Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25
Rookie Downs Browns
Easily After Haefner
Drops Opening Tilt
By Burton Howkins
Stor Stoff Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 25.-Two years
removed from struggling gladiolus
farm at Burr Oak, Mich, 23-year-
old Scott Cary has indicated he is
ready to blossom as major league
pitcher after spending most Of the
season observing the niceties of his
profession and gaining experience
chiefly in games which were hope
lessly lost.
The little southpaw's stock equip
ment includes a perennial air Of
establishment at mingling with big
league performers, but, staked to
his first start here yesterday, the
quiet redhead displayed remarkable
poise and considerable ability in
beating the Browns. IA, In the sec
ond game of double header after
Washington dropped the first tus-
sic, I'll.
A 26-game winner with the Mats
Glass D Orlando CF1a) team last
year, Cary had little more than
ambition and control when he re-
ported to Manager Ossie Bluege at
training camp last spring, but
Coaches Rick Terrell and Nick AL
trock labored overtime with him
and soon Scott was breaking off
respectable curves.
Taken From Baseball School.
He had compiled a rosy record
with Orlando with nothing more
than a sneaky fast ball and uncanny
control. He was rated as an mex
perienced rookie who would be
shipped to Charlotte or Chatta-
nooga for seasoning. but when
Prexy Griffith glimpsed him in &C
ton he was intrigued with the way
Cary clipped the corners of the
plate.
Cary's father had faith in the
boys ability, too. He wasn't pros
porous, but he scraped together
enough money to dispatch Scott to
baseball school, from which the
Mats plucked him and sent him to
Orlando. His father died last year,
too soon to see his son move up to
the majors.
SCOTS initial starting assignment
came as the result of flock of sore
arms among the Mats more estab-
lished pitchers. 1t was in despera-
ton that Bluege turned to Cary,
but the lad responded with q pol
ished performance which assures
him Of more frequent employment
Cary yielded II hits and four
runs, but 1t didn't detract from a
nice job. He weakened perceptibly
in the ninth, when the Browns COL
lected four hits and three of their
runs, but he was pitching in l03-
degree heat which would have blis-
tered a bronze statue.
Fans Heath Three Times.
He was off to a shaky start whea
a single and two bunts loaded the
bases with none out in the first,
but he whipped a third strike past
JEFF Heath and got Vernon Stephens
on q double play to escape damage.
He famed Heath three times, Incl
deptally.a in registering five strike
outs, and walked only two.
Cary now has 20 record. having
achieved his first major league vic
tory on June 80 when he happened
to stroll across the diamond at the
proper moment. On that occasion
he pitched one ball to retire the
final Philadelphia hitter, Barney
McC osky, on a line drive, then saw
the Mats rally to win In their por-
ton OF the inning.
Jerry Priddy and Joe Grace were
the principal parties in delivering
Cary a victory yesterday. Priddy
thumped across five runs with a
home run and triple, while Grace's
homer In the seventh after Rick
Terrell had singled accounted for
the other runs.
Stan Spence and Cecil Travis
walked in the fourth with one out
and Priddy pumped a drive of the
left-field wall at Fred Sanford's
expense, the ball bounding into CEN
ter field and enabling Jerry to circle
the bases. Spence and Travis sin
gled in the eighth of Walter Brown
and Priddy inserted triple to CEN
ter.
Haefner Is Early Loser.
Les Moss belted homer into the
left-field stands with two out in
the seventh for the first run of
Cary. When Scott yielded three
runs in the ninth on singles by
Heath, Walter Judnich, Moss and
Bob Dillinger. plus walk to Billy
Hitchcock, Walter Masterson re-
placed him and famed the final st.
Louis batter, Ray Coleman.
Mickey Haefner was mauled for
six singles with two out in the sec
ond inning of the first game, and
those blows, coupled with an error
by Third Baseman Yost, resulted in
five runs The Browns picked up
two more In the fifth when Judnich
rammed a home run over the righ-
field roof after Stephens had sin
gled.
The Mats scored their only run
of Cliff Fannin in the third on
singles by Johnny Sullivan and
Buddy Lewis, plus Sherry Robert
sons long fly to right.
william (Buzz) Dozier. 6-foot,
4-incA Waco (Tex) schoolboy re-
Gently signed by the Mats reported
to Bluege yesterday. He's right
handed pitcher whom Scout Joe
Cambria says was sought eagerly
by four other major league clubs.
Early Wynn will try for his 14th
victory here tonight. with Sam
Zoldak slated to pitch for the
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