Evening star., 1940-03-22
Sid Due 10 Face
Bosox in Third
Contest Here
Leonard Slated for
Opener, Krokky or
Chase to Follow
By staff Correspondent of The Star.

Sh0Se TO FOLLOW
By a staff Correspondent of The Star.
| ORLANDO, Fla, March 22-Here
is the way the Mats will open the
American League season in the box
on April Is against the Boston Red
SoX:
! Dutch Leonard will pitch unless
somebody cuts off his right arm.
Either Joe Krakauskas or Ken
Chase will hurl the second game.
And surprise, Rookie Sidney Hud-
son will try to span the gap between
Glass D ball and the majors on the
third day, also against the Red Sox,
That is," announced Manager
Bucky Harris, IF things go as they
are going now. I'm strong for Hud-
son. AS far as I can see, he's got
everything Whatever isn't hit
against him is strike and its
always low, where it tough to hit"
Replaces Haynes in Rank.
Hudson is one of the Mats four
starting pitchers in Harris book.
And I won't quit on him in a
hurry" Bucky promised today, IF
he gets belted around a bit. I like
everything about Sid. I said before
that he is the most promising young
pitcher I've handled since Schoolboy
Rowe and now it goes double"
The rise of the lanky lad from
RoSSvllle, Ga, comes at the moment.
as bad news to Joe Haynes. Accord
ing to original plans, Haynes was to
have been the fourth starting pitcher
but this was before Harris had an
opportunity to study Hudson.
Up to now, Sid has looked more
impressive than Haynes, who was
knocked around last week by the
New York Giants and, for one inning,
treated roughly this week by the
Kansas City Blues.
Hudson has hurled brilliantly in
! three minor tests so far. Against
the Yannigans in an squad
game he was unhittable. Selected
to face the Giants in the opening
Grapefruit League game on March
TO-, he again looked good despite
giving up two runs. The failure of
Second Baseman Jimmy BloodWorth
| to come up with a double-play ball
! cost him in this affair.
Dean Also Gains Attention.
In a third test last Sunday against
the Detroit Tigers, he pitched hit
less and runless ball and so. now he
shows combined average of two
runs and four hits in nine innings
of spring pitching.
Leonard, of course. is the logical
opening-game pitcher Harris an
nouncement today was unnecessary.
Il don't like to pitch a left-hander
galnst the Red Sox." Bucky added,
but it probably will have to be
done in the second game. l want
Hudson to see couple of major
league games from the bench be-
fore he works
Hudson is Harris pet, but, gain
ing attention lately, has been
Sid's sidekick of last season in the
Florida State League, j. H. Dean.
This stands for James Henry Dean,
but in some ways this fellow is like
Jerome Hanna. He is a big, loose
rlght-hander, who stands 6 feet
inches, throws a fast ball and is
COlOrful in his own right
His record last year was almost
as good as that of Hudson's. He won
81 and lost 6 for Sanford winning
II IN a row at one point. Hudson
won "a and lost games for the
same club.
Some Hurlers Worked Hard.
Buckys pitching plans are turned
| around now, but he expects to re-
arrange things starting next Mon
day, when tthe Charlotte-Spring-
field-Greenville Salisbury Shelby
Orlando contingent is sent away.
"One trouble has been that we've
had SO many players Harris ex-
planned, that I've had to work the
pitchers pretty hard. Some of the
pitchers, mean. Haynes has been
driven pretty much and so have
Bucky Jacobs, Early Wynn and
Walter Masterson. We had to give
the hitters something to hit while
they were around, but after Monday
I'll get chance to rest up some
of those pitchers.
II think some will look better
after the load is eased. They'll get
some life in their arms. I want to
start rotating them, too, so we'll
come up to the start of the season
with Leonard, one of the left
handlers, Hudson and the other left
handler working in ORDER,
Dutch, Ken Need Action.
While most of the Grif slabbers
have been worked hard, Leonard
and Chase haven't pitched enough.
Each has worked only once. Ken
did three-inning turn against
Cleveland this week and Leonard
pitched two innings in the Tampa
all-star game.
This was due to no fault of their
own. Leonard was chosen on the
American League all-star team the
day before he arrived in camp and
he had just time enough to work
up to that game Chase got off
to a flying start here but then was
laid up for several days with a bad
toe which required lancing and
draining.