Evening star., 1950-07-19
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Pilot Out After
Crack-Up in AZ
Detroit's Margin Cut
To 3h as Big Series
With Yunks Neurs

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By Jack Hand
Associated Press Ssaorfs Writer

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Credit Billy Southworth with
the top baseball comeback of 1850
whether his Braves win. lose or
tie in the National League race.
A year ago Billy was on the
Verge of a breakdown. In mid
August poor health forced him to
leave the dissension- ridden Braves
in charge of Coach Johnny Coo
ney. Many thought he would
never come back.
They whispered that his "tem-
porary retirement" would be made
permanent during the winter by
action of the Three Steamshovels"
who own the Braves. But they
were wrong.
Back came Southworth to as
sumo command at the winter
meetings. With Billy calling the
signals, the Braves pulled their
big player swap with the Giants
that brought Sid Gordon, Buddy
Kerr and Willard Marshall to
Boston.
Now his Braves are flying high,
in a triple tie with Philadelphia
and st. Louis in the sizzling pen
nant race. It's the first time
they've been up there since the
opening week OF the season.
Pitching Standard High.
With Warren SPAIN, Johnny
Sain and Vern Bickford workinSS
In regular turn, Southworth's S
pitching is on a high plane. The
three of them account for SO of
the Braves 46 wins. In recent
weeks, Bob Chapman has looked
to be dependable fourth starter.
+ SPAIN did 1t again yesterday
striking out nine Pirates as he
mastered Pittsburgh for the first
time this season. 11-3. 1t was the
18th victory for the 29-year -old
southpaw.
Murry Dickson, Vern Law and
Jim Walsh yielded II hits, includ-
g. ing Walker Cooper's 10th homer
with two on in the second. Gus
Bell, Pirate rookie, hit a home run
of SPAIN in the seventh with a
imam on.
st. Louis turned Ford Frick' 8
League into triple tie by ending
Brooklyn's surge with q 5-3 vic
tory behind Al Brazle's steady
seven-hit pitching.
Brazle was the second Cards
pitcher to go the route against the
Dodgers in Is games. The Cards
had lost seven in a row to Brook
lyn since June l until they whipped
Erv Palica last night.
All five st. Louis runs came in
the fourth inning with double by
Enos Slaughter. a two-run single
by Eddie Miller and singles by Del
Rice and Brazle driving home the
scores. Brooklyn got one in the
fifth and two more in the ninth
ION Carl Furillo's homer following
Jackie Robinson's two-out single.
Phils End Losing Streak.
The Phillies got away with a
split at Chicago, breaking a s.
game losing streak with an 8-3
romp in the second game of a
double header. The Cubs took the
opener, So, with the help of Bill
Serena's two homers and Paul
MINERS seven-hit pitching.
Rookie Bubba Church held Chi
cago to five hits in the second
game while the Phils battered Bob
Rush, Johnny Wander Nicer
Johnny Schmitz and Dutch Leon
ard for 18 hits. Willie Jones
smashed his 10Th homer, two
doubles and a single to back up
Churchs first route-going per-
formance.
Cincinnati made it nine wins in
it's last II games with a 10
decision over the Giants on
Virgil Stallcups third inning
homer. Stallcup's homer and an
inf1eld single by Ted Kluszewski
in the eighth were the only hits
off loser Monte Kennedy.
The Giants had many chances
to score on HOWE Fox but left
eight stranded. In the seventh
they had men on second and third
with one out, when Connie Ryan
successfully pulled the hidden ball
trick on Kennedy. New York has
lost 10 of it's last IL, falling eight
games below 500.
Tigers Lose Ground.
Il. Detroit lost a full game of its
American League lead at Boston
where the Red ,Sox outlasted the
Tigers, 1873. in slugfest marked
by Vern Stephens 3-run homer in
the first inning. The blow raised
Stephens league-leading RBI total
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