Evening star., 1952-08-16
Sixth Place Yawninu
After Pitchers FaIter
AS Mats Start 10 Hit
By Burton Howkins
Stoy Steff corvespendent

Stor Stoff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 16.-The
Mats were seeking to avoid a.
fourth successive defeat and al
drop into sixth place which would.
accompany it today when Walter
Masterson opposed the Athletics
Alex Kellner.
Washington dipped to fifth place
last night as the result of an
lit defeat by the AS as Bobby
Shantz annexed his 21st win
despite yielding IA hits, includingI
home runs by Jackie Jensen, Ken
Wood and Eddie Yost.
The Mats pitching, which has
been battered for % runs in three
games, received a numerical, il
not artistic, setback today when
Don johnson started working out
a To-day suspension. He broke
into last nights game when he
wasn't supposed to, but was
yanked quickly when Bucky Har-
ris was informed johnson was
under suspension for pushing
Umpire Paparella in New York
Wednesday.
The Mats didn't stop off at
their hotel upon arrival here from
New York yesterday. They went
directly to the ball park and
missed kilograms at the hotel.
When Griffith heard via radio in
Washington that johnson was
pitching, he promptly called Shibe
Park and Johnson's suspension
notice was relayed to Harris.
Shea Has Nothing.
Shantz was battered for the
most runs and hits he's permitted
this season. but Spec Shea had
nothing. The AS slapped him
around for three runs in the first
two innings, but the Mats got five
runs in the third when Jensen and
Wood blasted two-run homers and
Mel Hoderlein and Clyde Kluttz
doubled.
Woods smash was the most
monumental. Aided by strong
breeze. it scared atop the roof
above the second deck in left field
and bounced out of the park on
one hop.
But the AS clipped Shea for a
run in the fourth inning, then
socked him and Sandy Consuegra
for six runs in the fifth to grab a
1915 lead. Joe Haynes yielded an
other run in the eighth before the
Mats picked up two in the ninth
on Yost's homer and singles by
Jensen, Pete Runnels and Mickey
Vernon.
Four Out of Five for Shantz.
Although the victory was
Shantz's least creditable of the
year, it gave him a fourth win in
five starts against the Mats, who
have seen their pitching sour at
a time when their hitters have
perked up.
The Mats pitching was battered
for 16 hits, including four by Joe
Astroth and three by Pete Suder.
The AS jammed seven of their
hits into the explosive fifth inning,
shelling Shea with three nits and
mauling Conseugra for four more.
Yost, who has obtained nine
hits in his last Is tries, got three
Safeties and so did Runnels.
NOTES: Umpire Bill MCGOWAN
returned to duty after serving a
suspension for squabbling with st.
Louis sports writer's. Eddie
Joost. the AS regular shortstop,
will be out of action several days
because of the grippe. Jim
BuSby has gone hitless in his
last Is attempts.
Seldom has as much confusion
been packed into one play as when
Shea trapped Shantz's pop bunt
with runners on first and second
with none out in the fourth in
ming. Three players handled
the ball and all made mistakes.
=. Shea threw to second base
instead of third. Runnels,
completely befuddled after STEP
ping on second base, didn't know
what to do and finally threw over
third base after Billy Hitchcock
took of from second. Yost
got the ball and instead of tag
ging Hitchcock coming into third
base, promptly fired it back to Sec
ond. The only man out on
the play was Astroth, forced at
second when Runnels stepped on
the bag, but it might have been
a triple play if executed prop
erly.