Evening star., 1948-09-09
.Wa||op Yankees
9th Time in Row
For 9Th Straight
indians Score in 18th
To Hang On as Lemon
Shutout Streak Ends
By the Asxoeiafed Press

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The outlook appeared gloomy for
the rest of the American League
today as Joe McCarthy's battering
Boston Red Sox boasted their
largest lead of the season.
Coming from behind in typical
Red Sox clubbing fashion, the muir
derous hitting Hubmen overcame
their arch rivals, the New York
Yankees, 1876, last night, to increase
their margin over the runnerup
New Workers to ~ games. Their
previous best advantage was a
game and a half
In drawing first blood in their
all-important three-game series
with the Yankees, the Red Sox
kept two streaks alive. They ex-
tended their latest winning skein
to eight straight and now own six
consecutive triumphs against the
Yankees. They have copped % Of
their last 26.
The Sox gained their latest
triumph the hard way. Five singles
off Starter Joe Dobson gave the
Yankees four runs in the first in
ming. Undaunted, the Red Sox
bounced back with six hits of
Frank Shea in their half of the
same inning to take a 5-4 lead.
Tebbetts Hits Big Triple.
Birdie Tebbetts' two-out triple of
the center field wall drove in Wally
Moses and Billy Goodman with the
tying runs. Billy Hitchcock fol-
lowed with a single to score Teb-
belts.
After the Red Sox moved in front,
6-4, the Yankees tied it up with
single runs in the sixth and seventh
innings. Yogi Berra's 14th home
run furnished the fifth run, and
Hitchcock's tumble, Tommy Hen
rich's single and Hank >Bauer's long
fly produced the other.
The Sox quickly united the score
in their half of the seventh. With
Lefty Joe Page, third Yankee hurler,
on the mound, they put together
three hits and three walks to shove
four runs across and put the game
out of the Yankees reach. Lefty
Earl johnson, who had replaced
Dobson in the seventh, was credited
with his eighth victory against two
defeats.
The third-place cleveland Indians
scored an unearned run in the last
half of the 18th inning to nip the
Detroit Tigers, 81, and remain AZ
games behind Boston. Larry Dolby,
who raped out four singles to ex-
tend his consecutive hitting streak
through 10 games, scored the win
ming run when Second Baseman
Connie Berry threw wild to the
plate on Wally Judnich's bouncer.
Lemons Streak Cracked.
The Tigers had overcome 7-3
deficit to force the game into extra
innings. Bob Lemon, trying for
his 10th victory, was shelled in the
seventh. He allowed seven hits and
gave up eight walks. His string of
scoreless innings ended at 81 in the
fourth. Sam Zoldak, fourth Cleve-
land pitcher, was credited with the
victory. Art Houtteman, charged
with the defeat, dropped his 10th
game. He has won two.
Exploding for four runs in the
eighth inning, the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates defeated the Reds in Cincin-
natl, 5-1. and strengthened their
second-place position in the Ma
tional League pennant race. They
now own a half-game advantage
over the Brooklyn Dodgers and
trail the front-running Boston
Braves by 31a games. The Braves
and Dodgers were idle. The Reds
defeat conceded with an announce
ment by President Warren Giles
that Manager Bucky Walters had
signed a 1949 contract.
Danny Murtaugh's fourth single
of the game. coming with the bases
loaded, drove in the tie-breaking
run. Eddie Fitz Gerald batted in
two more with a single and Pitcher
Ernie Bonham closed out the scor-
ing with q run producing single.
Bonham set the Reds down with
four hits for his fifth victory. Ted
Kluszewski's 18th homer deprived
Bonham of a shutout. The defeat
dropped the Reds into the cellar.
Schmitz Hurls Two-Hitter.
Johnny SchmitZ limited the Car
dinals to two hits in st. Louis, pitch
ing the Chicago Cubs to A tri-
umph. 1t was the fourth-place
Cards fourth consecutive loss and
dropped them to 51a games off the
pace. Roy Smalley paved the way
for Schmitz's 17th victory with a
bases-loaded single on Ken john
son in the ninth. The blow scored
two runs and snapped a % tie.
Andy Seminick walloped a two
run homer in the top Of the ninth
to enable the Philadelphia Phillies
to nip the New York Giants, 5-4.
Walt Dubiel went all the way to
chalk up his seventh triumph. The
Philly victory dropped the fifth
place Giants six games back. 1t
also pulled the Phils out OF the
cellar by a half game.
The scheduled double header be-
tween the st. Louis Browns and
White Sox in Chicago was rained