Evening star., 1943-06-21

promptly was promoted to start
ing job. He was no ball of fire here
yesterday as the Mats captured the
first game of a double header. 5-3,
behind Leonard's nine-hit pitching,
before dropping the nightcap, TO.
before 33.o08 paying patrons.
Haefner started the second game.
much to the ultimate satisfaction of
the Yankees. He walked two men
in the first inning but escaped dam
age. In the second inning the
Yankees gave him both barrels.
Rollie Hemsley socked a triple, Joe
Gordon walked, Bill Johnson tripled.
Tuck Stainback singled and Charley
Keller belted his tenth home run of
the year into the right field stands.
all of which presented New York a
SO lead
The Mats went to work on that
lead and whitfield it to So with a
three-run outburst against Alley
Donald in the fourth. BY the time
the eighth inning rolled around
Washington was trailing 6-5, and in
that inning they blew their oppor-
tunity to sweep the twin bill.
Threaten Again in Ninth.
With one out, the Mats loaded the
bases as Angelo Giuliani and George
Case singled and Gordon contrib
uted an error on Pinch-hitter Gene
Moore's grounder, but at that point
Relief Pitcher Jim Turner, who had
supplanted Donald in the seventh.
yielded to Marius Russo. The little
left-hander choked the Mats en-
bryonic rally as Stan Spence drilled
into a double play.
Pyle, the Mats third pitcher. per-
mitted run in the eighth but the
Mats made another threatening ges-
ture In the ninth Mickey Vernon
walked, took second on passed
ball and moved to third on Bob
Johnson's infield out Gerald Priddy
fetched him across with a single to
left and when Ellis Clary walked
Ernie Bonham became the Yankees
fourth pitcher, replacing Russo. He
disposed of Johnny Sullivan on a
pop fly and Jake Early grounded out
to First Baseman Nick Etten for the
final out.
The Mats and Yankees collected IL
hits each in the second game, with
Priddy and Giulani obtaining three
hits each for Washington and Stain
back getting four for the Yankees.
Until the sixth inning of the first
game Leonard found himself on the
wrong end of 10 pitching duel
with Charley Wensloff, but the Mats
came up with four runs in that
inning as Wensloff was elected for
protesting the decisions of Umpire
Ernie Stewart.
Bonham Takes Over.
Spence opened the inning with
single to right and Vernon thumped
his second home run of the season
among the customers in the right
field stands. Johnson walked and
after Early fouled out, Priddy also
walked.
After throwing three successive
balls to Clary, Wensloff slammed his
glove on the mound and before it
hit the ground Stewart had ordered
Aiih w lcdVc Vic premises.
Bonham came m and completed
the job of walking Clary. He also
walked Sullivan and Leonard sue
cessively, however, to force in two
runs before Case hit into a double
play
Keller delivered his first homer of
the day opening the Yankees sixth
but in the seventh Vernon's safe
bunt and Johnson'S double fashioned
a So lead for Washington. Bud
Metheny's double and Ken Sears
single gave the Yankees their final
run in the eighth.
Bob johnson obtained three of
the Mats six hits, while Bill john
son got three of the Yankees nine
hits as the Mats remained in second
place three games behind the pace
setting Yanks.
Idle today, the Mats will resume
hostllities in a single game against
the Yankees here tomorrow, then
tangle with New York in double-
header here Wednesday.