Evening star., 1941-06-22
Wild HeaveLets
BIoodworth in
With Big Tally
indians Make Only 5
Hits, Griffs 7; Walk
Poves Way to Run
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

| by bUhION HAWKINS.
The Mats mingled with society
again yesterday and their deport-
ment was excellent. Chaperoned by
Pitcher Ken Chase, the suddenly
astonishing Mats conducted them
selves admirably in travelling 13
sweltering innings to defeat those
classy Cleveland citizens, 10. 1t
was something to see.
A brilliant pitching duel between
Chase and Al Milnar was fractured
by Shortstop Lou Boudreau of the
league leading Indians. who inserted
a game-ending wild heave into the
proceedings at time when 1t ap-
peared the struggle might indefi-
nitely delay the dinners OF some
5000 Griff1th Stadium fans.
Boudreau scooped up Chase's easy
grounder and discovered Jimmy
Bloodworth was trapped between
third and the plate. The Cleveland
shortstop Unbiased peg intended
for Catcher Rollie Hemsley, but
Hemsley would have required a lad
der to reach it. The throw sailed
in the general direction of Florida
avenue and Bloodworth scampered
across with the winning run.
Walk Leads to Tally.
Bloodworth had opened Washing
tons portion of the 18th walking
on four pitches and into that situ-
alton stepped AL Evans, who
promptly drilled single to center
that sent Bloodworth to third. With
none out, Chase was allowed to bat.
He tapped meek grounder to Bou-
dreau, who presented the Mats their
second straight victory over the
league leaders with his erratic throw.
Chase was wondering before those
events materialized, If the Mats were
destined to muster a run. For 10
innings he had stymied the Indians
with five hits, nearly exhausting the
scoreboard's supply of circles in un-
raveling his most polished perform
ance of the season.
Equally effective, though. was
Cleveland's Milnar. The big south
paw had distributed only seven hits
among the Mats in II innings and
over that span only Evans was able
TO advance to third. when he singled
to right in the fifth and streaked
to third as Right Fielder JEFF Heath
fumbled his drive. That blow was
delivered with two out and AL was
stranded as Chase was retired on an
inf1eld out.
Chase's Control Fine.
Chase, who had dropped eight
straight games before whipping the
Tigers. 81, in his last start. was
sort of wonderful. In the final 10
innings he allowed only three hits.
Normally wild, Ken walked only
three. as no Indian reached third
base and but four advanced to
! second.
The sparkling support the Mats
had given Chase lapSed and threat
ened to cost Washington the game
In the llth inning. Milnar beat
out slow roller to Shortstop Cecil
travis TO open the session, but Chase
tanned Boudreau and retired Ken
keltner on a fly to Buddy Lewis.
AT that juncture. however, First
Baseman Mickey Vernon dropped a
throw from Chase, who had fielded
Gerald Walkers tap.
washington was in trouble what
with Milnar perched on second rep
resentlng the possible winning run
and the dangerous JEFF Heath stroll
ing plateward. Vernon scooped I'm
Heath's smash to throttle the In
dians' hopes.
Archie Big Help in Pinch.
Ihlrd Baseman George Archie
Grlfflth Stadium's latest fair-haired
boy, had rescued Chase from an en-
barrassing predicament back In the
SKIN inning. With one out, Keltner
rlned a double down the left field
line and Walker followed with a
snarp drive which seemed headed
Ior Journey into left field. Archie
stabbed the sizzling sphere, though
ana tossed out Walker and Chase
disposed of Heath on a f1y to Doc
Cramer in center.
Washington's scoring gestures
were scarce. In the second inning
1ravls Led of with single to left
and Vernon sacrificed him to second
George Case flied to Walker and
Bloodworth fouled to First Base
man Oscar Grimes to dissipate that
threat. In the fourth inning Travis
doubled to left with two out. but
Vernon famed.
Evans moved to third base in the
NTH inning, but thereafter the Mats
tailed to move man past first
until they manufactured the WIN
ming run.
Three Tribe Hits Scratchy.
Walker stripped Evans of a likely
triple in the eighth when he con-
tributed a fine over-the-shoulder
running catch of Al's smash OPEN
ing the Mats half of the inning.
Gee crashed heavily into the left
field barrier as he fell after COM
pleting the catch but was unin-
jured.
Neither Milnar nor Chase al
lowed more than one hit an inning,
the Cleveland left-hander surpass-
ing Ken's superb control by walk
ing only two.
Three of the Indians hits were
infleld affairs. Heath beat out
bunt in the second inning. and Mil
mar twice beat Travis throws to
first. Chase now has yielded only
one run in his last % innings, the
triumph giving the Mats string of
three wins.
The Indians lost no ground in the
pennant chase, retaining their two
game margin over New York, as
the Yankees dropped az decision
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