Evening star., 1954-04-09
Yankees and DODGERS
Using Top Pitchers
AT Brooklyn Today

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South early this morning and
each manager expressed salts
faction with his team.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, (P.-Paul
Minner, lanky left-hander. has
been named by the Cubs to start
against the White Sox rookie.
Jack Harshman. in the first of a
three-game Chicago city series
here today.
The teams will resume their
annual series at Comiskey Park
in Chicago tomorrow and wind
up at Wrigley Field Sunday.
Minner also has been selected
for the Cubs season opener with
the Cardinals in st. Louis next
Tuesday.
Ralph Kiner, who has a Slight
~ pulled muscle in his right
thigh, will be replaced in the
Cubs lineup by frankie Baum
holtZ. Kiner also will miss the
two games in Chicago.
Cub Manager Stan Hack
named a surprise starter at
third, picking Bill Serena over
Randy Jackson. Serena is hit
ting an even 400, with four
homers and ii runs batted in.
Jackson, the regular third sack
er, is averaging only .237.
BALTIMORE, (P).-The Ori-
oles will pick up a new pitcher
and regain a first baseman when
they return here next Thursday
for their home opener against
the White Sox.
Waiting for them will be Dave
Koslo, 34-year-old Southpaw
who was purchased yesterday
from the New York Giants, and
First Baseman Dick KryhoSki,
whose fractured wrist has kept
him out of the lineup since he
was hit by pitched ball March
Is.
General Manager Art Ehlers
announced yesterday that he
planned to have Koslo report to
the team here instead of while
it's on the road. The orioles are
en- route to st. Louis where they
play an exhibition with the
Cardinals tomorrow.
Kryhoski came here yesterday
to have the cast removed from
his fractured wrist. He plans to
work out at his home in Leonia,
N. j., and with the Upsala Col
lege team until the Orioles re-
turn to Baltimore.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (P). Don
Bollweg, the Athletics first base
man who suffered a minor break
in the middle finger of his right
hand Wednesday probably will
be lost to the Philadelphia club
for the opening game Tuesday
against the Red Sox.
manager Eddie Joost said he
would take no chances with Boil
veg and planned to start Lou
udmmer against the Red Sox.
Bollveg had been having the
greatest spring of his career.
Usually a late starter. he was
hitting at a 1925 clip for the ex-
hlbition season.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Pl.-The
home run is a potent offensive
weapon and the double play is a
powerful defensive weapon, and
the Cincinnati Redlegs now have
parlayed them into a four-game
spring training winning streak.
The Reds used both home
runs and double plays to crush
the Washington Senators three
times in a row. Yesterday at
Portsmouth. Ohio, the Detroit
Tigers silenced the home-run
bats. but three double plays
helped Bud Podbielan and Harry
PerkoWski pitch a Al victory
over the Bengals.
: The RedlegS have executed 10
double plays in their last SIX
games and have blasted 81 home
runs in 81 spring training con-
tests. Jim Greengrass leads the
home-run hitters with eight.
4 Today the Reds and Tigers
were to play the second of their
four-game Ohio series here, and
Manager Birdie Tebbetts said
he'd use Fred Baczewski and Joe
E;lxhall on the mound for Gin
cinnati. Detroit was expected to
start Ted Gray.