Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-16
HITS IN FIVE RUNS
AGAINST BROWNS
Gets Two Homers, Triple
and PaSs-Pettit Slabs
Well in 11-3 Game.
BY FRANCIS z. STAN.

was because the zero hour of
\ trading was nigh or maybe 1t
was only the law of averages,
but Bucky Harris stumbled across a
little pitching to go with the Nation
ais newly-found wallop today
The combination was much TOO
much for Trader Hornsby's down.
trodden Browns, so Washington pre-
served its chief claim to fame by
winning it's fifth game in as many
starts over the st. Loueys, IL to 3.
Bucky stumbled-and stumbled is
the word-acroSs Lefty Leon Petit
this afternoon. 1t was Henry Cop
polas turn to throw but Henry had q
sore arm. Bob Burke was Bucky's
next choice but imagine his discom-
future when Robert also reported
lame wing.
So it was Petit who received the
call and fortunately so. The little
portsider pitched the Griffs' first real
game in over a week, giving up seven
scattered hits and breezing home on
the crest of a 15-hit batting attack
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Sam Holbrook, the stocky rookie
catcher who argues with umpires.
HOIbroOk Steals Show.
IN FACT, Sam almost made the re-
suit incidental by his performance.
After all, whipping the Browns Is
something done nearly every day. but
finding a real rival to Cliff Bolton for
Washington's catching Job is some
thing else.
And that is what Manager Harris
believes he found today. He stuck the
fiery. right-handed Holbrook into the
lineup because a southpaw, Russ Van
Alta. was tossing for the Browns
When it was over and the smoke had
cleared, Holbrook had socked two
home runs right out of the diamond,
tripled on another trip, and en-
couraged base on balls. The net
damage inflicted by this drawing
Mississippi lad was five runs batted
in and two scored by him personally.
In doing all this the snaggle-toothed
22-year-old stole the show from trio
of other deserving performers, Johnny
Stone. Capt. Buddy Myer and Fred
Schultz, who knocked out four, three
and three hits, respectively, in the
large afternoon.
Get Busy Early.
THE Nationals wasted no time get
ting after Mr.. Van Alta. the ex-
Yank who hasn't won a game since
he donned Brown habiliment. Ossie
Bluege. the Griffs' kid shortstop.
and Stone opened with singles and
Capt. Myer tripled them both across,
Buddy trotted over little later on
Jake Powell's fly after Cecil Travis
was tossed out.
lately to the Nationals, who have been
blowing leads thrice that big so the
boys enlarged it in the trird when
Myers second straight hit bounced
off the left-field fence for a double
Schultes single to center. after Travis
and Powell had died. showed Buddy
across and then young Mr.. Holbrook
tripled to deep center to make it
to o.
Again in the fourth the Griffs be-
stirred themselves, the Stone and
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a triple and a double and a run, al
though Alan Strange's convenient
muff on the relay Of Stones clout
permitted Johnny to circle the sacks.
Socks Long Homer.
THEN in the fifth Holbrook began
to bid for the stick laurels in a
serious way when he blasted a terrific
drive on line to the distant center
field stands. scoring Schultz ahead of
him and boosting the count to 8 to 0.
Meantime, Lefty Petit was going all
right, giving up only two hits. but in
their half of the fifth the Browns
punched hits for the first and only
time to score two runs. Cliff singled,
Heath. batting for Rollie Hemsley,
walked. and after each had advanced
on Solters' infleld out Ed Coleman
singled them over
The Browns so uShers and the scat
tering Of fans began to get mildly ex-
cited when Bells triple and an infield
out produced another run in the
sixth, but that was all for the host
club.
boy (SNIPE) HANSEN, who ar
rived from Albany this morning,
was sent in for Van Alta in the Ma
tionals' sixth and he proved most
unusual person. He had a wind-up
that reminded one OF a claw-machine
derrick and it so fascinated the Griffs
that no further scoring was done un-
til the eighth, when a walk to Petit.
sacrifice and Stones double inflated
the score to 9 to 3.
Holbrook did the rest. After
Schultz raped an inheld hit in the
ninth, Sam caught hold of another
pitch and rode 1t on a dead line into
the left-field stands
He also rode himself back into the
job of Washington's No 2 catcher,
replacing Jack Redmond, and as o
probable starter every time q south
paw takes the hill.