Evening star., 1943-05-03
Giants, Dodgers
Split tDoub|e Bill
Before 47,086
Cards, Bucs, Browns
Score Sweeps; Reds
Play Morning Tilt
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
ccna,afed n.ass ILL.

L1he IIlc weather, Une 1a0S nave
taken their time to warm up to
baseball this season. but yesterday
they turned out in great throngs all
around the ajor leagues.
The first full wave of double
headers scheduled at eight parks at
tracted total attendance of 165,189
with New York having 47,O86 at the
Polo Grounds to see the Giants battle
the Brooklyn Dodgers in a renewal
OF their curious crosstown feud.
There also was virtual capacity
turnout of $4,000 at Washington S
Griffith Stadium to see the much
improved Senators scrap with the
New York Yankees.
All Of this was pleasing to the
magnates. but will not keep some of
them from experimenting with
weekday games to see if they can
attract more fans by varying the
starting times
Reds Slate Morning Game.
At Cincinnati General Manager
Warren Giles of the Reds will start
today's contest with the Pittsburgh
Pirates at 1l:30 am to make it
possible for night shift war workers
to attend. Tomorrow at Brooklyn
the Dodgers game with the Phila-
delphia Phillies will start at $50
pm. to catch daytime workers.
Yesterdays big show provided
plenty of baseball thrills-a mixed
assortment of good pitching, good
hitting and tight struggles.
The crowd in New York saw the
Giants and Dodgers divide double
header in which each game was
decided by one run. The Dodgers
took the first. 80, to hike their win
ming streak to six games. Relief
Pitcher Johnny Allen hit a double
and single to lead Brooklyn's Of
fensive. The Giants bagged the
nightcap, 2-l, with Buster Maynard
hitting a first-inning homer and
bringing in New York's other run
with long fly in the second inning.
Cards Sweep Bill.
The st. Louis Cardinals swept a
double-header from the Cincinnati
Reds. 7-6 and 6-3. Rookie Lou Klein
drove in three runs to set the pace
in the first game and Lefty HOWE
PolleC kept seven hits spaced to win
the second session.
Pittsburgh cleaned up on the
Chicago Cubs with a pair of white
Washings, 80 and 10, as Wally
Hebert pitched a three-hitter and
Bob Klinger four hitter. Both
were tough for the Chicago hurlers
to lose. Hiram Bithorn in the open
er was scored upon for the first time
in 1928 innings and Richard Kew
pie Barrett in the nightcap allowed
only one hit-but it was a double
by Vince Di Maggie and figured in
the lone run of the game.
Rowe Hits Pinch Homer.
The Boston Braves and Phillies
split. Boston won the first, 81,
as Ray Barrett pitched a seven
hitter and missed a shutout when
Danny Litwhiler hit his third
homer of the spring. The Phillies
took the second, 6-5, in II innings,
with LitWhiler doubling with the
bases loaded for two runs after
Boston had tailed in the top half
Of the 18th. Schoolboy Rowe ap-
peared as pinch hitter for the
Phils in the sixth and hit grand
slam homer to tie the score
Weather cut Clevelands double
bill at Detroit to one game, but
the Indians won it, So, to take
charge of second place Ray Mack's
first hit of the season was a fifth
inning homer that put Cleveland
in front.
The St. Louis Browns swept two
at Chicago. 81 and 80, in IL in
nlngs. Steve Sundra pitched seven
hit ball in the first affair and Chet
Laabs decided the second with a
homer in the llth
The Boston Red Sox and Phila-
delphia Athletics halved their pro-
gram, the Red Sox squeezing
through in the first, 7-6, after Tex
Hughson had been manhandled in
trying for his third victory and the
Athletics annexed the nightcap. 81,
on Roger VOLTS seven-hit knuekle-
balling