Evening star., 1947-05-20
'Shuiouf HurIer Goes
To Mound Tonight;
'Chisox Win in 12fh
By Burton Howkins

0y OuftUH bI0WAiHS
Walter Masterson's formula for
winning with the Nats-a scientific
discovery which would battle Mr..
Einstein- will be exposed to its most
severe test tonight when the bronzed.
bespectacled pitcher again viii en-
deavor to lead Clark Grifdth's
Iemaciated outfit along the rocky
road to victory. Masterson has been
pitching shutout ball lately, but
Lloyd's of London wouldn't insure
a triumph for him even II he con-
tinued his sparkling performances.
Masterson will take string OF Is
consecutive shutout innings against
the Chicago White Sox. The Mats
have won 3 of their last II games
and twice Masterson has been the
fortunate pitcher. The Mats pre-
sented him with q gift Of two runs
and he whipped Philadelphia, 2-l.
In his next effort the Mats also
generously stirred up a couple OF
runs for him and Walter won over
Cleveland, 20.
Drop Decision to Chisox.
The Mats, though, have chain
of scoreless innings operating
against them. They haven't scored
in II successive innings and 8,970
fans who watched them drop a
Al decision to the White Sox In IL
innings last night are willing to
testify it may be II weeks before the
Mats muster another run.
Washington's protracted batting
slump, which once came under the
category of news, now has become
routine. The Mats have scored the
embarrassing total OF Is runs in
their last IL games. In IL straight
contests Washington hasn't scored
more than two runs.
Buddy Lewis, who was hitting .426
on May 10 and having numerous
nice things authored about his bat
ting style, has slumped to .293. He
hasn't belted ball beyond the con-
fines of the infield in his last II at
tempts, but in his misery Buddy has
company.
Good Pitching Wasted.
The Mats aren't distinguishing
themselves as hitters and they're
wasting a passel of polished pitch
ing. Opposing pitchers are finding
the Mats the softest touches in the
league. At the moment there isn't
Nat in the batting order-no matter
how Manager Ossie Bluege arranges
it-who can qualify as threat.
Washington's only run last night
lacked only presentation cere-
mony, for 1t was gift Of Pitcher
Bob Gillespie, who wild-pitched Joe
Grace home from third base with
two out in the first inning. Grace
had walked and moved to third on
a brace of infield outs.
Successive singles by Taft Wright
and MurTell Jones, plus Bob Ken
nedys grounder to Second Baseman
Jerry Priody, gave Chicago the tying
run in the fourth inning. Gillespie
survived nine innings before being
lifted for a pinch hitter. He scat
tered four singles and over the same
stretch Wynn permitted only five
hits. =
Through little effort on their part
the Mats had victory in their grasp
in the tenth. With one out Priddy
singled off Earl Caldwell Mark
Christman shot double play
grounder at Shortstop Luke Appling,
but he threw past second and Priddy
scooted to third.
Doubleday Ends Threat.
In that crisis Stan Spence batted
for AL Evans, but was passed pur-
posely, filling the bases. Wynn, who
had obtained two of the Mats hits
then Dashed double-play grounder
at Second Baseman Don Holloway
and this time there were no sur
prises. 1t was a double play.
Jones opened the 18th with a
double to left and Kennedy beat out
bunt which moved Jones to third.
Holloway fouled out and Dave Philley
was walked Intentionally. Into that
spot stepped Skeeter Dickey and he
rammed a double to left, scoring
Jones, Kennedy and Philley.
NAT NOTES: The game was
delayed 43 minutes due to- rain in
the final half of the eighth inning. ).
Mickey Vernon lost his job as the
Mats cleanup hitter to Tom NC
Bride, but there's no permancy at
tached to that move or to any other
move the Mats make these days.
Edgar Smith, chunky blond south
paw, will have the pleasure of facing
the Mats tonight. i. d. Pitcher Luman
Harris, Ineffective in three relief
roles with the Mats, was peddled to
Louisville by Grif1th. . 16 times in
"a games this season the Mats have
been limited to two runs or less.