Evening star., 1945-08-29
Using Leonard, Wolff
lin Effort 10 Sweep
Twin Bill Tonight
BY JOHN B. KELLER,
Star Staff Correspondent.

ny JoI1N d. hELLEh,
Star Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29.-Two
more games tonight with Philadel-
phia's Athletics will complete the
Mats longest tour of the season and
regardless of what happens in the
engagements the Washington club
will return home tomorrow with bet
ter than a 500 winning percentage
for the 27 tilts on the trip.
That laSt-inning 6-5 win over the
As yesterday assured the Mats of
such a record. Now that they have
shattered four-game losing streak,
the Mats have an idea that when
they dispose of their dates with the
AS they-the Nats-will be quite
ready to plunge into their toughest
stretch of games this year, a string
of 81, including 10 double headers
to end the campaign.
All league rivals will be encoun-
tered in the 81 games and in the
string pennant will be won or
missed.
1t should be a torrid struggle.
Today the Mats were in second place
just ll2 games behind Detroit and
312 ahead of third-place st. Louis.
Leonard, Wolff Hurl Tonight.
Manager OS Bluege will throw
his leading pitchers at the AS in the
twllight-night bill Dutch Leonard
and Roger Wolff are slated to start.
The AS are expected to rely on Phil
Marchildon, who recently returned
to the club after long service with
the Royal Canadian Air Force, and
Bobo Newsom.
Pitching has become more of a
problem than ever with Bluege
With so many bargain bills ahead
the Washington manager has en-
deavored to conserve his mound
material, yet so important is every
game to the Mats now that he can
not spare his pitchers in pinches.
There were so many pinches yes
terday that four Washington
moundsmen were employed before
the AS took their 14th beating in
II games with the Mats this wear.
Marino Pieretti started, but early
in the proceedings it was obvious he
was not his usual self on the hill.
So Al Carresquel. Dick Stone, lefty
who joined the club only last week
and Santiago Ullrich got into the
box score.
Pieretti's Speed Absent.
The AS made II hits off this COL
lection, six off Pieretti before he
was lifted with one out in the fourth
frame.
Those six hits with a balk and
two bases on balls got the AS four
runs to match the score the Mats
had amaSSed at the expense of Don
Black in three innings. Pieretti
simply did not have his fast ball,
his best in stock, from the begin
ming, and after balk was called on
him early in the third inning, he
lost what little else he had. The
AS Immediately jumped on him
for three markers and in the next
round the first three batters COL
laborated to put across the tying
tally.
Dick Siebert sent the AS ahead
at the outset of the sixth with his
fifth home run of the year, a drive
off Carrasquel that cleared the
rightheld wall
Off Charley Bowles. who succeeded
Black on the mound, the Mats got
nowhere until the eighth when they
deadlocked. A triple by Buddy
Lewis and a long fly by Joe Kuhel
got the counter Stone had stopped
the AS deftly in the seventh. but
with two out in the eighth they filled
the bases, so Ullrich was rushed to
the rescue.
Ullrich became the winning
pitcher when Rick Ferrell hit the
first pitch in the ninth into the
lower left field stands for his first
home run after the campaign of
1941.
Kuhels StickwOrk Tells.
Kuhel got only one of the eight
Hts lne MATS maze, DuJ he OfOF6
across three of his clubs six runs.
A single and two hoiSts into outs
did it.
Lewis in right field made two as
sistS, one with a throw that tagged
Ben Kish, who tried to go from first
to third on single in the third, and
another after catching Fibber Nc
Ghee's liner in the ninth. Buddy
whipped the ball to Kuhel to double
Kish off first base and end the game.
George Myatt, his dental ailment
eased, returned to the lineup to
register his 25th steal of the season.
There was more fight in the AS
yesterday than at any other time
the Mats have played them this
yeaer. Macs minionS really had the
Mats quaking until Ferrell came
through.