Evening star., 1950-04-22
Harris and StengeI
Get Nowhere Despite
Six-for-0ne Talk
By Burton Howkins
Ssef S.oH Cefrsspendsn,

NEW YORK. April 22.-caSey
Stengel. the Yankees manager.
still is after the Mats Ray Scar
borough. but Casey ana Bucky
Harris aren't setting anywhere
and it's obvious now that any fur
ther negotiations between the two
clubs will have TO be- conducted
by Clark Griffith and Georse
Weiss, New York'S general man
ager.
The deal that the Mats would
have been glad TO make last De-
cember has been sweetened. Rc-
cording TO the latest rumor. with
New York offering six players for
WaShington's top pitcher instead
of the original three -for-one trade
broached by the Mats and rejected
by the Yankees four months ago.
Harris, whose team took a
fearful lat walloping from the
Yankees yesterday. is in no mood
for negotiating with Stengel be-
cause of what happened in De-
cember. At that time Bucky
called Casey "a messenger boy"
after they agreed to deal only to
have the swap blocked by Weiss.
Since Harris doesn't talk 10
Weiss. who fired him as Yankees
manager after the l948 season, it's
up to Griffith and Weiss II a trade
is to be made.
Wakefield Enters Picture.
Stengel and Harris met i'll
New York restaurant Thursday
night and Bucky promptly was
asked. What do you need?" His
reply was terSe moth ng."
The Yankees now are reported
prepared to part with Outfielders
Dick Wakefield and Johnny Lin
dell, Pitchers Fred Sanford and
Don johnson. Second BaSeman
George StirnweiSs and Catcher
Ralph Houk. In December the
Mats would have settled for john
son. Houk and Stirnweiss. but now
Harris asks. Who wants these
players?"
The addition of Wakefield, Lin
dell and Sanford could mean that
something is brewing despite
Bucky's evasion. 1t was Harris
plan in December to obtain Stirn-
weiss from the Yankees and trade
him to Detroit for Wakefield. but
when the Washington-New York
talk begged down the Tigers trad
ed Wakefield for First BaSeman
Dick Kryhoski. OF course. Wake
fields salary might be a deterrent.
Nat Pitchers Battered.
Harris has seen enough Of his
pitching to realize that his staff
is woefully weak. In three games
he has called on nine pitchers
and they have permitted 81 runs
and 38 hits.
The Yankees battered Joe
Haynes. Lloyd Hittle, Mickey Har.
ris. Jim Pearce and Connie Mar.
rero for 18 hits yesterday. BLAST
ing Harris for three runs in the
seventh and Pearce for four in
the eighth after the Mats had
surged back to tie the score at
TT with a five-run outburst
in the seventh. Joe Page relieved
Tommy Byrnes and stopped the
Mats after being nicked for two
OF the runs on a fly and a single.
New York unloaded home runs
by Yogi Berra. Byrne. Joe Di
Maggie and Tommy Heinrich.
Eddie Robinson contributed two
run homer for the Mats in the
second inning and thumped
across another run in the sew
enth with a single.
Harris was to send Steve Macy
against the Yankees Bob Porter
field today. with Scarborough
slated to pitch tomorrow.
MATS NOTES: Four balks-
by Byrne, Page. Harris and
Pearce-were called by Jim Homo
chick, plate umpire. The Yam.
KEGS have scored 48 runs In four
games. Sitting in the Mats
box was John Jachym, WASH
ington's 40 per cent stockholder.
The Mats couldn't whip the
Yankees on a day when Byrne was
allowing II walks they left
eight runners stranded in the first
five innings.
President Gabriel Gonzalez OF
Chile was to see the game today
. the Yankees received World
Series watches and rings from
Commissioner Happy Chandler be-
fore the game threat OF rain
held the crowd down to 27,877.
The Mats have lost 20 OF their
last "a games at Yankee Stadium,
which is equipped with a remod-
eled, newly electrified scoreboard
that cost 100000. 1t requires
a two-Story control room and 5,O40
push buttons are necessary to OPP
crate all parts of the board it's
73 feet long. rises "a feet inches
from its base and is the most elab-
crate scoreboard in the world.