The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
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BATTING ATTACK
PhilIies Whack Giants
Twice; Indians, Browns
Split; Reds Lose Two
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

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New York, May l0---tUP) The
much-maligned balata pelota ball
has gone out of the lives Of base
ball players and It's departure
seemed certain today TO signal the
end of the most severe home run
drought suffered by the American
League since 1918.
That was the year junior league
honors went to Babe Ruth with n
total Of II circuit clouts while the
National Leagues top man col
lected only eight. From then on,
the ball gradually was hoped up
and home runs became the yardstick
by which the American League
measured Its superiority over the
rival loop.
The l943 horsehide creation hand
cufied the younger loops sluggcrs
so effectively, however, that the Ma
tional league, until yesterday, had
banged out rs home runs TO the
American Leagues seven.
With n uniform rabbit ball In use
for the first time, II took the
American League Just one afternoon
TO demonstrate the relative slugging
prowesS between the two loops, The
junior circuit slammed SIX four
baggers In eight games Sunday to
only two for the senior organization,
The Yankees afforded the new
ball Its liyeliest welcome, pounding
q pair Of pitchers for 10 hits and 20
bases including home runs by Spud
Chandler Roy Weatherly and Char
ley Keller-to bury the Athletics,
1871, In the first game OF q bargain
bill. The Mackmcn revived In the
nighLcnp and Jesse Flores, with
some late aid from Roger Wolff,
defeated the Yankees 40 Wolf cut
u ninth shining New York uprising
one run short OF tie,
lied SOx Drop Two
Washington snapped out Of n
three-game losing spell by beating
tho Red Sox, 80 GO innings) and
80. Bob Johnson knitted out u SIN
gle of Tex Hughson 70 score George
Case with the opening games win
ming run while Alex Carrasqucl
spaced II Boston hits well enough
10 win his fourth victory In the Sec
ond contest
Rookie Dick WakeAelds costly err
ror helped the White Sox trim the
Tigers, 81, In the curtain-raiser OF
u double bill, but Rudy York hit IN
18th inning homer TO spark the
Tigers TO Al triumph IN the closing
game. York'S homer was followed
by three successive doubles 10 ac-
cumulate the Detroit margin,
Don Holloway homercd In the
fourth for Chicago.
The Indians and Browns had II
out for u innings In the flrSt game
until Eddie Turchin tapped out
single 10 shove home the run that
gave the Tribe u G-b decision In the
18th. Jim Bagby handed out 10
hits 10 the Browns IN II innings,
but Mike Naymick, who allowed no
hits In the last two Innings, won the
decision. The Browns found the
range for only three hits In the
nightcap, cut TO seven innings by
darkness, but ran up Ave runs In
the first and two In the third ~ trip
the Indians, 7-6. Jcr Heath hon.
cred for Cleveland with one on III
the FIRST game,
Out Of the Cellar
The PhillieS quit the role OF Ma
tI0nal League doormatS TO wallop the
Giants, 80 and 81, A big inning IN
each game was enough for the re-
1uyenated Phillics, A pnir OF walks
and doubles by Danny Murtaugh
and Ron Northey put over three In
the seventh inning OF the tirst game
as Schoolboy Rowe pitched m eight
hitter Although held 10 four hits In
the nlghtcap, Philadelphia again
scored three timeS--in the iifLh--to
win rs Jack Kraus, with help from
81 johnson, won his third Victory
Dixie Walkers long ny drove IN
the l0th-inning run that gave
Brooklyn u 5-4 decision over the
Braves IN the first game OF n twin
program, but the Dodgers found Jim
Tobin's knucklcr too hard TO han
le and dropped the nightcap 2-l
Whitney Weitelman doubled home
the deciding run with two out In the
ninth, Chef Ross homcred for Bos-
ton In the second game
Mort Cooper clamped a six-hit-
ter on the Pirates rs the Cards
made 10 hits good for an 81 VIC
tory, The second game was called
at the end OF nine innings because
OF the Sunday curfew with the score
at 3-3.
Chicagos Cubs bounced up the
ladder a notch from last place by
tripping Cincinnati, 1872 and 4-3
Paul Derringer coasted to victory In
the opener behind l5-hit Chicago
barrage Bill Wyse's one-hit relief
work over the last 3 30 innings
after he took over for Bill Lee,
helped cement the decision in the
nightcap, Frank Mccormick hon.
cred for the Reds in the first game.
YESTERDAYS STAR Roy
Weatherly, who hit homer, triple
and three singles In five trips as the
Yankees whipped the AS, 1871, in
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