Evening star., 1942-06-25
Nat Score Held
To4 or Under
||n40 Games
Burden Is Too Heavy
For HurIers;; Chisox
Homer Routs Wynn
By BURTON HAWKINS,
Etar C+off rorrasnop5ar.


CHICAGO, June 25.-That Wash
ingtons floundering baseball team
represents no pitchers paradise
isn't a censorable item. The Mats
are recognized as Milquetoast men
with bats in their hands and
nasty plunge into a few statistics
reveals the grief that incompetency
has inflicted
Rare are the afternoons when
Washington batters construct a size
able lead (or Just teeny-weeny
sort of lead) for the Mats pitch
ers. Washington has played IS
games and in 40 of those engage
ments it has mustered only four runs
or less, which has placed a terrific
burden on its pitching.
Only twice have the Mats been
blanked. including that 60 shut
out dealt them by the White SoX
here yesterday, but on II occasions
this season Washington pitchers
could have restricted the opposi-
ton to one run and earned no bet
ter than a tie out Of it.
Homers Not Even Timely.
Twelve times the Mats have been
limited to one run and they have
been checked at two runs four times.
In II games they have scored only
three runs and in II more they
have produced four runs. That
type of run-manufacturing neces-
states a superb sort Of pitching and
Washington isn't getting that,
either.
Washington's pitchers yearn for
a fence-denting hitter likely to blast
a game into oblivion with Cne pro-
digious poke. The Mats oUtfeld of
Roy Cullenbine, Stan Spence and
Bruce Campbell has whacked five
homers this year, or one less than
the bench warming Bobby Estalella.
Washington's homers haven't
owned the touch of timeliness, eth
er, for II of its total of 20 home
runs have been delivered in losing
games. Last season Mickey Vernon
and Jake Early collaborated in belt
ing 19 homers, but their combined
1912 output is five homers.
The Mats, in other words, aren't
creating any sensations with their
hitting and it might be discreet 10
expect little improvement for the
duration of the international dis
turbance. They have seen key figures
ushered into the Army and before
next season rolls around Washing
tons outfit will yield more men to
the armed forces.
Sid Hudson, who hadn't achieved
a victory in his last five starts. was
to attemp to salvage a triumph at
Chicago's expense today, with Buck
Ross slated to toll for the White
SoX. The Mats will invade St. Louis
tomorrow for night game.
Tenth Loss in 13 Games. -
Early Wynn was keeping the Mats
in yesterdays game with a neat
pitching performance, but in the
eighth inning Chicago boosted its
20 lead to 60 proportions as
Tommy Turner inserted a home run
at time when Taft Wright, Bob
Kennedy and Sammy West were
percned on base
Johnny Humphries. meanwhile.
was having an easy time Of II wlth5
the Mats Campbell was the only
Nat TO reach third base and only
three others reached second as
EumphrieS restricted Washington to-
eight hits. Chicago picked up a
run in the second on singles by Ken
nedv. Turner and Humphries and
scored again in the sixth on Luke
Appling's double, Don Kolloway's
sacrifice and Joe Kuhels single. In
the eighth Wright and Kennedy
singled and West walked to set the
stage for Turner's smash into the
left field stands.
The defeat was Washington's
10th in its last Is games.