Evening star., 1940-07-27
Early Forgets FeIIer Is Star
While Other Mats Forget
About Playing Baseball

ball, though, and after watching
Bonuras exclusive treatment of
grounders, Sammy Is refreshing.
Sammy says it's nice and cool down
on first base, what with the opposi-
ton breezing by him, en- route to
second. third or home, quite often.
Perhaps story could be fash
ioned about Washington's pitching
staff. Bucky only has seven pitch
ers to juggle, but he's not worried
about quantity, simply quality.
Shucks, when he sends Monteagudo,
Krakauskas or Carrasquel to the
mound he can start pondering about
the next days game, if you get
what 1 mean.
Bucky doesn't do much coaching,
though, because his Mats won't give
him a chance The other day in
Detroit, he hollered over to Johnny
Welaj on second base: Watch out
for that throw from the catcher n
Eight seconds later Johnny obeyed
instructions. He watched it sail
very prettily down to Red Kress
and Johnny was out. Johnny's
young. however, and he says you
learn something every day from an
experience like that.
Gerald Walkers outfielding kinda
battles me, too, boss, I guess 1 bet
ter brush up on some strategy. be-
cause Gee is supplying a brand
that must be superior. He'll race
in for low looper. slow up within
a few PAGES of 1t and stick out
his glove like, Heck, this is duck
soup catch"
Just a Feint.
Only Gerald doesn't catch the
ball. boss. He lets it drop on the
ground. 1t seems that feint at
catching it is supposed to keep
runners on base from advancing,
but maybe Walker is forgetting to
tell 'em about it. They haven't
been very cooperative with him.
Gerald has another trick. He'll
field single to left. then act like
It's gone through him, inviting the
runner to ATTEMPT to advance an
other base. Wish somebody would
accept the invitation sometime. Bet
Walker would be so surprised he'd
throw the ball in the grandstand.
He had plenty of occasions to
practice that sorta stuff yesterday
The Indians spanked the Mats by
the sizable score of 1872 and quite
few of the 20 hits they collected
of Monteagudo and Krakauskas fell
In his territory.
Buddy Lewis resembled a Golden
Gloves novice the way he was bob
bing, weaving and jumping around
to avoid decapitation from rebounds
off the right field fence. George
Case also had an interesting after
noon, sprinting all over the premises
trying to hold triples to doubles
and doubles to singles. He didn't
have much success.
Double-header Tomorrow.
Bucky was gonna use Ken Chase
today, boss, because he hasn't any
body else. Anyway, left handlers
are supposed to bother Cleveland.
Trouble is. the Indians don't be-
lieve it. They've faced 81 SOUTH
paws this season and beaten "a
of 'em.
The Mats will have more room
and opportunity to exercise tomor-
row. They will shift over to Cleve-
lands mammoth Municipal Sta
dium to play double -header.
Bucky, through a painful process of
elimination, has decided Walter
Masterson and Sid Hudson will do
the pitching for Washington. while
Cleveland will counter with AL Mil
mar and AL Smith.
Sorry to let you down, D. T., but
I just couldn't locate any news
with the Mats. Give my best to
the boys, particularly to the guy
that's covering fishing. Tell him
if he wants to see some beautiful
dead fish to drop around to Grif-
fifth Stadium when the Mats get
home.
Best regards,
BURT HAWKINS.