Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-28
Fans Speculate On
HurIers For 1943
World Series Tits
By CARL LUNDoUIST


NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-CUP)-
When Connie Mack started the sup
posedly Decrepit Howard Ehmke for
Philadelphia in the 1929 world SER
les opener against the Chicago Cubs,
he also started an annual guessing
game.
Each year as the fall sociable ap-
proaches, there is an aura of spec
ulation whether the rival managers
are supposed to be grooming pitch
ers who are either getting social
security benefits or have limp arms.
Ehmke, an old man as pitchers
go. had been of little use that year
and hadn't pitched in weeks SO the
baseball world was surprised when
Mack put him in. He wasn't sup
posed to have good game left in
him, but he set an all-time series
record by striking out 13 Cubs and
winning to l.
WHITE MAY HURL
Because of the Yankees distaste
for SoEthpaw pitching, this years
speculation centers around Ernie
White, Cardinal lefty, who shut out
the New Workers last fall, but who
since has supposed to have suffer-
ed recurring injury to his arm.
White was more or less of a sur
prise starter last fall, because he
had won only seven games and
didn't compare with some of the
other Redbird pitching satellites.
Whether manager Billy South
worth was giving White a series
airing yesterday is something the
Yankees probably would like to
know, but he pitched his first COM
plete game since May Is and de-
feated the Boston Braves to 3. He
worked easily and though the
Braves touched him for 10 hits,
at the finish he said his arm felt
his curve was breaking right and
fine
The Yanks, meanwhile, rolled on
behind Hank Borowy their sopho-
more star, who won his seventh
straight, his 11th in II and his 14th
for the year in defeating Cleye-
land to 3 Nick Etten with
single, dougle and homer knocked
in four runs to increase his RBI
total to 105. Il
Detroit put homers by Dick
Wakefield and Paul Richards to
good use in its to 3 victory over
Boston. Each came with a man
abase to provide Virgil Trucks
with his 14th victory.
SPLIT TWIN BILL
The athletics and Brown divided
a night double header the AS WIN
ming the first 9 to to snap a sew
en- game losing streak. Frank
Skaff hit a homer with the bases
full in the second inning of the
second game when the AS scored
six runs, but the Browns rallied
late to win 7 to 6. Recruit Charles
Bowles from Lancaster of the inter-
state league won his first start in
the opener, while veteran George
Caster won as a relief pitcher in
tn second.
The White Sox defeated Wash
ington 2 to l twice. Buck Ross and
Gordon Maltzberger outpitched
Dutch Leonard in the opener and
Orval Grove had a shade the bet
ter of it over Bobo Newsom in the
second although NeWsom gave up
only three hits to Groves six.
Ace Adams set a modern major
league pitching record by appear
ing in his 9th game. The durable
relief hurler started against the
Cubs who batted him out in the
fifth and went on to win 10 to
in the 18th on Bill NicholSon's
homer. Ed Walsh, old White Sox
work horse, had held the record of
sc games since 1908.
The Cincinnati Reds increased
their second place lead over the
Brooklyn Dodgers to 312 games by
beating Philadelphia 3 to 2.
Brooklyn and Pittsburgh were not
scheduled.