Evening star., 1951-05-14

bill Wight Seeking
First Victory Since
He Joined Red Sox
By Burton Hawkins

By Burton Howkins
The spotless record of Wash
ington's three Spanish-speaking
pitchers will be trusted to Julio
Moreno today when the Mats send
the smiling senor against the Red
Sox in the final contest Of q three
game series with Boston before
the Western clubs invade.
The Mats seemingly can do mol
wrong. For despite the fact they
were dealt their most emphatic
defeat of the young season yester-
day. a 10-1 mauling by the Red
Sox, they gained q half-game on
the leading Yankees, who took
two surprise wallopings from the
Athletics.
Nine times Manager Bucky
Harris has sent Cuban pitchers
to the mound, and on eight Of
those occasions either Chico Mar
REQ, Sandy Consuegra or Moreno
was still around at the finish.
Consuegra was belted out once. but
his record remained unblemished
when the Mats went on to edge
the Indians. lilo.
Cubans Have SO Mark.
Thus Moreno will be seeking to
extend a combined 30 mark COM
piled by the Mats Cubans. He
will be pursuing his second win
after beating Cleveland, 81. on
seven hits in his only start.
Bill Wight, the fifth straight
lefthander thrown against the
Nats-the 18th southpaw starter
Ito confront the club in % games
will be trying to grab an elusive
first win. Obtained from the
White Sox last winter in an effort
ito bolster the Red Sox pitching
staff, Wight has been no help
thus far, having been battered
for 20 runs in % innings while
losing three games.
Mel Parnell continued his mas
terry of the Mats yesterday, re-
stricting them to seven hits to
boost his lifetime record against
Washington to 1879. The Mats
lpried a run from him in the first
inning when Mike Mccormick
singled across Irv Noren from
second base. but that ended the
Mats scoring.
IL Passes Help Boston.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox bat
tered Bob Kuzava, Bob Ross and
Al Brown for II hits. being aided
in the rout by IL bases on balls.
Chiefly responsible for making it
a dull afternoon for 23,550. Gus
toners was Vern Stephens, who
thumped home run. double and
single to score twice and drive
across three runs.
Stephens. who has slammed 2l0
homers in 10-year major league
career, belted his second at Grit
fifth Stadium when, in the second
inning, he waited windblown
clout over the right-field wall
barely inside the foul line, one Of
the rare home runs hit by right
Ihander over the right-field fence.
Ted Williams later duplicated the
drive in the ninth with one
aboard.
/ Stephens smash. which came
with none on. marked the first
time he ever lifted a ball out of
the park here. Stephens hit his
only other Griffith Stadium homer
of Scott Cary on July 20, 1947,
but it was an inside the park
affair.
i Kuzava. dealt his third straight
loss, was pounded from the prem
ises in the fourth inning when
the Red Sox produced four runs.
Bob invited trouble when he
walked Matt Bats, and, after
Parnell sacrificed, trouble arrived
in large bundle.
| Stephens Delivers Again.
Dom DiMaggio doubled across
Bats. after which Bill Goodman
and Ted Williams walked to Jam
the bases. Lou Boudreau's fiy to
left brought DiMaggio in and
stephens ratified the centerf1eld
wall to score two more runs with
a double.
Ross filled the bases in the
sixth with single to Stephens
and walks to Walt Dropo anc
Bobby Doerr. That led to three
more runs when Parnell and Di-
Maggie singled.
Il Williams poked his sixth homer
with one out in the ninth after
Brown had walked Goodman.
!, The finest defensive effort by a
Washington player this year high
lighted the third inning. With
runners on first and third, Noren
made brilliant diving, rolling
stab of Doerr's drive to short CEN
ter. 1t preserved a IL tie at the
time.
Gil Coan, who has hit safely in
the II games he has started, OBJ
tanned a f1fth-inning single and
took over the league batting lead