Evening star., 1938-03-27
OPASSES ALL
JIMMY GIVES UP
Griffs Slug Freely to Get
Their Third Win in Row
in 8.3 TussIe.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.


ORLANDO. Fla, March 26.-With
James (Jitters) De Shong hurting the
years first no-hit, no-run game"
your Mats held their lead in the
American Association today.
While the jazz-goofy right-hander
OF the Griffs blanked Kansas City for
the first five innings today at Tinker
Field, Washington's baseball firm fell
upon two of the three Casey hurlers
and built up an 8-to-0 lead. Pete
Appleton, who followed De Shong,
was not effective, but there was no
losing that kind of lead. So the
Mats won, to g.
1t was the Griffs' third straight VIC
tory and their fourth in as many
games this spring with American As
sociation teams. They had whipped
Kansas City week ago, 7 to S, and
also had beaten Minneapolis and Co.
lumbus.
Mats Swell Batting Marks.
1t was great day for the Mats
batting averages. They collected l3
assorted singles, doubles and triples
and hardly anybody missed getting
his base hit In fact, the only notable
non-hitter was Cecil Travis, who
managed to bat 344 last year.
1t was De Shong's pitching that
brought great gobs of joy to Manager
Bucky Harris. The sparrow-legged
young man, who worships at the altar
of the Dorseys and Goodmans breezed
through the best five innings of any
Nat pitcher to date. Only two of the
Blues got on base against Jimmy
With two out in the second inning he
walked Jack Saltzgaver and in the
fourth he walked Ralph Boyle, first
up. Boyle reached as far as second
base on wild pitch.
Meanwhile the Mats guns we're
smoking. After drawing three bases
on balls and yet drawing a blank
in the first inning our side hoped
on Pitcher George Washburn in the
second round. Travis walked, to start
all the trouble, and Jimmy Wasdell
maintained his torrid batting streak
with a double. Up came Rookie
Mickey Livingston, the catcher, to
duplicate Wasdells wallop and score
both Cece and Jimmy. De Shong
sacrificed Livingston to third and
then trouble started all over again
for Washburn. He walked Almada
and pitched single to Buddy Lewis.
Then, after Myer had forced Lewis,
big Al Simmons swatted a double
to complete the scoring of five runs.
Left-Hander Also Pounded.
BY this time the Kansas City mob
began to suspect it wasn't Wash
burns day, so in the third inning
left-hander, Jim Prendergast, was
doing the throwing. With Wasdell
on base. Rookie Livingston improved
upon his initial effort and trlpled
him across, making it 60. The Mats
added another run in the fourth on
Myers double and Johnny Stones
single and their final score in the
fifth on singles by Wasdell, Goose
Goslin and Armada. The old Goose.
making his first appearance, picked
up De Shong's bat and slammed
hit through shortstop
Thus it was that Appleton took up
the Washington pitching in the sixth.
1t was almost impossible to improve
on De Shongs pitching and Pete
didn't. A 2inch-hitter by the name
OF Claude Corbett, first to face Apple
ton. broke the no-hit streak of the
Blues by scratching a hit to Travis.
Before the inning was over Ed Joost
singled, Saltzgaver doubled and Walt
Judnich singled to cut the score
to 80.
Again in the seventh the Blues
hammered away at Pete, but without
creating any special excitement.
Johnny Sturm opened with triple
and was scored by a single off the
bat OF Pitcher Ralph Hammer. who
relieved Prendergast and shut out
the Mats the rest of the way. Joost
followed with another hit, but Apple
ton ended this inning as well as the
last two without any further scoring,