Evening star., 1949-09-24

100000 for the season-a
new record.
takes dead aim at New York's
slim margin in a three-game series
starting here today. Tomorrow
tussle also will be played here
with the clubs shifting to New
York on Monday.
Ellis Kinder. the 35-year-old
Highlander enjoying his most
successful season with 81 victories
and five losses, was to take the
mound for the Red Sox today
with lefty Ed Lopat slated to work
for the Yankees.
New York enters the payoff part
of the race without the tremen-
dous talent of Joe Di Maggie, abed
with a virus infection, but the
Yankees have been overcoming
such obstacles all season and are
confident of again thwarting Bos-
tons bid.
Anxious Over Page.
There is a note of anxiety in
the Yankees camp. though, and
it centers on Joe Page, sparkling
relief pitcher who recently has
displayed signs of being over
worked. Page yesterday appeared
in his 57th game of the year
more than any New York pitcher
in history-and for the second
successive time was battered.
Pages defeat at Griffith Stadi-
um came in the first game of a
double-header and stemmed from
the failure of First Baseman Tom
my Heinrich and Second Baseman
George Stirnweiss to determine
who should grab Sid Hudson S
10th-inning pop fly at a time
when the bases were loaded and
two out. Both shied from
the ball and it plopped to the
turf, enabling Eddie Robinson to
score the decisive run in a wild
9-8 affair. New York won the Sec
ond game, I'll.
That ending didn't besmirch
Pages performance, but it was at
his expense that the Mats fash
ioned two runs in the eighth in
ming to tie the score at 8-8 after
the Yankees had erupted for seven
runs in their eighth.
Washington pried a run from
Vic Raschi, later injured by line
drive of Ed Stewards bat, in the
first inning. The first hit the Yam
KEGS cleaned of Ray Scarborough
came in the fifth inning, but it
was a blast by Heinrich over the
rightfield wall for his 23d homer.
Yost Hits Big Double.
The Mats sprayed five runs
across in the seventh, with Eddie
Yost providing the big blow with
a bases-loaded double, but the
Yankees pounded Scarborough
and Joe Haynes for their cluster
in the eighth. Yogi Berra featured
that uprising with his Goth homer
with two aboard.
With one out in the eighth the
Mats got to Page. the Yankees
sixth pitcher. Joe walked Clyde
Vollmer and Robinson propelled
him to third with a single. Sam
Mele doubled to score Vollmer and
Sam Dente sent pinch-runner
John Simmons scampering across
with the tying run with a sharp
single to right.
That 8-8 situation existed until
the 10th, when Page walked
Robinson with one out. Simmons
popped out, but Dente singled to
center and Robinson took third
when Cliff Mapes fumbled the
ball. AL Evans was passed pur-
posely to fill the bases, but in that
jam Heinrich and Stirnweiss per-
formed their adagio, presenting
Hudson his eighth win against
II defeats.
Mickey Harris was sabotaged in
the second game, when the Mats
made five errors and collected only
four hits against Fred Sanford
before the game was called at the
end Of the seventh due to dark
ness. Jake Early accounted for
Washington's run when he blasted
his lone homer of the year over
the right field wall.
Griffs Cluster Three Errors.
Three errors in the first inning
staked the Yankees to two runs
and they compiled a TO lead be-
fore Early supplied Sanford's s
shutout spoiler.
BRIEFLY: The Yankees used 1s
players and the Mats employed 18
in the opener. Idle today, the
Mats will travel to Philadelphia
for double header tomorrow. !.
Manager Joe Kuhel plans to pitch
Dick Welteroth and Dick Weik
against the Athletics and will send
Paul Calvert against Boston when
the Mats return to Griffith Sta
dium on Tuesday night.
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