Evening star., 1936-03-19
GARDENERS CRACK
70 HITS IN 4 T|LTS
Reynolds Leads Squad With
500 Average, Stone Is
Low With 300.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

Inc wholly Qe1ght1ul pros
J pect Of an outfleld packing
~ power as well as unmatchable
foot began to seep through the Ma
tionals' training camp today in the
wake Of a fourth consecutive Grape
fruit League victory.
His dream of getting the Washing
ton ball club off winging in exhibition
game competition now fully realized,
Manager Bucky Harris discovered that
even this important item was rivaled
as distinct pleasantly by five solid
socking young men who may COM
prise the most versatile fly-chasing
corps since Goose Goslin, Earl Nc
Nicely and Sam Rice roamed the gar
den.
1t took pitching. good pitching, to
whip the Red Sox, Phillies, Albany
and then yesterday the world cham
pion Tigers by to S score in 10
innings. 1t also took defense that
has stood out for this stage of the sea-
son, but ranking first among all in
gradients has been the outfield squad
ron of Jesse Hill, Jake Powell, Johnny
Stone, Carl Reynolds and, to lesser
extent, Rookie Dee Miles.
Hill and Powell, who were handed
the regular left and center field as
signments, convincingly have demon
Strated that any and all confidence
expressed in them has not been mis-
placed. Jesse, batting in the lead-off
spot, showed a 357 average today for
the quartet of games by banging out
s hits in II official trips to the plate.
Powell Has Batting Eye.
DOWELL, whose promotion to the
cleanup spot in the batting order
ranks as one of the major moves on
this training camp season, apparently
is bent on removing all worry from
the brow of Bucky. In the four tilts
Jake has stepped to the plate II times
and has blasted half a dozen hits for
q .355 clip.
The three others. none of whom has
been handed regular berth, seem in
tent on putting up grand fight for
the right field assignment. Stone,
dividing most of the work at that post
with Reynolds, shows the lowest aver
age of the quintet. His three hits IN
10 trips furnish a 800 average.
Reynolds, up eight times, has
raped out four hits for a 500 pace,
while Miles. who has appeared at bat
only four times. has socked two safe
ties for another 500 clip In all,
Washington's outfielders have raped
out 90 of the a safeties blasted of
the offerings of Boston, Philadelphia,
Albany and Detroit hurlers. And OF
these 20 blows were doubles, 2 were
triples and another was good for a
homer.
1t was the outfielding corps that di-
rectly led the way to Detroit's down.
fall on Tinker Field before a capacity
crowd of nearly 5000. Six of the
Griffs' II safeties bounced of the fly
chasers' bats as the Harrismen came
from behind for the second straight
day to register their triumph in an
extra-inning battle possessing all the
dramatics that go with base ball.
Kuhel's Double Starts Scoring.
1T WAS Powell who opened the Sec
ond frame with a single and scored
on Joe Kuhers double to hand Buck
Newsom a 10 lead, and it was Rey-
nolds who tripled in the fourth and
scored on wild pitch to make it 20.
Detroit. capitaliZing on two errors
by Cecil Travis, did its big scoring in
the sixth frame, tallying four runs off
the offerings of Ed Linke. But the Ma
tionals refused to fold. Powell opened
Washington's half of the sixth with
double and raced across on anther hit
by Reynolds, cutting the lead to AS.
Al Simmons personally accounted
for the Tigers fifth and final run
with homeE in the eighth, but again !
the local outfielding brigade teamed |
up to put the Nationals back in the |
game by leading a two-run rally in |
their half of the eighth inning Buddy |
Myer opened the frame with his first |
hit Of the year, and Powell propelled |
him to second with his second hit of
the day. Travis shot to center scored |
Myer and sent Powell to third, from |
Wnere ne scored on long ny py |
Johnny Stone, who relieved Reyonlds |
when Mike Cochrane sent Schoolboy |
Rove to the box.
That the game ended dolorously,
with the winning run counting on a
wild pitch, took nothing away from
the Griffs. Don French, a rookie
southpaw, was the victim, but Don
was in plenty of trouble in the tenth, |
which opened with Stone singing and |
moving to third when Joe Kuhels sac
rif1ce was booted by Don Ross. Cliff
Bolton grounded out on the next play, |
but Dee Miles, batting for Pete Apple
ton, was hit by a pitched ball, filling |
the bases. Here French cut loose with |
q heave over Hills head and Stone
scored with the run that ended it all. |