Evening star., 1933-10-05
CR0N|N OUTFITS
OLD FIRE IS GONE:
BIuege's Strike-0ut in Crisis
Inspires Giants to Go on
to Victory.
BY JOHN B. KELLER,

1.-TWO down and four to get in
no more than five games if
i they would be world cham
pions, Washington's Amer
lean League pennant winners are
in desperate plight indeed.
Unless they snap out of a slump
which appears worse than any that
checked them during their drive to
their league title or Lady Luck smiles
on them in her sweetest way while they
are battling the Giants in Griffith Sta
dium in the Capital, the Nationals
must perforce quietly fold up until
next year.
They're in just such sorry situation.
To get this club back in the series,
Joe Cronin, the youthful field marshal
of the American League champions, has
| Earl Whitehill, southpaw pitcher, who
| ran up one Of the best records in the
junior major loop flag fight this year.
and Monte Weaver. a right-hander,
and probably the best conditioned Of his
curving corps at present.
Fdgety and Uncertain.
DUT against this, Manager Bill Terry
ID of the triumphant National League
club has Fred Fitzsimmons, no
mean Highlander, according to the
statistics of his circuit, and Carl Hub
bell This Hubbell, with his battling
| left-hand screwball. is slated to come
back at the Nationals tomorrow, and
even in their best form, the Nationals
| would be fortunate, indeed, to over
come Hubbell hurting as he did in
| the series opener in New York Tuesday.
1t does look as though the Giants
have a greater advantage over the
Nationals than even their two victories
| in as many starts gives them.
| Not only do the Nationals have their
backs to the wall, but they are rocking
so violently, they are likely to bring
the wall tumbling over their heads. Far
| from being the highly mettled and
quick-on- the trigger team they were in
the pennant season, they have become
fidgety and uncertain aggregation,
seemingly more ready to take licking
than to step out and paste the other
gang.
The old fire, the old fight that told
so greatly in the brilliant drive the
Nationals made toward the flag after
catching up with the then supposedly
unbeatable Yankees, has not character
lied the performance of the American
League champions thus far in this
world SERIES
How different with the Giants,
though. They are moving along with
all the dash and vim that marked their
surprising flight to the National League
pinnacle. They cling tenaciously to
the opposition. waiting for the open
ing through which they may burst to
vlctory-and they don't need much of
an opening to get through.
Bluege Provides Break.
TT was Ossie Bluege, veteran Of two
Washington world series, who pro-
vided the break yesterday that in
spired the Giants to such a great ex-
tent they drove through to success in
the brief span OF single inning.
When Bluege went down swinging
with the bases fully populated by fellow
Nationals to end the sixth inning he
took his ball club with him. That
Strikeout, coming at time when the
Giants must have felt the game was
about to be swept beyond recall, aroused
them to efforts far beyond their usual
selves and what had been a ding-dong
pitchers battle between Al Crowder
and Hal Schumacher suddenly was
transferred into rout for the Amer
lean League pennant winners.
With a new lease on life, the New
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