The Washington times., 1933-09-15

manager Joe Cron1n mas DC
or six years. In this time he
come to become the star perfo
The first item that obStructed
his path to stardom was hitting.
No, Joe couldn't hit at all when
he first came up, but being the
earnest lad that he is, he learned
the art, until today he's one of
the greatest hitting shortstops i'll
the game, if not the greatest.
Now, Joe had to learn how to
field, too, although many of us
haven't realized this fact all
these years. Yep, Joe had sew
eral weaknesses at short at the
start of his career which gave in
dication of marring his chances
of becoming a real big Lacquer
had not he set to work to rectify
them.
Well, many, many seasons ago,
Joe underwent this tedious task.
He practiced and practiced and
did not stop until he had made
himself accustomed to fielding
grounders of every description
Today he is one of the best field
ing shortstops in the business.
Nowadays, however, Joe has
spells of troublesome afternoons
out there on the diamond. They
don't hit him often but when
they do he just can't field any
grounder right-try as hard as
he might.
Fielding Fool Again
Earlier this season the youth
full manager had one of these
spells roll around. He did moth
ing else but practice again until
he got out of his slump" and
got out of it good and proper.
The result? He's fielding like a
fool again today and combining
both his fielding with his hitting
to be that ever inspiring leader
the GriffS have enjoyed all year.
Yesterday, Joe handled some
thing like six chances flawlessly
in that 4 to 3 game in which his
team won from the Detroit Tigers.
He looked like the Cronin of
old out on that dark, misty field,
and on top of all this he batted
the runs across in the ninth
which gave the Griffs their mar
gin of victory over the Tigers.
Some guy, this Cronin?
The day was unusually insult
able for baseball, as a misty rain
fell throughout the nine innings.
This kept the crowd down, too,
as there were many who figured
there wouldn't even be a game.
Vic sorrell made possible the
first Tiger run in the second
when he singled to right center
after Owens double down the
left field line. Two were out
at the time, but the bingle count
ed just the same.
Whitehill "got even" for this
hit of Sorrell's when he lined a
single to center himself in the
Griffs' second, driving across
Bluege with the tieing marker
at that time. Bluege, only few
before, had singled and
had moved to second on SeWell's
bounder to Greenberg.
Tigers Score Again
The Tigers wouldn't be nedied
in the third when Walker doubled
down the left field line and Green
berg singled to center. This put
'em two-up here and made the
that much stronger in
favor of Sorrell. And two were
out when they scored this marker,
too.
Manager Cronir1 made a nice
play on Sorrell's grounder in the
eighth with Owen on third as a
result of his triple. Joe came in
fast to make a clean pickup
throwing in the same motion to
get Owen at the plate by a
whiSker.
Confusion, confusion, confusion!
But the Tigers scored a run out
of it in the ninth. Gehringer
singled, so did Walker. The lat
ter overran first base, however.
and was caught in a rundown.
Gehringer. in the meanwhile. sped
for home. He became the man in
the trap then and in his case he
was touched out. but only after
the most unusual of plays. It
went like this: Goslin to Cronin
to Kuhel to Myer to Seweu to
Bluege to Sewell. Walker took
second finally and scored on
Greenberg's single to center.
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