Evening star., 1948-06-21
Tribe Trims As Twice
As Lemon 1riumphs;
Braves Take Two
BY the Assoeioted Press

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Bill Veeck. major league baseballs
No. l Snowman, is a very happy guy
today, thanks to Cleveland's rabid
baseball fans.
Cleveland fans set major league
attendance record yesterday to full
fill one of Weeks pet ambitions.
A total of 82,7S1 paid to see the
American Leagues front-running
Indians take a double header from
the Philadelphia Athletics yesterday
The crowd topped the previous high
of 81,841 set May 80. 1888, for a
twin bill in New York between Bos-
ton and the New York Yankees.
Veeck. the energetic president of
the Indians, has been cunning for
new attendance mark ever since
he became head of the team on June
%, 1896
He almost made it in his first
year. when 1889 came out to watch
the Yanks and Indians play dou-
ble-header on August 4, but bad
weather held the crowd back and
the second game was postponed.
On May % of the current season,
/ 78,431 turned out for another twin
bill between the Indians and the
Yanks. despite bad weather. After
this turnout Veeck was sure that
before the season ended the mark
would be broken.
| Wednesday night the Indians will
have a program celebrating the
second anniversary of Weeks pur-
chase of the club and outside of a
victory over the Yanks, Veeck would
like nothing better than to set a
new attendance mark.
Feiler Finally Wins Again.
The big gathering Yesterday
boosted the number who have seen
the Indians in "a home games this
year to 773.037. Should this pace
be maintained for the remaining
SO games. the Indians would top
their previous high of 1921, ,728,
drawn last year. by so per cent.
For while it appeared the In
dians would disappoint the big
crowd. The Athletics jumped on
Bobby Feller for 80 lead, but the
Indians staged four-run inning
rally and went on to score a 4-3
triumph. The Indians breezed home
in the nightcap, 100, behind the
four-hit pitching of Bob Lemon,
who became the first major league
pitcher to win 10 games this year.
In the opener Joe Coleman held
the Indians to two singles for six
innings, but he was routed in the
seventh when the Tribe put together
nve singles, a walk and an error
for four runs. The victory was
Fe]ler's first since May 10.
| The Indians went to town early
in the nightcap, scoring seven runs
in the first three innings against
Phil Marchildon. who went the dis
tance for the Mackmen.
Lemon Helps With Homer.
Lemon famed 10 walked 2 and
helped his own cause py betting n
homer and double.
The defeats dropped the AIS
from second to third place as the
Yankees became runners-up by
taking twin bill from the Browns
IN st. Louis, Az and GO.
Joe Di Maggie clouted three
homers, one in the first game and
two in the second, to spearhead the
Yankee drive. Vic Raschi and Red
Embree throttled the Brownies on
nine end six hits, respectively.
/ Boston's fast-climbing Red Sox
trounced the Tigers, 80, in a single
game at Detroit to move over the
/ Tigers into fourth place. 1t was
the Sox's fifth victory in a row and
their 18th in their last 16 starts.
| The SoX shelled Hal Newhouser
who was cunning for his eighth
straight triumph. for IL hits and
all of the their runs before he left In
/ the ninth inning. Two of the blows
were four-baggers by Dom Di Mag
gio and Vern Stephens.
Braves Add to Lead.
The National Leagues pace-set-
ting Boston Braves also swept
double-header, beating the Cincin-
natl Reds. 5-4 and Al, in Boston.
The victories boosted Boston's mar
gin to game and half over the
runnerup Pittsburgh Pirates, who
split pair with the Phillies in
Philadelphia.
Red Barrett with the aid of
Bobby Hogue in the ninth, halted
the Reds in the first game. A fine
fielding play by Ed Stanky ended
Red threat in the ninth after
Cincy scored twice
Rookie Vern Bickford yielded only
five hits in gaining the second
game triumph. Some great fielding
on the part of Jim Russell and Alvin
Dark pulled Bickford out of couple
of Jams.
The Pirates. after Dutch Leonard
beat them. 80, on four hits. col
lected II to win the second tilt, rs.
Ralph Kiner clouted his 18th and
18th homers of the year to feature
/ the Pirate attack