The Washington times., 1933-06-08
SEWELL
GIVEN REST
BY CRON|N
BY GARRETT WATERS
Times Staff Correspondent

happening fast and furious with
the Griffmen at this important
stage of the season. The team is
losing precious ground in the tor
rid pennant race, the pitching is
going from bad to worse and the
playing of one or two dependables
is not up to what it should be.
Yesterday, Pilot Cronin benched
a most notable dependable in the
person of Goose GoSlin, right
fielder. He put Dave Harris in
the outfield instead. Then Moe
Berg relieved Luke Sewell behind
the bat as the teams starting
catcher.
In the case of Sewell it was just
giving that veteran most needed
rest at this time because Of his
excellent hustle and work behind
the bat for the GriffS in the re-
cent past.
Although he would not COM
ment on the subject, for GoSlin it
was a direct challenge to spend
day or so on the bench and get
ready to deliver little better at
bat when inserted into the lineup
again.
Wins Mean So Much
And so it goes when a team is
soSing and losing at time when
victories would mean so much in
the pennant race. Cronin may
put Goslin back in the lineup in
today's double-header with the
Red Sox. Then again he may
not. But it's the way every man.
ager jumbles his lineup when
things go wrong, the main idea Of
course being to try to right
With Harris in the lineup,
Cronin made a batting order
change in yesterdays final game
with the Philadelphia AS. He
advanced himself to third posi-
ton in the order and put Harris
in the cleanup post. Harris did
not get any hits, but the team
delivered at the plate only to
see the pitchers fail. The game
ended in a 1918 tie because rain
halted everything in the tenth.
The Griffs scored 10 runs in
the first two innings and one
more in the fifth. But this didn't
mean a thing to Earl Whitehill
and Gen. Alvin Crowder, who
hurled the best part of the
game. Whitehill had to go to
the showers in the second after
having walked the first two bat
ters to face him, and after hav-
ing given up 4 runs in the AS
end of the first.
Crowder went along fairly well
until the eighth when the AS
aided and abetted by two walks,
singles by Williams, Craner and
Coleman and Jimmy Foxx's
home run deadlocked the count
at II to. II. At this stage Bill
McAfee entered the picture and
the Griffs proceeded to get
13 to II lead for him in the
ninth, only to see the AS tie it
up again at 1913 in their end
of the ninth when Pinch Hitter
Miller doubled, Bishop doubled
and Cramer singled for 2 runs
after two had been retired.
Storm Clouds Gather
Stormy clouds began to close in
on the field at the start of the
tenth, but the Griffs, undismayed,
put one run across when Manush
trotted home on Pinch Hitter Cos
lin's infield out. The rain then
came down in torrents shortly
after the AS end of the tenth and
with Coleman on first by virtue
of his single and Jack Russell
warming up as McAfee's rescue
man, play was suspended by
Umpire Bill MCGOWAN and the
game reverted back to the ninth
with the 1913 tie prevailing.
Two features presented them
selves from a Griff standpoint
during the early going which
should be mentioned. Moe Berg,
subbing for Sewell, gathered him.
Seh a single and homer while
Ossie Bluege delivered hits of
the same proportions, his single
in the ninth driving across run
which promised to win the game
at that stage.
AuR~A @-