Evening star., 1948-07-03
|Masferson's S 3-Hitter
Beating Yanks Ends
Long Hunt for Win
BY Burton Hawk;ns
Stsr S,sff Cesvsspondsnt

Stsr StsH Cersspondsnf
NEW YORK, July 3.-Walter
Masterson is. developing deep affec-
ton for the power-packed New York
Yankees, who have brought the
Mats bronzed, bespectacled right
handler his most joyous moments of
the campaign.
For more than = month Master
son had been searching vainly for
victory. He achieved win No. S on
June /, q Al, 5-hitter ut the ex-
pense of the Yankees, and last
night Walter emerged from his pro-
tracted slump to pitch one Of the
more brilliant games Of his career
in whipping New York again, 81,
on three hits in q tense 12-inning
battle.
Masterson, who on occasion can
muster sparkling effectiveness, thus
notched his sixth triumph. Some
34,375 partisan fans gave him an
ovation and several overwhelmed
customers rushed to grasp his hand
as he walked from the mound.
Masterson is finding the defend
ing world champions soft touches
this year. Twice he has faced them
and In q total of 21 innings he has
yielded only eight hits and two runs.
Keen in Last : Innings.
There have been other glorious
moments for Masterson. He re-
turned to the Mats from the Navy
late in the 1945 season and un-
leashed a 4-hitter to beat Cleveland
and Bob Feller, 10. Last year he
hurled is consecutive scoreless in
nings in an l8-inning game against
Chicago and later ran that string
of runless frames to "a.
Last nights epic, though, will
live long in Masterson's memory.
In the last seven innings, he per-
mitted only one hit as a scorching
fast ball and tantalizing slow curve
baffied the Yankees. Meanwhile,
New York's Tommy Byrne was
stopping the Mats on three hits
for II innings as they locked in
a IL duel.
Garden Gillenwater broke up the
game with startling suddenness
when he crashed his first American
League home run deep into the lower
left field stands opening the 18th
inning.
Masterson disposed Of Pinch-hit-
ters Bobby Brown and Sherman
Loilar, but was in trouble when he
issued his seventh walk to Phil
Rizzuto. Gillenwater then shared
Tommy Henrich's drive for the final
out.
The wildness which has plagued
Masterson in his last five starts cost
him the only run he yielded. In
the third inning, he walked Rizzuto
and hit Heinrich before Joe Di
Maggie crashed = single to left,
scoring Rizzuto.
Walks Help Mats.
Wildness also enabled Washington
to tie the score in the seventh. Gill
lenwater and Tom Mcbride walked
and Mickey Vernon sacrificed. Mark
Christman fetched Gillenwater
across from third base with 4 deep
smash to Di Maggie.
For the next four innings, the
Mats got only one man on base, but
Masterson was immersed in difh-
Guilty in the 11th when George
McQuinn singled to right with one
out and continued to second on Earl
Wooten's tumble McQuinn took
third when AL Kozar threw out Bill
johnson and Masterson eased out OF
that predicament when Johnny Lin
dell popped to Vernon.
Washington's outfielders covered
the wide open spaces of vast Yankee
Stadium, making 20 Of the 36 put
outs. Mcbride shared II drives and
was credited with an assist, while
Gillenwater gathered in seven
smashes and Wooten caught two.
Both Masterson and Byrne un-
leased strings of Ave hit.ess innings,
but Gillenwater fractured Byrne's
streak with the timely insertion Of
his homer.
Sid Hudson was to take the mound
here today against the Yankees
Allie Reynolds.