RUSSELL FIRES 2-HITTER, OUT-DUELS HADLEY
Myers' 2-Out 9th Inning Hit Snaps Scoreless Tie

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (AP) - Buddy Myers' bases loaded single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning broke a scoreless tie and gave the Washington Senators a  1-0 victory over the St. Louis Browns at Griffith Stadium.  Myers' base hit made a winner of Senators starter Jack Russell who fired a two-hit complete game shutout.  Bump Hadley--who surrendered only an unearned run in 8 2/3 of work himself--was the hard luck loser.  Russell became only the seventh American Leaguer this season, and the first member of the Senators, to allow two hits or fewer in a complete game effort.  The two clubs combined for only eight hits, marking only the fourth time this season that a total of eight safeties or fewer were amassed in an AL contest.

Neither club managed a hit until the fourth inning and neither team advanced a runner into scoring position with less than two outs until the bottom of the sixth.  Myers drew a one-out free pass from Hadley and advanced to second on John Stone's single through the box.  But consecutive ground ball outs off the bats of Dave Harris and Joe Cronin snuffed out the threat.

Consecutive two-out singles by Fred Schulte and Pete Susko put Washington baserunners on first and third but Hadley again kept the Senators scoreless by retiring Russell on a pop to short.

Myer, who seemed to be in the middle of everything, led off the bottom of the eighth with a base hit and advanced to second with one out when Stone sacrificed him along but Hadley coolly set down Harris and Cronin again to preserve the shutout.

The Browns, meanwhile, got virtually nothing going against Russell, never advancing a runner past second base.  As an illustration of his dominance, Russell retired the final 10 St. Louis batters he faced.

The Senators finally broke through in the ninth, but they needed a defensive miscue on the part of the Browns to do so.  Cliff Bolton reached leading off the inning when St. Louis shortstop Alan Strange booted a ground ball for an error.  Schulte sacrificed Bolton to second and Susko drew a walk.  Ossie Bluege fouled to first baseman Jack Burns for the second out, but Hadley committed the cardinal sin of walking Russell, on four pitches.  That brought the pesky Myers to the plate with the bases loaded and on a 2-2 pitch he lined a base hit between first and second to plate the only run of the game.

8/27/1934, SLA34-Was34, Griffith Stadium
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1934 Browns            0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     0  2  1     4  0
1934 Senators          0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1     1  6  1    10  0
 
Browns               AB  R  H BI   AVG    Senators             AB  R  H BI   AVG
Clift             3b  4  0  0  0  .243    Myer              2b  4  0  2  1  .304
West              cf  3  0  0  0  .300    Stone             rf  3  0  2  0  .329
Burns             1b  4  0  2  0  .296    Harris,D          lf  3  0  0  0  .261
Garms             lf  3  0  0  0  .273    Cronin            ss  4  0  0  0  .266
Campbell          rf  3  0  0  0  .255    Bolton            c   4  0  0  0  .301
Melillo           2b  3  0  0  0  .216     Sewell           pr  0  1  0  0  .220
Grube             c   3  0  0  0  .269    Schulte           cf  2  0  0  0  .287
Strange           ss  3  0  0  0  .240    Susko             1b  2  0  1  0  .313
Hadley            p   2  0  0  0  .185    Bluege            3b  4  0  1  0  .209
                     28  0  2  0          Russell           p   3  0  0  0  .240
                                                               29  1  6  1
 
Browns                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Hadley           L 4-14          8.2  6  1  0  5  1 141  75  4.21
                                 8.2  6  1  0  5  1 141  75
 
Senators                         INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Russell          W 4-9           9.0  2  0  0  2  3 127  80  4.56
                                 9.0  2  0  0  2  3 127  80
 
Was: Sewell ran for Bolton in the 9th
 
E-Strange, Bluege. RBI-Myer(48). SB-Burns(8), Schulte(3). CS-Harris,D, Susko.
K-Clift 2, Hadley, Russell. BB-West, Hadley, Myer, Harris,D, Susko 2,
Russell. SH-Garms, Stone, Schulte. HBP-Schulte. HB-Hadley.
GWRBI: Myer
Temperature: 85, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 2 MPH.
Attendance: 2,157
Game Time: 2:03