Evening star., 1932-09-12
LICK CH|SOX TWICE
TO CLOSE IN ON AS
Only Game Back of Second
PIace-Marberry, Weaver
Score Hill Wins.
9pecial Dispatch to The Star.

- dlCAIO, OcpGclllOCA a.
There's something to that
" boast of the Nationals that
they might give the Ath-
letics a rude jolt by stepping In
and grabbing the second-place
money from the frugal, faded
champions. With eight wins in
a row, they're only a game behind
the Maekmen now, their spirit Is
high and the goddess Of fortune
appears to be giving them the
breaks.
The Nationals covered a lot Of ground
yesterday when they took both portions
of a double header from the lowly
White Sox, the scores being to l and
9 to 4. They have two more here and
are contemplating that program like
a cat contemplates snack of liver.
The SoX have been kind to the john
son boys all season. They took only
l of the II games played in Griffith
Stadium. They have captured only 2
of the games Washington has played
here.
That's II victories the Chicagoans
have contributed to the success of Mr..
Griffith's employees. No other club in
the league has been of such vast help.
It was none other than the White
Sox who inspired the Nationals to step
out and tear up the league as they have
done the last month. When the SoX
were visiting in Washington last month
they very obligingly dropped four in
row. That gave the Nationals momentum
sufficient to carry them to victory %
times in their last 81 starts.
nNE reason for the Nationals recent
~ successes was quite evident in both
games yesterday. The boys GER
tainly gave the two working pitchers,
Fred Marberry and Monte Weaver. the
kind of support that encourages. There
wasn't a miss of any kind behind
Marberry, but there were several stops
that rated a gold star on the report
card.
They blundered a couple of times
behind Weaver, but the two errors were
on one play and didn't come until late
in the game, by which time weaver
wasn't worried.
Buddy Myer was especially helpful
with a couple of onehanded robberies
of seemingly sure base hits. not to
mention a flock of everyday stops and
catches.
Despite his big lead, Weaver, who in
cidentally pitched after only two days
of rest, did not have the pleasure OF
finishing. After Pinch-Man Fotherglll
had singled with two out in the ninth,
Bob Seeds slapped a treacherous liner
straight back at Monte, who made the
mistake of grabbing it with his meat
NH l,1n For a
hit, and Monte promptly called for time
to see whether he still could pitch.
He thought he was all right but just
when he was about to tell the umpires
the game could proceed he was sup
planted by Brown. who had been sent
out from the dugout Brown threw out
Berry, ending the party.
THE Nationals beat Sam Jones in the
i first game in manner that was
doubly distasteful to the veteran.
He gave up only six hits, the same as
Marberry. but five of these were pop
UPS or flies that a better defensive team
than the Sox would have handled.
Four of these freaks were paired for
two rllns. enough to win.
That was not the case in the second
game, however. Ed Walsh and Billy
Sullivan. sons of the famous SoX bat
terry of 25 years ago. were started. out
the Nationals refused to be restricted
by sentiment. They hoped on Walsh
for three runs in the first inning.
Singles by Myer and Manush, along
with Cronin's long fly, scored one, and
the two others tramped in when Carl
Reynolds hit a homer in the park he
once called home. After that the Ma
tionals collected runs almost as they
pleased.
THE Nationals were to have some
i thing far more formidable than a
couple of young pitchers to contend
with today. They were to battle against
the pitching of Ted Lyons or Mllt
CASTOR. CroWder was to look after
Washington's interest.
Weaver now boasts record of 81
wins against 8 defeats.
Manush and Weaver are going to
write a letter of indignation to the
local official scorer. They object to
being cheated out of base hits. Manush
drilled a terrific liner at ROthrock in
the seventh inning of the second game.
It knocked the third-sacker off his feet
and he also dropped the ball. He re-
covered and had to make hurried
throw, which was low, and he was
charged with an error. Weaver hit one
to deep short in the sixth, but didn't
get credit for it because Appling's hur-
Ned throw was wild.
Besides robbing the Sox of hits in
the second game, Myer contributed four
himself, not to mention q walk and
steal of second He scored four times
as the result of his five trips to base.
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