Evening star., 1933-05-26
PITCHERS BROWNS
BEAT TO CO AGAIN
Crcnin Selects WhitehiI| and
Stewart for Peak-B0ken
Star of Victory.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

= ECOND in the American
League race again after a
- 7-to-2 victory scored over
the Browns yesterday when
they suddenly recalled what base
ball bats are made for. the Ma
tionalS are turning to leftieS for
pitching service in defense of
their runner-up position during
the remainder of the st. Louis
clubs stay.
According to Manager Joe
Cronin, Earl Whitehill was to dis
play his slab wares before the
Browns and a ladies' day throng
this afternoon, while Walter
Stewart is slated to oppose his
former teammates in the series
wind-up tomorrow.
There may be a last-minute change
in this program. Cronin admits. The
boy manager still is eager to get AL
phonse Thomas going in good trim as
starting pitcher and this right
handler might be ordered to the mound
for the week end set-to. Stewart,
though, appears the likely choice.
This paiK of southpaws took beatings
in ST Louis early this month after the
Nationals had walloped the Browns for
two straight. As they won, Grifhths
hands put forth plenty of poor pitch
ing, but they dubbed the Browns into
submission. Both Whitehill and Stew
e,,t fay.,1nI hol o,,1t, IN no
the Nationals forget how to hit.
In the two st. Louis games the
1efties pitched. the Nationals looked
just as helpless at the plate as they
did here earlier in the week.
THAT decided improvement in the
i Washington offensive yesterday
was brought about largely by the
employment of one Robert Boken
throughout a game for the first time
since the club came back to its home
lot nearly two weeks ego.
The lanky Lith blond. who demon
strated during the Western swing that
he packs a potent punch under pres
sure, for some unknown reason was
kept under cover for days after
slightly hurt leg had healed. Given
an opportunity yesterday, though. he
showed the few hundreds in Griffith
Stadium some of the stuff that made
him the sensation of the Nationals
tour of the inland sector.
Bob collected off Wallace Hebert,
and off Sam Gray, right -hander. a.
single. The double was made that
good by Bob's heads-up base-running.
1t was bounce off the second base
mans legs to short center. As he
rounded first, the lanky Lith saw that
the Browns would have trouble re-
trieving the ball and he never hesitated
IN his dash for second. The triple was
a corking good slam that sent the ball
bounding against the open stand back
of left-center. The single was looper
to short center.
With his double Bcken helped the
Nationals toward their first run. With
his triple he blazed the way to the run
that sent them ahead. With his single
he drove across two runs to put the
game we'll beyond the Browns reach.
What little he had to do at third
base 3cken did well. But it was his
display of offensive power, coming as
1t did after the Nationals had floun-
dered about helplessly at the plate for
two days, that tickled the fans. They'd
like to see more of this Lithuanian lad.
TRONIN, too was prominent in the
~ Washington attack. He got three
of his clubs IA safeties, drove two
runs across and scored one himself. The
Nationals hit Hebert plenty in the early
going, but from the second through the
fifth they got only run an inning
Eight hits were made before they put
over a third run, in round four. to get
ahead. In the sevcnth. they bounced
Hebert off the sab and also pummeled
Gray to get three more markers.
Al Crowder went all the way for the
home side After four-hit second ses-
sion in which the Browns did all their
scoring, the General allowed but two
hits and as many passes, and both
passes were issued after two were out in
tho ninth