Evening star., 1952-08-11
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1.-THE American League pennantl
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race by trading good" players to
the White Sox.
"He seems to want to embar-
rass us and make our job tougher
at every opportunity" Greenberg
added.
Greenberg's lament became a
reality yesterday as the lowly
Browns embarrassed" the pen
Inant-hungry Tribe by beating Bob
Lemon. 6-3.
A victory would have moved
the Indians to within a game Of
the pace-setting Yankees, hut by
missing the boat the Indians
dropped two games back. The
Yanks and third-place Boston
were rained out.
In other American League
games Philadelphia and Wash
Iington Swapped AZ decisions and
Chicago captured a double header
from Detroit, 81 and 5-4.
Rain Cuts National Schedule.
Rain curtailed action in the
National League, wiping out games
between Brooklyn's front-running
Dodgers and Philadelphia and
runnerup New York and Boston.
The Dodgers thus held fast to
their fat eight-game bulge.
In the games played, Chicago
swept a double-header from Pitts
burgh, 9-5 and 4-3. and st. Louis
and Cincinnati divided a twin bill
The Cards won the opener, 80.
and the Reds the nightcap, AZ.
Cleveland's defeat was doubly
bitter as a former Indian, Fred
Marsh, accounted for the deciding
runs with three-run homer in
the fourth inning. 1t was Marsh's
first homer of the season.
Marsh, whose error enabled
Cleveland to beat the Browns Sat-
urday night, connected with two
out. The homer by the .235 hitter
gave st. Louis a AZ lead. Al
Rosen socked his 18th homer in
the eighth for Cleveland, but the
Browns put the game in cold
storage in the bottom half with
two more runs. Bobby Cain went
all the way to post his eighth vic
tory while Lemon was charged
with his ninth loss.
White SOx Make Hits Count.
The White Sox collected only
Eight hits in their sweep over De-
troit, like Chicago's hitless Won
ders of 1906. they got them when
it counted.
Ted Gray and Dick Littlefield
held the Sox to three hits in the
opener, but one was Sam Mele's
11th homer and the other two
were doubles by Hector Rodriguez,
who drove in one run and scored
another. Erratic Lou Kretlow
went all the way for Chicago, al
though reached for eight hits and
six walks. Two errors also kept
the former Tiger in hot water.
Chicago punched three hits and
two walks for three runs in the
first inning of the second game
and added two more in the fifth
!. on a pair of passes and two safe
ties. Luis Aloma, third Chicago
pitcher, gained his first victory
of the season. while Virgil Trucks
suffered his 18th setback.
| Necciai Pounded i'm Debut.
The Cubs spoiled the major
league debut of Ron Necciai,
minor league strikeout sensation,
in the opener at Pittsburgh. Nee
ciai, who astounded the baseball
world by striking out q batters
last May while pitching a no
hitter for Bristol, Tenn, in the
Class D Appalachian League, was
rocked for seven runs and IL hits
in six innings. Hank Sauer locked
it up for the Cubs in the ninth
with a two-run homer, his 28th.
Ralph Kiner blasted his 22d for
Pittsburgh in the fifth.
Chicago scored all of it's runs
in the second game in the sixth
inning against Howie Pollet on
two walks, three hits and two
: errors. Veteran Dutch Leonard
finished both games for the Cubs
He saved Warren Hackers 10th
victory in the opener and Paul
MINERS 18th in the second
Rookie Dick Groat got five hits fol
the Pirates in the two games.
| Veteran Ken Raffensberger
blanked the Cards until the ninth
in the first game at Cincinnati
when he suddenly lost his stuff
Enos Slaughter doubled home Red
|; Schoendienst with the first run
and Dick Sisler climaxed the win
ming rally with a two-run single.
Dutch Hitler checked the Cards
on five hits in the second game.
The Reds piled up q 40 lead in
4 five innings against Cloyd Boyer
, to permit Hitler to coast home.