Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22
YIELDS TWO HITS
IN LAST SFRAMES
Perennial Rock Is Hailed
as Slab Mainstay After
Gritty Effort.
BY FRANCIS z. STAN.
Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

Stan Correspondent OF Inc star.
CLEVELAND, May 2l.-In the same
town where he established himself as
q major league prospect year ago.
Ken Chase, Washington's perennial
rookie pitcher, lined himself up solioly
Is a Senatorial slab mainstay today.
Plagued by a succession Of bad
breaks and pitching uphill most of the
way, Chase outlasted plump, elderly
Earl Whitehill in 12-inning pitching
| duel today to win ga decision and
snap two streaks-Clevelands five
game winning streak and Washing
tons two-game string of defeats.
Chase succeeded in enabling the
Grif1men to pull away from the fifth
place White Sox, who lost to the
Yankees and slipped into tie With
Detroit, but Ken did not succeed in
knocking Cleveland out of first place.
The Boston Red Sox. closest con-
tenders to the Indians, also went down
to defeat
Darkness was settling over League
Park when the 18th inning opened
with Ossie Bluege at bat and the
score tea al 50. Iie IoS'-li4is
Whitehill walked Bluege and tnen
Buddy Lewis, hitless in five previous
| trips, singled Ossie to third base.
Bonura's Fly Does 1t.
Denny Galehouse. warming up Wig
orously in the bullpen. was waved
to the box, but Denny couldn't prevent
the Senators from pushing across
that big run. although the Washing
| tons were reluctant TO help them
| selves Al Simmons, first to lace
Galehouse, plunked high boundtr
over Galehouse:s head. Al was nipped
at first base by Shortstop Lyn Lary's
lightning throw, but Bluege failed TO
break for the plate and when the
smoke had cleared he still was on
third base While Lewis had moved TO
second.
This put it up to Zeke Bonura and
the big banana man delivered With q
fly to Bruce Campbell in right field.
allowing Bluege to score after the
catch. A single by Johnny Stone fol-
lowed, but Lewis. trying to score, was
thrown out at the plate by Campbell.
Thus was scored the winning run IN
a battle which found Chase at last liv-
ing up to the promise he showed last
year after outpitching the sensational
Bob Teller here in his first start.
Chase. shakey at the outset. gave up
seven hits in the first four innings and
thereafter pitched almost perfect ball.
In the last eight innings Ken allowed
only two hits. both weirdly bounding ,
GROUND balls which struck the bodies
of Washington infielders and caromed
off.
Chase Meets Crisis.
| The first Of these fluke hits came In
the 10th inning with one out. Larry
scratched a hit TO Cecil Travis at
shortstop and stole second base while
! Campbell was at the plate. but here,
with the winning run in scoring posi-
| ton. Chase rose to the occasion.
whitfield Campbell and DETECTED Sammy
Hale's smash to Travis. who whipped
him out to end the inning.
Again in the 18th Chase was forced
to draw upon his reserve to keep the
Indians from scoring Julius Solters,
leading off the inning bounded to b.
nura. The ball took bad hop. hit
Zeke on the hip, and Solters was safe.
Solters also stole second base. but
Chase struck out both Earl Averill
and Hal Trosky and. after purposely
passing rookie Ken Keltner. ended the
frame by making Rollie Hemsley fly
to Jonathan Stone.
Cleveland did the first scoring, get
ting a tainted run in the opening In
ming after the first two batters were
out. Hale and Solters singled, but
Chase apparently had whipped over
third strike on Averill. 1t was called
a ball. while the Griffs protested, and
Averill promptly took advantage of the
break to single on the next pitch,
scoring Hale.
The Senators grabbed the lead In
the third inning, which Rick Fer
rell started with a single. Chase
famed but Bluege walked. After
Lewis had forced Bluege, a pitch by
Whitehill struck AL Simmons on the
thigh, filling the bases Here Bonura
delivered single. scoring two runs,
and Stone doubled to score Simmons,
making it 81 in favor of the Wash
ington firm.
Ken Nearly Erased.
Again striking with two out. Cleve-
land cut the score to 80 in its half
OF the third when Hale and Solters
walked and Averill again singled, driv-
ing across Hale. Then. in the fourth,
the Tribe almost drove Chase out Of
the box and under strange circum-
stances. Keltner opened with a sin
gle and Hemsley followed with an
other base blow. When Simmons
throw failed to catch Keltner at third
Hemsley continued to second. put.
ting two runners in scoring position.
Whitehill was the hitter and here
Chase got another tough break. Earl
attempted to check . swing and
looped fuke single over Lewis head.
scoring Keltner and Hemsley and
making 1t 4-3.
With Whitehill pitching strongly
after the Washington third inning 1t
looked rs II Earl's blow might decide
the struggle. But in the seventh
Bluege opened with double and
raced home on . single by Simmons.
This tied the score at a., kept the
Grif1s in the game until the 18th.
and you know the rest.
Only ~ Indians faced Chase IN
the last eight innings and over one
stretch he retired 16 in order. Throw
ing blazing fast ball and mixing In
. good curve, Ken struck out seven and
walked only two men in those final
eight rounds. And one Of these bases
on balls was given intentionally.