Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-29
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TRIPLE PLAY IS
MADE AGAINST
SOX;;EXHIBITION

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SHREVEPORT, March % P)--
Shreveport executed a triple play
against the Chicago White Sox in
the eighth inning of today's ex-
kibition game, but the Sox won, | i
to 6.
The triple play was started by
Holman, Shreveport third sacker,
who caught Barrett's, line drive,
tagged Metzler off third and then
tossed to Whelan, who caught
Kamm off first The White Sox
scored six runs in the seventh in
ming when Bib Falk hit a home run
with two on. Red Faber, White
Sox veteran, started his first game,
pitching five innings, allowing two
runs.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
2S F9-The New York Yankees
took a beating today from the Buff
falo Bisons Of the International
league, the score being to 4, and
it was the champions eighth beat
ing in nine starts. Wild and inef-
fective pitching by Pipgras in the
fourth and sixth save the Interna-
tional league. champions all their
runs. Ogden, former big Lacquer,
held the Yanks helpless in the first
five innings, giving only two hits.
Four hits and an error gave the
Yanks their four runs in the 7th.
LOS ANGELES, March 2S tR--
Jack Welch, young Chicago Cub
right-hander, allowed but three
scattered hits while his mates ham
mered the ball viciously to defeat
Hollywood, 10 to O, today Eight
of the runs were scored in the
first inning.
Two other Cub youngsters,
woody" English and '.Molly" Me-
Quire, performed an unusual feat
single and double Six singles
and three doubles were made by
the Cubs in the initial inning rally.
MIAMI, Fla, March % R-|
Dazzy Vance and Jess Petty were
in mid-season form today and
Brooklyn blanked the Boston Braves
8 to O., the Redskins getting only
two singles. Vance pitched four
innings and gave up one hit. Petty
finished and allowed the same num-
ber.
While this was going on, Bob
Smith and Foster Edwards were
taking some terrific punishment
from the Dodgers bats. Thirteen
safeties, including two doubles and
a pair of triples, made up the
Dodger offensive.
OAKLAND, March % R-The
Pittsburgh PiratesJ champions of
the National league, ended their
series of exhibition baseball games
in the bay region today by handing
the Oakland team, champions of the
Pacific coast league, an IL to 5
beating.
Glenn Wright, Pittsburgh short
stop, hit safely four out of five
times at bat, one hit being home
run.
The Pirates slammed out II hits
and played errorlesS ball. The Oaks
stop the Pirates sluggers.
TAMPA, Fla, March % P)--
Sherdel and Haines pitched in form
today and the St. Louis Cardinals
shut out the Washington Senators,
2 to 0. Sherdel allowed only three
hits in the first tive innings and
Haines gave but two in the last
four.
The Cardinals fielded errorlessly
and concentrated an attack on Lis
enbee in the sixth inning to score
the runs necessary to win. Lisen-
bee had previously pitched five
great innings, holding the Cardinals
to two hits, both made by Bottomly.
NEW ORLEANS, March % P9-
Cleveland's Indians made it five out
of seven from New Orleans and
seven out of II for the exhibition
season to date by beating the Peli-
cans, 4 to 3,'today.
| Billy Bayne, slight-built south
/ paw, allowed New Orleans one run
in each of the first three innings,
due to wildness. He proved invinc-
ible in the next two frames as did
Garland Buckeye, who finished.
AUGUSTA, Ca, March 28 R-
Bill Carrigan's Boston Red Sox took
their daily beating from the New
York Giants today, s to 5, in a
wild slugging affray featured by
| four home runs Twenty-four hits,
including the four round trip blows,
two triples and six doubles, were
made.
! Lindstrom, OFT, Berry and Myer
were the home run hitters.
MEMPHIS, March 28 (P)-The st.
Louis Browns punched hits off
/ Johnson for four runs in the first
two innings today and won from
! Memphis, to 2. Heinie Manush