The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-05
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Wilks, righ1-hande-. who won II
and lost 8 with Columbus, had beer
rejected for military service anc
would be available to play with
the Cardinals. He had remained
at home in Fulton, N. Y, to wal
for the pre-induction examination
MUNCIE. Ind, April 4.-ER1-
Russ Peters is off the Cleveland
Indian bench at last-and the be-
specialized Virginian shows signs
of making the most of it for as
long as his Ia draft rating per.
mits.
Assigned to the bench for the
last four years, Peters got a regu.
lar infield chore this season when
Ray Mack decided to keep his war
job. Peters now has prospects OF
becoming a batting ace. In two
exhibition games he hit triple,
two doubles and two singles.
The Indians were chilled out OF
today's scheduled exhibition game
with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
WILMINGTON, Del. April A.
(P-The Philadelphia Phillies coast
ed to 60 victory over the Martin
Bombers of Baltimore in an exhi-
bition game today, with Dick ar
rett and Barney Mussill sharing
the pitching duties and allowing
one hit apiece.
Errors by the Bombers figuredin
all but one of the Phillies' counters,
and there was no heavy hitting.
Martins Bombers
200 900 0O0-O 2 4
Philadelphia (NL)
-221 100 0Ox-6 8 /
Collins, Gibson, Davis, Lanen-
stein and Warnecker, Grady; Bar
rett. Mussill and Seminick.
FREDERICK, Md, April 4.-(P)
- The Philadelphia Athletics won
their fifth straight exhibition base
ball game here this afternoon,
rounding out 10 hits as they defeat
ed the Toronto Maple Leafs of the
International League 81.
The AS made all their runs in
the third, combining triple by
Dick Siebert, double by Irv Hall
and singles by Bill Burgo and Lou
Flick with three Toronto errors.
Toronto QL)
----o1o 900 ooO-1 9 6
Philadelphia (A)
----OO5 900 0O0-5 10 l
Mustaikis, Knorr and Williams,
Kratzer; Peeler, McGillen, Kuczyn-
ski and Hayes.
BALTIMORE, April 4-(P)- In
weird travesty on the National
pastime, Boston's American Lea
que Red Sox -thumped the Bal
timore's International League Orio-
les 10 to today before fewer than
100 customers who braved near
freezing temperature and OCCASION
al spits of rain and snow.
The Sox blasted II hits off trio
of Oriole Fingers in the abbrevia-
ted contest which was called be-
cause of cold at the end of the
seventh.
The Sox used Outfielder Johnny
Lazor as a catcher because their
only backstop, Roy Partee, was
given permission to drive his fam
lily home. Old Joe Bowman, one
time National League pitcher went
the last four inning for the Sox.
In the sixth frame when the Bos-
tonians scored II runs, Old Joe
dashed a homer and walked once
and his battery mate, Lazor, slug
ged two four-basers.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO-, April
4-(R-Although a practice game
with Toledo was called off today
because of cold weather, Manager
Luke Sewell Of the St. Louis
Browns got some solace from these
developments:
Outfielder Mike Kreevich signed
bis contract; Outfielder G e n e
Moore, obtained from the Washing
ton Senators in the Rick Ferrell
deal, joined the team, and the
Browns sick list was virtually
wiped clean when pitchers Al Hol-
and Nelson Potter and
Catcher Frank Mancuso shook off
their colds and worked with the
squad indoors.
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