Evening star., 1948-06-14
Mats Look for SoIace
On 21-Game Trip After
MauIing by Tigers
by Burton Howkins

The Mats are taking a hint
They're getting out Of town about
twilight time and their adventures
Of the next three weeks will deter
mine whether rapidly diminishing
interest in their activities may be
revived.
They will carry a four-game los
ing streak into sweltering st. Louis
to start a 21-game road schedule.
They're escaping the city at stra-
tegic moment, for in losing 9-3 and
90 decisions to the Detroit Tigers
yesterday at Griffith Stadium they
detected an intensified belitting of
their behavior.
First Baseman Mickey Vernon has
been hooted for his failure to hit
and yesterday a large segment of
the left-field bleacher customers
poured it on Gil Coan, who is in a
king sized slump.
AS Detroit dumped the Mats out
Of fourth place and on the fringe
of sixth by sweeping q four-game
series, Washington's pitching sagged
alarmingly. The Tigers. who have
captured six straight games at Grif-
fifth Stadium, where they have lost
none. belted the Mats pitchers for
20 runs.
Hudson Big Disappointment.
Bitterly disappointing has been
the performance of slim Sid Hudson,
whose transformation from an over
hand hurIer to a side-armer was
greeted gleefully when he stopped
the New York Yankees on five hits
in his 1948 debut.
That, it developed, was mislead-
ing, for Sid since has been slammed
frequently. He has failed to finish
any of his last nine starts and the
last complete game credited to him
was q five-inning affair with Chi
cago, which was rained out. Includ-
ing that abbreviated game, Hudson
has started 13 games, finished two.
Sid has been granted every op-
portunity to click, for Manager Joe
Kuhel has clung to him as starter
in the belief Hudson soon would
reverse his losing conduct. In his
last four games, though, Sid has
failed to survive four innings and
Kuhel's patience is wearing thin.
Kuhel is hoping Sid will parallel
his rookie season, when he won two
games and lost nine at the outset,
only to stage a memorable come
back and finish the year with a
l7-16 record. Bucky Harris. then
managing the Mats. continued to
start Sid and was justified for his
unf1agging faith.
Wynn Also Battered.
Twice this season Hudson has
demonstrated he could be a spec
tacular side GARNER He was i'm
pressive against the Yankees and
later travelled 72s innings against
Cleveland. yielding only three hits
before Tom Ferrick rushed to his
rescue In a bases-loaded predica-
ment. Lately. however. Hudson has
been immersed to his chin in
trouble
Sid failed to last out the second
inning of the first game yesterday.
He was pounded for five runs before
Forrest Thompson arrived on the
scene. Hudson had company in his
misery, for the Tigers mauled
Thompson and Milo Candini freely,
accumulating IA hits including
three each by Johnny Lipon and
George Kell.
Meanwhile the Mats, who scored
two runs in the first inning, sue
cumbed to the six-hit pitching of
Dizzy Trout, who won his seventh
game as Hudson was charged with
his sixth defeat.
The second-game pattern was
similar. The Tigers cuffed Early
Wynn for IL hits, including home
runs by Dick Wakefield and Pat
Mullin, and jumped into So lead
in the first three innings. Virgil
Trucks stopped the Mats on seven
hits to present Detroit its seventh
win in eight games with Wash
in