The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-19
Game Was First
Forfeiture Since
40 In National
BY JACK HAND
APP SPORTS Writer

the hot seat t0oay aIter uSI
fight with Terry More, the man
he fired as coach, and a for
feiture to the Phillies for delaying
tactics.
Stanky and Moore, new manager
Of Philadelphia, tangled in the
mida of one Of st. Louis worst
bah field riots in years yesterday
to climax a flaming two-year-old
feud.
After Moore was fired in 1852,
he departed from his normal mild
ways to blast Stanky. when he
loses a ball game he acts more
like a 9-year-old boy than man.
ager." he said. 1.-THE job is to
big for him. Stanky is tempera-
mentally unsuited for the job Of
manager"
Fireworks were expected when
Moore, named manager Thursday,
met Stanky's Cards for the first
time. It happened yesterday at
Busch Stadium and they're still
picking up the pieces. It was the
first forfeiture since 1949.
Coming from behind three times
the Phils pulled out the first game
lilo in 10 innings on double by
Smoky Burgess and a single by
Bobby Morgan. The game had
been delayed 1 hour and IS min
utes by rain in the seventh.
The second game didn't start
until after 6 pm, so lights could
not be turned on under National
League rules. With darkness ap-
preaching in the fifth and the
Phils leading 81 with one man
on base and two out, Stanky had
brought in two new pitchers and
had waved for a third when UNI
pire Babe Pinelli walked to. the
field telephone and notified the
press box that the game was for
feited to Philadelphia 90. No in
dividual records 60 into the book
because the legal five innings
weren't completed.
Stanky protested the game,
claiming Pinelli had exceeded his
authority. "Any delay prior to the
forfeit including free-for-all was
precipitated by members of the
Philadelphia club" he said in a
telegram to National League Pres
ident Warren Giles.
Catcher Sal WARS of the Cards
and first baseman Earl Torgeson
OF the Phils touched off the big
battle when they argued and
squared off. The two players were
old enemies, dating back to
free-for-all in Boston in 1852 over
a broken bat when WARS was
with New York and Torgeson with
the Braves.
Moore, ex-Cardinal great. tum.
bled out Of the dugout and
grabbed WARS. Then Stanky tao
kied Moore. Moore came up with
q dirty face and scratches on his
neck. Stanky has a mouse under
his right eye and a scratch on
his neck. Players from both teams
were on the field, punching and
wrestling before police broke it
up and escorted the men off the
field.
The days fistic action We'd for
attention with the pennant races.
Cleveland still leads the Ameri-
can by half a game. Both the In
dams and New York Yankees split
double-headers. The Yanks went
out front briefly, for the first time
since April %, by winning the fsrit
from Detroit go on Harry Byrd's
five-hitter, while Washington was
humping Cleveland 8-3. Cleveland
rebounded into the lead by win
ming its second game IA as the
Yanks' 1S-game winning streak
was snapped by Detroit S-6.
Chicago's White Sox took a pair
from the feeble Philadelphia Ath-
letics 1919 and 4-2 although Paul
Richards drew complaints for
stalling in the second game. The
White Sox scored four in the
eighth and the AS had two to
make it S-5. when Richards
changed pitchers twice and called
for q third. Plate Umpire Charley
Berry was trying to make the re-
lief pitcher come in Immediately
when the $3.50 pm. curfew stopped
action. The score reverted to the
end of the last full inning, the
seventh.
The Boston Red Sox shut out
Baltimore 40 on one-hitter by
Russ Kemmerer in his first major
league start but the Orioles won
the second game Al on Duane
Pillette's five-hit pitching.
In the National, New York split
two at Cincinnati, losing 14-4 in
the first game and winning 81 on
Willie Mays 33rd homer and
Monte Twins nth. AS Brooklyn
thumped Chicago 1876 on homers
by Roy campanella, Duke Snider
and Carl Furillo, the Giants lead
was clipped to six games.
Milwaukee had to settle for an
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