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. \ , Pesky to Replace TerwiNiger Against Cleveland Tomorrow - --- 1 1 ? * 'lndians in Position * -• V| No More Deals Anticipated JEoeniitg J&faf }To Profit Again by Washington, D. C., Monday, June 14, 1954- *** As Trading Deadline Nears A-19 TSjIM pH PHRH P*f9| r M W Week-End Schedule (Box Scores on Page A-21.) 4 By the Aasocioted Praia By Burton Hawkins Johnny Pesky, 34-year-old Cleveland Indians, ? in- isl|ml/ The who »Bitir nr wl IBB: JBi' i* a lifetime batting or found the past week end much flelder with a JB Win, Lose Draw average of .309, will replace to their liking, find opportunity By FRANCIS STANN knocking again this coming week ¦P *' w iiTHIBf iic Wayne Terwilliger at second end, as Sox base in Cleveland tomorrow night aftermath of the Eddie the Boston Red in- SOMEBODY’S GOT TO GO as an the : when the Senators open a 19- vade Cleveland and Yankees Manager Bucky Joost-Gus Zernial scrap in Philadelphia. Usually the front play In Chicago. 1# mm M game road trip, IBP^B Harris office back up the manager, which would mean that setup said today. will That’s the same that Pesky, who six times has Zernial might as well start packing his grip. On the other enabled Cleveland to advance topped the .300 mark in his nine t jHB Bfc * 1H hand, Joost’s position is not too secure. The from 1% games behind the seasons Red game and full with the Sox Athletics are in last place and there is no 'WM White Sox to a a half ; Tigers, reported to the Sen- during and J§§ no predicting what the Mack clan will do. in front the last four ators that his legs in ex- days. are For the record, Washington is not in- | cellent condition and he’s en- the White Sox, who- . terested in Zernial, home-run hitter that he Thus have -jm fjr— | thusiastic about the prospect of dUfljH been holding high hopes of win- mat regaining a regular job. is. “We have talked it over,” Vice President ning their first pennant in 35 Obtained v from Detroit last Calvin Griffith says. “By ‘we’ I mean Unk Bifejll years, have their work cut out night for $20,000 and Infielder and Bucky Harris. Zernial just doesn’t fit /" i for them. They have to overcome y Mel Hoderlein, who is being sent i jinx.. The New Pesky "bHIHHHb into our plans.” (“Unk”is the way Calvin 9/ : that Yankee XI 4 to Buffalo, will bat second Yorkers have out of and the other adopted Griffiths refer to won six i F # in the Senators’ lineup, with JOHNNY PESKY. eight from the White Sox, in- ft H A-Hr Pete Runnels dropping to sixth. President Clark Griffith.) cluding the first three games of aB m fielder to make his sprint a “Simply Jf Bt "We checked around before And why wouldn’t Zernial fit? the week-end series, before Vir- we made the deal,” Harris said. success.1 because our ball park is too big for him,” gil Trucks put Chloago back in “Heinle Manush, who managed Terwilliger has been a .193 Calvin says. '“He can’t the territory. winning form with his ninth vic- Pesky at Rocky Mount in 1940, hitter this season and the Pesky cover 1 long search a Fr » nc ‘. BUn “ tory in the second game of yes- asked Johnny about the report ( deal culminates a Sure, Zernial bats home 100 or more runs , terday’s double-header at Yan- gif that legs shot Pesky for a replacement. Hoderlein, season, but in Griffith Stadium he’d let in that many runs, his are and 1 Washington kee Stadium. said, great shape. Make who came to with to tell anybody that Gus is a terrible ‘l’m in 1 Busby too. I don’t have The largest crowd of the sea-, a deal for me and I’ll do you ‘ Jim from the White Sox ” in 1952, was hitting .160. fielder.” son, 60,070, saw the Yankees win some good.’ 1 • • * • Bob Porterfield pitched his 11th the first game, 4-2, and Trucks No More Deals Likely. GRIFFITH ADMITS that he expects Zernial’s trade straight victory, consecutive< complete game yes- CAL post his sixth the Senators a specifies. “They 8- in the nightcap. Calvin Griffith, vice president * terday to give momentarily. “Possibly to Baltimore,’’ he split I ' \ ''“/.’A; .'B of the club, said that unless the 1 with Baltimore before 11,- need a long-ball hitter. We do, too. But we have a different ' Sox on Bottom. Stadium. Red Senators are approached anew j 109 fans at Griffith situation. Must I go into details?” White Sox, there will be more Washing- Porterfield, who won his seventh go details. The optimistic of no 1 to six It wasn’t —and isn’t—necessary for Cal to into course, believe that last game ton trades before the dealing ! decision, held the Orioles The Griffiths, quite properly, argue that Zernial won’t break turning point one can deadline expires at midnight to- hits and posted his second shut- was a and 1 emerging 4-0 victor up many games—winningly, that is—in Washington. Big expect them to be all fired up for morrow. “We’ve made all the out1 in a New York series calls we’re going to make,” after the Orioles won the first Gus hit 42 homers last season, 29 in ’52, 33 in ’sl and 29 more the four-game Cal- 1 6-4. starting Friday night vin anybody wants to game, in his rookie year, when he was performing for ,<the White at Comis- | !| added. “If 1 key Park. They also would ap- deal with us, we’ll listen to their The Senators scored all their Sox. , preciate some co-operation from offer. We’re not initiating any- runs in the second game in the concedes, i sixth “Zernial can hit a long ball,” Cal Griffith “but the Red Sox, now in eighth place, thing, but we’ll be near a tele- 1 inning off Mike Blyzka. if he can’t field his position, especially in a park as large after losing all four games of phone if anybody wants to Walks to Runnels and Roy Sievers and Busby’s infield hit as ours, what would be the point of acquiring him? We’ve their week-ehd series to the In- reach us.” I Cleveland, Employed exclusively this year filledj the bases and Tom Umph- tried to win with few other long-ball hitters, remember. dians. which owps a a 7-0 record against Boston this as a pinch-hitter, Pesky brings : lett’s double to left scored two It didn’t work out. One, for instance, could field—meaning runs. Terwilliger singled to season, won, 4-1 and 8-1, yes- DAMAGE Minnie Mlnoso, White Sox leftfielder, appears to have Gene Wood- a .188 batting average to the 1 But he couldn’t reach our left-field fence and THIS DID THE Senators. score two more after Ed Fitz- A1 Simmons. terday, as Early Wynn won his lings drive in his hip pocket in this photo. Actually, however, the picture was snapped as the He has obtained three 1 I don’t think many people are comparirig Zernial with Sim- seventh and Mike hits in 16 tries. Including a home * Gerald had been purposely victory Garcia ball rebounded onto the playing field after going into the box seats at Yankee Stadium for a passed to reload the bases. mons as a power hitter.” won No. 8 of gave run. but wasn’t able to crash an I home run. The hit, scoring Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle ahead Woodling, the infield that Ray • team three-game includes Boone The Orioles pounded Maury * • • Each has a Yankees a 4-2 victory over Chicago in the first game of a double-header. —AP Wirephoto. starting at third base, Harvey Kuenn at McDermott1 for two runs in the IT IS A MATTER OF RECORD that Clark Griffith, series at home tomor- row night. Cleveland against the shortstop and Frank Bolling at I third inning of the opener, shoulder, became enchanted in second : ] picked up with Cal bending over his Senators and the White Sox > base. two more off Camilo the late ’3o’s with the idea of having strong right-handed against Philadelphia, the Johnny batted .292 in 103 Pascual1 in the fourth and boost- while All-Preps Try Tonight games hitters who might reach the distant stands upward of 405- third-place Yankees play three StiffNeck May Knock Snead with the Tigers last sea- < ed their lead to 5-0 against son after hitting .225 with the Bunky Stewart in the sixth. The feet away. In 1937 Simmons was hired to do the job, al- at Baltimore. • 1 In other League Red Sox and Tigers in 1952. He I Senators shelled Bob Turley though A1 by that time had had it. He did, however, drive American Out of National Open Tourney First in Third Rocky games yesterday For Win broke in with Mount un- with1 a three-run splurge in the runs. the Athletics der home 103 took two Detroit, 4-3 and By the Associated Press apparently settled in the muscles Manush and batted .325. He seventh: and added a run off big, strong from same figure Howie Fox in the ninth, when The next season—l93B—Griff acquired another 6-3, while the Orioles and Sen- NEW YORK, June 14.—Sam under his neck: hit for the with J With All-Highs in 1941 and Runnels right-handed hitter, Zeke Bonura.