Monday, May 11, PAGE 14 dETROI T E VEXING TIM E S (PHONE CHERRY 8800) 1942 MIDGETS GET ROUGH AT THE PLATE Castoffs Play ! Desautels MIDGET ACE Midget league Auto Club Nine - Out lor *6 * Champ Drops Takes Lead in Features Games Weeks CLEVELAND, May 11 (UP).— B Division Gene Desautels. Cleveland's first* Opening Game Class A Race In string catcher who broke his right STANDINGS ankle in a collision with shortstop STANDINGS Billy Hitchcock of the Tigers yes- W L Pet. W L Pet. V W L Pet. W L g 2 Scores Second Victory Rayl'a 2 0 1.000 Tool-Dl* 1 1 .500 terday. will be out of action for w Batt 2 1 0 1.000 Batt. 1 0 1 «¦ UAW 154 2 0 1 000 UAW 157 1 1 .500 at least six weeks, physicians said Balt, 4 1 0 1.000 Ball 3 D 1 I Ban * 2 0 1 000 UAW 250 A 1 .500 Batt. 6 1 0 1.000 Batt. S 0 1 .00 Peris, 6-1; Altes 2 000 Vlck*r* 1 1 .500. today. Batt. 7 1 0 1.000 Batt 5 0 1 .00 Over Four Leaf 0 1 ,o<i Od River 2 0 1 000 Bt.Andrws 1 1 .500 | Rookie Otto Denning is the Batt. Ift 1 0 1.000 Batt. 9 0 1 UAW 174 2 0 1 000 Arm* 1 1 .500 only Batt. 11 1 0 1.000 Batt. M 0 1 .00 Whips Pepsi-Cola, 7-1 Mitchell 1 0 1 000 Arthur 1 1 .800 other catcher on the Cleveland Haxel Pk. 1 0 1 000 UA"W 290 0 1 .000 roster and the Indians probably Battalion the defending cham* Eaat Bid* 1 1 .500 West Fort 0 1 .000 5. 000 will recall Jim Hagen from Balti- pion, is one game down today ii btavdings U.R WA. 1 1 .500 J.L. Hud. 0 2 Optician* 1 1 .500 Parton* 0 2 .000 more. Midgets League of the 0 .000 the Detroi WL rr w U Trt Or -Pair* 1 1 500 John’* 2 Baseball Federation. Sponsor** Alt** 1 1 .s<*o Holt.man 1 1 .500 UAW 7 0 2 .000 A i*« Club 2 0 1 086 McLouth 0 2 .000 r»n« 11 ..w r*r*i-cou ii .*** Griffin 1 1 .500 BILL GLANE, 14-year-old again by the Detroit Fire Depart* pitcher for Battalion No. ment, the Midgets began theii Two pitchers, mere castoffs 11, 1942 schedule yesterday al Belli Thin may be the year for Auto 300 Club Takes featured the opening of the Club. ' when the season opened, hit the- Isle with Battalion 6 defeatint Yesterday Auto Hub boat Pans. jackpot in Class B of the Detroit j Midget League of the Detroit No. 5, 9-3. 6-1, to the only unbeaten Baseball Federation when he Pitching for No. 6. Eddie Kayta: become Baseball Federation yesterday. yielded nine in Class \ of the Detroit Chetkovich,, struck out 17 batters in beat- struck out 14 and five hits Altes whipped One was Mitchell Cantius to Camp The No. 6 batsmen took nine fron Baseball Federation victory ing Battalion No. 12, 6-2. Pepsi-Cola, 7-1, in the other con- who turned in a one-hit Newall Sheridan and John Guzil test. for IJAW 174 in beating John’s,| STANDINGS and batted opportunely bet wee r WL Pet. W L Pet. ¦ No. 5 errors in the fifth for fivi Last season w as a sad story for 9-2. The other was Walter Cop- Hudson Jr. 2 0 1.000 Sprlngl* 0 1 .000 winning the Crtflttnan 2 0 1.000 WeatSlda 0 1 .000 runs, more than enough to win. Auto Club After pins, a southpaw who struck out 300 Club 1 0 1 000 Ha»«i 0 3 .000 in 1940. AC St. Tops Hal Hudson hurled No. 10 tc Class A title as Checker ‘Lthuan 1 0 1 000 John 0 2 000 Gersonde no less than 23 batters as Four Auto Club was a favorite to re- victory over No. 9. 6 to 4. Hudson Leaf Clover whipped Parsons, 22-6. j straight 18 peat. But the team got off to a With four new clubs in the fold fanned seven and foi start, never was able to There’s a strange connection be- today, Federation Class D is up the game while turning in a four* bad wildness, recover and even missed the tween the two outstanding per- to eight with a possibility of more hitter. Hudson’s too before the lists close. In Petersen figured in three of No. Nine’s foui eliminations. •ot(> by Tunes Stall Photographer formances. Chetkovich last year Lacey pitched The 300 Club, one of the new-' tallies. Three of the six men he Veteran Walter MILTON BAYAGICH OF BATTERY I IS SAFE AT THIRD was a pitcher for Four Leaf Auto Club to victory over Paris, comers, impressed the backstop CLEVELAND. May 11—Aver-‘ walked got around. bjl . Battery out although the winners were outhit. Vencnit Frrriotto of 111 tries for thr Clover, the Class B champion. One spectators at Northwestern Field aging 226.5, Russell Gersonde of| Batlblion 7 nosed out No. 8 yesterday stinging 6-5 a rally in the ninth was 9-6. Art Baker, a 17-year-old of the reasons he moved to UAW in St. John’s Wauwatosa, Wis., today was the when Paris, and year is because Four Leaf Cantius. 20 to 3. Ches Markie- minus one of a tie. southpaw, pitched for 174 this winner of the $1,500 first prize in to his downfall. Clover acquired Walter Coppins. wicz fanned 15 rivals. Art Szan- Giovanni Celitti had four hits errors led as No. 2 After Paris tallied a run in the Tiger Box Scores Cleveland Rally Coppins had Class A experience, kin had a home run, a double and the Petersen Bowling Classic in five times up paddles Track singles up. No. 1, 19 to 5. Celitti had a double Detroit three in times night. Auto came hack with and Chetkovich didn’t want to sit six which ended here last He first. Club homer, two three in the third on only one hit, on the bench. Rudy Furchak. pitching for Hud- and singles. FIRST GAME topped a field of 240 bowlers with Billy two errors figuring in the scoring. DETROIT So Chetkovich turned back yes- son Juniors, held Haags to two Glane went off the fielc a total of 1813. to his In the fourth singles by Sheldon AH R H PO A K terday John’s with a lone single, hits as his club won at Belle Isle.i with 17 strikeouts credit Blond worth. 2b 4 2 3 1 3 0 Split r team, 1, Twenty-two pins behind came He pitched a four-hitter for No and Gives Them out 13 for his new 3 to Furchak scored the onei Jack Mayhew Clar- To Freeze Cramer, 0 Harris. Odds If 0 1 2 0 [‘-triking 3 11, ence Chappie produced two more McCnakv. If 5 0 0 2 0 0 lone of the best in the league. Jim that made the Hudson lead safe in Nelson Burton of St. Louis with conqueror of No. 12. 6-2. No runs. Walt Hydyla's triple and York, lb 3 0 19 10 (Continued from First Sport Page) Pador featured the UAW 174 at- the ninth when he walked, went 11 had five runs in the second. (Continued from Flrnt Sport Page) Rom, rs 2 1 0 3 0 1 1791 for second. Joe Sinke of Chi- its hits anr Chappie's single added the final, Htgclna. 3b 3 0 0 2 0 0 tack with two doubles. to third on Jerry Ozark's double, No. 4 clustered four :moving up to third and second. cago was Ihird with 1781, Johnny run. rush in their reports from the T*bb«tta. c 3 1 0 • 1 0 Coppins. a curve hall pitcher.' and came in on Warren Graylin’s a pass to tally four in the fiftl « Fleming down when mutuel line. Hitchcock. 3 1112 0 was run his single. Ilchak of Cleveland had 1773, and rivet success over No. 3 by Paris scored in the first when Bridge*, p 4 0 0 1 2 1 Donning grounded to Corsica. came back with 23 strikeout performance and yielded only five; ! Lithuanian A. C.. one of the of 1765. 10 to 3. Bill Lang, after singling and mov- DIFFERENT WORK Walter Ward Cleveland 4 17 ! Total* 30 5 4 27 9 2 Weatherly batted for Ferrick and teams, Battalion 3 Mo 233 33—19 ing two bases on an error, stole hits. In Four Leaf’s spree Chet new beat another new- 1758, Battalion 1 non 010 301— 5 7 | past, l \ (singled to right, scoring Keltner. Rill Kenct of Cleveland Lee In the approximale-odds KI.AND collected four hits and comer. Springle A. C.. 9 to 4. JablntiaM and Ctlliui. I>alto. Brandar home. • to center, scoring Zielinski In Y., readings AB R H PO A T. Hockett singled I bagged a Braymiller of Hamburg. N. null and Bayagtch. Lyle Rumph, Altes pitcher who have sometimes been de- \V**<hrr!\ 5 0 1 1 0 0 Donning the fifth and tying Harry Jasina homer.' the seventh Lithuanians made Battalion 4 200 040 301—10 13 ! 3 0 0 0 0 with the winners. 1747, Eddie Koepp of Cleveland 000 was beaten by Paris in the layed because of large last minute Market' n 2 run.