Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
Clubs Power
Does Fudeout
On Rood Trip
By BURTON HAWKINS
Star STAFF Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, May 3d.
Hara-kiri customarily is COM
United by plunging a well-honed
instrument into ones innsrds.
The Senators have discovered
another method. They're killing
themselves with bases on balls.
which keep coming in clusters,
along with defeats.
Having assisted Detroit out of
eighth place Sunday by dropping
a double header, the Senators
are in a position to perform the
same courtesy for Kansas City
today. 1t will be reluctant
politeness if it occurs. for re-
placing them in that humble
spot would be Washington.
Dean Stone, lefthander who
at times has displayed a dis
tresSing tendency to walk every
body in sight, will be trusted
with the assignment of attempt
ing to end the Senators four
game losing streak. He also will
be trying to give the club It's first
win over the AS, who have won
three previous engagements, in
Guiding 6-1 episode nefore
9,258 fans last night. Stone will
be opposed by Art Ditmar, who
has a 3-3 record.
Drop Six Out of Seven
The Senators have dropped six
of seven games on this joyleSs
Journey. In two of those affairs
their pitchers have walked IL.
In another game they walked 10.
This isn't recommended operat-
ing procedure for teams which
would relish an occasional vic
tory.
Coupled with that cratic
pitching has been the virtual
disappearance of the Senators
power. In five of the last seven
games the Senators have come
up with only one run. Walter
johnson, Lefty Grove. Bob Teller,
Dizzy Dean and Christy Math-
ewson would have frowned on
such batting support. and Wash
ingtons pitching staff bears no
resemblance to those illuStrious
gentlemen.
Paula, Olson Benched
In a move for a change of
some sort, Chuck Dresser an
he was benching Karl
Olson t.29D and Carlos Paula
(,160l. his centerfielder and
rightfielder, for Ernie Oravetz
(.294) and Whitley Herzog (.150).
Both Olson and Paula have been
Strikeout victims frequently of
late.
The Senators pitchers have
averaged more than five walks
a game. A continuation of that
would have been flirting
with a record.
And while they're glancing at
records of a negative nature,
the Senators had better be wary
OF creating a strikeout mark
not by their pitchers but by their
hltters, who are tanning at the
rate of more than five a game.
Troy Heritage. a Highlander
With no distinction prior to last
night, restricted the Senators to
three hits en- route to his first
major league win. Before en-
countering the Senators he had
been cuffed around for "a hits
IN IA innings, yielding 10 runs.
but everything suddenly becomes
rosy for rivals when the Sena-
tors hove into view.
Heritage pulled the plug on
what was supposed to be the
Senator'S power. He accumulated
SIX strikeouts, concentrating on
the middle of Washington's line
up. He got Paula twice, Roy
SleVers three times and Jim
Lemon once.
1t was Lemon, though, who
doomed a mighty 400-foot double
10 center in the second to lead
20 the Senators lone run. Clint
Courtney walked and Lemon
TO third when Olson
nit into double play. Bunky
Stewards single to right scored
Jim.
That single represented Stew
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