw. He made a
catch of Kuhels fly while running at
top speed in center field, but was going
SO fast that he could not throw home
and stop run.
Two of the three hits that Detroit
made were credited to Heinie Soluble,
the smallest man in the lineup and the
seventh man in the Detroit batting Or
der. He got a single and double and
drove in two of Detroit's runs The
other scored on Cronin's tumble.