Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1932, Page 43

SPORTS SPORTS. D3 Poor Pitching Offsets Griff Attack : Cuyler Looms as Busy Man in Big Series ”GERSWIN—IN 10TH !Ruth;“in Role of Base Ba’lvlfs Prize Playboy, . 'KIKI MAY MAKE yp M?F;sz};] ;‘&;‘s ?;;’r | W@ w”H Iwfl RA'.“ES Was “Busted Phenomenon” in 1922 Wpr]d 'Senes‘ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932. across in the tenth, but the Giants were far from beaten. 'The first three men to face Bob Smith in the last hnlf of the tenth singled and Lonnie Warneke | was called in to halt the stampede. bad driven in the tying run with a dou- ble on which Joe Moore. carrying the | winning run on his shoulders, was cut | down at the plate by Cuyler's bullet- | coscSacumsd | way to sample the fruits of his con- | quests. Spencer, ¢ Marberry, e HEN Heinie Manush slammed out his first hit in his initial time at bat yesterday against Marberry Blows Big Lead in Seventh, Then Weaver Takes Beating. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star ETROIT, Mich., September 16.—There is something about Navin Field that gets the best of them. Now, you take the New York Yankees. Regardless of how good they hap- pen to be going, they give strange and erratic performances here They do queer and odd things. ‘They generally manage to win, but in odd fashion and in games that last anywhere from two and one-half to four hours. Washington seems to have found the same bugaboo here. The Nationals when beaten by the Tigers Wednesd: looked bad. Beaten again yesterday they looked worse. | The Washington pitchers must have been fairly effective this year or Wash- ington could not be in third place, but the same pitchers who were effective | against other clubs have proved weak here. | Regardless of what happens in the | final game today, the best that Wash- ington can do against Detroit this sea- son is break even and it is the first | time in years that Detroit has done as well with Washington in a season’s piay. Marberry Blows Big Lead. Clark Griffith, who remains the best Tooter among ail the owners, probably would have broken a few chairs here yesterday. Mr. Griffith remains pas- sionately fond of base ball and being pessionately fond of the game he would hive been moved to violent protest had he watched his ball club blow a | six-run lead and lost to Detroit, 7 to 8. in 10 innings. Fred Marberry lacked the old zip to his fast ball. His mates stacked up a lead big enough to win for any pitcher, but Marberry, after holding Detroit to | one run in three innings—a run that was not earned—found himself belted for five sound wallops and four earned runs in the fourth. Monte Weaver rescued Marberry the seventh when his lead had been r duced to one lone run and the tiei Tun was on base Weaver b & first-year good as his record fo but in the tenth he two batters, saw the next one get an infield hit and then, after getting two strikes on Davis, the recruit first sacker slashed a grounder between Weaver's legs for a single that ended the game. in 18 ational record for he looked as e ini Bridges Puzzles Griffs. Tommy Bridges also went into the game in the seventh inning and Tommy again proved himself a Washington nemesis. In the four innings that he pitched Washington did nct get a hit off him, although re walked four men ‘The difference between Bridges and Weaver was that Bridges managed to pull himself out of the holes that his bases on balls got him into and Weaver failed to recover. The exit of Fred Marberry came sud- denly in the seventh inning. leading off, hit a home run. the next batter, singled. Monte Wez was rushed to the box before he had | a chance to throw a ball in the | bull pen. | With two on and none out in the | tenth, Bridges was permitted to bat | for himself. He made two dismal at- tempts to bunt. Two strikes and noth- ing. The infield fell back. Bridges bunted on the next pitched ball, laid one down along third base line and Bluege did not even have a chance to field the ball. That filled the bases and the end came a moment later. Washington has not looked good in fielding in this series. Even the great Joe Cronin has stumbled on_ceveral | plays—and when Cronin stumbles the entire Washington tcam stumbles. That is the kind of player he is | In two days there have been two good fielding plays. Stone ran into the left field corner and made a leaping one-handed stab of Spencer's long drive while going at full speed. Rey- nolds killed a three-bagger for Gehringer with a diving catch of a low and vicious line drive. Heinle Manush made one-third of ‘Washington's hits, and one of them was | a drive into the right field bleachers He took his fun where he found it and with more money in his hands than he ever thought existed fun wasn't hard to find. His home run hitting fell off to 35 for the season as Rogers Hornsby took away his leadership with 42, Ruth’s hitting fell off to .315 from the tremendous .378 of 1921. Huggins drove his rambling playboys through to the world series, and there they fell apart. First Earl Nehf, then Jess Barnes, Jack Scott, Hughie Mc-| Quillian, then Nehf again tamed the| Yanks. 'The Yanks could only tie one game for Bob Shawkey while losing four. | Ruth hit exactly .118, driving in one run with two small hits. He was back | in shape for the series, but overanxious. | He simply couldn't get started. The fans rode him viciously. | After the series one of the guides| wrote the Babe's obituary thusly: | “There are no excuses for the lament- | | ably weak hitting of Babe Ruth, now an | exploded phenomenon. He...was shown | up in a way that amazed the fans. ... McGraw had Ruth’s number . . .| : His boxmen fooled him with change of pace. They kept the balls | low and were not afraid to pitch to him. | fouled out twice, n above Grounds before the t of the 1 of McGravian mind and Ruthian matt this series. his Giants hurling staff hel measly hits. This is the fifth of ten relating the prodigious world series Jeats of the one and only Babe Ruth. BY EDWARD J. NEI Assoc: w EW YORK, September 16.—As the fat years give way to the lean and ss becomes & tcnie that finally drugs, so did Babe Ruth, after his mighty surge of 1921 tumble from home run heights and become the “busted phenomenon’ stcries d Press Sports with old Sam Sam played ce R Myer showed a ning in the third from first to throwing out M when he ran while Wyatt was on a slow play. off Hogsett in r of them were Five hits were ma the first inning. and fc into dead right fil t a series in Cleveland tomc 1 the going over there will be no easier than it was here. Cleveland is finishing the season with a flourist The Nationa! haking” world series in one of the famed meetings | with John McGraw at the Polo | McGraw’s “master-minding” won in ng the big Yankee fence buster to two | of the Yankee world series debacle of 1922, It was no fault of Ruth’s that the Yankees, after winning the American League pennant with the first of Miller Huggins' power-plus outfits in 1921, went down before John McGraw's Giants five games to three in the world ceries Ruth topped his 59 home run splurge with a gallant series attack, popping the Giants pitching in the last of the best- five-out-of-nine series for five hits in 16 times at bat and an average of .313. The Yanks took the then dwindled down to lose five of the next six. In Mild Debut. Ruth's introduction to New the first of a It was York world series play. max in the coming struggle. In a small w he was a failure. Manhattan's crowds expected something more spec- tacular. But the ordinariness of the Ruth of the 1921 series was magnificence itself compared to the helpless Babe | of 1922, The Bambino had fallen into evil ways through the season of 1922. Rid- ing the high wave of popularity and fame, the Bam took time out along the WE MINCE NO WORDS ® Positively — beyond question — the Gillette BLUE BLADE is the sharpest we have ever produced. This fact is roved by an exclusive sharpness tester — a scientific marvel. See how pleasant shav- ing can be. Try the Gillette Blue Blade. A BARGAIN BATTERY MAY OR MAY NOT PERFORM TOMORROW BUT ----IWH AN EXIDE DE VICE COL 9020 —_— BRIGHTWOOD AUTO SUPPLY CO. GE. 9822 ARAC NO. 1021 5917 Ga. Ave. BROOKLAND 1000 Michigan Ave, CAIN & BLACKBURN 1827 Adams Mill Rd. N.W. COL 10474 —— THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY CO. 1823 L St. N.W. NA. 9500 0. H. FRANKLIN 1139 17th St. N.W. ST. 9803 Sy first_two games, | string of seven that reaches a new cli- | “Ruth went to the plate 21 times. He was passed unintentionally twice, nicked by a pitched ball once, made a single, two bagger and a sacrifice, | Ex-Buc a Leading Figure in Bruins’ Pennant March. Card Rookie Stars. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Sports Writer. | AZEN (KIKI) CUYLER sat on the bench while the Pittsburgh Pirates ab- sorbed four successive beat- ings from the New York Yankees in 1927, but it's a safe bet the fleet outfielder will see plenty of | service in the world series this year, assuming the Chicago Cubs win the National League pennant. As the Cubs drive toward the flag Cuyler's sensational flelding and timely hitting have been the determining fac- tor in many a game. Particularly has he been “poisonous” to the New York Giants. Almost sin- gle-harded he beat thcm in two games of a recent series at Chicago and y like throw. Having saved the game, Kiki proceeded to win it in the next in- | ning with a home run on Sam Gibson, | third Giant pitcher of the day. | Pittsburgh recovered from a hrief | slump to trim the Boston Braves, 0| 2, but failed to gain an inch. They still were five and one-half games be- hind the Cubs today, with the schedule growing short. They would have to win all their remaining 11 games, while | the Cubs were losing 6 out of 10 to take the pennant. | T. LOUIS turned up with another brilliant pitching prospect in Ray St young right-hander, from Rochester, who held Brooklyn to two widely spaced singles and won handily, 3to0 0. The Phillies downed Cincinnati, 7 to 4, to make a sweep of the three- ame series. The Yankees suffered their first de- | feat since clinching the American League flag when the Chicago White Sox beat them, 8 0 5 was the victim. breaking a seven-game winning streak for the Castillian, Wal- ter Stewart of the St. Louis came out best in a tight mound duel with George Earnshaw of the Athletics, 3to 2. Cleveland pounded two Boston pitch- ers for 12 hits, including home runs by Kamm and Cissell, to win their was retired teven times on infleld | terday he was the hero of the Cubs' eighteenth game of the year from the erounders, forced cne man at second, flied out twice and fanned three times.” That was the first of Ruth's obit- uaries. The next year he hit 393 for | the season, including 41 homers. | thrilling, 11-inning, 8-.0-7 victory over Red Sox, 7 to 2. the same club at the Polo Greunds. HE Giants had rallied to tie the score at 5 to 5 in the ninth only to see the Cubs blast two runs Canzoneri, Fuller, Petrolle and Bat- talino, leading boxers in the lighter divisions, are Italian lads. | WARNEKE GE Lefty Gomez Browns | the 200. His other two, one a homer, | gave him 202 for a total of 319 | bases. Manush has pounded out 37 dou- = Lo e Dles, 14 triples and 14 home runs. |Sior TS 22D WIN | Hog: | Wi Tigers he brought his safeties to | Weaver. i ringer. Stone, if White, | walker, et Roge! schu sautels, . 4 55 bie. “3b sett, p.. o Cub Hurler Scores in Relief Role ?&:Egéfl- ';.z‘.' First Time This Season. | Totals *None gut when' CHICAGO, September 16 (#).—Lon- nie Warneke finally has won a game as a rellef pitcher. | Although the sensation of the Na- tional League this season along the full nine-ining route, the Cub pitcher never had won in a relief role until yesterday, when he stepped in to relieve Bob Smith in the tenth against the Giants and finally won the game on Cuyler's home run in the next inning. It was his twenty-second victory of the year. COLORFUL NINE INVADES Washington Pilots, local colored pro- fessional base ballers, tonight will tackle one of the most colorful outfits of the ceason when the bewhiskered House of David nine invades Griffith Stadium Play will start at 8:30 o'clock. Moose Swaney, 45-year-old pitcher. will toe the slab for the House of David tossers, with Tom Richardson opposing him for the Pilots. - By ton, o o I: off Wyatt,'2; off e +Batted for Wyat Washington ... 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