Evening star., 1933-04-25
WEAVER TO START
BATTLE IN BOSTON
Yanks to Be Met After Red
Sox Set-NeW Workers Bow
in Old Army Game.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

N tlonalS is here. Scheduled
1 ' i to wind up their series
with the Yankees this
afternoon, they shove off tonight
Boston bound. Tomorrow and
Thursday they will stack up
against the Red Sox in Beantown,
then jump to New York for two
more tussles with the world
champions to complete the week.
That's some order. The Red
Sox are no bargains these days.
They didn't look so as they took
two of three games played re-
Gently in Griffith Stadium. And if
the Yanks persist in putting on
battles like that in which they
took an 11-to-10 beating yester-
day, the Washington pitchers will
have to toll double shifts.
According to Manager Joe Cronin,
Monte Weaver probably will chuck
against the Red Sox in the opener Of
the Boston series tomorrow. Although
the professor has not been under fire
since last Saturday-and then he
went but one round against the Ath-
letics in Philadelphia-he has had
plenty to do here. Monte hurled
nearly a full game in the bull pen
when the Yanks at times threatened
to drive Earl Whitehill to cover Sunday
And yesterday he was among the flock
called upon to warm up when it
appeared that the New Yorkers were
ready to clean up the park with the
Nationals.
All that extra f1inging may prove
of help to Weaver, however, should
he get the call tomorrow. An ordinary
warm up does not seem to benefit him
Usually he is not right until after
hurting two or three innings of a
past two days, though, the big Tarheel
ought to be ready to breeze EN- by.
WHAT "breezing by there was yes
w terday-and there was plenty
was done by the batters, not the
pitchers. Each side whacked a dozen
sateties OF assorted lengths. The
Yanks got to Walter Stewart, Jack
Russell, Bob Burke and Al Crowder
for a triple, three doubles and eight
singles. Only Bill McAfee, fourth
hurler hastened to the hill by Mana
ger Cronln, escaped bombardment. The
Nationals landed on Don Brennan,
Danny MacFayden and Herb Pennock
for home run, two triples, five
doubles and four safeties. Not before
IN this season had Griffith Stadium
been SO crammed with base hits.
With batters socking SO savagely and
freely, the game was a rough-and-
tumble brawl. Each club was in the
van twice, the Yanks twice chased
hordes of runners around the circuit
to tie and the Nationals managed to
come through with two rolilcking ral-
lle5 to even matters, then sweep to
Ncvory.
~ was g1ve-and-take, touch-and-go
Throughout. Eacn side drew six passes
ana each Sloe caShed In on three at
the plate. But the Yanks got only one
run out of the home sides erratic field
ing while the Nationals were virtually
handed two by New York misplays
Stirring Old-faShioned knock-down-
ano-drag g-out base ball with everybody
liking it.
MUCH Of the Nationals success was
x'1 due to Joe KuhelS potent punch
ing OF the Yankee pitchers. First
time up he crashed triple that sent
in two of the three runs registered by
the local talent in the opening round.
Joe went up again in the third round
with one on, Two out and his side
run to the bad. Hits by Cronin and
Schultz had driven oil Brennan, the
Yankee starter, and MacFayden was on
the hill. Joe promptly lotted one over
the right-fielG wall for his first homer
of the season, and that meant four
tallieS for his Side-in the inning. It
was a single by Kuhel that blaZed the
way for the final tieing rally in the
sixth session and Joe then toted across
the first of the two scores that brought
about the deadlock.
1t was Pennock, who had relieved
MacFayden in the sixth, who took the
beating in the next inning. Goslin,
Cronin and Schultz got to the veteran
left-hander for doubles, but only one
run resulted as Cronin, fearing Ruth
might get SchulteS hoist, Rugged sec
ond and after the ball landed safely
was able to reach third base only. Kuhel
couldn't help this time, but after an
intentional pass to Bluege loaded the
stations, Harris batted for Luke Sewell
and his grounder to the shortstop got
Cronin across.
CEHRIG, Lazzeri and Dickey kept
" the Yanks in the battling right
up to the finish. Each drove
home three runs. After Lazzeri's hoist
which Goslin muffed had put across
one tally in the second frame, Dickey
stepped up to double two more over for
q tie. In the third the Yanks went
ahead when Gehrig knocked in
marker, then Tailed with Chapman as
Lazzeri tripled. The triple was cleaned
off Russell, who had just supplanted
Stewart.
Gehrigs two-bagger and Chapman's
single in the fifth enabled the Yanks
to tie again and they went ahead once
more in the sixth, driving both Russell
and Burke from the slab before McAfee
came on to get three out. In this in
ming, Gehrig singled over two tallies.
getting to Burke for the hit.
Crowder took the hill in the seventh
and got credit for the victory. He
baked the Yanks for two rounds, but
passed Chapman at the outset Of the
ninth. Lazzeri's single and Dickey's
long fly followed to account for the
FINAL New York score.