Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-26
Win From Tribe
Is Youth nth
In IS Games !:
Earns Bueky's Praise
For Grit and Modesty
After Poor Sturt
BY BURTON HAWKINS.


That kid" said Manager Bucky
Harris of the Mats. rudely pointing
an empty beer bottle in the general
direction of slender Sid Hudson, sis
a really good pitcher right now. but
he's not as effective as he will be
in another year. He still has sew
eral things to learn and, thank
heaven, he's sensible enough to
know 1t.
Eyes, I know, he's won II of his
last Is games. but I still say he's not
as good as he's going to be. He
quite naturally doesn't know the
hitters in this league as well as he
will after having had this year OF
experience. and there are other
minor points that need polishing.
He hasn't approached peak form,
but he'll be smart enough to correct
what few flaws he has.
IT have a lot of admiration for
that boy. A lot of kids would have
chucked it. but the remarkable wey
he's battled back makes you love
him. Plenty of young pitchers
would have quit cold, winning only
two games and losing nine early in .
the season, but Sid showed a lot
of heart"
you're exactly right" appraised
Coach Clyde Milan. currently in
capacitated due to an infected lip,
plenty of youngsters would have
tossed in the towel with the dis
tressing start he had. He's fought
back like a champion. when he
might have wilted, lost confidence
and given up on himself"
Hudson, a leading candidate fer
rookie-o f-the-year honors despite
his dismal record earlier in the
campaign, today owned victory No.
ID. If he captures five of his re-
naming seven or eight starts, which
he seems likely to accomplish. he
will have won 18 engagements his
first year out of the class D Florida
State League, only short step from
the sandlots.
Remains Modest, Mild hammered.
A source of JOY to Harris. Prexy
Clark Griffith and his mates is the
fact Sid hasn't allowed recent sue
cesSes to swell his blond head. nor
are future triumphS likely to do 50.
He remains a calm, polite, thor
oughly ikable fellow.
There hasn't been a story quite
like Sid's since Bob Feller zoomed
to baseball fame. Teller was a
spectacular success from the be-
ginning, though, and although Sid
still can't be compared to the Cleve-
land ace, he nevertheless is headed
in the same direction after travelling
rougher road.
Harris, incidentally, predicted Sio's
success. In a preseason appraisal
of Hudson, he said the rookie would
win Is games, and the towering
right-hander appears a gilt-edged
investment to surpass that mark.
1t was Bucky, too. who said, at
believe this will be the turning point"
when Hudson stopped the Browns,
10. on one hit some weeks ago. Ills
confidence bolstered by that pitch
ing masterpiece, when the only hit
obtained off him was delivered in
the ninth inning, Sid since has IN
leashed a succession of steady per-
formances.
Sid wasn't at his best Yesterday
at Griffith Stadium, but was ade-
quate enough to remain the route
and snatch 5-4 decision from the
league-leading Indians before some
10000 fans who braved a continuous
light rain. He was nicked for IL
hits. but was a sizzling specimen in
tight situations.
Myers Triple Decisive Blow.
Washington made it extremely
embarrassing for the Indians in gen.
eral and Pitcher Johnny Allen in
particular as early as the first in
ming, when Buddy Myer laced a
triple to left at time when the
bases were crammed. Myer scored
later on Rick Ferrell's single past
Third Baseman Ken Keltner to
present the Mats 40 lead.
Successive singles by frankie
Pytlak and Harry Eisenstat, who re-
(See HAWKINS, Page A-14)