Evening star., 1936-07-14
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lttIY NUW H|S
DIZZY SLAB PACE.
Club Rallies as Veteran
Reuains Effectiveness
on Pitching Peak.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
"HOSE who help to guide or fol-
low the destinies of Mr.. Bucky |
Harris Nationals awoke today |
L to find the Washington ball
club ca in third place again, To- |
about to face a new crisis, and (c) |
epparently as ready to meet it as 1t
ever will be.
To achieve return to third place
the Griffs again capitalized on mop
of the Boston Red Flops and sneakeo
ahead of the FenWay Millionaires on
the wings of a 9-to-3 victory over the
poor Browns.
The crisis, as near as can be fore
told. will be reached tomorrow after
the St. Loueys leave town. Following
the Browns footsteps into Grlfhth
Stadium comes probably the hottest
ball club in the American League
none other than Chicago's White Sox.
The chief reason for anticipating
a National preparedness during the
Forthcoming days is the fairly dennlte
proof that Earl Whitehill is just as
GOOD a pitcher as he's been since 1883,
thereby furnishing assurance that mes
good enough.
Rallies After Poor Start.
EARL got off to bad start this year
- In February he had sore arm.
In March he caught cold. In April
he hurt a finger. A more recent all
nnent was sprained ankle. All these
combined to make it tough on the
temperamental southpaw, to say moth
ing of the pitching difficulties 1t
fcisted on Harris.
AS late as last month Earl was
blowing a $3.50 course in his four
teenth voyage over the American
League slab seas. He had 500 pitch
ing record. with four wins and as
fr1anv defeats, and, worse, he had been
belted out of the box three straight
times. People we're beginning to worry
and, at the time. there was an lnclln-
Atom to sell the Nationals stock
so-d deal shorter than it is likely to
be sold now
Today Earl, on the strength Of three
straight wins, holds his seventh VIC
tory of the season and it's beginning
70 look as though Harris can count on
Whitey's winning Is games He won
No. 7 yesterday, beating the Browns
by 9-to-3 count.
Wins Three Games In Row.
UIHITEHILL started his string in
w Chicago on June 27, holding the
Sox to six hits and winning, 2 to l.
In Philadelphia on July 2 he scored
a 4-to-3 triumph by limiting the AS
to eight hits Pitching in Griffith Sta
dium last week Whitehill was forced
to drop out after six innings OF toll in
q l04 temperature. The score at the
time was 3-3, so he was not charged
with the subsequent defeat. Neither
may the fact that he was taken out OF
the box be held against him because
of both the weather and the incident
that in his last two innings Earl set
down six straight batters.
Unless the White Sox 60 into an
unforeseen tailspin before tomorrow
it looks as though the Griffs will
need all the pitching they can get,
which makes Whitehill's recent record
particularly gratifying. For one
thing, Chicago has represented lot
of flies in the Nationals ointment
all season, having won Of II games.
Secondly. the White Sox will invade
with a great road record for the cur
rent trip.
Sox Win Out of Z.
RY TAKING two in row from the
- Yankees in New York the Pale
Hose now have won six out of their |
last seven starts and all were against |
good teams They started by sweep
ing a three-game series from Cleve-
land. Next, the Dykesmen invaded |
Boston and grabbed two out Of three |
before hitting New York and hum
bling the Rupert Rifles.
Whitehill, according to Harris slab
schedule, will be called upon to turn |
back the Chicagos in one of the |
three games. Jimmy De Shong will |
open the set tomorrow, and in the Sec
ond game Pete Appleton will take
over Joe Cascarella's turn and try |
again to clnch starting assignment.
.Whitehill, then, will clean up the |
series, leaving Buck NeWsom, who was |
to work today, to open the four game
Cleveland series at the end of the
week.
3 The Indians invasion, too, prom
ises to be trying series for the Griffs. |
Like the White Sox, Cleveland's Tribe |
has big edge over Washington with
2 wins in II games. And. also like
the White Sox, the Indians are raising
cain on their current trip.
Bluege Stars in S-3 victory.
THE Griffs' victory over the Browns
yesterday particularly was sweet
tnasmuch as it evened the series,
sent Washington ahead of Boston and
provided the medium for getting re-
senge on Chief Hogsett. The Chief, it
may be recalled, was one of the two
Et. Louis pitchers to beat Washing
ton this year.
For four innings it looked as though
Hogsett might repeat. He held a
3-to-l lead going into the Nationals
fifth frame, but they began to tee off
on Elon. and when the smoke cleared
the Washingtons were out in front by
S to as result of double by Jesse
Hill. singles by Buddy Lewis, Ben
Chapman and Cecil Travis, wild
throw by Hogsett, himself, and big
SniIh1e hu NSSie R1uepe Tn the Siyjh