The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-19
REDS, TIGERS
 PROVIDE EARLY
 SEASON CLASS
Rv CARL LUNDQUIST

New YOfk, Aprll lS - NO'rJ Ed Heusser's first pitching job or 1o45. a 6 to o shutout for Cincinnati over Pittsburgh, may cause fello" moundsmen to raise the question when 1t comes time to leave TOT spring training next season - IS this trip necessary"
 Heusser isn't trying to help the Ofiice of Defense Transportation. He just didn't care for spring train ing and reported late, getting only nine days of conditioning. But he was in mid-season form yesterday, holding the Pirates to seven scat tered singles and double at Cin- cinnati He walked only two men. The leading National League pitcher in the earned run depart ment last year with an average ol 2.38, he got of to flying start III defending the mark. Only one man reached third and only two got as far as second. To do that well on only nine days of training, he raises the point of just how important spring conditioning is to pitcher, although his case probably is an ex- ception.
 The Reds, paced by First Base. man Frank Mccormack who had three hits for a perfect day, got off to an early lead with first in- ming run. They scored another iD the fourth and climaxed their at. tack with four in the eighth.
 Other pitchers were Ion tho beam" too, yesterday. Paul Oizzy) Trout, backed by some lusty hitting from the supposedly anemic Detroit Tigers, shut out the Browns at St Louis, II to 0. The Tigers made 2 hits, scoring three runs in the f1rSi inning off Brownie ace, Jack Kra- mer, to make Trout'S work easy. Ht permitted only seven hits, struck out five and didn't walk any. Jimmy Outlaw, with four hits and sacri. flee, and Roger Cramer, who batted in six runs, led the Tigers.
 Russ Christopher of the Athletics had to go 12 innings at Philadelphia before winning a duel from Wash. ingtons 40-year-old John Niggeling, to 0. Niggeling had shade the better of it until the 11th when he went out for a pinch hitter, giving up only five hits to seven for Chris topher. Roger Wolff was charged with the defeat, the As scoring 8 cheap unearned run on an error which put Irving Hall on first, his steal of second, a single by Ed Busch and forceout by George Kell.
 The Yankees for the second straight day used big inning to beat the Boston Red Sox at New York, scoring five in the third to make it easy for Hank Borowy, in a 6 to 2 triumph. BoroWy would have had shutout but for an error in the eighth which set up two tallies. John Lindell, Joe Buzas and Don Savage each made two hits for the Yankees. The Red Sox made only five hits, Rookie Ben Steiner getting | two.
 At Brooklyn, the Philadelphia Phillies also used a five run inning to beat the Dodgers, to 3. The rally | in the fourth inning gave Dick (Kewpie) Barrett good working margin and he had little difficulty thereafter, No Dodger player get- ting more than one hit. Philadel- phia's rookie brother infielders, Granville and Garvin Hammer, made two hits each to pace the win- nerS.
 Manager Mel Otis single in the ninth started the New York Giants off to game winning four run ral- ly against the Braves at Boston. The little pilot got three hits in all in the to 4 triumph. Ace Adams, doing a relief stint for the second >day in a row, got credit for the vic- tory after Van Lingle Mungo falter- ed in the eighth.
 Chicago at Cleveland was rained out in the American. St. Louis and Chicago were not scheduled in the National.