Evening star., 1943-07-06
Wynn S Hurting Saves
Mats Second Place
In Detroit Split
By = Staff Correspondent Of The Star.

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chameleon -complexioned group,
with Early Wynn and Dutch Leon
ard reversing their early season
form to add more confusion to the
already jumbled pitching plans of
Manager Ossie Bluege.
Leonard rapidly is pitching him
helf into disgrace with the Mats
boss. He has been able to win only
one game while losing six since he
launched the season impressively
by capturing four of his first six
starts. On May 26 Dutch was 60
ing along nicely with record OF
four victories and two defeats. but
since then he has dropped six of
seven.
Dutch is bearing faint resemblance
to the pitcher American League
managers must have believed they
were selecting as one Of the Ameri-
can Leagues All-Star Game hurlers
He has been taking some brutal
beatings out there on the mound in
recent weeks.
Wynn Duels With Candini.
Meanwhile, Wynn has been re-
sembling one of tie leagues tougher
pitchers. He started the season
dismally. dropping his first three
starts, but Wynn has bounced back
like a champion. He has picked
himself off the canvas to snatch
seven triumphs in his last nine starts
and those two defeats hardly harm
his reputation.
Wynn's only losses since those
three early affairs have consisted OF
20 defeat by Boston and a
humping by the same score against
Chicago. He now has won seven
games and lost five and is giving
Milo Candini tussle to become
the Mats No. l pitcher Alex Car
rasquel, who has won nine games
and lost four, mas been more lucky
than brilliant.
To Wynn's hurting and the Mats
improved swatting Washington owed
its second place status today as it
battled the Tigers here after losing
a morning game with Detroit, 1913,
and grabbing a twilight engage
ment, Ga, yesterday. Wynn scat
tered 10 hits, two of them tainted,
to take the twilight game after
Leonard had been hammered hard
shortly after breakfast.
Trout Battles Mats.
The Mats, who have swatted eight
home runs in their last five games,
collected one in each contest. Stan
Spence smashed his fourth in four
games in the seventh inning of the
morning game to touch off a 3-run
Washington rally, but by that time
the Tigers had amassed seven runs
off Leonard and Mickey Haefner.
They picked up three more OIL
Dewey Adkins in the eighth.
Washington wasn't getting any
where in particular with Dizzy
Trout's fast ball. The big Detroit
right -hander checked the Mats with
six hits as the Tigers blasted WASH
ington's three throwers for IA hits.
The twilight tiff was more pleas
ant for the Mats, who clustered
three runs off Hal White In the first
inning on singles by George Case
and Jake Early, double by Gene
Moore and a brace Of errors. They
made it 40 in the third when Early
singled to score Bob johnson, who
had doubled.
Detroit retaliated with two runs
in its portion of the third on three
singles and double by Dick Wake
field, but johnson propelled the
Mats into 6-2 lead by socking a
home run into the lower deck OF
the field stands in the fourth
after Mickey Vernon had singled.
The Tigers picked up run with
the aid of an error by Shortstop
Johnny Sullivan in the seventh and
Jimmy Bloodworth boosted the
score to its final proportions in the
eighth when he drilled home run
among the customers in the left
field stands with two out and none
on.
BY splitting with the Tigers,
Washington dropped another game
behind the league-leading New York
Yankees, who were taking two
games from st. Louis. The Mats
now trail the Yankees by two games
after creating a virtual tG for first
place Saturday night.
The morning and twilight ar
, rangement was popular with Detroit
fans, some 1854 turning out for the
II o'clock game and 20,0l9 sitting
in on the o'clock struggle.
Candini, twice stymied in bid
for an eighth successive triumph,
was to try again today. Washington
will play the Tigers here tomorrow,
then invade Cleveland Wednesday