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WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937. -~~
Griffs Rust From Too Much Rest : Speaker Flag-Winner for Mack
CLU6 NOT HITTING,
SLAB STAFF SHAKY
Yanks Here for Three Days.
Gomez Takes Up Slack
Left by Ruffing.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
AS FAR from top shape as ever,
Washington's moaning Nation
als returned home today to
pick-up—weather permitting—
the thread of their spasmodic cam
paigning. Invading the lair of the
Griffith A. C. these three days will be
the Yankees, over whom the Nats have
won their only American League vic
tory.
The Griffs vacated gray, frigid
Boston last night, after playing one
game of a series, but here there was
nothing especially sunny for them, at
least in outlook. In the nine full
days that have elapsed since the
American League season started the
Griffs have played only five games
and nobody is kidding himself now j
that, laying off hasn't had its effects.
With few exceptions, nobody is hit
ting. Shanty Hogan can't get a ball
out. of the infield. Buddy Lewis is
battling his first major slump. Joe
Kuhrl and A1 Simmons aren't con
sistent off the tee, yet, and the pitch
ers are getting out of shape rapidly.
Jimmy De Shong, knocked out by
the Red Sox in two innings, has
worked only that total since April 17,
which was 11 days ago. Buck New
som has pitched little more than
eight innings in 15 days. Pete Apple
ton. in 12 days, has worked seven
innings and Monte Weaver's winning
effort against tile Yanks more than a
week ago has represented all his ef
forts in the last two weeks.
Yanks Loom Team to Beat.
j^OW, unable to win a game from the
^ A'.s or the Red Sox, Bucky Harris
today faced the uninviting task of try
ing to get his club squared av. ay
against the Yankees.
The Yanks, for the most part, are
the same club which Washington fans
saw romp to the pennant by a 191,
pame margin last year. Ever since
Spring training started a lot of the
experts have been trying to tout them
selves off the New Yorkers, but logical
reasoning still makes the Yanks the
team to beat, with or without Red
Ruffing.
The big pitcher still is holding out
In Chicago and his absence, if per
manent, is bound to have its effect.
The Yankee pitching staff is weakened
considerably without Ruffing, but
Lefty Gomez has looked better than
at any time since he sailed off to
Japan and Johnny Broaca pitched to
a. 7-1 win over the A's the other day
and looked fine. With Johnny Murphy,
Bump Hadley, Pat Malone, Walter
Brown, Monte Pearson rounding out
the first-string crew, Joe McCarthy
seems to have enough hurling to carry
on with the help of all that power, i
Di Maggio Out Temporarily.
JglLL DICKEY still is holding forth 1
behind the plate and is ade- |
quately provided with understudies. ]
Lou Gehrig needs no understudies and
Tony Lazzeri still seems to be hold
ing up. Crosetti and Rolfe round out
the infield, which was the best in the
American League last year.
Joe Di Maggio currently is out of
the line-up. Still convalescing from a
tonsileetomy, Di Maggio probably
won't return for a week but, in the
meantime, the Yanks are going along
all right with Selkirk, Johnson and
Hoag. In reserve they have Jake
Powell and Tommy Henrich.
The latter is the only newcomer to \
attain any major league notoriety as
yet. and Henrich can thank Judge
Landis for most of that. The Yanks,
you know, bought him as a free agent
end handed over the announced sum
of $20,000.
Despite Ruffing's absence and Di
Maggio's temporary shelving, the
Yanks are still the Yanks. They prob
ably won't win by 1912 games, and it
Is conceivable that they won't win at
all. But they're still the team to
beat.
Cascarella to Open Set.
JOE CASCARELLA, a leftover starter
* in Boston, was to open the three
pame series today. He will be fol
lowed by Monte Weaver, whose 3-2
win in the Yankee Stadium last week
represents the only headway made to
date by the Griffs. Pete Appleton will
wind up the series.
The cold of yesterday in Boston pave
the Nats no opportunity to get what
they need, which chiefly seems to be
batting practice. The teams reported
at the ball park, dressed and did some
light working out. When the game
finally was called they wasted no time
getting into their civies and getting
out of there. It was too cold and
damp to do anybody any good.
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HAS DIAMOND, NEEDS FOES.
Young Democratic Club of Southern
Maryland has a diamond and wants
Sunday games with crack unlimited
local nines, the tilts to be played at
Forestville, Md. Call Manager Purdy
at Capitol Heights 28-F-2 after 6 p.m.
STAUNCHLY STANDS THE IRON HORSE. —By JIM BERRYMAN.
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HILLTOP ATHLETES
Outstanding Leaders From
Many Fields to Attend
Banquet Tonight.
OUTSTANDING leaders culled
from virtually every field will
be guests tonight at George
town University's tenth an
nual Varsity G banquet when the
Hoyas desert the training table for
choice tidbits at the Willard Hotel
at 6:30 o’clock.
Staged primarily to honor George
town athletes, the banquet also is a
good-will gesture, with Harvey Har
man, Pennsylvania foot ball coach,
delivering one of three principal ad
dresses. The Hoyas meet the Quakers
next Fall at Philadelphia.
Other speeches will be delivered by
Rev. Arthur A. O’Leary, S. J., presi
dent of the university, and J. F. T.
O'Connor, controller of currency. Be
cause of the illness of the father of
Elwood Seal, which necessitates the
corporation counsel's absence from the
city, Joseph A. Carey, prominent local
lawyer, will serve as toastmaster.
Rev. John J. Kehoe, S. J., faculty
director of athletes and one of the
men credited with the comeback of
Georgetown in foot ball circles, will
present letter awards to various var
sity team members.
Minor Leagues
INTERNATIONAL.
All games postponed, rain.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Milwaukee. 9: Minneapolis. 3.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Memphis. 8; Atlanta. 5.
Little Rock. 3: Chattanooga. 1.
Birmingham. 3: Nashville. 0.
New Orleans. 10; Knoxville, 0.
PACIFIC COAST.
San Diego, 18: Oakland. 3.
Los Angeles. 2: Seattle. 1.
Sacramento. 12: Missions, 6.
TEXAS.
Beaumont. 7: Dallas. 3.
Port Worth. 11: San Antonio. 5.
Galveston. 9: Tulsa. 8.
Oklahoma City. 4: Houston. 1.
PIEDMONT.
Durham. 8; Richmond, fi.
Not Even Broken Bones Can
Keep Gehrig Out of Line-Up;
Playing Noiv Despite Injury
BY FRANCIS E-. STAN,
If Henry Louis Gehrig were an
ordinary ball player, and not a ma
chine superior to such human frail
ties, he might not be playing first base
for the Yankees today. One of the
fingers on his right hand, which wears
the glove, has been the color of a
i warmed-over green sausage ever since
the American League season opened.
But if the sun is shining and the
Yanks and Nationals can play ball
these three days and you have an idea
you’d like to see Lou Gehrig again,
he'll be on first base. He always has
been.
His sore finger? Maybe it's chip
ped. So what? Once he had a
| chipped left elbow. It was operated
! on. But he played ball the next day.
I The little finger on his right hand has
been broken four times. Half a dozen
; other fingers have been broken one or
more times. He has been hit on the
head with a pitched ball three times.
The toe of his right foot has been
broken. Leg muscles have been torn.
A shoulder has been wrenched. And
I lumbago? He’s a chronc sufferer.
That is, if a mechanical man suf
; fers. Some are inclined to doubt it.
Gehrig, you see, has never missed
; playing a ball game since that day in
June of 1925. That w:as nearly 12
i years ago. The Yanks have played
1,814 games since then. And Gehrig
has been in every one. Nobody in all
base ball history has ever approached
the record of the iron horse. Prob
ably nobody ever will.
Started Streak in Capital.
/"JEHRIG won’t be able to celebrate
his twelfth anniversary as base
ball’s rippling brook as it should be
celebrated. He probably will be play
ing on that anniversary day, but the
Yanks will be in Cleveland when, to
make it complete, they ought to be in
Washington. It was here, you see,
where Gehrig's record was started.
That’s why the Yanks’ current in
vasion of Griffith Stadium can be
looked upon as a sort of an event.
Even if June 2 was the day that
Miller Huggins wrote “Gehrig” in the
Yankee line-up and said, “He’s my
regular first baseman from now on.
Not even the farsighted Huggins
knew how literally his statement was
to be taken by Gehrig.
He was a big. awkward kid when
Hug shelved Wally Pipp as his first
baseman and put Gehrig on the bag.
But from the first time that Gehrig
stepped to the plate in a Yankee
uniform there was a star next to his
name. On June 1 the star was an
asterisk in the box score, calling at
tention to the tiny agate line of type
that said: “Gehrig batted for Wan
ninger.” The following day the tiny
star in the box score was gone. For
that day, June 2, he started at first
base and has never been replaced.
Asterisks weren’t needed thereafter.
He has broken records and he lias
dashed hopes to little pieces in those
12 years. The hopes were those of
| young first basemen bought by the
I Yanks as insurance. Some day, it was
said as far back as five or six years
i ago, Gehrig will wear out. Col. Jacob
; Ruppert, to play safe, bought under
I studies. There were George McQuinn,
John McCarthy and half a dozen
j others.
He's Had Close Calls.
HP HEY lingered for a while and then
were sent away. Some went back
to the bushes, their futures hurt by
idling while Gehrig played. A few
were fortunate to land with another
major league club. Currently Babe
Dahlgreen is sitting on the bench,
pondering the fate which cast him in
the role of lead pony to an iron horse.
Gehrig probably is the greatest ball
player in the world. Yes, Joe Kuhel
can field better than Lou. Sure, Ruth
used to hit more home runs. But
day in and day out Gehrig was there
on first base, doing an acceptable job,
and then he would step up to the
plate and in the twilight of Ruth's
career American League pitchers pre
ferred to pitch to the Babe than to
Gehrig.
He has come close to missing ball
games. "Lit,tie" casualties like broken
bones never threatened his consecu
(See~GEHRIG, Page A-16.)
Leemans’ Home Town Always Has Hero to Worship
Arnovich, Phil Outfielder Who Made Seven Hits in a Row, Is Latest Pride of Superior, Wis.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ.
Assodatea Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, April 28.—If*
second down and 23 to go
for Dizzy Dean, who prom
ised the Cardinals 25 wrins
this season. . . . Just in case you
overlooked the dispatches, old Ty
Cobb won himself a golf tourna
ment out on the coast the other
day. . . . Mike Jacobs is sporting a
new green overcoat that positively
is the last word in Spring toggery.
Superior, Wis., has a sports fa
vorite to follow and root for in
every season . . . last Pall it was
Alphonse (Tuffy) Leemans, the
former George Washington foot
ball star, who starred with the New
York Giants. ... In the Winter
Superior fan: cr.n brag about their
powerful basket ball teams or Bess
Earhardt, America's sweetheart of
the ice. . . . Now they are all
steamed up over the doing of
Morrie (Snooker) Amovich, young
Philly outfielder, whose seven con
secutive hits didn't hurt his
chances of making the grade as a
regular.
No matter what his earlier oppo
nents may have been, they can’t
say Big Jack Torrence is getting a
set-up in Abe Simon tonight. . . .
Lou Chiozza of the Giants is a
crack spaghetti cooker. . . . During
one of the frequent showers in
Portland, Oreg., young Bobby Mat
tick, Los Angeles outfielder, ob
served: “Gosh, it sure rains easy
here."
Verdun, Quebec, Is going to make
a cop out of unemployed Walter
Young, who won the Boston mara
thon last week. , . . Tulane thinks
it has a good chance to grab na
tional honors in both golf and
tennis this season.
Cleveland writers are urging the
Indian moguls to do some serious
thinking about the case of Paul
Dean, who they say was worked
too hard at too early an age, and
not make the same mistake with
Bob Feller . . . seems odd to read
of ball games in the Southern As
sociation being called oil because
of cold weather ... it happened
at Little Rock the other day.
Here's another expert, who knows
what he’s experting about: Jack
Tucker, golf editor of the Roches
ter Democrat and Chronicle, shoots
consistently in the 70s ... he has
played in several national amateur
tournaments and at Brookline in
1934 gave Lawson Little his tough
est match.
The Los Angeles Times has dis
covered why Roy Riegels ran the
wrong way in his history-making
dash in the California-Georgia
Tech Rose Bowl game in 1929 . . .
(California lost, 8-7) ... the Times
says it has discovered the north
side of the Rose Bowl field, the
route Riegels ran, is five inches
lower than the south side ... in
other words, says the Times, “he
ran down hill and just couldn't
stop” . . . come on home, Roy, all
is forgiven.
VINES, PERRY TOP
THREE NET TILTS
Oppose, Then Pair to Play
Lott-Barnes Tonight at
College Park.
SWIVEL-NECK patrons of profes
sional tennis will journey to
Ritchie Coliseum, College Park,
tonight to witness a return en
; gagement, in fact the fifty-first repeti
tion, of Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines
smacking a ball over the net as fast
, and expertly as you would expect from
i the world's foremost players.
Like those who have seen a circus or
grappling match once and arc satis
I fled nothing new will be unveiled, fans
I who saw the polite pill pasters last
j time have displayed a studied indif
i ference to the return engagement.
I More than 700 were unable to gain ad
j mission to the spacious plant in Janu
ary, when 4,000 fans shelled out ap
proximately $5,500 to see Elbe whip
I Freddy.
Perry's Last Season.
CINCE the lynx-eyed Englishman has
said he will retire after this season,
; local court devotees very probably will
witness him in action for the last time
tonight. Perry and Vines wind up
their lengthy tour Monday at New
York, where it all started, and then
will embark for a European tour.
Without too much color, but simply
on their skill at slamming that elusive
ball, Vines and Perry have enjoyed
capacity crowds at nearly every stop.
Bruce Bames and George Lott round
out the troupe and inject a relieving
note of comedy into the proceedings
occasionally.
Barnes and Lott will clash in a
singles match, to be followed by the
royal racketers. After Vines and
Perry have unveiled their repertoire of
shots, they will team against Barnes
and Lott, who still is rated the No. 1
doubles player of the world.
The loose-limbed Vines now is lead
ing in the matter of victories, having
amassed 26 to Perry’s 24.
Mangan Will Referee.
rPOM MANGAN, president of the
A Middle Atlantic Tennis Associa
tion, will umpire the feature match,
with linesmen being culled from the
ranks of Washington’s top-notch
players, such as Barney Welsh, Gene
Herman, Allie and Nate Ritzenberg,
Tony Latona and Hugh Lynch.
Members of local college and scho
lastic tennis teams will be admitted to
the matches for half price. Seats are
priced at $1.10 and $1.65.
YANKEE CYCLISTS WIN
Walthour, Jr., and Juner Show
Way in Six-Day Competition.
LOS ANGELES, April 28 UP).—'The
American team of Bobby Walthour, jr.,
and Oscar Juner won the 6-day
bicycle race ending early today, scor
ing 1,182 points.
The Italian team of Andy Devito
and Frank Turano duplicated the lap
stealing stunt of Walthour and Juner
in the final minutes and finished on
even terms in laps, but took second
place with a point score of 848.
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3-TIME CHAMPION
Connie Rates Former Aide
as Century’s Greatest
Center Fielder.
BY CONNIE MACK.
MILLIONS of fans who admired
Tris Speaker’s amazing ar
tistry feel a personal interest
in his recovery from a dis
tressing accident. Mention center
fielders and his image instantly comes
to mind. I remember back before
most of you. To me, the two mightiest
: center fielders be
i longed to differ
] cnt centuries—
j Jimmy McAleer
I in the nine
j teenth, Speaker
; in the twentieth.
At fielding his
post, nobody in
his century
equaled McAleer,
just as Speaker
topped his cen
tury. McAleer
turned triples
into putouts. He
had the sure ln
j stinci to go to
Connie Mack.
the proper path for a line drive as
soon as it was hit, and the speed
to run it down.
In fart, he helped make Cy Young's
great pitching fame. Both were with
Cleveland, then in the National
League.
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Hitting Gives Speaker F.dge.
w HEN McAleer retired to manage
the St. Louis Browns there was
a lull in classic center fielding until
Speaker came to the Red Sox. Oddly
enough, he was later to play for
Cleveland, thereby giving that city
the two greatest men of all time at
center.
I really couldn't choose between
them as fielders, but Tris had one
edge—he was much the better hitter.
Digging into my old files I find Mc
Aleer hit .288 in 1896, about par for
him.
Speaker, with a lifetime .344 average
covering 23 American League seasons
—his last, 1928, with me on the Ath
letics—also ranked among the great
hitters.
And Tris did one extra special stunt
McAleer never managed. On April
18 and 29, 1918, Speaker made double
plays unassisted. Another typical
trick of his was sneaking in to second
and taking a surprise throw from the
catcher to tag any runner who un
wisely had eyes only for the shortstop
and second baseman.
Stars Kept as Coaches.
gPEAKER and Ty Cobb often have
been linked as the greatest out
fielders of the century and. by another
coincidence, they closed their careers
as teammates for me in 1928.
X thought my outfield of Simmons,
left; Speaker, center, and Cobb, right,
was about the hottest thing ever of
fered by one team. But when the sea
son advanced and the ground hard
ened, neither Tris nor Ty could cover
ground.
Their legs were going; they were
slipping. Everybody knew it, including
themselves.
I sent George Haas to center and
Bing Miller to right, providing an
odd situation. On the bench were
| two fading stars drawing two to
three times what Haas and Miller
got.
Some fans wondered why I didn't
release them. I had two reasons.
First, they had signed as free agents,
and I didn’t think it fair to let them
out in midseason in view of their long
and fine service to base ball.
The second was they were coach
ing my young players.
Got Him Flags, Says Mack.
CPEAKER schooled Haas into a
star. Cobb proved a shrewd bat
! ting tutor to Simmons and both
helped other players. My two bench
j stars earned their big salaries, all
I right.
We were within a straw of the 1928
pennant won by the Yanks. One
! year later we took the first of three
successive flags.
Speaker and Cobb were no longer
I with us, but their work was. They
had helped me build another cham
pionship team.
(Copyright, 193?.)
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TULANE VISITS WILDCATS.
EVANSTON, 111., April 28 UP).—
Tulane's tennis team, headed by
Ernie Sutter, 1936 national intercol
! legiate singles title winner, was North
; western's foe today in the first match
j of the Wildcat home season.
Out of Danger
BOBBY DOERR,
Red Sox second baseman,
struck in the head with one
of Pitcher Ed Linke’s fast
balls in Monday’s game
against the Nationals, reports
that he expects to leave the
hospital at Boston today, fully
recovered.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
League Statistics
AMERICAN.
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New York_X 1 .75(1
Detroit _ 2 1 ,W~ >4 I
Philadelphia_ n 2 ,«nn 'a
Cleveland . 2 2 .5(1(1 1
Chicago _ _ 2 2 .500 1
Boston . _ 2 2 .500 1 I
St. Louis _2 .1 .400 1 u,
WASHINGTON .1 ♦ .200 2V4
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
All games posiponed, rain.
GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
N. Y. at Wash.. 3:15.N. Y. at Wash.. 3:15.
St. Louis at Detroit. St. L. at Chicago.
Chi at Cleveland. Detroit at Cleveland.
Phila. at Boston. Phila. at Boston.
NATIONAL.
W. L. Prt. G B
St. Louis _ft 1
Pittsburgh _ 4 1 .son >2
New York _ 3 1 .750 ]
Philadelphia_3 2 .son Pi
Brooklyn _2 3 .4«*o 2 Va
Boston _2 4 .333 :t *
: Chicago _ 1 4 .200 3»i
] Cincinnati .. . 0 4 .000 4
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
St. Louis. :t: Pittsburgh. ].
Other games postponed, rain.
GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Brooklyn at. N Y. Brooklyn ft N. Y.
I Cinci. at Chicago Cinci. at St. Louis. |
Pitts, at St. Louis. Chicago at Pitts.
Boston at Phila. Boston at Phila.
LATE START TOUGH
Weather Good Week Before
Openings, Becomes Sour,
Piles Up Twin Bills.
By (he Associated Press.
CHICAGO.April 28—Old Mother
Nature, whom the major
league magnates tried to out
smart this yegr, chuckled to
day over 29 bargain days she has ar
ranged for the fans.
On the theory that the weather gets
better as Springtime wears on. with
fewer postponements as the logical re
sult, the club owners decided to stage
their grand openings a week later than
usual this year, but the weather was
not to be outmaneuvered.
After behaving itself for a week be
fore the inaugural day, it suddenly
turned sour. Today, the American
League had 18 double-headers piled up.
and National League fans had 13 com
ing.
Difficult to Figure.
“^FTER delaying the opening of the
season a week to get better
weather we have run smack into an
unusual run of rain and cold postpone
ments.” Harridge said. ‘'The ironical
part of it is that our Eastern clubs
could have played every day during
the week before the season opened.
, The West wasn't quite that good, but
| it was better than the past week.
I "It was just a gamble, though.” he
added optimistically, "and the weather
probably will square things later, per
haps at world series time. I’ll take a
little bad weather in the Spring in ex
change for perfect world series weather
any time.”
The fans won't have to wait quite
so long this year for those two-games
for-the-price-of-one Sunday bargains
Instead of withholding Sunday dou
ble-headers until after June 15. the
majors this year will permit them as
soon as each club has had three Sun
day dates at home, which will have
been accomplished by June 6.
SHOOT HONORS MORGAN
Skeet and Trap Events to Be Held
at Oakton Saturday.
A shoot in honor of R. D. Morgan,
veteran Washington marksman, will
be held at Oakton, Va., Saturday.
There will be both skect and trap
events, with firing from 11 a.m. to 6
p.m.
Oakton is l’j miles this side of Fair
fax on the Chain Bridge road.
ONE VICTORY NETS
FRISCH MUCH JOY
Weiland Appears as Needed
Hurler in Beating Bucs,
to Give Cards Lead.
BY BILL BOM,
A soclated Press Sports Writer.
IF YOU catch Manager Frankie
Frisch smiling today, don't blame
the man. It's a wonder he Isn't
laughing out loud—or is he?
For one thing, his St. Louis Cardi
nals are leading the National League,
| a trick accomplished by blackjacking
| the Pirates into 3-1 submission yes
: terday as rain washed out every other
; major league game.
But that's not all.
I In pre-season ratings, experts
1 summed up the Cards’ pitching staff
with a "Dean, Warneke, and then
what?’'* Frankie believes he may
have the answer in the large, toil
seasoned frame of Robert Weiland,
6 feet 4 inches and 215 pounds of
, left-handed pitcher.
1
May Plug Gap.
'J'HE Gangsters need a capable
southpaw and Weiland, who broke
the Pirates' four-game winning streak
with a six-hit National League debut,
looks like that man.
He has size. He has experience—
1 first in the majors with the White Sox
j in 1928. since then with Louisville,
I the Red Sox. Indians, Browns and
Rochester. He has speed—tops in
strikeouts last year in the Interna
tional League with 171, he fanned six
Buccaneers yesterday. He's a horse
for work—23 victories and 13 defeats
with Rochester, in 1936, appeared in
the mast games, 55.
The biggest man on a hard-riding
crew, Weiland was behind only at the
start of yesterday's game. He served
Johnny Dickshot. Pittsburgh recruit
left fielder from Buffalo, a home-run
ball in the first inning. The Cards tied
the score in the second, added another
run in the fourth and the final one in
the fifth.
Hitting last Pace.
gUT even that wasn't all that pleased
Frisch—his Cardinals are running
riot in all departments of the game,
j Jerome Herman (the one and only)
. Dean is heading the pitching parade
with Wayne Lamaster of the Phillies
at two triumphs each. Then there's
Ducky-Wucky Medwiek, second in the
batting race with an average of .500.
Stanley Bordagaray. the pint-sized
outfielder who was converted into a
third baseman, is tops in scoring with
eight runs. Right behind Frenchy, at
seven, comes Medwiek. who also is pac
ing the circuit with 13 hits, and is tied
for the lead in doubles at five.
Johnny Mize and Pepper Martin are
running neck-and-neck for driving in
runs with seven apiece. Martin, to
round out the pretty picture. takes«the
; cake for stealing bases, with four in
five games.
Stars Yesterday
*
By the Associated Press.
Bob Weiland, Joe Medwick and
Stu Martin, Cardinals—Weiland
pitched Cards into first place with
six-hit, 3-1 victory over Pirates;
Medwick hit two singles and dou
ble. scored one run and drove in
another; Martin got two hits, stole
a base, drove in a run and figured
in two double plays.
i Homer Standing
By the Associated Press.
Yesterday’s homers — Dickshot,
Pirates, 1.
The leaders—R. Johnson, Ath
letics, 3; Ott, Giants, 2.
i League totals—American, .13;
National, 12.
Total, 25.
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