Evening star., 1945-08-10
Haefner, Lewis Share
LimeIight as Griffs
Smear White Sox
BY JOHN b. KELLER.
Star Stan Correspondent.

Star staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Aug. l0.-"Iron Mike
Kreevich caught up with the Nat.
yesterday, but his baseball shoes
glove and other equipment didn't
So what with borrowing items here
and there before donning a Wash.
ington uniform for the first time
Kreevich was somewhat slow in get.
ting on the Comiskey Park field.
But there was nothing slow about
Mike once he got into the game
against the White Sox. The chunky
5-foot-7, Austrian Croatian who
through last Sunday was wearing
the garb of the Champion st. Louis
Browns, not only took excellent
care of his chores in center field
but at the plate came through with
a ripping two bagger to the left field
corner that drove over the first two
runs of a To Nat victory.
Lewis Shares Limelight.
He'll help, and plenty, was Man.
ager Os Bleuge's comment after
watching Kreevich in his first game
for the Washington Club run in
for shoetop catch of Tony Cucci-
nello's looper, race far back to haul
down Guy Curtright's tremendous
hoist and sock the Chicago pitching
His flfth-inning double spanked
the Mats to a six-run round that
sewed up the tussle and left them
only a game of the race-pacing
Detroit Tigers.
But Mike was not the whole show
Smarting under the Wednesday
night licking that kept them from
a league lead tie, the Mats smeared
the White Sox pitching. They helped
themselves to IA hits for l8 bases
with Buddy Lewis getting two singles
and double in succession to head
the attack.
After making his double in the
fifth inning, Lewis left the game to
nurse an ailing leg, but was to be
back today. Buddy has reeled of
8 hits in his last II times at bat to
raise his batting average for his IS
games to 1926. That is the kind of
hitting the Mats need In their drive
for the top spot.
Haefner Also Sparkles.
Another sparkling Washington
performance was that given by
Mickey Haefner as he hurled to his
fourth win in a row and his 1lth of
the season. Mickey restricted the
White Sox to 8 hits, spread over S
innings and his lone pass was given
purposely. He gave up a run in the
first round by baking after the Sox,
with two out, filled the bases with
Leroy Schalk's single, John Dick
shots double and the intentional
pass to Cuccinello.
With Outright up, Mickey began
his pitching motion then stopped,
so Umpire Bill Summers waved the
runners up a notch. Mickey then
struck out the batter and from then
on the Sox never looked really
dangerous. The Mats tNd tucked
away the game before the Sox
flared in the sixth to get another
score from Schalk's third single,
Dickshot's second double and Cucci-
nello's long fly.
1t was Bill Dietrich who took the
beating in five innings. He yielded
nine Of the Mats hits. The others
came off the left-handed Johnny
johnson who looked good despite an
eighth-inning tally cleaned from
Rick Ferrell's single, Haefner's sac
riflce and Joe Zardon's second hit.
Ferrell Starts Rally.
Ferrell ignited the fireworks in the
big fifth. He singled, then Haefner
walked. Kreevich hit his double to
get the Mats in the game. George
Myatt tripled and Lewis doubled.
Joe Kuhel and Harlond Cliff lofted
out, but George Binks singled and
took third while Lewis scored as the
White Sox shortstop booted Gil
Torres grounder. When Mike fresh
threw wildly as Torres stole, Binks
romped home with the sixth run of
the round.
The Mats did not have to contend
with Oris Hockett. who made five
successive hits for the White Sox
Wednesday night. A sore leg kept
him out of action and he is apt to
be idle the remainder of the series.
Bert Shepard, relief pitcher, has
Joined George Case on the Mats list
OF casuals. He has an infected spot
on his good leg. Case is remaining
in his hotel room to have his
sprained left ankle treated. 1t still
pains him severely.
Bluege, Of course, would relish
having the speed demon and high
hitter in action as the Mats scrap
for first place, but even with Case
out, the manager is not doing too
much worrying-not with Iron
Mike" Kreevich around.
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