Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-01
Twin Bills Catch
Mats With Too
Few Hur|ers
Those With Only Two
Days Of Rest Must
Toll as Starters
BY BURTON HAWKINS,

A new and more perplexing pitch
ing problem today confronted
Manager Bucky Harris. for he cur
rently is equipped with only six
hurlers of any description who are
fit for service. His riddled mound
staff has been weakened at a time
when the Mats least can stand it,
for the club isn't displaying signs
Of mastering few runs.
With the recurrence of an old
knee injury shelving the veteran
Harry Kelley for few days and
with Pete Appleton still not avail
able due to his recent collision with
batted ball. Harris now is faced
with maximum of double-h headers
and minimum of pitchers.
Dutch Leonard. Alexandra Car
rasquel, Joe Krakauskas, Ken Chase,
Joe Haynes and Walter Masterson
constitute Washington's present
pitching staff. Haynes and Master
son are the only members of that
crop who haven't labored in the
last two days and by tomorrow
night Harris figures to have a thor
oughly whipped contingent of
curvers.
Philadelphia invaded Griffith Sta
dium for single game today, but
in meeting the Athletics tomorrow
in double-header Harris has no
alternative but to nominate a
pitcher who hasn't received proper
rest.
Play Eight Games in Six Days.
The situation hardly will improve
in the immediate future unless
Prexy Clark Griffith suddenly de-
cides to bolster his outfit with
minor league hurler or two, for
starting July the Mats are slated
to play eight engagements in six
days.
Even if Haynes and Master
son travel the route in their re-
spective starts against the Athletics,
Harris still will be forced to use
hurler in tomorrow's double-header
who has pitched within the past
two days.
And with his pitching staff shaved
to a new low, Bucky also is stymied
from another standpoint He not
only needs pitchers-good, bad or
mediocre-in order to give his start
ers some semblance of a rest, but
he also would relish the sight of
Washington whacking a few hits.
| In their last 48 innings of play
the Mats have produced only five
runs, or as many as the Yankees
scored in one inning yesterday in
dealing them 1912 shellacking in
seven innings. In five games the
Mats have collected only % hits.
Buddy Lewis and a now injured
George Case were enjoying their
most productive hitting seasons I'M
til recently. but Buddy, after zoom-
ing his average to gaudy $50, has
swatted only two safeties in his last
II trips to the plate and Case is out
Indefinitely with damaged legs.
West Hitting Steadily.
Sammy West stands alone in the
hitting department recently. for he
hasn't become infected by the gen.
eral ineffectiveness of his mates.
Sammy has been employed in every
position at Griffith Stadium except
bat boy and he's thrived on it, clout-
ing at mighty 444 clip in his last
nine games
That, though, is the exception, for
the Mats haven't been able to I'M
ravel hits at anything approaching
that pace. Yesterday, for instance,
they collected only four hits off Oral
Hildebrand and West accounted for
two of those.
The Yankees quickly bounced on
Carrasquel, compiling six runs off
him in three innings. They continued
their attack against Krakauskas,
pounding him for six hits and four
runs.
The Mats eagerly had anticipated
the three-game Philadelphia series,
hoping to nudge the Athletics out
OF and themselves into sixth place.
but with their mound staff at it's
lowest ebb of the season the out
look has been altered considerably,
Tomorrow's games will mark the
final home appearance of the Mats
until July Is.