Evening star., 1942-07-23
Yankees MopUp
As Once Tough
Rivals Topp|e
Beot lndions in 10th
With Uneorned Runs:
Dodgers Rout Reds
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press SPORTS Writer

All the people who for weeks
devoted themselves industriously to
trying to solve the slump of the New
York Yankees probably are busy now
figuring out reasons for the sliding
Of the Boston Red Sox and the
Detroit Tigers.
This is thankless task. but never
theless a form Of endeavor In which
there never Is any unemployment.
Somebody always Is in a slump and
right now both the Red Sox and
the Tigers have 1t bad. Boston has
lost four in a row and 9 Of its last
III games. while Detroit has dropped
ii out OF IA and has fallen from the
first division.
The Red Sox were shut out. 10,
yesterday by Lee Buck Ross OF the
Chicago White Sox. although they
made the magnificent total Of five
hits. one more than Chicago coll
lected of Broadway Charley Wagner.
However. one OF Chicago's blows was
a two-run double by Luke Appling
IN the sixth inning.
The Tigers were tanned, Al. BY
Washington.
Yanks Bag 11th In Row.
Meanwhile the New York Yankees
squeezed to their 18th consecutive
victory and extended their American
League lead to II full games by
blasting across four unearned runs
In the 10th inning to beat the Cleve-
land Indians, 5-l.
Joe Di Maggio's hitting streak was
stopped at 18 games by Lefty AL
Milnar, but Rollie Hemsley made
four hits, including two doubles, and
Charley Keller hit his 18th home
run. This was the -Yanks' only score
till the overtime chapter.
Them with two out. Tom Heinrich
singled, Df Maggie was walked and
Oscar Grimes, finishing the game
at shortstop after Manager Lou
Boudreau had removed himself for
q pinch runner. booted q grounder
BY Joe Gordon and followed with a
Wild throw to the plate to let Hen
rich score. Keller was purposelv
passed to load the bases, Phil Rizzuto
singled and Hemsley doubled.
Alley Donald's nine-hit hurting
was bolstered by four double PLAYS
as the Yanks boosted their total to
125 for 81 games.
Browns Waste Big Lead.
The st. Louis Browns blew a 60
lead attained In the first four frames
and lost IN LIS decision to the
Philadelphia Athletics. SPARED by
Chet Laabs' 18th circuit clout. the
Brownies scored flvs runs In the
fourth. Then the AS scored six in
the NTH inning to tie the score and
kept on rolling They made Is hits
and st. Louis II.
In the National League. the Brook.
Vn Dodgers disposed Of the Cincin.
natl Reds without trouble, ST.. with
Kirby Higbe pitching 1ive-hit ball
and he and his teammates taaeing
Ray Starr and Gene Thompson for
twice that many. Higbe himself
drove In two runs With q double in
the sixth.
This kept the Dodgers six and
one-half games ahead of the St,
Louis Cardinals, who slammed out a
TO victory over Philadelphia.
The Chicago Cubs evened their
score with the Boston Braves in the
days other game as Claude Passeau
pitched q masterful two-hitter for a
IL verdict. 1t was Passeau's 14th
triumph of the year. Boston's only
run resulted from an error by Bill
Nicholson, who muf1ed \ fly by Max
West with two on and two out In
the seventh. Chicago had scored
on three singles in the fourth and
Nicholson redeemed himself with a
triple In the ninth after Lou Novikoff
had hit his fourth single.