Evening star., 1936-07-05
.LEAGUE'SLEADERS
| BAG HOLIDAY BILL
Overflow Crowd of $4,000
Sees Harrismen Bow in
4-3, so Games.
BY FRANCIS p. STAN.

BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
Y ERALDED far and wide as the
IL American Leagues latest BIC
notes.-the 6-inch salute ready
u to match its thunder with the
boom of Yankee bats-Washington's
base ball firm fizzled with scarcely a
loud hiss yesterday at Griffith Stadium
as New York's onrushing league lead
erS met the Nationals challenge with
a double victory.
Before record Washington base ball
crowd for non-world series game,
the Griffs dropped heartbreaking
4-to-3 decision in the opening tilt, and
then succumbed, with only mild pro-
tests, to a 5-to-0 beating in the night
cap.
The double defeat, ending a three
game winning streak. sent the Grif1-
men reeling to the brink of the FIRST
diviSion--fourth place-while the Bos-
ton Red Sox slipped into third place
by grabbing pair of games from the
Athletics.
An overflow crowd of nearly $4,000
witnessed the slaughter of what Capt.
tai fandom apparently was willing
to accept as team of destiny. Pour
ing into every seat in the park, whose
capacity Is $1,000, fans clamored for
standing room in the outfield and
reached a state of near -hysteria in
the opener as the Griffs made a gal
liant but futile bid for victory. Only
one crowd, a world series outpouring OF
$4,000 In 1924, ever topped yesterdays
turnout in Washington.
Thwarted by Crosetti.
N THE ninth inning, with the score
4-to-1 against them, the Grifs
staged two-run rally against Lefty
Gomez and placed the tying run on
second base, only to be thwarted when
Shortstop frankie CroSetti ended the
battle by scooping up Ben Chapman's
grounder and throwing him out.
Suodued by the defeat, the crowd
impassively watched the nightcap until
1t became apparent that Johnny Broa-
cas- pitching and Rookie Joe Di Mag
glos hitting had iced the affair for
the Yankees. Then, showing their
oEgust, they threw firecrackers by the
score onto the field and. for the first
time, at their own athletes as well as
the Yankees.
Joe CaScarella, the dirninutive
curVer- crooner obtained from the Red
Sox. started for the Griffs in the
opener and for three innings he
! matched the uear-perfection OF
Gomez He was in trouble in the
tnlro, when CroSetti singled and Rolfe
doubled, but Cascarella, who previous
ly had famed Lazzeri and Gomez In
this inning, retired Joe Di Maggie the
same way.
The next two innings. the fourth
! and fifth, proved the Griffs' undoine.
CascarelIa never seemed to recover
from running out a double in the
Mats third and the Yanks. with
Gehrig hitting a two-bagger and
Dlckey aod Selkirk walking. quickly
nlled the bases with only one out in
the fourth.
LaZzeri Starts Trouble.
Here the aged Signor Anthony
Lazzeri, a money player" from
way back, lined a double to right
field and two runs were across. Sell
Kirk, who reached third on Tony's hit.
scored moment later on Gomez fiv
to Hill. 1t was the only ball 81 Goof
hit all day, incidentally.
1t was obvious, in the fifth. that
Cascarella was tiring. Di Maggie led
off with a hit to deep short that
Kress barely was able to field and
Gehrig walked. Bill Dickey followed
with slaShing drive down the first.
base line, but Joe Kuhel saved Cas-
carella by making great stop of that
ball and beating the Yankee to the
bag.
To aid Cascarella IN getting out of
the hole. Manager Bucky Harris
ordered Selkirk to be purposely passed
to get at Jake Powell, who had whitfield
on his two previous trips Carcarella
got two strikes on Jake, but he finally
grounded to short and Di Maggie
scored. Lazzeri ended the inning by
popping to KreSs.
The Yanks put all their offense into
those two Innings. Sgd Cohen, the
rookie from Chattanooga, came In to
hold them to hit and no runs in
the sixth and seventh and Bill Deit-
rich, formerly of the As, breezed
through the last two frames and gave
up only one hit.
THE Griffs were the strong finish
ers but they didn't make their
bid early enough. This, plus inabil-
ity to make their hits count, cost them
the game. for they outbatte@ the New
Yorks, IL to 8. A double by Ossie
Bluege in the fifth and a single by
Jesse Hill, after Pinch-hitter Johnny
Stones walk produced the first run.
and while they hit the tiring Comes
freely in the next three innings it
wasn't until the ninth that Washing.
ton made any real bid for the game.
The inning opened tamely enough,
Walter Miles flying to Di Maggie, but
Ptnch-hitter Cliff Bolton singled and
Hill walked. Buddy Lewis, hitIess and
overdue, slashed a hot grounder over
first base, and on this drive Gehrig
pulled play that probably saved the
game for the Yanks. Lou made a sue
cessful stab of the ball and beat Lewis
to the bag by inches
Once again the spark of victory was
famed, however, when Kuhel pumped
single through the box to score Boil
ton and send Hill to third. He also
sent Gomez to the showers. but not
until CroSetti had grabbed Kuheps
drive and made desperate throw that
got away from Gehrig, letting Hill
score with the run that narrowed the
count to AS. On the wild throw,
which went into the Washington dug