Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-01
CARDS GOOD TOO

against the st. Louis CardlnalS
yesterday.
CARDS GOOD TOO
The Cardinals are good. darned
GOOD - even Durocher will admit
that. 1t takes more than ordinary
mound work to stop the ST. Louis
speed boys. but Fitz had all the
necessary attributes as he put the
finger on Billy Southworth's squad
10, in the second game of a
Memorial Day doubleheader to keep
his mates at the head of the pack.
Fitz gave up only four hits in
seven innings. Pinch hitter Dee
Moore worked a perfect squeeze
play in the eighth to send across
the deciding run. Dixie Walker got
double when his brother Harry
misiudged his liner and reached
third on a wild pitch. Dixie then
beat Dbes Garms' throw to the
plate on Moores bunt with the run
that kept the Dodgers on top by
IL games.
Fitzsimmons' flinging practically
pushed into the background the
ore-hitter turned in by Mort
Cooper as the Cardinals won the
first game, TO The only blow off
Cooper. who won his fifth decision,
came in the fifth when Billy Her.
man doubled. He was stranded on
third when Cooper cut down the
next three batters. Lou Klein, St.
Louis rookie, had his hitting string
broken at q games, but Stan Musial
stretched his to 16 with a triple.
The Pirates and Braves, fighting
for third place, split, Boston taking
the first game, 6-1, and Pittsburgh
the second, 40. Veteran Jim Tobin
fluttered his knuckler past the
Pirates for only five hits in the
opener as his mates battered five
pitchers for IA hits. Bob Klinger
allowed eight hits in the nightcap.
Pittsburgh knocked Nanny Salvo
out in the first with two runs.
Cincinnati won one game, GA, but
had to be content with scoreless
standoff in the nightcap, called by
weather with one out in the sixth.
Van Mungo and Ed Heusser each
two hits in the second con-
test. A five-hit rally against Bill
Lohrman produced four Cincln-
natl runs in the third to salt away
the opener.
The PhillieS snapped a six-game
losing spell by garnering IL hits oil
four pitchers for 1914 victory over
the Cubs in the first game, but
Chicago came back with a l3-hit
barrage to win the second, 81.
Babe Dahlgren and Dan Murquagh
belted homers for the Phillies in
the opener. Bill Nicholson, who hit
one in the opener, clouted a three
ruiz homer to sew up the nlghtcap
in the first inning.
In the American League, the
split with the White Sox
to remain on top by IL games as
the Senators divided with the
Indians.
Chicago broke loose for five runs
in the 10th to win the opener, los,
as Ed Smith and Orval Grove com
bjred to scatter 10 hits. Homers by
Charley Keller and Joe Gordon ac-
counted for seven runs as Bill
Dickey collected five hits to bring
the Ysnks a 1914 win in the finale.
Bill Zuber and Jim Turner held the
Sox to seven hits.
The Senators beat the Indians. g.
7. as Stan Spence singled home the
winning run in the eighth inning
of the opener, but Manager Lou
Boudreau's grounder took an un-
expected bounce over Alex Kam-
pouris' head in the 18th OF the
nightcap and Ray Mack Scurried
home with the run that gave the
tribe a 7-6 decision.
The Red Sox scored the days
only double win, beating the Browns
in two extra-inning struggles. Al
single with the bases full
rave the Sox a 81 win in the l3-
inning opener. Boston had to come
from behind twice in the nlghtcap,
finally pushing over two runs in
the 10th for 7-6 decision.
The Philadelphia Athletics and
Detroit Tigers split doubleheader.
The Tigers captured the opener, TO,
On the strength of Hal New
houser's tWo-hit pitching while
Roger VOLTS knuckle ball Subdued
the Tigers, 4-3, in the nightcap.
Hal White was charged with the
loss.
Yesterdays star Freddy Fitz-
simmons, who pitched the Dodgers
% a 10 win over the Cardinals in