Evening star., 1940-07-26
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Al Least Il Hits
A Game in Run
Win Over Bosox 9TH
In Row; Triple Play
No Help 10 Bees
BY JUDSON BAILEY.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Strange things are happening in
the American League, but not the
least surprising is the sudden surge
of the Chicago White Sox, who have
won seven games in a row.
Jimmy Dykes has been something
of a magician with skimpy material
for years. but the way he has his
club cruising now rates with his best
tricks, except that Jimmy hasn't
done any playing himself-yet.
The Sox skidded off to a miser-
able start, not winning a game at
home until the season was a month
old, and never getting as high even
as 500 in won-lost percentage until
this week.
Now the sensational streak has
lifted the Sox to within a game of
the first division and they'll have a
chance to move right into the upper
story if they can conquer the New
York Yankees in their series this
week end, They already have won
seven of the IL games they have
played with the crumbling world
champions.
ChisOx Overwhelm Rivals.
The secret of the Sox success is
that they simply are overpowering
their opponents. They haven't made
less than II hits in any game during
their present winning string. That
was their total in beating the Bos-
ton Red Sox Ga yesterday and it
included Joe Kuhels 18th homer.
three triples and two doubles. It
was the eighth consecutive defeat
for Boston.
The only reason that the score
was close, considering that Jack
Knott and Clint Brown held the Red
Sox TO eight hits, was that two of
them were home runs by Jim Tabor
ana another four-base blow by
Bobby Doerr.
The Detroit Tigers continued their
near-mlraculous winning and built
their American League lead back to
a game and half as the Cleveland
Indians lost.
AS Snap Tribes Streak.
The Indians had won five games
IN row before folding in front of
the Philadelphia Athletics, 7-6. Sam
Chapman sent the AS away on the
right foot with a two-run homer in
the first frame and Buck Ross pro-
tected the lead with 10-hit pitching
New York's Yankees came out of
flve-game losing streak with a wild
1873 victory over the st. Louis
Browns in 28-hit ball game. Red
Ruffing went the route for his 9th
victory, giving up a dozen hits. but
the champs got him two runs in the
hrst inning and five more in the
third. Joe Gordon hit two home
runs and Joe Di Maggie extended
MS hitting streak to 18 consecutive
games by getting two doubles and a
single.
The National League program was
mere two games, with the Pitts
burgh Pirates putting the New York
Giants through 81 wringer in
one and the Chicago Cubs crushing
the Boston Bees, 8-4, in the other.
Sewell Is Bucs' Hero.
Truett CRip) Seweu was the hero
OF Plttsburgh's victory, the seventh
OF the season against two losses for
the redhead. He allowed nine hits,
but stranded II runners and the
only run off him was unearned.
Besides he lifted fly with the
bases loaded in the ninth inning
for the deciding run. Hal Schu-
macher, the Giants hard-luck
hurler, pitched six-hit ball. Three
singles were punched in the first
inning for run, but it was two
walks and an error that loaded the
bases in the ninth.
The game at Boston was climaXed
by triple play, the second in the
big leagues in two weeks, but the
first of the year in the National
League. The Bees maneuvered it
IN the eighth inning, but the game
already was gone.