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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1943
Page
6
Frederick Mustlers split a twin bill with Yenco baseball club of Washington Sunday at McCurdy Field. They lost the opener 5-2 and won the nightcap 6-1. Key hits included Paul Hildebrand’s second inning homer and Pete Stout’s clutch defense and hits.
League leaders across the National and American Leagues include Owen of St. Louis leading batting with 429, Waner of Brooklyn 375, and Camilli of Brooklyn 18 runs. Herman of Brooklyn and Vaughan, Owen, Walker tied 14 RBIs. Smith: Pittsburgh 31 doubles, McCarthy of Boston and Musial of St. Louis 3 triples. Maynard of New York, Litwhiler and Naylor of Philadelphia tied 3 homers. Murtaugh of Philadelphia 4 stolen bases. Pitchers Sewell of Pittsburgh and Adams, Macon, Allen of Brooklyn tied 30 wins. In the American League Stephens of St. Louis 368, Higgins Detroit 363, White Philadelphia 17 runs, Spence Washington 18 RBIs, Johnson Washington 1. White of Philadelphia leads hits with 8. Bloodworth Detroit 7, Keller New York 3 triples. Keller New York 4 home runs tied with Chartak and ArcQuinn of St. Louis and Aden Bases Caceana Verna Washington 4. Chandler New York and Carrasquel Washington 4 0.
The Bak ers Bowling League shows Doc Ford with the top average of 117 341 pins over 52 games. Ford also has the high set 418 pins and high game 163 pins. Storm and Shipley lead the league with the top team average 337 66 pins for 81 games and high set 1 742 pins and high game 626. Stnp Bros. won the league championship. Paul Derringer is one of four veteran right handers exposed to Chicago Cubs in the National League race.
Rejuvenated Phillies and World Series champions St Louis Cardinals split a pair of pitching duels at Shibe Park in Philadelphia before 31 923 fans. First game ended 2 4 3 with Krist, Cooper, Rowe and Livingston. second game 2 4 1 with Guinvert Litkson Cooper Gerhauser Padden. Braves tie second place by sweeping Reds, 3 1 and 6 1. Boston extended win streak to four. Ott's homer helps Giants beat Pirates in opener. Newsom and Head help Dodgers sweep Cubs. Harmony 6 5, Middletown 3 0, Ballenger 3 0.
The Lions Club sponsored a Friday night swim meet at the M C A pool closing Boys Week. Alvin G. Quinn and Dorsey Shipley directed six prize events for junior and intermediate divers and dashes. Winners included Ralph Harrison Scott Welly Burton Kester Jimmy Bowers Robert Strine Douglas Falk Buddy Brookey Donald Wagner and more. one disqualification occurred in the intermediate underwater event when Jimmy Bowers lifted a foot.
Yesterday St Louis beat Philadelphia 4 to 1 while Brooklyn edged Chicago 3 to 2 and New York defeated Pittsburgh 3 to 1. Boston lost 3 to 6 to Cincinnati. St Lat tied Philadelphia 1 to 1 in 10 innings. Brooklyn 13 Chicago 1 New York 2 Pittsburgh 1 in 11 innings. Today games include Pittsburgh at Brooklyn Chicago at Philadelphia St Louis at Boston New York at Chicago with twilight game in progress.
New York led St Louis 7 3 while Washington trailed Detroit 1 5 and Chicago beat Boston 4 2 Philadelphia won 35 2 over Cleveland 3 3 in a long 10 inning second game. Detroit faced Washington on Saturday as Cleveland edged Philadelphia 2 0 with other games postponed including Washington at St Louis and New York at Detroit.
Broad Run swept a doubleheader against Bolivar 5-4 and 12-7. Harmony split with Middletown 8-5 and 5-7, while Ballenger and Wolfpack split two contests at Baker Park in county league play.
In St Louis on May 1 rookie Floyd Baker delivered a 10th inning RBI single to lift the Browns 4 3 and split a doubleheader with the Yankees who won the first game 7 2 keyed by Charley Keller and Rollie Hemsley homers. The Indians split a twin bill with Philadelphia as Roy Cullen Kinney belted an eighth inning homer to seal a 3 2 win after a 5 3 loss. Washington swept Detroit 7 1 and 10 6 to climb to third in the AL while Chicago edged Boston in a separate tilt.
Chicago White Sox win 4 to 2 in the first game and lose 4 to 2 in the second as Luke Appling errs on a key play. A crowd of about 9,000 watched two batterymate duels despite poor weather.
The Dr Pepper squad defeated Wolfpack 11 to 4 at Baker Park in a rebound from previous titles. Max Kehne struggled early allowing a walk and error to spark two Wolfpack runs but settled to allow four hits over four innings. Shafer Brightwell Kehne Cook were the battery.
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