Evening star., 1947-06-19
Ciney's Lanky Pitcher
Is Half Way 10 Goal
OF 70 Victories
By jock Hand
Associated Pres. Sports Writer

By jock Hand
Associated Press Sports Writer
Ewell Blackwell's no-hitter against
the Boston Braves has established
the lanky Cincinnati side arm artist
as the No. pitcher in the National
League.
Half way to his announced goal Of
20 wins in his second major league
season, the rangy righthAnder from
San Dimas, Calf, has etched his
name on the honor roll along with
the other pitching greats.
Most Of the right-handed hitters
in the league would name "Blacky'
as their toughest problem because
his sinking side-wheeI delivery is
on top Of them before they know
what is coming. Yet, last night,
Bostonis Billy Southworth threw q
heavily left-handed batting order
against him and the results were the
same.
Eight Wins in Succession.
OF Blackwell's 10 wins, the last
have been racked up In succession.
He is the only pitcher In the majors
to have defeated every other club in
the league at least once. The no
hit, no-run 60 job against the
Braves was his third shutout OF the
season.
1t was the first no-hitter OF the
major league campaign, the last hav-
ing been Bobby Fellers job on the
New York Yankees, April 80, 1916.
A week earlier, April %, Brooklyn's
Eddie Head had blanked the Braves
without hit. In fact, the last three
National League near-perfect Jobs
have found Boston on the losing
end, Clyde Shoun having no-hitted
them when he was with Cincinnati
in 1914. Now Shoun is with the
Braves.
While Blackwell was upholding
the opinion Of such a slugger as
Hank Greenberg that he is the
toughest to hit" fellow named
Babe Young, recently acquired by
Cincy from the New York Giants,
was doing all the hitting. Two
home runs, each with two men on
base, accounted for all six runs
batted in and the first baseman's
best day in his new uniform.
Boston Loses Lead.
The loss dropped Boston out of
the National League lead, permit
ting the Giants to squeeze out front
by a margin of six percentage points
on their afternoon 1875 romp over
Pittsburgh. Every Giant had
field day In the 20-hit attack,
boosting their team average against
Pirate pitching to a rosy .304.
Walker Cooper's eighth homer. with
two on, climaxed A. six-run Giant
uprising.
Although Greenberg rocked Larry
Jansen for two homers, batting In
four runs, and Ralph Kiner nicked
him for No. 13, the sIugging of his
mates gave him a comfortable
cushion.
Those st. Louis Cardinals con-
tinued their headlong dash toward
the first division, pulling to within
one game Of the coveted 500 circle
by a So edge over PHILADELPHIA.
their seventh straight win. Terry
Moore's second homer Of the year
helped solidify AL Brazle's sixth
win, coming at the expense of win
less Oscar Judds seventh straight
loss. AS result of their success
the Card now are only four and
one-half games out OF first place.
Brooklyn disposed OF Chicago, 5-3,
in a day game On the strength of
Rookie Catcher Gil Hodges first
major league homer. Joe Halter.
the second of three pitchers, received
credit for handing Hank Borowy his
third setback.
Bosox Win in Is Innings.
The Boston Red Sox kept the folks
up late for their second home night
game, going Is innings in a four
our-and-20-minute struggle before
they subdued the ST. Louis Browns,
6-5, for their eighth straight vic
tory. Johnny Pesky's fifth single
with two out, drove home Pinch
Runner Eddie Pellagrini with the
winning score at approximately 1:15
am. (EDT). Pellagrini was running
for Birdie Tebbets, who opened the
rally with a single.
Three times the Sox were forced
to come from behind before they
finally pulled it out of the fire. The
Brownies broke a IL tie with a
score in the eighth only to have
Boston match it. st. Louis collected
one In the 18th on Billy Hitchcock's
homer, but the Sox tied again and /
hey each tailed twice in the 14th,
The 18th was the last inning DOS
'ible under the American League
ieadline of 1880 am. after which
another inning cannot be started.
Mel Parnell, the sixth pitcher, was
he eventual winner over Bob Mum
,rief rs the Sox closed to within a
1alf game of the idle league-leading
New York Yankees.
Rain washed out the Philadelphia
Detroit and New York Chicago day
games.