Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-03

CRACK SLUGGER
SWITCHED over
TOOUTFIELDER
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS


Comparing the conversion of pitcher
Babe Ruth into an outfielder with
other similar shifts is baseball
suicide but Stan Musial of the st.
Louis Cardinals has reversed the
order.
MuSial wanted to pitch until l94l
when he joined the Glass c SPRING
field farm of the Cardinals in the
Western Association. Some happy
inspiration made him switch to an
outfielder and in l32 times at bat,
he was hitting .379 When he
moved up to Rochester he averaged
1926.
The Cardinals soon called him
and in IL games at the close of Al,
Musial had every National League
manager enviouS. He belted 3l5 in
his first full year last season.
BAT SPARKPLUG
Musial is the batting sparkplug
of the club this year. He is third
in the majors and second in the
National League with 1862. He is
tied with Dolph Camilli of Brook
lyn for the most runs scored in
beth leagues at 81 and leads the
two circuits in hit production
with 54.
He had 4 perfect record as the
Cardinals dropped 80 decision to
the Dodgers last night. He col
lected a double in one official time
a. bat and scored once to boost his
average four points as old Cardinal
pitcher, Curt Davis, halted his
mates. A walk and single by
Danny Litwhiler put men on first
and third for st. Louis III the ninth
with none out but Davis replaced
Max Macon and retired the next
TWO men. Then Jimmy Brown hit.
scoring MuSial. When LitWhiler
tried to score ON the play, he was
out. Mickey owens single in the
eighth sent in Brooklyn's winning
run.
Frank Colman's pinch-hit single
drove in the ninth-inning run that
gave Pittsburgh a 80 decision over
Boston in a night game. The
Pirates tied the score in the ninth
or Elbie Fletcher's two-run homer.
Al Lopez tripleo ana two inten-
tional walks filled the bases and
set the stage for Colman.
SET SEASON HIGH
The Cincinnati Reds, who have
made most of their records by not
hitting, set a season high in hits
and runs for the club by walloping
the Giants, 1876. The Reds raped
five Giant pitchers for 13 hits. The
Giants built up 5-l lead by finish
ing off Bucky Walters in the Sec
ond but Cincinnati climbed all over
Bill Lohrman and Harry Feldman
to gain the edge for good with four
runs in the third
The Phillies hung up their third
victory in four starts and seventh
in eight games with the Cubs by
shading Chicago, 6-5. Schoolboy
Rowe pitched for seven innings,
yielding only one run-a homer by
Phil Cavarretta-until the eighth
when he gave up two runs. Newt
Kimball took over the Cubs clicked
for two more in the ninth but Jack
Kraus retired the last two men to
leave the tying and winning runs
stranded.
Southpaw Jake Wade fashioned
one of his best games as the Chica-
go White SoX tripped the Yankees,
81. Rollie Hemsley's single sent
hcme Johnny Lindell who had
tripled with the Yanks' only run in
the fifth. Hank BoroWy's wild pitch
with the bases full let in Wade with
the tying run in the eighth and
Mike Tresh's Texas Lacquer sent
home the winner with two out in
the ninth.
SPLIT GAMES
The Browns and Red SoX split
two overtime games, their third and
fourth consecutive extra inning
battles. st. Louis won the first, r
4 in l2 innings and the Red SoX
took the nightcap, 80 in 10 sessions.
Don Gutteridge's double and Chet
Laab's one-base hit broke the first
game tie in the 18th and three more
singles brought home two more
runs. Al Simmons slammed out a
single in the 10th of the nightcap
to send home Johnny Lazor with
the winning run.
Detroit drummed out a 7-2triumph
over Philadelphia, their third de-
cision over the AS in four games.
Rookie Stubby Overmire held the
AS to five hits as the Tigers clout-
ed trio of pitchers for IA hits.
The Senators surged TO within
eight percentage points of the lead
ing Yankees by slaughtering the
Indians, 1871 in a night game.
Washington walloped four pitch
ers for II safeties and their third
win in four starts against the
Tribe. Milo Candini held the In
dians TO eight hits. The Senators
wrapped up the game with seven