Evening star., 1938-04-10
MATS HELD TO z
BY TRENTON TEAM
Foiled for Six Innings by
Cuban Lefty, They Are
Lucky to Tie.
B, . Stan Correspondent Of The star.


GREENVILLE. s. c., April 8. -
The Mats went from the sublime to
the ludicrous deep in these bushes OF
baseball today. All that can be said
IN their favor was that on a field 50
muddy the outfielders wore football
shoes borrowed from Furman College
they stood up and got a 20 draw.
1t was not only bitterly cold aft
ernoon, but most confusing one.
Washington was supposed to play the
new Greenville "farmhands" of the
Sally League. Instead, out came their
Trenton "farmhands" Of the Eastern
League. Mr.. Joe Cambria, who owns
both OF the little league teams, NUT
tered something about the Greenvilles
not being in condition to play and
then shouted play ball"
The occasion was the christening
OF Cambrias new Greenville ball
park, nice wooden job that is yet
unpainted. Several hundreds Of the
hardy natives turned out to watch
the American Leaguers. who work for
Mr.. Clark Grif1ith's firm, set new
high in inef1ectiveness. In fact,
Washington was lucky to get tie in
the Ginning fiasco which Umpire Cal
Hubbard finally called because %,
1T was getting dark. 90 it was get
ting colder, 80 the Mats had a train
to catch, and (4) Mr.. Hubbard was
getting hungry.
Little Lefty Proves Tough.
The modification OF the Washing
tons knew no bounds when a 5-foot
Cuban pitcher named Rene Mon
teagudo shut them out for six in
nings. Senor Monteagudo is fresh
over from Havana and resembles
something that hangs on the other
end Of watch chain. He threw
lefthanded. which probably was the
secret of his success, and not very
fast.
Anyway, in six innings Senor Mon
teagudo struck out five of the Mats,
held them scoreless, and gave up only
four hits, one of which was looper
that fell safely when the Trentons,
disguised in the Greenvilles' uniforms,
slipped and went boom trying to
field it.
In the meantime the weird collec-
ton Of shorts and tails. thins and fats.
aliens and domestics who were playing
for Cambria hoped on Prof. Monte
Weaver and grabbed 2-to-0 lead. In
the second inning one Jiggs Corrado
hit homer over the right field fence.
That made it 10. In the fourth in
ming singles by John Welaj and Larry
Bettencourt and fly by Corrado
scored the other run.
Mats Deadlocked in Eighth.
Not until Cambria led his little
pitcher from the box did the Mats dis
play any offenSe at all. BY that time
Manager Bucky Harris made certain
the afternoon would be confusing all
around by putting hodgepodge line
up on the field. He lifted three of his
regular inflelders and put Outflelders
Al Simmons, Johnny Stone and Mel
Almada in their places.
Cambria pressed his Cuban luck in
the Washington seventh and inserted
another Havana Hottentot, George
Comellas. He probably would have
done all right had he been left-handed,
too. But George was right-handed
and the Griffs apologetically rose and
tied the score of him in the eighth
inning
Stone started it by singing. After
Jimmy Wasdell had popped up, AL
mada drew base on balls and Taft
Wright singled for the third time,
scoring Stone and putting Melo on
third base. Jimmy Mihalic then sin
gled to score Almada When George
Case hit into a double play it was all
over.
The Mats were lucky to get draw
with their rural cousins. at that. AS
late as the ninth inning, after Pete
Appleton had relieved Weaver in the
box, they were bidding for victory.
With two down. q catcher named
George Lapietra singled and short
stop named Heinie Heltzel was safe
on Third Baseman Stones wild
throw. This put it up to Comellas,
who obligingly grounded out to end
the inning.