Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-04 | Page 15 | Di Maggio Wields Potent Bat

Dl MAGGIO WIELDS POTENT BAT I IJ t It i J Rookie Stars J In His First j Y Yank ank Game r. r I By ANDY CLARKE I Associated d Press Tress Sports Sport rit Writer r rt t The The- baseball world knows Monday that Joe Joa Di MaggIo of ot the Yankees Yankee the most publicized rookie of ot the eason is a a. baseball player of ot the first water 2 The haired black quiet lad who came up from the Pacific coast heralded as the find of ot a decade has Ii been accepted into baseballs baseball's upper i crust after alter a debut that was an impressive im im- Im- Im j pre as his lavish advance not no- no t 4 tices j The Yankees sent him to the post J t i yesterday in the game against the Browns after a burned foot toot had de delayed ayed his appearance three weeks j j He Be canto came breezing in with the acclaim acclaim acclaim ac ac- ac- ac claim of New York after atter J lashing out a triple that might have havel r l been a homer and two singles t That the center field boards have havet t been teen moved in the process of ot re re- t t modeling of ot the blea bleachers hers at the Yankee stadium probably robbed rt 4 J sloe Joa 06 of ot a homer His low drive 1 f bounced off oft those boards and prevented pre- pre tj i vented him from getting farther 3 than third i t The Tho Yanks collected 17 11 hits as o they downed the Browns 5 14 but I f the fans overlooked the performances perform- perform t ances of ot Lou Gehrig and Ben Chapi Chapman Chap Chap- i man each of whom punched out t four safeties They were watching 1 the kid from the coast c The Yankees however have little littlen n 7 on the Red Sox moguls who saw J T f Wes Ves Ferrell pitch two hit ball to toi toI i l Detroit 6 I shut out the Tigers 1 These are those Jimmy Dykes of ot the f White Sox and others who coni contend con- con i J 4 tend the Red dont don't need high hight it t class pitching what with the batting batting bat- bat rl ting ung punch they are displaying L However Ferrell Ferren and Lefty Lefly Grove Grover r 1 pitched sensational ball as the Sox won five out of ot six games in the I t i week ending Sunday r The Cleveland Indians halted I l' l Washington's game four win streak by hy blanking the Senators 3 0 in a aI game that was terminated after alter the fifth by rain Buck Newsom was charged with his second defeat of I the year The Chicago White So Sox going Into the ninth inning on the short e end d of a 4 3 score turned on an attack climaxed by Zeke Bonura's y homer that netted five runs and an ani i 8 8 4 victor victory over the Athletics r Starts Out Well F k I JOE DI IMAGGIO MAGGIO Connects three times