Evening star., 1942-05-13
Figures Pitcher
Now Would Be
Eff for Work
Bone in Elbow Clipped;
Twin Bills PiIine Up,
Loss Hard Blow
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star Staff Correspondent.

DETROIT. May 13.-Into the I'M
suspecting midst of the Mats has
been tossed another batch of woe
and this time it is Pitcher Jack
Wilson. who will be listed among the
missing washington baseball players
for at least two weeks. Wilson has
been returned to Washington for
prolonged rest and heat treatments
of an ailing elbow and thus in the
first month of the campaign Man
ager Bucky Harris has been stripped
of two starting pitchers in Dutch
Leonard and the burly, cherry
checked Wilson.
The former Red Sox right
handler ironically injured his arm
pitching the Mats to shit victory
over his former mates on April 20
for his only triumph of the season.
In the eighth inning he felt some
thing snap and suspected he had
suffered a recurrence of 1888
Clipped bone in his right elbow.
For more than three weeks Wilson
shielded the injury, however, and
remained idle ostensibly to cure
charley horse in his right leg. He
attempted to pitch against the Ath-
letics but failed to survive an inning,
and in a relief role against the
Yankees last Sunday he wild-pitched
the Mats to defeat.
X-Ray Shows Chip.
Wilson got around to confessing
the arm injury to Harris yesterday
and X-rays developed at local hos
pital revealed the Clipped bone con-
dition. He received little sympathy
from Harris.
''It was stupid of Jack not to say
something about his arm hurting
him when he was loafing around
with that charley horse" said Har-
ris. 1--WE could have had both in
juries treated at the same time, and
by now he would have been ready
to pitch.
But no. he kept quiet about 1t
and in the meantime I've been
using him occasionally as batting
practice pitcher and probably ag-
gravating the injury. He wasn't
very smart about it and I told him
So"
The absence of starting pitchers
is brutal blow to the Mats, for
double-headers are continuing to
pile up. OF Is remaining day games
with Boston, for instance, IA viii
be played as twin bills. Within the
past week postponed games have
created two more double headers
with Detroit and another with New
York.
Play Indians Tomorrow.
Washington has played only one
day in the past six, in fact, and on
that occasion dropped twin bill to
New York. Rained out here yes
terday the Mats were to try again
today. with Buck Newsom slated to
face Detroit's Hal Newhouser. Yes
terday's delayed tiff will be played
as part of twin bill here on June
81.
When the Mats invade Cleveland
tomorrow for a three-game Serles
Harris doubtless will employ Sid
Hudson, Early Wynn and one of his
relief hurlers as a third starter. Bill
Kennedy, who twice failed to check
the Indians in Washington, may be
presented with third opportunity.
The Mats, lone southpaw, Kennedy
is regarded by Harris as likely to
thwart Cleveland's left-handed bat
ting strength despite his dismal ef-
forts at Griffith Stadium. Bucky
feels Bill was pressing in an at
tempt to create an impression, that
he will do better on the road. Out
fielder Mike Chartak, recently pur-
chased from the Yankees, joined
the Mats here yesterday. and wealth
er permitting was to make his de-
but today.