Evening star., 1952-06-03
PorterfieId 10 Start
Against Browns in
Game Here Tonight
BY Burton Howkins


an ideal challenging position to.
day. only a game behind the Red
Sox and Indians and in q good
spot to profit while the two leaders
are meeting in a three-game series
starting tonight.
Washington can't take over first
place regardless Of the outcome
Of the Boston battles. but by wal
loping the st. Louis Browns in
both games of the series starting
here tonight the Mats could apply
more pressure to the uneasy front
runners.
And the Mats can glance down.
ward with a bit less apprehension.
The Yankees and White Sox, close
behind them. also are meeting
head-on in q three-game series
beginning tonight In New York.
P0rterfield to Pitch.
Bucky Harris will use Bob Por-
terf1eld, a two-time winner over
the Browns, as his pitcher tonight.
He'll be opposed by either Bob
Cain (4-3 or Earl Harrist, who
has been pitching creditably de-
spite his o. record.
The Mats are likely to be in better
shape physically after their series
with st. Louis. Jim Busby is ex-
pected to return to centerfield by
Friday night, when the Mats
launch an eventful seven days
with four games against Chicago
and three against Cleveland. Gil
Coan has the cast of his broken
left wrist and may be available
for the series with the Indians.
Eddie Yost, who hasn't missed
a game since mid-season of 1949,
gave the Mats fright last night
when he left the game in the
third inning with bruised muscle
in his left hip. He was injured
in a collision with Pitcher Art
Houtteman in the course of the
Mats So victory over Detroit, but
Eddie is expected to play tonight.
Yost had tripled to start the
Mats third. and, with one out,
he Streaked for the plate on
Jackie Jensen's grounder to
George Kell at third base. Eddie
was trapped. and, in the rundown,
Houtteman tripped over Yost,
digging a knee into his back.
Sharp pains forced Yost to retire,
but after treatment he returned
to the bench to watch the game
and will be available tonight. bar
ring complications.
Four Hits In Inning.
The durable Yost had started
a first-inning uprising against
Houtteman which led to two runs
after the Tigers had clipped Con-
ME .Marrero for a run on Don
kolloway's single. Kell's grounder
and Vic Wertz's single.
Yost's single to right was the
f1rst Of four in the inning. with
Jensen, Mickey Vernon and Run
nels also finding the range. The
Mats lifted their lead to Al In
the sixth on q walk to FIoyd
Baker. singles by Jensen and
Vernon. and Frank Campos' out
field fly.
Washington's lead mounted to
81 against Ken johnson in the
eighth when Campos' single drove
IN Vernon. The Tigers picked up
their other run in the ninth when
Wertz tripled of the centerfield
wall and scored on Pat Mullins
fly to Archie Wilson.
Marrero. who allowed nine hits,
shared his fifth decision and his
third In as many efforts against
the Tigers. Houtteman, who had
been doubtful starter after be-
coming i'll Sunday night, was
charged with his seventh loss. He
has won three.
NOTES: Hoot Evers reioined
the Tigers yesterday and saw
action for the first time this sea-
son. -. He batted for Houtteman
In the eighth inning and got a
single when his grounder took q
hop past Vernon. =. The Tigers
have signed Johnny Hopp, the
veteran first baseman-outfielder
released recently by the Yam
KEGS. -. Outf1elder George Lerch-
en- was sold to Buffalo to make
room for Hopp.
Wilson has been hitless Is
straight times. When a 'front.'
row fan caught Archie's sixth
inning foul, depriving Catcher Joe
Ginsberg Of a chance to grab it,
Umpire Bill Summers called Will
son out. ;. Dickie Harris, Bucky's
son, will play baseball in Nova
Scotia this summer. Dickie
played second base for Wake For
est this year.
One-third Of Jerry Priddy's 80
hits this season have been dou-
bles. Jensen's two hits boosted
his average to 1903. Marrero
dumped Kell out of the 800 class
by holding him hitless. Mar
zero didn't walk anybody. The
only walk he's allowed in his last
20 innings was intentional.