Evening star., 1943-05-15
Ex-A's Big Hell p to Chisox, Ross
Shows in 1-Hit Win Over Yonks
Blow Is Scrotchy as Champs Are B|onked
First Time; Dodgers Bow as Ftz Fails

knows ABOUT strikes are what too
many Of his batterS take and the
only thing he knows about spares
is that he has one on his car.
But what must be especially funny
to James Joseph is that here he is.
the round man with the cigar who
thinks Connie Mack is just about
the greatest baseball brain ever to
come down the pike: yet, every so
often, he picks up some player Mr.
McGillicuddy has cast off from his
Athletics-and the cast-off usually
becomes as hot as Garand rifle in
Tunisia for the Dykes Chicago
Circus.
Connie gave up on Bill Dietrich a
few years back, and let the Sox take
him for the waiver price. Be-
spectacled Bill only pitched a no.
hitter for Chicago and he's still
around there.
No Question About Lone Hit.
Two years ago. the Sox picked up
another Athletics discard, Lee
tBuck) Ross, a strong armed right
handler out of Norwood. N. c., who
never has been good enough even
to make baseball's annual Who's
Who" He went under the collec-
tive wing of Dykes and his crack
coach, Muddy Ruel, and yesterday
he paid off. Thrown in against the
New York Yankees, most famous of
all hitting circuses, Buck limited
them to one measly, scratch single
of the "fluke" variety as he twirled
the Sox to a 80 decision.
This was the first whitewash Job
painted on the Yanks this year and
easily was the standout stunt of a
day which also saw likeable Freddy
Fitzsimmons, fat and Al, fail in his
first pitching job in a year. and four
Of the afternoons six games de-
cided in the final inning. two of
them in overtime. Two tussles were
postponed because of weather condi-
tions.
Several OF Bucks teammates and
lot of the fans thought he had his
no-hitter when the game ended in
Chicago. The only hit off him was
a bounder by Nick Etten in the sec
ond inning which glanced off Bucks
pitching hand. Apparently lot of
folks thought it had been an error,
but there was no argument over it
in the press box-it was a hit.
Scratchy as it was.
Fitzsimmons Fails in Test.
For Fat Freddy Fitzsimmons. who
went less than four innings and was
the losing pitcher as the Pittsburgh
Pirates pounded the Brooklyn
Dodgers, So, the defeat was one of
the toughest he's had to take in a
big-league career stretching way
back to 1925. In the first place, he
was given chance against these
pals" to show whether he still had
the stuff to be kept on the Dodgers
active player roster. He served up
a two-run boom boom ball. to Bob
Elliott in the first, then walked
two men and was tagged for single
by another in the fourth frame
and that was curtains.
Ihe New YORK Giants put on
their second-straight ninth inning
rally to knock off the Chicago
Cubs. This time, after Mel OFT and
Ernie lombard had hit homers
earlier. Sid Gordon singled in the
clincher with the bases loaded in
the finale for 80 decision.
The other last-inning sprees saw
Washington shove three runs across
in the ninth to take the Cleveland
Indians, 81. behind Dutch Leon
ards nine-hit hurting; Pete Suder
put on the squeeze play for the
deciding marker as the Athletics
nipped the Detroit Tigers, 7-6, in
II frames and Rookie Charley
Workman, up from Nashville.
whacking a single with the bags
loaded in the 10th to give the Bos-
ton Braves a 4-3 edge over the
St, Louis Cardinals.