Evening star., 1937-07-03
Builds Up .313 Average.

Builds Up .313 Average.
OF ALL the Red Sox transfers. Al
mada found himself confronted
with the most difficult task. Rick Fer
rell was bound to make his presence
felt. He was certain to be a mighty
big improvement over Shantv Hogan
and the others who had been doing the
Griffs catching since 1884. And Yves
Ferrell, as far as Washington was
provement over Newsom. Toward the
end of his career in a local uniform
Buck had acquired a blatant host of
hecklers in the pews.
Almada however. had to fill the
shoes of Ben Chapman. or at least
help to fill them. Melo's coming
meant that he and Jess Hill would
divide the center fielding. depending
upon what kind of a pitcher faced
the Mats. II he was a southpaw Hill
would get the call But, because
there are many more right handlers
Almada has seen more service
Chapman probably was the most
popular Of all the Mats in 1886 Many
ranked Chappie as the best center
fielder in the modern history of the
Washington firm But so far Armada
has allowed no cause for complaint.
In his 13 games with the Griffs
the youngster has acquired a .3l3
batting average. This, of course, was
done only against right-handed
pitchers. AS lead-of hitter he has
done nothing short of acceptable In
70 trips to the plate he has reached
base 90 times by hits, walks or other
wise. He has averaged scoring exactly
one run per game
Yanks Are Beaten, 8 TO 3.
MELO put on the show. at Griffith
Stadium yesterday When, in
the eighth inning, he pumped out his
fourth hit one of the Yankees in the
dugout yelled out to Bucky Harris,
who was coaching at third base:
Hey Bucky, did Chapman ever get
four hits for you?"
In the wake of that 8-to-3 drubbing
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victory over the Yanks. The loss of
Selkirk has not helped the Rupert
forces and with Gehrig going hitless,
as ne did yesterday against Carl
Fischer and Ed Linke, the champs are
just another ball club
Bump Hadley started for the Yanks
and was nicked for a run in the first
inning, Almada starting the trouble
with double. In the third Melo
contributed single to an attack
that rang up SO lead.
Fischer began to weaken in the
sixth, after pitching good ball, and
A walk to Crosetti. triple by Rolfe
and home run by Di Maggie cut
the score to 5-3 This prompted Harris
to lift Fischer and replace him with
Linke
Fred Denoted, Travis Tipped.
Mr.. LINKE was permitted to
breathe easily in the seventh,
when the Griffs hoped on Pat Ma
lone, who had relieved Hadley. They
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dentally, Almada also started this
rally with a single.
AS farewell touch, Melo drove
across Buddy Myer with the final
run in the eighth Linke pitched
hitless and runless ball in his three
inning stretch. 1t was a most well
come performance.
The only item that disturbed Harris
was Fred Sington's showing. OF late
Fred not only hasn't been hitting, but
he has been drilling into double
plays, When he hit into two yester-
day Bucky decided to promote Cecil
Travis to the fifth hole in the batting
order and drop Sington to sixth.
Cecil is hotter than a 4-inch Fourth
of July salute at the moment, having
hit safely in nine of the last 10
games He has been hitting when hits
mean something, too
1t was to be Monte Weaver versus
spud Chandler today.