The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-05
SECOND STRING PITCHERS HAVE
 THEIR BIG DAY
Four Winners Surprise StarS-LeOnard Beats
 Teller and Indians
By GEORGS KIRKSEY

United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, May 5-(UP)-A little soft music today, professor, and a strong spotlight for four American league boys from the back row Emil Leonard, Joe Beggs, Cletus Poffenberger and Bill Dietrich. Never heard of some of lem, have you?
 Well, for this day anyway the Bob Fellers, Red Ruffiings, Mel Harders, Lefty Gomezes and other heralded pitching stalwarts of the American league must remain in the background while Leonard, Beggs, Poffenberger and Dietrich take a bow for four brilliantly pitched games.
 First, there's Leonard, 28 year old righthander from Auburn, H., who pitched Washington ot 13-inning triumph over Cleveland, 10. The knuckle ball expert who came up from Atlanta after once failing to make the grade at Brooklyn, of all places, let the Indians down with six singles, famed five and had per- feet control.
 Then Joe Beggs, 24 year old right handler from Aliquippa, Pa., who pitched the New York Yankees into second place with 3-2 tri- umph over the St. Louis Browns. He allowed only seven hits, famed one and did not issue pass. A slender six-footer Beggs, who came up from Newark, once had aspira- tions to be javelin thrower when he attended Geneva college.
 And next Cletus (Boots) Poffen- berger, stocky, chesty g year old righthander, who pitched the De- troit Tigers out of the cellar with Al victory over the Boston Red Sox. He allowed only six hits, struck out two men, and walked one. Pofenberger is the lad who contin- ually tells Mickey Cochrane: Let me pitch against the tough clubs. don't like to waste my stuff on the pushovers." He's out of Charles ton, w. Va, and came up from Beaumont last mid-season.
 And finally Bill Dietrich, the be- spectacled Chicago White Sox right handler who can't see across the room without his glasses, completes this quartet by virtue of his five hit, Al triumph over the Phila- delphia Athletics. Bill isn't often right, but when he is he's tough, as witness his no-hit, no-run game among a patchwork of mediocre performances l ast season. He walked four and famed none.
 Give 'em a hand, fans.
 Bill Dickey's home after Joe De- Maggio's double gave the Tanks their winning tallies against the Browns. Taft Wright's fly with the bases loaded enabled Zeke Bonura to score Washington's winning run. Bob Teller, who retired as a pre- caution against injuring his arm in the 11th, allowed only three hits, but walked nine and famed eight. zuber, who relieved him, was the loser. The Tigers shelled two Red Sox pitchers for 16 hits, includ- ing three each by Greenberg and Tebbetts. Steinbacher's triple and Gerald Walkers single were the pig blows in the White Sox winning rally.
 Fighting uphill behind Carl Hub bells stout pitching the New York Giants collared the Cincinnati Reds in the eighth to win, 3-2. Johnny McCarthy's single drove in Jimmy Ripple with the wining run. Ripple had a perfect day, A fror A." It was Hubbell's third straight win.
 Claude Passeau, an old Cub jinx, pitched the Phillies to 6-4 vic- tory oyer Chicago, with little relief help from Kelleher in the eighth and ninth things. Bill Atwood hit homer with one on.
 Pittsburgh snapped a five-game losing streak with 9-5 victory over Brooklyn. Russ BauerS and Joe Bowman held the Dodgers to three hits. Bauers was taken out in the fifth because of Wildness. Lloyd Waner got two triples, homer and a single, for perfect day at bat and drove in five runs.
 The Boston Bees staged a two run rally in the fifth off Lefty Lainer to tie the St. Louis Cardinals, 3-3, and then rain halted the game. Joe MedWdick hit homer No. 2.
 VEST RDAY'S HERO: Emil Leonard, Washington rookie, who outpitched Bob Teller and held the Indians to six hits in scoring a 13-