Evening star., 1936-09-16
Browns Were Soft Touches.

ON THE final western swing that
will wind up late tins afternoon,
Washington won five of eight games,
but those that were lost hurt. The
Griffs split even in two-game series
in Detroit, but came back strong in
Cleveland and swept a two-game set.
Then, in Chicago, they lost two, but
emerged with a sizeable edge for the
trip in st. Louis.
The Browns have been good to the
Mats this year, which in a measure
should bolster the Bucks hopes of
getting even" with the White Sox
next year. st. Louis used to plague
the Washingtons regularly, but the
Browns spell came to sudden and
decisive stop this year. BY winning
two games yesterday in their farewell
appearances against the Hornsby men,
the Griffs ran their record for the year
to 10 victories. as against only three
deteats-the most lop-sided rivalry in
either major league.
Opener Was Poor Exhibition.
THE opener in Brownstown yester-
day, as ball games. was negligible
Neither side got much pitching. but
the Browns brand was far inferior to
that served up by Earl Whitehill, and
the Griffs romped home on the
strength of 19-hit attack that gave
them lead in the second inning, sew
ing up the affair.
Elon Hogsett, who opened for the
Brownies. was driven from the box
in this inning, as was Al Thomas, his
successor. When the frame finally was
over, washington had scored seven
runs to forge ahead, 81.
Whitehill's chief crime was wildness,
the veteran walking nine men in the
eight innings he worked. Finally, when
Cliff hit home run with one on base
and nobody out in the eighth. Jimmy
De Shong took over the Washington
pitching and retired the six remain.
ing batters in q row.
For the Griffs, Chapman, Hill, Kuhel
and Kress each banged out three hits.
Only Shanty Hogan went hitless.
Newsom Great In Nightcap.
THE nightcap was doubly welcome
in that it found Buck Newsom
emerging from the ranks of forgotten
men to give probably his best pitching
exhibition of the year. But for the
fact that Newsom's great hurting was
marred by the game being called after
seven innings, due to darkness, Bucks
performance might have gone down
with the classics of the year.
Only one hit-a single by Lyn Larry
IN the fifth inning-was made of
Newsom. The rest of the Browns
went out tamely, in most instances,
and If the game had gone out. espe-
cially with darkness falling, Newsom
might have approached the strikeout
record of rookie Bob Feller of the
Indians.
Buck famed II of the ~ batters
to face him and walked 6. Only 2
batters. outside of Larry, got ball
out of the inf1eld. Only 2-Clift
and Carey-escaped from Newsom's
strikeout list.
Newsom opened by tanning Larry
and Solters In the first inning. In
the third he whitfield Caldwell. In the
fourth, one of the dizziest innings of
the year, he famed the side but
while doing SO he walked four men,
forcing across the Browns only run.
In the fifth he struck out Caldwell
again and in the sixth Solters and
Bottonley went down on strikes. He
wound up by whiting West and
Hemsley in the seventh.
Caldwell was nicked for II hits,
8 of which came in the fourth inning,
when the Mats showed across five runs.
Cecil Travis led the attack with three
safeties, one Of which was q triple.
Texas.
Dallas, 10; Oklahoma City, 2 (play.