The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-25
SCH J M ACHER, DEAN STAND0UT SUNDAY HURLERS
Cards BIanked By Dizzy; Dodgers Get l Hit;
 Indians on Top !
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff COrresp0ndent)

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 New York, April 25-(UP)-When Ascar Witt was named manager of the Cleveland Indians, they all laughed. Just another fall guy' like Roger Peckingpaugh. Walter John- son and Steve O'Neill, they said.
 Why quit lucrati. job i'll the New York Yankee organization managing the Newark Bears to coln- init baseball suicide in Cleveland? For a few thousand dollars more a year, it didn't seem worth 1t to the wise guys.
 Well, maybe Witt has the answer to all those cnigmaS which havd haunted the Indians since 1920 when Iris Speaker led them to the worlds championship-th first and only time Cleveland ever had place ill the baseball sun. Maybe Witt visual- ized a team of powerful hitters and whirlwind pitchers all working to- gether. The skeptics said it couldn't be done in Cleveland bat glance at the American League standings show the Indians setting the pace and they may be hard to catch with Teller, Allen and Harder logging them past the hitters and Trosky, Averill, Campbell and Solters SUD- plying the punch.
 Vitt's slogan for the Indians ln the New Orleans training camp was: "HustleI' He called a player aside one day and said: You draw big salary and are star but l noticed you were loafing a trifle in the eighth inning today If you still want to stay on this club you've got to play the. string out for all you're worth. If you don't want to do it you don't play with Cleveland"
 The word spread around and that's why you see the Indians on top this day. They may not win the pennant but, under Witt, they'll play right to the limit of their ability or else.
 Teller pitched the Indians into the lead yesterday b. beating De- troit, 9-4. He had them shut out un- til the ninth when they rallied with four runs. He famed Il men and walked three. It was his second vic- tory. His mates laid ooWn a 14-hit barrage, with Hale, Trosky and Lary hitting homerS.
 In the other American League games the Yankees won a thrilling 4-3 battle from Washington; the St. Louis Browns nosed out the Chicago White SoX, 4-3; and the Philadel- phia Athletics scored their first vic- tory of the season by Slugging out a 10-4 triumph over the Boston Red SoX.
 The National League was featured by four stellar pitching perform- ances. Maybe they had Ideal ball' in the National League. after all. Hal Schumacher turned in the great- est single pitching exhibition by al- lowing only one hit as the Giants beat Brooklyn, 10. Mel Otis homer decided the game. The first man up. Goodwin Rosen, singled off Schu- macher. Thereafter, 29 hitters faced him. Three got walks. Only one man advanced as far as second.
 Dizzy Dean answered his critics by shutting out his former team- mates, the St. Louis Cardinals, 5 to 0, before 34,520 at Chicago. The Cubs played smart baseball. It was a su- perb performance by Dean, who had the Cards at his mercy throughout. giving them only four hits.
 Danny MacFayden, told that his foster father had died few hours before, pitched one of the finest games of his career as the Boston Bees blanked the Phillies, 20. Mac- Fayden allowed only three hits, and TO man reached second base.
 Pittsburgh won its sixth straight "a 2-1 victory over Cincinnati. Jim Tobin outdueled Peaches Davis al~ lowing but five hits. Paul Waner's single with two out in the eighth drove in the winning run.
 YESTERDAYS HERO-Hal Schu- macher. Giants knuckle ball artist who rapped at the door of the hall of fame by pitching one-hit game against Brooklyn before a throng of