Evening star., 1945-04-08
Cronin Hurt as. Boso,
Annex Wild Contest
With Yanks, 1913
Py the Associated Press.


PLEASANTVILLE, N. j., April T..
Rookie Catcher Fred Walters
banged out four hits in four trips
to the plate today as the Red Sox
polished off the Yankees, IS to 13,
for the fourth time in seven meet
ings.
Joe Cronin, Boston boss playing
third base. was forced to retire IN
the fourth when struck on the
wrist by a blow off the bat of
George Stirnweiss.
Yankee Rookie Shortstop Joe
Buaas drove in four runs, three
with a homer.
New York tAD - 100 500 0I6-l3 Il 4
Boston (AD- 40 900 23x-15 II !
Borowy. Page and Crompton; Dreise-
werd George Woods and Walters
Curtis Bay ROuts AS.
CURTIS BAY, Md, April 7 (P.-
Playing errorless ball, Curtis Bay
Coast Guard today hung a 1874
defeat on the Athletics. 1t was the
Guardmen's third victory over the
AS in four games.
Curtis Bay got to Don Black for
10 hits and a dozen runs in his six
inning stay Carl Scheib finished,
allowing only one hit.
-Four Of Curtis Bav's tallies came
on a grand slam homer by slugging
Lou Klein. Hank Majeski punched
out another four -baser.
Curtis b &c. G. BOB O15 0Ox-1" il q
BLACK, Scheib and Hayes, Ronay and
Tabacheck.
Army Blanks Dodgers.
WEST POINT. NY. Aoril 7 I4).-
West Points baseball team repeated
its previous victory over Brooklyn
today but added insult to it by
banking the Dodgers, to 0, on a
on four-hit pitching job by Dick
Kinney and John Tulley.
Hal Gregg of the Dodgers was
touched for homer by Johnny
Nance.
Brooklyn CN)--- 600 coo GOO oooo-o 4 J
"ej reee Fein Davis and ao oven en K,nney snX TScy
and Lombardo.
Pirates on Hitting Spree.
MUNCIE. Ind, April tP,.-Pitts-
burgh went on batting rampage
today, shutting out Gas City,
Ind, semipro outfit, $50
Fourteen of the % hits made by
the Pirates were for extra bases.
These included home runs by
frankie Cuisine, Lloyd Waner and
Tommy OBrien and six triples and
five doubles.
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Atkinson. Mccoy and Shinhol; Cucu-
ruNo Gables, Gerhcauser and Sa!Eecd.
Reds Trim Cubs. 10 to 4.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. April 7 t4N-
The ds pounded the ball all over
the lot in ar exhibition with the
Cubs today, winning 1874. The Reds
scored nine of their runs in the
ninth inning off George Hennessey.
They got IS runs and IA hits of
Hennessev in four innings.
Joe Just hit homer in the sixth
for Cincinnati with one man on and
IN the big ninth he got double
and q single Don johnson of the
Cubs hOmered in the second
The Cubs defeated Louisville in
the first game of twin bill, 9-6, in
10 innings.
Cincinnati o@0 orc 3l9-12 IS =?
Chicago on NgO 00O-- 3
Fox Walters. Listnbee and Lakerman
and Just; Derr!neer, Hennessey and Llr-
chicaeo 1o2 600 100 3-a "A .
Louisville coo 200 o3o 0-6
Wvse. Chinman and Gillespie, Hefln.
SilnOnTS and SdE.rO. llDScOnD.
ChisoX Repeat on Tigers.
TERRA HAUTE, Ind, April 7 (EN.
The White SoX got % Frank
Overmire for a dozen blows to whip
the Tigers, 6 to in the opener of
a 4-game series today. The SoX
earlier in the week had trimmed the
Bengals. too
Thornton Lee, 37-year-old south
paw. started for the White Sox and
yielded only two hits in five innings.
He was succeeded by Johnny John
son, who yielded three hits and was
touched for all Tiger runs.
Detroit tAl 900 000 30l-4 !
Chicago tAD 032 Ol0 0Ox-6 Il 4
Batteries--Overmre and Richards; Lee
Johnson and fresh.
Giants Win on Five Hits.
CAMP KILMER, N. j., April Z
CPD.-The Giants collected only five
hits of Jack Shope and Ray Teller
but seven bases on balls on four
errors enabled them to beat the
Jersey City international Leaguers,
tn 2 before 000 soldiers here to-
day.
r. H. z.
Jersey City H. L. 900 200 OO0-2 8 3
Batteries--Brewer, Emmerich and Lom-
bard, Berres; Shope, Teller and Nc