Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-05
STAND0UT FACTOR
IN CLUBS SUCCESS
loe's Improvement at Bat,
AfieId Noted-0nIy Nat to
Start in All Games.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

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- toward a pennant, every
so often some of the Ma
tionals have to be rested" But
among them is one iron man"
Joe Kuhel has started in every one
of the SO games his club has
played this season, the only Ma
tional to do so.
Carrying on at high speed from
the start of the campaign and
improving steadily, Kuhel is one
of the big reasons why the Wash
ington club holds a three-game
lead in the American League race
today.
Playing regularly at first base from
the outset of a season for the first time
since coming up to the big SHOW Kuhel
has been much stronger defensively and
extensively this year than last. And
over his 10l-game stretch in the 81
season Joe was one Of the sensational
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This season Kuhel has gained recog-
milton as one of the best performers
around the initial sack in the American
League, II not both majors. And at
bat he has dubbed we'll enough to ad-
vance his rating Is points beyond last
seasons. Joe today has batting av-
erage of 3O9.
His punch has become more timely.
too. In his l01 games in 80 Kuhel
drove across So runs. This year, in SO
games, he has chased over the counting
block IS scores. With more than a
third Of the season to 60 to the finish
among the batters so valuable in attack
as to drive across 100 or more runs.
Joe on Hitting Rampage.
TUHEL, by the way, has been on a
n lively hitting rampage Of late
He has driven the ball to safety
in his dozen last games. Over this
stretch Joe has hammered 10 hits, bat
ting at the handsome rate of .422.
Joe has been free hitter all season.
He has made 120 safeties. Only Ma
nush and Cronin Of the Nationals have
made more. He also has been hitting
for distance. With eight, he leads his
club at home-run smacking. He has
walloped seven triples. And 81 two
baggers Altogether, it has been a
great season at bat for the young fellow
But five errors have been charged
against Kuhel as first baseman this
season. He fumbled a drive from
Mickey Cochrane's bat in the opening
game here. Since he has booted two
grounders, juggled one thrown ball and
muffed a foul. But Joe has contributed
many flashy plays and kept many errors
off the records of his infield inmates by
spearing wild throws
Falk to Scout for Red Sox.
lib FALK has a job again. Fired
n from his coaching post with the
Indians when Walter johnson as
sumed their management, the likeable
chap who once did lot Of good out
fielding for the White Sox now is on
the Red Sox pay roll. The Yawkey-
Collins combine has signed Bib as an
assistant" scout. already having
head scout at hand. 1t Is understood
and tour the circuits in the South in
search of likely talent.
Doc Leggett, who was Alexander's leg
man after the pinch-batting big boy
got on base in the sixth inning of
Thursdays game, no longer Is with the
Red Sox. They have shipped him to
Buffalo OF the International League on
option.
It's Joe Judge day at Griffith Stadium,
with Washington's old favorite playing
at first base for the visitors from Bos-
ton. For the final game Manager
Marty McManus was expected to send
to the pitching peak Dusty Rhodes in
stead of George Pipgras, originally
picked to battle it out with Ed Chap
man, Washington's rookie. McManus
wants to hold Pipgras for service against
the Yanks in the big game the Red Sox
have scheduled in New York tomorrow.