Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-04 | Page 11 | Untouted Men Lead Batting

r MEN LEAD BA BATTING T TE WEST HITTING APPLE AT MERRY CLIP Least I Least Impo Important Factors inS in j S Winter Trade Steal Show From Others J 1 By HUGH S. S FULLERTON JR 0 s. s Associated Press Sports Writer Two of ot the thc least important factors factor In b one of the biggest of last winters winter trades Fr Fred d Schulte and Sam cst est have blossomed out as leading leadin of the American league with wit heir new t teams ams much to the surrue sur sur- rue 0 of pra everybody con con- Schulte went vent from the St. St Louis Loui Browns Br to the Washington Senators Senator and West reversed the route in th the deal deaI in which Goose Goslin Walter Walte Stewart Carl Reynolds and Lloyd jBrown Brown figured and drew most of the comment ALMOST UNNOTICED t There didn't appear to be much mud choice between them They are about abou the same age and size each had been in th the league six seasons Schulte compiling a batting average over that period and West hitting an even life I 1 When they were dropped Into regular regular reg reg- ular positions this spring both began hitting bitting at a terrific clip at a time when most of the theother other major league eague j batters were taking their swings at puzzling pitching and then going back backi i Ito to the bench Now Schulte is js the thet t leading batter of the league with a Ii average for 16 ia games while West Is ranked as his leading rival batting bat bat- ting in 20 games I t West lost a good chance to gain on his rival Wednesday as rain and cold cole we weather ther forced the postponement oJ or ort t all laU but two major lea league ue games in including in- in the Senators' Senators clash with Detroit De De- troit He yielded with the rest of ol the Browns to the pitching skill of Ivy Paul Andrews S who hurled the Boston Red Sox to a 6 to 1 triumph to break a six-game six losing streak J hUTS HITS THIRD HOMER IER S Sam m did his share by clouting his third home run of the season with empty bases in the fourth Inning but if Andrews allowed only five other ather hits k while the Sox bunched blows oil off Bump Hadley for three runs in the opening and continued to hit at the important moments Big Smead Jol- Jol 1 f ley Icy set the pace with a 3 single a double double dout dou- dou t ble and a triple Boston also came out on top in hii the theP P only National league game of the day dayas as Cs as the Braves came from underneath to down the Cincinnati Reds 6 to 4 1 LUCAS FINALLY NICKED Red Lucas the reliable Cincinnati fright hander bander appeared to have his straight game won wh when n the BaVes laid laid down down a barrage of long hits jilts in the eighth inning and came out with four runs and the ball ban game Randy Moore opened with a single then Wally Berger clouted a triple and Fritz Knothe and Wes I Ich came through with home runs Besides losing his first game of the season Lucas gave his first walk to Randy Moore in the sixth It was the only one but it led to a Iun lun as asBerger asBerger asBerger Berger and Hogan hit behind it