Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-30
Williams Batting
Jumps 70 Points
In Two Games
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Make way for Ted Williams
you American League hitters, be.
cause he's found the range.
Before June Is over Williams is
likely 10 be setting the pace for
American League hitterS and II
may not be that long If he keeps
up his pace of the last two games
He jumped his batting average &c
points in his last two games
from 1913 10 .333--and only seven
men stand between him and the
top.
Not only is the Boston Red SoX
lanky outfielder hitting well but
he's hitting devastatingly. Last
night against the Athletics, Will
liams got three hits--two homers
and drove in seven runs as the
Red Sox thumped the AS, 14-2.
HES DOING ALL RIGHT
Williams hit his thirteenth homer
with two mates on IN the first
inning off Russ Christopher and
then blasted his fourteenth with
the bases loaded off Dick Fowler
in the eighth. He also got single.
Williams leads in runs batted
in with 80, In home runs with Ia
and in runs with 40. His AZ hits
leaves him on the edge of the
leaders. With only one-fourth OF
the season finished Williams
would break all records for runs
batted in il he continued his
present pace which would give
him more than 200 hits for the
full season. His home run pace.
if continued. would bring him bet
ter than so homers.
Ted Hughson gave the Red SoX
their best pitched game in many
DAYS when he let the AS down
with seven hits and BANKED them
until the ninth before a crowd of
1892 at Philadelphia.
All the American League scores
yesterday read like football games.
The Yanks slaughtered Washing
ton, f6-f. Detroit smothered C1eve-
land, 1913. The White Sox knocked
off the Browns, 1913.
FOUR HITS FOR GOMEZ
Lefty Gomez made four hits,
the same number he allowed the
Senators in winning his first game
of the season for the Yankees.
Joe DiMaggio hit homer No. 8 and
Joe Gordon and Buddy Hassett
also hit for the circuit.
Capitalizing on 10 walks. the
White Sox made seven hits suffice
to beat the Browns. Denny Gale
house held the White Sox to one
hit until the eighth when they
scored four runs. Don Holloway
drove in six runs. hitting safely
three times with the bases loaded.
GIANTS TAKE THRILLER
The Giants won a thriller from
the Dodgers. 81, in 10 innings
despite the fact that Ed Head
pitched a no-hitter until the eighth.
A walk, a bunt and two infield
rollers enabled the Giants to score
a run in the seventh without a.
hit but the Dodgers tied the score |
in the ninth on Arky Vaughan's |
triple and Joe Medwick's single.
The Giants, however, scored twice
of Hugh Casey in the tenth on
singles by Barna and banning. |
Herman's tumble of a double-play
grounder and Reese's wild throw
to first. Tom Sunkel, allowing
seven hits. won his second straight |
game from Brooklyn.
Relief pitcher Joe Beggs walked
two batters Intentionally in the
eleventh, filling the bases after
Stan Hack tripled and then
couldn't get the ball over the plate
TO Dom Dallessandro. who walked,
forcing in the winning run as the
Cubs beat the Reds, 6-5. Claude
Passeau won his seventh game.
Rube Melton pitched the Phils |
70 a 2-1 decision over the faltering
Braves. Murtaugh singled, stole
second and scored the winning run
on Nick Etten's single.
Yesterdays star-Lefty Gomez
who broke a 10-year batting slump
by cracking out four singles and
led 16-hit Yankee attack in New
York's 16-1 victory over Washing
fon