Evening star., 1951-07-15

against Lefty Chuck Stobbs after
filling the bases with two out in
the ninth. Chicago scored its only
runs in the second.
1t was Stobbs' first win of the
season over the White Sox. He
scattered six hits for his seventh
victory against three defeats-all
notched against him by Chicago.
The triumph gave the Red Sox
a 5000 record for .625 percent
age, while the White Sox were
deeper in second place with So
80 and a $40 percentage after
starting today'S game only three
percentage points behind the Red
.Sox.
Vollmer's Sixth Vital Blow.
Vollmer's line single to left after
Bobby Doerr had singled and Billy
Goodman doubled in the ninth
won the game. 1t was the sixth
time the big right fielder pro-
duced the winning punch for
Boston in the last seven games.
In Thursday nights double win
by Boston over the White Sox,
Vollmer belted a two-run homer
| in the opener and clouted a fly
| that plated the winning run in
thinning 'nightcap.
Before the All-Star game, Voll-
mer had banged a grand slam
homer, a two-run homer and
two-run triple for three victories
over the New York Yankees.
/ Boston's first run today was on
Ted Williams 18th homer in the
fourth.
White Sox Come Close.
| 1t was a heart breaking defeat
for the White Sox, who showed
signs of repeating their great
comeback for 19-inning, 5-4 win
last night. They filled the bases
in the ninth. But StobbS wasn't
| to be denied.
After Jim Busby and Gus
Niarhos had singled with one out
and pinch-hitter Eddie Robinson
walked to fill the bases, with two
down, Floyd Baker made the
game-ending third out on tall
pop fly to third baseman Vern
Stephens.
! Stobbs, yielding six hits, was
touched for all the White Sox
scoring in the third inning.
/ Chico Carrasquel smashed his
first hit of the series, a single to
left and moved to third on a
sacrifice and wild pitch. Nellie
Fox was hit by a pitched ball.
Both Carrasquel and Fox scored
ION Minnie Minoso's screaming
double to left.
I Double Plays Help HOlcombe.
In gaining their third win
against one defeat in this highly
important start of 13-game road
trip, the Red Sox played tanta-
lizing game with Chicago's Ken
Holcombe, who went the route.
Holcombe, aided by three White
+; Sox double plays, looked invulner-
) able for eight innings. except FOR
: Williams blast into the right-f1eld
) stands in the fourth inning.
The three twin killings raised
to IA the number of double plays
into which the Red Sox had
grounded in the four-game series.
The limping Williams returned
to the lineup after a leg injury
: forced him to rest last night. In
D the fifth. he drove to a third out.
close to the right-field wall with
0 two men on. In the eighth, with a
runner on second, Ted fell victim
5 to the "Boudreau shift" when
: Fox. playing in mid-right field,
S threw him out at first on a legiti-
Q mate single.
: The attendance of 27.082 raised
Il the three-day series crowd 10 104, =
s 895 and 742,025 for the year. It
: left the White Sox only 39,315 be-
r hind their entire 1850 attendance.
) Stobbs got better as The game
progressed. He was in trouble
in the first when Fox doubled, and
, after the two-run White Sox third.
Stobbs had bit of trouble in the
fourth. walking Busby and yield
ing single to Carrasquel.
But the cool southpaw breezed
+, through the fifth. sixth, seventh
and eighth without allowing a hit.
although he gave no two walks.
, Boston abb O. A. Chicago ARH