Evening star., 1950-04-14
Mats Return Home> Game at Baltimore Called off
Orioles Cancel
Night P|ayDue
.ToCoId Weather
Scarborough, Haynes
And Macy Will Pitch
Against Pirdtes Here
By Burton Hawkins

| Against Pirdtes Here
By Burton Hawkins
Cold weather has caused can
lcellation of the Mats scheduled
lgame with the Orioles tonight at
baltimore, but forecast of fair
and milder weather for tomorrow
VIRTUALLY assured Washington fans
getting a glimpse of their 1850
baseball club when they meet the
Pirates at Griffith Stadium in two
games over the week end.
The Mats. who played TT tie
with Reidsvilles Glass B club yes
terday at Reidsville. N. c.. with a
wood fire burning in front of their
dugout. arrived here early today
and welcomed the cancellation.
Several players are nursing minor
injuries and First Baseman Eddie
Robinson is recoving from q virus
attack.
Joe Haynes and Ray Scarbor-
ough are to pitch against the
Pirates tomorrow, while Steve
Macy will face the Bucs Sunday.
Bucky Praying for Rain.
Speaking of pitchers. Manager
Bucky Harris has concocted q pat
tern for the first month of the
season, and an important item
in his strategy is rain.
1T appears we won't get any
pitchers off the waiver list for
another month, when other clubs
have to trim to Is players" de-
clared Harris, so we will have to
go along with what we have for a
month. I'm not kidding myself.
We will take some beatings, but
I'm hoping we will be able to stay
close to the 500 mark until we
can get help. If we can do that
we might surprise.
There's a chance we can hold
our own early in the season. For
instance, we play two games, then
have an off day. That means I'll
be able to shove Scarborough
back into action one game sooner.
II we get some rain along the way,
and there usually is a lot of rain
early in the season, we will have
postponements, and it shouldn't
place too much Of q burden on
our starters"
Harris is planning to employ
Scarborough, Sid Hudson, Mickey
Harris. Haynes and Macy as start
ers at least for the first month.
With q few days of rain sand
wiched in the schedule he may be
able to have Harris for relief
chores, thereby Strengthening his
bullpen corps.
Bucky will rely principally on
Dick Weik, Lloyd Hittle and Jim
Pearce in relief If he is forced to
use Harris as a starter. "Pearce
has impressed me as a pitcher who
might be tough for two or three
innings" said Bucky, "and I'm Ger
tain Hittle and Weik are better
pitchers than they've shown"
Relies on Waiver List.
What Harris would relish in the
first month is to start Scar
borough. have three days of rain,
then start Scarborough again. Two
years ago when Cleveland won the
pennant, Manager Lou Boudreau
used much the same system when
he alternated Bob Feller and Bob
Lemon almost exclusively when
the weather operated in favor of
the Indians.
"All want off the waiver list
are two or three fellows who can
hold the opposition for a couple
of innings" Harris said.
If we get that type and in the
meanwhile stick close enough to
500 we could have more fun than
q lot Of people think"
In the tie game with Reidsville
yesterday. the Mats were operating
under To deficit as early as the
third inning what with Buzz
Dozier allowing all of the Reids-
ville's runs on eight hits over that
span.
Particularly annoying to Dozier
was Dick Sipek. who belted a
three-run homer in the first in
ming, then slammed another
homer with none on in the third.
-Four Reidsville pitchers re-
stricted the Mats to five hits but
they issued IL walks and 5 errors
which helped the Mats get the tie.