Evening star., 1943-07-11
Wynn SparkIes,
Holding Indians
1oFour Hits.
None of Griffs' Runs
Earned; Case Leads
Drive on Kennedy
BY BURTON HAWKINS,


CLEVELAND, July 10.-One of
baseball's more laughable chapters
was scribbled here today as WASH
ington thumped Cleveland, 40, but
the amusing antics of the Indians
and Mats didn't detract from the
polished pitching of Early Wynn,
who permitted only four hits in reg
istering his eighth victory.
With ChicagoS White Sox drop
ping doubleheader to New York s
Yankees, the Mats moved up to third
place.
Wynn, who has won four of his
last five starts, allowed two Indians
to reach second base and only one
of them advanced to third as the
husky highlander pitched his sec
ond shutout Of the season. Against
the Indians, incidentally, Wash
ington pitchers have compiled Is
successive shutout innings
Into the third inning of the
struggle, when Washington pro-
duced two runs, the Mats and In
dians packed considerable faulty
baseball To start it off, Wynn
singled to center and continued to
second as Centerfielder Oris Hockett
fumbled the ball.
Johnson Stops to Argue.
George Case then beat out bunt
to Pitcher Vernon Kennedy, shift
ing Wynn to third, but when Second
Baseman Ray Mack, covering first,
permitted Kennedy's throw to es-
cape him Wynn scored and Case
continued to second. With none out,
Case attempted to steal third and
was nipped before Stan Spence pop
ped out.
Mickey Vernon then singled to
left and Bob johnson lashed a hit
down the left field line. Half way
to first base, Johnson wheeled and
returned to the plate to argue with
Umpire George Pipgras, believing
Pipgras had called the ball foul.
Pipgras instructed johnson to
keep running-that the ball was
fair-but meanwhile other events
were materializing. Vernon had
streaked to third on the hit, but
Leftflelder jeff Heath. believing the
ball foul, had delayed starting for
it. When he caught up with it he
juggled the ball and Vernon scored
on the third error of the inning. In
all the confusion, though, johnson
couldn't get more than a single.
Two More Unearned Runs,
Kennedy, a former Nat, then
checked the GrifIs until the ninth
inning, when a fourth Cleveland
error led to another brace of un-
earned runs. Heath could have
pitched a tent under Jake Early's
easy fly, but he mad miserable
muff of it and Early made second
base.
Gerald Priddy popped out. but
Johnny Sullivan inserted a single
to center that scored Early and
Sullivan continued to second on
Hockett's throw to the plate Wynn's
long fly to Hockett allowed Sulli-
van to shift to third after the catch
and Cases third hit, single to
center, fetched him across.
Wynn had what amounted to no
trouble with the Indians. In the
first inning he walked Russ Peters,
playing shortstop due to batting
practice injury to Manager Lou
Boudreau, and Peters stole second
with one out. He moved to third as
Sullivan threw out Roy Cullenbine,
but Wynn then famed Heath.
Indians Get Nowhere.
In the fourth inning Wynn walked
Heath with one out and with two out
Buddy Rosar obtained the first hit
off him, a single to right. Heath
halted at second and both runners
were stranded as Mickey Rocco
struck out
In three of the final four innings
the Indians placed their lead-off
man on first base, but couldn't ad-
vance him. In the sixth Cullenbine
singled to center, but didn't get any
farther as Heath flied to Spence,
Ken Kelner took third strike and
Rosar flied to Johnson.
Rocco was safe on Sullivans low
throw to Vernon starting Cleveland S
seventh, but Wynn famed Ray
Mack and disposed of Kennedy and
Hockett on outf1eld flies. Keltner
opened the Indians ninth with a
single to left, but Rosar drilled into
a double play and Rocco flied to
Case for the game-ending out.
Case, twice thrown out by Rosar
on attempted steals, contributed
three singles, while Early and Wynn
each got two of the Mats 10 hits.