The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Star, The Man
Hosts Average
From, $50 To
400 In Week
AP Sports Writer

AP Sports Writer
Now you know why they call
Stan Musial Stan the Man. No
other hitter in major league history
ever hit five home runs in one
day.
Only nine days ago Musial was
humping along at ESQ, gripped by
the same slump that tortured him
last spring. Now he is hitting 400
with eight homers and seven dou-
bles among his "a hits. The $50, 600
salried st. Louis Cardinal outfielder
leads the majors with q runs bat
ted in and share the home run
lead with Chicago's Hank Sauer.
The six-time batting champion Of
the National League "slumped" to
1897 last year, few points below
his .345 lifetime batting average.
AS late as mid-June he was strug-
Cling at the $50 mark.
"All need is one of those four
for-four days." he said then.
He got his four for four yester.
way in the first game, three home
runs and a single off New York
Giant pitching. Then he added two
more homers in the second game.
Six men had hit four homers in
a double-header but Musial never
had hit three. Five men had hit
five homers in two consecutive
games, but not on the same day.
So Sunday, May 2, 1854, viii 60
down in the books as Musial Day
in st. Louis, the day Stan hit three
atop the right field pavilion and
two over the roof, bouncing across
Grand Avenue.
Musial's clubhouse comment was
typical of a team man: "You can't
smile too much when you lose a
)all game" For the Cards did lose
that second game 81 after taking
the opener 1916.
A total Of IL home runs were
hit in the two games at Busch
Stadium and q in all in the Ma
+ional League, four short of the
record set July 16, 1850.
Musial's shiny day had no ap-
preciable effect on the league
race. The Philadelphia Phillies
gained a as edge over Cincinnati
in the first half of a double-header.
The second game was washed out.
Bob Miller's effective relief pitch
ing and Del Ennis home run
saved the day for the PhilS.
Chicago and Pittsburgh also went
on a homer spree with a total of
eight, three by Hank Sauer, as
they split a pair. A Sauer homer
and single gave Paul Minner
5-3 first-game decision over Vern
Law. The Pirates ripped into the
Cubs for eight runs in the first
inning of the second game on the
way to an 1910 decision. Darkness
mercifully put an end to the
slaughter at the end of eight inn
ings after six home runs had been
hit, two more by Sauer.
Brooklyn's game at Milwaukee
was rained out. The American
League also had postponement,
the Baltimore at Boston double
header.
Cleveland gained ground on
everybody in the American, win
ming a pair from Washington Ga
and 6-3 in 10 innings. Chicago won
its third straight shutout 40 at.
Philadelphia with Don Johnson
throwing a two-hitter but the White
Sox lost the second game 2-1 on
Elmer Valo's pinch single in the
ninth, his first hit Of the season.
The New York Yankees broke
loose with their biggest inning, six
runs in the third, to smother De-
troit 12-4. Then they were shut out
with one hit by Billy Hoeft 40 in
the second game, cut to five inn
ings by darkness.
Getting back to Musial, his third
homer in the first game came off
Jim Hearn, with two on, breaking
a 6-6 tie. The blow sent Hearn
down to his second defeat and
gave Al Brazle his first victory.
STAINS first two came off Johnny
Antonelli.
In the second game his pair
came off Hoyt Wilhelm, who was
struggling desperately to hold the
in the fourth inning.
Just for the records, Musial
walked once and singled in the
first game. In the second he
walked, flied deep to Willie Mays
in center and then popped out in
the ninth. His bag for the day was
nine runs batted in. q total bases
and SIX runs scored.
Sauer batted in three runs in
each game at Chicago for three
game total of nine RIBS. He also
added single and double to his
three home runs as his average
scared to ALP, second only to
teammate Ransom Jackson's .426.
Wally Westlake's double in the
10th gave Cleveland its double
score over Washington after the
Indians had tied the score in the
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