The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-10
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New York, June to-tUPD-The runaway Red Sox, with their season nearly a third completed. faced the reassurine fact today that they need only Co break even in their re- maining games eo finish with e higher percentage than the Amert~ can League Rag winners of the last two years.
 The bat happy Dostonians in winning % games and losing 9 have compiled the amazing percentage oi SIS Co take an eight-game lead over the second place Yankees Should they suddenly collapse. and not even their most pesslmistic packer thinks they will. they could break even in their remaining los contests and finish with q mark of .S97. considerably better than the .575 winning figure of the ios5 champion Tigers. or the .s7e mark Of the lea4 Browns.
 On the other hand. they have an excellent chance to set a new mod. ern major league mark since their current .eis figure ls exactly 50 points better than the .7ss figure with which the 1906 Chicago Cubs set a pace that no club has equalled since.
 Senior Circuit Unsesllea
 The dizzy tempo Of the Red Sox becomes even more impressive when compared with the current National League race. The Dodgers. leading the senior circuit by three games with a respecaable mark of .6s8 are only a half game farther away from the sixth place Pirates, eight and a half games back. than the Red Sox are rom the second place Yankees.
 The Red Sox ran their current winning streak to 10 games yescer- day with to and n to 6 victories over Detroit, giving them a string of le wins and no losses at home against western teams this year. Lefty Mickey Harris won his ninth game against one loss tn the open. CT while Dave tBooD Ferriss got enough batting support to offset a mediocre mound performance inI gaining his 10th triumph without a loss in the afterpiece. Ted Will Hams homered in each game to- bring his total for the year to l2. George Metkovich and Dom DiAGag- gio also got Boston homers while Hank 0reenbcrg hit his 18th and Dick Wakefield his third for De- troit. both off Ferriss.
 Charley Keller's 18th homer came with two on In the ninth and gave the Yankees a ' to ( second game victory with dramatic suddenness after Cleveland took the opener. 0 to on Shaky New York pitching. Aaron Robinson got a first game Yankee homer. Spud Chandler. un- steady at times, manager to win his ninth game against two losses in the nightcap.
 Chicago Eaas Les streak
 Chicago ended a nine-game lose ing streak ct Washington. winning 6 to l after the Senators took the opener. to 1. Mickey Haefner pitched a flve-hitter for the Mats. but Ed Lopat topped that with a fouy-hit job for the White sex. The only run he yielded was a homer to Buddy Lewis. Leo Wells homered for Chicago. Both were iaside-the- park blows.
 The Browns and AS split at Philadelphia. St. Louis took the opener. to 2 when Vern Stephens led an ll-hit attack with q homer and triple as Denny Galeh0use pitched seven-hit ball. Phil March, ildon's flve-hitter gave the AS the nishteap. 6 to (. Johnny Berardino's two~run homer being the most damaging blow off his pitching. The As took the series. three games to one.
 The Dodgers dropped their third straight game at Chicago to C. when Charley Gilbert came home s.. Aa aA4l. .~.. lHFaksa.arte u1i lf