Evening star., 1933-10-04
TEAM LACKS CLASS
OF PENNANT RACE
Nervous Tension Displayed in
Practice Increases Dur
ing Contest.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

n IEW YORK, October 4.-One
M game does not make a
/ Y world series any more than
one bottle of the new deals
three-point-two brings on a head
ache, so their defeat in the opener
of the tussle for base balls most
coveted title has not upset WASH
ington's American League cham
pions.
More indignant than downcast as
they sat in the club house after the
game, slipping their bottles of brew.
the Nationals expressed the opinion
Giants, had licked them in the 4-to-2
tilt and insisted that they would show
the National League pennant winners
a lot of high-grade base ball before
the series ends.
Which was something they did not
do in the series inaugural. The game
the Nationals played against the Giants
was far from the kind they habitually
put forth during the drive to their
circuit championship.
1t was high-strung Washington
club that battled at the Polo Grounds,
washington club pressing from start
to finish. Never did the Nationals let
themselves go to play with the freedom
and abandon that marked their per-
formances generally in the American
League campaign.
Nervous During Practice.
4 T TIMES they displayed a nervous
n ness that was close to being kit
tenish. Even in their pre-gan!e
practice this was evident, and as they
came under the spell Of the Ieft-hard
pitching Of the brilliant HubbeIl their
nervous tension increased as the pas
timing progressed.
II may have been something akin
to stage fright that partly caused this
attack OF filters, but in the main Hub
bells pitching did 1t unquestionably.
After their first three batters swung
helplessly for third strikes, the Ma
tionals never went up to plate with
any great confidence in their ability
to bowl over this southpawing master
Of the screw ball, who had almost sin
gle-handedly carried his club to the
heights of the National League
The greatly publicized HubbeI pitched
up to all that had been said and
printed about him in this world series
inaugural. He made all the left-hand
batters who faced him look foolish
and only three of the right-hanr
|, swtngers he pitched to managed
avoid ENHANCEMENT in his net of
strikeouts. 1t was two right-hander
Cronin and Schultz, who belted fcJ
Of the five singles Hubben yielded-t
Left-hand Hitting Myer accounted f
the other blow-and 1t was two righ--
handlers, Seweu and Harris. who e
the only passes issued by this mast
| of the mound.
| Until the eighth inning when he IS
sued his two passes in succession, Hub
bells control was well nigh perfection.
Only once up to that time had he been
behind a batter in the balls-and-
strikes count.
Reaches Heights in Ninth.
TT WAS in the ninth, though, when
| the Nationals had the bases crowded
with none out and seemed on the
verge of wrestling the game from him
that Hubbell reached the pitching
heights. No one of the three batters
that had chance to cover themselves
with glory by hitting to turn the tide
In Washingtons favor got anything re-
sembling a pay ball.
Kuhel met a pitch that never looked
good from the time it left the south
paws hands to drill into an infield re-
tirement that meant a tally only be-
cause of the crowded condition of the
corners. Bluege became a strikeout VIC
tim for the third time. swinging feebiy
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