Evening star., 1952-05-01
Stanky Finally Puts
Stanky al Second Base
And Cardinals Win
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run of Bud Podbielan in the
fifth inning.
Wally Westlake returned to Gen.
ter field and Enos Slaughter and
Billy johnson were benched in
the new Cards lineup.
Tributes Paid Williams, Coleman.
While the debut of Stanky and
Brooklyn's crushing 14-2 defeat
stole the play in the National
League. the American was saying
its farewells to two fine ball play
ers-Ted Williams of the Red Sox
and. Gerry Coleman of the
Yankees. although Williams may
reconsider and play one more
game before reporting as a Marine
air captain.
Ted entrenched the rookie
laden Red Sox in first place with
a two-run homer, his first Of the
year, to beat Detroit, 5-3. It was
the 324th home run Of his bril-
liant careSr.
Williams hit the homer off re-
lief pitcher. Dizzy Trout. in the
seventh inning for Rookie Ivan
Delock's second big league win.
O'clock replaced Mel Parnell in
the seventh. .-.>
Coleman, also a Marine captain
who reports at Los Alamitos. Calf,
Air Base tomorrow, was honored
at a between-games ceremony at
Yankee Stadium where the Yanks
split a double-header with the
Browns.
Coleman Gets Four Hhits.
Coleman bowed out with two
hits in each game to finish with
o .405 average.
Despite Colemans hitting and
homer, double and single by
Mickey Mantle, the Yanks lost
the opener to the Browns, ga.
Bob Cain received some fine re-
lief help from old Satch Paige
to whip the world champs. The
new" Browns jumped on Vic
Raschi for four runs in the first
inning. Marty Marion played bril-
liant ball at shortstop and raped
q single and two doubles.
Allie Reynolds earned the Yanks
q split with a four hitter in the
second game. Al. He struck out
eight in defeating Lou Sleater. ).
Elmer Valo. the league-leading
hitter at .410, snapped the AS
out of a seven-game losing streak
with a three-run homer that beat
Cleveland's Early Wynn, 81.
Valo's blast over the right field
wall followed a walk to Skeeter
Kell and a single by Joe Astroth.
Shantz Has Hitter.s
Bobby Shantz, who edged the
Yanks for the AS only previous
win, went the route with a six
hitter. The AS had only three
hits of Wynn and Steve Gromek.
but the big one was Valo's homer.
The White Sox swept a twi-
night double header from Wash
ington, 7-3 and 4-3. 81
The most impressive daytime
performance in the National
League was Larry Jansen's three
hitter against Cincinnati for the
Giants Al victory. Jansen boost
ed his lifetime record against Gin
cinnati to 1872. Young Davey
Williams raped out four straight
hits to lead the Giants attack on
Harry Perkowski and two success
sors. Hank Edwards f1fth-inning
homer spoiled Jansen's shutout
bid.
Bob Adds double In the 18th
was the final blow Of the Cubs
2O-hit blasting Of seven Philadel-
phia pitchers for a 9-8 edge. The
win put the Cubs in second place.
Dutch Leonard, AZ year = old
knuckleball artist, grabbed his first
win of the year on relief.
Pittsburgh finally broke its 10
game losing streak with an LIS
decision over Boston despite home
runs by Ed Mathews, Ebba st.
Claire and Earl Torgeson. Murry
Dickson, a 20-game winner in
1851, made the win circle after
losing his first three. Starter Dave
Cole was the Boston loser.