Evening star., 1949-04-25
White Sox Confound Critics With 5-Game Streak
Club
Is Weeks Ahead Of
lis Pace in 1913
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Hold OF on those nowers-the
patient Is far from dead,
The patient. o. course. il the
Chicago White S.ox. the club that
was doomed by the experts 10 die
Of loneliness in the dreary con-
fines OF the American League
basement.
Apparently the White Sox have
different ideas On the subject.
Judging from todays standings
the Sox not only are very much
alive. but are making some OF
the other teams roll over and
play dead.
The end OF the first week OF
play finds the White Sox tied
with the Philadelphia Athletics
for second place. only half q game
behind the fast-moyins New York
Yankees. They have won five
and lost only two. all their vic
tories coming In q row.
Compare that with q year ago
when the Pale Hose. who were
destined to drop more than 100
games, lost six OF their hrst
seven. and did not register their
NTH victory until . month and q
day Of the season had passed.
And their longest winning streak
OF ls4S never went beyond three
straight.
Sex Get strong Pitching.
Splendid pitching by Bill Wight
and Randy Gumpert yesterday
enabled the White Sox TO whip
the St. Louis Browns twice. al
and 40. TO give them 4 sweep OF
the ur-game series.
Wight needed the help OF Relief
Pitcher Matt Surkont. Rochester
draftee. and . two-run ninth
inning rally by his mates to escape
being charged with . 10 setback.
Surkont, who worked the ninth,
got the victory. Gumpert's per-
formance was more gilt-edeed.
He permitted only three singles
and allowed no Brownie TO pass
second base, The only Sok pitch
er to go the route. the former
Yankee now has done 1t twice.
Held to tlree hits by Ned
Carver over the first eight innings,
the Sox suddenly came to lie
in their last turn at bat. A single
by Dave Philley. a fielder's choice
and an error presented Chicago
with the tying run. Cass Michaels
then singled to drive In Luke
Appling with the winning marker.
Appling and Herb Adams. rookie
fiychaser. collected three hits
apiece to lead the second game
attack against Dick Starr.
Red Sox Again Thumped.
The Boston Red sox continued
to founder around. dropping their
fourth game In six. when the
Yankees came from behind to
defeat them. ST. Trailing 40.
the Bronx Bombers scored six
runs in the eighth. and added
three more in the ninth to salt
away their NTH triumph against
only one loss. Joe Dobson was
the victim. The big blow OF the
six-run inning was Gene WOOD
Iling's home run with two on.
Brooklyn's scrappy Dodgers re-
tanned their half-game margin in
the National League race. split
ting a doubleheader with the
Phillies in Philadelphia. The
Phils won the opener. IA. and
the Dodgers took the second. SIS.
Home runs by Richie Ashburn.
Stan Lopata and Eddie Miller
high lighted the Phils' victory.
Jack Banta's relief pitching stood
out for the Dodgers in the night
cap as he relieved Ralph Branca
in the seventh and halted .
Philly uprising.
Reds and Giants Split.
The Cincinnati Reds fell into
second place tie with the New
York Giants when they divided
twin bill with the Pirates In
Pittsburgh. The Reds won the
first game. 80. In 10 innings. with
Charley Kress singing home
Johnny Wyrostek with the win
ming run. Eddie Bockman drove
in all Of Pittsburgh's runs with q
pair of home runs In the Pirates
81 second game victory. Cltn
Chambers allowed six hits for the
victory.
Sheldon 3ones went all the way,
scattering seven hits. as the
Giants defeated the Boston
Braves, 60. Bobby Thomson pro-
vided the winning margin the first
innings with . three-run homer
OF vern Bickford.
Joe Garagiola doubled home
Enos Slaughter with the run that
gave the st. Louis Cardinals .
5-4 triumph over the Chicago
Cubs. The blow came In the last
half of the ninth with two out.
The scheduled game between
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