Evening star., 1949-05-30
Main Punch Provided
|By2 Whose Homers
Defeat Red Sox
By Burton Hawkins

| There's q gap the size OF the
Grand Canyon between their bat.
ting averages, but II the Mats
we're forced TO select a most val
liable performer among them a,
the moment it would be a photo
finish between their beefiesi
specimens. Clyde vollmer and
Eddie Robinson.
Washington's big 'uns." a.
they are af1ectionately labeled by
their mates, have presented the
Mats punch they haven't owned
in years. Today. as Washington
squared of with the league lead
ing New York Yankees in q
double header at Griffith Stadium
Vollmer and Robinson are rated
likely to blast all-time Nat home
run records into oblivion.
Vollmer, with seven home runs
is closing in on the Washington
record Zeke Bonura established
for Nat right-handed hitters in
1888 with % home runs. Robin
son, with eight circuit smashes
is deemed certain to eclipse the
mark of 18 home runs which
Goose Goslin set as the peak
achievement of Washington's left
handed hitters.
Both hammered home runs yes
terday as the Mats mauled the Red
Sox, 1914, at Boston before a
crowd of 26,806. Their blows
boosted Washington's home run
production for the year to 20. only
two less than the Mats accumu-
lated all last season.
Lift Mats to Top Bracket.
Robinson at the moment Is q
.3l6 hitter, has scored 20 runs and
whacked across 26. Vollmer, al
though hitting just .278, has scor-
ed % runs and batted across 25
They chiefly have been respon-
sible for lifting the Mats into the
first division and within striking
distance of the leaders. AS they
prepared to battle the Yankees TO-
day, the Mats were on the fringe
of third place and in a position to
whittle New York's lead to 3la
games.
In the fond hope Of sweeping
the twin bill today, Manager Joe
Kuhel sent well-rested Walter
Masterson and Sid Hudson against
the Yankees Allie Reynolds and
Tommy Byrne.
Washington's conquest of Bos-
ton yesterday was easier than the
score would indicate. The Mats
CONSTRUCTED a 100 lead for Paul
Calvert, who owned a 4-hitter
with two out in the ninth inning
Ted Williams had lofted his
11th homer Of the season into the
Boston bullpen in the eighth to
present the Red Sox their only
run to that point. but with two
out in the ninth Boston slammed
Calvert for five straight hits be-
fore he finally famed Bobby
Doerr.
Calvert's 9-hitter, in which he
struck out six and walked five.
gave him q fifth victory and ranks
him as the bargain basement val
ue Of the year. The bespectacled
alexander, who purchased his
release from Toronto for $500,
has plugged a yawning crevice in
the Mats pitching staff.
Brisk Start ROuts Bos0x.
Five successive singles by Ed
Stewart. Vollmer. Robinson, AL
Kozar and Sam Dente, plus two
errors, shot the Mats into a 40
lead in the fourth. They boosted
it to SO in the sixth on Calvert's
single and Eddie Yost's double.
Washington blasted Ellis Kin
der from the mound with q 3-run
outburst in the seventh when
Vollmer connected for his homer
over the left field fence after
Stewart walked. Robinson waited
his homer into the right field
stands in the eighth after Sherry
Robertson had doubled.
Vollmer's three hits led the
Mats 14-hit attack, while Williams,
Dom Di Maggie and Bill Good
man each got two hits for Boston.
NAT NOTES.-The Mats will
play six games in four days on
their next visit to Boston in Au-
gust On August IL, the Mats
and Red Sox will play afternoon
and night games, with separate
admissions They're slated to
play single day game the fol-
lowing afternoon, double header
on August IA and a night game on
August Is.
Washington's record at Fenway
Park for the last three years now
is 500. Frank Quinn, former
Yale pitcher. saw his first action
for the Red Sox. relieving Kinder.
:. It was against him that Rob-
inson delivered his homer. >. Gil
Coan was released from the hos
pital yesterday. but remained out
of uniform as the result of his
collision with Boston's wall on
Saturday.
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