Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1936, Page 39

Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936. Features and Classified | C PAGE C—1 Nats at Peak in Dazzling Drive : Broken Red Sox on Greased Skids PUNCH, PRECISON | MARKS PROGRES Season Hit Record Is Set as Club Soars by Beating Mackmen Twice. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Stafl Correspondent of The tar. HILADELPHIA, July 2.—The P base ball analyst who surveys the Nationals today finds a ball club tasting the sweets of success and fired with new ambition to gorge itself. Not since the pennant-winning year of 1933 has there been such a glow- ing picture of Washington base ball. There may not be the same feeling about reaching the pinnacle, but when all is considered, the Harris men of today must be rated equally as suc- cessful as the championship machine of three years ago. Given scarcely a chance to finish in the first division, the Griffs now are tied with Boston’s Gold Stockings for third place—1 percentage point back of the second place Tigers. Not until you look back a few months does the significance, even if less | than half the season has gone by, | hit you. The $2,000.000 Red Sox and | the bargain-tounter Nationals tied | up! | All's Well With World. HE future is even rosier. The Nationals, to all appearances, are charging. They are getting better all the time, as witness the debacle yes- terday, when they twice rode over the hapless Athletics Boston's Gold Stockings, outwardly, are unraveling rapidly. Cleveland, on the road only one day, already has lost ground—and in St. Louis. The ‘Tigers are hot, but it must be remem- bered, they still are minus the serv- ices of Hank Greenberg and Mickey Cochrane Promising? Yea. Twice more—today and tomorrow—the Nationals are due to take cracks at their “cousins” from Philadelphia. Then, while the Tigers and Indians are making out as best they can on the road. Washington's surprising entry will settle down in Griffith Stadium and play host. The Griffs have no wild ambitions connected with the overhauling of the high-flying Yankees. This is no sign of an inferiority complex but, rather, a sign of good judgment. First of all. the Nationals are going to see what they can do about getting a fair sort of a grip on second place before seeking new worlds to conquer. Hitting On All Cylinders. PJ°HE Harrismen today seem to be at | the top of their game. Joe Kuhel is going grear guns. Ossie Bluege has | proved himself to be the sparkplug of | the infield. The Griffs’ record of 10 | wins in 15 starts since. Ben Chapman has been with the club speaks loudly | for Chappie’s influence. Buddy Lewis seemingly has snapped out of the slump. Red Kress is—well, they're all | clicking. This may be a season of lively balls and Connie Mack's pitchers may be | a lot of guys who ought to be back | on their North Carolina farms doing their milking, but you still cannot overlook the double victory of yes- terday here. It was, first of all, the first double-header the Griffs have won this season. Off their bats bounced 32 base hits =blows that rang,.for the most past, clearly and solidly. They produced 27 runs, a two-game record for the ‘Washington club this season. Another record for the Nationals this season was their feat of clouting four home runs. Afield there was nothing that was not sheer brilliance. Right down the line the Griffs are on their toes. Deshong, Newsom Win 10. IMMY DESHONG and Buck New- som, leading pitchers of the club, today held their tenth victories of the season. De Shong was batted hard in the opener yesterday but, de- spite that, he breezed home to a 13-to-5 victory behind a 15-hit at- tack. Leaders in this Washington offensive were Lewis and Kuhel. Each parked a home run over the right field fence and made two other hits. Lewis scored four runs and batted across another; Kuhel scored three times himself and chased across four runs. In the nightcap, the attack was not 80 well balanced, but it was no less po- tent. In the fourth inning the Wash- ingtons batted around and came up with eight runs to overcome a 2-te-1 deficit. Newsom, fanning 10 batters and walking only one, had an easy time of it. The Griffs made 17 hits in the nightcap, including homers by Chap- man and Johnny Stone. Kress, with three hits, helped his batting average | too. the most. For the day 32 hits were made by ‘Washington. They were good for B0 bases. This should give a fair sort of an idea of how the Griffs, at least against second-division pitching, are teeing off. And they promise to be zeady for the Yanks this week end. Minor Leagues International. Buffalo, 2-0; Toronto, 1-2. Rochester, 4-1; Montreal, 2-1. Byracuse, 8; Newark, 4. Albany-Baltimore, rain. American Association. Minneapolis, 6; Kansas City, 8. St. Paul, 9; Milwaukee, 4. Toledo, 4; Indianapolis, 3. Columbus-Louisville, rain. Southern Association. Birmingham, 10; Chattanooga, 8. . Little Rock, 11; Knoxville, 10. Memphis, 16; Atlanta, 11. New Orleans-Nashville, rain. ‘Texas. Dallas, 2; Fort Worth, 0. Beaumont, 4; Galveston, 3 Tulsa, 11; Oklahoma City, 4. Houston, 6-6; San Antonio, 4-4. Piedmont. Richmond, 4; Portsmouth, 2. South Atlantic. Columbus, 9; Jacksonville, 3. Pacific Coast. Missions, 8; San Francisco, 4. 8an Diego, 2; Los Angeles, 0. Oakland, 5; Sacramento, 0, Seattle, 6; Portland, 2. , In Spot Light for Annual All-Star Game at Boston Next Week & i 1—Bill Terry, Giants’ pilot and veteran first baseman. 2—Joe DiMaggio, Yanks' sensational outfield rookie. 3—Charley Grimm, Cubs’ boss, who will direct National Leaguers. “‘POPPING OFF"* HILADELPHIA, July 2—The | time—early afternoon, today. | ‘The scene—near the batting ‘, practice cage at Shribe Park. | The characters — some of the Nationals. | The plot—to get a day off from | writing a column by letting the Griffs | do the talking. Take it away, boys: HARRIS—Well, we got those Red Sox by the neck now. If we are any good at all we can shove 'em down ... down ... down, NEWSOM — Speaking of going down, did you see what I did to that pest, Warstler, yestiddy? Five-for-0, he went. HARRIS—It's about time somebody on the Washington club stopped that guy. Whew, he's poison. ‘WHITEHILL—What the h— kinda | balls are the umpires tossing to us| pitchers now—tennis balls? I see that in five American League games yesterday there were 93 runs scored. That’s darn near 19 runs per game. Tribe Has Mental Complex. EPORTER—I see that Cleveland is already cracking up on the road. Here they've been out of their own park for one day and, blooey, they go to pieces, and in St. Louey, KUHEL—Shucks, that'’s just & mental complex. I remember when I was with Kansas City. We had a lot of old guys on the club and they kept saying we couldn’t win in Minneapolis. We didn't, either. The next year we got some young guys on the team and we made up our minds Minneapolis wasn't any dif- ferent than any other place. So we started winning in there, BLUEGE (to Mike Martin) — Can I have an alcohol rub? HARRIS—Take care of this guy, Mike, he’s our power house. STONE—Say, fellows. You know that bullock that pitched against us yesterday? He says he was out with us in Biloxi in 1934. I don't remember him pitching against us. REPORTER—From the way you guys teed off on him, I'd say it would be okay if he pitched against Wash- ington every day. What's he got? KUHEL—Fast ball. Not much curve. Tried it twice on Kress and Bluege and both of them got his, So he quit throwing it. HILL—Honestly, some of those guys Connie Mack trots out can’t pitch in any league. By the way, how about getting up a pinochle game tonight? DE SHONG—Count me out Jeese. Gotta see a show in town. It's called “San Francisco.” Discretion Outpoints Valor. REPORTER—That reminds yow of Cronin — “San PFrancisco” — yoy know. Wonder what he’s doing now? 4 ] A 4—Ducky Medwick, potent y Dean, hurling ace 7 8—Gabby Hartnett, Bruins man hit that home run yestere day? Well, he used my bat. HILL—The way you've been hitting, | Joe, we all ought to use it, | KUHEL—Well, it's just right for a | batter like Ben, for instance. It's an inch shorter than Chapple's stick and a lot lighter, Newsom used it, too, and he got a few hits. flychaser of Cardi 5—Lou Gehrig, Yanks’ slugging first-sacker, D of Cardinals. Billy Herman, Cubs’ sparkling infielder. * great catcher. | 9—-Stu Martin, Cards’ scintillating young infielder. 10—Joe McCarthy, Yanks' field leader, who will manage American Leaguers. 11—Bob Grove, Red Sor’s fireball left-hander. —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto. Probably walking along the banks of the Harlem River with Eddie Collins. HILL—That reminds me of the Yanks, too. I sort of figured it out and I think the Yanks'll use Gomez against us in Washington on July 4 ‘That might mean that I get a chance to start. By the way, I've got a con- secutive game hitting streak of 20 in a row now. That doesn't include pinch-hittin’, though. KUHEL—Did you see Chap- TERMS STEPPED DOWN SO YOU CAN STEP UP TO THE V-8 CLASS 1936 FORD V-8 DEMONSTRATORS Used by Company Officials Only At Substantial Reductions! NEWSOM (to reporter)—Say, I wanta ask you something. Wuz I. or wuz I not, given a hit on that ball shot to Finney yesterday with the bases loaded? REPORTER (moving away) — Wait till T get a little farther | away and get a good start. All ready? Well, you were NOT. | Goomby, pliz. Ed. note—Well, anyway, it's an easy | |wny to fill up a column. The well | runs dry now and then, you know, ‘l i Now you can get a practically brand- new 1936 Ford V-8 at a drastic re- duction . . . and on the easiest terms ever offered—only $5 WEEKLY! Get your car for the 4th at Nolan's! 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In fact, from the way things are | going now, it's highly doubtful if the at | present slightly tarnished gold-plated | line-up will finish one-two in the cur- | rent pennant chase Serie- Sweep for Yanks. {"'T'HE Sox sank out of second place | yesterday, dropping their sixth | straight game, as the Yanks made it | three in a row over the Bostons with a | 5-0 victory, to stretch their league lead to 10} games. The Tigers, who seem to have recovered somewhat from the loss of Manager Mickey Cochrane, took over the runner-up position with | their fifth straight win. a tremendous | 21-6 scoring spree against the White | Sox ‘The Detroits expressed the trend of the day for the league, as pitchers came at a dime a dozen against slug- ging bats on all sides The lowly | St. Louis Browns blasted the Indian. | 16-12, in the first game of a double- | header and deadlocked the almost as wild-hitting night cap, 5-5, called in the ninth because of darkness, Mean- | time, the Nationals, who went into a tie with the Red Sox for third | place. teed off against Connie Mack's | pitching youngsters with a total of | 32 hits, for a twin-bill win, 13-5 and 14-4. | National League Games Better. ‘T}{E hurling brigade had a slightly better time in the National League, although the Pirates beited three St. Louis pitchers for 15 hits and a 9-4 win, to cut the Cards' lead to half a game over the Cubs, who were rained out at Cincinnati. 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