Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-02 | Page 11 | Showers Cheat Cards' Player out of 1st Hit

I S Slim Showers vers C Cheat 1 Cards Cards' Player Out of 1st Hit CHICAGO CHICAG June 2 W Rain P-Rain Rain may be fine for the crops but Eddie Delker SL St Louis Cardinal infielder is more interested in base hits than crops and yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yester ester days day's rain did his batting average no good Delker sitting in at It second base for Frankie Frankic Frisch had not hit safely in 18 times at bat and never had hit a major league home run In the first of the eighth yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day he hoisted one of Pat Malone's Malones Malones Malone's Ma Ma- lones lone's pitches over the distant left leftfield leftfield leftfield field fence It started to rain a afew afew few ew moments later and the game later was called the score reverting reverting revert revert- ing to the seventh inning which nullified the homer and Delkers Delker's one hit of the day Pepper Martin also was cheated out of a homer his coming comin just after Delkers Delker's and just ahead of the rain fain The Pepper however tripled in the first inning to drive in the only run of the game