Evening star., 1939-04-19
bonura, Manush
Among Those
To Shine
Bridges Away to Big
Start as BengoIs
Trim White Sox
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

!
You know, it's getting so you can't
blame an American Lacquer for
turning up at National League
ball park for a season opener these
days.
The way things are going, with
pretty nearly every team in the
senior circuit sporting at least one
ex-Amerlcan Lacquer. the National
is getting to be somwhat of an ''old
mems home" for fellows who once
drew pay checks in the younger loop.
Take the way the current cam
paign has started. Not that it's
started any too well, what with the
weather man raining out one game
Monday and five more yesterday.
But Of the three National League
games to get by the leaky skies so
far, a drafted American Lacquer has
been the 'Mr. Big" on the winning
side in each case.
OF course. this didn't matter so
much to the club owners. They
looked over the box office and dis
covered 1923 cash customers
turned out for the four games Mon
day and Tuesday. topped by the
$1,000 who saw the Tigers wallop
the Chicago White Sox 6-l in De-
troit yesterday.
Manush Makes Big Single.
But, on Monday, it was Heinie
Manush whose sharp grounder sent
the run across for Pittsburgh which
tied the Reds in the eighth, from
where the Pirates went on to win.
And any kid who can spell Cat
knows where Heinie came from.
Then there were terrible Bill
Terry's Giants yesterday. getting
very little encouragement from
their arch-enemies, the Dodgers,
through the first two innings be-
fore 25,496 damp fans in Brooklyn.
In the third, however, that playboy
late OF the American League, Zeke
the Bananas Bonura, came to bat
with two on and two out and parked
one OF Rookie Russ Evans special
slants among the loyal Flatbushers
in the left field stands for three
runs and the spark that sent the
Giants to a 7-3 decision Zeke also
contributed pair of singles. All
this from the guy such lowly Amer
ican League outfits as the Chicago
White Sox and Washington Senators
gave up on.
And st. Louis mysterious Cardi-
nails, the outfit nobody knows, nipped
the Pirates. 80. There was no news
in the fact Ducky (Call Me Muscles)
Medwick's single showed over two
runs. You expect that sort of thing
from the Medwick man. But the
box score summary shows: Win
ming pitcher-Weiland." Well, this
is the same Lefty Bob who had ad-
dresses in half the American League
cities. Bob has won 81 games for
the Cards in the last two years.
Bridges Away Winging.
The only American League game
to get the nod from Mr.. Weather
so far found Tommy Bridges joy
fully celebrating the start of his
10th season with the Tigers with
some classy right-hand elbowing.
He hand-cuffed the Sox with seven
hits, famed five and didn't walk a
man.
Otherwise on the big league OPEN
ing program, the rains came, saw
and conquered. Things still are
somewhat shaky today, but the
Yankees and Boston Red Sox should
get their New York opener under
way, since they've been promised
cloudy and warmer Chicago fans.
too, are hoping the Cubs can lift
the lid against the Reds, but Gabby
Hartnett isn't too worried, because
the longer the delay, the more
chance he'll have of starting with
his regular shortstop, Dick Bartell,
whose ailing ankle is coming around.
The rest of today's card finds the
Tuesday "jitterbugs" back together
again, along with the Senators at
Philadelphia, the Phillies and Bees
celebrating Patriots Day with two
games in Boston, and Bob Feller
and Buck Newsom tangling in the
1ndians-Brownies party in St. Louis.