The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-03
MUSIAL MADE A
HAPPY CHOICE
AS OUTF|ELDER
Slugger of St. Louis Car
dinaIs Wanted to Be
Pitcher
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent


New York, June 3.-(UP)-Com-
pairing the conversion Of pitcher
Babe Ruth into an outfielder with
similar shifts is baseball suicide but
Stan Musial of the St. Louis Car
dinals has reversed the order.
Musial wanted to pitch until
1941 when he joined the Glass c
Springfield farm of the Cardinals
in the Western association. Some
happy inspiration made him switch
to outfielding and in 1872 times at
bat, he was hitting .379 When he
moved up to Rochester he averaged
| 1926.
The Cardinals soon called him
and in IL games AT the close of
Al, Musial had every National
league manager envious. He belted
.3l5 in his first full year last sea-
son.
Musial is the batting sparkplug of
the club this year. He is third IN
the majors and second in the Ma
tional league with 1862. He is tied
with Dolph Camilli of Brooklyn for
the most runs scored in both leagues
at 81 and leads the two circuits in
hit production with 81.
One for One
He had perfect record as the
Cardinals dropped 80 decision to
the Dodgers last night. He COL
lected a double in one official time
at bat and scored once to boost his
average four points.
An old Cardinal pitcher, Curt Da-
Wis, halted his mates. A walk and a
single by Danny Litwhiler put men
on first and third for st. Louis
in the ninth with none out but Da-
Wis replaced Max Macon and retired
the next two men. Then Jimmy
Brown hit, scoring Musial. When
Litwhiler tried to score on the play,
he was out. Mickey Owens single
in the eighth sent in Brooklyn's
winning run.
Frank Colmans pinch-hit single
drove in the 9th inning run that
gave Pittsburgh a 81 decision over
Boston in a night game. The Pr
ates tied the score in the ninth
on Elbie Fletcher's two-run homer.
Al Lopez tripled and two inten-
tional walks filled the bases and set
the stage for Colman.
Routed by Reds
The Cincinnati Reds, who have
made most of their records by not
hitting, set a season high in hits
and runs for the club by walloping
the Giants, 1876. The Reds raped
five Giant pitchers for 10 hits
The Giants built up ST. lead by
finishing off Bucky Walter in the
second but Cincinnati climbed all
over Bill Lohrman and Harry Field
ryan to gain the edge for good with
four runs in the third.
The Phillies hung up their third
victory in four starts and seventh
in eight games with the Cubs by
shading Chicago, 6-5. Schoolboy
Rowe pitched for seven innings,
yielding only one run - homer by
Phil Cavarretta until the eighth
when he gave up two runs. Newt
Kimball took over and the Cubs
clicked for two more in the ninth
but Jack Kraus retired the last two
men to leave the tying and winning
runs stranded.
Southpaw Jake Wade fashioned
one of his best games as the Chicago
White Sox tripped the Yankees, 2-l.
Rollie HemSley's single sent home
Johnny Lindell who had tripled
with the Yanks' only run in the
fifth. Hank Borowy's wild pitch with
the bases full let in Wade with the
tying run in the 9th and Mike
Tresh's Texas Lacquer sent home the
winner with two out in the 9th.
Double Header Overtime
The Browns and Red Sox split
two overtime games, their third and
fourth consecutive extra-inning
battles. st. Louis won the first,
IA in II innings and the Red Sox
took the nightcap, 80 in ten SEES
sions. Don Gutteridge's double and
Chef Laab's one-baSe hit broke the
first game tie in the 18th and three
more singles brought home two more
runs. AL Simmons slammed out a
single in the 10th of the nightcap
to send home Johnny Lazor with
the winning run.
Detroit drummed out 70 tri-
umph over Philadelphia, their third
decision over the AS in four games
Rookie Stubby Overmire held the
AS to five hits as the Tigers clouteo
trio of pitchers for IA hits.
The Senators surged to within
eight percentage points of the lead
ing Yankees by slaughtering the
Indians, 1871 in a night game.
Washington walloped four pitch
ers for II safeties and their thlrc
win in four starts against the
Tribe. Milo Candini held the In
dams to eight hits. The senators
wrapped up the game with seven
runs in the eighth.
YESTERDAYS STAR - Veteran
Curt Davis who put out a st. LouL
rally in the ninth to enable TIT
Dodgers to share the Cardinals, 81
last night.