Evening star., 1932-05-15
PASSES IN EIGHTH
BRING Ga VICTORY
Uhle Forces Over Two Runs
After Error Allows Tie.
Myer Hits Homer.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

wv stands at Griffith Sta
' Y dium yesterday, fgur-
ing the Tigers had the
ball game tucked away, were think
ing only of home and supper the
Nationals up and walked to a g.
to-4 victory.
The surprise party was staged
in the eighth inning that John
sons charges entered two runs
to the bad. After two hits and an
error had let them tie the score
with two out, the veteran George
Uhle blew higher than the highest
mountain to issue three successive
passes and push two Nationals
over the counting block.
For three innings the game was
battle, with each club scoring in the
first session and Buddy Myer clouting
the ball to the far reaches of the angle
back Of right center for homer in the
third to Offset one of the two talliez
the Tigers had hung up in the same
session.
In the fifth the Detroit club In blast
ing Lloyd Brown from the pitching hill
hung up another score to assume o
two-run lead, and the way Uhle was
going along 1t did not seem the Ma
tionals would overcome that handicap.
Error Turns Tide.
Do 4LAA a
doesn't take much to turn the tide in
ball game. The Tigers had a 4-3
win within their grasp when Nolan
Richardson had q third out at hand,
but their third-sacker fumbled Carl
Reynolds grounder to let Sammy West
tote across the deadlocking marker.
Then came Uhle's ascention.
Pretty lucky the Nationals were, 1t
might be said Lucky or not, though,
the win means Just as much to them
as though they had slammed their way
to triumph. It's not how a club wins,
but that 1t wins.
Here's the story of that fateful eighth:
Sam Rice picked up the bat Of Bobby
Burke, who had succeeded Brown on
the slab, and skied out. Myer singled,
only to be forced out in q whisker play
by Heinie Manush. The Tigers new
first-sacker, Harry Davis, made q great
heave to Bill Rogell after picking up
Manush's slow one.
Uhle couldn't find the plate with
West up and walk followed. Joe
Cronfn whipped a single to center to
| tally Manush and send West to the far
corner. but it looked all over when Rey-
nolds rolled that grounder toward Rich
ardSon.
Sauntering to Win.
Richardson just couldn't pick up the
ball, though, so West crossed with the
tying tally, and the panic-for Uhle
was on.
Uhle went to a 3-and-2 count with
Judge, then chucked a wide one that
walked Joe TO load the stations. With
Bleuge, Uhle again went to q 3-and-2
count, then tossed the fourth ball that
walked Ossie and forced Cronin over
the plate and the Nationals into the
lead. Uhle wasn't so good with Berg.
The Tiger hurler got only one strike
on Moe before walking him and shov-
ing Reynolds over the final base.
Here Uhle walked from the pitching
hill in disgust, so the left-handed Elon
Hogsett, heap big Injun, took up the
Tiger hurting. Hogsett pitched only to
Rice, up for the second time In the
round, as Rice forced out Berg.
Brown, starting against the Tigers,
was nothing like the Brown that
blanked the Indians only last Monday.
Lloyd opened poorly and went from
bad to worse until he gave way to
Burke In the fifth. In his short term,
he was found for seven hits-and what
hits several were-and two passes.
Five of the hits and one of the passes
figured In the Tigers run-making.
Brown Well Pounded.
That pass might not have become
a run, however, had Berg made a bet
ter throw with Davis stealing third.
Davis had opened the game with a
walk and moved on as Rogell was put
out. He headed for third with Stone
at bat. Berg's high chuck pulled
slid in safely to score later as Stone
rolled out
Two triples with a single sandwiched
between, all after two were out, got
the Tigers two runs in the third and
Pogells single at the outset of the fifth,
followed by Stones two-bagger. pro-
duced another Tiger marker and forced
Browns retreat. Burke passed the first
batter to face him, then settled and
allowed only one hit, single at the
start Of the eighth. Only bunted sim
gle was gleaned on Fred Marberry, who
pitched the ninth.
After Manush's single and Vests
double netted a run in the first frame,
the Nationals got but two passes other
than Myers homer on Uhle until the
telling eighth. Then they raised their
hits to five and their passes to six,
plenty to win with.
That big eighth gave the Nationals
a sweep Of their two-game set with the
Tigers, a record of five wins against
one loss in their battling with the West
and the victory was their nth In a row.
Bucky Harris changed his lineup for
the tilt, having Davis and johnson ex-
change positions. Davis, as lead-oh
batter. got on twice with q walk and
single, but johnson, down in the $40,
notch, cracked a single and q trip.A
Before they came here the Tigers
had lost only one game by more than
one run, that to the Yanks, who beat
them, to 1. Now they have lost three
by more than lone tally.
TULSA TOPS WESTERN.