Young Yankees and Cardinals Prospects Shine Early
Yankee DiMaggio and Cardinal Martin pace two-month surge as top rookies. DiMaggio hits bases loaded triple and homer plus single, while Martin posts a single and triple in an 8-3 win for St. Louis.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1936
Page
16
Yankee DiMaggio and Cardinal Martin pace two-month surge as top rookies. DiMaggio hits bases loaded triple and homer plus single, while Martin posts a single and triple in an 8-3 win for St. Louis.
In the American League Washington tops St. Louis 7 to 4 while New York leads Chicago 11 to 1. Boston edges Cleveland 6 to 2 and Philadelphia defeats Detroit 11 to 7 in early action.
The Washington Senators defeated the St. Louis Browns 7 to 4 to pull even with Detroit for fourth in the American League. Newson earned his sixth win as the Senators built a three-run lead in the third and held on despite a late Browns rally.
Mayor V. W. Shover and several aldermen failed to pay city taxes. They resigned and a special election was called to fill vacancies. Shover was re elected.
Allen T. Sanford the Utah director of the national emergency council spoke in Salt Lake City about a U S housing shortage estimated at 1 7 million homes and 10 million below decent standards, urging action to spur building prosperity.
In Quincy Massachusetts several laborers digging a sewer ditch on West Quadrant avenue were corrected after a supervisor realized the main line should have connected to Harriet avenue nearby. Investigators say the error surfaced when the crew noted the trench location.
The Dr James Health Club beat the A P Tea Company 3 2 to regain first place as Snapps South Enders defeated Northern Virginia Power 6 4. McDonald homered for NV power while Snapp and Clevenger starred for the South Enders in a rally filled game.
Actor Jack Oakie spent three weeks filming in New Mexico and returned to Hollywood with deputy sheriff commissions from Bernalillo McKinley and Santa Fe counties.
Northville North Dakota reports a railway tale after Elmer Hanlon found a set of false teeth along a rail right of way. A search party claimed them for a locomotive engineer who said the teeth were blown through his cab window by a sneeze.
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