Evening star., 1946-03-03
Third Base Hone
Had Hit
By5Misp|ays
Myott, RivoI for Berth,
Homers; Lewis, Travis
Slam Circuit Blows
By Burton Hawkins
Stor StoH Correspondent

ORLANDO, Fla, Mar. 2.-The
Mats third base problem moved
step toward solution by the process
OF elimination here today when
Sherrard Robertson all but sliced
himself from consideration with an
outburst of five errors as the Wash
lngton regulars whipped the rockies,
1878, despite Robertson's presence
among the regulars.
While Robertson was blending as
sorted miscues into the proceedings,
his competitor for the third base
Job-George Myatt-was blasting a
home run and two singles for the
rockies. Cecil Travis and Buddy
Lewis also drove homers over the
right field fence for the regulars.
Robertson, who returned from the
Navy with a glorifled reputation as
one of the most improved players in
the service, failed to justify those
glowing notices as a civilian. He
muffed two grounders, dropped two
pop flies, inserted a wild throw and
generally conducted himself in
miserable style.
Priddy Sparkles at Second.
Robertson's epidemic of errors ac-
counted for half of the 10 fiubs COM
mitted by both teams, who collected
Is hits. While the fielding general
ly was shoddy, Second Baseman
Gerald Priddy injected two spark
ling plays, brilliantly converting
Eddie Lyons sharp grounder into
double-play in addition to making a
diving stab of a Gil Coan liner.
Travis, displaying his old hitting
form, lined a home run over the
right field fence in the first inning
and contributed a single and a triple
in other efforts. Lewis home run
blow, which scared over the 361-
foot fence in right field, came in the
second inning after he had delivered
a double in the first. Travis ham
mered across five of the regulars
runs in his flve-inning appearance
Mickey Haefner, starting for the
rockies, was shelled for six runs and
seven hits in his three inning stint
Lewis double and Travis homer
were the only damaging blows in the
first inning, but Buddy's blast came
after Robertson had walked and
Travis spotted his smash after
Mickey Vernon had been hit by a
pitched ball.
Haefner Takes Humping.
Robertson's boot of Jack Sand
ford's grounder, plus singles by
Myatt and Lyons, presented the
rockies two runs off Harry Brunke
in the first inning, but the regulars
boosted the score to 60 in the Sec
ond when Lewis homered after Rob-
ertson looped single to center.
After Haefner had walked, Myatt
whitfield the regulars lead to GA
in the second, lining a homer over
the right field fence inches inside
the foul line. The regulars bounced
back with three runs off Bill
Lefebvre in the fifth. however, on
an error by Myatt, Stan Spence S
single, Travis triple to deep center
and Jake Early's infeld out.
Singles by Ray Goolsby and Earl
Wooten, plus errors by Robertson
and jeff Heath, presented the
rockies a run in the fifth and they
added two more in the sixth off
Vernon Curtis as Lefebvre walked
Coan doubled and Goolsby singled
Goolsby, Flint Hit.
The regulars lifted the score to
lit off Max Wilson in the seventh,
scoring two runs off errors by In
flelders Johnny Bucek and Lyons
and Elbie Flint's triple to right An
other Robertson error, Lyons in
field out and Ted Madjeski's single
to left produced a run for the
rockies in the seventh, but doubles
by John Kubuski and Joe Kuhel
netted the regulars run in the
eighth.
GoolSby product of the Florida
State League, slashed two singles
and was the only member of the
rookie team in addition to Myatt
to obtain more than one hit. Rookie
Flint, who replaced Priddy at second
base for the regulars, thumped a
triple and single in his two appear
ances at the plate.
Bill Kennedy, former Alexandria
Va, sandlotter who had been in the
Washington farm system for severa
years, permitted only two hits ano
one unearned run in his three.
inning effort against the rockies
in the most impressive pitching per-