The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-01
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 New York. May l. CUP)-There was every reason in the world to- day to believe that bullet Bob Teller of the Cleveland Indians might 90 down in baseball history as the greatest pitcher of them all. The homespun Iowa plowboy made such an aim seem reasonable yesterday when he pitched to o no-hit, no-run game against the greatest array of sluggers now operating, the New York Yankees.
 One game doesn't make 6 career even if 1t is no-hitter, but there was plenty of evidence behind this one to back up the belief that Teller woul go on to much greatest heights.
 Second Time
 He was no Johnny come lately to the hall of fame When he knocked on the portal yesterday. the doorman was there to let him in as a member in good standing.
 It was his second no-hitter, the first having come on opening day in 1940 when he stood off the Chi- cago White Sox without hit. But it was the eighth time in his career that opposing batters had been vir- tually helpless, since he had hurled six one-hit triumphs in addition to the no-hitterS.
 It was his 2Oth big league shut out and his 1l4th triumph since he broke in as a 17-year-old kid with sizzling fast ball and little else in 1936.
 Had a "Hunch'' Manager Lou Boudreau, himself hero in Fellers remarkable per- formance, knew that this might be bullet Bob's day of vindication and he told him so in the warm up period.
 This may be your day, Bob," he said. Give 'em all you've got" Teller didn't answer until he took the mound and then he let the skeptics have it. Down through the lineup of fearsome hitters-Phi Rizzllto, George Stirnweiss, Tommy Henrich, Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Nick Etten, Joe Gordon, and Bill Dickey-he burned his fast one, sizzled his curve.
 Not since 1919 when another Cleveland pitcher, Ray Caldwell, turned the trick, had a Yankee team gone hitless. And the bat ters Teller faced were as tough as any similar combination of Yan- kee "murderers" down through the years.
 Two to Garden But not one of them got the sem- blance of a base hit and he struck out II. Only two of them, DiMag- gio and Gordon, got the ball out of the infield. All the others were retired on strikeouts or ground balls that a busy crew handled capably. Teller walked five, often by being too careful, and a sixth man, Stirnweiss, got on via Q ninth inning error by First Baseman Les Fleming.
 The American Leagues other premier pitcher, Hal Newhouser, suffered his first defeat at Boston when the Red Sox topped the Tigers, 4 to o on Joe Dobson'S three hitter. Dobson gave up single to Eddie Lake to start the game then held the Tigers hisless until the ninth when Hank Greenberg and Dick Wakefield hit singles with two away.
 The Senators won :...el1t game from the White Sox at Washing ton, to 2 when Buddy Lewis drove in the winning run in the seventh with double to give Ray Scarborough his second victory. Hall Hit Hard
 The Athletics won a slugging bee from the Browns at Philadelphia. 12 to 8, getting off to fast start with four runs in the first inning. Irving Hall, who drove in four runs with two hits, paced the win ners.
 Ed Head of Brooklyn Dodgers, who pitched a no-hitter a week ago yesterday, ran his string of scorelesS innings to IT before the Cubs scored on him at Chicago in the ninth, then went on to win in the 11th off relief pitcher Hugh Casey, 2 to l.
 Singles by Eddie waitkus, who started both rallies, enabled him to score the tying and winning runs. Emil Rush gained his third victory for the Cubs in relief role.
 Wild Throw
 The Pirates topped the Phils at Pittsburgh, to when wild throw by Pitcher Tommy Hughes produced two runs in the eighth t, break up a pitching battle with Ken Gables. Bob Elliott doubled home the third run of the inning.
 Boston at Cincinnati and New York at St. Louis in the National were rained out
 YESTERDAYS STAR Bullet Bob Teller of the Indians, who pitched a 1 to o, no-hit, no-rlin game against the Yankees, the first they had suffered since 1919.