The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19
HARD-H|TTINC CATCHERS FORM
 CARD PROBLEM
Both Going Great for St. Louis 7=l Winners Over
 Dodgers
By PAUL SCHEFFELS Limited Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

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 New York, May 19,-(UP)-Man- ager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals was a happy man today-happy though his club was berthed third, three games off the pace-for he was blessed with a major league rarity, a plethora of CatcherS.
 Southworth sat in the lobby of his hotel last night, mopped his brow and -poohed any talk about Brooklyn running away with the race.
 Heck, you can't figure the race in either league yet" he said. "For the simple reason that most of the clubs are just swinging into form now. Spring training was anything but that and these first few weeks are more of conditioning spell than that pre- season period.
 What really is bothering me is what to do with my two catcherS Ken O'Dea is hitting like the ham mers of hades and Walker Cooper has started to find the range with a vengeance. But what can do, I can't usc 'em both and I can't leave either one on the bench particularly O'Dea."
 Sub Leads Both Leagues
 O'Dea would normally take a back seat to Cooper but he has compli- cated Southworths problem by lead ing both leagues in batting. In 13 games, the former Giant and Cub backstop has hammered out Is hits in 46 trips for a batting mark of .391.
 Cooper is hitting only PIT but his performance yesterday as the Cards beat the Dodgers to is indicative of how fast he's beginning to move. He collected a double and two sin gles in five trips to drive in two runs while scoring another.
 Stan Musial and Ernie White shared honors with Cooper. Musial hammered out a triple and brace of single, drove in two runs and scored two more as White unwrap- ped a three-hit pitching job for his third straight victory. The mis- cry hit White in the shoulder in the seventh, however, and Harry Brecheen pitched hitless ball the rest of the way.
 The Cards walloped Whit Wyatt for seven hits and five runs and sent him to the showers in the fifth. Johnny Allen allowed no hits until the ninth when Les Webber gave up four safeties and two more Card runs.
 The incredible Boston Braves chalked up their fifth in a row by blanking the Pirates, 40 as Johnny Mccarthy and Charley Workman produced a pair of two-run homers ir the fourth inning, Al Javery won his third mound victory by handing out only five hits. Rip Sewell lost but gave up only five hits in seven innings. Wally Hebert pithed hitless ball in the eighth.
 Manager Mel Otis wild heave hoisted one Cincinnati run across the plate and Frank Mccormick single sent home the other in the 10th as the Reds tripped the Giants 3-1. Elmer Riddle spaced out five Giant hits over ' 2-3 innings and Joe Beggs finished up without a safety.
 Finally Failed
 Ace Adams, the Giants star re- lief hurler, lost his first game in IA relief chores after replacing Bill Sayles in the eighth.
 The Phillies. doing almost as many tricks at the turnstiles as they have on the field, shaded the Cubs, 5-4 before the largest night game crowd in Philadelphia history, 2o,- 820. The win, third straight for the Phillies, hoisted them into a fourth place tie with the Reds.
 A three-run burst in the fifth with two out eclipsed 3-2 Chicago advantage and sent the PhillieS ahead to stay. Ron Northey fired the opening shot with a home run Danny Litwhiler doubled and scored on single by Jim Wasdell, Babe Dahlgren's double drove Wasdell across.
 Veteran Si Johnson scattered II hits effectively enough to earn his third victory.
 The entire American league sched. ule was postponed.
 YESTERDAYS STAR = Babe Dahlgren. who doubled home the winning run as the PhillieS niCked