Evening star., 1945-06-28
Washington Hits 500
Mark and Wolff Aims
For Winning Edge
BY JOHN b. KELLER,
Star Stan Correspondent.

DETROIT, June 28.-For the first
time In many days the Mats were
boasting a 500 rating today and it
was up to Roger Woln, their Sands
hurting ace. to get them winning
edge as Detroit's Tigers were faced
in the second set-to Of the series.
Getting that edge should prove
job, though, for Wolff and the Mats
were to be opposed by Hal New
houser, Tiger left-hander with rec
ord of II victories against 4 de-
feats.
In yesterdays twilight game at
Briggs Stadium, the Mats surpris-
ingly opened their second Western
invasion by drubbing the Tigers, 8
to l, and pulling the latter down to
a tie with the YankS for first place.
Heretofore, the Mats generally rolled
over and played dead as soon as
they struck the West.
The game began as a resumption
OF the duel between Dutch Leonard
and Dizzy Trout that got under
way here in the final game of the
1914 campaign. Then Leonard, with
the able assistance of Stan Spence,
now in the Navy. knocked Trout and
the Tigers out of a chance at World
Series dough. Last evening they
simply knocked out Trout and the
Tigers.
Dutch Outclasses Trout.
Trout never was the pitcher
Leonard was at any time. The
Mats combed the big right-hander
for three runs at the outset, got
three more of him to drive him out
OF action in the sixth and in the
process gathered eight hits. Leonard
limited the Tigers to four hits, one
a homer driven into the upper left
field stand at the 340-foot mark by
Trout in the third inning. That was
Dizzy's only good piece of work
during his term.
Forrest Orrell hurled two runless
innings after Trout's departure,
then the Mats teed of on Zeb Eaton
in the ninth for three more hits
that with an error were good for
three more runs.
The Mats 13 hits totaled 20 bases,
with George Myatt and Joe Kuhel
hitting triples and George Case,
Fred Vaughn and Kuhel socking
doubles. Case, Myatt and Kuhel,
with three hits each, knocked the
Tiger hurlers all over the lot.
-Four solid hits got the Mats their
first block of three runs. George
Case opened the game with a two
bagger to left and raced home as
George Myatt slashed a single by
the shortstop. A triple by Joe Kuhel
and a one-baser by George Binks
followed.
GriffS Clever on Bases.
Clever work on the bases helped
toward the block of three the Mats
collected in the sixth, Trout's last
session. Fred Vaughn and Kuhel
singled to right, then Harlond Cliff
whipped an intended sacrifice by
Trout for hit. As Binks went out
with a high bound to the second
baseman, Vaughn crossed. Bob
Maier at third booted Gil Torres
roller and Kuhel counted while
Cliff held second.
Rick Ferrell forced Torres, but
Gil, as he slid into the base, upset
Eddie Mayo and Cliff raced all the
way from the middle sack to the
plate.
Handsome Fitzgerald, Nat bull
pen catcher, today signed a regular
contract. -. President Harridge has
ruled all uniformed members of
clubs must have papers in order as
a result Of the fracas between the
Browns and Heckler Scheel, un-
signed batting practice pitcher with
the White Sox. Kuhel is having
foot trouble, due to ILL fitting base
ball shoes, and can't get new foot
gear. But the ailing feet Ger
tainly did not affect his batting last
evening. Torres handled a
chance an inning for the first six