Evening star., 1938-05-30
TOUGH lob PUT UP.
T0WEAVER, CHASE
Griffs Keen for Twin Bill
After FerreI's FIashy
Victory Over Bosox.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Stan CORRESPONDENT of The Star,

vIClUI OVci OUSUAs
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, May 30.-Memo-
rial Day found the Senators reviving
dolorous memories OF losing battles
on foreign soil and planning vigor-
Gus offensive, calculated to close
narrowing gap between their stand
ing in the American League and first
place.
The Senators standing, as they
moved into holiday double header
here today against the Athletics. was
third place. Beating the Red Sox
yesterday in Washington for their
third straight victory. Bucky Harris
henchmen again gained on all the
league leaders.
AS the pace-setting Indians lost
again. Washington moved to within
three games Of first place. The Griffs
passed the beaten Yankees, who
slipped back into fourth place The
Red Sox. although beaten by 5-to-3
count yesterday. shifted into second,
half a game ahead Of the Washington
firm.
Here today the Senators had hopes
OF picking up more ground. While
the Athletics have scored 81 runs
against the world champion Yankees
in the last two games, the Mackmen
never have impressed the Griffith A.
c. firm as being difiicult to beat.
Weaver, Chase Pitch Today.
In leaving Grifi1th Stadium until
Wednesday, when they return to en-
tertain the Western clubs. the Sena-
tors practically had a lock on the Dr.
Jekyll-Mr. Hyde championship of the
major leagues. That was their 18th
victory in 81 home games yesterday,
mark that tops every other team in
the big show. But as they went into
their Decoration Day double header
with the As the Griffith firm was
faced with the task of improving one
Of the worst road records. They have
won only games and lost II on
foreign ball fields this year.
The slim shoulders of Monte
Weaver. the hard-luck right-hander
Of the Mats, was to bear the pitching
burden in today's first game. In the
second game Ken Chase. the wild but
impressive left-hander, was to start.
The Griffmen weren't sure what
kind Of slab opposition Connie Mack
had lined up for them. It was re-
garded almost certain, however, that
Edgar Smith, the left-hander, would
open one of the games for the As.
In this case the most interesting
items were to be Al Simmons initial
start as a center fielder and George
Cases shift to right, replacing Taft
Wright.
Sox Strand Men on Sacks.
As they entrained for Philadelphia
this morning the Grif1men continued
to felicitate Wesley Ferrell on his
seventh pitching victory Of the sea
son. In hanging up that 5-3 win
yesterday Wesley notched No. Z on
his record, as against only three de-
feats, and recalled memories of Fer
rells prediction that he would lead
the American League pitchers in
games won this year.
Ferrell has pitched only three good
games this year. according to the &C.
cepted standards. But the fact re-
mains that he has won seven games.
or one-third of Washington's victory
total, and this is a feat not to be
laughed off, Only one pitcher in the
league has Wesley topped in number
of victories and he is Robert Moses
Grove, the 38-year-old perennial of the
Red Sox. Groves has eight straight
wins
Wes wasn't great yesterday but he
was effective. He gave 10 hits to the
seven granted to Washington by Emer-
son Dickman and Fritz Ostermueller
but the Red Sox hurlers were not as
tough in the pihches as Ferrell. For
the second day in row Boston left
II runners stranded on the bases and
therein was the story Of the Sox's
second straight setback.
Washington took a 10 lead In the
first inning when Taft Wright drew
a base on balls. with two down, and
Johnny Stone chased him across with
In the third the Sox tied the score
when Gene Desautels beat out an in
field hit, took second on Dickman's
sacrifice, and scored on Rog Cramer's
single.
The Senators chased Dickmsn out
Of the box in the fifth inning. which
opened with Pinky Higgins booting an
easy roller by Rick Ferrell. Brother
Yves sacrificed and Buddy Myer
promptly broke the tie by cracking a
single to right, scoring Rick. Buddy
Lewis then walked and SO did Dick
man-to the showers.
Stone Hits Ball in Pinch.
Manager Joe Cronin waved Oster-
mueller to the box for Boston. but
Fritz was no bargain. He walked
Pinch-hitter Al Simmons. up for
Wright, and this filled the bases.
Then Stone cracked a single through
ths box, scoring Myer and Lewis and
making the score 4-1.
There never was . feeling Of Sc
curity until the final out of the game.
Boston scored in the sixth, to cut the
score to AZ, when Higgins walked
and. with two out. Bobby Doerr singled
and Desautels doubled. In their half
Of the sixth the Grif3s scored on
singles by Wes Ferrell, Myer and
Simmons, but in the seventh the sox
bounced back again.
With one down Vosmik singled and
Cronin walked. After Foxx popped
out Higgins singled across vosmik,
making it 5-3. In the eighth Desau-
tells doubled but was left stranded
and in the ninth the Bostons got the
tying run on first base.