Evening star., 1933-07-24

- Crowder, the ace right-hander
Of the Washington curving corps.
Is here with his club and very
likely will see service Is . starter IN
one Of the four games with the AS.
Maybe before todays double-header is
over.
Supposedly threatened with pleurisy
Saturday, the General" suddenly dis
covered yesterday that 1t was nothing
more than q cold giving him stitches ir
his right side. so he upped and went to
the ball yard for q workout. Feeling
much better thereafter, he took the
train with the rest Of the Nationals
bound for this aIl-important series.
It's Just as well Crowder recovered so
quickly. Cronin might have been In q
sorry fix for pitchers here. He threw
about everything but the water bucket
at the Tigers yesterday and 1t was a
staggering slab staff he brought over
here.
Record Round Against Mats
NOTHING like that collapse of the
~ Cronin pitching had been seen
before in any Of the Nationals
games this season. That eighth inning
in which the Tigers stepped out for
nine runs to grab . game the Nationals
had figured all theirs set . record for
scoring against the Cronin curvers in =
single round in this campaign.
-Four hurlers were needed to quell
the uprising and If Burke had not
checked it Manager Cronin probably
would have been forced to call on AL
Schacht, the bat boy or some customer
in the stand for hill service.
The Nationals were four runs ahead
when the Tigers came up for their
eighth turn. The. Harris horde had
made six hits and two runs on Weaver
before getting him out Of the way In
the sixth round, but Thomas had stop
ped them cold. The home side had
picked up six hits and fve runs on
Schoolboy Rowe in less than three in
nings, then nicked Sorrell for three hits
and another run through the seventh.
Then came the explosion. In their
big eighth. the Tigers helped themselves
to nine hits and two passes and were
aided by Schu1te's tumble OF drive
to center field. They batted around, and
a second time. Gehringer and Stone
got two hits apiece in the inning, and
each scored twice.
Those Tigers had . merry time as
they knocked tho Nationals into second
place and boosted themselves into the
first division.
Singles by Gehrinser and Stone and
Fox's pass crowded the bases at the
out, but Rogell singled. The hit talhed
two runners, and when Schultz failed
to stop 1t cleanly, another scored. Then
White, batting for the catcher, doubled
across the tying run and chased Thomas
from the slab. Nrs.
walker, clubbing for Sorrell, could
do nothing. more to McAfee, the reliev-
ing hurler, than roll into an out. But
Davis walked and Owen doubled. Two
more runs. Here Whitehiil supplanted
McAfee. Singles by Gehringer. Stone
and Fox and 9 two-begger by Dol1ack
were cleaned on the left-hander in sue
cession. Three more runs. Burke was
rushed to the mound. and he checked
the rout, for Rogell became the third
out by popping to Kuhel.
No Real Line on Campbell.
A FTER that the Nationals picked
n up q couple Of hits, to make
their total for the game IL, 2
brace Of passes and pair Of runs on
Bridges, who finished in the box for
the visitors, and the latter got 2 hit
and q run they did not need Oh Whitley
Campbell, new Washington pitcher.
The run Oh the right-hand rookie
was unearned, for he had two out when
Myer fumbled with an easy retiring
play ut hand. The hit came after this
error, to drive across Tiger who mao
walked. Campbells term was too brief
| to show what quali0catipns for big
league pitching he may possess.
Weaver, IN his frst start since June
2, showed no signs Of the arm trcu-
Bile that had him out Of action 30 long,
but between the heat and . lot Of hard
pitching he faded quickly after the
NTH round. After walking the first
batter up In the sixth he Yielded three
hits and gave way 70 Thomas, who
Hut Wesyer rcvealed enough 10 in-