Evening star., 1933-05-19

40 long as the Indians have Oral
Hildebrand around they ought 10
win a lot of ball games. This
young right-hander not only has
plenty of speed, a great curve and an
excellent change of Face, but he also
has that which ever has been essential
to greatness on the pitching peak-a
stout heart.
Hildebrand yesterday looked a beaten
pitcher several times but he never gave
up, and after his three innings of rough
treatment he came back to fight the
Nationals to standstill from the
seventh inning on. AS the Indians got
their 6-to-5 victory over the home side
In the 10-inning struggle, it was made
clear why young Hildebrand has the
best record of the American League
hurlers-six wins and no losses.
Earl Whitehill, too, pitched a good
game, but erratic fielding hurt his cause.
He yielded less hits than Hildebrand-
the Nationals outbatted the Indiars
nine safeties to eight-but one tumble
by Joe Cronin at short paved the way
to Tribal tally, and the pitcher him
self made poor chuck in the tenth to
lead to the decisive score.
DORTER had fouled out at the start
I of the tenth. Then Burnett drib-
bled the ball down the f1rst-base
line. Whitehill retrieved the sphere
in good time, but his soft toss to Kuhel
was SO high the first baseman could not
grasp 1t firmly. AS Joe juggled the ball
Burnett crossed safely. The Indian
moved to second when Averill rolled
iyfn tho SacOy,d af ho
raced home on Morgan's first hit of the
game, single to left.
The battle had been ding-dong af-
fair prior to that, with the Nationals
gaining a one-run lead three times only
to nave the Indians come right back
for tie. With two singles, a double
and an inf1eld out the Tribe got two
runs in the second, but in the fourth
the Nationals went them one better. A
pass to Goslin, Cronin's single, Schulte's
long fly, Hildebrands wild throw as he
tried to make force play at second
after picking up Travis bounder and
Sewell's double accounted for the three
tallies.
The Tribe knotted the count in the
fifth when Cronin missed grounder
to let Knickerbocker get on. The In
dian stole, moved up on an out and
crossed when Burnett singled. Goslin's
triple and Cronin's infield erasure put
the Nationals in front again before the
inning ended, but in the Tribal sixth
Vosmik looped homer into the open
stand back of left center.
Singles by Myer and Sewell backed
by Whitehill's hoist got the Nationals
another lead in the sixth, but it was
offset in the eighth when the Indians
got a marker from PorteHs triple, a
liner to right that barely cleared the
leaping Myer, and Averill's infield re-
tirement.
RESIDES beating the Nationals, Hill
- dehrand has defeated the Tigers
twice. the Browns, the White Sox
and the Athletics. He shut out the AS.
the Tigers once, and the Browns. AS
he blanked the Browns he held them
to one hit. In one of his shut-outs not
runner reached second base, and in
another not one reached third.
Hildebrand stopped Travis after the
rookie singled the first time up. In the
last OF his five trips to the plate Travis
looked at third strike.
Porter made the best fielding play of
the day in the seventh when he backed
against the right field barrier and
leaped for a one-hand catch that kept
hit from Goslin.
| Licked. the Nationals were pulled