Evening star., 1950-08-07
Giants Only 8 6ame'
Back After Winning
IS Out Of Last 10
By the Assoeiated Press

mand1ng lie a q IN Lne Natlonal
League pennant race, Leo Du-
rocher's New York Giants have
been moving up unobtrusively.
The Giants have won is Of their
last 16 games. Only 6-3 defeat
by the Cards on July 30, which in
terrupted a nine-game winning
streak, mars the surge.
During this period Giant pitch
ers have gone the route IL times
and pitched five shutouts, in
cluding one-hitters by Sheldon
Jones and Jim Hearn. They have
allowed only 80 runs, an average
Of slightly more than two per
game.
Durocher's boys began their hot
pace July 20 in sixth place. II
games out of sight. Today they
are fifth, eight games out OF the
lead but only 31a from the first
division.
Play Tough Ones Now.
The Giants enter the crucial
stage of their comeback drive to-
night when they take on the
tough Eastern foes, beginning with
a three-game series in Boston
After Boston they invade the lail
of the pace-setting Phils for foul
games and then return home
where they entertain the Dodgers
for four games and the Phils fol
four before heading west for th'
last time this year.
Yesterday the Giants reached
the peak of their current drive al
Larry Jansen and Sal Magli'
turned back the Pirates, SO ant
80. The Pirates, who wer'
blanked by Hearn Saturday, nov
have failed to score in 80 straigh
innings.
Jansen gave up only five hits
walked none and famed seven II
posting his 18th victory anc
fourth shutout. Maglie scattered
seven singles, walked four ant
struck out seven in his ninth
win. Maglie and Murry Dickson
were hooked in scoreleSS due
until the sixth when the Giant
scored a run. Bob Thomson sealet
Dickson's 18th loss with a two
run homer in the seventh.
Meanwhile, the Cardin all
checked their downward plunge
and frightened up the race by
taking a double-header from tht
Phils, I'll and 20. The Cards
had lost seven out of nine games
and dropped 61a games behinc
before righting themselves.
Rookie Wins for Cards.
Rookie Cloyd Boyer pitched
strong four-hitter to win thu
} opener, his third straight victory
Andy Seminick homered for tn
only Philadelphia run.
The Cards rocked Bob Mile
and Milo Candini for Is hits
with Red Schoendinst showin
the way with five for five. Stal
Musial contributed two-rul
homer.
. Max Lanier, veteran lefthander
l.. tanned the Phils on six hits i,
the finale while the Cards col
lected only three off Bubbs
Church. However. the Red Bird
punched two of their three hit'
along with an error to score twice
in the fourth inning.
The second-place Braves ad-
vanced to within three games OF
the Phils by dividing with the
Cubs. Johnny Sain pitched the
Braves to a So decision in the
opener. his 10th victory of the
year. The Cubs took the night
cap, 81, behind the six-hit pitch
ing of Frank Hitler.
Brooklyn missed an opportunity
to pick up ground by losing a Ill
game to Cincinnati. The Reds
mauled four Dodger pitchers
starting with Ralph Branca, for
Is hits as Ted Kluszewski and
Connie Ryan got four each. Ewell
Blackwell went all the way to
square his record at I'LL.
Yanks Back in Second Place.
In the American League, the
Yankees regained second place
from Cleveland by beating the In
dianS, 80. on Tommy Byrne's
three hitter.
The Yanks put the slug on Bot
Lemon. who was cunning for his
10th straight and 18th victory ir
the third inning when they
knocked him out with a four-rur
rally. They collected IL hits, with
Phil Rizzuto the ringleader with
four for four. Rookie Billy Mar
tin drove in three on his first
major league homer. Byrne, who
famed 10, held the Indians hit
less until Bob Kennedy singled in
the seventh.
The Red Sox took q pair from
the White Sox, go and 4-3, at
Chicago. Ellis Kinder stopped the
White Sox on five hits in the first
game and drove in six runs, four
on a grand-slan homer.
The Red Sox pulled the night
/ cap out with two in the ninth tn
give Joe Dobson his 18th victory.
Three-run homers by Dick Ko-
kos and Owen Friend sparked the
Browns to a 1913 victory over the
Athletics that enabled the Browns
to vacate the basement in favor
Of the AS. Ned Carver scattered
nine hits to pick up his ninth
triumph.
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