1947-04-16 [P A-20]

« 'You Take It' Attitude What the Stars Did 29 or By the Associated Press Rookies See Action w in, Lose, Draw | j Jr \ _Mickey Vernon, Senator*—Drove Tex FRANCIS E. STANN Hughson, Red Sox pitcher, to showers By to Griffmen in eighth Inning with a bases-loaded Costly two-bagger Started drive to retain But Show Is Stolen American League batting title by get- Filling in the Little Words ting two Uta In four AB'i. Hank Oreenbezg, Pirates—Made 1m- For the next five and a half months, if you are a Senator fan, As Red Sox Score preslve Rational League debut by doubling home the run that beat the By Veteran Stars the radio voice you will be hearing most frequently will be that of Burton Cube. 1-0. Back at flrst base he han- By Hawkins dled 17 chancces without an error. Arch McDonald. Even if you are not baseball-minded, that homely, By Joe Reichler Star Staff Carrnpondant Stan Musial, cardinals—National copyrighted drawl of the transplanted Arkansan will be well-nigh leagues s leading 1946 swatter, went Associated Press Sports Writer 16.—When the hltlees against Cincinnati. He filed out inescapable. For instance, you have to go • into a BOSTON, April once, grounded out twice and fanned Twenty-nine rookies saw action Nats cease their overly-polite field- once. barber shop some time. in the major baseball leagues on ing tactics and stop granting gift Jackie Robinson. Dodgers—Went hit- Mr. McDonald his "road season” less in four trie* against the opening day, but such established opened hits to the estab- Brave*, opposition they’ll but hit speed afoot, after bunting in stars as Hal Newhouser, Hank yesterday and this bureau dropped up to witness lish themselves as a club to be seventh, led to Boston error that set up winning Brooklyn rally. Greenberg, Ted Williams, Pete the event. McDonald, of course, actually doesn’t feared in the American League pen- Ted Wtfjlams. Red Sox—Went “2 for Reiser, Dom Di Maggio and Truett on nant race. Off their 4 go the road. The Washington club’s opener performance against Washington, driving In two Sewell stole the show. runs with a double and single. (Rip) in Boston was broadcast from here with the aid in one game, there is nothing wrong his left- with Washington that more polished Newhouser, whistling of a direct Western Union wire. handed shots rain fielding can’t cure. through and fog This is by far the most difficult way to broad- at St. The box score of that 7-6 defeat Louis, blanked the Browns, cast McDonald Baksi Nails 7-0, with four to baseball, explained. Describing dealt the Nats by the Boston Red Woodcock hits, get off to a flying start toward his a “live” game from his booth atop the grandstand Sox here before an fourth con- yesterday open- secutive at Griffith Stadium is a comparative snap. Every- ing-day throng of 30,822 doesn’t 25-victory season. his thing is all laid out in front of him and if there’s show any errors by the Nats, but But Won't Take On Greenberg, playing first cham- pionship game in a uni- a lull or an it’s to tell what is that box score is the most convincing Pittsburgh argument simple form, broke a liar since Baron Munchausen. The up scoreless duel be- happening. Furthermore, there’s never any wire tween the Pirates Nat’s shoddy fielding cost them the Louis This and Chicago at Francis Stann. trouble. Year Wrigley Field game. by blasting a sixth- tne skeietonizea oi a over me wire is >y th« Asiocialwi Pr»»« inning double to drive But taking report game Boston mauled Early Wynn for in the run a that nipped the something else. A fellow has to be an artist of a sort, word painter 15 hits, but Wynn should have LONDON, April 16.—Joe Baksi, Cubs, 1-0. The blow enabled Sewell to best w.nv with an inexhaustible background to take those few words and bleak walked off Fenway Park’s mound Kulpmont, Pa, who heavyweight Borowy as each hurler two a gave up five abbreviations and be interesting, chatty and yet authentic for with triumph. It was in the first stopped Britain’s Bruce Woodcock hits. hours or more. McDonald has been it in the for 13 inning, with Dom Di Maggio on doing majors in seven rounds last will w uuams races Red second with two out, that Jerry night, not Sox. years now, serving all excepting 1939 in Washington. During the one WUUams drove in two Priddy and Buddy Lewis sprinted fight Joe Louis this year. Match- runs with season he switched to New York the local sponsors, afraid that any a single and a double to lead the to the right field boxes for the maker Nat Rogers of New York said a fearful Boston Red sox successor except the homespun type might lay egg, per- Ted Williams’ to a 7-6 triumph dangerous high pop after a the late Walter Jonnson to drawl in Arch’s today conference with Nate over the suaded place. fly. Both arrived on the scene in Washington Senators at Wolf Baksi’s the Hub. time to catch the ball, but at that son, manager. His Are Chimes “Both Wolfson and Di Magglo, in addition Only Props Telegraph Sounder, point their graciousness exceeded Baksi, who did to playing not attend the superbly in centerfleld A wire broadcast may be more difficult for McDonald, who says their ability. conference, made it with four clear that they didn’t want to fight putouts and an assist, rapped out he’d rather describe a hundred on-the-scene games, but it is more Additional Generosity. Louis this year,” Rogers told news- three hits and scored twice. interesting to watch from the wings. Here’s the way it’s done: With a great show of generosity, Reiser men. “Baksi wants to get away to scored three runs and McDonald and his face each other across and Lewis that assistant, Ray Morgan, Priddy permitted drove in two • Czechoslovakia for that holiday he to account for every a between them. The studio is a foul fly to plop between them. Wil- a table, microphone suspended very has ed for a long time.” Brooklyn run as the Dodgers de- liams then singled to right, scoring SAFE AT plain room for modem radio. There is hardly anything lacquered SECOND—Eddie Pellagrini, Bosox third baseman, is safe at second in the eighth inning B imed his chance to meet feated the Boston Braves, 9-3, at Di Maggio. Louis for Ebbets Field. Pete’s Chinese red and not much crome and glass brick. McDonald’s faithful of yesterday’s game against the Washington Nats at Boston, the throw from the world heavyweight double in the Less damaging, but equally dis- beating Washing- seventh drove tele Glen sits at his left so that Arch can at the title in New York, June 26, by belt- in the tying and graph gr, Walley, peek was ton concerting to Wynn, Rudy Catcher A1 Evans to Mark Christman after Johnny Pesky’s bunt. Pellagrini scored the tie- British winning runs. words takes down. The other licensed ing the champion all over typewritten Walley only person York’s pop fly between home and breaking run shortly afterward as the Sox won, 7-6.—AP Harringay Stadium last night. Veterans also showed the way in in the room is the engineer. third in the second inning. On Wirephoto. He floored the British hope five Karnes: Phil Marchildon, McDonald’s only props are Walley’s telegraph sounder, which is that occasion Cecil Travis and A1 the °^,er times in the first two frames, won Philadelphia Athletics’ Canadian and a chime-box which Arch to herald Evans held a conversation consist- star heard In the background, bangs Statistics all six of the completed sessions and hurler, scattered six New York of take it.” Robinson League as an old ing “you No Louisville Is Rated Wts to base hits. “I think it adds suspense,” he explained, and, Displays had his opponent bleeding and defeat the Yankees, 6-1, in That innocent little hoist also WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1047. their own listener, it does, too. McDonald is likely to say: "Here it comes and groggy when the referee halted the bailiwick. Eddie Lopat. fell to earth untouched, but York AMERICAN LEAGUE. long a there it goes....” Bong! (pause). Bong! (pause). “Lewis is rounding fight at 1:12 of the seventh. nemesis to the Cleveland was retired later on a deep drive of Yesterday's Results. Team as a Indians, Bob to a Beat mb w outpitched Feller second base.” Bong! (longer pause). Bong! (louder and usually on a Sign Nervousness, AA 6vi/ a iicttuaciie 2-0 to Stan Spence in center. Boston. 7: Washington, 6. before 55,014 fans in Lewis drives over the field new,” said the 20th Century Sport- Cleveland. higher, triumphant note). “Buddy right That wasn’t the extent of the Philadelphia, 6: New York, 1. ing Club matchmaker, who watched Schoolboy Rowe and Del Ennis fence for a home run.” Nats’ erratic behavior. In the third Chicago, 2; Cleveland, 0. last year’s But Wishes He Did 46th Season last night’s one-sided bout and car- top rookie, combined to were for and other baseball broadcasts would Evans streaked to the field Detroit, 7: St. Louis, 0. Opens If it not this tactics, inning give the Phils a 4-3 ried a contract for a title fight with win over the endless of silence.

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