Evening star., 1950-04-13
Take on Orioles
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Tomorrow Night
In Baltimore
Sid Hudson Remains
Question Mark After
Come With Durham
By Burton Howkins
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REIDSVILLE, N. c., April 13.-
Under cover of darkness shade
to match their pitching outlook
after six weeks Of spring training
the Mats return to Warrington
tonight.
They emerge from the South as
a team which might make a re-
spectacle showing with / tolerable
pitching. but there's no evidence
they'll obtain it. In II games
with major league clubs the Mats
pitchers have yielded an average
of more than seven runs a game.
Even minor leaguers have aver
aged five runs in eight games
with Washington.
The Mats stopped of here today
for an engagement with Reids-
willie, an independent club in the
Carolina League, after walloping
Durham, a Detroit farm in the
same circuit, 1876, yesterday: To-
morrow night they'll go to Balti-
more for a game with the Orioles,
then tangle with Pittsburgh Sat-
urday in the first of a two-game
series at Griffith Stadium.
Clark Griffith and Manager
Bucky Harris have scanned the
waiver lists in vain for pitching
talent to bolster the Mats. who
will return with a dozen pitchers.
Among them are four whose ex-
perience last year was limited to
Glass B.
Welteroth Shows Little.
Whether Sid Hudson. now con-
verted to sidearm pitching. will
be able to aid the team remains
conjectural after yesterdays per-
formance. He pitched for the first
time in two weeks and allowed
two runs on seven hits in the six
innings he labored against Glass
B Durham.
Hudson attempted to become a
sidearmer two years ago and won
only four games. but with control
he could be more of a threat. He
had it yesterday, walking none,
but he was confronted with a crop
of mediocre hitters who finished
sixth in their circuit last season.
Dick Welteroth, the Mats prin-
cipal reliever last year. hasn't
demonstrated he'll be of value.
Harris has sent him into action
five times and the result over a
span of Is innings has been Is
runs, 81 hits and Is walks.
Harris isn't attempting to kiss
off the Mats lack of pitching. He's
up against a pressing problem.
complicated by the fact that Ray
Scarborough. his ace, generally
has been ineffective. Dick Weik,
counted on to come through, has
permitted 20 runs in 20 innings.
Harris, Haynes Look Best.
Bucky hasn't been overjoyed,
either, with the work of Connie
Marrero, Jim Pearce, Earl Davis,
Lloyd Hittle or Bill Dozier, who
was to face Reidsville today. His
best pitchers. in fact, have been
former sore-armed specimens,
Mickey Harris and Joe Haynes.
He had hoped to save Mickey
for relief roles, but he's short of
acceptable starters and thus must
abandon that thought. Macy,
who also has sore-arm past, can
be used only every five or six days.
Bucky can't corral a list of pass
able starters and his bullpen
bunch isn't likely to strike fear
into the leagues hitters.
Against Durham's Lacy James
the Mats had batting practice.
They belted him for IA runs on as
many hits in four innings, scoring
eight runs in a hectic fourth in
ming when Eddie Yost and Sam
Mele each contributed two hits.
MATS NOTES-Mele connected
safely in his first four tries
Sherry Robertson inserted two
doubles and a triple, while Ed
Stewart slammed a home run and
single Mele and Stewart
each thumped across three runs.
Outfielder Bob Churchill, a dam
gerous hitter who can't throw 20
feet due to an ailing arm, paced
Durham's 10-hit attack he
clipped Hudson for a triple and
single. and against Welteroth in
the ninth he wacked a 3-run
homer {. Churchill batted across
five of Durham's runs, but any,
thing smacked into left field ter
ritory went for extra bases because
of his sore arm.