Evening star., 1949-09-05
Menace Bosox Hopes
After Harris Clips
New York S Lead
By Burton Howkins
Stor StaH Correspondent

6OSlON, Sept. o.-lne NatS,
who are buried so deep in the
cellar they must shout If they
desire the remainder of the Amer
lean League to hear them, are
hoping within the next week that
they'll have something to say
about the disposition of the pen
nant.
While their own ambition nee
essarily must be restricted to
avoiding the ignominy of a cellar
finish. the Mats demonstrated yes
terday that they still may perk
up enough to create a headache
or three among the contenders.
They whipped the New York Yam
KEGS, 80. before a crowd of IT,
877 at Griffith Stadium and there
by earned the applause Of the
Boston Red Sox, who crept with
ing a game and a half Of the
league leaders.
Here to battle the Red Sox in
double-header today, the Mats
have a brace of successive double
headers with the Yankees at New
York on Saturday and Sunday.
The Mats may point to recent
effective pitching as reason to
believe they'll be tougher than
customary.
Harris Sturdy in Pinches.
Mickey Harris, for instance. has
been giving the Mats a brilliant
brand of pitching. He was cuffed
for II hits yesterday. but with
men on base the veteran left
handler was superb. In his last
start, he dropped 81 decision
to st. Louis. but before that he
beat Cleveland, 80.
The Mats have won only five
of their last 13 games. but it is
significant that in 10 OF those con-
tests they got good pitching.
Twice over that span they dropped
two 2-1 games and lost others by
80, AZ and 4-3 scores. In that
same period, the Mats won games
by scores of 80 twice, 10, 1872
and AZ.
Today Sid Hudson and Lloyd
Hittle were to get the supreme
test, with Boston's short leftf1eld
fence and Boston's long hitters
confronting them in park, where
the Mats have won only five of 81
games in three years. Opposing
the Mats we're to be pair OF
left handlers, Mel Parnell and Earl
johnson. On their last visit here
the Mats lost six straight games.
Harris was staked to a 80 lead
Yesterday and made it stand UP.
Singles by Al Kozar and Sam
Dente, plus Al Evans double to
the left-f1eld corner. fetched the
Mats two runs off Ed Lopat In
the second inning and they added
another in the third on Clyde
vollmer's single and Eddie Rob-
inson's double.
Yanks Tally In Sixth.
Harris stopped the Yankees un-
til the sixth, when Hank Bauer's
triple. Joe Di Maggio's double and
Bill Johnson's single presented
New York their runs. Eddie Yost
figured in the presentation, cut
ting off Ed Stewards throw to the
plate after Di Maggie had paused
at third. Yost failed to detect
that Di Maggie changed his mind
and continued toward the plate.
Joe would have been an easy vic
tim of Stewards throw.
Yost wasn't long redeeming
himself. With two out and two
on in the Yankees seventh, he
made a spectacular leaping stab
of Bauer's liner.
Harris was pounded for a triple
by Fenton Mole with one out in
the third, but escaped unharmed.
With two on and two out in the
fourth, he whipped a called third
strike past Johnny Linden. In the
same predicament in the fifth, he
got Jerry Coleman on a foul to
Yost.
Yost's fine play on Bauer's liner
hauled him out of his seventh
inning jam and with two on and
two out again in the eighth he
shot a called third strike Pinch
hitter Bobby Brown.
NAT NOTES: When the Mats
scored in the second inning they
ended a famine of "a scoreless
innings The Mats have par
ticipated in 43 games decided by
one run and have won 20 of them.