Evening star., 1940-07-14
Walker, Travis
Get Singles
In Seventh
4-3 and 40 Tits All
But Put Detroit First,
Victims in Cellar
BY BURTON HAWKINS.


Buck Newsom, recently involved
in a hitless scuffle with a sports
writer, was hit twice yesterday, but
he's exceedingly happy about it.
The brace of blows were singles
authored by Gerald Walker and
Cecil Travis and that was the ex-
tent of the damage the Mats could
inflict. Buck succeeded in:
l. Spanking the Mats, 40;
2. Giving Detroit. which had won
the first game Of the double header,
4-3, q sweep of the twin bill:
3. Registering his 18th successive
victory;
4. Moving the Tigers to within a
thousandth of point of the league
leading Cleveland club;
S. Dropping the Mats precariously
close to the cellar, and
s. Exhibiting an enormous guam
tity of courage to some 1000 fans,
who weren't aware the big right
handler had received a telegram
shortly before he went to the mound
informing him of his fathers criti-
cal illness at Hartsville. S. c.
1t was, in brief, a pitching mas
terpiece Newsom unraveled before
hurrying to the bedside of his faith
er, who suffered q heart attack.
For six innings he checked the
Mats without hit and at no point
in the proceedings did Washing
ton players advance as far as Sec
ond base.
Retires 16 Griffs in Order.
After walking Buddy Lewis in the
first inning, Newsom retired in
order the next is Mats before issu-
ing another walk to George Case
with two out in the sixth inning.
Walkers single through the box
leading off in the seventh inning
was the initial hit off Newsom, who
then forced Zeke Bonura to drill
into double play. Travis followed
with a single to right, but it served
only to prolong his hitting streak
to II consecutive games, since Buck
braced to get the last seven Mats In
succession.
Just to rub it in on the jeering
populace, Buck demonstrated he,
is no drawback with . bat In his
hands. In the third inning he
lashed double to left OF Walter
Masterson, moved to third on Dick
Bartell's sacrifice, and scored on
Barney McCosky's single to center.
In the sixth, after the mountain
GUS Rudy York had slammed his
1lth home run of the season into
the left field bleachers to launch
the inning. Newsom smashed
double to center, scoring Red Kress
and Billy Sullivan.
Newsom moved nearer the Amer
ican League record of 16 consecutive
victories, held jointly by Joe Wood,
Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove and
Schoolboy Rowe, and jolted the Mats
to within a percentage margin of
.OO5 from the basement. Both the
cellar dwelling Athletics and the
seventh-place Mats are 18 games
behind the Indians.
Leonard Suddenly Fades.
Washington was struggling along
in rather sweet style in that first
game. possessing 80 lead until the
Tigers picked Dutch Leonard for
a run in the seventh inning and
three more in the eighth to deal
the portly knuckle ball specialist
his ninth defeat of the season.
Leonard was visioning his 10th
triumph, what with limiting the
Tigers to three hits and allowing no
runs in the first six innings.
Wildness cost Tommy Bridges,
who started the opener, three runs
in the six innings he labored. He
walked Lewis and Bonura in the
third inning and, with two out,
Travis punched a double down the
right field line to send the Mats
ahead, 20.
Wildness by Catcher Birdie Teb-
belts allowed Washington to manu-
facture its final run in the fifth
inning. Lewis smashed single to
center and, as he stole second, Teb-
belts erratic throw caromed off
Gehringer's glove into left field,
Lewis scooting home.
Detroit whitfield that margin to
81 in the seventh as York walked,
moved to second on Fox's liner off
Shortstop Jimmy Pofanls glove, and
scored on Tebbetts' single to left
after Pinch-hitter Bruce Campbell
had fouled out.
Hit Successive Doubles.
McCosky and Gehringer doubled in
succession to launch tic fatal eighth
with a run. The elongated Green
berg grounded to Pofahl. who threw
to Travis in an attempt to nip
Gehringer a. third. Cecil neglected
the formality Of catching the ball,
however, and both runners were safe.
Lewis inserted a brilliant shoe
string catch of York's scorching
liner, but Gehringer scored after the
catch with the tying run. Fox singled
to right and the bases were crammed
when Metha beat out bunt down
the third base line. Greenberg scored
what proved to be the winning run
after Tebbetts flied to Lewis.
Washington was very much in the
game, though, when Lewis walked
with one out in the ninth and Walker
singled to left, sending Lewis to
third But Walker erased the threat
almost Immediately. breaking belat-
edly for second base as Greenberg
threw to third. Gee was trapped
between first and second and Lewis
thus mo G ro0ued To hraok for thu