Evening star., 1940-06-30
zeke Breaks Tie
Due 10 Homer
By Williams
Hudson Gets Victory,
But Krokky Protects
Winning Margin
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT.

Star Staff Correspondent.
BOSTON, Mass, June 29.-With
studied indifference to the company
they were keeping, the Nationals
wrecked the alleged power plant of
the American League here today,
jolting Boston's tobogganing Red
Sox, 81, with an 18-hit blast.
Burly Zeke Bonura climaxed
Washington's persistent clouting
with crisp double to left in the
eighth inning at time when the
bases were loaded, to score Pinch
hitter Johnny Welaj and Buddy
Lewis for the winning margin after
Boston had locked the game at TT
in the seventh.
Bostons lanky Ted Williams, pok-
ing mighty 4l0-foot home run into
the Washington bull pen, tied the
score as his ninth circuit drive of
the season also Tailed Lou Finney,
who had walked.
Washington, though, was in hit
ting mood, it already had driven
Jack Wilson and Micky Harris from
the mound and proceeded to operate
on Fritz Ostermueller and Emerson
Dlckman in the productive eighth.
Krakky ThrottIes Bosox.
Welaj batted for Sid Hudson, who
started for the Mats and received
credit for the victory, and drilled a
single off the short left field fence
to launch the eighth. George Case
took a third strike, but successive
singles by Lewis and Gerald Walker
crammed the base lines and sent
Ostermueller from the premises.
Bonura greeted Dickman gleefully,
ramming sizzling double down the
left field line to send Welaj and
Walker across, Cecil Travis pur-
posely was passed, again filling the
bases and Jake Early accommo-
datingly drilled into a double-play.
1t didn't matter, however, for Joe
Krakauskas upleashed neat brand
of pitching in the last two innings,
checking the Red Sox with no hits
and allowing only Finney to reach
base through the medium of a walk
with two down in the ninth.
. The Mats, in the course of whack-
ing five Red Sox pitchers freely
constructed ST. lead by the end
of the second inning. They pounded
Wilson for seven safeties before
Manager Joe Cronin frantically
waved Harris to the mound with
nobody out in the second inning.
Mats Score at Outset.
Washington manufactured two
runs in the first inning on singles by
Case, Bonura, Travis and Early. Bos-
ton nicked Hudson for a run in its
half of the inning, Bobby Doerr
singing, taking second on Doc Cra-
mer's single, third on Finney's sac
rifice and scoring as Williams forced
Foxx, who had walked to fill the
bases, at second.
Charley Colbert, who now has OBJ
tanned nine hits in his last IA trips
to the plate, started the Mats three
run splurge in the second with a
double high off the left-fleld fence.
Hudson intended to sacrifice bSt
accomplished something better, re-
ceiving credit for hit when his
bunt popped over the iprushing Will
sons head. Colbert took third.
Case followed with a double to
center, scoring Colbert, sending
Hudson to third and Wilson to the
shower. Hudson scored after Har-
ris retired Lewis on liner to Cra-
mer, but Case stole third and scored
on Walkers sharp single to center
Singles authored by Cramer and
Foxx and Williams double whitfield
Washington lead to So in the third
inning
Case, Walker, Colbert Slam.
The Mats, though, added another
run in the fourth on successive dou-
bles by Lewis and Walker. Bobby
Doerr's home run over the center
field fence matched that latter run
in Boston's fourth, but Washington
accumulated another tally in the
fifth when Buddy Myer walked, took
third on Gelbert's single off the left
field fence and scored on Cases sin
gle to right.
That made it IA, but Finney's
single and Jim Tabor's double
sliced the Mats advantage to rs in
the Red Sox fifth.
Williams inserted his homer in
the seventh to make matters serious
for the Mats, but Bonura's timely
blow and Krakky's effective pitching
saved the situation and presented
Washington its second triumph in
two games here.
Case, Walker and Colbert each
collected three hits for Washington,
while Williams, batting in four runs
with his double and home run, led
BoSton's 10-hit attack.