Evening star., 1933-07-27
RED SOX PREVENT
YANK TIE FOR LEAD
Bat Out Win After Shutout
loss-vergez "Beaned"
as Giants Move Ahead.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,
Assnciated prese arorte rjf

D1 mum .. rOLLEnxON, JN.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
TINE Boston Red Sox, who
came out on the short end
i of the score OF the first
nine times they played the
New York Yankees this season,
appear to have developed into a
particular thorn in the collective
sides of the world champions.
For the second time the Sox have
proved troublesome to the Yanks at
time when they need every victory
they can get. The New Workers played
a double-header in Boston yesterday,
with a chance to tie Washington for
the American League lead before 60
ing into a crucial" series with the
Senators, but they came out still a
game behind after an even break.
Early in June the Red SoX did a
similar stunt, taking four in a row
from the Yanks and starting them of
on a losing streak that sent them so
far into second place they haven't been
able to get out to stay yet.
Red Sox Slug for Split.
NEW YORK won the opener yester-
day, 20. in mound duel be-
tween Vernon Gomez and Bob
Weiland. in which each southpaw al
lowed five hits. The Yanks punched
three of their blows with couple of
walks and two long f1ies for runs in
the last two innings. Boston came back
and smashed Walter Brown off the hill
in the fourth inning. scoring five runs
to win the second game. ga.
Washington was rained out at Phila-
delphia.
The Detroit Tigers and Cleveland In
dams, a game apart in the race for the
last berth in the first division, took di1-
ferent routes to victory. The fourth
place Tigers slugged it out with the
st. Louis Browns. winning. to I.
Tommy Bridges provided the winning
runs by hitting triple with the bases
lull just before he was driven to the
showers by a six-run outburst in the
eighth
Willis Hudlin's siX-hit flinging was
an important factor in Cleveland's IL
victory over the Chicago White Sox.
while the Hose contributed to their
seventh straight defeat by making three
errors in succession in the seventh to
give the Indians three runs.
TN the National League, the pace-set-
ting New York Giants took advan-
tage of the rain that kept their
leading rivals, Chicago and Pittsburgh,
from playing, and increased their lead
to four games over the Cubs by winning
twin bill from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The clouting Of o. Joe Hutcheson.
rookie outf1elder, wassthe only bright
spot for Brooklyn as Hal Schumacher
and Hy Bell limited the Dodgers to
four hits to win the opener. 5-3, and
Bud Parmelee pitched six-hit ball for
a 4-3 victory In the nightcap. Hutche-
son hit two home runs, driving in five
counters. Mel OFT won the opener by
swatting a four-bagger in the ninth.
Johnny Vergez was knocked uncon-
scious for five minutes when one OF
CAROLS pitches hit him on the head
and had to leave the game, but was ex-
pected to be back on the job today.
The st. Louis Cardinals climbed back
into four place past the Boston Braves
by turning back the Cincinnati Reds,
80. Bill Hallahan and Jim Mooney
elaborated in a four-hit pitching job.
although the former had to retire after
the sixth because Of sore arm. The
Braves and Philadelphia had an open
date.