Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
War Admiral Easily Wins Derby Mats Rout Tigers Advance
Buck Helps His Cause With
Homer-Big Fifth Inning
OFF Rowe Decides,
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Stan Correspondentn of The Star

~ ETROIT, May 8.-The Grifs
used a new system today to
break another losing streak.
Unable to win on we'll
pitched ball games, they defeated the
Tigers. to 3, as some benign guardian
angel looked down upon the most
cratic throwing OF our Mr.. Buck
Newsom. The whole thing amounted
to an even break for the Washington
firm in Detroit and moved it up to
sixth place
The Tigers, however. despite their
loss. gained undSputed possession Of
flrst place in the American League
standing. The scramble is that funny.
NeWsom's trouble was not in giving
up too many base hits He limited
the Bengals to seven of these, but he
made it hard for himself by walking
six batters and pinking Gerald Walker
on the shoulder with q fast ball. A
couple double plays. plus some re-
markable outielding by Ben Chap
man, joined with Newsom's angel in
the darker moments.
Meanwhile, some OF the pent-up
thunder in the Nationals bats began
to rumble. for q change, and reached
an unwelcome climax for $4,000 Gus
toners in the fifth inning, when
Schoolboy Rowe's ears were neatly
pinned back with safety clips In this
round the Griffs changed 80 deficit
into q 6-to-3 lead, which never was
lost.
Mats Wade Into Wade.
THE Detroits pitched Jake Wade
and hoped for the best. After
two innings they only hoped for the
best. Ganging up on young Mr.. Wade
In the first two innings, Washington
ran up 20 lead and. incidentally,
scored both times after two men
were out. In the opening inning.
f'rinstance, Joe Kuhel Topped a fuks
double to right field after Chapman
and Buddy Lewis went out. Wade
then walked JOHNNY Stone and pitched
long single to Al Simmons, who
scored Kuhel.
In the second inning the Washing
| tons score came from a most peculiar
source. Two were out when Newso1l,
hiSself. walked to the plate and drove
into the upper right-held stands. 1t
was most surprising home run and.
to Manager Mickey Cochrane, it fur
nished conclusive evidence that today
wasn't Wade's day
Thus it was that in the Tigers Sec
| ond attacking session a pinch hitter
appeared in Wade's place at bat New
some had opened this inning by hitting
Walker with a pitched ball and he
walked Pete Fox He made Bill Rogell
force Fox. but Marv Owen tagged
| Buck for double and Walker tailed.
| So. Goose Goslin battled for Wade.
This Time. Walker Hits Buck.
COSLIN never had a chance He
couldn't reach anything Newsom
threw and so he walked, filling the
bases with one out 1t looked as if the
81 margin which Buck held at the
time was going to be wiped out quickly.
But Buck got out of it. Jo-Jo
White rammed a drive to the box on
one hop and Newsom threw home.
forcing Rogell Walter Miles then
whipped to Kuhel to double up White.
In the third frame, Walker hit New
som. In fact with Charley Gehringer
! on base by virtue of walk. Walker
hit one Of Newsom's pitches out of the
! lot and Detroit went ahead, 80.
! Rowe took up the Detroit pitching
after Wade was removed and he va,
q bowling success-for two innings.
In the fifth, however, our side went to
work on the Schoolboy.
Kuhel started 1t with a single after
Lewis went out. Stone also grounded
out. but Simmons double against the
right-field screen, scoring Kuhel TAX
ing the cue. Buddy Myer also doubled.
scoring Simmons and putting the
Griffs ahead again, 40
Still the Mats weren's finished. Old
Oss Bluege inserted a single at this
point to send Myer across and little
Miles, who hits doubles or nothinc
lined out a two-bagger to chase over
Bluege
1
WITH a So lead, Newsom's pen
W chant for getting into hot water
became more tolerable He KEEP
walking tigers and giving up hits now
and then, but if it wasn't a doublo
play that helped him to escape It
was Chapman leaping against tt"
scoreboard for an important catch.
In fact, for a guy who collected onl''
one hit all day. Chapman was a mos
conspicuous figure. In the sixth in
ming he gave a preview Of War Admiral
and probably ruined the hopes of the
Mats getting the Tigers to back Gerald
Walker against him in a foot race.
Ben singled to start the round and
after Lewis took a third strike he set
sail for second. Chappie was safe BY
the proverbial mile but, not satisfied,
he took of and stole third as we'll By
this time rookie, Pat Mclaughlin,
was pitching for the Detroits. So
flustered became Pat that he then
walked Kuhel and Stone in succession.
As Simmons forced Stone the fleet
footed Chapman scored with the run
that made 1t 7-3.
The final score was added in the
ninth inning. Again 1t was a case of
rallying with two out. Bluege started
this uprising with 4 triple to center
Then Double Or-Nothing' Miles
doubled to score him.
That's all There want ANU yoore