Evening star., 1940-06-16
Homer by Early
Only Telling Hit
Of Griffs' 7
BengoIs BIost Four
For 28 Sufeties
In Twin Bill
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

. DETROIT, June 15.-To the keen
delight of 26,402 paying patrons,
Detroit booted the Nationals into
the American League cellar here to-
day. Employing the superlative
pitching of Buck Newsom and
Johnny Corsica as stepping stones
to second place, the Tigers snatched
both games of double header, ILL,
and 30.
Following Newsom's three hit
performance in the opener, in which
Washington escaped the stigma of
being dealt brace of shutouts on
Jake Early's first home run of the
campaign, Johnny Corsica marched
to the mound and checked the Mats
with four hits, all singles.
The Mats, who now have dropped
seven of their last eight games and
scored only two runs in q innings,
launched the second game with
threatening gestures, but it de-
veloped they were misleading.
They loaded the bases on success
sive singles by George Case and
Buddy Lewis and a walk to Johnny
Welaj in the first inning, but failed
to score as Zeke Bonura, Early and
Travis succumbed on an assortment
of easy outs.
Tigers in Mauling Mood.
Detroit was in mauling mood
blasting Sid Hudson and Rene
Monteagudo for Is hits in the first
game and collecting l3 hits off the
combined offerings of Joe Haynes
and Charley Colbert in the night
cap.
After surviving the first inning of
the second game in spectacular
style, Corsica proceeded to hold the
Mats hitless for the next five in
nings, Sammy Vests single to GEN.
ter in the seventh and Bonuras
scratch hit in the ninth represent
ing Washington's only other hits.
Meanwhile the Tigers were taking
liberties with Haynes, scoring their
first run in the second inning on
Bruce Campbell's double to right
and Pinky Higgins single to left.
They increased it to 80 in the
fourth on successive singles by Hank
Greenberg, Rudy York and Camp
bell and two-base wild throw by
Haynes after scooping up Green
berg's slow roller.
Higgins Homer Is Finish.
frnanhnro' ciroln
full bunt, a passed ball and Camp
bells triple nudged the count to SO
in the sixth. A walk to McCosky
and doubles by Greenberg and York
sent two more runs across in the
seventh and the Tigers produced
their final run of the day in the
eighth, when Higgins slammed Gel
bert's first pitch into the left-field
stands for home run
The Tigers rolled out their artil-
lery in the first game but it really
wasn't required, what with Newsom
hurting one of the more magnificent
games of his colorful career. At one
stage he retired 13 Mats in order
and allowed only one hit. Buddy
Lewis single in the eighth, in the
last six innings.
Hudsons deliveries represented no
mystery to the Tigers, whose first
six hits off the youthful right
handler were blasted for extra bases.
Sid survived only 3la innings, yield
ing runs on 10 hits in that brief
appearance, before Monteapldo re-
placed him.
Early Hits Long Homer.
Early's home run, mighty poke
into the upper tier of the right-feld
stands, was delivered in the second
inning. Hudson's hit off Second
Baseman Charley Gehringer's glove
in the third and Lewis safety in
the eighth were the only other
blows off Buck.
Detroit nearly tied major league
record, scoring in every inning ex-
cept the eighth, when they advanced
men to second and third. Included
in the assault were five doubles. a
triple and home runs by Higgins
and Greenberg.
The Tigers produced a run in the
first inning on doubles by McCosky
and York, and Higgins led off the
second with a homer into the left
field stands. Doubles by Greenberg
and York manufactured another run
in the third, serving as a prelude to
the four-run splurge which drove
Hudson from the mound in the
fourth.
Billy Sullivan's triple after Hig-
gins had grounded out launched the
fatal fourth, and Newsom, Bartell,
McCosky and Greenberg followed
with singles before Monteagudo
made his entrance and forced York
to drill into double play.
Newsom's Hit Helps.
Newsom boosted the Tigers into a
9-1 lead in the fifth, his double to
center scoring Higgins and Sullivan,
who had walked and singled, re-
spectively. Leading off in the sixth,
Greenberg pumped his 10th homer
OF the season, tremendous 42O-foot
drive into the center field stands.
Detroit's final ruiz of the first game
was registered in the seventh, when
Sullivan beat out bunt to Bonura.
moved to second on Newsom's sac
riflce and scored on McCosky's sim
gle to center.