Evening star., 1945-09-03
Series With Browns Next, Call
On Slab Reserves in Boston
Slice Tiger Margin to Come by Splitting
With Yunks Before Season Record Crowd

that Kreevich has more in the way
of attack than has Case at present.
Splitting with the Yanks in WASH
ington yesterday before q season.
record crowd Of 30,143, the Mats were
fortunate in picking up half-game
on the Tigers, who took q beating
from Cleveland. The split gave the
Yanks the edge in the season tus-
sling with Washington, IL games
to s. There are two more dates
with the Bronx Busters, in New
York on September 40 and n.
Leonard Explodes Atomic Style.
The Mats dropped the first game,
4 to 2, and bagged the second, 30.
Dutch Leonard, after hurling well in
the opener to get by the first two
batters in the sixth. blew with a
resounding roar. Bud Metheny and
Russ Derry singled and Charley
Keller walked to crowd the sacks.
Nick Etten tripled, Aron Robinson
singled and Leonard left the hill.
Dick Stone and Pete Appleton I'm
ished to yield nothing more than
three hits that ran the Yank total
to 10.
The Mats had left-handed pitch
ing trouble. Joe Page, the lone Yank
southpaw. restricted them to four
hits until the seventh when singles
by Kreevich and Gil Torres and
Rick Ferrell's walk figured in two
runs. After walking Ferrell again
at the outset of the ninth, Page was
yanked and Jim Turner took over.
Bluege sent up three left-handed
pinch-batters against the veteran
right -hander. Dick Kimble flied out,
but Binks singled. After Case
strolled to load the sacks. Hills
Layne swung for Fred Vaughn-and
bounced to the pitcher to bring on a
side-retiring double play.
The second game was a nip-and-
tuck affair between Roger Wolf and
Bill Zuber with neither starter f1n-
ishing, although Wolf got credit for
hurting the shutout victory. The
Yanks got only five hits of Wolff
but he was on spot several times,
particularly in the eighth that Zuber
opened with triple. Roger struck
out Stirnweiss, but walked Metheny.
Derry, though, drilled into a dou-
bic play.
Metheny tried to prevent the two
way killing as he went into second
standing up and hooked his arm
around Torres The shortstop man.
aged to step aside and get a throw
to Joe Kuhel at first. Metheny
pulled the hook trick after he had
been called out and his interference
with the Washington shortstop
would have resulted in Umpire Red
Jones calling Derry out, even
though the throw had not beaten
the runner to first.
Wait on Third Tires Zuber.
Waiting for help on third after
getting his ree-bagger tired Zuber
and the Mats beat him in the eighth
Buddy Lewis let third strike speed
by, but Kubel and Binks doubled
Layne singled in second run and
moved up on passed ball to be sent
home by Al Evans one-baser. Ken
Holcombe rushed to the hill and
ended the rally.
Wolff, who had been firing since
the seventh plainly was tagged when
he took the hill for the ninth. He
had two on by passes with two out
and pitched two wide ones to
Herschel Martin. Here Haefner
assumed the pitching chore.
His first pitch was a strike. The
next one Martin fouled of for a
second strike. The Yank swung
wildly at the little knuckleballer's s
third pitch and the double header
that had consumed four hours and
81 minutes Of playing time was over.