Evening star., 1933-03-18

| BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
n YEW ORLEANS, March 1S-
nj Here for their first tussling with
Y a big league foe this season, the
Nationals will swing into action
just as Manager Joe Cronin plans to
send them into the pennant chase in
Washington on April IL
In the games with the Cleveland In
dians slated for today and tomorrow
the boy field boss will start his regular
infield and outfield combinations and
very likely they will go the route in
each of the engagements.
Excepting Heinie Manush and Fred
Schultz, the regulars were given some
thing Of rest yesterday. The main
part Of the task of beating the New
Orleans Club II to g. in the game at
Biloxi was turned over to the reserves
The big timers were excused from duty
after going through an hour of bat
ting practice in the forenoon
Cronin feared his first stringers might
60 bit stale from overtraining The
crew had been working strenuously at
Camp Griff and appeared to have a
right fine edge. So the boss let most of
his regulars taper off for a day and
may ease up their work a day or two
next week.
The Nationals field chief and his
assistants aim to get the club at the
campaign starting line right In the pink
Making every inning in which they
hit a scoring one and with their pitch
ers clicking despite a tendency toward
wildness, the Nationals disposed of the
Pelicans rather easily in Biloxi. The
minor leaguers checked in with run
in the second session for a brief lead
that was Immediately overhauled, then
took sound humping until their final
batting turn, when they Tailed again.
Jack Russell and Johnny Burrows did
the f1inging for the big leaguers and
aside from their wabbly control made
fine job of it. The veteran, Russell,
figured to become handy relief hurler
for the washington club this year, went
the first flve frames, in which he al
| lowed five hits and two walks. Two
singles backing q walk meant a run
for the Pels in the second round, but
after that Russell always frightened to
check the minor leaguers when they
| threatened to 60 places
In four innings, the youthful Bur-
rows walked seven. But he yielded only
two hits and struck out four, one of the
strike-outs ending the eighth inning
when the Pelicans had the bases crowd
ed. In the ninth, the Pels with a single
and two passes loaded the sacks with
none out and the last run crossed as
the second retirement was made.
The Nationals collected a dozen hits.
Eight were made off Thornton Lee,
left-hander, who toiled the first five in
nings. The others came of Clay Bry-
ant. Seven of the blows were of the
extra-base variety. Bolton and Schultz
socked triples and Travis helped himself
to two doubles.
Successive singles by Rice and Schultz
backed by Harris two-bagger in the
second, put over the tieing tally. Then
Schultz counted as Sewell went out to
send the Nationals ahead before thc In.
ming ended. Travis first double, Ma
nush's single, Rice's two-bagger
Schulte's triple and Harris infield
eraSure accounted for four runs in the
fifth to salt the game. Another bunch
OF four hits, all for extra bases, back
OF pass brought four more runs In the
ninth.
Washington's second-string infield Of
Harris, Kerr, Boken and Travis put up
sparkling game with Boken. at short
starring. He dawlessly handled six
dimcult chances. Oddly, his lone error