Evening star., 1933-07-25
EPTW|NB|LLS
FIVE TIMES IN ROW
Pitchers and Hitters Look
Good Against Athletics.
SIabmen Abundant.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.
HnADELPH1A, Pa, July IS.
- -Washington's ball club
i not only leads the American

- -Washington's ball club
not only leads the American
League again today, but 1t
also holds the best record In the
circuit for double header play this
season.
When they took both parts Of the
bargain bill with the Athletics here yes
terday and brushed by the idnng
Yankees to top the pack by half =
game, the Nationals scored their NTH
successive sweep of q double-header.
They have played 10 twin sketches IN
the current campaign and have yet to
be swept in one. In their first fve
double headers the Nationals broke
even.
The Yankees also have won five
double headers this season, but they
have lost two and split In seven 20 the
Nationals get the palm.
The Nationals, by the way, viii not
be bothered with double-headers much
more this season unless the weather
ceases to favor them as 1t has more
than any other club. They have only
four remaining on their schedule. One
is to be played with the Yankees In
New York q week from next Monday,
there is twin bill with the Tigers and
another with the Indians to be dis
posed Of on the next swing through
the West and the regularly scheduled
sfiair with the Red Sox In Boston on
Labor day.
IA good break for the pennant-chas-
ing Washington club for double-he
ers can 60 far toward Wreck1ng .
pitching stah.
o., Grit Pitchers Durable.
tAs they bagged the bargain bill
~ opening the four-game series
= with the AS, the Nationals were
right sparing with their hurlers. Only
four had to be pressed into service to
score two wins, q splendid showing by
the curving corps after the W1erd
pastiming in Washington on the day
before when six pitchers could not pre-
vent a defeat for the Nationals IN
single encounter.
Bobby Burke opened fire for the
Grifith gang in the 6-to-2 first tussle
and got his third victory Of the year,
although he had to give way to Jack
Russell in the sixth inning. The
lanky left-hander had allowed just two
hits and four passes. But one Of the
hits was q homer driven over the right
garden wall by Mickey Cochrane at
the outset Of the fourth frame and
the other a single by Roger Cramer
that opened the sixth session. Burke
followed this single with . pass TO
Cochrane, so Manager Cronin derricked
the left-hander and hailed Russell to
the hill. Burke was firing and 1t was
no wonder for the heat was terr1nc
and he had been pressing steadily IN
got two more hits OF Russell and again
one was q home run, . drive to the
upper left field stand by Bob johnson
ct the beginning Of the seventh inning.
Heat Gets Crowder, Too.
TAL CRoWDER, the stitch in his
~ right side gone, began the To-
4 to-6 second game, but like Burke
he wilted under the high temperature
and was withdrawn after he had
walked the first two batters up IN the
sixth inning. Up to that time the AS
had cleaned but five hits, . pass and
Z run Oh the general.
ERill McAfee came on to give the
home side nothing more than 2 single
.Shd one pass up to the ninth. But Bill
Had done a lot Of Logging around the
bases, having rammed q homer to the
roof Of the left field stand in the sew
enth frame and Q triple to the depths
of center in the ninth. This left him
8 weary the As found him . mark IN
the ninth.
In their last batting turn Of the day
the AS gave a great denomination OF
their power by rolling up five runs With
as many hits. Higgins opened the At
tack with a homer rtfled over the right
field wall. Coleman, pinch batting,
duplicated the shot. Two singles fol.
lowed, then Jimmy Foxx poled the ball
against the upper left-field stand for
his twenty eighth circuit drive OF the
year.
So Russell was called to the hill for
the second time in the afternoon to
uuell an uprising, and he had to pitch
to only one batter for the third out.
!, Pitching Supply Abundant.