Evening star., 1942-04-05
Yields Two Hits
In Six Frames,
Scores Tally
Bucks Single, Enemy's
FouIty InfieId PIoy
Settles 1t in 4th
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star Staff Correspondent.

ORLANDO, Fla, April 4.-Buck
Newsom, the great 'I" specialist,
nearly was as good as he says he Is
here today. With very little help
blushing Buck beat the Phils, 10,
to herald his return to = Washing
ton uniform.
There was nothing ordinary about
Newsoms performance. 1t is custo-
mary for a pitcher toiling for the
first time in an exhibition game to
labor only three innings, but New
som was defying RECOMMENDATION. He
pitched six innings, much to the
chagrin of the Phils.
The strutting South Carolinian
doormat of the National League, for
Newsom permitted Philadelphia
only two hits-one Of them a f1uke
single-as Washington manufac-
tured its 18th victory in % games
against major league opponents.
Newsom was the fellow who
scored that Washington run. too. as
he saw his first action of 1912.
Newsom and Phil Mccullough were
checking the Phils with five hits.
but the futile Phils were producing
their own five-hit brand of pitching
with Earl Naylor, Gene Lambert
and Paul Masterson on the mound.
Griffs Score Cheap Run.
Newsom launched the fourth in
ming with a crisp single to center
and Alex Kvasnak, battling to avoid
shipment to Charlotte, N. c., de-
livered single to left that propelled
the recently purchased Newsom to
second.
Buck shifted to third as Stan
Spence forced Kvasnak at second,
and it was then First Baseman Nick
Etten assisted the Mats in obtaining
their run. Mickey Vernon grounded
to Etten, who belatedly made bid
for the first to second to first
double-play
The maneuver may have been
sound baseball, but its execution was
faulty, for Vernon easily beat the
return throw to first after Spence
had been forced at second. Newsom,
who easily could have been trapped
between third and the plate, scored.
Bought from the Detroit Tigers
early this week. Newsom made the
| return to Washington in impressive
| fashion. He walked none and
famed three, permitting only two
Phils to reach first base and neither
to advance to second
In the third inning Bob Bragan,
attempting to pull away from an
inside pitch. was astonished when
| the ball ricocheted off his bat into
right field for single. Bashful
Buck registered the proper degree
of disgust, then forced Merrill May
to drill into double play before
striking out Naylor.
Ijtwhiler Pest at Plate.
The other hit off Newsom was
authored by Danny Litwhiler with
two out In the fourth inning, but
Buck then retired the next seven
batters in order. 1t was Litwhiler.
incidentally, who accounted for
three of the Phils' hits and in the
late innings he had the towering
Mccullough in trouble.
Mccullough famed Alban Glossop
to start the seventh, but Litwhiler
and Nick Etten singled successively
to place Litwhiler on third. Ronald
Northey walked to fill the bases, but
Mccullough struck out Bennie War
rem and Bragan grounded to Third
Baseman Bobby Estalella, who
stepped on third to force Etten.
In the ninth inning Mccullough,
who came off an automobile assem-
| bly, line for another trial with the
Mats, again invited disaster. With
one out he pitched a double to Lit
whiler, who took third after Etten
flied deep to Kvasnak Denny was
stranded, though, as Mccullough
tossed out Northey to end the game.
Naylor, the Phils' first pitcher,
who batted .305 as a Memphis OUT
| fielder last season, was in tempo
rary trouble in the second inning
when he walked Jake Early and
Estalella to open the Mats portion
of the inning. He struck out Bob
Repass, however, and Frank
Croucher accommodated by hitting
into double play.