Evening star., 1946-05-11
bosox With IS in Row
Seen Ready 10 Blast
Yankees Old Jinx
BY the Asseeiutsd Press

Manager Joe Cronin and his Bos-
ton Red Sox appeared at last today
to have cast of the New York
Yankee yoke that has thwarted
them Of a pennant at least four
times in the last decade.
After blowing every pennant-
hinging series with the Yankees
since 1887, the revengeful Red Sox
handed the Bronxites wallop yes
terday. that was heard round the
baseball world when they whipped
the McCarthymen, 5-4, before .
weekday record crowd Of 64,183 at
Yankee Stadium. -
The victory not only stretched
Boston's winning streak to Is games
-four short Of the American
League record-but extended the
American League leaders margin
over the Yanks to 51z games.
The Red Sox are not yet entirely
free Of the Yankee INK by any
means as the New York nine still
has two more cracks at the Sox
string over the week end, but the
Hubmen have proved that they no
longer roll over and play dead when
they come face to face with the
Bronx Bombers.
Yankees Were Streak-Enders.
The Yankee jinx first asserted it
self in 1887. The Red Sox, in the
midst Of a determined drive toward
their first flag since 1918, encoun-
tered the Yankees with q victory
string Of - straight, which had ele-
waited them into second place right
behind the New Yorkers. The
Yanks set them back on their heels
with an 8-5 1acing that 80 unnerved
the Sox they lost seven Of their en-
suing eight games and dropped to
nth and were through for the year.
After second-place finishes in both
1898 and 80, the Sox began the 1910
campaign in almost the same man
ner as this year. They captured 16
Of their first 81 games and on May
l1-exactly six years ago today-en-
countered the Yankees. Again the
Joe McCarthy-led sluggers stifled
the Sox, handing the Hose a Ga
trimming to end their six-game win
ming streak and start them on the
skids, which dropped them from
first to fourth place.
Boston rose again to second in Al
and made another determined bid
for the flag in AZ. A spectacular
midseason squirt during which they
copped 20 out of "a decisions brought
the Red Sox within hailing dis
tance of the Yankees. A sweep of
the four-garne series meant first
place. But the story was the same.
The Yankees tripped them, So, on
July and again, 6-3, the following
day to end the threat.
Dom DiMaggio's Hit Tells.
The Sox bounced back late in the
season to win Is of 16 games during
a two-Week streak. Naturally the
defeat which prevented club con-
secutive record was handed to them
by the Yankees. Once again the Red
Sox wound up the season as runner
up to their nemesis.
Ironically enough, Cronin yester-
day entrusted Curve-baller Joe DOH
son, the same hurler whose 1912
defeat by the Yanks prevented Bos-
ton from winning Is straight games,
to keep the Red Sox victory skein
alive. He was opposed by veteran
Red Ruffing. who nipped their string
in 81. Neither hurler was around
at the finish.
A home run by Joe Di Maggie with
the bases loaded in the fifth put the
Yankees ahead. 4-3, and sent Dobson
to the showers. The Sox bounced
back in the seventh with two runs
to win when Rudy York drove in
Bobby Doerr with a triple and tailed
on a single by Dom DiMaggio. Earl
johnson, who relieved Dobson in the
fifth and pitched one-hit ball the
rest of the way, was the winning
pitcher. Joe Page, Rulings sue
cessor, was the loser.