Evening star., 1932-08-29
OPEN WEEK WRONG
IN IS OF z GAMES.
No Sabbath Win by Johnson
Band Since July 31-Big
Fourth Aids Tigers.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

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ball for the Griffmen this
~ year. The day bringing the
big crowds to the ball yard
generally is picked by JohnSon's
charges for their poorest showing.
In the current campaign they
have lost IS of % games played
the first day of the week.
Their recent Sunday showing
has been particularly poor. Not
since July 81 have they won
Sunday game.
OF their games put on at the start
OF the week, 16 have been contested in
Griffith Stadium The Nationals show
nothing better than an even break for
these tits. They lost to the AS in their
first SunGay game OF the season and
While losing gave an exhibition as sorry
as that Of yesterdays, when they were
drubbed IS to 7 by the Tigers.
On the road, the Nationals have
bagged but one Sunday engagement.
They managed to lick the White SoX
IN Chicago on July 81. They have
two in Cleveland ana one in Detroit.
Since beating the White SoX The last
day of July. Johnsons charges have
been trounCed on four successive Sun
days.
They have only two more Sunday en-
gagements here, both with the AS. One
is set for next Sunday ard the other
for September 25. the vind-up OF the
season. On the road next month the
Nationals are to play four Sunday
games, two in Chicago and two in
Cleveland.
The johnson band will have to play
well above past performances to get as
good as flfty-fifty split for its Sunday
fitting this year.
THERELL be no fifty-fifty split on
l. Sunday play for the Nationals if
they PUT forth in week-starters
much more of the base ball they did
yesterday as they succumbed to the
Tigers. About everything that was bad
was thrown into that game by the
johnson band
The Nationals pitching was poor,
their batting was nothing to boast Of,
and their inner defense collapsed to
let the game get away before it had
been fairly begun. Despite the poor
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sons charges might have made it foar
straight over the Tigers, but for the
sorry work of the infield in the fourth
inning.
Properly played by the Nationals, that
inning would have yielded the Tigers
nothing. Instead, they got six runs. |
MONTE WEAVER, Dick Coffman and
1V1 Lloyd Brown, in order, tried to
tame the Tigers. But they took
a 2l-hit clawing. And those 81 hits
were good fer 35 bases. Among them
were five doubles, thee thriples and a
home run, the home run being hit into
the open stand back of left field by
Gerry Walker when a teammate was on
the runway in the eighth inning.
Weaver opened fire for the home side
and he took his eighth beating Of the
season before the fourth inning ended.
Eight of the Tigers hits and seven of !
the Tigers runs were made off him. |
Coffman proved a poor relief hurler. |
He allowed only one hit, but it was |
double that drove over three runs after |
he had passed two to crowd the bases |
Brown grew worse the farther he went !
until the Tigers ended with a five-hit |
rally, good for two runs in the ninth |
Tommy Bridges who had held the |
Nationals to one hit. and that not made |
until two were out in the ninth inning |
the last previous time he faced them |
tried to stop them again yesterday, and |
did so right we'll until the sixth, when |
they climbed him for four hits and as |
many runs. He was plainly firing, SO |
George Uhle was sent to his relief
Off Tommy the Nationals collected |
seven hits and six runs. Off George they |
got two hits and run in their last /
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