Evening star., 1933-08-14
BY q Staff Correspondent Of The Star

BY Stan Correspondent OF The star.
~HICAGO, August 18th cir
league lead hiked to 512 games
Y the rubber" of the nine-game
stretch with the Yankees
snapped against those menacing rivals
with a 4-to-3 thwack and everybody
happy-except the Yanks. That was
the nut" game in Griffith Stadium
yesterday. the Nationals will tell you.
Winning it, they felt they settled them
selves in first place to remain to the
finish. And they admit that had the
game gone against them they would
have had a rejuvenated lot Of New
Yorks to race all the way through the
stretch
It was a. rare treat the battling clubs
gave the $4,000 who sweltered through
! the Sunday contest in Washington.
From the time that Earl Combs lofted
a foul to Ossie Bluege for the first out
until Fred Walker watched a slick
pitch by AL Crowder hook over the
middle of the plate for third strike
that meant the end every moment of
play was tense
That the Nationals outplayed
the Yankees in every department
of the fray made the struggle
all the more enhancing to Capt.
tai fandom. They outhit their
arch rivals, a dozen safeties to
eight. They made no errors,
while two were charged against
their foes. And one of those
errors started the Washington
club on its triumphant way.
Walter Stewart, starting against the
Yankees for the eighth time this sea-
son, hurled a good ball game to get
his third victory over them. Twice
they got to him for clusters of three
hits and run. Once triple led to
score 1t was the lower end of the
batting order. though, that nicked him.
big guns of the New York artillery.
Ruth and Gehrig Spiked.
CHAPMAN, Lazzeri, Dickey and
Crosetti did all the New York hit
ting Babe Ruth never got the
ball through the infield and only once
in four batting efforts did Lou Gehrig
SEND a hoist to the outer defense.
The heat finally told on Stewart, and
after Lazzeri, who had opened the ninth
with a single, had been sacrificed to
second by Dickey, the Washington
southpaw was relieved by that mastery
money" pitcher, Al Crowder. With a
potential tying tally on the runway.
Manager Cronin decided fresh talent
was needed on the hill.
Charley Ruf6ng, the ''pasting" pitcher
sent up to bat for Crosetti. was first
to face the General. He could do moth
| ing more than roll into an out, al
though it sent Doc Farrell, Logging for
Lazzeri, to third base. Here Manager
Mccarthy rushed in Walker to bat for
Russ Van Alta. the hurler.
The southside SUinger took q
pitch-and missed. The merit
pitch the General slipped by for
called strike. Then Walker
touled of q throU. Then-that
perfect hook, starting high, to
break aUdy from the batter and
pass knee-high through the heart
of the plate for one of the finest
strikes eDer ruled by an umpire.
Russ Van Alta, seeking his fourth
victory of the season over the Nationals,
only to take his second licking from
them, was hit safely in each of his
eight innings on the mound. Not until
the third round, though, did the Ma
an error by Dickey that got them there
Ruth Big Help to Myer.
AFYER got the first of his four hits,
NI a double, with a punk slap to
right that might have been a
single had not the muscle bound Ruth
been the fielder The Babe simply
couldn't put one foot before the other
with any speed and it was romp fol-
Buddy to stretch the hit. Manush's
infield erasure advanced Myer to third