Evening star., 1933-05-22
BENGALS, SEVENTH,
APPEAR EASY PREY
WhitehiII, Stewart Set for
Slab Service in Series
Starting Today.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

ddTIlS Is III IONll Will LILO
Tigers, which may mean
that the Nationals have a fair
chance to get somewhere in the
current home stand against the
Western clubs of the American
League.
To date, the Cronin crew has
moved at only a 500 gait in Grif-
fifth Stadium in tuSsling with rep
resentatives of the inland sector.
Out in Detroit, though, it licked
the Tigers in two of three games
and at pres, t the Harris horde
seems the poo1eSt of the Western
lot.
Since coming East the Tigers have
won only once. They managed to take
one of the three engagements they had
with the Red SoX in Boston. In both
of their games with the Yankees in
New York they were defeated.
Losing yesterday to the Red Sox, the
Tigers fell back to seventh place. Per-
haps they'll not be in any fierce fight
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Capital.
The Nationals, though, haven't spread
themselves lately. They've been trounced
in three of their last four games. Over
this stretch their defense was wabbly
and their hitting nothing to prattle
about. They batted for only .246 in
the four tilts-and that after starting
their home stand with a whale OF a
27-hit affair.
Manager Joe Cronin has Whitehin
and Stewart, the left-handerS, ready Tor
the Tigers These pitchers took the
measure of Harris club out in Detroit.
Maybe Cronin will risk sending Thomas
to the hill in one of the games. He
still is hopeful of getting something
good out of Tommy as a starter.
A TIGER team little different from
n that watched by the fans here last
wear will be seen in the three
came series in Griffith Stadium. The
only really new member of the regular
caste is Ervin-Petey for short-Fox,
who is handling the center field 1oo
that Gerald Walker cared for the greater
part of the '32 campaign. Fox is very
fast afoot, a fine fyhawk, a sturdy
thrower and likely-looking batter.
Walker has been moved over to LETT
field, at which position Manager Har-
ris tried him during the Tigers final
series here last year. Walker wasn't
so good in left then, but he has i'm
proved since.
Jack Stone, switched from left field
to right, played regularly with the
Tigers until recently. Now Harris has
Joyner White in right field. Like Stone
White is left-hand hitter. His aver
age last year was not so gooo as
stones, but Stone fell of in attack
this season.
Thus far there hasn't been much hit
ting strength displayed by the Tigers.
Nor have they been good defenslVely.
Erratic fielding. especially in the inner
Gordon, has hurt them considerably.
And the Tiger pitchers have been
rather disappointing. too. Tommy
Bridges has hurled well much OF the
time, but has been a victim OF poor
support often. Fred Marberry, former
National and still great favorite here,
has been unable to make any SHINING
record with his new club. Carl Fischer,
another ex-National, who jumped from
here to the Tigers by way OF the
Browns. has been soundly bumped.
Schoolboy Rowe, the young Arkansas
phenom of whom much was expected,
has had an indifferent season because
OF an ailing arm.
There has been much to make the
going rough for the Tigers.
HARRIS now is in his fifth season
i / with the Tigers. and the Pittston,
Pa. product, who as boy man
ager" led the Nationals to two pennants
and a world championship, has yet to
land the Detroit club in the first di-
vision.
The Tigers finished sixth in '29. the
first year Bucky managed them. In 80
they got as high as fifth, dropped back
to seventh in 81 and last year again
finished fifth.
Harris has worked just as earnestly
with the Tigers as ever he did with the
Nationals. But manager can't make
great ball club out of material nothing
more than average in quality Bucky
still has the old fire. he still is the keen
base ball student he was in his Wash
ington days. The Detroit ownership,
though isn't giving him much with
which to build.
These are dreary days for Harris.
And though his old pals on the Ma
tionals want to see him get along moth
ing would please them more than to add
to his misery while his club is In our
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