Evening star., 1958-05-08
Cubs MayGet
Last Laugh in !
Rush Trade
Phillips Impresses;
Cordinols Wasting
Ston's Hot Hitting

The last laugh on the Bob
Rush deal may belong 10 the
surprising Chicago Cubs after
all.
Last winter, when the Cubs
let veteran Pitcher Rush go 10
Milwaukee for Pitcher Taylor
Phillips and Catcher Sammy
Taylor. the baseball realm was
astounded.
But yesterday Phillips, with
Taylor as batterymate, hurled
a five-hit, 5-i victory over Gin
cinnati for his first complete
game since September. 1866.
IL was Phillips first triumph
for the pace-setting Cubs and
indicated the 24-year-old lefty
may be a big wheel on Man
ager Bob Schefiing's youth
movement" mound stan.
Needed More Work
Because the Cubs other key
pitchers, Moe Drabowsky t22).
Dick Drott i2D and Glenn
Hobbie (22) are righthanders.
Phillips has clear sailing for a
starting assignment, He Is the
clubs only southpaw except for
Ed Mayer t26), who's down for
bullpen duty.
Scheffing has been convinced
right along that all Phillips
needed to be a frontline pitcher
was more work than he was
able to get on the crowded staff
Of the World Champion Braves.
Phillips hurled only 70 innings
last season for a 30 record
after a brilliant start with the
Braves in 1856. The Braves
called Phillips up from Wichita
in mid-1956 and he completed
6 of IL starting assignments for
q SIS record and 2.25 earned
run average.
Phillips was boss yesterday
after he yielded a run in the
first inning on Pete Whise-
nant's triple and a wild pitch.
John Goryl led the Cubs attack
on Brooks Lawrence with two
run-scoring singles.
Braves Keep Pace
The Cubs needed the victory,
for the Braves remained only d
half-game of the pace by plas-
tering a seventh straight defeat
on the Cardinals, 90. San
Francisco moved past Pitts
burgh into third place by beat
ing the Pirates, 8-6.N while the
Phillies belted Los Angeles. 9-3.
In the only American League
action. the Senators drubbed
the Tigers, liza, after Detroit
took the opener of the twi-
Inighter, 5-l.
The Braves completion of a
Ithree-game sweep at st Louis
raised the question of what in
the world will happen to the
Cardinals when Stan Musial
lslumps.
Stan ROars Along
! Last night Stan doubled
home both runs and got three
of the five hits the Cards man
aged off Lew Burdette. He
raised his batting average to
.529 and pulled within seven
hits of the coveted 5000 mark.
Musial has hit safely in every
one of the Cards II games,
but they've won only three of
them and are entrenched in
the cellar, 812 games of the
pace.
The Braves wrapped up the
game in an explosive six-run
first inning that also saw Bob
Halle beaned on the first pitch
by Larry Jackson after he re-
lieved Herm Wehmeier. Halle.
who helped belt the Braves to
the 1857 pennant, suffered a
lconcuSsion.
Red Schoendienst had four
singles in five trips for the
Braves against his old mates
Henry Aaron drove in three
runs and Yves Covington
cracked his second homer.
Burdette won his third with
his first complete game in four
tries since April II. Lew also
had three singles and drove in
a run in the Braves 16-hit
fling.
Bob Friend lost his first in
five decisions for the Pirates,
giving way In a four-run fourth
capped by Rookie Bob Schmidt's
three-run homer. AL Worth
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