Evening star., 1934-09-06
Myer Slowed to a Trot.


shocked Nationals when it was
learned last night that Travis leg
had suffered a painful relapse, but 1t
was not the only blow destined to
be delivered. Not long before, Buddy
Myer, whose spiked left leg was ex-
pected to be in shape for this West
ern invasion which started so dis
mally yesterday, picked up his bat in
the ninth inning and hit drive
that might have been good for
home run inside the park for the
real Buddy Myer. Instead, he barely
made second and the jaunt, slow as it
was, did the open wound on Myers
leg no good. Myer and Travis will
warm the dug-out plank together
today and perhaps for many days to
come.
With Joe Kuhel, Joe Cronin and
Red Kress nursing broken bones and
Travis and Myer out indefinitely, the
Nationals are in pretty mess. Dave
Harris, an outfielder and not-so-
good one at that. will try his hand
as third baseman while Johnny Kerr,
o coach who is making the Griffs
more Myer-conscious every day, will
continue at second Luke Sewell,
first-string catcher. will stand by as
the extra "infielder."
Sum up the current fnfeld" cast
Of Harris, Kerr, Sewell, Ossie Bluege
and Pete Susko and you have one
major league infielder-Bluege. Har-
ris. though he broke into the majors
back in 1925 as third-sacker with
the Braves, is no more third baseman
than Bill Terry Is diplomat. The
last time Sewen played in the infield
for any length of time was at the
University OF Alabama If years ago.
Kerr, only fair player at his peak,
not only is out of shape due to many
months of idleness but also is suffer-
ing from severe cold in q schnoz
second only to Durante's. And Susko
never will win any medals as q first
baseman.
No. 13 for Pitcher Newsom.
DUCK NEWSOM possessed his thir-
ID teenth victory of the season yes
terday and the Browns a two
and-one-half game lead over the Ma
tionals for fifth place but had the
Washingtons been able to show a bet
ter brand of Unfolding they might
well be on the Brownies heels today.
St. Louis had hero in Ray Pepper
and Washington had a goat" in Kerr,
who gamely is trying to fill Myers
shoes against prohibitive odds. Kerr
put Garms on base in the first frame
by fumbling his easy roller, and Pepper
drove GarmS across. Johnny also
played Grube's shot in the fifth poorly,
though it was scored hit, but nothing
came of it.
In the sixth, however, Garms again
got life when Kerr did not do so
well on his grounder, escaping an
error from the scorer, though. After
Burns had moved Garms up a notch
by grounding out, Pepper again drove
him across to tie the score, and then
the Browns got to Jack Russell for
three more runs when Strange doubled
against the left field wall with the
sacks loaded to go out in front for
good and eventually win, GA They
added a needless run in the seventh.
With Garms on base, a hot shot Of
Burns sifted through Kerr for a
scratch hit, sending Garms to third,
from where he scored on Peppers third
producing hit.
The Nationals did their scoring in
two innings Bolton and Schultz sin
gled to open the second, and Susko
drove Cliff across with a long fly. Rus
sell then tripled to score Schultz. In
the ninth the Griffs made gallant
bid to overcome the 6-2 lead when
Myer. batting for Kerr. doubled, and
Harris, up for McColl, who had relieved
Russell, tripled. Dawes three-baser
scored Burke. who ran for Myer Bluege
and Stone went out. but Travis kept
hope alive by strolling. Manush, rep
resenting the tying run, rolled to
Burns, however.