Evening star., 1942-05-29
Griffs TackIinq
Champs After
Night Victory
Pvt. Trovis Drops In
To See Wynn Finally
HurI Winning Boil
Bv BURTON HAWKINS.
Star staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, May 29.-"I'm being
treated SWELL" drawled Pvt. Cecil
Travis, the most important Of
numerous Clark Griffith employees
beckoned by Uncle Sam. They
really poured it to me during
those Is weeks of basic training but
it's put me in the best physical
shape of my life"
Travis, who as Washington's
shortstop was en- route to his most
successful season this time last year,
perched himself on a stool in the
Mats dressing room at Griffith Sta
dium in Washington last night,
tugged at his overseas cap and
talked quietly.
Il don't mean I'm in good base
ball condition" continued the .359
batter of 194l, 'but I'm tougher. I
haven't played but one game in
played about 20 games at Camp
Wheeler and the only teams that
have beaten us have been Brooklyn,
Macon and Atlanta.
ATOunu.
"We have a pretty good team
down there. All except one Of our
players have had some kind of pro-
fessional experience. I'm on week
end leave. I promised I'd play on
team against Satchel Paige, that
great colored pitcher, here in Wash
ington on Sunday If I could get
leave and they let me have it."
Cecil was no stranger in that
Army uniform. Washington and
Boston uniforms encircled him,
eager to pump the hand of fellow
who has no enemies in baseball.
Joe Cronin, Ted Williams, Ken
Chase and others of the Red Sox b
filed In to slap his back.
Travis knows how he stands with
Washington fans, for when we'll
cushioned Arch Mcdonald intro
duced him as lone of the finest
men ever to pull on a baseball uni
FORM" Cecil was greeted by heart
warming ovation from the crowd OF
$500 that saw the Mats deal Boston
a ST. trimming.
Travis presence seemingly stirred
the Mats to produce one of their
better games of the year behind
the fashionable pitching OF Early
Wynn. Battered from the mound
in four previous starts, Wynn re-
stricted the Red Sox to seven scat
tered hits, tanning six.
Wynn wasn't hurting the Mats
with a bat in his hands, either,
for in the second inning he scored
Mickey Vernon and Jimmy Pofahl
with a single off Second Basemen
Bobby Doerr's glove and in the
eighth he nicked Charley Wagner
for a looping single to left that
scored Bob Repass. George Case,
who forced Wynn at second, then
stole second and scored on Mike
Chartak's double.
Vernon Begins to Hit.
Boston manufactured its only run
in the fifth inning when Bill Con-
roy opened with a double to left,
moved to third on Wagner's sacri-
flee and scored after Dom Di Mag
gio flied to Case. The Mats in
creased their advantage to 81 in
their portion of the inning, however,
when Chartak walked and was
fetched home on singles by Bobby
Estalella and Vernon.
Refreshing to Manager Bucky
Harris was the hitting of the slump
shackled Vernon, who contributed
three of Washington's nine hits,
with Wynn and Chartak each
humping two safeties. Estalella
walked three times and heightened
his hitting streak to IL games with
that fifth inning single.
Jack Wilson, idle since May 10
due to Clipped bone in his right
elbow, was to face the Yankees
here today, with Sid Hudson
and Steve Sundra slated to tangle
with them in double-header
tomorrow. Washington then will
shift to Boston for a double-header
ON Sunday before returning to
Griffith Stadium to battle the
Browns in successive night games
Tuesday and Wednesday.