Evening star., 1932-04-18
FISCHER, WEAVER
PH|LLY STARTERS
Curbing Mackmen Appears
Beyond Nationals, Beaten
in Sunday Tilt.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.


i by the Athletics, the Ma
tionals are to look to their
younger hurlerS for service in the
two games scheduled here with
the league champions. Carl
Fischer, left-hander, was to get
the call today. with Monte Weaver.
the erudite right-hander, on deck
for tomorrow's action.
If this pair fares no better than
AL Crowder and Fred Marberry,
those AS certainly will have
head start on the Johnson band
In this years American League
race.
Already 1t looks as though the Ma
tionals will need everything they have
and then some to curb the Mack forces.
Washington'S hurlers appear to be just
the kind the AS fancy and Washing
tons batterS seem easy pickin's for
anything in a Philadelphia uniform.
Only two games have been played
with the A's-the Nationals have 20
more, including those of the current
short series, booked with Connie crew
but in those two games the league
champions so far outclaSsed the Wash
ington hopefulS in every way that there
is no reason to believe the latter will
do much damage to the Philadelphia
cause in this flag campaign
In base ball strange things happen,
but it isn't likely that the Nationals
will improve to such an extent that
would give them an edge on the AS
In the years battling. Don't look for it
and you won't be disappointed.
The AS have power plus. When
they hit they get distance. They have
that something in their attack that
makes them difficult to check, even with
super-pitchinC. And Macks club is
about the greatest big inning club
in the game today.
The Nationals will take those AS
once in while, but over a long route
they are not apt to enjoy much sue
cess in competition with the Mack
maulers.
TN yesterdays tussle in Griffith Sta
i dium in Washington the Athletics
fa-hed their big inning" stuff.
C.:-12d for two rounds. they tore loose
in the third. and b1-ore they were sub
o"oi six runs hcd been registered.
That rally put the Nationals so COM
p2tcly out of keller that they went on
to -uffcr an 1l-to-3 rout.
we hits, one a homer by Jimmy
Tc-1 and another double by Joe
E3l2y. and two passes were CLEANED of
rI2-berrv il the inning and all but one
o; the batterS getting on the runway
completed the circuit. The first run
came as the second out was made; then
came block Of three scores-two were
on when FoXx jammed the ball into the
sun parlor back of center-and a block
o. two resulting from Joe Boley's two
bagger.
That's something to be expected of
the AS at any time. When they get
on hitting rampage, they go places.
After routing Marberry in the fourth
session, the AS batted against Lloyd
Brown, Frank Ragland and Monte
Weaver and only Ragland. who hurled
two innings, held them scoreless. May
be Mack's men had to pause to get
their second wind.
IT doesn't seem that the Nationals are
i to get much out of Marberry in the
early going. Ill his two champion
ship campaign games Fred has been hit
hard, and his showing against the AS
yesterday was even worse than that
against the Red SoX in Boston last
Wednesday,
Marberry stuck to his guns against
the AS until George Earnshaw hit him
for a triple at the outset of the fourth
inning. During his brief term Fred
gave up seven safeties and three passes
No pitching class there.
Whether Marberry is pitching head
1essly or simply hasn't the pitching
stuff that made him so successful last
season isn't certain. Something has
made him quite ineffective, however,
and until he RECEIVERS his 1881 mound
form he won't be of much help to his
club.
EARNSHAW had a brand of pitch
- ing that shook the poise of the
Nationals left batters.
Eleven hits were made off his delivery,
but only three were collected by those
swinging from the port side.
1t seemed that the left-handers per-
sisted In crowding the plate and that
was duck soup to EarnShaW. He broke
his curve sharply over the inside cor
ner so that the southside swatters
never appeared to know what was 60
ing on Earnshaw recorded a dozen
strikeoutS. ManuSh was a whiting
victim the first four times he stepped
to the plate and in his last turn he
popped up. Meyer struck out twice
So did West and Judge. The big right
handler Of the AS made the Nationals
1eft-handers look silly.
After two were out in the first frame
Washington jumped on George as
though they would get him out Of the
way in short order. A run was quickly
hung up. And the first two batters to
face him in the second inning singled
Then Earnshaw settled and easily kept
the Johnson band at bay until his club
had tucked away the game
Not a pleasant spectacle to those
$4,000 Washington rooters who turned
out for their first Sunday tilt of the
season.