Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
Veteran Victim
Of Tough Luck,
Says BuckY
Declares Beck Is Only
Young HurIer Helped
By Orlando Tutoring

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ORLANDO, Fla, March H.
Among the three National pitchers
to get their ears pinned back by
the Giants in their second exhibit
ton venture of the spring was old
Danny (Boom-Boom) MacFayden,
but Manager Bucky Harris advises
that no quick decisions are in order.
"MacFayden is going to help this
ball club" Harris said today as he
prepared to send the Mats back
against the Giants in an attempt to
gain revenge for that l1-to-5 shell
lacking. Il was we'll pleased with
what he showed"
Boom Boom pitched the second
three inning shift yesterday and
gave up five hits and four runs.
Neither Danny nor Rookie Joe Beck
seemed to be puzzle to the Giants,
but Harris insists that he was not
disappointed.
Boom Boom Is AbSolved.
I'VE couldn't figure on Beck to
help us this year, anyway" he said.
Hes just a baby-19 years old.
After the Giants scored five runs
with their first five hitterS, the kid
did all right He's the only young
pitcher who learned anything about
pitching down here this year-Joe
and Sam Cunningham.
las for MacFayden, he should
have gotten away without score. 1t
wasn't his fault. The run the
Giants scored in the fourth inning
was unearned. In the fifth, when
they got three more runs, Danny
had all kinds of tough luck. Rick
Terrell isn't quite ready or he GER
tainly would have thrown out those
he had, the side would have been
retired"
Harris thinks MacFayden is just
what the doctor ordered for the Mats
He'll go better in the American
League than he would in the Ma
tional," he explained. because our
league is essentially fast-ball out
fit. Danny's got lot of slow stuff
and he knows how to pitch. He'll
make trouble for the hitters because
he's been away from the American
League so long they won't know
what to expect
"Cramer to Help"-Bucky.
In way, Harris liked his club
better in defeat than he did when
| they won that 6-5 decision over the
world champion Reds in the grape
fruit opener last Sunday.
This is an improved team over
last year" he insisted. IT'S got
more power, when we get Roger
Cramer in centerfield we'll be that
much more improved Cramer will
dress up the club"
Cramer, who reported Monday,
will spend the rest of this week
getting into shape. He probably will
make his debut next Sunday, when
the Mats entertain the Tigers. Joe
Mellendeck currently is playing CEN
terfield and, while Harris thinks
that Joe has promise, he doubts if
he will be of any use this year.
Even Leonard Hit Hard.
Before he could retire a batter,
Beck gave up five runs yesterday.
Thereafter he looked good. The only
damage he sustained after that
shaky start was First Baseman Babe
Young's second successive home run
in the third inning.
The Griffmen still are being paced
at bat by Cecil Travis and George
Case. The lanky shortstop hit
home run off Cliff Melton in the
second inning and collected two
singles off the equally left-handed
Carl Hubbell no mean feat consid-
ering that Travis is lefty at bat.
Case collected double and pair
of singles while Buddy Lewis
snapped out of it in the fifth inning
against Hubbell, the only Giant that
was hit hard. In this frame, with
two down and the bases loaded,
Buddy emptied the sacks with a
long double.
Even Dutch Leonard was no ball
of fire in the box. The knuckle-
baller, finishing the game for the
Mats, was wild. 1t took a fine stop
by Rookie Sherrard Robertson, play
ing third base, to save Leonard in
the seventh by starting double
play. Things were evened some for
the Giants in the next round, when
they scored an unearned run off
Dutch. but in the last inning, an
other brilliant play by Jimmy Blood
worth kept the Giants from again
nicking the roly-poly bell COW of
the staff.