Evening star., 1938-06-19
LONG HIT IN NINTH
L|CKS GR|FFS, 53
Eisenstat Spreads 10 Raps
as De Shong Yields Trio
of Round Trippers.
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.


DETROIT. June l8.-Billy Rogell,
who Is batting a mild .225 over the
seasons stretch, tumbled the Nationals
into the second division here today
when he waddled to the plate in the
ninth inning and propelled his first
home run of the campaign into the
upper tier of the right field stands
to present Detroit 5-3 victory and
fourth place.
Catching the contagious spirit of
Charley Gehringer and Elongated
Hank Greenberg, who had pumped
homers among the customers in the
first and second innings. respectively,
Rogell fractured Washington's threat
Of prolonging the Struggle to extra
innings with his decisive, soaring
vallop that scored Harry Eisenstat,
who had amazed the spectators and
himself by rifiing his first hit Of the
season, . crisp single to left, to launch
the Tigers half of the ninth.
Itwas q story of home runs. While
the Tigers confined their plate -denting
to homers or the direct result of them,
Washington nicked away at Esenstat,
making his first start of the season
after several impressive relief roles,
with mere singles and doubles. The
homers, as is customary, won.
Gehringer Starts Trouble.
Eisenstat, declared free agent by
Judge Kenesaw oMuntain Lands, SUI
preme court of baseball, after Brooklyn
had been found guilty of juggling his
career by farming him to the minors
once too often, forked his southpaw
~slants over rather effectively, although
smashed for 10 hits.
The 22-year-old hurler, native of
Brooklyn. who had played small bits
in movies produced in the New York
area, granted the Nationals few liber-
ties in the pinches. There were
occasions when the Mats threatened
to collect batch Of runs, only to be
baked.
Gehringer, after Jo-Jo White had
crashed a single to left following
Rogell's retirement on an infield out,
stepped to the plate in the first
inning, discovered what he liked in
Jimmy De Shong's first fling and
promptly planted it in the upper deck
Of the right field stands for his
eighth homer Of the season.
The Mats went to work with their
comparatively tame singles in the Sec
ond inning and whitfield the lead to
al when Al Simmons started by
drilling single to left. Zeke Bonura
inserted q line drive in Pete Fox's
glove before Travis dropped another
single In center and the basis were
crammed when Ossie Bluege beat out
slow roller to Rogell aided bit on
Bills momentary muff.
Much Work for One Run.
The best the Mats could manufac-
ture from that, however, was one run.
Rick Ferreu lifted a fly to Chet Laabs
and Simmons scored after the catch. |
Then Dc Shong forced Bluege at
second.
Greenberg, first man up in the home
second. greeted De Shong with his
18th home run of the season, a mighty
poke which bounced of the super
structure of the upper tier in left field,
and the Tigers again held q two-run
margin.
Washington came back in its small
way in the fourth inning to reduce the
gap as Bonura rammed double 420 !
feet into center field after Simmons
had been thrown out. Travis topped
lazy roller down the first base line
and Bonura moved to third in his
unique fashion. Eisenstat, fielding the
ball, hit Travis in the back while
throwing to Greenberg, 50 Bonura
managed to continue home
The Mats tied it up in the fifth De
Shong cracked a single to right and
soon was perched on second as the
result OF George Cases looping single
to center. Sammy West moved him to
third by forcing Case and Jimmy
romped home after Buddy Lewis hoist
I'd deep to Laabs.
Mats Baked in Ninth.
Down through the sixth, seventh
and eighth moved the clubs without
disturbing one another unduly, but in
the ninth F'errell opened by whacking
q double to right and the situation
looked promising-but only for a brief
instant.
De Shong bounced a grounder to
Ross at third base on an attempted
play and Ferrell was
trapped and run down. Case then
pumped another single to left, sending
De Shong to second, but the threat
died when West and Lewis flied out.
Fox accommodated the Nationals
In the fifth and seventh innings by
grounding into double plays as three
and two Of his mates. respectively,
begged to come home. Those fielding
niceties looked important at the time,
hit then came Rnoell