Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-16 | Page 13 | West, East, Jordan High Schools Retain Clean Baseball Slates

4 i i- i i 6 I ts WEST EST EAST JORDAN HIGH SCHOOLS RETAIN CLEAN BASEBALL SLATES CUBS YANKS BRAVES CARDS BROWNS RIDE IN TOP BERTHS 8 S Pitchers Go Route but Homers Continue to Sail Over Orchard Walls V all s Fans who haven't already forgotten forgot- forgot ten cn the preseason hullabaloo over the he new baseball used mcd in the major leagues this year may well wonder a after r two days of i big time play what effect cite the altered sphere is S SIt having laving It seems evident evi dent that the ball still stUl Is lively as ashe he the home runs are made at their I usual rate but good 00 1 pitching performances performances per per- appear on the increase as well Eight pitchers w went e ii 11 t Grimes the he full routen route in n the two major leagues yesterday an unusual number number num nurn- ber for the second day of or the sea sea- ca- ca son Bump Hadley of Washington and Burleigh Grimes veteran of ot the St. St Louis Cardinals shared tile the topmost hurling honors Hadley Hadey Had- Had Icy ley ey limited ed the worlds world's champion Philadelphia Athletics to four hits bits while the Senators fell feU on big George orge Earnshaw for five runs in the fourth Inning tilling and a a. 7 I to 1 victory Grimes pitched the years year's first shutout set set- ting the Cincinnati Reds down n with v seven sc blows as the Cards won 4 Red Lucas went the thc route for Cin Cin- Bob Smith of the Chicago Cubs Claude and Weeping Willoughby 0 of Pittsburgh staged a 8 full length duel the Cubs winning their second straight 6 to 5 Manager R-oe R Rogers Hornsby Provided prodded the winning run with a homer Although both were hit lilt rather freely Sammy Gray of St. St Louis bested Walt Waite Hoyt o of Detroit to gain sain gaina saina a 6 to 4 1 triumph Both Bolh hurled the full game Seibold held the Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn Robins b to e eight l. l hits l to give the fr fr Braves a 9 to 3 triumph The two New York teams figured fig fig- In the leading slugging con rou- tests With Lou Gehrig's first homo home run as th the big blow the Yanks scored five runs nutS In the thc first Inning then barely outlasted the llie Boston Red Sox putting over a run in the ninth to win 8 Henry Johnson failed to toI I last t af after r fanning 12 Boston bat bat- The Phillies slammed five Giant pitchers and scored eight runs In the second Inning to triumph 10 In the remaining game the Chicago Chicago Chi CW- cago White Sox squared their series with Cleveland by a 7 to 6 10 inning victory The Thc Sox Sex were 16