Evening star., 1932-07-14

as they have just done, the
Nationals made for themselves
a season offensive record. In
the string of victories beginning
in the second game OF the twin
bill with the Indians last Saturday
they banged the ball for the grand
average of .391. Never such hit
ting by them before in this cam
paign.
The five successive wins make
no record for early in the season
they boWled over the AS three
times in a row then proceeded to
do the same to the Yankees.
Their punch wasn't so powerful
then, however.
In the last five games the Nationals
helped themselves to 79 hits off good,
bad and indifferent pitching The hits
totaled 103 bases for nearly a quarter
of the lot went for distance. Fifteen
2-baggers, three 3-baggers and one
nome run were slammed.
And with this great amount of swat
ting the Nationals ran up a total of
60 runs. That total, by the way, is
another season record for a five-game
stretch for Johnson's charges.
Joe Cronin was the individual leader
of the flve-ganle offensive with The fne
average of .526, but the most astound-
ing feature of the shelling Of the op-
posing Slabmen was the power dis
played by the Washington curving
corps at bat. Collectively the pitchers
in the five games clubbed for 545.
Monte Weaver went wild at the plate
In 10 times at bat he made six safeties.
Three were doubles. Al Crowder
socked for 800, too, in two games, while
AL Thomas in one hit for 500 and Fred
Marberry in cne Of the tussleS helped
himself to a single.
Roy Spencer. behind the bat most Of
the time, dubbed for .474 Sam West
for an even 400 Buddy Myers aver
age was 1854, Ossie Bluege slammed for
$50 and Joe Kuhel for 1873. Only
Dave Harris found the opposing pitch
ing difficult to solve, for he batted In
the five games for but .l50
A great offensive display and Capital
fandom hopes the Nationals have in
reserve some Of this potent punch to
use in the battling with the Browns,
now Griffith Stadium guests.
WITH five games in row tucked
w away. the Nationals, though still
in fifth place. find themselves
within good striking distance of the
second berth in the league standings
now occupied by the Indians. This
morning only two full games separated
the johnson band and Peck's pack.
That difference was picked up by the
Tribe when it took four of five tilts
played here last week.
The Athletics in third place also held
a two-game advantage over the Ma
tions before todays clashes, while the
Tigers at the bottom of the first divi
sion were but game ahead.
Whatever the Browns might do to
the Nationals in the four-game set
that was to start this afternoon fifth
place could not be lost The johnson
band went into the scrap with an edge
of Az games over the outfit that has
licked it seven times in eight starts
this season.
AS to the Yankees, they're about in
unless they blow to pieces or one of
the five clubs right back of them makes
an almost unprecedented squirt. The
1lOldllS- SOlllS SledG guns llSHG IlOW,
moved into New York today but they're
9k games back of the Yanks, so
lot of winning would have to be done
to reduce materially the Clan McCar-
thys advantage.
Playing only 500 base ball from now
to the finish Of the campaign, the Yam
KEGS would show total of 90 victories.
The pennant winning club this year
probably will have many more than 90
wins. But the Indians to win 81 this
year will have to play .634 base ball
from now on. They would have to take
As of their remaining II games. And
the AS, also 912 games behind the
Yankees, would have to play at a 638
pace the remainder of the way to run
up total of 80 wins. That is, take
a. of SO games.
Unless there are some startling form
reversals the big fight in the American
League from now on will be for the
second money
MONTE WEAVER and Heinie Ma
w nush were the big figures of yes
terday's tilt in Griffith Stadium,
which the Nationals took, Is to 4, to
give them a sweep of the four-game |
series with the White SoX.
Weaver to score his twelfth hill win |
of the season not only limited the White |
SoX to seven SafetieS and blanked them |
until the seventh inning but also drove |
over three runs and scored as many |
himself
Manush came up in the fourth frame |
when the Nationals had three runs
across, the bases full and two out to
crack a triple and thereby put over
the tallies his club had to have as the |
game turned out.
Manush's triple blasted Ted Lyons
from the hill and before the fourth
frame ended Heinie scored as Cronin
singled off Pat Caraway, left-hander
beaten by the Nationals in the series
opener last Sunday. That hit was the
second of the inning for Cronin. He
had opened the fourth by singing off
Lyons. Four runs were made off Cara
way in the fifth before Art Evans, re-
cruit, was rushed to his relief and
Evans was we'll hammered in the next
two rounds.
One of the White SoX scores came
from a home run driven into the angle
back of right center by Bob Seeds in
the eighth session.
Manager johnson changed his line
I'D before the game, withdrawing Harris |
because of his light hitting and sending |
Sam Rice to right field. However, |
when the Nationals got their big lead
Harris crashed the game. He replaced
west in center. Kingdom also relieved
Cronin, while Kerr supplanted Bluege |
and Maple took Spencer's post back OF
the bat.
Harris failed to hit, but each of the
three other substitutes singled in the
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