Evening star., 1933-08-19
WIN 10 OF LAST e.
TAKE TEN STRAIGHT
Extra Inning Victory Over
White Sox SeWs Up Third
Season Series.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

ing swiftly along the title
~ trail, the natty Nationals
have set for themselves a
season goal of 100 victories. AS
they have moved the last four
weeks there is good reason to be-
lieve the goal will be reached.
In the last % days the Capital
clubmen have won 19 of IS games
played. That is moving at a .760
clip. They can get the 26 wins
needed to give them 100 for the
season by playing 619 base ball
in the AZ tilts remaining on their
schedule
These days, the Nationals are play
ing the fastest base ball the American
League has seen this season. They
have just reeled off 10 successive wins,
a record for their circuit in the cur
rent campaign. That, after being stag
gered b. three losses in a row.
AS they pound along the pennant
path the Washington wonders are
mopping up annual series with their
league rivals at rapid rate. They
clinched their yearly set with the Red
Sox not so long ago. Last Sunday
seasons edge over the Yankees.
Sew-Up Chicago Series.
"A S they swept a four-game span
~ with the White Sox by taking a
Ga 10-inning battle in Chicago
yesterday, they tucked away third
annual series
In their three engagements with the
Browns here, the Nationals will go after
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accomplish this by scoring two victories
over the st. Louis crew before pulling
out of this town tomorrow night.
Rolling the Pale Hose for the
fourth in a row. was no easy task
yesterday. The Griffs started
nicely, but the home boys gamely
fought back to even terms before
tie battle was seven innings old
and from then until the league
leaders forged ahead again after
two were out in the tenth it was
bitter struggle.
Not satisfied with the beating he had
absorbed in less than an inning the
day before. the left-hander Walter Mil
Ter came back at the Nationals yester-
day and for two innings it appeared
he might resume the role of their
jinxiest pitching jinx But they hoped
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cover in the third round.
Thomas Is Failure.
"HEN the Nationals were neatly
checked by the right-handed joe
Heving on through the seventh
session and after that by WhitloH
Wyatt, another orthodox finger, until
near the end of the tenth.
All told, the Nationals collected nine
hits. Five were made off Miller in the
second and third innings. Ono came
off Heving in the fourth. After that
blow, which opened the fourth, they
were retired in order until the second
batter stepped to the plate in the
tenth.
In the meantime Manager Joe
Cronins pitching had rather
rocky time of it. Tommy Thomas
attempted to take fall out of
his old White Sox pals, but he
lacked the cunning in his right
arm. They hit him in five of
the first six innings to roll up
seven safeties and get within
run of deadlock.
After the first batter up in the home
seventh singled. Tommy was yanked
and Jack Russell hurried to the pitch
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single and before the side was out the
runner Tommy had put on was across
with the tying tally. Following that
Russell gave up one hit to make the
White Sox total for the game 10 and
one base on balls. But each time he
put a runner on a double-play got him
out of trouble.
Fred Schultz and Ossie Bluege, who
have been having much trouble with
their batting averages lately, managed
to contribute heavily to the Nationals
success. Schultz went to the plate in
the third with the bases crowded and
two out and cracked a single off Miller
that sent over two runs. Kuhel singled
to send over a third run and move
Schultz to third, then the latter counted
in a double steal. Bluege went to the
plate in the tenth with the bases
crowded and two out and cracked a
single off Wyatt to score Cronin and
Goslin with the game-bagging runs.