Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-20
Mats Hope to Come Back Against Skidding Chisox
Relief Seen in Store
Tonight After Double
Banking by Tigers
ey Burton Howkins

Chicago's skidding White Sox
In the throes of q five-game losing
streak. and the recently uninspir-
ing Mats viii open q three-game
series tonight at Griffith Stadium
For the first time since they were
paraded and praised more than a
month ago, the Mats will be threat
ened with slipping below the 500
level.
Dropped to sixth place yester-
day as the result of go and TO
beatings by Detroit before q crowd
Of 21,81s. the Mats viii rely on
Ray Scarborough to improve their
plight. Ray viii be after his sew
enth victory.
Since O triumphant return from
their first Western trip, hailed as
the comeback kids of baseball
when they reached the 500 mark
after a miserable start, the Mats
have won Is and lost l6. That
semi-respectable record has ere
ated a stable gap Of TIA games
between Washington and the
league-leading New York Yankees.
The Mats haven't stepped up
heart beats with their recent de-
pertinent, what with losing eight
Of their last II games. but with
the invasion OF Chicago that sit
uation may be altered immedi-
ately.
Battles With Chis0x Keen.
Washington and Chicago have
played seven times, and five Of
those games have been decided in
the ninth or 10th inning. The
other two affairs were settled by
one-run margins. Their battles
have ranged from q 10-inning
1912 Suggest to a 81 mound
duel. but all have been exciting.
The faithful who flock to Grit
nth Stadium could stand a meas
ure Of tenseness after yesterdays
drab affairs. Virgil Trucks re-
stricted the Mats to four hits in
notching his 10th triumph in the
80 opener. while Freddie Hutch
inSon scattered eight hits in q
TO nightcap.
Trucks, who pitched q second
successive shutout and ran a
string Of scorelesS innings to 24A.
had a no-hit game until Paul
Calvert lined a single of his foot
with one out in the sixth. Trucks
walked Sherry Robertson to start
the Mats first inning. then re-
tired 16 batters in order until
Calvert singled.
Calvert, who absorbed his sixth
defeat. was nicked for two runs
in the second when Vic Wertz and
Hoot Evers singled. Aaron Robin
son doubled and Johnny Grotn
singled. Two singles. four walks
and q disastrous wild throw by
Robertson Melted the Tigers four
runs in the seventh and cratic
Dick Weik permitted three more
runs In the ninth.
Harris pounded ut start.
Mickey Harris debut as a Nat
starter was marred at the outset,
when doubles by Don Holloway
and George Kell produced q
Detroit run in the first inning
Singles by Hutchinson, Holloway
Kell and Evers, plus a double by
Groth, boosted the Tigers into a
SO lead in the third. Detroit
lifted the score to its final proper
tons with two runs OF Dick
Welteroth In the seventh.
NAT NOTES: With three hits
in the second game. Ralph Weigel
hiked his batting average A points
to q neat 1876. Eyers has hit
safely in Is consecutive games.
Robertson has booted four balls
in his last three games at third
base and some Of the customers
are yapping at him.
Weik, who should be working
steadily with q minor league club.
demonstrated why he Is virtually
useless to Manager Joe Kuhel in
the ninth inning Of the first
game. =. Dick Walked four. al
lowed two singles and unleashed
q wild pitch before he was yanked.
mercifully, with one out.