Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-25
Power-Hungry Senators
Giving ZipfeI New Chance
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Star staff Writer

BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Star staff Writer
Bud Zipfel's 18th and 18th
home runs. the former a tape
measure clout at Syracuse,
have fastened his recall to the
Senators. and he may be
drought back in time to face
Kansas City as the home club
"opens a 10-game stand tomor-
ROW night.
Zipfel, normally a first base
man, will be brought back as a |
potential outfielder. Chuck Hin
ton will move to rightfield and
the 6-foot-3 Zipfel will get a
tryout in left.
To make room for Zipfel the
Senators will option a relief
pitcher after a conference to-
day between Manager Mickey
Vernon and his coaches.
The Senator's returned home
with what might be termed
mixed emotions. They split a
four game series with the
league leading Indians and
have won six games from Cleve-
land, more than any other club.
But after winning yesterdays
opener, 81, behind another
strong performance by Claude
Osteen, they again betrayed
Pete Burnside and lost the Sec
ond, Az. Bethesda's Frank
Funk pitched to two men in
winning his first game of the
season for the Indians in the
nightcap.
Chain Reaction
The Senators played sharp,
smart, errorless ball through
the first three games against
the Indians and for five innings
of the second Of the double
header. They had a 2-1 lead
at the time. But Jim Piersall
offset an otherwise personally
productive series by throwing
to the wrong base.
The throw set up a chain re-
action that led to an error en-
abling the tying run to score
and the winning run to get in
position. Before it was over the
Senators committed three more
errors, although none figured
in the scoring.
One Of the reasons that Zip
fel will not play first base is
that Harry Bright, who hit his
seventh home run and added
two singles yesterday, is hitting
1877. which is almost 100 points
over Zipfel'S average in Triple
A competition.
Additionally. Dale Long, still
tied for the lead in runs batted
in on a club on which nobody
is driving in many, is available
at first and probably will al
ternate with Bright.
Johnson Gets Four Hits
Bright, Bob johnson and
Ken Hamlin accounted for 10
of the Senator's II hits yester-
day, johnson getting three sin
giles and q double and Hamlin
three singles.
Osteen's mother, father and
sister drove In from Cincinnati
to watch the game, and his fl
ancee watched on television.
The game was the first he has
won in the majors with his
family in the stands.
The 22-year-old southpaw re-
quired only 81 pitches in beat
ing the league leaders for the
second time. He gave up six
hits, walked only one, and
might have had a shutout. The
Indians scored in the second on
doubles by Tito Francona and
Willie Tasby. Hinton broke late
on Francona's liner to left and
it got by him.
Osteen took a tip from DR..
George Resta, the team physi-
clan. and forgot his back
trouble. II wouldn't believe
him before, and I favored 1t
the last time out against De-
troit," Claude said after the
game. But today I ignored it
and threw in my natural style.
The only thing is, I might have
stayed away from fast balls a
little more than usual. / re-
lied mostly on curves and
sliders."
Heads-Up Play
The Senator's five runs for
the two games came in dribbleS
Of one, and two scored while
the Indians were completing
double-plays, although one of
the double-plays was semi-in-
ternational on the part of the
Senators.
Bright's solid homer &C
Week.End Enkfe