Evening star., 1946-07-14
Rally
In Ninth Lands.
First TussIe
Vernon Drives in Bio
Run; Chicago Gets IS
Hits in Niehteop
by Burton Hawkins

paw, who had been searching fruit
lessly all season for a victory, fnal-
ly found a victim in the Mats
yesterday at Griffith Stadium. He
beat 'em go, for Chicago with a
ration of eight hits in the second
game of double header after the
Mats stirred up three runs with
two out in the ninth inning OF the
opener to spank the White Sox, SIS.
Considering the Mats fielding be-
havior. which wasn't good, that
split represented satisfactory after
noon for Clark Griffith's athletes.
Until they mustered those three
ninth-inning runs to enable Bobo
Newsom to notch his sixth triumph
they resembled fugitives from the
sandlots.
Papish encountered what amounts
ed to no trouble in the nightcap,
for the White Sox were bashing
Dutch Leonard, Walter Masterson
and Marino Pieretti for IS hits to
give him a comfortable margin at
all stages.
That first game rally stirred the
10000 customers Entering the
ninth with a So deficit, the Mats
detected ray of hope when pine
hitter George Myatt walked, but
that Ray went glimmering as Gil
Coan grounded out and Sherry
Robertson flied out.
Vernon's Third Hit Decides.
Stan Spence, who had entered
the game moment previously as
a replacement for an injured Joe
Grace, smashed a triple of the
right field fence to fetch Myatt
home and Buddy Lewis coaxed a
walk from Earl Caldwell
Into that situation stepped scrap
py Gerry Priddy to loop a single
to left. scoring Spence with the
tying run and shifting Lewis to
second. Along came Mickey Ver-
non with his third hit of the game,
single to right, and Lewis romped
across with the winning run.
The Mats were having a horrible
time of it until they unleashed that
rally. Thurman Tucker on third
and Taft Wright on first in the
opening inning as the result of
singles. negotiated a double steal
with the aid of an AL Evans throw
that sailed into center field.
! Washington sprayed three runs
across in its half of the inning as
Grace doubled. Priddy walked, Ver-
non doubled and George Binks
singled. That 81 score stood until
the seventh.
With two out and Ed Lopat on
first, Bob Kennedy drilled a liner
to left which Grace attempted to
snag with dive. The ball escaped
him and rolled to the left field
corner for home run that sue
ceeded in locking the score.
Second Game Romp for Chisox.
Don Holloway tripled with one
out in the eighth and scored when
Lewis made an erratic throw to the
plate after snatching Pinch-hitter
Ralph Hodgins fly in short right
field. The White Sox boosted the
score to 5-3 in the ninth when
Tucker singled to right with one
out. continued to second on Lewis
tumble, moved to third as Luke
Appling grounded out and scored
on passed ball
NeWsom permitted only eight hits,
struck out three and walked three
in preserving his record of not hav-
ing pitched a bad game here since
joining the Mats.
Singles by Tucker, Appling and
Kennedy netted the White Sox q
run at the outset of the second
game of Leonard, who absorbed
his third defeat. Chicago added
two more in the second on two
singles, walk and a hit batter.
Billy Hitchcock's triple and Leon
ards single fashioned a Washing
ton run in the third, but two walks
and singles by Appling and Kennedr
gave Chicago another run and a
Al lead in the fourth.
/ The White SoX picked up four
runs off Masterson in three innings,
touching him for six hits, and got
their final run in the ninth of
Pleretti with a combinatio of two
singles and wild pitch.
Meanwhile the Mats weren't
causing Papish any anxiety. They
obtained second run in the sixth
on Vernon's double and Torres
single, which completed their scor-
ing for the dav.