Evening star., 1932-07-21
CR0WDER TO FACE
MACKS TOMORROW
Saturday Pitching Choice
Uncertair-BroWn Comes
Back, Beats Tigers.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

r afternoon of the series with
the Tigers, the Nationals
will do some battling with
Eastern foes for three days. To-
morrow and Saturday the Ath-
leticS will be the guests of the
Johnson band while on Sunday
the Red Sox will show in Griffith
Stadium.
That's no easy schedule for the
Nationals. True, they have played
the AS to an even break this sea-
son, but the AS beat JohnSon'S
charges the last three times they
met them and right now are
streaking along. AS for the last
place Red Sox, they have licked
the Nationals more than they
have any other club.
In all likelihood Manager johnson
will send Al Crowder to the firing line
against the AS tomorrow. If the gen
eral starts he will be after win that
would make him $3.50 with Mack'S
rninions this year. In five tussels with
them he has succumbed three times.
johnson had hoped to save Monte
Weaver for one of the games with the
AS but eager to get little more out OF
the Tiger set, the washington manager
Was to employ the professor this after
noon Al Thomas. wha has been worked
pretty hard recently, will not be in trim
to tackle the AS.
Which means that johnson must pick
from Marberry, Burke and Cofman for
one of the tilts with the holdover cham
piOnS of the circuit.
DEATING the Tigers to l yesterday
ID to end three game losing streak,
the Nationals pulled up to even
terms with the Harris horde on a game
basis. However, they have played more
games and lost more than the Tigers.
so Johnsons charges need victory in
the series final this afternoon to get
themselves back in the first division.
Lloyd Brown did the pitching as the
Nationals triumphed and his hill win
raised him to a tie with Weaver for the
honor of leading the Washington curv-
ing corps Each pitcher now has won
13 games and lost 5.
Brown is swinging along at much
sWifter pace than he did last season.
Then he finished with a record of Is
victories against IA losses. Two moro
wins and he will be even with the good
side of his 1881 book. And there isn't
mush chance Of matching last years
poor side
AS the Nationals took the measure
of the Tigers, Heinie Manush cracked
a brace of hits thereby raising to l9
the consecutive games in which he has
batted safely. That's the best string OF
games with hits for any of the Nation
ais this year. Early in the campaign
Sammy West had run one to 18 games.
Manush's recent strong hitting has
carried him quite close to the select slug
gers of the ma jors. He is apt to crash
that group soon.
THERE was nothing startling about
i the Nationals punch as a whole
Yesterday. They made but nine
hits off the bespGctacled Victor Sor-
rell. which was Just the number of
safeties the Tigers CLEANED off Brown
Among the nine hits. though, was
most timely one by Moe Berg. 1t was
a double slammed in the sixth inning
when the bases were full with two out
The blow meant three runs back of the
one the Nationals had Just put over to
match the tally the Tigers registered
in the fifth frame. Berg'S hit was the
ball game.
The Tigers did their scoring the only
time they clustered hits off Brown.
Hayworth opened the fifth with dou-
BILE and Sorrell sacrificed. With
squeeze play on, Davis bunted. Hay
worth tailed and SO good was Davis
bunt it became a single. Both Gehrln-
ger and Stone, however, were easily
checked.
It wac Myer who launched the Ma
tionals winning offensive in the sixth
He singled, then pulled up at third
when Manush hit for two bases. Gro
min put up fly that Webb got in not
so deep right With the catch, Myer
headed for the plate, ard Webb was
content to throw to second to hold
Manush to that base.
Here a wild streak of Sorrell's helped
He issued his only passes OF the game,
walking Kuhel and after West popped
out. franking Bluege to crowd the sta
tions.
That put it up to Berg and he re-
sponded nobly.
CEEMED that Umpire Ormsby, who
y has been having plenty Of trouble
in the Tiger series. kicked one in
the third inning yesterday when he
failed to call a tWo-baSG hit a drive
by Manush that bounded into field
box and bounded out again the
ball skidded along the right field line,
and Umpire Owens, standing near 1lrSt
base. wheeled to avoid being struck by
the drive and probably could not see
what happened Manush saw
that the ball had bounded into the box
and as he slowed up after rounding first
he yelled to Umpire Ormsby what had
occurred nevertheless. when
Gehringer, who had taken Webb's re-
turn, tagged Heinie on the line, Ormsby
ruler the rlnner out there's
rule that reads: "A fair hit ball that
bounds into a stand or over fence
shall be tWo-baSe hit at
that. Manush should have kept digging
for second on the hit instead of slow
ing up because of a ground rule and
giving Gehringer an opportunity 10 Tag