Evening star., 1932-07-28
KUHEL MAKES GOOD
IN BIG WAY AS SUB
Youngster Whangs Ball and
Fields FIashiIy-Weaver
Rated Best Rookie.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

4. LOO4OJ July GO,-F Aludy,
July 8, was an unlucky Fri
~ day for Joe Judge, it seems.
When the veteran first base
man Of the Washington Ball Club
pulled leg muscle while running
out an inf1eld tap in the first in
ming of game with the Indians
in Griff Stadium on that day, he
very likely lost himself a regular
job.
So well has Joe Kuhel gone
along since replacing Judge that
barring injury to the youngster
the old-timer hasn't a ghost of
chance to regain his post at the
initial sack this season, If ever.
Kuhels not only has fielded f1ashily
since assuming the first base position,
but he also has improved greatly at
bat. For the campaign, Kuhel shows
. batting average of only .2s1, not so
great among first sackers who are sup
posed to be among the heavy hitters of
q club. But in the 81 games he has
played, starting July 8, Kuhel has
clouted for the fine mark Of $40. And
he's picking up steadily.
A S the Nationals took the measure
"A Of the Browns yesterday, in g.
to-3 engagement in SportSman's
Park, the young Washington first base
man stung the ball plenty. He struck
out the first time he stepped to the
plate-and the sacks were loaded. too.
After that failure, however, Kuhel
helped himself to four successive safe
ties. He cracked a single in the third
inning another in the fifth, bounced
home rEn OF the roof of the right field
pavilion In the seventh and In the
eighth bounded a triple of the wall Of
The right field stand.
KuhePs hitting during the 21-game
stretch has been especially helpful to
the Nationals. He has batted across the
plate no less than % runs. That's en-
average of more than one a game.
After ALL the total of runs he bats
across rather than his hitting average
is the true measure of batter'S worth
to his club.
MONTE WEAVER is the prize rookie
V1 pitcher of tie American League
glilS JCdi. 4NO ON4A-A AbAA-Nt oSA
Inc his first full term in the circuit can
beast Of such splendid record as that
AnlasSed by Weaver.
When he was credited with the win
over the Browns in the secon1 game OF
tina series here his book showed 16
games on the right side and only en-
the wrong side A remarkable feat even
TO- veteran hurler these days.
Weaver. however. does not like the
heat, and 1t was stihngly hot yesterday
in SpoItsman's Park. One of those
days when there may have been
breeze stirring somewhere in St. Louis,
but certainly not in the ball yard. And
Weaver wilted.
For six innings he had gene along
allowing not the semblance of a hit.
But three batters had reached first base
and sll had been passed. Two walked
in the first frame before a Brownie was
retired and one walked in the fifth
after. one was out.
But the heat and the strain told and
In the seventh Weaver walked Goslin
and Schultz, the first two hatters up.
Mel1lo then got the first hit OIL Monte,
= double that scored the Goose. Along
came Ferren to single two more markers
nc 'osS, then Weaver WIS lifted by Man
ager johnson. But he had done great
work
Fred Marberry finished and of him
the Browns got nothing more than
three passes and one single.
TT was at the expense of their old
i pal, Irving Hadley, that the Ne
tionals did their winning. Hadley
not only was wild, but he also was
fairly easy to hit However, he Gtuck
around until a barrage of blows blasted
him from the hill in the seventh.
Five passes and IL hits were made
off Bump Singles by Rice and Myer
and Levy's tumble of Cronin's bounder
in the third accounted for the first
tally made OF him. Later in the same
inning Kuhel singled to fill the bases,
then West walked to force over run.
Weaver's double. Rice'S sacrifice and
Myers one-baSer were good for fourth
frame tally; then three hits with a
sacrifice mixed in chased Hadley in the
seventh. Manush doubled. Cronin put
down a suicidal bunt, Kuhel slammed
his homer and West tripled.
Here Sam Gray relieved Hadley, and
singles by Bluege and Weaver, with
Berg's infield erasure sandwiched be
tween, meant two more scores.
Chad Kimsey hurled the last two
rounds against the Nationals, and he
was slapped in the eighth for triple
by KuheI and q single by West, fol-
lowing a pass to Cronin, to raise the
Johnson bands run total by two:
And in the ninth Rice reached Kim
sey for q single to make the Nationals
total Of hits for the fray amount to ID.
TOMMY THOMAS is going, after his
i seventh hill victory as a National
tomorrow. He has won five of his
last six games al Crowder was TO
have his fling az the Browns this att
ernoon. The left-handed Walter Stew
art, who has beaten the Nationals twice
this season, was expected to do the
hurting for the home side. Stewart
had leg hurt in Mondays rain-abbre-
waited tilt with the Tigers here, but
this morning was reported again In
sound trim. Weaver and Rice were In
batting moods as the Nationals came
back to trim the Browns, each collect-
ing three hits Rice narrowly missed
getting a fourth for he was barely beat
en- to first by Burns, who had scoopeo
up a sacriflcial bunt. In the nrst nVe
frames only two assists were credited to
the Browns, then they made them In
punches. Hadley was as wild as a
hawk in the first inning but at that
struck out the side to leave three Ma
tionals stranded on the runway. ..
When Myer drove to deep right in the
sixth inning, Weaver thought Buddy
had hit safely so he left first and dug
around the base paths Not until he
reached third did Monte learn that
Campbell had backed against the right
tield stand wall for catch, then there
was nothing to do but stand at the far
corner and watch the Brownie heave to
first for a double play. George Fisher
and Larry Bettencourt were employed
as pinch batters by Manager Killefer
and both drew passes. .Berg's split left