Evening star., 1932-09-15
NEED z T|LTS LEFT
FOR SEASONS EDGE
Poor Pitching by Brown Is
Cause of 8.3 Loss in
Opener at Detroit.

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Something may happen
- this year that has not hap
pened since Stanley Har-
ris left Washington to become
manager of the Detroit team.
Washington may fail to win the
seasons series from Detroit and
that will be in the nature of a
record.
To date Detroit and Washington
have played 20 games and each
team has won 10. Washington
must win today and tomorrow in
order to get the edge for the sea-
son. If they break even they will
get no better than a tie and that
is the worst showing they have
made against Detroit since the
departure of Harris from Griffith
Stadium.
Washington and Philadelphia are
fighting for second place in the Amer
lean League standing and if Philadel
phia beats out Washington the Nationals
can blame their failure on Detroit.
Athletics and Tigers have closed their
accounts for 1892 and the Athletics beat
the Tigers Is out of % games. Yankees
and Tigers also have played all the
games scheduled for them this year and
the Yankees helped their pennant-win-
ming fight considerably by winning II
out of % games from Detroit. But
Washington, able to beat the Tigers
season after season in recent years, has
fopped this season and you can con-
slider an even break with Detroit as
distinctly flop.
THE Washington pitchers did not do
i SO well against Detroit. Bad pitch
ing is what beat the Nationals
yesterday and the bad pitching was pro-
duced by Lloyd Brown, the starting
pitcher. Detroit scored seven runs of
Brown in little more than two innings
and seven runs was three more than
then needed to win. The final score
was to 3.
Four Tiger runs scores in the first.
Two errors figure, but the Tigers also
htched together four singles in this
inning. Brown loaded the bases with
none out in the third and then retired
in favor Of Coffman. All three runners
whom he put on the bases scored.
Detroit did not score against Co1man.
Neither did they score off Luther
Thomas, who succeeded Cofman after
Kerr batted for him. Rice batted for
Thomas and Weaver finished Two
doubles scored run of Weaver.
washington started we'll enough
against Whitehill. They coupled Myers
double, Manush's walk, Cronin's single
and a wild pitch for two runs in the
first inning and that looked good for
moment; then Detroit wiped it out with
a four-run rally. The Senators made
but one run off Whitehill in the last
eight innings. That was in the sixth,
where they scored on Reynolds three
Dagger and Bluege's double.
THE base ball season is apparently
i ended as far as the customers are
concerned. Yesterday was day
of perfect weather, Altrock and Schacht
were on view. but the crowd numbered
less than 500, one Of the smallest Of
the year.
OF the four pitchers whom Walter
johnson called out yesterday Luther
Thomas looked best Had be started
The left-handed Earl Whitehill is, as
. rule, tough man for washington to
bat against. He has given the Sena-
tors many unhappy moments in the last
half dozen seasons.
There was not one fielding play yes
terday that looked unusual with the
exception OF Desautels' catch of Cro-
nin's foul fly. Desautels dived into a
field box to score the putout.
Myer, who usually hits exceedingly
well in the local park, got double and
a single. but Reynolds, with a single
and threee-bagger, was the batting
leader.
The game lacked one minute Of being
two hours long and is one Of the few
games played here in a long time under
two hours.
Walker played center field for the
first time since the Tigers returned
home and Stone played left for the first
time in the same period. Walker had
been in left and Stone in center.
Reynolds, after being announced as
the center fielder. played right field,
with Harris in center.
They refuse to forget here that Har-
ris is the gent who kept Tommy Bridges
from pitching perfect game last
month. Bridges had retired 26 batters
in succession. was leading 13 to and
had Burke coming up when johnson
sent Harris to bat for Burke. Harris hit
a fuky single off bad ball and kept
Bridges from becoming one of the pitch
ing immortals, and the local customers
did not like that, and still do not like it.