Evening star., 1939-04-24
Nat Slab Hopes
bo|stered by
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Shows Form in Loss
To Yankees After
Chase Is Chased
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star Stan Correspondent.

BOSTON, April "a. - Swarthy
Alexandra Carrasquel the serioua
raw-boned Venezuelan who seems to
resent what he feels is the unfath-
omable lingo spoken in this slice Of
the hemisphere, also is displaying q
fond contempt for the hitters pro-
duced in this country. And, as q
result, Washingtons prospects aren't
as black as the Nationals current
low station would indicate.
Carrasquel can speak very little
English, but in the brief span of
10 days his right arm has fathered
an assortment of adjectives-au in
praise of the slightly bewildered and
silent South American. He has dem.
onstrated to Manager Bucky Harris,
among others, that he is going to be-
an invaluable aid to the Mats if his
tolling to date is worth the exchange
value of hoot in Hades.
Harris, in fact. is inclined to be
optimistic regarding his pitching
situation. at least in so far as the
right-handed members of his staff
are concerned, for some tolerable
hunks of hurting have been unrav-
eled by the Messrs. Jimmy Do
Shong, Harry Kelley, Dutch Leon
ard, Pete Appleton and Carrasquel.
Relief Work Encouraging.
De Shong, who was to face Bos-
tons Jack Wilson here today as the
Mats invaded for three-game Sc
ries, threw only three hits to the
Athletics in six innings, but lost.
Leonard allowed only six hits in
winning from the Yankees. These
performances, plus the relief hurl-
ing OF Appleton, Kelley and Carras.
quel, have served to hearten fol-
lowers of the club.
They still are paying of on
victories and Washington, at press
time, had manufactured only one
in four games. but there are indi-
cations of improvement along that
line.
Consider, for a moment, the relief
pitching Appleton, Kelley and Car
rasquel have presented the Mats. In
1915 innings that trio has allowed
only one run, but on each occasion
their predecessors had yielded the
winning tallies. Soon, Harris hopes,
the Mats will start to cash in on
that brand of pitching and stir up
a few runs, only 10 of which have
trickled acros the plate since WASH
ington launched its campaign.
Carrasquel. another of Scout Joe
Cambria's importations, particularly
has impressed Catcher Rick Ferrell.
Hes going to help this club lot,"
informs Rick. Hes smart, has a
good fast ball, nice curve and
change of pace He threw only one
bad ball yesterday against the YAM
kees-that ball Crosetti slammed for
single in the eighth inning. And
he knows baseball. Notice the way
he saved run by backing up third
base? His control is great"
Chase No Puzzle to Yanks.
That was demonstrated to some
$4,000 spectators yesterday at
Griffith Stadium. Relieving Ken
Chase, the slim southpaw who was
plastered for six runs in the 323
innings he labored, Carrasquel
stayed ahead of every batter.
The first Venezuelan in major
league circles, Carrasquel is gilt
edged bet to linger with the Mats
for some time. In the last ia
innings he has pitched. against the
Boston Bees and Yankees, he has
allowed only five hits, no bases on
balls and one run.
But the Yankees previously had
pounced on Chase with sufficient
effect to win the game, IA A single
by Red Rolfe and doubles by Joe Di
Maggie and Bill Dickey produced
two runs in the first. but the Mats
bounced back in their half of the
inning with successive singles by
Sammy West, Taft Wright and
Buddy Myer to register once.
The Yankees added another run
in the third, but Washington tied
it up at 3-3 in the same inning when
Cecil Travis blasted triple to right
field, scoring Wright and Myer. New
York, however, showed three more
across in the fourth and Chase was
chased. The uprising was featured
by Joe Gordon pumping a home
run among the spectators in the
left field bleachers.
Wright's single and Myers double
accounted for Washington's other
run in the fifth, but after that New
York's Steve Sundra issued only
one hit, single to Charley Colbert
with fw0 OIIt in fha ninth