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Cubs and Braves Divide Shutouts Bruins Take First Behind Rush, 3-0; Spahn. Gets Even In Nightcap by 5-0 Score By JACK FROST United Press Sports Writer BOSTON, Mass., May, 22. — Pitchers Bob Rush of Chicago and Warren Spahn of Boston alternated in a pair of superb hurling performances today splitting two shutouts in an impromptu doubleheader. The Cubs took the first 3-0 and the Braves captured the nightcap 5-0. Rush, a giant righthander, had the Braves helpless in the opening game, scattering four hits and permitting only three balls to be hit out of the infield. It was the third shutout suffered this season by the Braves and the second at the hands of a Chicago hurler. In the second game, Spahn, a stylish southpaw, was hit hard at times but bore down in the clutches to notch the first shutout by any Boston pitcher this year. Johnny Klippstein was the losing pitcher in the second although in his last start he had shutout the Braves. Serena Stars in Opener The Braves, impotent at the plate in the opener, came to life in the second game with Sam Jethroe getting his fourth homer of the year and rookie rightfielder Bob Thorpe his first in the major leagues. In the opener of the doubleheader, decided on last night when a single game was rained out, Bob Serena of Chicago starred by scoring two runs and driving in another with a triple. In addition, Rush, who pitched hitless ball for four innings, drove in a Chicago score. The Cubs hit losing pitcher Vern Bick-ford often but left eight men on base, the same number stranded in the second game. Though Spahn was touched for nine hits, the same number the Cubs got off Bickford, he was invincible in the clutches and irt the sixth inning quelled a Cub rally by retiring Serena and Dee £ondy on strikeouts. He had seven strikeouts, raising his total for the year to 36. He issued no passes. / The Braves took a two-run lead in the first when Roy Hartsfield singled, went to third on Ed Mathews* double and scored on a wild pitch. Mathews, who advanced to third on the play, came home on Sid Gordons long fly to right. With two out in the seventh, the Braves scored twice as Hartsfield singled and scored ahead of Sam Jethroe, who homered into the right field bullpen. The Braves final run came in the eighth, also with two out, when- Thorpe put one in almost the same bullpen spot as Jethroe. Serena continued to shine at bat in the nightcap by belting out two doubles in four trips to the plate.
