Evening star., 1948-06-01
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Win Only | Of Last "A
Yankee Stadium TiIts
By Burton Howkins
Sfor SfoH Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 1.-Yankee
Stadium, vast triple-tiered home of
the New York Yankees, rapidly is
becoming the most undesirable
chunk of real estate in the baseball
world-at least from the Mats
biased viewpoint. In two years,
over span of "A games, Washington
has accumulated the meager total
of one victory there.
Famed as THE House That Ruth
Built" the soaring structure repre-
sents a masoleum to the Mats, who
have numerous dreams buried there.
It's a sport the Mats have invaded
repeatedly with ambitious motives,
only to have those ideas tucked in
a casket and sealed.
Washington has played three
games there this year without a
triumph. Last year, the Mats
dropped 10 of II games in Yankee
Stadium, where yesterday a throng
of 62,626 saw the Yankees deal
Washington, 100 and 5-4 defeats.
The Mats arrived in New York
elated after capturing four straight
games from the power-packed Bos-
ton Red Sox. They were steamed up
over the notion of battling back to
the 500 mark and perhaps edging
into the first division-but the
Yankees blasted all hopes.
Pieretti Bows as Starter.
Yankee Stadium represented the
end of a consuming desire on the
part of Chick Pieretti to become a
starting pitcher, too. Chick, VINO
has been pleading all year for a
chance to begin a contest, was given
the opportunity in yesterdays sec
ond game and failed to survive three
innings.
Walter Masterson will attempt to
chase away the Mats jinx at YANKEE
Stadium tonight when he tries 1or
his fifth win against the Yankees
Allie Reynolds, who has won six
games and lost one.
Pieretti was clipped for three runs
in the first inning on Bobby Browns
single, Tommy Henrich's double, Joe
De Maggio's triple and Yogi Berras s
f,y to Gil Coan. The Yankees pried
two more runs from him in the Sec
ond inning when Brown holsted q
home run into the right field STANDS
after George McQuinn had walked.
While Forrest Thompson and Tom
Ferrick stopped the Yankees, the
Mats gradually whitfield the deficit.
They had picked up run on Red
Embree in the second and sliced
New York's advantage to 5-3 IN
the sixth, when Eddie Yost doubled
with the bases loaded.
A walk to Earl Wooten, Tom Nc
Brides double, which caromed on
third base, and Bill Johnson's wild
throw after retrieving the ball,
netted q run off Joe Page In the
eighth inning, but Page retired the
Mats in order in the ninth.
Yanks Blast Three Hurlers.
Sid Hudson, Milo Candini and
Raw Garcia we're smashed for 16
hits, including home runs by Hen
rich and McQuinn, in the opener.
The Mats four-game winning streak
came to a screeching stop as Frank
Shea checked them with two hits
singles by AL Evans in the second
inning and Yost in the sixth.
New York nicked Hudson for a
run in the second inning, when Nc
Quinn singled across Berra and
spurted into a 80 lead in the third
wher Heinrich rammed homer into
the third deck of the right-tield
stands after Brown had walked. A
walk to Brown and singles by Hen
rich. Charley Keller and Di Maggie
boosted the score to SO proportions
in the fourth and shelled Hudson
from the scene.
McQuinn's homer in the fifth
after johnson had walked lifted the
count to TO against Candini. who
walked across another run in the
sixth. Garcia was hammered for
two runs in the eighth.
NAT NOTES. - Shea's shutout
marked the sixth time the Mats
have been blanked this season . g.
And the 18th occasion they were
limited to six hits or less. Man
ager Bucky Harris OF the Yanks
denied Walter Winchell's assertion
that the Yankees have been brawl-
ing among themselves =. 1T just
isn't true" declared Bucky.
Several Of the Mats, with some
idle moments yesterday morning,
invaded q bar near their hotel to
watch the Giants and Dodgers
tangle on television. -. Comedian
AL Schacht will entertain early ar
rivals at tonight's game. j.. For
future night games the Yankees
have booked Babe Didrickson, who
will take part in batting and f1eld-
ing practice, and a tennis match
involving Alice Marble, Sarah Pal
frey Cooke, Vincent Richards and
Fred Perry.
Johnny Lndell. hitting 1854,
can't crash the New York out
field He has thumped five home
runs. or as many as the entire
Washington team. In six games
against the Mats, New York has
blasted nine homers. Browns
seven hits against the Mats hiked
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