Evening star., 1946-04-21
Spence's Homer
Heads S|as1inq
14-Hit Attack
Leonard, Scarborough
Give 5 Blows; Injury
Makes Dutch Retire
By Burton Hawkins
Sfor StoH CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK, April 20-Surprise!
Surprise! The Mats won ball game
today, blending nice combination
fof power hitting with tolerable pitch
ing to deal the Yankees a 7-3 de-
feat before 1928 paying customers.
Dutch Leonard, who was forced
to leave the game after six innings
due to pulled muscle in his left
leg, and Ray Scarborough collabo-
rated in tossing neat pitching job
at the Yankees as Washington
snapped four-game losing streak.
They restricted New York to five
hits as the Mats mauled four pitch
ers for IA safeties.
Leonard left the premises with
20, tWo-hit game in his grasp after
pulling up lame when fielding a
bunt. The unsympathetic Yankees
hastened his exist by bunting twice
more. Scarborough started at the
outset of the seventh, yielding all
the Yankees runs on three hits.
Stan Spence presented the Mats
lead they never relinquished in the
third inning when he whaled his
first home run of the season into the
lower right field stand with two out
and none on. Nobody was on base
because Buddy Lewis had singled,
only to be picked off first base by
the tricky motion of Pitcher Bill
Wight.
Mats Nick Wight Again.
The Mats wrencned another run
from Wight in the sixth. With one
gone, Gerry Priddy walked, only to
be forced out by George Binks. But
Binks made second on a wild throw
by the Yankee pitcher and after Al
Evans was purposely passed a score
went in on Leonard's single.
Washington clinched the game in
the seventh. Spence walked and
Jack Sanford dropped a wind blown
pop fly in center for single. Cecil
Travis advanced both runners with
a sacrifice. Steve Roser replaced
Wight and disposed of Priddy on a
foul, then Intentionally passed
Binks. Roser also walked Pinch
hitter Joe Kuhel, forcing in Spence,
and the next person to walk was
Roser, who was replaced by Herb
Karpel.
Karpel was ushered into the game
by Mickey Vernon, who batted for
Leonard, and it was a rude greeting
Mickey gave him. Vernon socked a
double down the left field line, scor-
ing Sanford and Binks, but when
kuhel also attempted to score he
was thrown out by five yards.
The Yankees reduced their deficit
to 81 in the seventh. fashioning an
unearned run off Scarborough
Priddy Has Some Trouble.
Tommy Heinrich beat out a slow
roller to Priddy and continued to
second as the Mats second basemar
threw wildly past Scarborough, who
was covering first Ray got past
Joe Di Maggie and Nick Etten. but
Johnny Lindell hoisted a pop fly to
short center which danced around
in the wintry wind and plopped at
Priddy's feet for a double.
With one out in the eighth the
Mats produced two more runs with
display of power. Lewis tripled to
left center and scored after Spence
flied to Lindell Sanford then du-
plicated Lewis drive for another
triple and scored on Travis single
to left.
New York made the score more
respectable in the ninth when.
with two out and Heinrich aboard.
Etten drilled home run into the
right field stands. But Scarborough
promptly squelched any idea of big
rally by tanning Lindell.
The Mats were having a tough
time scoring in the early innings.
They loaded the bases with one out
in the first inning, but Travis struck
out and Priddy flied to Lindell In
the second inning Binks was safe on
an error, but was the victim of a
double-play when Di Maggie con-
tributed brilliant catch of Evans
long drive, then relayed to the in
field to nip Binks off first.
Lewis was picked off first prior
to Spence's homer in the third in
ming and in the fourth the Mats
thumped three successive singles
without scoring. Travis singled to
right, but was nailed at third on
Priddy's single. Priddy reached
third on Binks' single, but Evans
led to Di Maggie in short center
and Leonard was thrown out after
laying down bunt.
Leonard permitted just one Yankee
to advance beyond first base and
only three to get to first base George
StirnWeiss walked in the first inning
with one out, took second as San
ford muffed Dutch's throw on an
attempted pick-off, and shifted to
third on Henrich's infeld out. He
was stranded as Di Maggie grounded
out. Otherwise the only Yankees
to reach base against Leonard were
Heinrich and Lindell, who singled.
| Sherry Robertson, Lewis, Sanford
and Travis each collected two hits
for the Mats, while Heinrich and