Evening star., 1940-06-09
Chase Yields 6 Runs
Before Leaving Hill
In Third Round
Monteoeudo Is No Help
In Relief Role; Eight
Errors Mar Game
BY BURTON HAWKINS.


In one of those rollicking traves-
ties on baseball, an affair in which
eight errors and everything else ex-
cept hari-kari was committed the
Nationals outfumbled Chicago's
White Sox yesterday at Griffith
Stadium to lose by the gridiron score
Of 1876.
Clipping distressing chapters from
the sandlot era of their careers and
duplicating the horror of it all be-
fore some 5000 customers, the Ma
tionals staked the White Sox to a
90 lead and then concerned them
selves with reducing the score to
more respectable bounds. Both teams
collected 13 hits and shared mis-
cues evenly.
Ken Chase, who was attempting
to fashion fifth place niche for
the Mats, was belted from the
premises in the third inning, at
which point Rene Monteagudo
marched to the mound and immed-
lately pitched himself into a pre-
dicament.
Monteagudo Starts Poorly.
Chicago already had manufac-
tured six runs of Chase and Monte
agudo entered the engagement with
Eric McNair perched on third base.
He walked Mike fresh and then
festivities reached the height of
confusion.
McNair was ordered home and
fresh to second by Plate Umpire
Quinn on an apparent balk by
Monteagudo, then after considerable
fussing and furning, in which Third
Base Umpire MCGOWAN conferred
lengthily with Quinn, it was decided
Catcher Jake Early had interfered
with Bob Kennedy while batting
and Kennedy was given his base.
BY that time, though, the White
SoX had accumulated prohibi-
tive lead and future developments
served only to amuse or anger the
patrons, depending on their view
point in such situations.
Chicago produced the first of its
dozen runs in the first inning on
successive singles by Mike Kreevich,
Taft Wright and Luke Appling and
added two more in the second on
single by McNair, walk to fresh,
a wild pitch and a brace of infeld
taps.
ChisOx Revel on Paths.
The hectic third was launched in
nocently enough when Kreevich flied
to Center Fielder Johnny Welaj
Wright walked, Appling singled to
center and Larry Rosenthal walked
to fill the bases, however, and Nc
Nair pumped single to center,
scoring Wright and Appling and
sending Rosenthal to third. .
Rosenthal paused there only mo-
mentarily, though, for Welaj allowed
the ball to escape him. Rosenthal
scored and McNair continued to
third. Then came Monteagudo and
more misery.
Leading by touchdown and ex-
ira point, the Sox increased it to
80 in the fifth when Appling sin
gled, moved to second on Rosenthals
sacrifice, to third after McNair flied
to Right Fielder George Case and
across on successful bunt down
the third base line authored by
fresh.
In the sixth Chicago pecked away
for another run, the result of Ken
nedy walking. taking second on Joe
Kuhel's sacrifice, third after Kree-
vich flied to Left Fielder Gerald
Walker and scoring on Wrights
single to senter.
Mats Finally Come to Life.
Humiliated by the manner in
which Bill Dietrich had shut them
out on six hits in the first six in
nings. the Mats did something about
1t in the seventh. They shelled him
from the mound in the midst of
5-run splurge.
Early started the attack with
triple over Kreevich's head and
scored as Appling fumbled Montea-
gudo's grounder. Case walked and
Lewis singled to right, scoring Mon
teagudo and sending case to third.
Buddy continued to second on
Wright's muff. Clint Brown replaced
Dietrich and, after tossing out Welaj,
wild pitched Case across.
Travis tripled and scored on
Earlys infield out in the eighth, but
Chicago insured it's decision with
three more runs in the ninth. Singles
by Kreevich, Rosenthal, McNair and
Brown, plus walk to Appling and
another error by Early fashioned the
final White Sox tallies.
/ Hits by Case, Lewis, Walker and
Bloodworth constructed two incon-
eequential runs for the Mats in the