Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-07
Only Two Dodgers Reach First
|OnSpohn and Rookie Johnson

Major league hitters are begin
ming to suspect that some one is
sabotaging the official league base
balls. Could it be that some dead
balls" famous in grandpappy's
day, have found their way into the
usual batch of rabbit" balls?
Warren SPAIN and Ernie john
son of the Boston Braves are the
--latest pitchers to lend support to
the hitter's belief.
SPAIN and johnson teamed up
and pitched the Braves to a 10
no-hit victory over the Brooklyn
Dodgers before 9,098 fans at
Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday. It
was the third no-hit, no-run game
Iof the spring. an unprecedented
feat. From 1899 until this season.
only five no-hitters were pitched
lin Grapefruit League competition.
Jim Hearn and Monte Kennedy
of the New York Giants combined
to pitch 1925 first no-hitter,
beating the Chicago Cubs. 100,
on March II.
Steve Ridzik. rookie right
handler for the Phillies, pitched
the second gem, downing the St.
Louis Cardinals, 80, last Friday.
Only Two Get on Base.
SPAIN worked the first seven
innings and allowed only one man
Roy Campanella, who walked in
the fifth-to get on base. Dick
Williams. who got on through an
error, was the only Brooklyn
player to reach base during john
sons two innings.
Preacher Roe, veteran Dodger
lefthander. was almost as good.
He BANKED the Braves on six hits
until the ninth, when Willard
Marshall homered with two out to
win the game for johnson. Roe,
one of baseball's leading breeders
of gopher pitches" has allowed
four home runs this spring.
The crowd booed when SPAIN
was lifted for a pinch-hitter in
the seventh. But Manager Tommy
Holmes explained later:
Spain has gone nine before.
I know he's ready and wanted
to get a look at this other kid.
He's been bothered by sore arm
and hasn't pitched much"
johnson, a 27-year-old native
of Brattleboro, VT, who was up
with the Braves in 1850, won Is
and lost for Milwaukee during
the regular American Association
season in 1851. The rookie right
handler won five more games dur
ing the playoffs.
Williams Hits Two Homers.
Heavy hitting featured most of
the other games.
Service-bound Ted Williams
socked a pair of homers and so
did Walt Dropo in leading the
Boston Red Sox to an 8-4 triumph
over Oklahoma City of the Texas
League.
The Pittsburgh Pirates pounded
out Is hits, including home runs
by Ted Beard and Ralph Kiner,
to bury the Chicago Cubs, 1871,
at New Orleans. HOWE Pollet linn
tied the Cubs to two hits over the
first six innings.
Cliff Fannin, supported by the
st. Louis Browns 17-hit attack,
had no trouble turning back the
San Antonio Missions of the Texas
League, 1875. Rookie Catcher
Clint Courtney led the clouting
with three hits.
Jim Busby pounded out two
run homer to lead the Chicago
White Sox to Al decision over
Fort Worth of the Texas League.
Tie Game at Baltimore.
Outfielder Vic Wertz drove in
three runs on a pair of homers to
spark the Detroit Tigers to So
victory over Birmingham of the
Southern Association.
Home runs highlighted the
Phillies' 9-8 triumph over the
Cardinals at Columbia, S. c. Del
Ennis and Forrest Burgess con-
Inected for the Phils and Solly
Hemus, Enos Slaughter and
Peanuts Lowrey for the Cards.
In other games. Cleveland
trounced the Giants, ga; the
Yankees nipped Atlanta, So, and
the Philadelphia Athletics and
Baltimore Orioles battled to a A
tie in 10 innings at Baltimore.
SAN ANTONIO (P.-Big-name
pitchers apparently don't impress
Larry Dolby, Cleveland center
fielder. In the last three days
he has hit homers off Dave Koslo,
Larry Jansen and Sal Maglie, in
that order. The one off Maglie
yesterday travelled 400 feet over
the centerfield fence.
Dolby was supposed to have
fallen off his game, too, and took
a heavy pay cut for it. Now he
tops the Indians at bat with .361,
leads in runs batted in with 10,
in runs scored with 10 and is
working on a 12-game hitting
streak.
LYNCHBURG. Va. R.-Peewee
Reese, captain and shortstop of
the Dodgers, Is nursing a swollen
left ring finger. He injured the
finger diving back into second
base at Nashville. Tenn, Satur-
day.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (P).-Rookie
Lefthander Harry Schaeffer's con-
secutive scoreless inning streak
for the Yankees was halted at 10