Evening star., 1936-09-03
last SIX LOSSES
BY SINGLE TALLY
De Shong Showing Signs OF
Wear-Hogan to Replace
Deserving Bolton.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

"HEY tore two of the biggest
spare uniforms apart at Grit
fifth Stadium this morning,
4 sewed them together for emer-
eency use, and if you think Ringing
Bros. circus is in town and lacks
tent you're wrong. It's because Fran
els (Shanty) Hogan, paroled from
Albany, today steps into the breach
caused by the "walkout" of Cliff Boil
ton and takes over the first-strmg
catching of the Nationals.
One-time catching star OF the
Giants and Braves, fat old Shanty
reported to the Washington club this
morning in the wake OF Bottoms un-
expected departure for his home in
North Carolina yesterday. Pleading
Ill health, Bolton asked Owner Clark
Griffith for permission to go home to
recuperate. Refused, he left any
way, drawing suspension without pay
for an indefinite period.
Thus comes Hogan from the Inter-
national League to fill the breach and
while Manager Bucky Harris is
mourning the loss of his flrst-string
catcher there was another source OF
worry to attract deeper concern at
the present time. This was in the
person of Jimmy De Shong, the early
season pitching sensation who is
finding the path of a big-league
starting pitcher long, weary trail.
Finishes Only Two of Eight.
CHARGED with his tenth defeat of
~ the season yesterday, when the
Tigers won a 3-to-2 victory in the
opener of a series, De Shong had
reason today to look back over nearly
six weeks of disappointment. Not
since July Is, when he beat the
them to six hits, has Jimmy turned
. in the kind of a high-clasS per-
formance that marked his early
season work.
True, Detroit made only two runs
of him in the seven innings that
Jimmy worked, but they pounded De
Shong for IL hits, got a base on balls,
and left 10 runners stranded on the
base paths. Only Jimmy's stout
heart saved him from further punish
ment and they don't always pay off
on the ticker that beats beneath a
guys uniform.
Since he whipped the Browns so
handily on July 25, De Shong has
started eight times and finished only
two of the games. He lost four
decisions and another, an 11-to-8
affair with Cleveland was charged
to Joe Cascarella. The three games
that Jimmy has won since then were
by scores of 13-to-4, 11-to-5, and g.
to-6.
Mats Blow Scoring Chances.
THE fact that De Shong is finding
victories harder and harder to
chalk up is no serious offense for
Jimmy. On the strength of the IS
wins he already has won the young
right obtained from the
Yankees must be tagged a pleasant
surprise. What is happening really is
to be expected, inasmuch as De
Shong virtually had been in retire
ment until this season and is not
particularly the "work-horse" type of
pitcher. It merely is question Of
the Washington club trying to
squeeze a few more triumphs from
him in an effort to stay in the running
Tor the second-place niche.
AS a mater of fact, De Shong's de-
feat yesterday was a heartbreaker,
although had the game resulted in
victory it would have gone to sgd
Cohen, who relieved Jimmy. The
Tigers, getting 13 hits as against only
3 for Washington, deserved to win,
but they did SO only by the scantiest
of margins. One more base hit on
either of two occasions would have
won for the Griffs, who made 80
per cent of their headway only be-
cause of the wildness of Rookie Jake
Wade, who was credited with the
victory.