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Nats Win at Last, Backing Good Pitching with Power to Trample Farm,and Garden ■*•«**,Financial News __Junior Star_ 101(1^ Jgtflf jgptiTlg_Stomps _ WASHINGTON, I). C., APIIIL 21, 1946. :_■__ ___ Nats Win at Last, Backing Good Pitching With Power to Trample Yankees, 7-3 ★ ★ _____# ★ ★ ★ ★ ose or Assault Shines in Wood, Armed Lands Philadelphia at 'Graw By FRANCIS E. STANN --- 4 Heath's Benching Follows Simmons-Bonura Pattern AT LEAST ONE GOT BY —By Gib Crockett Test The benching of Outfielder Jeff Heath by the Nationals after Texas Ace Passes Derby less than a week of play is not without precedent. Heath, you re- Spence's Homer member, was acquired for one purpose—to hit that long, extra-base In Finish at Jamaica wallop for Washington. But so were A1 Simmons and Zeke Bonura Sizzling some years ago. Marine Simmons had been one of the greatest right- Heads Rips by Favored Hampden, Victory hand sluggers m the history of the American Slashing On to Win League. For that matter, iie may have been In Stretch, Goes 2-Length the absolute greatest. Critics generally rated By the Associated Press licked a $22,600 pay check for Simmons and Rogers Hornsby of the National f up 1 lis him a bank as 14-Hit NEW YORK, 20.—The Texas day's work, giving the two modern Attack League best of times. April ■oil of $30,100 for the year and The Milwaukee Pole was over the hill when terror from the wide open spaces,,’ 47,350 for his two seasons. Clark Griffith got him, but he still was a home Leonard, stretch-burning Assault, sizzled to a He’ll take the train ride to the run threat. In Griffis big ball park, however, Scarborough victory in the Wood Me-!; 31uegrass probably next week, al- A1 quickly got discouraged. He hit a few in Bos- 2-length Give 5 t Trainer Hirsch wasn’t sure ton, New York and other stadiums, but Wash- Blows; Injury morial today and thereby moved hough this ust which day it would be. Along ington beat him down. He never was the extra- right up into the select set for Makes Dutch Retire vith him and Marine base hitter that Griffith hoped he'd be. year's Kentucky Derby on May 4. Hampden more Victory also are likely to get rail It was the same story with Bonura. Less than Burton In a slashing move that had By Hawkins ■ are. a month before the season opened in 1938 Grif- than a few of the 46,965 Jamaica Star Staff fith reluctantly traded Joe Kuhel to the White Correspondent customers calling him a chip oil the Others Seen Derby Prospects. NEW YORK, i Francis E. Stann. Sox for Bonura. His manager, Bueky Harris, April 20.—Surprise! old block, the son of the 1936 Derby Aside from these three, only The Nats won a ball wrimru a gu> wiiu .swung a nig uai ana a^Kt-a mat uie ueai uc inaue. Surprise! game winner—Bold Venture—ripped past;' hree others appeared to have any a nice It was a transaction which both Harris and Griffith always regretted. today, blending combination two of his more favored rivals in : eason for taking the ride. One 'of power hitting with tolerable pitch- the stretch drive of this annual >f these was the Connecticut con- Zeke Was Fans' Darling, but Not for Long ing to deal the Yankees a 7-3 de- Eastern Derby preview and was ender. Mrs. Vera S. Bragg’s Mist feat before 38.298 paying customers. from them at the wire. y Gold, which closed 15 lengths Zeke, unlike Simmons, ostensibly was at his peak. He hit a going away Dutch who Assault clicked off the mile and a, horn the half mile to the w'ire to home run in the Nats’ opening game and as he lumbered around the Leonard, was forced to leave the after six sixteenth in 1:46 3 5. finish fourth. Another was last bases he was the darling of the Washington fans, just as he was the game innings due to a muscle in Packing the Derby load of 126 vinter’s winner, Polo No. 1 boy in Chicago. pulled his left Flamingo and for the first time, he was the Laddie Sanford's Round But the distant fences in Griffith Stadium got Bonura, too. The leg, Ray Scarborough collabo- pounds Player rated in a best of a dozen Derby candidates. which w’as a fifth at line drives and long flies which had been home runs in Chicago were tossing neat pitching job View, game at the Yankees as W’illiam Dupont’s favored Hampden the finish. caught here, and after a bit even the ebullient Bonura became dis- Washington snapped a and Robert Bruce Livie’s Marine; And the third was the New Or- His sins afield caught up with him and Washington fans four-game losing streak.; couraged. _ restricted New York Victory finished second and third to leans stretch J. Ben longed for the finesse of Kuhel. There was no large Italian popu- They to five j speedster, hits as the Nats mauled four Record Red Sox Crowd him after practically racing the legs Theall’s Islam Prince, which w’as hit lation in Washington to spur on Zeke as there was in Chicago. pitch- ers for 14 safeties. off each other at the head of the so hard in a scuffle the Griffith realized that, he was gambling when he sent George rounding pack in the early going. first turn that he came close to Case to Cleveland last December and acquired Heath in exchange, Leonard left the premises .with a Sees Homer Makes Torrid Finish. bouncing over the outside fence. but his present manager, Ossie Bluge, wanted a long-ball hitter. 2-0, two-hit game in his grasp after Pesky's Assault on the wide reaches of After that, he never had a chance Like Bonura, Heath started auspiciously with a home run on opening pulling up lame when fielding a Bom Ranch and and ambled around well back day. But when he was benched yesterday he was hitting only .071. bunt. The unsympathetic Yankees Robert J. Kleberg's King just also in the field. Four days doesn’t make a season, of course, and Heath's demo- hastened his exist by bunting twice Beat A's, 2 to I trained by Maxie Hirsch, who The Cedar seem There also is a that he pur- more. handled his daddy in the Derby a Virginia-born Creek, tion might premature. suspicion Scarborough started at the! By the Associated Press ma- Assault did it the hard owmed Automobile Man Walter posely was benched early. You see, the fellow is good trading outset of the seventh, yielding all decade ago, by BOSTON, for shot in was a sixth. terial. Better than Simmons or Bonura when they wore Washington the Yankees' runs on three hits. April 20.—Johnny Pesky! way today. A $19.70 $2 Chrysler, steady-going the barn of Cleve- was the hero today as the Red Sox i the betting, he sat some five lengths Alamond, from uniforms. Stan Spence presented the Nats a behind the flying pacemakers most land Accountant A1 Ernst, was lead they never relinquished in the defeated the Athletics, 2-1, before I Haven't Given af Trade Mart of the way around the track, then bothered somewhat in the first-turn Griffith, Bluege Up third when he whaled his the inning largest American League open-1 never was in it and have went right up and passed them scramble, but The St. Louis Browns and the New York Yankees long first home run of the season into the ing day attendance in Boston his-j under Warren Mehrtens’ steady wound up eighth. The good Flor- been interested in Heath. Both the Browns and Yankees have parks lower right field stand with two out toiy. even was carried ida of last winter. Mrs. are the steering, though he campaigner with short right field fences. And. incidentally, these only and none on. Nobody was on base j An eighth-inning home run by I slightly wide. R. D. Patterson's Alworth. faded two clubs in the American League with a surplus of what the Nats because Buddy Lewis had singled, Pesky gave the Sox their winning A chocolate which takes to 13th and E. P. Taylor's Canadian lack—an infielder who bats right-handed and can play shortstop or only to be picked off first base speedster by margin before a near-capacity after his maternal granddaddy, candidate. Windftelds, reputed to be third base. the tricky motion of Pitcher Bill crowd of 30.446. more than he does after just a sprinter, proved exactly that, Griffith and haven't given up on landing Vern Stephens Equipoise, Bluge Wight. I And it was base Texan the whole field home. or Cro- Pesky's heady his old man. the driving chasing or Mark Christman of the Browns, or Bill Robinson Frankie Nats Nick Wight Again. running winch gave the Sox their setti of the Yankees. They're prepared to give at least one ranking The Nats wrencned run first run off Dick Fowler, who yield- Wolff if and in the case of a deal for another pitcher, even Rog necessary, the from Wight in the sixth. With one ed only two hits throughout Stephens they may well include Heath. gone, Gerry walked, to game. Three of the As' hits were Great Drive Calumet After all. Heath can't be called a flop because he’s failed to hit Priddy only by Flyer be forced out by Binks.
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