Evening star., 1950-06-14
Mats Standing
Is Below Pace
Of Team in 1949
Murrero Will Fuce
Carver, Mound Ace
Of Browns, Tonight
By Burton Howkins
Sfor Sfoff Correspondsnt

ST. LOUIS, June 14.-The Mats
OF 1850 are in worse shape than
they were at this time in 1949.
Last season the Mats finished in
the cellar and there's no assur-
ance that history won't repeat.
Washington will play its 51st
game of the year tonight when it
attempts to shake a 4-game losing
streak after dropping 8-3 and 6-l
decisions to the Browns last night.
At the same point in 1949 the
Mats were in fourth place. 61a
games from the top and IL games
out of the basement.
Now the Mats are in fifth place.
They've slipped 1912 games off
the pace of the league-leading
Tigers and they're only Az games
removed from the cellar.
Bucky Harris is confronted with
avoiding the siege of losing streaks
that plagued the 1949 Mats, who
twice compiled strings of II de-
feats and on three other occasions
lost seven games in a row.
MarrerO VS.. Carver Tonight.
Already this year the Mats have
assembled one chain of seven
losses and the accomplished Ned
Carver constitutes a threat to
make it five straight tonight
against Washington's Connie
Marrero. The double victory last
night moved the Browns from
eighth to seventh place.
Off to highly respectable
start, the Mats have collapsed by
losing IL of their last Is contests
and 16 of 81. They have lost
seven consecutive decisions to the
Browns. Their latest two losses
to st. Louis clearly indicate the
Mats are desperate for hitting.
Harry Dorish, who has won only
two games this year, has won both
at the Mats expense. He stopped
the Mats on five hits in the opener
and along came Cliff Fannin to
whip the Mats on four hits in the
second game of a twilight-night
uble-header. Fannin remained
the route for the first time in nine
starts. Before last night he had
famed nine batters, but he struck
out seven Mats.
The Mats moved into a 10 lead
in the first game when Sam Dente
singled in the second inning. took
second on Dorish's balk and scored
on AL Evans single.
st. Louis picked up two runs off
Sid Hudson in the third and
moved into a Al lead in the
fourth when Hank Arft singled,
Bill Sommers sacrificed, Owen
Friend doubled and Tommy Upton
singled.
ART Gets Four Hits.
The Mats sliced that deficit to
4-3 in the fifth. but Arft's triple
and Sommers' single gave the
Browns a run in the fifth and they
added another off Dick Weik in
the seventh when Sherman Lollar
doubled and Arft singled for his
fourth straight hit. A walk to
Dorish and Don Lenhardt'S eighth
homer of the season, with two out
in the eighth, lifted the score
to 8-3.
st. Louis dubbed Bob Kuzava
for three runs in the first two in
nings of the second game and
they were sufficient. The Mats got
their only run in the fourth when
Eddie Yost walked and came
around on Ed Stewards single, Irv
Noren's outfield fly and Sam
Mele's grounder.
MATS NOTES-Arft is batting
500 against Washington pitching
with ID hits in % attempts :.
against Hudson he's hitting .889,
having failed only once in nine
tries against Sid.
Harris snook up his batting
order in the second game. sup
planting Noren in the cleanup
spot with Mele and dropping Cass
Michaels from third to fifth.
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