Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-20
Harris, Digging Deep,
May Start keriazakos
Against As Tonight
By Burton Hawkins
ssar Staff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20.-
Bucky Harris expects to- dip deep
into his battered pitching staff
to locate a hardy fellow to OPP
pose the Athletics tonight In the
opener Of a four-game series. Bob
Porterfeld has an aching back.
and so Gus Keriazakos probably
will be trusted with his first
starting assignment for the SEN
ators.
Regardless Of Keriazakos' per-
Torrance, he isn't going to be
embarrassed by comparison with
what happened in three games
with the Red Sox. The WASH
ington pitchers were slapped
around for "a runs and a hits
in losing that set to Boston.
Keriazakos saw fleeting action
in two Of those games and gave
up only one run. which stamped
him as a success. The Red Sox
clobbered Dean Stone. Camilo
Pascual. Bunky Stewart and
Spec Shea for 16 hits en- route
to an LIS triumph yesterday.
Red Sox Take Fifth Place.
Harris was forced to employ
Is pitchers in a futile attempt to
halt the Red Sox, who took over
fifth place while showing the Sem
ators down to sixth. And it's no
consolation to Bucky that his hit
tiers made 81 safeties in their last
two games, scoring IA runs, only
to drop both decisions.
It comes as no relief, either,
that Jackie Jensen is hitting 1891
against Washington. On the
basis Of first-season returns the
Senators made bad deal when
they gave up Jackie for Maury
McDermott, thus far a six-game
winner and 12-game loser, and
Outf1elder Tom Implicit, who is
hitting under .24O. -
Jensen has sWatted across Sc
runs. dubbed 10 homers, stolen
II bases and nudged his batting
average over .280 with three hits
yesterday. Billy Goodman also
contributed three hits, Karl
Olson slammed three-run
homer and Ted Williams ended
his prolonged batting slump with
a single and double.
Williams, who also walked four
times. beat out a slow roller to
Eddie Yost in the third inning
and plunked a double into left
in the ninth as the Senators en-
ployed their customary shift
against him.
Three Behind at Outset.
The Senators were three runs
behind at the outset. Stone gave
up singles to Goodman and Jen-
sen, a walk to Williams and a
double to Sammy White and that
helped deal him a sixth defeat.
washington retaliated with a
run In the first on singles by
Yost and Pete Runnels, plus Jim
Busoy's grounder, but the Red
Sox clipped Stone for two more
runs in the third when Williams
and Jensen singled, Roy Sievers
inserted a two-base error on
Olson's fly and Ted Lepcio belted
a sacrifice fly.
Olson blasted his first homer
OF the year into the centerfeld
seats IN the sixth inning to fea-
ture a four-run outburst that
projected Boston into a 81 lead
Mel Parnell, who increased his
lifetime advantage over the SEN
ators to 22-4. went the distance
despite IL hits. He retired 16
batters in order over one span
before the Senators nailed him
for two runs in the sixth on
singles by Yost, Runnels and
Mickey VERNON, plus a Busby
double.
Washington acquired it's final
runs in the seventh inning when
Ed FitzGerald tripled, Wayne
Terwilliger doubled and Yost
singled. Rain interrupted the
game for So minutes in the bot
tom Of the seventh and it was
finished under lights.