Evening star., 1942-05-27
Newsom 10 HurI
Against Bosox;
Case Is Back
Recovery Of OutfieIder
Leaves Campbell as
Trading Material
By BURTON HAWKINS.

In the hub of a war-torn world
the Mats tonight will expose an
infant winning streak to the Boston
Red Sox under the glare of Grif-
fifth Stadium lights. First of 81
night games here, the tiff presents
Washington an opportunity to
achieve four straight victories for
its longest string of the season.
Game time is o'clock.
Banned in New York, night base
ball will be played on an expanded,
glorified scale here this season.
Those 81 home night games repre-
sent three times as many as the
Mats played here last year, when
theyA averaged 1900 spectators
game
Washington will be embarking on
a peculiar sort of schedule tonight.
Tomorrow night they also will face
the Red Sox here, then will journey
to New York for a single game on
Friday. Saturday the Mats will be
battling the Yankees in a double
header, then shift to Boston for
twin bill on Sunday.
Monday a Day of Rest.
Monday will mark a day Of rest
for the Mats, but then come two
successive night games here with st.
Louis. There will be a single day
game with the Browns on Thursday,
but on Friday the Mats will be meet
ing Detroit in a night game and on
Saturday and Sunday they'll be
colliding with the Tigers in double
headers.
The Mats will be plunging into
their toughest span of the season
fortified by the return to action Of
Left Fielder George Case, who was
batting .314 when shelved by a
shoulder injury nearly a month ago.
Although Manager Bucky Harris
would prefer to rest Case another
day or so, he doubtless will press
him into action tonight against the
southpaw pitching of Oscar Judd.
Buck Newsom, beaten in his last
three starts, will toll for the Mats.
Cases insertion in the lineup will
necessitate the benching of Bruce
Campbell and it is likely Mike Char
tax will be promoted to Campbell's
cleanup spot. The former Yankee
outfielder has been fascinating Har-
ris with his hitting squirt, contribut-
ing at least one extra-base blow in
each of Washington'S last four
games.
Bats 500 for Four Games.
In those four games Chartak has
batted 500, tossing in three dou-
bles and a triple among his eight
hits. At a time when Stan Spence
has been f1ounGering with only
three hits in his last % efforts
Chartak has taken up much of the
| slack.
/ Harris suspects his Case. Spence,
! Chartak outfield will be formidable
and with Bobby Estalella available
as an outfield replacement it re-
| quires no great vision to regard
Campbell as bait in a trade that
/ would bring the Mats an inflelder.
Campbell is too steady a per-
former to remain on Washington
bench. He is certain to be sought
by other clubs and the Mats will be
in mood to annex an infielder.
Steve Sundra snatched his first
triumph of the season yesterday
at Philadelphia as the Mats thumped
the AS, 8-3. Steve was nicked for
II hits but scattered them effective
| ~ as the Mats presented him a 6-1
lead.
Early Hits First Homer.
Sundra yielded a run in the first
inning, but Mickey Vernon's dou-
BILE and Bob Repass' single locked
the score in the second inning.
Washington produced two more
runs in the third and in the sixth
Jake Early's first homer of the sea-
son highhghted a 3-run inning.
Limited to three hits in the first
| five innings, the Athletics bounced
back with a run in their portion Of
| the sixth on successive singles by
| Dee Miles, Elmer Valo and Dick
Siebert. A walk to EStalella, Char
taks double and Campbell's sin
gle staked Sundra to an 3D. lead in
the ninth and the AS added their
other run when Eddie Collins sim
gled with two out, took second on
a wild pitch and scored on Pete
Suder's single after Mike Kreevich
had walked.
Extremely busy was the far-roam-
ing Mr. Spence. He made nins
putouts, while Campbell handle five
more chances.