Evening star., 1943-07-17
Third Place AMAZING
For Feeble Outfit
Routed by Bosox

IllC IL COMES as q refreshing SOrG OF
surprise to Manager Ossie Bluege.
Opposing pitchers are acting as if it
is akin to disgrace to have the bot
tom five members of the Mats line
up obtain a safety and the Mats
bottom five are acting as if they
don't care to disgrace anybody.
AS composed currently the tail end
of the Mats batting order repre-
sents study in futility. Alex Kam-
pouris is hitting 1872 if hitting is the
word for it, Gerald Priddy is strug-
Cling along at .231, Johnny Sullivan
is shackled with a .2l3 average and
Jake Early isn't burning up the
league with his .230 batting.
After getting past George Case,
Stan Spence, Mickey Vernon and
Bob johnson, opposing pitchers re-
lax. They then proceed to face four
of the leagues softest touches, plus
whoever the Mats pitcher might be.
Candini Victim of Slump.
With such a sag in his lineup
Bluege is powerless to check the skid
of his power r-paralyzed Mats. He
doesn't own a 800 hitter and john
son, in fact, is his only regular
swatting over 1853. Only johnson
is providing the Mats a punch.
The astounding part Of it is that
the Mats still are clnging to third
place despite that feeble batting.
Four times in their last seven games
the Mats have been restricted to five
hits. which would be no indication
they're swapping out of it.
Milo Candini has been a leading
victim of the Mats lack of larrup-
ing. In the last 30 innings he has
pitched the Mats have obtained only
six runs for him and largely as a
result of it the trim italian hasn't
finished a game in his last five
starts.
Candini wasn't unleashing his
best brand of pitching last night at
Grif6th Stadium as the Mats alb
sorbed a Al defeat from the Red
Sox. He invited disaster with seven
walks in the eight innings he Ia
bored, but still deserted the prem
ises with only a 81 deficit.
Red Sox Embarrass Mertz.
Then Boston proceeded to en-
barrass Rookie Jim Mertz. With
Jim Tabor on third, Tony Lupien
stole second. Tabor and Lupien
then negotiated double steal and
two pitches later Lupien broke for
the plate on still another attempted
steal. Umpire Joe Rue said he was
out, an exclusive but conclusive
idea of play in which Catcher
Tom Padden dropped the ball.
Boston didn't require that run to
thump the Mats, though, for left
handed Oscar Judd was restricting
the Mats to five hits and making
10,100 fans unhappy. Washington S
only run came as the result of Kam-
pouris beating out slow roller down
the third base line, continuing to
second as Third Baseman Jim Ia
Dor threw wildly past first, taking
third as Judd tossed out Prtddy
and scoring on wild pitch.
That locked the score at IL in
the second, for in the Red Sox Sec
ond Skeeter Newsome walked, scoot-
ed to third as Roy Partee ricocheted
single off Candini't leg into left
field and scored on Leon Culberson's
smash off Kampouris' glove.
Hubmen Pile up Count.
That status existed until the sixth,
when Bobby Doerr's double, New
some's sacrifice and Partee's infield
out fetched Boston a 81 lead. New
some's single, walk to Partee,
Judd's infield tap and Culberson's
single gave the Red Sox q third
run in the eighth and Mertz pre-
sented them their final score in the
ninth.
Dutch Leonard and Tex Hughson,
both participants In the American
Leagues All-Star game victory
earlier in the week, will be mound
foes tonight at Grinth Stadium
when the Red Sox and Mats tangle
in third successive night game at
$50. The same teams will meet in
a double-header here tomorrow.
H.