Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 34

I IN 2 DAYS, HE HITS 3 HOMERS DiMaggio, Williams, Musial-Now Groth? Des Moines Tribune A (By tht Auoclated Prtai.) Johnny Groth looks like the hottest rookie to hit the majors since Joe DiMaggio, Tfrl Williams and Stan Mu- A. 4 x'a The Old Rush Act OOO Bob's 3-Hitter Over Bucs Brings New Praise for Ex-Bruin CHICAGO, ILL. (Jf) Bob Rush, the Chicago Cubs youngest pitcher, who won only five games and lost 11 in Sure, it's too early to tell. Two days don't make a season or a career. But what a two days this 22-year-old Detroit freshman has had.

Three home runs, five hits and seven runs batted in. That's a flashy showing that needs take a back seat to nobody. The 135,000 the Tigers shelled out as a bonus to Johnny when he got out of the navy at Great Lakes may have been their best investment. At least, a $52,000 product, Dick Wakefield, is riding the bench these days. Never a Doubt.

There never was any doubt inj X' -v. i i 1 'X; 1 his first major league season in 1948, showed promise Wednesday of becoming the club's hurling ace in his sophomore year. The 23-year-old righthander let Pittsburgh down with three singles and no runs. The Cubs went on a four-run rampage in the manager Red Rolfe's mind about Groth. He assigned center field X.

X' x'x isf i to him before spring training started. Each of his three potential outfield combinations pivoted around Groth at center. Even a year ago, the word was out that Groth was to be the R. Here are five members of the iXeCOrU DreaKerS" Roosevelt High Sharks club who will perform tonight in the organization's annual swim pageant. The Roughrider team set two records in the Iowa A.

A. U. women's indoor swimming championships at Ames, shattering the 100-yard free-style mark and the 150-yard medley relay standard. Left to right Ann Cownie, Pat Liddle, Donna Bellmer, Mary Collins, who won the diving event at Ames, and Kay Freck. Shows are at 7:30 and 9:00 o'c'lock.

fifth to breeze to a 4-0 decision. Gave Cards Four Hits. Rush, who appeared in 36 games in his first season with the Cubs last year, Wednesday fulfilled the promise he indicated in his last exhibition performance when he defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0, in Houston, Apr. 12.

Only difference in his successive stints was that he gave up four singles to the Cards. All three Pittsburgh hits rame after two were out. Rush struck out seven and walked six, but the latter involved no startling wild streaks since no two were issued in the same -vVi'T- Tigers' center fielder in '49 with Hoot Evers moving to right or left. That was the understanding when Steve O'Neill, then Detroit manager, sent Johnny back to Lynch, Rebel by Descent, Rebel at Bat Buffalo last spring. Proves His Worth.

A .340 season at Buffalo and sweetheart last September. spending 18 months overseas as late last summer for a Cubs tryout, although it was Danny's Batted. .304 Mrs. Lynch will join her husband a parachutist with an airborne Bob Rush. Curves and Sinkers.

first year in professional baseball a .471 batting average at De in Des Moines early in May. division in Germany. At S.M.lT. troit in the final six games of the The 22-year-old infielder made and second base in the minors for about 10 years, quitting active play in 1941. The elder Lynch's fondest dream of playing In the majors never materialized, but he started imparting his baseball knowledge For Waco season cemented Groth's claim to Pitchers Bill Moisan, Calvin Howe and infielder Chuck Balogh a regular job.

Danny enrolled at Southern Methodist university in 1946 aft At Lakeland, there was the final eastern trip of 1948 with the Cubs, and made an auspicious major league debut by hitting a home run off John Sain in Boston in his first big league did not make the Sioux City trip, to Danny, when the youngster some apprehension about the terrific- buildup Groth was getting. By Tony Cordaro. Danny Lynch, a descend All three are on the injured list Sunday's game with was old enough to hold a glove, er he was discharged. He still attends S.M.U. during the offseason.

The smiling Irishman with a contest. They feared too much pressure Omaha will start at 3 o'clock Smart baseball men will wager ant of a Young Irish rebellion might hurt the kid chances Connie Scherzer, starting Bruin leader of 1848, swings a base Danny's baseball background dates to his grade school days. that the fans would expect too pitcher, last year pitched an en ball bat with the stroke of an much from a first year man. tire 17-inning 1-1 tie game against even money the present Bruin infielder will be on the Chicago Cub roster within a few years. Got Early Tryout.

Charley Grimm, the Windy He was selected on the Junior Burlington Legion all-America team in 1943 Texas drawl made his organized baseball debut last spring in the Pittsburgh organization. His Waco batting average was .304. He was declared a free agent by inning. Another unusual twist to Rush's performance was that it gave the Cubs credit for having kept the Pirates from an earned run through 18 innings. The one scored off Dutch Leonard in Tuesday's opener was unearned.

Rush, 6-foot 4-inch native of Battle Creek, was inducted into the army in 1944 before he broke into organized baseball. He had attracted considerable attention by pitching three no-hit games two in succession for the Riley High school team of South Bend, Ind. In Service V'ntil 1947. After he finished high school Rush signed with the Cubs' organization, but he was in service until the 1947 season started. Assigned to Des Moines, Rush won six of seven games and turned in an earned-run average of 1.61.

He finished with Nashville in 1947, where he won nine and lost seven. In his 36 mound appearances with the Cube last year Rush struck out 72, issued 37 bases on balls and had an earned-run average of S.9'Z. Wednesday the towering sophomore mixed curves with his sinker to strike out seven. And, all seven Pirates were dazzled by called third strikes. when attending Highland Park Groth, a quiet, Intelligent youngster who would be a Yale undergrad if it weren't for baseball, wasn't upset.

He knew the heat was on him artist. The Des Moines infielder, currently the talk of the town with his stylish fielding and hitting, follows a long line of successful Bob Talbot's dazzling form In High, Dallas. City manager, thought enough of Danny to bring him up from Waco, covering center field caused much comment Wednesday How He saw two years of service, Commissioner Happy Chandler when the Pirates placed his father on the payroll as a scout. The Cubs immediately signed him. but he took that in stride.

ever, the outfielder is not the Lynches, but in a new field. Danny's great, great, great fastest man on the club in "I'll do my best, that's all I can straight-away race Last year, His pro record: do," he said. It was trite but true. So far, it has been enough. Balogh nosed out Talbot in "Frankly," he said Thursday, Cub Leame Po.

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sa 91 368 112 14 93 .304 Cilic Mat. 2b 7 7 2 1 1 .286 sprint from center field to home "I am surprised as anyone else plate in the Decatur, 111., park. Lynch currently is pacing the I X'; i I I I fr 'a about my luck. How long can this last?" Don't be surprised if Manager John Holland grandfather, was one of the high brass hats of the Young Irish rebellion, which followed the potato famine there. Empire Builder.

Th baseball player's great, great, grandfather was ap- Westera League. Standings. Des Moines batters with four hits That's the way he looked at it in eight times at bat. His schedules several field meets between rival clubs this summer in the dressing room aner nis baby brother, 6-foot 4-inch Billy, four-run homer beat the Chicago is one of the outstanding prep White Sox, 5-2, Groth's two homers the previous basketball players in Texas. He does not play baseball.

Danny was married to his college day helped beat the Sox 5-1. The congenial Holland recalls an event at Fort Worth a few years ago In a feature, the four catchers attempted to pitch a baseball into a barrel placed over second base Their aims Gumpert the Victim. Randy Gumpert, the ex-Yankee, W. O.B. Onwli l.non Dn Mohirt 1 1 1 tiy I I -mo 1 iwblo 1 1 .0110 1 Drnvar 1 1 .0 1 Unoota 1 .004 BRUIN AVERAGES (Unofficial.) Individual Batting.

fx- were bad; the 12 balls they held a 2-1 lead for the Chisox in the last of the eighth when he lost his stuff. pitched went astray Then Sammy Baugh, the great grid forward passer, came down from A walk to Aaron Robinson AB RBI 2B 3B HR Ave. Baloirh. 2b i.ooo i the stands with a football in his jhand and, standing on home plate, Tuesday's Results. Slmn CUT lr Moinrt S.

PrvMn 6, Dftivrr 4. Omaha 7, Lincoln 4. Tonight's Games. Dm MolMt at Sloox City. Omaha at Lincoln.

Pueblo al Wpnver. Friday's Night Games. Tlrt Molnn at Slou City. Omaha at Lincoln. Denver at Pueblo.

loaded the bases, bringing a conference between Manager Jack Onslow and his pitcher. Onslow decided to stick with Gumpert Seconds later he wished he had another chance. fired the pigskin into the barrel .200 nrhratnfca 1 Lynch, 2b 8 (lurttlrr. If 8 l'irhlottl, sa 9 Macrtnotls, 3b 5 IN'ilcn. 7 lllcharda, lb ..9 Talhot.

cf ...8 Krgelsky, it 8 Lee 1 .143 on his first pitch. .111 .000 .000 Gumpert threw two wide Bruns, Eagle Pitching. pitches to Groth and then got one over. IP BB SO 4 fktM Rematched pointed a federal judge in Texas shortly before th turn of the Groth hit it 380 feet into the left center field stands to clean rear 1 2 Jwobs lSj 2 2 1 SlabclMd 0 2Vt 1 ft 0 3 Knhlman 0 1 0 0 11 Schener 0 1 BH 7 10 3 century. the bases.

Earlier Groth drove in a run He used his law talent with real estate investments to build up Danny Lynch, an early hitting sensation of the Des Moines Bruins, munches a chocolate bar at the game here Wednesday night. Lynch, of whom great things are predicted, had four hits in eight appearances in the first two games. AB 71 TB 23 Ave. .239 Chief Don Eagle and Bobby Bruns have been rematched in the main event of a wrestling with a double. Team Batting.

2B 3B NK 17 3 0 1 Team Fielding. PB PO A 0 G4 24 an empire of 300,000 acres. Danny's father, Dan Lynch, sr. centered his ability on the ath BP Ave. .928 BASEBALL ROUNDUP letic field, starring in four sports National League.

at Adamson High, Dallas. He Say Swish Hits 520-Foot Home Run Standings, show at the Coliseum Monday night. The Chief won Monday oh a third fall. Ras Samara, Harlem Negro, has teamed with OB. w.

ret. tu.biv 2 l.ooa Vx then signed a professional base ball contract. Danny, played shortstop Meet the Bruins such things as singles, doubles By Maury White. Mid-season Form- Joe Gordon, Cleveland's great 1947 Des Moines standout, is the No. 4 outfielder.

One coast writer, In selecting 1 1 2 i Southern association fans Jules LaRance of are devoting as much con I rx. 1 an early all-loop rookie team, in second baseman, takes to the air to get off a double-play peg at St. Louis against the Browns Wednesday. Nullified at second is Al Zarilla. The Indians won, 7-3.

cluded Jackson, Terwilliger and versation to last week's "big France against Jimmy Coffield and Frank Mar Cincinnati H' Bo.U.a 1 I'ltlshnrth 1 FhiladHphu 3 .2511 St. Uul 0 1 .000 New lork 0 3 -OOO Wednesday's Results. Brooklyn 6, Nr York 2. Bodtoa 6. Philadelphia S.

hirato 4, Fllt-hnruh 0. Only galnf-fl scheduled. Friday's Games. Bolton at New Vork. Brooklyn at Philadelphia.

Inrlnnatl at Pltl'hurcb. Cnicaso at St. Lout. i American Leagae. blow" as Iowans are to their and triples.

For in his next game he teed off on old Bobo Newsom for a third four-bagger. In two games he had been at bat seven times, collecting three hits all of them horn-ers. Another former Bruin, short Kelly. big blizzard. Also coming in for attention coni in a team match, Promoter Pinkie George Kansas, Tutor Relays for I.S.C.

The "big blow" was a home on the west coast, in spring foot BRH.VS. ball drills at TJ.C.LA, is Dave run propelled out of the Chat Williams, the former CJttumwa tanooga park by Carl (Swish) High and Iowa Teachers star. stop Don Alfano, has been amaz also announced. The LaRance twins lost to the Coffield-Marconi team Monday when John LaRance dislocated his knee. (The Tribune'! Iowa New Service.) AMES, IA.

Coach George Bretnall split 24 trackmen be Swatski in Nashville opener ing Vol followers with his strong and at last word it had stretched day, one at Lawrence, the other at Cedar Falls. The Kansas delegation will concentrate on relays entirely while the Iowa Teachers group will compete in the individual events. stickwork. tween the Kansas and Iowa to 520 feet. Williams, who will be eligible next fall, is being groomed as a spinning fullback for Bed Sanders' single wing.

Warren Gaer, the new Drake Standings. L. Pet. New York Detroit 2 l.OOrt Philadelphia st. Lorn 1 i Cleveland 1 1 -J" VVahlngto 1 Booton .000 thlcaao .009 Teachers Relays this week.

In his first 14 trips he col Both meets will be run Satur Satch Hurts Leg 1 1 lected six blows, all of them singles. coach who came here recently Shagging Flies ST. LOUIS, MO. UP) The Cleve Alfano, the cat-like fielder who It was quite a homer. Estimated Initially at 450 feet, It cleared the right-field wall at the 330-yard mark and sailed completely over a two-story house across the road from the park.

irom ueorge Pepperdine college in Los Angeles, reports that was picked as the most valuable rave" notices about Williams Bruin last season, hit .243 against were floating about last winter- Western league twirling. but as a left half. land Indians' shortage of relief pitchers got shorter Thursday with the sidelining of the club's longest fireman hurler 6-foot 3 Ya -inch Satchel Paige. Sports writers later measured Bruin alumni are doing well the blow, which Swish belted in "Williams is a rookie who shows signs of areatness" Wednesday's Results. New York 3 Wahlwrtn S.

Philadelphia 3. Boston 2. Cleveland t. St. Louis 3.

Detroit S. Chlcaro 2. Friday's Games. New York at Boston. Mint Philadelphia at Washington.

Hetrolt at Cleveland. St. Louis at Cblcaxo. McGivern Gets Visalia Order John McGivern, former Dowl-ing High and Drake pitcher, will 1 3ll- iMjumMtea with Los Angeles in the Pacific Paige pulled a muscle in his the fourth inning off a southpaw hurler. Almost everyone agreed Coast league, too.

left thigh while shagging flies during pre-game batting drill Wednesday. Saturday, Wayne (Twig) Ter- it was the longest homer they had williger collected four singles in Old Chief Smokum soy: I "Angling for really good I lSf I cigar? Get La Pollna Ideal I TO- i 4 at 9c and hook prize A iS-7. Xlngcch Cigar-wise wnoktrs toy: For smoking satisfaction that never jf i Str Jft voriei, jtick to la Palina ivy -1" your be cigar WMM ever seen. "We can't tell yet how serious five trips to run his consecutive Sawatskl, the squat 220-pound it is," said trainer Lefty Tony Jacobs. Pitcher.

Born Aug. 5, 1925, Dixmoor, 111. Height 5-9. Weight 153. Bats both, throws right.

Single. PRO PITCHIXO RECORD. J94B Hutchlnxin. Kan. 14-5 1947 De Molne lo 194S Dpi Moinfl 11-g hitting streak to 17 The 1943 Bruin is the regular second baseman for the Angels.

reDort to Visalia in the Class catcher who belted 29 homers for Des Moines last season to annex the Western league title, wasn't "The injury is in a dangerous An infield mate there is Ran area the upper part of the leg through for the day. and a man of Satch's age som Jackson, who is starting at third. doesn't respond as quickly as a writes Braven Dyer in the Los Angeles Times, "if he'll CRASH his weight into holes instead of sidestepping." see NOTES Eddie Hickey, the St Louis basketball coach, dropped around the office Tuesday. Hickey had attended a banquet at Harlan Monday, was on his way to another at Ottumwa Tuesday, and was to speak at Oskaloosa Wednesday. Jack Carberry, sports editor of the Denver Post, recently went out on a limb and predicted the Western league final standings.

Carberry picked Des Moines to repeat as champion, followed by Denver. Omaha, Pu- California league May 28, it was announced Thursday. McGivern, the first player signed from the Chicago Cubs-KRNT tryout camp here last summer, will complete the semester at Drake, where he is a busi His next trip he boomed a grand-slam homer. Nashville fans then began to young fellow. He won't be doing any pitching for a few days, we know that." Pitcher Bob Kelly is considered a great hurling prospect, and Carmen Maiuo, a wonder if Swish knew there were Ram End Retires.

Joins Club as Aid ness administration junior. A 197-pound 6-footer, McGivern was originally assigned by Chi- cago to Springfield, in the Reslate Tilt WAVERLY, IA. The Wart-burg-Buena Vista baseball game, snowed out last Saturday will be played here Saturday. It will be the first start for the Knights, coached by Ernest Opperman. Western association.

That club LOS ANGELES, CAL. VP) The Los Angeles Ram profes- alonal football team lost a crack 1 end but got a good end coach Thursday. In both instances, the man is Howard (Red) Hlckey, who re-ji tired rom active play in the Na- was ruled out of the league by George Trautman, the minors' commissioner. 1 I I 1 xk X. veblo, Lincoln and Sioux City.

Francis Powers, in his Chicago Daily News -column, insists that in a quiz recently two Wichita university students identified Red Grange as "a subversive farm element." Sam Snead is said to have used 17 different putters during his tour of the winter golf circuit. New Model Cars FOR RENT Phone 4-6917 SAM'S Rent-A-Car nth and Hlrta Strevt BD WWW'S RADIATOR REPAIR New Radiators Used Pi. 4-7193 Es.t St. Grand HID Oft ttonal tootDall league and signed a contract to assist head Coach Clark Shaughnessy this fall Hickey, all-Southwest conference end at Arkansas in 1940, pjajed five years with the Rams between 1941 and 1948. ALFANO.

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