Evening star., 1949-05-06
IA Runs Sent In
ByCIyde, Mostly
With Homers
His Round-Trip Blow.
Single Back Hoefner
In Beating Browns

By Burton Howkins
Sscr Sfoff Correspondent,

Stor Sfof Correspondent
ST. LOUIS. May ga disap-
pointment with the Cincinnati
Reds In two trials. beefy Clyde
vollmer Is threatening to become
Washington's outstanding home
run hitter.
The big boom OF the Mats sud
denly explosive batting order al
first glance is no sensation with
| his $50 hitting, but behind that
anemic average is a production OF
five home runs and IA runs batted
across.
Vollmer at his present pace
would blast some As homers for
the season. While that isn't like
ly, the Mats have in him a hitter
who for the first time in years has
the equipment to shatter Zeke
Bonuras club record Of % home
runs set in 1888.
Washington. which will carry
3-game winning streak into to-
nights tussle with st. Louis as a
result of walloping the Browns
So, here last night. has captured
six games. A principal party
toward victory in five of those
contests has been Vollmer.
Comes Through in Pinches.
Last night it was Vollmer. de-
Ilivering a fourth inning homer
with Sherry Robertson on base
who locked the score at %. In
the eight inning. it was Vollmel
who smashed a single to center tc
fetch Ed Stewart across and pgo-
ject the Mats into AS lead which
blossomed to 5-3 proportions when
Clyde scored on an error.
| Vollmer. who has played a flaw
less centerfield, broke up the Mats
opening day game with a single to
center which scored the winning
run to beat Philadelphia with one
out In the ninth. Inserted as a
pinch hitter with the Mats trail
ing, 81. with two out in the ninth,
Vollmer hammered triple that
scored two runs and the Mats car
ried on to whip the New York
Yankees. 4-3, in 10 innings.
| 1t was a Vollmer homer with one
aboard that helped hoist the Mats
to a 4-3 win over Philadelphia
and In the Mats first triumph at
Chicago, A 14-l2 affair. Vollmer
rammed two home runs and a
double, scored three runs and
batted In three.
In swapping a slump which de-
f1ated his batting average to in
finitesmal proportions. Vollmer
has battered four homers in
Washington's last six games and
has hit 1873 over that stretch.
He's a full swinger who goes for
distance and Manager Joe Kuhel
has no fault to find with that sys-
tenn. It's beginning to pay of for
the Mats. who have hit homers in
each of their last six games. In
fact, they've swatted some is OF
them in that period. IL in their
last three games.
Haefner's Job Adequate.
| Mickey Haefner gave the Mats
adequate pitching last night, deal
| |ina the Browns their sixth straight
defeat with seven-hit job. The
Mats accumulated only six hits of
Red Embree and Tom Ferrick,
but they wedged five into scoring
innings.
Less Moss second -inning homer
after Dick Kokos had singled
lifted the Browns into 20 lead
but vollmer tied it jim the fourth,
Roy Sievers' single. sacrifice and
Embree's single shot st. Louis
ahead, 3-2 in the seventh.
Gil Coan and Stewart singled
successfully to start the eighth
and Coan scored from third when
Robertson grounded out. Stewart
shifted to second on that play
and scored on Vollmer's single
Vollmer scored after Shortstop
Ed Pellagrini dropped Ferrick's s
throw to second which would have
forced him, moved to third on
Mark Christman's grounder and
scored when Jerry Priddy threw
| wild past first base attempting a
double play.
NAT NOTES--Of the Mats slow
start this year, Eddie Robinson
says, ''it was no novelty to me.
When I was with Baltimore
we had a pretty good team. but
we went 40 innings without a run.
|. s.. When we finally scored they
ran our pictures in the paper.
Pitcher Walter Masterson. chat
ting about club owners inclination
| to erect fences within ball parks
on the slightest excuse, says, "a lot
of pitchers have begged of due to
burSitis, arthritis and neuritis. but
there may be a new epidemic OF
something named fenceitis. :
Several st. Louis Browns openly
are envious Of Outf1elder AL Zarilla,
traded to the Boston Red Sox yes
terday for Outfelder Stan Spence
and cash. Paul Calvert will
pursue win No. 8 tonight against
the Browns. with Masterson slated
| to face them here tomorrow in his
first start of the year.
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