Evening star., 1938-07-13
HAVE bEENLUCKY
IN Swim STREAK
Would Rather Get Breaks
Than Play Clever Ball.
Kelley Faces FeIler.
By FRANCIS z. STAN.

These are happy days for the
Senators. who stood today with .
five-game winning streak, . firm hold
ON fourth place in the American
League standing. and q strong hunch
the cards are stacked in their favor.
Bucky Harris band of unpredict-
ables had one longer winning streak
this year. The Griffs over one
stretch early in the season won eight
in a row and as they moved into the /.
second game Of the Cleveland series
they detected all the signs that
marked their first long victory string.
They are getting the breaks, which
is the most important thing. To start
the streak Harry Kelley flung q shut
out at the Athletics and the firm
played smartly behind Harry. In
victory No. 2 they won when the
enemy made four fielding errors. To
take No. 3 Rookie Jimmy Wasdell
hit home run with the bases loaded,
providing the margin Of victory. In .
No. the Mats rallied with one down
In the ninth inning to score five runs
on the AS and win, 8 to 7.
Chase, Appleton Go Bad.
That brings the streak pretty much
up to date. or up to that 9-to-8 vic.
tory they won yesterday from Cleve-
land. Our firm got lot Of bad
base ball out of its system and still
won. Ken Chase and Pete Appleton
went sour but Elon Hogsett stepped
in and pitched good ball. Three
times the Mats came from behind.
finally winning in the ninth when
Relief Pitchers Bill Zuber and Johnny
Humphries filled the bases with walks
and safe bunt and Sammy West
contributed fly to score Pinch-run-
ner Ossie Bluege
That's the way base ball goes. The
Griffs played none too well in the
field. They made nine runs OF seven
hits. Never noted as a club Of op-
portunists they left only four men =
stranded In free-sooring game.
Kelley and Dutch Leonard were the
only pitchers to go the route during
this winning streak. In the last two
days Harris has been forced to use
seven pitchers. Yet for all Of this slab
uncertainty the future looks fairly
bright. A lucky club Is better than q
good club any day and the Mats, at
press time. were lucky ball club.
They Cut Indians Lead.
The Senators might have thrown a
small measure. of confusion into the
Indians by that victory yesterday. Up
to then the Tribe had been coming
from behind to win. They rode into
Grif1th Stadium with q two-game lead
over the second-place Yankees. But,
one day on the road in the East, they
were whipped while the Yankees won
. double-header. That cut their lead
to half-game margin.
Today the Mats were to get Bob
Feller. Against Robert the 0rif1s were
to pit Kelley, steadiest Of the WASH
ington pitchers at the time. Kelley
has grabbed three Of his last four
starts and in notching those victories
has allowed total Of one run. That
Is pretty high-class pitching, and the
kind if repeated this afternoon would
make it tough for Feller.
Skimming over the details Of the
game. Cleveland took a 20 lead Of
Chase in the first inning. In their
half the Grif1s tied it against Dennis
Galehouse. In the second inning the
Tribe chased Chase and jumped on
Appleton for three more runs and q
So lead. In the Washington half
Wasdell hit q homer to make It SIS,
Vests Fly Ends Game.
The Mats tied it In the third on
Buddy Myers nside-the-park homer
with q man on base, but in the fourth
Cleveland rallied against Hogsett, who
was pitching by then. and scored two
runs after two were out, making it
Us. One Of these runs was unearned.
Thereafter Hogsett held the Tribe,
or until the ninth anyway. Mean
while the Griffs were jumping ON
Whitehill and they had acquired an
8-to-7 lead in the sixth. Thus it stayed
until, with two out in the Cleveland
ninth. Sammy Hale completed . great
day at bat by adding home run to
his single, double and triple.
This blow tied the score, but not
for long. zuber, who had succeeded
Whitehill in the eighth. walked Rick
Ferrell to open the Warrington ninth.
Humphries came in the box and fell
while trying to field Hogsett's bunt,
which went for hit. Then he walked
George Case. filling the bases.
Humphries braced and struck out
Lewis. He whipped over two strikes
on West, but Sam finally got hold of
the ball and rode 1t into moderately
deep left field, scoring the game-end-
ing run.