The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
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Scores Mark
Evening Ti|ts
Pirotss Punish
Dodgers. l4-4,
in Afternoon
BY JUDSON BAILEY

BY JUDSON BAILEY
AsoeiAted Press Sports Writer
Somebody must have sneaked
supply of the original balata
pronounced baloney by the
players) balls into the Major
League parks under cover OF
darkness last night.
There were two games played
in the daylight yesterday and in
one the Pittsburgh Pirates pun
ished the Brooklyn Dodgers IT
4. The two teams made total
Of % hits. In the other the New
York Giants beat the Chicago
Cubs Al and there were % hits.
But after the sun had set. look
what happened.
Cincinnati nOsed out the
Phillies 10 and Washington
whipped the st. Louis Browns
by the same score. There was
not a swat in either game
longer than a single and the
four teams together made .
total Of only l9 hits.
Another flood lighted affair
was an thinning scramble at
St. Louis with the Boston Braves
beating the Cardinals 4-3 and
even though it included cou-
pie of Cardinal home runs, 1t
also was a pitching party.
Lou Klein and Walker Cooper
hit homers for two Of the six
hits given up by AL Javery as
he counted his fourth victory
against one defeat. The Braves
touched Mort Cooper for ten
safeties, punched four of them
with an error for three runs III
the fifth and then won the game
in the lth when Eddie Joost led
off with a single and ultimately
came home on single by Rock
lie Charley Workman.
This boosted the surprising
Braves within half game of the
second place ST. Louis Redbirds.
In the two 10 games the
winning pitchers were the hit.
ting pitchers. At Cincinnati
Bucky Walters and Charley
Fuchs pitched magnificently
and neither team scored till
two were out in the last OF
the ninth.
Walters singled in this inning
went to second on balk and
came home on a single by Eddie
Miller. the sixth hit allowed by
Fuchs. Walters gave only four
At Washington the lone run OF
the game was counted in the
sixth inning on three singles,
the middle one by Dutch Leon
ard, who held the Browns TO
four one-base blows. The Sena-
tors made just five singles Off
John Niggeling and George Cas-
ter.
The day games were a strik'
ing contrast to these duels.
At Pittsburgh the Pirates
scored Is runs in the first
three innings off Max Macon
and Les Weber, getting five
of their runs in the second
and in the third frame scOr-
ing nine times after two were
out. Vince DiMaggio hit two
home runs. one Of them with
one on and the other with
two. and his teammates added
an assortment Of hits. But
what really piled up the score
was a series of walks by Web
Der. who issued nine bases on
BILLS and forced six runs
across the plate.
Fred Fitzsimmons took over
in the fourth and cooled OF the
Buccaneers, although they added
two final runs in the eighth on
triple by Tommy O'Brien.
At Chicago the Giants scored
all four of their runs in the first
three innings off Paul Derringer.
The fact that they were outhi'
1910 and could do nothing IN
the later innings made little di'
ference.
Oh YES. a certain mad Rus
sian. whose name has been ~
the public prints so much q
doesn't need repeating. made MS
1943 debut and was the only
Chicago player except the pltch'
er who failed TO get hit.