Evening star., 1932-06-27

N to do today other than sit
around and enjoy their
rise from fourth position
to third in the American League
flag chase earned by a Sunday
victory over the Red Sox, but
Manager Johnson'S charges will
have plenty to handle tomorrow
and Wednesday.
There are two dates with the
Yankees in New York to be filed
and a date with the Yankees
these days is guaranteed to make
an afternoon anything but dull
for any ball club.
The Nationals are expected to put
their full strength into the tussling in
New York. Heinie Manush, kept out of
the two-game Red Sox series here while
nursing a sore leg, is to resume his
regular post in left field for the Yankee
set-tos and very likely Capt. ice Judge,
the fiery first baSeman, will be on
the job.
No notice Of a suspension for Judge
because Of his run-ln with Umpire Red
Ormsby that brought about his banish-
ment Saturday had been received by the
Washington club up to noon today and
club officials now believe that no lay-off
order will come from President Har-
ridges Office in Chicago.
EEonaunr Johnson will send tn the
firing line against the YankS Al Thomas,
the Nationals newest pitcher, and Al
CroWder. Thomas is to get the slab
assignment tomorrow in the opener OF
the series. In his debut as G. starter
with the Nationals in Cleveland last
Thursday, Thomas gave an excellent
account of himself. Although the In
dams nicked him for eight safeties, he
kept the blows so scattered that only
one run was cleaned off him.
Thomas is in much better trim
physically than when he first came to
the Nationals from the White Sox
nearly two weeks ago. He has done a
lot of extra exercising and has shed
much of the over-poundage he had
around his middle. The newest of
Washington hurlers is about down to
what he considers his best playing
weight
Crowder, slated to face the New
Workers in Wednesdays game, has
record of one victory and two losses for
his battling with them this year. How
ever, that win was scored by the Cen
eral when he filed relief role. He has
yet to start and beat the league leaders.
STTHIS short series with the Yankees
i will usher in a week of heavy going
for the Nationals. They will have
q right steady diet of Yanks and AS
through Independence day.
Following the two New York Tits
there will be day of idleneSs, then the
johnson band will invade Shibe Park
In Philadelphia for solo program with
the AS on Friday and a twin sketch on
Saturday. Next Sunday the Athletics
will be the Nationals guests here, then
the Yankees viii drop in for double
header on July 4.
The Nationals curving corps quite
likely will have all the work 1t can
handle during this string Of games.
Thomas and Crowder can come back
for games on Saturday and Sunday.
but Brown, who probably will start
Fridays engagement in Philadelphia,
may have to come back against the
Yankees in one of the Tits next Mon
day with only two days Of rest. Cof1-
man also may get shot at the AS in
Philadelphia, but Manager johnson
may decide to hold Weaver back for
one of the Yankee tusses here. The
pilot has intimated, though, that Monte
will be in line for relief work this week.
WITH the Red Sox yesterday playing
w more like themselves than they
had on Saturday the Nationals
did not find it difficult to score an
S-to-4 victory and thereby get an even
break in the two-game set.
The johnson outfit was outhtt, IL
safeties to 10, by Marty McManus' men,
but the. latter kicked in with four
fielding misplays and two of the errors
accounted for four unearned Washing
ton runs.
Lloyd Brown went the route for the
Nationals to chalk up his fourth sue
cessive hill win, and outside Of one
inning he did pretty well. In the third
the Red Sox fell upon the left-hander
for five safeties, which gave them a
three-run advantage. The Nationals
offset that edge in the next round, but
the visitors Immediately pounced on
Brown for another run. Given lead
in the fifth, however, Brown easily dis
posed of the Boston bunch the re-
mainder of the way.
Pete Jablonowski, recently of the In
dians, started on the mound for the
Red Sox and he went along well until
after two were out in the fourth frame.
Then a wild chuck by Shortstop Warst-
Ter. after making a hashy stop, put
West on base. Bluege drew a pass and
Spencer hit mis- first home run of the
season, loft into the sun parlor back
of left field to deadlock the game.
The Nationals forged ahead at Jablo-
nowski's expense in the fifth. Judge
walked, Myer singled and Cronin
tripled The left-handed Bob Weiland
relieved Pete to be nicked by Reynolds
for long fly that got Cronin home.
Hod Lisenbee eTStwhile National,
pitched the seventh and eighth rounds
for the Red Sox and in the eighth they
got to him for three hits. which. mixed
with his aTor. were good for two more
markers.
CEVERAL fielding gems enthused the
- slender Sunday crowd in Griffith
Stadium . In the ninth West ran
Ear back for q one-hand grab of Warst-
ler's drive. Reynolds, in the eighth,
went winging TO the depths Of right
feld to keep a hit from Alexander
Olson, Red Sox second baseman, took a
safety from West in the seventh with
q stop that was a sparkler. In the
sixth, Harris tore in for dive-and-
roll catch of Conuolly's liner. Spencer
got two tricky hits after smacking his
homer in the sixth he got single
with a pop fly when the Red SoX
catcher and third baseman couldn't de-
eide which should try for a catch. in
fhe eighth he put down a bunt for
single. and Roy figured in the making
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