Evening star., 1943-05-08
Veteran Scores
Third Success
In Relief Role
WensIoff, Johnson,
Rockies. Poce Yonks
To Fifth Straight
BY ORLO ROBERTSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Branch Hickey has made some
shrewd deals, but none probably ever
was more timely than the one he
engineered in bringing Johnny Allen
back to the Dodgers after disposing
of him in one of his first official acts
as head of the Brooklyn club.
Although the 37-year-old right
handler had a 1912 record of 10 and
6, Hickey, after succeeding 1t. Col
Larry S. MacPhail as head man of
the Dodgers, lost little time sending
Allen and $4,000 TO Philadelphia
for the much younger Rube Melton.
Allen declined to sign with the
Phillies. Then, five days before the
opening Of the season, in a deal that
never has been fully explained,
Hickey summoned the baseball
writer's to his Montague street Office
in Brooklyn and announced the
Dodgers had repurchased Allen.
The records show how smart that
deal was When Johnny went into
Yesterdays game with the Boston
Braves in the seventh with the score
deadlocked it marked his third relief
appearance of the season. He pitch
ed shutout ball for three innings as
his mates went on to club out a
9-to-7 victory, and give Allen his
third straight success.
Proves Sterling Clutch Pitcher.
In eight innings of relief hurting.
Allen has given up only eight hits,
three to the Phils in 22s innings,
two to the Giants in "a and three
yesterday. Prior to Aliens appear
ance the Braves hao dubbed the
offerings of Ed Head and Les Weber
after the Brooklynites had showed
across five runs in the second, three
on Augie Galan's homer. Eddie
Joost almost matched that with a
tWo-run homer for Boston in the
third.
With the St Louis Cardinals and
Pittsburgh Pirates kept idle by the
weather, the Cincinnati Reds moved
into the National Leagues runnerup
spot. 2'2 games back of the Dodgers.
They nosed out the Chicago Cubs,
5 to d, as Johnny Wander Nicer re-
ceived held from Fireman" Joe
Beggs in registering his fourth
pitching triumph.
The other National League game
saw the Phillies go on their biggest
scoring spree of the season behind
the fve-hit pitching of venerable
ST Johnson. With Jimmy Wasdell
driving in six runs on homer,
triple and single, the Phils blasted
three Giant hurlers for 13 hits to
win, 13 to 3.
YankS Make 1t Five in Row.
A pair of rockies. Charley Wens-
loft and Bill Johnson, paced the
New York Yankees to their fifth
straight victory. a 6to-2 decision
over the Philadelphia Athletics.
Wensloff, who won 81 games with
the Yanks' Kansas City farm club
last season, pitched shutout ball for
six innings.
Johnson. up from Newark in the In
ternational circuit. drove three runs
across the plate with his first ma jor
league homer in the fourth to run
his hitting streak to eight straight
games. Then, after having double
go for naught, he pounded another
run across the platter with single
in the seventh.
Johnny Humphries outpointed
Hal White in 10inning pitching
duel as the Chicago White. Sox
eked out a 10 decision over the
Detroit Tigers. Humphries himself
brought home the only run, after
leading off with walk. and moving
up to second on sacrifice. Luke
Appling produced the game winning
hit-a double to left center.
The Boston Red Sox beat Wash
ington, 80. and the Cleveland st.
Louis tussle was postponed.