Evening star., 1961-04-08
Pirate HurIers
Fail 10 Shake
Spring Slump
Friend Only Star
Showing Old Form;
PhiIs She'll Hoddix
1y the Associated Press


the fact remains that just
when they should be getting
a sharp edge with the National
League season opening in three
days, the big guns of the world
champion Pittsburgh Pirate
mound staff are getting
bombed.
Only Bob Friend has been
consistently in command, and
Manager Danny Murtaugh al
ready has tapped the big right
handler as his opening-day
pitcher at San Francisco Tues
day.
But the way the other 'front.'
liners on the staff have been
belted of late is enough to
make Murtaugh swallow his
chaw. Vern Law. 20-game win
ner, was raped for eight runs
by Detroit Tuesday, and the
next day the Tigers went to
work on Vinegar Bend Mizell
for IL runs.
PhiIs Rock Haddix
Then, after a day off, the
Philadelphia Phillies took up
the attack, scoring six runs off
southpaw Harvey Haddix in
the sixth inning and handing
the Bucs their third straight
defeat. IA, yesterday at
Wichita.
Elsewhere, a trio of sore
armed pitchers indicated last
years miseries are in the past.
Camilo Pascual gave up only
five hits for eight shutout in
nings as the Minnesota Twins
beat Detroit, 10, at Lakeland,
Fla. Gary Bell was touched for
a pair of home runs, but made
it easily through seven innings
as the Cleveland Indians
slugged the Los Angeles
Dodgers. S-3. at Las Vegas. And
Ike O'clock of the Boston Red
Sox allowed five hits and one
run in seven innings for a Al
decision over Chicago's Cubs at
Houston.
Cincinnati made it three in
a row over Milwaukee, 80,
in 13 innings at Charlotte,
N. c., and the St. Louis Car
,dinals defeated the New York
Yankees, 8-6, at st. Louis in
the only other games sched-
uled.
Malkmus Blasts Homer
A two-run homer by Bob
Malkmus was the big blow for
the Phils against Haddix. Robin
Roberts started for the Phils
and gave up a two-run homer
in the first inning to Dick
Stuart, ending his spring shut
out string at "a innings. Don
Hoax also homered for the
Bucs in his first game since
suffering an ankle injury a
week ago. Dallas Green worked
the last five innings for the
Phils and gave up just one hit,
retiring the last 13 men he
faced.
Pascual, bothered much of
last season by a had shoulder.
turned back several Tiger
threats, three times retiring
slugger Rocky Colavito with a
runner on third. The Twins
scored in the eighth against
rookie Jim Donohue when
Zorro Versailles beat out q
bunt, went to third on Lennie
Green's double and came in on
Harmon Killebrew's fly ball.
Rookie Bill Pleis retired De-
troit on three pitches in the
ninth.
Except for the homers by
the brothers Sherry-Pitcher
Larry and Catcher Norm-Bell
had the Dodgers in hand. The
Indians collected II hits, II
Of them good for eight runs
off Johnny Podres, but were
blanked in the middle three
frames by Larry Sherry, who
now has a .090 earned-run av-
erage.
Hardy, Num- Homer
O'clock struck out three and
walked none while Carroll
Hardy unloaded a two-run
homer against Cub starter Glen
Hobbie and Billy Harrell added
a solo shot.
Howie Num-, who went to
the mound in the 18th for
the Reds. broke up a tie game
with a leadoff homer in the
18th against Milwaukee rookie
Tony Cloninger. Mum then
retired Hank Aaron, Frank
Boiling and Joe Adcock after
Ed Matthews opened with a
double in the Braves 18th.
The Cards, trailing 6-3,
scored five runs in the sixth
against loser Danny McDeVitt
and Jim Coates on singles by
Hal Smith, Alex Grammas and
Julian Javier; a hit batter, two
walks, an interference call and
a wild pitch.