Evening star., 1944-04-03
Ortiz, Guerra Helpful
Al BAT in Victory
Over Camp Lee
BY JOHN b. KELLER,

BY JOHN b. KELLER.
His knuckle-balling hurlers tested
under fire and found ready for more
rugged service, Os Bluege will look
to pitchers with less fantastic de-
liveries for the game tomorrow with
the Coast Guard nine at Curtis Bay
near Baltimore. The tussle will
open series Of three on foreign
fields for the Mats this week.
Milo Candini and Early Wynn,
right-handers who have toiled
briefly thus far in the training
season, are slated for duty against
the Cutters and AL Carrasquel,
doughty Venezuelan, and Santiago
Ullrich, the promising Cuban rookie,
may see some action.
Neither Candini nor Wynn has
made as much progress as others
Of the Mats hurting corps in the
conditioning work at the College
Park training camp, but Manager
Bluege is satisfied with what they
have accomplished. He believes an
other week of toll will have them
right up with others Of his mound
stah.
Cold Day for Knucklers.
A brace Of his knucklers took over
yesterday as some 2,700 shivering
fans In the University of Maryland
stands saw the Mats rally to knock
OF Camp Lees Travellers, 8 to 4, in
q rain-curtailed 5h innings affair.
Johnny Niggeling toiled the first
three innings and gave q good ac-
count of himself until the third
when the Travellers punched four of
the five hits off him for three runs
and q lead.
Niggeling with his kunckler threw
third strikes past three of the first
six batters to face him and opened
the third frame the same way. Then
came two singles, q double and an
lother single for the scores. At that,
Johnny struck out three batters Ia
the inning.
Dutch Leonard yielded three hits
IN the next three rounds and two of
these clustered In the sixth ac-
counted for score. Neither Leonard
nor Niggeling walked a batter.
The Mats were credited with six
hits of Sergt. Hank Nowak, a right
handler once up with the st. Louis
Cardinals, but there were only three
sound socks of him as he went the
route. One wasn't hit for Jake
Powell's solid smash at the start
Of the Nat attack was speared by
Mutryn, the Traveller leftfielder,
after a hard run.
Ortiz, Guerra Get Real Hits.
The others were triples by Bob
Ortiz and Fermin Guerra. Three
bases on balls and q pair Of wild
pitches got the Mats q run in the
first, then they. didn't score again
until the fourth, which Ortiz opened
with lusty drive to left. Joe
Kuhel's fly got big Bob home.
That was the first hit OH Nowak,
but he took q beating in the fifth
that Johnny Sullivan opened with
a single. Three more safeties, two
OF them bunts, followed and after q
pair Of passes Guerra knocked over
the last two tallies Of q six-run rally
with his three-bagger.
1t was no blazing exhibition Of
hitting by the Nats. Maybe it was
too cold for them to swing freely.
Powell was in left yesterday be-
cause George Case came up with q
Apre throat and couldn't report at
camp. Cases illness is not believed
serious.
Three More Cubans Arrive.
Scout Joe Cambria bobbed up
from Cuba with three more island
players in tow. One is Joe Gomez
no relative of the shortstop-a
pitcher more than feet tall and
plenty skinny. Joe belongs to the
Mats, but Outfielder Harry Mendia-
bal and Pitcher Tony Napoles-
these are Cambria's spellings-were
brought along merely for looking
over.
Best fielding play by Nat yes--
terday was turned In by Luis Su-
arez, Cuban rookie at third base
In the fourth inning he came in
fast for a fiashy scoop Of a slow
roller and tagged his man at first
base.