Evening star., 1940-05-19
bigFour-bagger
Accounts for
Two Ta||ies
Indians Are Limited
To Four Hits, Two
Passes by Ken
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

CLEVELAND, May 1s.-The Mats
staged double-feature here today,
featuring doubles and a tremendous
eighth-inning home run by Third
Baseman Buddy Lewis on the
hitting side and a seven-hit per-
formance by Ken Chase on the
pitching side to deal Cleveland a
80 defeat.
Until that powerful poke by Lewis,
who thus authored his first home
run of the season, the Mats were
getting the bitter end of 2-1 pitch
ing duel involving Chase and VOL
canic-tempered Johnny Allen. who
wasn't on the premises when Buddy
blasted Washington into the deci-
sion.
1t was somewhat of a crime, too,
for Allen had checked the Mats with
three hits, all doubles. Then in
pitching one ball to Lewis In the
eighth he injured his arm and
Southpaw Harry Eisenstat replaced
him on the mound for the Indians.
That was beautiful break for the
Mats, for Lewis examined ball
and a strike and then hoisted a
drive over the right-field screen.
scoring George Case, who had
doubled, ahead of him.
Chase in Rare Trim.
Chase, in capturing his second
game of the season. Unbiased a
brilliant brand of pitching. Until
the seventh, when the Indians pro-
duced their two runs, He yielded but
four hits and allowed only two
runners to advance to second. And,
surprisingly, he walked only two
Indians all afternoon
The Mats spurted into a 10 lead
in the first inning when Lewis
walked after Case had popped out.
moved to second on Johnny Welaj's
infield out and scored on Gerald
Walkers double, which missed en-
tering the left-field stands for a
home run only by foot. At that
juncture. Cleveland's flashy second
base combination teamed to choke
of further Washington scoring.
Second Baseman Ray Mack speared
Zeke Bonuras grounder back of
second base and tipped to Shortstop
Lou Boudreau, who whipped out the
numbering Nat first baseman.
That lead survived until Cleve-
lands half of the seventh. jeff
Heath led off for the Indians by
enticing a walk and Ken Keltner
followed with a single to right,
Heath stopping at second.
Rollie Hemsley sacrificed and
Mack slashed single past Short
stop Cecil Travis, scoring both run
ners.
Indians Go Ahead.
Chase unconsciously bunted the
Mats back in the game in leading
off in the eighth, for it was on his
unsuccessful dribbler that Allen
hurt his arm before aggravating
the injury in subsequent pitches to
Case, who thumped double to right
which Beau Bell narrowly missed
catching in desperate dive.
After one pitch to Lewis, Allen
was forced to leave the game and
Buddy greeted Eisenstat with his
game winning wallop. Eisenstat
was nicked for four of Washington s
seven hits in his brief business on
the hill
Cleveland threatened in the
eighth when Bell singled to center
with one out, but Travis smothered
that bid for a score by converting
Ben Chapman's grounder into a
double play. Chase retired in order
the dangerous trio of Hal Trosky,
Heath and Keltner in the ninth.
Mats Protest Double Play.
Washington sought to increase its
margin in the ninth when Travis
singled to left leading of, but Jim
my Bloodworth tapped into a dis
puted double play, Hemsley to
Boudreau to Trosky. The Mats Wig
orously contended, with sound eff
fects by Manager Bucky Harris,
Coach Clyde Milan and Bloodworth,
that Bloodworth's blow apparently
had hit the batter, thereby making
1t a dead ball. Umpire Quinn
couldn't be persuaded to view it that
way.
The Mats, in bouncing back from
that 1871 shellacking they absorbed
here yesterday, solidified their fifth
place position, moving within half
game of the fourth-place Athletics.