Evening star., 1951-08-18
Home Game Schedule May Favor Yanks Slightly Stretch Drive
New York's 9 Games
Against Boston May
Help Cleveland
BY ths Asseeiotsd Press

With the Yanks and Indians
again neck and neck in the Ameri-
can League pennant race. all signs
are pointing toward another COIN
tossing finish. The schedule for
the final six weeks of the season
may provide tipoff.
The edge. If any, tips slightly in
favor of the Yankees who play %
of their last 40 games in Yankee
Stadium. Cleveland divides its
final 40 on a 1920 basis and Bos-
ton. four games back. faces an
uphill pull with only 16 at home
and "a away.
Nine big games between Boston
and New York may give the Cleve-
land club the breathing space it
needs. While the Red Sox and
Yanks knock off one another in
late September, the Tribe could
slide home.
Cleveland plays only 16 games
with the other first-division clubs
while New York has 19 and Bos-
ton II. Chicago, nine full games
off the pace. still has seven dates
with the Indians, their victims Of
yesterday.
The New York Cleveland series
next week may have an important
bearing on the situation.
Cleveland Beaten Twice.
The White Sox, now an out
slider in the four-club race, stung
cleveland twice, IL and 8-3.
When the Yanks knocked off
Philadelphia. 80. in a night game,
Cleveland's lead had disappeared.
The Stubby Overmire Tommy
Byrne trade the Yanks made in
June paid its second dividend in
two days. Byrne, pitching for st.
Louis. ended 13-game Cleveland
winning streak Thursday. Last
night Overmire won his first for
New York by going the route
against the AS with an eight
hitter. Boston hung in close by
scoring three in the 18th to top
e Washington, IA. Detroit shaded
y st. Louis. 5-4.
e Leo Durocher's Giants blew a
little more life into their National
League hopes by humping the
Phillies, 8-5, to cut Brooklyn's lead
to nine games. The Dodgers split
e pair in Boston, winning the
q opener, 81, for Carl Erskine, but
! losing to Johnny Sain in the
i second. 4-3.
4 Cards Beat Cincinnati.
Stan Musial's 28th homer in the
). ninth gave ST. Louis 2-1 win
= over Cincinnati in a duel between
: Max Lanier and Herm Wehmeier.
v Pittsburgh's Mel Queen set down
= Chicago with three hits. 8-3.
White Sox attendance went over
the million mark for the first
e time as they ruined Bobby Fellers
n bid for win No. 20 and whipped
+ Bob Chakales in the second game.
: Billy Pierce breezed home with a
It flve-hitter against Feller with the
T help of homers by Al Zarilla and
IS Ray Coleman. Jim Busby homered
Y in the second, won by Reliefer
It Luis Aloma.
Overmire first complete game
e in Yankee uniform came at an
e opportune moment with Casey
IS Stengel hard up for pitchers.
g Stubby had some anxious mo-
/, ments in the ninth. He got Eddie
: Joost on a long fly with two men
W on for the final out to beat Bob
:. Hooper.
e Priddy's Double Wins Game.
It Ted Gray survived a ninth-in-
a ming st. Louis uprising to win his
: fourth. Jerry Priddy's double in
e the sixth drove in the decisive
it run.
In the National League. Gil
h Hodges blasted his 34th homer
: off Max Surkont to help Erskine
k win the opener. Despite four
!. Boston errors and IL Brooklyn
d hits, the Braves came home in
=. the second for an even break.
AL Dark and Yves Westrum each
@ had four hits for the Giants to
. give Reliefer George Spencer hi,
= eighth win. Ken HeintZelman
+ was the loser despite the work oi
- Bill Nichols who drove in four oi
10 homer and triple.