(PHONE SS00) lhur»dav, April 22, 1943 PAGE 26 DETROIT EVENING TIMES CHERRY l#o Fans Want Pitrhrr's Paradise or Old Oai/s of Power Oa/tinfi? • Sewell and the four-hitter again today along with* the 1 mean that the major league or some such in town, and they ; small crowds in four paiks inning* behind Johnny Yander game and it* the American and I t Bv l AUTON C \K> KK League, the Cleveland Indians by Hollingsworth—all shutouts. ; Washington Senators at New hatting titles will he won with are gone. yesterday the baseball season Moor hurling against Mort any case, the expected downed Detroit. 1-0, behind Jim The less said about attond- at averages .315. that In NEW YORK. April 22 ‘INS' got away to a start calculated * ¦ Coojver York, the Boston Red Sox of about and baseball boom is slow forming. ap- something than worst ihing about Vander i Baghy. Al Hollingsworth of the ; anre the better, except that the —The mator league* of 194> to he less a The Philadelphia, the New York the home run champions will It may never get here, for it Moor is that he has been re- St. Louis Browns, blanked the actual . figures for tho four parently art* to ho remembered three-alarm wow. at to the extent that, all. the game all 1-A at a time Chicago White games may as well he reported: Giants Brooklyn and the power the ball of seems after .* paradise Tho four vs inning teams »Ta*.*ilted when Sox. 3-0. a* a pitcher produced Cincinnati, the Philadelphia Phillies at Boston, lives on the headlines made by Tho hig hittors arc pone hom accomplished their victories in ' he might rash in better than All told. o|K>ning day At 27.709 for about 15 circuit blows. among eight game; at Chicago, the latter four havirtg boon the guys who can clear the to light and shutout* ever before on his left arm The only 42 hits the Cards-Reds could be. And if that be so, the baseball scene game; postponed yesterday. It fence with their swings. f help war and A two-hitter. two threedutters j hitters are scarce. teams that played, or just over 9044 for the Pirates-Cubs to supplv a their I per club- At What do the results of yes- then does it mean that baseball Either the pitchers arp ahead already noticeable and a four-hitler were pel j>c- ; Tiwett (Hip) Sewell of the i live hits and if that's Cleveland. 13.847 for the absence is ball, bring Tiger-Indians tussle and at St. terday presage? will have to thrive strictly on of the hitters in condition, or question now seems to bo Mated and mat baseball which Pirates beat the Chicago Cub*. not a dead then ex- The your watermelons, Louis, for the Whitp Sox- Dot*s that lack of hitting the week-end attendance this is going to be the year of whether the modem day lan. has cau«ed so many groans turns H-’l in the ottic*i National League on hud. 4.421 workers? Next to two- Browns engagement, all of pected from defense the great renaissance for banjo schooled on pow er-housing at out 10 he a worse cantalou|>e Vander Meer's be, too. as of that which averages up to less than That could hitters. hat, will ac« j>* a reversion to than the one they u*rd last bitter. a leminder time in successive SIS.(KK) game for the season The games don’t draw anyhow Perhaps by mid-June th# the old day * of tricks hurl ng. > in 193 H when a ear. games allegedly nobody mid-vveek, except when there parks will he filled to capacity tew runs, inside baseball and Through it a!! t ie Cincinnati % \ he hurled no-lut shutouts openers could in is an e*xira added attraction and every hall hit will soar out the *taiic thrill of no explosive* Reds bent the world champion against the Braves and Dodgers, do without. ¦ I I —- or DiMaggio of the park—hut I doubt it. Opening be 1 -»re_di sappointing)y_ St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0, in 11 ' ' name the three-hitters by Baghy Those cluhs were to meet such as Williams TIGERS GET ONLY 3 HITS FOR BRIDGES, LOSING OPENER Trucks, Harder Mound Choices In 2d Game Harry Heilmann again will broadcast today’s Tiger-Indian game from Cleveland on WXYZ, only local station airing the De- troit games this season.
By LEO MACDONELL CLEVELAND. April 22- With ' ; Virgil Trucks doing th-* firing, the Tjdv /' ;. *? K Tigers planned to strike hark at thr Indians herr foday in the second game of the inaugural .'"tries between the tun clubs wl Wml Mel Harder will pitch for Cleve- I I .| if land. The Tigers, in their first »how- ’ --** ing of tho year yesterday. were * jM mm* . . .X * jH ,-*i 9s*f» &k . f&BBr mtm the victims of a masterly three- ( hit performance in which .Jim V-/' *C» Jp;? Bagiev shaded Tommy Bridge* and the Indians won. 1 to 0. Baghy was not only the pitching hero of The day. The hig ngnt son of another famous flinger who helped Cleveland win its only pennant, in 1020, collected two of his teams six hits off Bridge*; and hatted home the *Hwr*N **It . C?*-Wf** winning run with one out in the ninth. TOMMY BRIDGES GETS ONE OF 3 HITS OFF CLEVELAND’S BAGBY, <)\ ATION FOR ROSS
... * . . . Tiger pitcher bents Ottn Dennings slide in first in ninth inning The victory put some heat In 13.RT7 shivering customers, a sizable crowd considering the wrather Two former Yankees Roy CuJ- Kentucky Derby lenhine and Buddy Rosar who came to the Indians in a trade which sent Roy Weatherly to the SPORTS New- York club during the past May Be a Race winter, set up the picture for the onlv marker. O'Neill Finds Cause for Cheer Cullenhme walked in the ninth ROY CULLENBINE SCORES WINNING RUN FOR INDIAN'S AS THEY BEAT TIGERS and after Otto»Denning whiffed, Roy moved to ihird when waiting tor opent r. , . around ... catcher Dixie Parsons takes mournful pose vhile ball in Cleveland Despite Loss in Opener After All Rosar doubled just inside third \ % base. When Bridges parsed Ray LOUISVILLE. Ky, April 22 Mack deliberately, the wej« By LEO MACDONELI (UP) The Kentucky Derby stock or filled and the stage set for a pos- of Calumet Farm’s Ocean Wave Flies Hooks Vihle double play. neve Zivic Becomes already CLEVELAND. April ?2-Steve hall la deader than Hitler Marshall Gives Bagby, who had zoomed today as result of the colt s By DON GILLIES Rut O’Neill need not feel downcast, is going to be when the war la two and one-half lenßth victory m collected a pair of hits, flied to the Blue Grass Stakes. Another trout season opens cross stream, just above or below Radcliff and Cullenhme scored and probably doesn't, over the over. Well, just as dead.” pool. Thp Saturday and in keeping with the a from third after the catch rangy son of Blenheim TT. ' defeat of his Tigers at the hands The Tigers generally hold the Wilcox, Fighting by wa* Pasting one of Michi- two-bagger Rosar of day, Charlie Farmer The shaking a costly habit of running Christo the the old re- of the Indians in the first game ball is "pretty dead.” which, of jtraditions gan’s finished th casters. his one of his three safeties, half of second in stake races, moved back garden being sa>s (course, liable hackles are opening day a red by his team. of the season. might indicate a repetition into the Derby picture yesterday April 22—Lloyd carefully anticipation choice for is PITTSBURGH, April 22 fINSI the blows collected CLEVELAND. scoured in squirrel-tail. While Cullenhme went hitless, he It was a squeaky, clean victory of the hitless brand of baseball when he won the semifinal prep Marshall, light good catch universally Fritzie Zivic. former welter- a two-fisted heavy- of a on the ! twice on another * men captured—a yesterday, for the May 1 classic in 1:53 4-5. accepted opening day bait. Paul Cowan, wt-n ha« never hitherto in walked and Lou Boudreau's dished up here all of weight from Sacramento with sears weight champ known laid down a pretty bunt. The Calumet hope paid $5.80, $3.20 Of course, if want to he a missed an opening day in 25 occasion game decided hv a fly ball. As which isn't too complimentary to dynamite in his right hand, handed >ou polite fistic circles ns "Pretzel also rohhed the ex-Tiger and $2.20 as he finished in front of purist and stick to the custom of will stick to a gray *t/eamer fly Radcliff you have heard, perhaps the the pitchers. I Anion Christofordis of Cleveland with red body, wot. Nose," w ill .'vivo a new sobi iquet of an extra-base hit with a spec* Amber Light and Chest in the using only dry flie«. you might a li*hed winning run was scored by Roy But to get back to the brighter a lacing in a 10-round bout here the of Stanley Bill Brockton, another expert of when he's introduced to the fans tacular catch. mile and onc-eighth test. follow* suggestion A sensational catch of Pn<* Cullenbine from third after Jim things In the game. O'Neill prob- night. Bisque, who will use the "Black years experience, will do the before bouts in the future —"The long last Cramer s low' liner that just Kaghy. the pitchex, hoisted a good. too. over Dixie that Prince" if the water is high and same. Fighting fly ball to Rip Radcliff. There ablv feels The bout topped a card good luck with Farmer." skimmed the grass staved off a I splendid throw that Major Leagues Standings drew 12.099 customers w-ho paid a roily. "I nlwHvs have t was only one out and the former Parsons n Dun nymph," he said. ! Fritzie. who admits he doe*n sure Tiger run in the sixth. Jo# nailed Rosar trying to steal second. gross of $38,156.25. i Bisque, who has made a life udder, the Tiger streaked home for the all- AMERICAN LEAGUE study manufacturing those cute Wayne Moulton, who will fish Know one punch from an Hoover was on third at time. The throw came after scribes had Buddy Walker of Columbus was of declared start tend- innings Bridges and important counter. hairy thig-a-ma-jigs. sup- Two Hearts River in Luce Countv today he would For six heralded Tarsons’ sore arm. W L Pet. *GB given a decision over Patsy Per- little an({ on engaged a pitch- The Tigers bagged only three 0 posed to outwit the wariest of opening day, will stick to the old ing cow’s feeing chickens Raehv in brilhan? Washington 1 1.000 They are heavyweights. Carnegie some time ing Only got at hits, and while O'Neill would like 0 1.000 roni. browns, brooks and rainbows, may favorites—the Rnval Coachman, a farm near duel. one Indiart Cleveland 1 is means aiding Hoover was to have seen a little more of a Here's Hoping, Steve switch to a gray squirrel with a Cahill. Wickhams Fanc> or Lady next week a of far as second and the St. Louis 1 0 1 000 ,tho to third off show of Detroit power, the new; 0 T j gold or silver tinsel body this Beaverkill. war effort. only Tiger reach Rosar—or Del Baker, if it was Boston 0 .000 he would keep on Baghy. manager doubtless felt pleased New 0 season. "In the evening I'll use the Zivic asserted Del, who was coaching at first York 0 .000 V day, fighting as often as possihle and Then the distance began to tell over «ome of the other incidentals. DETROIT 0 1 .000 1 If they don't land a full creel,l egg sack, hut during Hie Tommy Bridges' base shouldn't always believe give Lady Beaverkill j "would combine roadwork with on the veteran Bridges, hero of For instance. Philadelphia 0 1 .000 1 he'll use a nymph. Here's a tin me the j nothing what they read. But O’Neill is the sack." said. farmwork." 1.1 \ears of great pitching. The pitching. There was Chicago 0 1 .000 1 Use the caddis n>mph, fishing without he w rong with that. Steve picked well keeping his fingers crossed. He Indians filled the bases in the for his opening day mound choice. hopes Parsons’ arm will he okay. •Games behind leader. seventh, hut the stout-hearted There wasn’t much to choose be- If it is, one of the manager's Wednesdays nr.ati.TS Tennesseean pulled himself out in biggest magnificent got by tween the hurling of Bridges and worries will be over. ei.v.iarvi i, of.TROIT 0. style. Tommy St Traveling Bagby yesterday. O'Neill must have been pleased, Loul* 3. Chuatio 0. Fans Give Steve okay in the eighth- then came the p.n.lnn •» PhllAftfiphlA Staff w^Ath^r also, the way' Rip RqdclitT fatal ninth. with At Nfw York, wrath^r. Maybe rare of the right field post. furs, well 'flu.' He spent seven dajs In bed the weather or the war? Recruits Do Work Well look THI RMDAY’ff GAMES CLEVELAND. April 22 Steve handled themselves both. FIRST rNEVENTFIX (Chan- Indianapolis. a mixture of The Ripper turned in one of the WAldington (Wynni at N«w York got traveling hag as a afield. in •(fieri O’Neill a Both sides went down in order Joe Hoover and Dick Wakefield fielding gems of the day. a run- Trucks and Mel Hardci Ho.tnn (HußhAonl At Philadelphia gift from Cleveland admirers. He There was hand music, flag Virgil in the first inning Pinky Higgins distinguished themselves with good ning one-handed catch that robbed i(Ft*re» > Del Baker coached in the Indian will he the opposing pitchers todav I rtroir «Trurk»i Cleveland (Mllnarl nothing raising and the mayor tossed out got the first hit of the contest in work on the defense and the for- Culenbine of a hit. a* 1 hopes there was sinister first base box. Del and Steve at League Park, to where *h< 1-1.000 ChUAgo iSmi’hi at f* Loula (Galahour*) game. the first hall, hut there uasn t the second It was a Texa* . mer bagged one of the three hits The crowd less than intended. shook hands before the is shifted from Municipa >. Was It scene leaguer in short right field Jimmy off Bagby, which the Tiger man- paid-must have been disappoint- Baker has iust recovered from the the same old enthusiasm. Besides the opener figures ing NATIONAL LEAGUE Stadium. Rloodworth hit into a double play ager probably a prettv to the Cleveland management, Tri* Speaker, Steve'* old pal, Sunday and holiday games au but it was understandable to retire the side. good day’s work for a couple of easily W L Pet. *GB made the presentation speech. played at the big stadium. results when one considers the weather. There was one away when Cul- Cincinnati 1 0 1.000 Both are sports idols In Cleve- the time. P as* fieldirg bv Wakefield pre- Two ushers wore ear-muffs which 0 lenhine walked for first Pittsburgh 1 1000 ATTEND After out to from coring may give you an what land. Speaker Is the local box- BOWLERS Denning flew Dick vented Cullenbine idea of the Boston 0 0 .000 'a Roy in the ninth on Buddy customers braved to help the 1 ing and a Allen, streamlined Wakefield. Rosar forced tit earlier New York 0 0 .000 a commissioner swell Harold to iong two-bagger Tigers thp SO pounds second end the Tribe second. Roar's down *he and Indians open the Philadelphia 0 0 000 l a one, say the sportsmen here, from loss of delegation The Tigers were blacked out in left field foul l.ne. season. Brooklvn 0 0 .000 (claimed), led a of Dick also snared two nice howlers across the lake to see one, two. three fashion in the St. Loins 0 1 .000 1 OBJECT TO BALL third, and when the Indians came catches at criiical points of th*3 Sees Chicago 0 1 000 1 the game, game With Bridges on second Ross Game You should hear the Tigers and (Continued on Page 27) behind leader. Wakefield had a chance to be a > Sgt Barney Ross of the marines •Games Indians scream about the dead Paul (Diz) Trout warmed tq With, I ball. it gives the batters a Tiger hitting hero a timely was one of the shiverers Die WrtISEMIAV* Rf.M TS Well, late in the game, but Bridge Night Code Key the g (11 new alibi. And pleases the pitch- Edition swat, but the best i fellow sergeant who before going to war Cincinnati' 1 S’ I.'iiW n inninM) slurk it out. Once O’Neill walker Pittehureh S Ch" aao n ers, of course. TTi* Detroit Time* oa»iv pnr»* in the could do wfcs nn easy grounder to * lightweight to the and a*ked Tommy of * hore* , held both *he and Philadelphia ai Hop* >n weather box i Nitht TMttlon nn!> 'h* n»Ti* which expert* * amors the pitcher's box. lierweight boxing titles, recently Nf* York At Brooklyn. weather. he wanted to keep going. Hi rare feel the out*, wi belli the Rudy Roth Joe Hoover and Dirk to gamester. n'unrlm* of da> But York Doc Cramer an