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Postponements Worry Cavarretta Says Hurlers Cant Get Enough Work Denies Knowledge of Any Transaction With Giants For Catcher Wes Westrum By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, N. Y., May 7.— Everyone talks about the weather, but no one was fretting more about it today than Phil Cavarretta, who says his Chicago Cubs are unquestionably "the most rained-out club in baseball." "With all these postponements," moaned the Cubs manager after todays game against the Giants also was rained out, "my pitchers simply cant get enough work." Cavarretta, of course, wasnt the only major league manager complaining about the inclement weather this season. Other pilots, including Leo Durocher of the Giants and Rogers Hornsby of the Redlegs voiced similar sentiments. Todays bad weather on the eastern seaboard, for example, forced postponement of the entire National League slate. In addition to the Cubs-Giants contest, it wiped out the St. Louis at Brooklyn, Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati at Philadelphia games. There were no games scheduled in the American League. Minner Tagged Rain-Maker "Paul Minner alone was rained out in five of his starts," Cavarretta pointed out. "We call him the rain-maker. Weve had at least six postponements thus far, and who knows when this weather is going to get any better?" By blowing a three-run lead, the Cubs lost an 8-5 decision to the Giants for their seventh straight setback yesterday. "Not only has the rain ruined my pitching rotation," said Cavarretta, "but my hitters havent been doing very much either. Hank Sauer is the only man on the club who has been hitting consistently. "I think a lot of our problems will be ironed out when we get back home. We havent played a game at Wrigley Field in almost two weeks. Everything seemed to go wrong on the road. "We dropped two games to the Pirates that we never should have lost. Sure, Pittsburgh has improved, but theyre not a better club than we are. In Philadelphia Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons stopped us cold, and we got a tough break in Brooklyn when Turk Lown was leading 5-2 until the eighth and the Dodgers came back with four runs." Added to the Cubs mounting misfortunes was the fractured right little finger suffered by second-baseman Bob Ramazzotti. Recurrent reports have circulated that the Cubs are on the verge of making a deal with the Giants for catcher Wes Westrum, perhaps, but Cavarretta denied knowledge of any such transaction. "We dont have any deals in the works • that I know of," he said. "I think we have a sound ball club right now. All we need is a break or two in the weather." i
