Evening star., 1940-06-03
Shutout Of Bosox
His Second Win
In Seven Days
WosdeII Batting Hero
As Dodgers Pick Up
Game on Leaders
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

The best Sunday pitcher" in the
baseball business right now Is that
grizzly veteran of the Chicago White
Sox, Ted Lyons, who has been with
the same club for II years.
Born in 1900, the same year as
Lefty Grove, Lyons came to the
American League direct from the
campus of Baylor University in 1923.
two years before Grove, and still Is
going strong.
In fact, he Is the strongest gear
in the Sox's well-worn drive shaft
today with four victories and two
defeats. Chicago has played nine
games in the last seven days and
won three. OF these three, Lyons
won two.
This spring he has pitched every
Sunday except one that it rained
and he showed up at Fenway Park,
Boston, yesterday on schedule. The
result was a 60 shutout of the
league-leading Red Sox on six hits.
1t was the 225th triumph of his
major league career.
Foxx Hits Winning Homer.
The Red Sox recovered from this
masterful going-over sufficiently to
beat out Chicago, 1913, in the second
game. with Jimmie Foxx notching
his 18th home run with one on in
the ninth inning. Bobby Doerr and
Lou Finney also homered for Boston.
The fact that the Cleveland In
dians also divided a double bill with
the Philadelphia Athletics left the
American League squabble in status
quo. Bob Feller achieved his eighth
victory. 7-2, over the AS, giving eight
hits. But Philadelphia turned the
tables in the nightcap by rallying
for seven runs in the seventh inning
and 1876 conquest.
In the National League the Brook
lyn Dodgers whacked game off the
margin separating them and the
pace making Cincinnati Reds by
squeezing two one-run decisions out
of the Chicago Cubs, 80 and 2-1.
Jim Wasdell hit a double for one
Brooklyn run in the second inning
Of the first game, then doubled again
in the ninth for the other two. In
the nightcap Manager Leo Durocher
doubled two tallies across in the
second stanza.
Walters Wins Another.
The Reds divided two games with
the Boston Bees. Bucky Walters
bagged his ninth victory without a
defeat in the first game, ILL. hold
ing Boston helpless on five hits and
getting the help Of two home runs
by John Rizzo. The second game,
which Boston won, 20, was score-
less duel between Dick Erickson
and Jim Turner for seven innings.
| Then rain interrupted and cooled
of Turner to the point of giving
up the pair of markers in the eighth.
Pittsburgh edged out the New
York Giants, 81, in the eighth in
ming after Bob Klinger and Hal
Schumacher each had pitched seven
runless frames, but New York
bounced back to take the second
game. 7-3, although outhit, lilo,
and outhomered, 20.
Ae ~. bouiS t"o pilCilelS CIldlhcu
up their first wins of the season.
Boom Boom Beck of the Phillies
stopped the Cards, Az. on seven hits.
and Bob Bowman gave the same
amount in winning for St. Louis.
go. John Mize hit his 18th and
14th home runs in the second game.
The World Champion Yankees
continued their upward surge at the
expense of the ST. Louis Browns with
two triumphs. 1874 and ILL. Marius
Russo and Marvin Bruer gave two
well-pitched games. but had the
help of terrific attack in which
every one of the other Yankees
joined.
More than 100000 fans turned
out for the games in eight cities.