Evening star., 1943-04-25
Chandler Stingy
After Double by
at Start
Champs Get but Four
Sofeties Off Pyle,
Score at Outset

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Feverist
Ellis Clary arose from a sick bed tc
spoil a no-hit, no-run game for the
Yankees Spud Chandler here today
Leading off in the first inning, he
looped a double to left and that con-
stituted the Mats batting attack as
New York won, To- before S,157 fans
The Mats weren't exactly making
that dead balata ball bleed. Only
three times did Washington batters
succeed in lifting the ball beyond
the confines of the infield as they
dropped their second successive
game to the Yankees by a margin
of one run.
Clary, who reported late for prac-
tice after a stormy session with
stomach trouble, opened the game
with double that fell inside the
left field foul line by inches. He
moved to third as George Case
was thrown out on an infield tap but
was stranded as Stan Spence struck
out and Bob johnson fouled out.
Spence was the most notorious
character in the Mats feeble batting
display, incidentally, for he struck
out every time he stepped to the
plate, which was four times. He
went down swinging on three oc-
casions and watched a third strike
Whisk by him on another.
Chandler Has Strikeouts.
Spence represented four of Chan
dler's seven strikeouts,. but other
Mats weren't contributing anything
in the way of an attack either. Only
once after the first inning was
Chandler in trouble and on that
occasion Johnny Sullivan got him
out of difficulty by drilling into a
double-play with the bases loaded.
The Yankees came up with their
run in the first inning off Rookie
EWald Pyle, who pitched a superb
sort of game himself. He permitted
only four hits and Owen Scheetz,
who replaced him in the eighth,
yielded none, but the Yankees made
that one run stand up.
That run materialized when
Snuffy StirnWeiss opened the Yam
KEGS portion of the first inning
with sharp single to center and
moved to second when Charley
Keller walked, after Tuck Stainback
had flied out. Joe Gordon fouled
to Clary, but Nick Etten fetched
Stirnweiss home with a single to
center that also nudged Keller to
third. They were left as Bill John
son popped out
The other hits off Pyle were sin
giles by StirnWeiss in the third and
by Bill johnson in the fourth.
Yanks Not So Lively.
After the fourth inning only two
Yankees reached base. Chandler
was hit by a pitched ball and Stirn-
weiss walked with two out in the
seventh, but, meanwhile, the Mats
wern't annoying Chandler.
Gerald Priddy walked with one
out in the second, but didn't ad-
vance beyond first base. The next
Nat to reach base was Bob Johnson,
who got there through the medium
of an error by Third Baseman Bill
johnson in the fourth inning. He
promptly was forced at second by
Vernon.
Not until the seventh did the Mats
get another man on base, but in
that inning they threatened to walk
away with the game. They loaded
the bases with one out, but Distress
ing things then happened.
Chandler walked Bob johnson to
start the seventh, then got himself
into a predicament by walking Ver-
non. Priddy sacrificed neatly and
Chandler purposely passed Jake
Early to fill the bases.
Up stepped Sullivan, who hasn't
obtained a hit in three games, and
lashed hot grounder at Third Base
man johnson, who snatched the ball
on one hop and quickly threw to
Catcher Rollie Hemsley. forcing Bob
Johnson at the plate Hemsley then
whipped the ball to Etten at first
base to complete the double-play.
Keller's Catch Curbs Case.
With two out in the ninth, Case
made valiant effort to get the Mats
run when he lashed terrific liner
to left. 1t loomed as a possibility to
ricochet off the field boxes and
perhaps roll far enough for a home
run, but Keller sprinted over and
made a brilliant backhand stab of
the drive, thus making merely a
glorious out of the best blow struck
by the Mats.
Vernon walked with two out in the
ninth to arouse faint hope of a
Washington run, but Johnson threw
out Priddy to preserve Chambers
one-hit game.
1t was an unusual game, too, from
the standpoint of the shortstops.
Stirnweiss had only two fielding
chances for the Yankees and Sulli-
van handled only one ball. Right
Fielder Johnny Lindell of the Yam
KEGS never touched the ball during
the entire contest.