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a a to a i t * * ___- l — : — — i-. Erskine in No-Hitter Against Cubs Pass to Ramsdell ♦ Mars Perfect Game , Dodgers Hit Three Homers In Defeating Chicagoans Third Straight Time, 5-0 By NORMAN MILLER United Press Sports Writer BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 19.— Carl Erskine, handsome 25-year-old fastballer, pitched a no-hit, no-run game as the Dodgers beat the Cubs, 5-0, today. Erskine missed a perfect game by only one walk. In a near-flawless exhibition of control, Erskine missed an opportunity to become the seventh pitcher in baseball history to throw a perfect game when he walked rival hurler Willard Ramsdell in the third inning. The last perfect game in the major leagues was pitched by Charley Robertson for the Chicago White Sox in 1922. Ramsdell is a notoriously poor hitter, yet walked on four pitches when two men were out in the third. The game was held up 44 minutes by rain after the third inning, and that made the Erskine performance even more unusual because such a delay usually tightens a pitchers arm. The Cubs are the only team in baseball against whom Erskine has a losing record. He had downed them only twice in six decisions during his five years with the Dodgers. So complete was Erskines mastery over the Cubs that they never came close to getting a hit. Only five times were Cubs able to hit as far as the outfield. Carl Purillo caught three of them. Hurls 103 Pitches in Nine Innings Erskines control was so excellent that he needed only 103 pitches in the nine innings. a Erskine himself squelched Dee Pondys J bid for a hit when he smothered his hot shot back to the pitchers box and threw v him out at first base in the fifth inning. r. Third baseman Bobby Morgan also gave e Erskine a hand when he came in fast to ■ throw out Ramsdell on a slow roller in the e sixth. Erskine struck out only one. His no-hitter was the second in the majors this season. Virgil Trucks threw one for the Tigers against the Senators at Detroit May 15. It also was the first Dodger no-hitter since Rex Barney threw ■ one in 1948 against the Giants. While Erskine was going to his sixth victory ■- against one defeat this season, the ie Dodgers jumped on Cub starter Warren • Hacker for three home runs which produced four of their runs in the first two innings. *j They scored three runs in the first when n Roy Campanella hit his ninth home of the ie year after a single by Pee Wee Reese, and jd Purillo followed with his sixth homer. Andy J Pafkos 10th homer of the year added a run in the second and drove Hacker out of the ie box. Ramsdell pitched shutout ball until the ie eighth when the Dodgers scored once more re on Reeses single, a stolen base and a single le by Campanella. Score by innings. CHICAGO 000 000 000—0 0 1 BROOKLYN 310 000 Olx— 5 7 0 ° Hacker, Ramsdell 2 andAtwell; Erskine 6-1 and Campanella. Home Runs — Campanella :_ 9th, Furillo 6th and Pafko 10th. Losing Pitcher — Hacker 4-2. J v r. e ROY CAMPANELLA— Blasted his ninth round-tripper of the season and drove in three runs as the Brooklyn Dodgers de- feared the Chicago Cubs yesterday, 5-0.
