Evening star., 1934-07-09
FLOP BY LEADERS
THEIR ONLY HOPE
Schedule for Remainder OF
Season Favors Yankees.
Weaver WaIIoped.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

NdAlQA4dAe iAaft uAANl
" their battling with the
a Yankees here the past
four DAYS are severe pains in
their necks and sorToWful
thoughts Of what might have
been"
Had they swept that four game series
they would have been In the thick
Of the American League pennant night
today As II is they are nine games
out Of the lead after losing three Of
the four tits and only major fern re-
versals by the Yankees and Tigers will
get the Nationals in the running sRain.
Manager Joe Cronin has some nope
OF his Washington outfit reganina
some Of the ground lost in a successful
tour Of the West. The champions did
right we'll the last time they inva 1ed
the inland sector of the circuit but
success in that I6-gane swing will do
same time the Yankees and Tigers roll
over and play dead
The remaining season schedule GER
tainly favorS the Yankees in every
way. They still have 81 games TO play
while the Nationals have completed
half their program and have but II
more engagements. And 10 make II
worse for them. the Nationals today
are only a game above an even break
while the Yankees are 19 games better
of than such a split.
Should the Yankees move along to
the finish at above a $3.50 pace. win
ming as much as they lost, they would
wind up with not quite 30 victories.
That probably would not get a PEN
fant, but the Nationals only to tie the
New Yorkers at that rate would have
to win two of every three games played
right down TO the end Of the campaign.
Only an unprecedented collapse could
bring about such weak wind-up by
the New York club. And thus far
this season the Washington club has
done nothing TO warrant the belief
Il might run out its string at a pace
that would get two triumphs in every
trio Of contests.
Bambino Celebrates.
"A FTER their fine flight through
"A the West and visit to the YAM
kee stronghold here in May, 1t
was thought the Nationals were at
least in form to strike out boldly for
their second successive championship.
They had finally lifted themselves
above the 500 mark and were not far
back to first place. With 26 Of their
next 81 games to be played on their
own lot, 1t was believed the champions
would be pretty close to the top, If not
in command of the pennant parade
before they next headed West.
OF the 81 games the Nationals won
only 18. However they couldn't main
tain winning pace of champion
ship brand. Now only a base ball
miracle can pull them through.
No miracles popped up in Yankee
Stadium yesterday as the Nationals
were handed a 6-3 thrashing. In
stead, an elderly gentleman named
George Herman Ruth popped up with
the 699th home run Of his American
League career and his thirteenth this
season in celebration of the twentieth
anniversary of his debut as a major
ball player. And the home run the
Babe rified into the right field bleach
ers when Saltzgaver was aboard in
the fifth inning proved SUFFICIENT to
lick the e-begone Washingtons. It
accounted for the third and fourth
New York scores. Therefore, the fol-
lowing scores were gravy.
That home run was made at the
expense of Monte Weaver and though
Monte completed the inning, it fin
ished him for the afternoon. Al
Thomas pitched the next two rounds
to be slammed for two tallies il the
seventh. Then Alex McColl was
hailed to the hill for a f1ashy eighth.
Ten hits ratified off the Yankees bats,
ell but three whitfield off Weaver.
Washington was not without its
home run hitter Heinie ManuSh
pasted two into the right field sun
stand, one in the first frame and one
in the seventh. But between those
two cloutS the rookie Jimmy DeShong
allowed but one single. After Ma
nuSh's second slam five more were
made of the young right-hander,
three being punched in the eighth to
get the Nationals their last score,