The Washington times., 1933-08-30
NO-H|T REVENGE
FOR PEARSON
FAILS IN 9Th

Baseball is a game that offers
many human interest "Sides" ana
/ particular incident in yesterdays
Griff.Indian doubleheader proved
this theory.
It happened in the second game
with Monte Pearson on the mound
for the Cleveland Indians. Now,
Monte pitched his first big league
game against the Griffs last
June when the Indians were visit
ing washington.
AS the records will tell, he
twirled an excellent game, hold
ing the Griffs to three runs, but
as fate would have it, he was
beaten that day because the In
dians made errors behind him to
give the Griffs every one of their
three markers. The final score
was 3 to 2.
Yesterday, Pearson had his
chance for revenge. He got it all
right and almost pitched himself
into baseball's Hall of Fame by
holding the Griffs hitless and
runless for eight innings.
But in the ninth, with only
three more batters to go, young
Pearson threw one down the
middle for Ossie Bluege, the first
batter to face him. Bluege
socked it to left for a clean-cut
base hit and Monte's near perfect
game went up in the smoke.
Two Griffs Score
This base knock opened the
way for two Griff markers be-
fore the frame ended, as after
Goslin's out, Manush hit a
vicious triple to right center,
Bluege easily scoring. Heinie
trotted in himself a moment
later when Cronin sent a long
fly to Averill.
Pearson, even though he
couldn't score his no-hit victory
over his rivals, got his revenge in
this game, however. The Indians
made two errors behind him, as
before, but in this case the In
dians were SO far ahead that it
didn't matter a bit, as the final
z to 2 score proves.
Bob Burke faced Pearson at the
start of this encounter, but was
chased off the mound in the
fourth after having almost been
forced out by a three-run rally in
the third. Alec McColl followed
Burke to the peak and gave up
two runs in the sixth, while Ed
Chapman finished out the string,
pitching shutout ball.
The first game, we'll, sir, it was
one of those swell pitching battles
you seldom see nowadays. Lefty
Walter Stewart was the pitcher
for the Griffs and he was faced
by Oral Hildebrand, young Cleve-
land Highlander.
Win In Tenth
The Griffs won this contest by
virtue of tenth-inning scoring
bee, when Bluege singled, Goslin
sacrificed and Manush singled
for what proved to be the decid-
ing marker. The final score was
2 to /.
This Bluege, incidentally, was
responsible for the first Griff run
Of this game when he singled
Sewell across in the third inning
after that player had opened the
frame with single and had raced
to second on Stewards sacrifice.
The Indians counted their lone
marker in the seventh when
singles by Porter and Cissell came
in succession after Hildebrand
had forced Boss with his grounder
to Bluege.
The triumph for Stewart was
his twelfth of the campaign. He
did not finish the contest as Man
ager Cronin withdrew him in IA
vor of Jack Russell in the ninth
after Pinch Hitter Ferrell, up for
Porter, had walked and had
reached third on successive infield
outs by Cissell and Averill. Rus
sell, pitching to the right-handed
hitting Vosmik, did just what ne
was supposed to do-he retired
the young outfielder on grounder
to Bluege.
It was quite a day all told, as a
crowd of about $4,000 populated
the stands. Almost half of this
mob was made up of ladies, while
large proportion of it included
school kids given a free day by
the Cleveland management.
MASSERA GETS DRAW