The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-15
Dodger Boss
Wailing From
League Cellar
Casey Ready to Give Hurler
for SIugger After Cards
Run Wild.


NEW YORK, May 15.-That wall
ing noise from the National League
cellar today was Manager Casey
Stengel moanin' low over not hav-
ing a single slugger on his entire
Brooklyn Dodger team.
Out Of 104 home-runs smashed out
in the circuit to date, Stengel's crew
has accounted but for two of them.
1t has been nearly three weeks since
Linus Frey connected for one and
a month since Oscar Eckhardt hit
for the circuit against the New York
Giants.
In fact Casey Is so tired of being
shut out and losing games by 10
and 81 scores that he is ready to
pawn one Of his best pitchers for a
slugger.
That Is, any OF his pitchers except
Van Lingle Mungo, who he would
not part with for any smuggling
outflelder in the league"
Stengel in addition to attempting
a big league trade has his scouts out
looking high and low for a good
hitting outfielder who can help bring
Brooklyn's batting average above
the $50 mark, the lowest in the
league. Only two players are above
the .300-Ben Geraghty with 1873 and
johnny HaSset with .343. Both are
first wear men
Showed Under by Cards
The Dodgers took a terrific shell
lacking from the st. Louis Cardinals
yesterday, II to 4. The Cards
shelled four pitchers for Is basehits,
including homers by "Stew" Martin
and Joe Medwick. Bill Walker
pitched steady ball for the Red Birds,
keeping nine hits fairly scattered.
The second place Giants kept up
with the leaders as Carl Hubbell
shut out the champion Chicago
Cubs, 5 to o. Hubbell dished out
only five hits and struck out five
men as the Chicagos suffered their
NTH straight loss. Lon Warneke
was the losing hur1er.
Pittsburgh's Pirates gained an even
break in their series with the Boston
Bees by winning out, to 2. 1t was
Ray Benge's first defeat of the sea-
son. The Pirates counted all their
runs in big eighth inning rally.
Bush, who relieved Using, was the
winner.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati was
postponed because of cold weather.
In the American League the lead
ing New York Yankees made it two
out of three over the st. Louis
Browns with 6-to-1 decision as
Ruffing held the Brownies to four
hits. Joe Di Maggie rookie out
fielder, led the Yanks' 15-hit attack
with three doubles and a single in
five attempts.
Grove Rings Up No. 6
Lefty Grove registered his sixth
victory in seven starts as the Boston
Red Sox won out, 3 to /, over the
Detroit Tigers. He held the BengalS
to five hits as the Sox took the
series, two games out of three.
The Chicago White Sox moved
into fourth place ahead of the
Tigers by beating out the Wash
ington Senators, 13 to IL, in a rous-
ing slugging match. Lewis homer
for Washington knotted the count
in the ninth at 12-all, but Fred
Marberry lost the game for himself
when he fielded bunt and tossed
to third when nobody was there.
Haas rounded third and came home
with the winning Sox run.
Three-hit pitching by Dusty
Rhodes gave the Philadelphia Attn
lectics 4to-0 shutout over the
Cleveland Indians. johnson hon.
cred for the AS.
Yesterdays Hero: Joe Di Maggie
New York Yankee outfielder, whose
three doubles and single led the
YankS to victory over the Browns.