Evening star., 1939-08-06
Chase e'sHurlinq,
Lewis Hittinq
Ha|tChicago'
Ken Wild, but Yields
Only a Hits; Buddy
Makes 5 for 5
By FRANCIS E. STAN.

Ken Chase drew on left-hand-
er's license to be wild yesterday in
Griffith Stadium but for once the
usual disaster was avoided, prob
ably because he gave the White
Sox only four hits in addition to a
fat parcel of eight bases on balls.
And so the Nationals extended their
winning streak to six games, thereby
tying their longest victory string of
the campaign.
The Sox went down swinging. 10
to l, and Mr.. Chase walked off with
his third straight triumph. But
there was another chap in Wash
ington uniform who did all right,
too. For the first time in his major
league career, Third Baseman Buddy
Lewis had a perfect day at bat-five
singles in five trips to the plate. In
scoring three times and driving
across two more runs, Buddy proved
no drawback whatsoever.
1t was a particularly sweet tri-
umph because all year the Chicagos
have been manhandling the Mats.
In fact, they've been making the
Griffmen sWoon at the sight of them
for the last three seasons. But this
season it was particularly bad. Until
the Mats took the last two games
from the SoX, the men of Jimmy
Dykes had won IL of IS games.
Closer Than Score Shows.
1t was a closer game than the
score shows. Because of his wild
ness, Chase left II White Sox run
ners stranded on the base paths
during the game and not until the
eighth inning, when the Griffs
pounded on Johnny Marcum for
four unnecessary runs, did the
Washington lead look big enough to
Withstand many hits while so MANY
Sox were lingering on the bags.
Fortunately for him, Ken didn't al
low many hits. OF the four blows
the enemy received, two were
scratchy.
Jack Knott opened in the box for
the SoX and left early. In the first
inning George Case and Lewis
singled and Sammy West walked to
I'LL the bases with none out. Knott
frightened and got Taft Wright on a
grounder to first base, but Case
scored.
BlOOdwOrth Crosses Sox.
Then he purposely passed Cecil
Travis to get at Jimmy Bloodworth,
who unobligingly singled off Eric
McNair's glove and scored Lewis.
Jim Vernon flied out. letting West
score and, presto, it was 80.
1t became 40 in the third round
when Wright led off with double.
advanced on Travis sacrifice, and
scored on BloodWorth's fly.
That was the last time the Mats
saw Knott for, in Chicago's fourth.
Larry Rosenthal's double under YER
mons glove and two bases on balls
filled the sacks and Pinch-hitter
Ollie Bejma appeared to fly out and
keep Chicago scoreless. That is
when Marcum entered the picture.
The Mats greeted Satchel Feet
warmly. showing across another pair
of runs in their half of the fourth
to run the score to 60. An error
by McNair on Cases roller, Lewis
third single and an error by Gee
Walker and another single by West
did the damage.
Marcum Pounded in Eighth.
That was all the scoring done by
the Mats for a while. In the mean
time, Chase was pitching himself
into holes and then pitching him
self out of them. In the eighth he
lost his shutout when Bloodworth
failed to handle Luke Appling's
ball and it went for hit. After
the next two hitters went out,
Rosenthal doubled again and scored
the SoXs' run.
This must have made the Mats
pretty sore because they hoped all
over Marcum in their half. With
one down, Chase got life on Ap-
pings wild throw and Case bunted
for a single. Then Lewis banged
No. on the nose and West raped
the right-field fence for a triple.
Wright's infield out scored Sammy
with the 10th and final run.