Evening star., 1939-04-26
bucky Is Jo|ted
By Wi|dness
Of Lefties
Pilot Figures Warm
Weather May Help;
Homer Nips Griffs
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
Star Stan Correspondent.

BOSTON. April 26.-Grave doubt
today supplanted fond visions that
Joe Krakauskas and Ken Chase,
Washington's erratic southpaws, this
year would locate the plate with
some measure Of effectiveness with.
oat employing compass.
Manager Bucky Harris Is inclined
to be apprehensive regarding the
future of the Mats, what with Chase
and Krakky still threatening to
issue bases on balls in wholesale
fashion for an indefinite period. The
hope he harbored that the wild duet
this season would be dependable has
received rude jolt.
Harris, however, hasn't tossed in
the sponge on the gangling, loose
jolnted Chase, or the oval-legged
Krakky. He can't afford to at this
stage OF the game, but he is de.
termined that they deliver this sea.
son, or suffer the consequences.
Both Unimpressive so Far.
The Washington pilot feels he has
pampered them enough in previous
years. This year, he says, Chase
and Krakky will be made or broken
with steady diet of labor. Bucky,
among others, wants to know if they
ever will capitalize on the sporadic
promise they've shown in former
campaigns. To date their DEM
onstrations have been dishearten.
ing.
Krakky, who dropped a 6-5 de.
cision to the Red Sox here yester-
day. again was victimized by his
wildness. The Mats figured to win
in regulation time, but Joe virtually
gave Boston the tying run in the
ninth and then succumbed to Jimmy
Foxx's tremendous home-run blast
over the left field wall in the elev-
enth inning.
Krakky's charitable nature has
kept him in continual trouble this
season. In the 13l. innings he has
pitched he has chucked IA bases on
balls, the same number of hits. three
home runs and IL runs into the pro-
ceedings, which hardly is conducive
to optimism.
Chase also has been over par for
the course. The Yankees saw to it
that Ken worked only 32s innings,
but in that comparatively brief span
he was nicked for 7 hits and six
runs, which has tinged the Harris
head with more f1ecks of gray.
May Improve With Warm Weather.
Bucky. though, still is cherishing
the hope that warm weather will
increase the effectiveness Of the
doubtful southpaws. The entire
throwing staff has been complain
ing that continued cold weather has
affected its collective stuff" and
Harris eagerly anticipates vast i'm
provement when the temperature
scars.
A wintry wind swept Fenway Park
as Krakky absorbed his second loss
in as many starts, twice Kicking
away leads. Although he yielded
only five hits in the first five innings.
Krakky was in continual trouble
through dealing out walks. and, in
the sixth inning, his wildness caught
up with him.
Three walks. two singles and err
rors by Krakky, Taft Wright and
Cecil Travis presented Boston three
runs and a AZ lead, but the Mats
bounced back in the seventh to tie
the score and grasped a 5-4 lead in
the eighth when Sammy West
singled to score George Case.
Krakky, however, couldn't stand
prosperity. He walked Foxx. and
Joe Cronin to launch the ninth and
Jim Tabor promptly scored Foxx
with a sizzling single to left. Then.
In the eleventh, came Foxx and
there went the ball game.