Evening star., 1935-05-18
BEST MARKS TIED
IN SCORING, At BAT
Startling Form Reversal De-
featS Tigers Despite
Fielding Weakness.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.


- Nationals win the moose-head
hat rack that adorns Clark
Griflth's Office. AS woeful at
bat as a crippled rabbit in a den of
ravenous wolves through three games
that went against them, the Harris
hands had everything except clean
fielding fingers yesterday to tie all
their season offensive records as they
snapped the losing string.
In beating the Tigers, 10 to 8. to
even the current series. the Washing
ton ball club equaled its three attack
marks made this year
The best the Nationals have oone in
scoring way in a contest is 10 runs.
Up to yesterday this total had been
rolled up by them three times. The
victims were the Red SoX in Fenway
Park, the Browns and the Tigers last
Saturday in Detroit.
The Nationals collected II hits yes
terday as they snapped out of bat
ting slump that had held them in a
trio of defeats. Only once before had
they hit so heavily They swung their
bats that effectively against Joe
Cronin's band, but not in the 10-run
game in Boston.
Their II hits this time we're good for
% bases. In a game in ST. Louis this
month the Nationals totaled % bases
with Is hits. But that was not in
the l0-run game in Sportsmans Park
No Halfway Reversal.
TN THEIR single splurge at the
Tigers expense, the Nationals
made three more hits and two
more runs than they did in all three
engagements Immediately preceding
their greatest offensive display of the
campaign. When the Washington
club puts on a form reversal it does
not do so halfway.
Manager Harris was hoping today
that such an uprising after the sad
spell might preSage period of sue
cess like that the Nationals enjoyed
following their last three-game losing
streak. Then after three successive
setbackS by the Boston band here his
ball club stepped on foreign fields
to win five of their next six games.
It was we'll that the Nationals did
all that solid slapping of the apple
yesterday, however, for they not only
had their pitching troubles, but also
continued to field like the rankest
sandlotters and were in grave danger
of having the game wrested from
them.
Swinging steadily against the pitches
sent up by Schoolboy Rowe the Wash
1ngton club in the first four frames
helped themselves to a seven-run lead
and ousted the lanky Lynwood from
the proceedings. But in the seventh
Eddie Linke, who had gone along
right well despite a severe slamming,
blew sky high after a tumble by Cap
Myer had put two on the runway.
Before Leon Petit could get the side
out the Tigers had pulled up to tie
Myers Double Gets Win.
THE Nationals, though, found a
cousin in Victor Sorrell in their
seventh batting turn and came
through with three runs when Myer
stepped up with the bases crowded
and more than offset that error of
his by ramming a tWo-bagger high
against the right field barrier. That
was the ball game,
In the first six sessions the Tigers
got but three hits off Linke, making
only his second start of the season.
Over this stretch they also got five
walks. But they could not hit in the
pinch and as a result had eight
stranded on the bases.
The Nationals hammered Rowe for
10 hits before his departure. All but
one figured in the scoring of the seven
runs. One of the three made of the
relieving Elon Hogsett before he re-
tired after the sixth inning sent home
q score.
1t was the pinch-batting Chester
Morgan who started the Tiger ruckus
in the seventh. He walked and after
White skied out Myer booted Coch-
rane's grounder. The next four bat
tiers singled. Petit came on to take
Linke's place. Walker singled and
Owen got a base-filling pass. Morgan
came up the second time to force out
Owen. This let Rogell tally and when
Larry heaved wildly trying for a dou-
ble-play, Walker toted in the tying
run.