Evening star., 1953-04-17

You might say Mats won the last eight innings to
But the Yankees won the first round and that the
big one.
IF THE WORST FEARS of the baseball clique are to de-
veopaS GkelyPreSident Eisenhower is not apt to
down rabd fam But there no criticism to be made
of his of timing For the original opener here last
Monday when Ike excused himself play go poured
rain in Washington while the got back of his
neck Sunburned on the Masters in Georgia.
When he showed for the postponed opener Ike already
had indicated he would early in order to fulfill
speaking engagement in Salisbury, gave
the rest OF excuse he needed So the President
road after an inning and half thereby avoiding Cd
bite and (2) Mickey Vernon the base path.
The fans have methods designed to combat an unco-
Portable chill in the air but with ease the
pain of rock perpetrated full by Vernon of all
people, 1t was like this The Yankees had that
Johnny San had the rusty Mats in his pocket
four of the first eight baters strikeoutswen suddenly
the old guy seemed to run out of gas
WITH TWO DOWN IN THE THIRD he walked Yost
Busby clipped him for the second of three singles
and Vernon walked to fill the bases And-ah yes-Jackie
Jensen at the plate. The Mighty Casey plus
strong wind blowing straight out to power One
good belt and the Mats would be back in the ball game.
Ike, walked out too This been real
good Casey Sengel worried he had Bob
Tom German warming Casey knew that nobody
to beat the Yankees than jensen was repudiaed
by the champs less than when they traded the
former Al-America fulback to Washington.
So what happened? So with the bases loaded and Mr.
Power at bat Vernon took lead halfway Hyattsvle
was picked off, Yogi Berra to Joe Collins Thus ended the
inning 1t didn't help in retrospect when
next inning with a wind blown double.
The hit would have cleaned the bases, what with
everybody running, and it would have been And as
suggested, the Mats won the late innings.
COMING FROM GRIFFITH STADIUM there was occasion
to seek taxicab in with Dizzy others
OF the Mutual Broadcasting System radio team
new hack waved down and when started to roll again.
the driver observed
"I got good radio and I heard the game I Just
came to Washington from little Of town where they play
bush baseball. Tell me, is this Vernon a new boy?"
"Not exactly" the reply "F1e amt been up
years."
The hackie shook his head In this town" observed
t seems to take heap of time for people to
these LeTurn Wies Always they gotta turn left from
the right lane left bush to find it all again."
VERNON WAS NOT THE ONLY rusty Jensen tried
to throw out Berra at third base from righed with
tacuar peg not intended to one-hop conventional
drew an error for Jackie the Yankees Wayne
Terwger forgot to first base and before you
say Jackie Robinson, simple out became base HIT
Porerfed the meal ticket OF Harris pitching staff wasn't
pitching the sharp, orderly game he usually does.
Where Porereld curousy consistent is in of
luck. The fellow isn't bad pitcher hters say
But If he isn't getting conked in the head
having something else happen Porterhelds
formidable figure.
At least, he until yesterday afternoon Then
IDENTIFY he was overwhelmed by stands the
plate circuit he Mats bussed from Pittsburgh
last eXh1bon lack Of support and lack of control his
failing possibly due to lack of
Funny game baseball. Stenge speaking in native STEM
gelese was saying in his dugout before the game "A
guys are complaining about having colds good
They haven't shown anything feeling good maybe
they'll do better. don't know why I'm managing rich
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