Evening star., 1953-05-26
Harris Expects
Deal 10 Bolster
Mats Reserves
Moreno Looks Good
As Starter, Stopping
Athletics on Six Hits
By Burton Hawkins

their reserve strength, the Mats
today acquired Outfielder Car
men Mauro from Brooklyn and
sent Outf1elder Ken Wood to the
Dodgers Montreal farm club of
the International League.
The fleet 26-year-old Mauro,
who batted 1927 with Montreal
last season, will join the Mats in
New York tomorrow when they
open a two-game series with the
league-leading Yankees. Mauro,
a left-handed hitter who throws
right, batted only nine times with
the Dodgers this season and
failed to hit.
Mauro previously had three
brief major league trials with
the Chicago Cubs. failing in each,
but impressed Manager Bucky
Harris when he batted .292 with
Los Angeles in 1949. Harris was
managing San Diego at that time
and his respect for Mauro in
creased this spring when Carmen
got three hits in seven appear
ances against the Mats in exhibi-
ton games.
Usually Starts With Bang.
Mauro is accustomed to break
ing in with bang. His first ma
jor league hit with the Cubs was
an inside-the-park homer off
Murry Dickson of the Cards in
1948. His first hit in the Pacific
Coast League also was a home
run Among his 173 hits with
Montreal last year we're "a dou-
bles. II triples and II homers.
Mauro took a brief fling at
pitching a few years ago with
Nashville. but abandoned the
idea after two appearances. OF
Italian descent, he's an accor-
dion player. owns snack shop in
Cicero. ILL.,. and is unmarried.
He's a product of Morton High
in Chicago, where he won three
letters in track as sprinter and
four in baseball.
A 6-footer who weighs 100
pounds, Mauro broke into base
ball in 1914 and en- route to the
majors batted 1875 with Hagers-
town, 1903 with Des Moines, 284
with Nashville. .292 with Los An
geles and .296 with Springfield
before enjoying his greatest Sue
cess last season. I
Wood, who came to the Mats
last June in the deal that sent
Outf1elder Archie Wilson to the
Red Sox. batted .226 last season
and is hitting .212 this year.
Clark Griffith, president of the
Mats. said no cash was involved
in the transaction.
Moreno Effective.
The Mats. idle today. will take
a tWo-game winning streak to
New York when they depart this
afternoon. for they defeated the
Philadelphia Athletics. 6-l, last
night as Julio Moreno produced
a neat Six-hitter in his first
starting assignment. Moreno
previously had picked up two vic
tories in relief roles.
Washington has scored l2
runs in its last two games despite
making only II hits. The Mats
were held to five hits last night,
but they scored five runs in a
wild first inning after Frank
Fanovich, making his first ap-
pearance for the AS. walked the
first three batters he faced.
Carl Scheib. who replaced
Fanovich. wild-pitched a run
across, walked two more and
yielded singles to Jackie Jensen
and Ed FITZGERALD before the
smoke cleared.
Vernon's Streak Goes to 10.
The AS got their only run in
the second inning when Dave
Philley tripled to center and
scored on Ed McGhee's single
to shortstop, but the Mats offset
that in the fifth when Mickey
Vernon tripled to left and scored
on Clyde Vollmer's deep fly to
center. Vernon now has hit
safely in 19 consecutive games.
Fanovich's defeat marked the
Mats eighth straight win over a
left-handed pitcher and the
ninth successive time a south
paw has failed to finish against
Washington. The Mats were
whipped the first five times they
were opposed by left-handers
this year.
Frank Shea will bid for his
fourth win in a row tomorrow
If he RECEIVERS sufficiently from
an ailing shoulder. Otherwise
Walter MaSterson will ,,itcb for