Evening star., 1952-05-03
Rosen' S Winter Drills
Pay Off for Indians
In Home-Run Spree
By Jock Hand
Assoeiofed Press Sports Writer

Assoeiofed Press Sports Writer
AL Rosen's winter batting prac-
tice is paying off for the Cleveland
Indians with spring home run
spree.
Rosen Topped with the rest of
the Tribe as they lost the pennant
to the New York Yankees in the
1851 stretch drive. His average
shrunk to .265. Back home at
Miami. Fla, with a chance to
think it over, AL drew up a posi-
tive plan for SO. Shortly after
the first of the year he started
daily workouts. With a high school
boy lobbing them up, he took his
cuts at Miami Beach's Flamingo
Park.
When Hank Greenberg. Tribe
general manager, called him to
Tucson, Ariz., in February for
extra batting instructions, he went
arunning. RoSen had taken a pay
cut from Greenberg. He wanted
to show him things would be diff
ferent this season.
II had a terrible year." said
Rosen. But I know I can hit
better than that. I'm going to get
that money back and more over
with good year."
Rosen Catches Fire in East.
Rosen hit satisfactory 1903
while the Indians jousted with
the other Western clubs. Once
they hit the East early this week,
he caught fire. Against the Phil
adelphia AS and Washington he
collected nine hits in 18 at bats
for a 500 mark, boosting his
average to 1868.
Tuesday night he hit three home
runs at Philadelphia. Last night
he blasted his seventh homer of
the year. with two on, to trample
Washington, 60. He is tied with
Boston's Walt Dropo for the
American League lead with Is
runs batted in.
Dropo set the home run pattern
in the afternoon at Fenway Park
with bases-loaded blast of Ned
Carver in the Boston Red Sox's
1876 riot against the st. Louis
Browns.
Carver coasted along with 81
lead until the Red Sox cut loose
with big nine in the sixth. A
balk called by Umpire Charles
Berry and an error by Rookie Jim
Rivera on Don Lenhardt's long
drive upset Carver. Dropo's smash
knocked him out.
LOpat Battles Tigers.
Eddie Lopat. a little off the
beam in his previous starts.
found the groove against Detroit
to throw a two-hitter for the
Yanks' Al victory. George Kell
was the only Tiger able to solve
Lopat with a single in the first
and eighth.
Philadelphia outscrambled the
Chicago White Sox. 1912, in a
weird night game at Shibe Park,
where IL pitchers took turns
dishing up base hits. Hank
Majeski's single with one out
and two on in the ninth finally
won the game.
Omar (Turk) Lown of the Chi
cago Cubs made the big news in
the National when he pitched
eight no-hit. no-run innings
against Brooklyn, only to slow up
in the ninth and lose, 81.
Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson
spanked Lown's first two pitches
for hits in the ninth, running his
bid for the first Cubs no-hitter
in IS years.
Rookie Wilmer (Vinegar Bend)
Mizell finally broke into the win
column with a four-hitter as the
st. Louis Cardinals shaded the
Phillies, 80. Peanuts Lowrey's
single with one out in the last
of the ninth scored Solly Hemus
with the deciding run.
The New York Giants scored
two in the 10th, one a homer by
Whitley Lockman, to down Pitts
burgh, 5-3, for their fourth
straight win.
Jim Wilson was the whole show
in the Boston Braves 2-1 victory
over Cincinnati. He scattered
seven hits and singled with the
bases loaded in the second to hand
Kenny Raffensberger his first loss
after three wins.