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Page 10 University Daily Kansan Friday. April 16, 1954
Orioles Beat Chisox In Home Opener
All 16 major league clubs were in action yesterday but the big news was in Baltimore where the Orioles won their first American league home game since 1902. This is the first year the Orioles have been in the league since that year, however.
Homerunes by Clint Courtney and Vern Stephens, and a stout 7-hit pitching performance by Bob Turley gave the Orioles a 3-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Approximately 350,000 Baltimore hopefuls watched a morning parade in downtown Baltimore in honor of the transplanted St. Louis Brown, and 46,354 paid their way into the game. This was the White Sox third straight loss, and the Orioles second win in three games.
The World Champion New York Yankees, behind an 8-hit pitching job by Tom Morgan, blanked the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0. Outfieldier Hank Bauer, and rookie first baseman Bill Skowron homered for the Yanks. Lefty Alex Kellner allowed the champs just six hits but was tagged with the defeat.
In Boston, the youthful Red Sox spoiled Bob Porterfield's 1954 debut, as the Red Sox defeated the Washington Senators 6-1. Young Bill Henry held the Nats to three hits, one a homerun by Roy Seivers in the fourth. Sammy White of the Red Sox also homered in the fourth with two men on base. Henry struck out six and walked six in opening game at Boston.
Left hander Ted Gray and right hander Ralph Branca combined
their pitching talents to stop the Cleveland Indians 3-2 at Cleveland, with former Dodger, Brance getting the win. American league homerun king, Al Rosen, hit his first four base blow of the season in the sixth inning with no one aboard. The opener in Cleveland drew 40.-421 customers to see the Indians lose their first game of the new season.
The National league champs, the Brooklyn Dodgers, who defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in 20 out of 22 games last season, began right where they left off by downing the Bucs 7-4 at Brooklyn. Three Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, Junior Gilliam, and Roy Campanella, and Pire outfielder Frank Thomas homered in the Brooklyn opener. Russ Meyer and Jim Hughes shared the mound duties for the Dodgers with Meyer getting the victory. Three Pirate hurlers, Max Surkont, Cal Hogue, and Nelson King couldn't halt the Dodger 10-hit attack, and Surkont was charged with the loss.
Jim Greengrass' grand slam homer in the seventh inning helped the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Chicago Cubs 11-5, in the Cubs home opener Gus Bell also homered for the Reds, and Hank Sauer and Randy Jackson hit four baggers for the Cubs. Fred Baczewski was the winning pitcher for the Rhinelanders, but he needed help from Herman Wehmier in the seventh when the Cubs rallied for four runs. The Cubs sent five pitchers to the mound with Bob Rush being charged with the loss.
In Milwaukee, 39,963 fans watched the Braves win an 11-inning thriller from the St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 in the Braves first home game of the season. Stylish southpaw Warren Spahn went all the way for the Braves in picking up his first win of the season. Harvey Haddix, who came into the game in the ninth, was charged with his second loss. Vic Roschi started for the Cards and was chased in the second. Stu Miller and Al Brazle followed him on the mound. Sal Yars pinch-hit a homer for the Cards in the ninth, and Joe Adcock homered for the Braves.
The Philadelphia Phillies made only three hits off New York Giant pitcher Johnny Antonelli, but Murry Dickson was able to shut-out the Giants 3-0. Dickson was continually in trouble, with men on base, the 37-year-old right-hander bore down. Rain halted the game with the Phillies batting in the last of the eighth.
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Wildness Drives Barney Out of Baseball
New York—(U.P.) It was only one paragraph but it held a volume of heartbreak for a young man who might have been one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history.
Rex Barney, it said, had given up 12 walks and made two wild pitches or St. Paul in one and two-thirds innings. Between walks he struck out the side in one inning, like the old kid.
It read like the obituary of a hope- ul comeback.
The wild man from Omaha, it showed, still can throw the ball as
But Barney said, A full year of rest, he figured, might have faded from his mind and his pishing style all the freak remedies and methods which had been forced on him in the swift slide down. At 29, he knew he was young enough. And that strong right arm had never beore sore.
fast, if not faster, than any pitcher in the game. But it was additional testimony that he still can't find the plate.
Few people realize the bitterness and despair which that one paragraph must bear for Barney. That wildness forced him out of the big leagues where he once pitched a no-hit game. It drove him from the minors all the way down to a semi-pro team in Herman, Neb. It caused him to retire completely from baseball last year to work as a laborer.
But Barney still had hopes
been so.
It simply was the wildness which always had been a curse from his first days in organized baseball. That very first year of 1943 was a classic example.
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