Evening star., 1938-04-15
SLAB WORTH SEEN
IN ROCKS At LAST
Recent Efforts Halt Plans
to Ship Pair to Minors.
Bees Pound Weaver.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
With the opening game only two
days and a few stray hours away,
Manager Bucky Harris delighted in
the tightening of his load of baseball
worries At a time least expected two
rookie pitchers, who virtually were
given up by the Mats, have come
to life.
Reading from left to right (hander)
they are Joe Krakauskas, the speed
ball specialist. and Joe Kohlman, the
little curve -baller. One or both seemed
doomed to early shipment to the
minors three days ago
Krakky made his bid first When
the Mats first rolled into Griffith Sta
dium this week to play the Bees the
big bow-legged Lithuanian won a
6to-5 decision. Going into the tenth
inning with the score tied at SIS. the
Mats had nobody to pitch. Pete
Appleton had been replaced by a
pinch-hitter and only Krakky could
be spared.
1t was a break both for Southpaw
ice and the Griffs The boy who
couldn't get the ball across the plate
all Spring in Florida flung an I'M
pressive scoreless inning. Now one
inning is no test but there was some
thing about Krakky that left the
impression he could have gone on.
He had something on the ball, to
begin WITH and he had poise
Weaver Pounded by Bees.
The Mats won that ball game in
their half of the tenth inning. Yes
terday they didn't beat the Bees. The
National Leaguers cleaned up the
Boston Washington series, five games
to two. by shellacking Monte Weaver
for a 7-to-4 decision. But the score
wasn't important
After the Bees had collected seven
of their II hits and all of their runs
off Weaver in the first four innings
Harris waved Kohlman to the box.
The kid hasn't pitched much this
spring. In the Griffs' intra- squad
game early in March he hurt his arm
and virtually has been useless since.
In fact, Kohlman pitched only once
in formal exhibition competition until
yesterday. That was one day in
Orlando when he entered the box
against Detroit with the score tied
at a. in the ninth. The Tigers
got five runs of him and won, 9-4.
What he showed yesterday prompted
Harris to suspend Judgment. Right
handler Joe stopped the Bees cold,
working five scoreless innings and
deity scattering four hits.
Flowers Says Joe Will Do.
Kohlman's old manager, Jake Flow
ers. was in the stands. Jake piloted
the sensational Salisbury team of the
Eastern Shore League last year. After
forfeiting 20 games, due to the use
OF an ineligible player, Flowers team
came back to win the pennant, and
Kohlman was the star, breezing to
Is consecutive triumphs over one
stretch. Joe finished with ~ wins
as against only two losses.
Flowers, one-time infielder for the
Reds. Cards and Dodgers, thinks
Kohlman will stick with the Mats.
He isn't particularly fast" said Jake
yesterday. but his fast ball is sneaky
and he has a great curve. In addition
he throws a pretty good change Of
pace and he won't walk everybody in
the ball park"
Harris was inclined to think that
maybe Flowers had something there
Well look at him a few more times. -
observed Bucky With his arm in
shape he's got chance"
Buddy Myer Still Clouting.
The way the Bees hoped on Weaver
in their farewell appearance yesterday
was not pleasant for Harris to watch
but there was one consolation-it was
the first time this year Weaver looked
bad. Up to now he had been uniformly
consistent.
Monte got off to bad start in the
first inning when Roy Johnson tripled
and scored on a wild pitch. In the
second the Bees scored again and in
the third they put together three
singles and triple and used two Nat
errors to advantage. The gain was
five runs and they meant the bail
game.
The Griffs were not hitting John
Lanning meanwhile, and they finally
finished with only six blows. Buddy
Myer continued his sensational clout-
ing by getting double and a triple
in three times at bat Goose Goslin
was the only other Nat to make two
hits, while Taft Wright continued his
streak by gathering a single in three
trips.
The Mats scored twice in the second
on walk to Bonura, a triple by Cecil
Travis and Myers double. In the
ninth they threatened to be tough
when Goslin singled and Myer tripled
him across, but Pinch-hitters AL Sim
mons and George Case went out in