Evening star., 1950-05-29
Mickey Harris Helps
Hudson Beat Boston;
MeIe Drives In Four
By Burton Howkjns

Sox today and the Mats, who were
to have used Steve Macy, will
have the cagy southpaw to throw
at the. sixth-place Athletics to-
morrow in Philadelphia in a Me-
mortal Day double-header. No
new date has been set as yet
for the game called off this morn
ing.
Had Macy pitched today, Man
ager Bucky Harris intended to
start Conrado Marrero and Dick
Weik against the AS. Now he
has a choice and it may well be
Weik who will share the mound
burden with Macy inasmuch as
the young fast-baller always has
been impressive against the Mack
men.
Two games over the 500 mark
as a result of yesterdays 7-to-6
victory over the Red Sox before
1928 spectators at Griffith Sta
dium, the Mats are hopeful of
closing some ground tomorrow.
They are six games behind the
league-leading Yankees.
Mickey Harris Big Help.
More and more, 1t begins to
look as If Bucky Harris inspira-
ton to make a relief pitcher of
Maurice Mickey Harris will paw
important dividends. The Mats
pilot is placing increasing faith
IN Mickey as a fireman and the
southpaw is responding with a
series of successful performances.
Mickey rushed to the rescue of
Sid Hudson in the ninth inning
yesterday and protected the one
run lead. All he had to do was
face Ted Williams and Vern
Stephens. two of the most danger
Gus hitters in the industry, at a
time when the tying run was on
second base and the winning run
on first with one out.
Harris whipped two quick
strikes past Williams, then got
him to ground to Eddie Robinson
at first base, the runners ad-
vancing. A hit by Stephens
meant the Red Sox would forge
in front. but Mickey disposed of
him on a routine grounder to
Shortstop Sam Dente and thus
Hudson won his sixth game.
Hudson wasn't pitching one of
his top games. but neither was he
as bad as the score would indi-
cate. His fielding support was
shoddy, but he located a buddy in
Sam Mele, who belted across four
Of the Mats runs and scored an
other
Field Day for Dom.
Dom Di Maggio's double and
Johnny Pesky's single gave the
Red Sox a 10 lead in the first
inning, but the Mats bounced
back with four runs in their half
of the inning when Mickey Nc
Dermott loaded the bases with
three walks and Mele brought
'em in with a triple. Bob Ortiz's
fly to center scored Mele.
McDermott's single, Di Maggio's
first triple and Pesky's grounder
sliced Washington's margin to A.
3 in the third, but the Mats
moved into 6-3 command in the
fourth when Eddie Yost walked
with the bases filled and AL Evans
scored from third when Sam Dente
hit into a double-play.
Denies muf of Charley Schanz's
grounder, a second Di Maggie
triple-third of four hits for him
and Pesky's outf1eld fly, cut
Washington's lead to 6-5 in the
fifth and the Red Sox tied it up
in the sixth when Stephens
tripled and scored on Walt Dropo's
single.
With one out in the seventh,
Ed Stewart singled and Manager
Harris signaled for a timely hit
and-run. Mele delivered a long
single to center, enabling Stewart
to score all the way from first, and
that blow was sufficient to stop
the SoX.
MATS NOTES: The heroes of
the game, Mele and Harris, are
castoffs of the club they beat
Robinson supplied unassisted dou-
ble-plays in the first and eighth
innings to choke Boston rallies
|. the win was Washington's
eighth in the IL games decided
by one run.
McDermott and Schanz limited
the Mats to five hits but Wash
ington made all of them figure in
the scoring Williams made
the catch of the day when he
Streaked in for a knee-high catch
of Yost's looper in the sixth Il.
the victory was Hudson's first over
the Red Sox since 1948.