The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
Bob TriiceIs
Mentioned As
Rookie OF Year
By BEN PHLEGAR
AP Sports Writer ;

If big Bob Trice can keep UP
his fast start he may make the
jump from international League
Rookie of the Year to American
League Rookie of the Year in one
season.
The lean, Georgia+born Negro,
first of his race to play for the
Philadelphia Athletics, has started
finished and won three games.
And each time he's pitched he's
gotten better.
Trice joined the AS last Septem-
Der and posted a 2-1 record after
winning 81 for Ottawa in the In
ternatiOnal League.
This year he made his first start
against Boston and won Ga even
though he was reached for II hits.
In his second appearance he shut
out the New York Yankees 10 on
six hits. Last night against the Bal
timore Orioles he had a one-hit
shutout going for eight innings and
wound up with 81 three hitter.
The only Baltimore run came as
Bobby Young singled, moved to
third on Gil Coan's double and
scored as Eddie Watkins grounded
out.
The loss was the first of the
year for Duane Pillette who had
won two. Bill Renna, one of the
players who came to the Athletics
In the deal that sent Harry Byrd
to the Yankees, drove in three of
the five Philadelphia runs.
Byrd was the last rookie of the
year to wear a Philadelphia uni
form. He won the honor in 1852
when he had a 1915 mark.
Trice, who is Is, is only one full
season away from Class C ball.
He won Is and lost 3 for St. Hya-
cinthe in the Provincial League in
1852 and played 62 games as an
outfielder that same season.
Trice's fine pitching pushed the
Athletics into third place in the
American League, game and a
half behind the fast moving Chica-
go White Sox who whipped Boston
SO for their ninth victory in II
games.
Detroit outlasted Washington 2-1
in IL innings and Cleveland
thumped the Yankees "a with a
five run explosion in the 10th inn.
ing at New York.
In the National League BROOKLYN
took over first place from Cincin-
natl by beating the Redlegs 60.
The New York Giants shaded the
Chicago Cubs AZ in IA innings on
Willie Mays home run and the
Philadelphia Phillies defeated Mil
waukee So. Pittsburgh was rained
out at st. Louis.
Bob Keegan, who never has been
a big spring winner, scattered nine
hits for his third straight success
tor the White Sox. He's won eight
In row over two seasons.
Chicago got two quick runs in
the first inning off Sid Hudson on
two singles, an error and a sacri-
flee fly. Keegan was in trouble in
the seventh and eighth but dou-
bic play got him out of the seventh
and faulty base running by Jackie
Jensen helped him in the eighth
when the Red Sox collected three
singles.
Washington's Bob Porterfield
needed only one more out for q
three-hit shutout against Detroit
Then the Tigers crashed three sue
cessive singles to tie the score and
went on to win with three more
singles in the 18th.
The Indians found the range in
the 10th against Whitley Ford. bat.
tering the Yankee relief pitcher
for a triple, three singles and a
walk good for five runs.
Three of the four Yankee rims
were unearned as two errors led
to a three run scoring splurge in
the New York sixth.
Sal Maglie, written off as a has
been in the late stages of the 1859
campaign, became the first pitcher
in either league to win four games.
To do it he had to pitch the long.
est game of his career.
Mays homer came against War.
rem Hacker who took over from
Bob Rush at the start of the 18th.
Kush gave up only three hits in
the first dozen innings.
Brooklyn and Cincinnati SPRAYED
"A hits over Crosley Field but the
Dodgers used theirs to better adj.
vantage. Two of the Is BROOKLYN
safeties were home runs by Duke
Snider and Pee Wee Reese
The PhillieS jumped on rookie
Gene Conley for four runs in the
sixth inning at Milwaukee for their
second straight over the Braves
Murry Dickson won his third game
against a single loss since joining
the Pills.