Evening star., 1948-07-19
White Sox Star Fifth
To Group 4Homers;
Tribe, Brayeszip
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BY the AsSoeiated Press
James Patrick Seerey Of the Chi
cago White Sox has taken his place
in the major league baseball record
books alongside such tllustrious
home run sluggers as Lou Gehrig,
Ed Delahanty, Bobby Lowe and
Chuck Klein.
The jut-jawed, barrei-chested out
fielder slammed four home runs in
one game yesterday to become the
fifth big Lacquer to achieve the feat.
This one-man slugging rampage
overshadowed other important Sum-
day results such as Cleveland's s
sweep of doubleheader from
Washington. 81 and Ga, to in
crease the Indians first-place lead
In the American League to game
and half, and the Boston Braves
two triumphs over Pittsburgh, 10-2
and 81, which gave them an eight
game bulge in the National League
pennant race.
Seerey belted his four home runs
in an thinning game in which the
White Sox defeated the Philadel-
phia Athletics, 1911, in the first
game of a double header. The AS
captured the second game, 6-1, with
the Sunday pm. curfew halting
proceedings after five innings.
Lowe, Delahanty and Gehrig hit
their four home runs in nine-inning
games. Klein cracked his four in
10 innings.
H0mers in Successive Innings.
Three of Seerey's circuit clouts
came in successive innings-the
fourth, fifth and sixth. The fourth
snapped a 1910 tie in the 11th. His
first two were hit off Highlander,
Carl Scheib. The third came off
Highlander Bob Savage. Southpaw
Lou Brissie was the victim of the
last.
Bill McCahan, who a year ago
achieved a no-hit, no-run game in
this same park, gained his first vic
tory of the season for the AS, pitch
ing six-hitter in the nightcap.
The Braves are threatening to
make a shambles of the National
League pennant race, enjoying an
eight-game lead over the Brooklyn
Dodgers and st. Louis Cardinals,
their nearest pursuers.
Nelson Potter and jeff Heath, two
former American Leaguers, COM
bined to lead the Braves to victory
over the Pirates in the opener. Pot
ter, the crafty righthander, spaced
seven hits for his first National
League victory in his initial start.
Heath clouted a grand slam homer
to spark a f1ve-run first inning
against Elmer Riddle. Rookie Right
handler Vern Bickford topped Russ
Meyer in the afterpiece.
Ralph Kiner spoiled Bickford's
shutout bid with a home run, his
26th of the season and the Tooth of
his career He now has hit IA home
runs on Sundays. having slammed
four-baggers in 10 of the 13 Sunday
dates played by Pittsburgh. His
Sunday punch, so to speak.
NewhOuser Chalks Up No. IA.
Hal Newhouser, who begged out
OF the All-Star game with a sore
arm, gained his 14th victory of the
season, pitching the Detroit Tigers
to So first game triumph over the
Yankees before 62,990 fans. A
grand-slam home run by hoot Evers
enabled the Tigers to overcome
81 deficit. The Yankees, behind
Lefty Tommy Byrne, swamped the
Tigers 12-4 in the second game,
halted after 61z innings because of
darkness.
The fourth-place Boston Red Sox
moved within ~ games OF the
Yankees by sweeping both ends of
a double-header from the St. Louis
Browns, 1875 and 7-6. Still without
the services of ailing Ted Williams,
the Sox staked the Browns to a 40
lead in each game and both times
fought back to win. They scored
brace of sixers in the fourth and
sixth innings of the opener.
Ed Pellagrini, Brownie shortstop,
started the third A. L. triple play
when he speared Vern Stephens
liner in the fifth of the opener.
The Dodgers and Cardinals di-
vided a doubleheader before 32,76
fans, the largest crowd of the sea-
son in st. Louis. A home run by
Terry Moore with two mates aboard
in the 18th inning gave the Cards
a 6-3 victory in the opener. Each
team scored once in the 10th. The
Dodgers crushed the Cards, 1874, in
the second game, scoring five runs
in the first inning and eight in the
second. Rookie Outfielder George
Shuba, who homered for Brooklyn
in the opener, collected Two doubles
and single and drove in three runs
in the nightcap.
The split left the two clubs in
deadlock for second place, but
showed them both ahead of the Pi-
rates, who dropped from second to
fourth, a half-game ahead of the
New York Giants.
The Giants fought back to gain a
split with the Reds in Cincinnati,
losing the opener, 80, but coming
back to win the nightcap, 30. Ken
Raffensberger. who shut out the
Cardinals with one hit in his last
start, gained his third shutout of
the season in the first game. He
spaced eight hits. The Giants COL
lected II hits in the second game to
help Clint Hartung gain his fifth
victory.
The Philadelphia Phils and Chi
cago Cubs split twin bill, the Cubs
winning the opener, 80, and the
Phils taking the second, Ga.