Evening star., 1949-07-28
Win Five in Row
After Big Slump.
.Scheib Delivers
Survives 5-Run Stort
By Browns; Cards
Preserve Margin
By Jack Hond
Assoeioted Press Sports Writer


Maybe Connie Mack was right
when he said his Philadelphia AS
still had a chance in the Amer
ican League race.
They laughed at the kindly old
gent when he spoke with opti-
mism in st. Louis as his AS
floundered close to the second di-
vision. They had lost IL of their
last IA on a sorry road trip.
When he let Carl Scheib pitch
the entire nine innings at Chicago
last week. absorbing an 18-hit,
1910 drubbing. many figured Mr..
Mack was conceding. That drab
evening at Comiskey Park the
Mackmen fell 1917 games behind
the leaders with fifth place the
next step.
Then the AS turned. A double
header sweep over the White Sox
Sunday and now three straight
over the wobbly st. Louis Browns
and they have a shiny new five
game win streak. Furthermore
they are only 712 back Of the lead
ing New York Yankees and only a
half game behind the sizzling
Boston Red Sox.
To cap this turn -about-face,
Scheib went the route again last
night, despite five-run f1rst-in-
ming assault by the Brownies. Not
many managers would let pitch
er who had taken a 1910 drubbing
in his last start, give up five runs
in the first inning without waving
to the bullpen.
Scheib Makes Sharp Recovery.
Scheib survived and settled
down. Roy Sievers and Dick
Kokos hit homers in that first
inning and Bob Dillinger smashed
a triple. After that frame. Scheib
allowed only two more hits.
Philadelphia won the opener Of
the twilight-night double e-header
for Lou Brissie, 7-3, with a four
run squirt in the fourth when
Eddie Joost cleared the bases with
a double. Sam Chapman's two
base hit drove in two more in the
seventh as Brissie racked up No.
10 with Joe Coleman's relief help.
The AS pulled the second one
out of the fire for Scheib on a
two-run rally against Red Embree
in the eighth inning for an 8-6
edge. A walk and two singles
loaded the bases. Sherm Lollar's
error on q double-steal attempt
yielded one run. and two more
walks, one intentional, showed
across the second.
Mel Parnell, the solid man of
Boston's suddenly potent pitching
staff, held the Chicago White Sox
to three hits in a 60 victory. 1t
was his 14th win and his 18th
complete game in 81 starts.
The Sox, tuning up for their
important five-game weekend Sc
ries with Cleveland, raped Randy
Gumpert and Matt Surkont for IL
hits, including Bobby Doerr's 18th
homer. Dom Di Maggie boosted
his consecutive game hitting
streak to % with a double and
single. Vern Stephens main
tanned his 103-101 lead over Ted
Williams in the RBI derby as
each batted in one run.
Rain Stops Yanks, Tribe.
Washington broke its 11-game
losing string by edging Detroit
| 7-6, in the first of a twi-night
double-header, but the Tigers
smothered the Senators. 11-0, to
break even.
Rain postponed the second game
of the New York Cleveland series
with the score tied A at the enc
of four innings. The Yanks blasted
Bobby Feller from the box before
anybody was out in a four-rur
first inning but the Tribe fought
back to get even. Homers by Joe
Gordon and Relief Pitcher Sam
Zoldak accounted for two and the
Indians knocked out Ed Lopat
with two-run blast in the fourth
The crowd of 47,596 fans waited
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