Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
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BY PAUL SCHFFFELS

NEW YORK, April 26. CUP)-The
New York Yankees, last in spring
training, were first IN the American
league pennant race today and the
only unbeaten team in the big
leagues.
The recent northern spring train
ing grind played havoc with the
Yankees conditioning routine and
they WallOWed through a brief ex-
hibition schedule with their poorest
performance in years. Yet Manag-
er Joe McCarthy's squad has not
only won all three Of its games but
has pitching staff that gives def
mite promise of being the most for
midable mound unit in the circuit.
Ernie Bonham held Washington
scoreless foE SIX innings in the
Yankees first game, Spud Chandler
hurled a one-hit shutout against
the same club Saturday and Hank
BoroWy let the Boston Red Sox
down with only one run as the new
Workers registered a IL triumph
yesterday.
FIRST VICTORY
a crowd of 1917 watched Bor-
oWy register his initial l943 victory
as he scattered nine hits while his
mates piled into Ken Chase and
Lou Lucier for II hits, sailing the
game away with a four-run fifth
inning.
Thirty-seven year old Johnny Mig
geling, whose knuckle ball was good
for Is victories last year, turned his
butterfly pitch loose for the first
time this year and hurled the st.
Louis Brown to a four-hit. 81 win
over the Chicago White Sox. The
game, first of doubleheader, was
pared TO seven innings by the
weather while the nightcap was
postponed.
The Washington Senators put
some life in the dead ball by beat
ing the Philadelphia Athletics, 1879
and SO. The Senators riddled three
pitchers for 19 hits in the first
game and seWed up the nightcap
behind Alex CarraSquel's tWo-hit
tossing with a 1iVe-run burst in the
second.
Jim Bagby, bell-Wether of the
Cleveland mound corps, turned in
his second triumph by pitching the
tribe to an eight-hit, Al decision
over the Detroit Tigers in the first
game of a doubleheader Rookie
/ souJnpaW Stubby OVermire out
| classed siX-foot, eight-inch Mike
Naymick and Allie Reynolds in
the nightcap to gain the Tigers an
even break, Al OVermire fashioned
a fiVe-hitteT.
| A Brooklyn castoff came back to
I haunt the Dodgers as Jack Kraus
cut the Dodgers down with six hits,
! pitching the Philadelphia Phillies
TO 32 victory. Kraus was peddled
/ to the Phillies only a few weeks
ago by the Dodgers and was respon-
! sible for his former teammates
first defeat Of the National league
season. ion NorUhey Earl Naylor
and Merrill May coupled hits with
a pass to Danny Murtaugh to pro-
duce the winning runs in the sixth.
HoWie Pollet restricted the Reds
to five hits as the st. Louis Cardi-
mails WhiteWashed Cincinnati, 10.
Johnny Wander Nicer, who south
paved a Shutout against the Cards
yesterday, allowed only four blows
but lost in the fifth when Walker
Cooper tripled and squeezed home
on Buster Adams sacrifice.
The BostCn Braves whipped the
New York Giants, 8-3, for their
first triumph. Chet Ross doubled
home the tie-breaking run in the
seventh and tha Braves clinched it
with four runs in the eighth.
Pittsburgh coupled 10 hits with
two Cubs errors for a 6-2 win over
the Cubs. Rip SeWell notched his
second triumph by spacing 10 Chi |
cago hits.