Evening star., 1951-03-17

.Coan, Mickey Harris
Put Out Of Action
In 13-Inning Loss
By Burton Hawkins
Stor Stoff Correspondent

WED fAlM bEAC6, ria, Mar
17.-If linament and tape hold
out, the patched-up Mats today
will battle the Athletics in the sec
ond engagement of a three-game
series which was launched amid
minor injuries last night as Wash
Iington lost a 13-inning 6-5 deci-
sion.
Outfielder Gil Coan and Pitcher
Mickey Harris joined the mount
ing list of incapacitated Mats in
a game which hard-pressed Man
ager Bucky Harris was forced to
employ Third Baseman Eddie Yost
as his leftf1elder. Bucky simply
ran out of able outfielders what
with lending three to Chattanooga
for two games with Birmingham.
Outfielder Sam Mele, who played
first base. is nursing pulled
muscle in his right shoulder and
isn't supposed to make the more
demanding throws from the out
field yet. Mike Mccormick has a
pulled muscle in his left leg. but
Harris hoped he would be avail
able for duty today.
Mickey Harris Is Bruised.
Elmer Valo of the AS threw a
fright into the Mats in the fourth
inning when he lined a drive off
Mickey Harris right shin. Mickey
promptly left the game and was
rushed to Good Samaritan Hos
pital, but X-rays disclosed no
fracture and Harris dismissed the
bad bruise lightly.
Coan, a hard-luck player who
last year suffered a fractured skull
and twice in spring training has
had infected feet, is expected to
be lost to the club for four or five
days as the result of pulling a
muscle in his right thigh while
running out a double. which en-
abled the Mats to move ahead of
the AS, 5-4, in the seventh in
ming.
Coan's double off Bobby Shantz
scored Yost from first after Ed
die had delivered the second of
four singles, but the AS tied the
score in the seventh on a tumble
by Cass Michaels and Lou Linn
mer's drive to right, which hoped
over Sherry Robertson's head.
AS Batter Haynes.
That unearned run was the only
damage Philadelphia inflicted on
Sandy Consuegra, who held the
AS to three hits in his 5ls innings.
They produced the winning run
off Bob Ross in the 18th when
Valo walked, Bob Wellman sacri-
feed and Barney McCosky singled
to right.
Philadelphia battered Joe
Haynes for four runs in the first
inning on two walks, an error by
Catcher Hal Keller and singles by
Sam Chapman. Ferris Fain and
Billy Hitchcock.
But for the second time in as
many games the Mats overcame a
big deficit. Walks to Yost and
IrV Noren. plus Robertson's single
fetched the Mats a run off Carl
Scheib in the first inning and
they got another in the third on
singles by Mickey Vernon and
Noren and Michaels' double.
Haynes blasted a homer over
the left-f1eld wall in the fourth
and the Mats locked the game in
the sixth on singles by Noren and
Robertson and Michaels' grounder
which scored Irv from third.
The Mats got good news before
they took the field when X-rays
of Catcher Mickey Grasso's dam
aged finger showed no chip or
break. He was throwing last
night and expects to see service
in two or three days.
It was bad night all around
for the Mats. The game was
delayed a half hour when a short
circuit blacked out four light
towers. In addition to Harris
and Coan being injured, the Mats
batboy was struck on the head by
| a Consuegra foul, but the blow
was more painful than serious.
| The Mats went into their fifth
exhibition game with % rec
ord and all games have been de-
cided by one run. Harris
planned to use Julio Moreno and
Jim Pearce today, while the AS
were to counter with Lou Brissie
and Bob Hooper.