Evening star., 1946-03-25
Hot Righthand Punch
Displayed by Rookie;
Brooks Clip Hudson
By Burton Hawkins
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ORLANDO, Fla, Mar. 25.-Jef
Heath, who has been undisturbec
over his feeble spring hitting, soor
may discover Manager Ossie Bluegt
of the Mats displaying considerable
concern. Jeff's job is being leopard.
lied by Ray Goolsby, rookie out.
fielder, whose stock is booming a.
the result ofe Washington's failure
to obtain another right-handed bat.
| ter.
Ordinarily Bluege might be re.
luctant to entrust a rookie with a
regular post, but Heath is thump-
ing at an unimpressive .173 pace
in the citrus league and Goolsby
while held hitless yesterday. has
been the sensation of the club
Heath failed to propel a ball
out Of the. infield as the Mats A
team dropped a 5-3 decision to
Brooklyn here. He popped to the
|shortstop, to the catcher, grounded
out to second and struck out. Gools-
by went hitless as the B team wal
loped indianapolis, 9-6, at Deland
but he belted two terrific line drives
to center and was victimized by
sparkling catches.
Job Seen Open t. Goolsby.
Washington's failure to land Ken
Keltner, Cleveland third-baseman,
in deal, has strengthened Gools-
by's chances of edging his way into
the lineup on a regular basis. With
the right-handed Keltner on the
premises, Bluege would have been
hesitant about breaking up his out
field, but Ossie now is desperate for
right-handed power.
Goolsby has convinced Bluege he
can make the grade and with open
ing day only three weeks distant
Ossie won't be in a mood to string
along with Heath, unless JEFF sud-
denly sprays some hits of his bat.
Also annoying Bluege Is the
semicrippled condition of the club.
Buddy Lewis, Cecil Travis, Dutch
Leonard, Jake Early and Heath are
bothered BY minor leg ailments,
and Rookie Outf1elder Gil Coan
hasn't been able to get going due
to troubled tootsies. Coan first was
plagued by blisters and now is
sidelined by vicious case Of ath-
lete's foot.
The Mats A team presented
Bluege beautiful and horrible hurl-
ing in losing to the Dodgers before
$500 fans. Sid Hudson unleashed
all the bad pitching, yielding the
Dodgers three runs in the sixth in
ming and two more in the seventh
as the result of walking four bat
ters, hitting another, being bopped
for three singles and having two
errors committed behind him.
Heafner, Wilson HurI Well.
For five innings before Hudson
entered the game, however, Mickey
Haefner checked Brooklyn on three
hits, striking out four and walking
only one. Make Wilson succeeded
Hudson and pitched two hitless
innings.
The Mats, limited to two hits in
the first five innings by Ed Head.
plCACu up u 1u1 OA1 11usA SdSCy
in the sixth as AL Evans tripled
and Hudson fetched him across
with a bounder to third. A walk to
George Myatt, plus singles by
Mickey Vernon and Stan Spence,
reduced Brooklyn's lead to So in
the seventh, and the Mats pro-
duced another run in the ninth,
when Gerry Priddy tripled across
Vernon, who had reached base on
an error.
Pitcher Oliverio Ortiz was the B
squad hero. He pitched four score
less innings, and with the score
locked to 6-6 in the eighth he
belted a homer with two mates on
base. Bill Lefebvre was slammed
for all of Indianapolis runs.
The A and B teams were to COL
Ide here today, while Washington
will. battle Buffalo at Winter
Haven tomorrow and meet Chatta-
nooga at Cocoa on Wednesday,