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Dodgers' Sire ale Infacf Despite Plate Slump Hatten Set As Flock's Fifth Starter Latest Thing in Baseball Records Shea's Comeback Top Yank Project Yankee Manager Casey Stengel today designated Frank Shea's comeback try as the No. 1 project of the cjub. And Shea, whose path of World Series glory in 1947 led to By TOMMY HOLMES Of a 16-Inning victory in the open- lng game of a series with the Braves drama witnessed in the flesh by only 7,454 members the minor leaguei in 1949 and '50, happily told the Yankeejjass of this vast community of tele- vision owners is the fact that that he "might do it because I can throw curve balls for the first time in three years." the Dodgers are off to a flying Shea pitched five scoreless in start; and are riding a taiiwind. A five-game winning streak nings and then tired in his first outing against the Senators last has Brooklyn in first place al though the Dodgers have been' Saturday. But the rookie sensation of '47 said theywere the in a batting slump for the last most encouraging five innings couple of days.

At long last, Charley Dres- sen gees or thinks he sees his 4 ne nas pitched in four years. "I broke off mx curve for the first time in years," Shea said. "You can't win without a hook in this league and I couldn't way out of the forest, so far as the Dodger pitching is con- cerned. Yesterday, Joe Hatten's fine performance over 11 23 innings qualified htm as Dressen'a fifth starter. Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Don Newcombe, Chris Van throw one the last three years." To Start Tomorrow Stengel immediately made the firsrmdjor change In his pitching plans by announcing that Shea would replace rookie Tom Morgan as the Yankees' starting pitcher against the Athletics tomorrow after his team Cuyk and Hatten.

That will be the rotation until something occurs to foul up the parade. Meanwhile, the Dodger secondary slinging hag not been disregarded. King Impresses "fi an beat the Athletics, 54, yester-J 41 --h-iiiithm pi ifiupmiw miij There is Ralph Branca for re. lief and spot starts. There is Erv Palica, a bearcat of a relief man until the Army takes him.

And not only did Hatten A VALIANT TRY Jim Felton of St John's Is thrown out at home plate after trying to score on a fly to short center yesterday at Dexter Park. Don Notarelli of Wagner College put the tog on the runner in the second game. Umpire Hopkins makes the call. Wagner upset the Indians in a Met Conference tilt. av0TtM JOE HATTEN, Dodger lefty who starred in Flock's 2 1 overtime victory over Braves yesterday.

regain respectability as a pitch er yesterday, but Clyde King came through with his most Tigers, Browns impressive relief performance since his reincarnation as a Dodger. I'm not at all sure that King's Miltie Definitely Out of Derby Field day. "That doesn't mean I've given up on Morgan," Stengel said. "It means I think Shea has a good chance to make the come back of the year." Stengel laughed off Shea's excuse that he was tired when the Senators routed him last Saturday. "Tired?" Stengel said with a wink.

"Why should he be tired? He hadn't pitched in three years. He had long enough to rest up." Nobody knows Shea better than Stengel, who was responsible for much of his development when Frank pitched for Oakland In the Pacific Coast League. Casey managed Shea in 1946 when the 200-pound righthander posted a 15 5 record Lopez Visions Indians 'Even Better' in Future job might not be the most sig nificant development of the day from a long range point of view. A man like the young professor from North Carolina can take an awful lot of the heat By JOE LEE In Huddle on Battery Deal Detroit, April 24 (U.R) Detroit and St. Louis top brass were ex The pre-season prediction of Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons who tabbed Greentree Stable's Big Stretch as the colt most likely to off the rest of the entire staff i succeed in the three-year-old classics, gained momentum today as Uncle Miltie, Winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, was definitely scratched from the "Run for the Roses." Mr.

Fitz, dean of the Ameri pected to engage in serious if he can mop up as he did yesterday with a fair degree of regularity. It is likely though that Hatten is the lad the mob discussed far into the night. This is the left-hander, who pitched a couple of pretty fair games early last season and then was can trainers, went on record DODGERS BATTING theiand a 1.66 earned run average. trade talk today with Ik Ik BB BM ret. iavur oi Dig oireiuu luuowmg, the release of the Experimental Mik.

..100 4 The next year he was the rookie pitching wizard who developed into the Yankees' ace BRING ON YOUR QUESTIONS Now that the conductor of this corner has possession of "The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball," he wishes more people would ask some of those obscure questions about relatively obscure people that, in the past, have provided such harrowing headaches. For example, some samples: Did Fred Jacklitsch, the old timer who used to help the kids at the Parade Grounds, ever actually catch for the Dodgers? What was Joe Hutcheson's batting average the year he played in Brooklyn? Did the Dodgers ever have a player named McElveen? What was Tom (Wahoo) Warren's pitching record? Was Moose Clabaugh a man or a myth and give details. Look how simpleJife has become. Reading from left to right, the answers called for in the last paragraph are: Yes, in 1903 and 1904; .234 in 1933; Yes, he was an infielder in 1900-'10-'ll; He won 1, lost 4 in 1944: A man, I guess. At any rate, he batted .071 in 11 games in 1920.

Those five questions required less than five minutes to answer. A month ago, I would have called such a quintuple project a days' work. And I cannot guarantee that I would have come up with much information about the likes of Jacklitsch and McElveen that far back. TURKIN AND THOMPSON Dim availability of certain baseball records is the reason why large numbers of baseball queries over the years have remained unanswered. A sports writer loves to oblige the clients but there must be a limit to expendable time.

This encyclopedia, which went on sale yesterday, is officially sanctioned by the executive council of the major leagues. It is published by A. S. Barnes Co. Its price is $5.

a steal, considering that it is the most monumental statistical work on baseball ever attempted. It is the labor of Hy Turkin and S. C. Thompson. Turkin is a staff writer on the Daily News andearned his chief early fame as an eager-beaver reporter following the Dodgers a decade ago.

Thompson is, of all things, a musician with a passion for baseball and the background of the game. Obviously, they share an unbelievable zeal for accuracy and truly tremendous capacity for research. THE ALL-TIME REGISTER Its 640 pages embrace the complete history of the game in statistics, story, pictures and diagrams. I haven't got around to admiring 19 of the 20 sections of the book so far, because I have been so completely absorbed in the first section "The Complete All-Time Major League Players' Register." The register contains the chief vital statistics and skeleton playing record of every man who ever played in a big league game. And I do mean every man.

The athlete I used to test the register was Mr. Snooks Dowd, a character Wilbert Robinson signed to play second base just before the start of the 1926 season. Dowd played in the first two Dodger games that year, then disappeared from view. He is listed all right. The register credits him with two games for Brooklyn and a batting average of .000.

His name was Raymond Bernard Dowd, which I had forgotten, and he "had previously played with the Tigers and the Athletics, which I never knew. NONE TOO OBSCURE 1 guess every veteran baseball observer will have a favorite name with which to test the reliability of the register. That of Frank Graham, for example, is Henry Heitman. He was a pitcher of sorts, signed by the Dodgers in 1918 when players were being drafted right and left for World War I. He started a ball game and was knocked out of the box by a barrage of doubles and triples before he retired a single soul.

According to Graham, he changed clothes, went downtown, en-, listed in the Navy and nobody ever heard of him again. "And there on page 139 is his record," says Graham proudly. Henry Anthony Heitman one game pitched for Brooklyn one defeat." You'd think that Mr. Graham had invented Mr. Heitman.

This is a book that belongs on the most accessible shelf of the man whose business is sports or the fan who prides himself on being well informed. You can take this Baseball Encyclopedia, Frank Menkes All-Sports Record Book, Nat Fleischer's Current Ring Record Book, the Little Red Book of Major League Baseball and John Kieran's Information Please Almanac. Between those, you are reasonably certain to have the answer to the very great majority of the sports questions that come up. BATTLE OVER MARQUARD Not all of them, of course. Late at night in those Flatbush filling stations, they ran dream up subjects for discussion that are truly astonishing.

For instance, the loudest and most bitter argument I can recall in our town involved Rube Marquard, the old pitcher. Mr. Marquard, incidentally, holds an all-time record. Back in 1912 he won 19 straight for the Giants, an unparalleled streak in modern baseball. But this discussion involved nothing quite so simple as the Rube's record.

Marquard had a physical infirmity a wry neck. The argument started over which way the affliction caused Marquard to incline his head. Some said to the right. Others said to the left. Chairs were thrown and blood was shed before the police arrived and I do not believe the point at issue ever was settled to anybody's satisfaction.

.330 .333 .314 Hanaicapper Lampoeii nstea and started three world series supposed to have been chained guitar Brawn 1 Cleveland, Ohio, April 24 (U.R) Cleveland Manager Al Lopez chortled today, "We're going to be even better." "Even better," than first place is a difficult trick, but Lopez explained that while his first line pitching staff has come through, his hitters are still short of their full ability. The Indians have won five of their first six games to take a half-game bulge on the rest of the pack. Under Lopez, the tribe has taken up where it left off at the end of last season when it closed with a rush for ex-Manager Lou Boudreau. This year, Bob Lemon, Bob Feller, Early Wynn, and Mike Garcia, "the best right-handed Tigers seeking a catcher and the Browns one or two pitchers. William De Witt, St.

Louis president, no sooner arrived in town than he disclosed that he would be "very interested" in swapping Catcher Clyde Kluttz for Detroit second line pitchers Hal White and Hank Borowy. Uncle Miltie at 126 pounds with Big Stretch and Battlefield notched at 124 pounds apiece. Newcomb 2 Hernuuitki 4 .284 .304 .200 .204 .167 .154 .111 .040 .000 to the departed Burt Shotton'a doghouse. He wound up the 1950 campaign with two victories and two defeats. Yesterday he tangled up with Warren Spahn, a hard man to games against the Dodgers.

Shea was the brightest young pitching star in the majors that year but he turned out to be the Yankees' biggest disappointment in 1948. Sunny Jim had a perfect Cox Brldrea ThomvMa score in his predictions last Furlll. year. The veteran trainer called the turn on the Derby in Middleground, but added that JJ! shave at any time and a really Tiger General Manager Billy Evans likewise admitted he was more than willing to talk trade magnificent pitcher on this oc- (U.R) Philadelphia, April 24 mil 1.1 1 run nuice wuuiu giau me nuu- SScaslon. A double by Rav Muel who with the Browns president ifiThe Philadelphia Phillies nt iha vrap That'll liict ho -Mwr VllCVk ler led to a Boston run in the third inning and left Hatten in he would offer some talent in coukln't win a game from right-exchange, ihander Jim Hearn last season .004 .004 .004 .004 a precarious spot with nobody mound corps in the The campaign Is only their chief tormentor of week1 old, but already it has be- I9r0 from the hill last night to have gone the route.

In addi- But he got out of that jam town. Others scheduled to gojon a double play ball, then a later in the week include Count strikeout and was never scored come apparent that both clubs'defeat New York, 8 4, for the tion, Wynn has two victories and Lopez said Lemon might could help each other wlthoutjGiants' fifth straight loss, suffering any loss of strength. Hearn, who throttled the Phil- have won his second start Sat way it turned out. In his appraisal of Big Stretch over Uncle Miltie and Battlefield, Mr. Fitz made an unbiased comparison.

"The first time 1 saw him at Saratoga I liked Big Stretch. Although Battlefield took the honors of the year, Big Stretch looked like the type to go on. He is big and has the He'll be a tough one to beat." Awaits Test at Keeneland ine ngers are in aire neeanes four tines at the neigtit ot Turf, Intent and Lord Putnam. Repetoire has gained many supporters since his Wood Memorial victory last Saturday. urday against the St.

Louis Browns had the Indians gar last year's pennant chase, blank upon again. Hodges Connects A home run by Gil Hodges tied the score in the fifth and the two pitchers came a-roar-ing down the stretch, neither yielding a thing worth while. nered some hits behind him. That loss was the only one so of a strong throwing catcher. Young Myron Ginsberg has been noticeably weak in keeping opponents from stealing! The son of Happy Argo has gained grace as a strong derby, threat through his four stakes successes this season.

The un- far for the tribe. Feller Looks Good ing them for his final two victories, was chased In the seventh Inning after yielding 12 hits and seven runs. The National League champions collected their odd run off reliefer AI Gettel in the eighth. A heartening factor is that Feller is showing sparks of Big Stretch is the last remain-defeated colt won the Cherry him blind. On the other hand, St.

Louis' Manager Zach Taylor is quick to point out that the Browns are in desperate straits for some being the "rapid Robert" of old ing member of the Experimen-1 Blossom Stakes, the Experi-; tal "Big Three" still in the run-j mental No. 1, the Chesapeake! nng. With Uncle Miltie and land the Wood Memorial. The In the eighth, for example, he walked two men in a row. but two were out.

But he had plenty in reserve. When Bob Elliott came off the bench to bat for Sam Jethroe, Hatten exploded a fast ball over the plate and Southpaw Jocko Thompson, He went the route here Friday added pitching strength. 31-year-old ex-paratrooper, who and struck out eight men. snent most of 1950 with To- In P.Arrla th Indians I margins nav always ueen Close, itucky Derby, Big Strech 'the Ken but the colt has definitely estab iiuvu, nuitiiw a IUI.IVV film I. allUlllci UUltMllldl iU-KdlUC wm- rocky Taylor made no bones about the fact that he was very Interested in having De Witt acquire White.

ail UUA L.1UUU UUI. ner. After a fine freshman sea- route in grand and went the style. Is down in Kentucky awaiting the $25,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on Thursday. in tne lzth Hatten led off.

son in 1949 when he won 14 and lished himself as the most consistent of the Eastern candidates thus far. Jockey Eddie Arcaro, four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, is sitting on his own While gloom hung over Un walking two men in a row. But he handled the ball himself and got a force play at third when lost five, Circia was rocked in his first four starts last year and never developed. Considering that the Indians Luis Marquez tried to bunt. Dressen figured this was the cle Miltie in Barn 17 at Jamaica today, other stables were hustling with shipping activity as Eastern three-year-olds began the jaunt to gold and fame in Kentucky.

hot-seat in this running of the classic. Eddie has a choice of Svelte Casey Hurls In Batting Practice spot to yank Hatten, and Pa won nine of their last 10 games to complete last season and the nine starters finished, and they are doing it again this year so Cain Hoy Stable's Battle Morn or King Ranch's Long'Bow and Meanwhile, Mrs. Nora A. Mi- must decide by tomorrow. He far, the tribe must be reckoned kell's Repetoire and Cain Hoy ro(ie Battle Morn in the Wood with.

Stable's Battle Morn were be When the hitting comes responsible for (the define In baseball attendance. More likely Is the notion of many fans that they can see as well on televi and lost by a head to Repetoire. Today he will be aboard Long Bow in the sixth race. Steady, Eddie. around," Lopez said, be tougher." ing readied for a plane trip to the Blue Grass Country.

King Ranch's Sonic will also board He pointed out that big Luke Easter is handicapped by a sion unless they wind up in one a plane for Lexington for the of the really choice locations at diuc uiaaa otolites uii i uui mt DCCIIITC tightly taped thigh, the effect Hav Trainer Ma Wirah ulliriwni ntjuuu of a pulled muscle; Ray Boone has a sprained ankle, and the the ballpark. Only new player introduced by the Braves in their first ap league's home run hitting ship Long Bow, a starter in the sixth race today, if that colt shows any derby promise. Gains Many Supporters lica was appointed to talaja charge of the situation. This Erv accomplished with great eclat. A pop-up and a tap to the box and that was that.

Then, because Palica had pitched on Sunday, Dressen made another switch and King went in to collect the pay-off. Two unproductive singles in four innings were all that Clyde allowed. A wonderful strategist is Mr. Dressen. He hasn't made a mistake yet.

Beaten by Error You had to feel sorry for Spahn though. This stylish southpaw pitched the entire game and In the end was beaten because of an error. With one out in the 16th, Billy Cox singled to left. King successfully sacrificed. That made two out.

Eddie Miksis should have been the third out but Gene Mauch booted his easy grounder toward third and there were champ, Al Rosen, hasn't found Hugh Casey, now 37 and weighing 216 pounds, his light-! est in years by his own admission, pitched some batting practice for the Dodgers. It could be that the Flatbush Ave. innkeeper might blossom forth once more, as a Brooklyn relief pitcher. Once, he was amorg the best. The Shorty Laurice Section 8 Club will pitch a party at Len-ruth Hall on Friday night.

Wear your dancing pumps to the whing-ding which will be a tribute to the memory of a grand little guy. This was Tommy Brown's WASHINOTON Holly Mima. 157. Washington, D. knoctad out Pat Brers, 150, Beadta.

Pa. (1). NEWARK Chic Boucher, 138. Sew York, outpointed Andy Vkerto, 140, New York (81. BALTIMORE proctor Heinbold, 132U.

Oklahoma City, outpointed Elmer Barkadale, 129V4. Baltimore (101. CHICAGO Joe Oaraa. 152, Detroit, outpointed Javie 151. Toledo (81.

pearance of the season here his long range eye yet. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE was Luis Marques, a dark-skinned, chunky Puerto Rican Mrs. W. Gilroy's Timely Reward will also be under march order in a clay or so for Derby- YESTERDAY'S RESULTS who was a .311 hitter in the Coast League last yer. Marques SrrMiiM, Toronto' 2.

BuffUo. 10; Sprlnffldd, (nlghtl. Baltimore. 3: Ottawa, a (lit, twillsht). Baltlmort, Ottawa.

0 (2nd, Dlvht). (Only gamai ichduld. started tne game in left field, finished it in center. He is said MAJOR LEAGUE RECORDS STANDING OT THE CLUBS to be gifted with tremendous basepath speed, but he failed TIME OUT! W. L.Pct W.

L. Tct. Baltlmora 4 1 .800: BufUlo 3 3 .900 to get on base. American League SrraniM 3 1 .750, RoeKslr 1 2 .3.13 first game of the season. His Montreal 2 1 4 .2110 Toronto 2 2 .500 Ottawa 1 4 .200 fcenor Marques trjed to get YESTERDAY'S RESl'LTS New York Philadelphia Detroit 7, St.

Louis 4 (Only games scheduled) opening caper was disappointing. On a three-and two count, he stood at present arms, as GAMES TODAY (No fam Mhaduled). National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Brooklyn 2, Boston 1 Philadelphia 8, New York 4, night Chicago 2, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 1. night away with something in the ninth that had the customers buzzing.

Following Olmo's two- Spahn curved one over. FLATBUSH MARATHONI out triple; Marquez struck out STANDING OF THE CLUBS Robinson felt robbed twice retaining a slender hope of life Bravei I Dodger ab at ao Hartd.21 6 02 4 50 1 a W. 20 STANDING OP THE CLUBS in his first time at hat. irst, Jethroe.ef 300 2 Tnomwon.l! 100 01 when the third strike popped out of Campanella's mitt and his smash into the leftfteld mmmm Cleveland 5 Washington 4 Chicago 4 men on first and third. Carl Furillo wag the hitter.

There was a conference at home plate and you could hear the great Boston Intellects grind. Manager Southworth wanted to pass Furillo to bring up Duke Snider. Spahn wanted to pitch to Furillo. He said later that if he had filled the bases he might have got behind Snider in the count and been forced to come Pet. G.B.

.83.1 stands barelv curved foul. Then fell In front of the plate. Before aEllloU 1 00 0 0eMiul 1 00 0 01 Maranall.r 3 0 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 Torgeaon.lb 0 0 17 2 Snlder.c! 60 1 BO BlOOKly 400 1 2Hoblnai.2h 802 11 W. 5 -4 Kerr leaped straight up to catch 'racing for first base, Marques L. Pet.

G.B. 1 .833 1 Vi 1 .800 mi 3 .500 2 4 .333 3 6 .143 44 6 .143 41 Meuch.Sb 20 1 OOHodgee.lt. 1 I II a his line drive. kicked the ball 30 feet awav and York 4 Boston 3 Detroit 2 OUno.rf.lf 0 2 2 HOampene e.o 0 0 14 1 Pjttshureh 3 S00 S0Heeee.u 502 33 Muellei.e 4 11 2 0 3 0 1 12 Philadelphia was immediately declared out Three games at Ebbets Field I for Interference. Instead of an- 1H 2 2 3 4 4 Louis .800 .600 .500 .500 .500 XM .167 BSbitl (loo oocoi.JD in i i 9 A ft A Hilun 1 11 ft 3 Phllailelphia St.

Louis have drawn 31,187, less than liilauding such enterprise, the Boston 40 1 3 VPallca.o 00 0 0 1 Kerr.e 10(1 0 O'dB. Edward 1 00 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 Klng.p 1 0 0 0 1 5 00 0 51 jhalf the total for the first threefans booed. Brooklyn games last year. But! Add is Logan. as Spahn.p New York Cincinnati I in 1950.

the first night game of the season was included in that I stretch. Totea 53 1 7l 47,101 Totals 83 3 10 48 21 aTook third strike lot Jethroe In eighth. DAan for Mueller In tenth, corounded out lor Kerr ui twelfth, lined out for Palloa In twelfth. eReaohed base on error lor Thompson In in with a fast ball. Snider never came up.

On a two-and-two count, Furillo hit one off the scoreboard. That was that. It seemed ironic that Gladys Goodding should have played "Happy Birthday" as they walked off the field. Spahn was 30 yesterday. Furillo is developing quite a racket.

This was the second day in a row he went hitless until Reese singled In the eighth, took one step off first and was picked off by Spahn, who has one of the best "moves'" since the days of Sherrod Smith. In the roth, Campanella picked Sibby Slstl off first. Being a pinch runner, Sisti was much more embarrassed than the An attendance oddity of mod TODAY'S GAMES Philadelphia (Shantz 0-1) at New York (Lopat 1-0), 2:30 p.m. St. Louis (Widmar 0-1) at Detroit (Gray 0-1).

Chicago (Rothblatt 1-0) at Cleveland (Feller 1-0). WasXngton (Marrero 1-0) at Boston (Wight 0-1). TOMORROW'S GAMES sixteenth. xTwo ouf when winning ran soored. Breres oot ooo ono ooo 000 0 1 oodgen ooo oio ooo ooo ooo 1 a Errors Logan.

Maueh, Brldgea. Run batted In Spahn. Hodges. PurUto. Two-base ern times is the fact that (bleacher sections (admission 60 i cents at Ebbets Field) rarely i fill up.

This Is evidence that the price scale of tickets isn't hits Mueller. Snider. Three-base hit Olmo TODAY'S GAMES Boston (Surkont 1-0) at Brooklyn (Roe 1-0), 1:30 p.m. New York (Bowman 0-0) at Philadelphia (Heintzelman 0-1), (8 p.m.). Pittsburgh (Law 0-0) at-Chicago (Lown 0-0).

Cincinnati (Ramsdell 0-1) at St. Louis (Poholsky 0-1). TOMORROW'S GAMES Boston at Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. New York at Philadelphia, 1:30 p.m. Chicago at Cincinnati, night Pittsburgh at St.

Louis, night Home run Hodges. Saorirtee, King. Double I Dodger captain. T. H.

his last time at bat. Sunday, plays Hatten-Roblneon-Hodgea: Reese- Robinson-Hodges; Torgeson-Reruriotd; Campa-nella-Hodgea; Raruneld-Torgeeon. Left on bases Braves 0, Dodgers 7. Base on balls Philadelphia at New Y'ork he won the game with a home Off Ipehn 2, Hatten 4, King 1. Struck run in the 10th.

spoors Cox will replace Rocky Bridges at third base in the starting lineup today. That (2:30 p.m.). St. Louis at Chicago (2). Washington at Boston.

(Only games scheduled) out By Bpahn 8. Hatten 8. King 1. Hits and runs orf Hatten 3 and 1 in 11 1.1 Innings, Palica 0 and 0 In 2 3. King 2 and 0 In 4.

Winning pltoir King (1-0) IMlrut pitcher Spahn P-2j Umpire Barilck, Donetent, Ballanfant, Tint of game 3:53. Attendance 7,454. "It's a new kind of psychology Couch in trying on them they've been dropping the baton too often!" 16 TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951.