Evening star., 1953-05-20
Brooklyn Hopes
To GET Back in
Thick Of Race
Dodgers Take I'd Win
On Dismal Rood Trip;
Roberts Posts No. 6
By the Assoeioiod Press


Braves are due to surpasS the
home attendance total the team
drew during the entire 1852 sea-
son in Boston. Last years record
of 281,2 ,278 will be topped as soon
as 2,062 fans pass through the
gates for this afternoons Dod-
gers-Braves clash.
And today is the day the
Dodgers hope to get back into
the thick Of the National League
race after a dismal road trip.
Brooklyn had won only one Of
six games on its Western trip
until last nights Al conquest
Of the Braves before a crowd of
36.439, largest ever to attend a
sports event at Milwaukee. The
loss dropped the Braves one game
behind the Phlllies, while Brook
lyn pulled within two and a half
games of the top.
Shuba and Snider Homer.
Russ Meyer of the Dodgers
won his third game as George
Shuba hit q two-run homer off
Jim Wilson in the seventh and
Duke Snider duplicated the feat
off Max Surkont in the eighth.
Judging from the great con-
trast between the Dodgers play
last night and several woeful
performances during the present
road trip, somebody apparently
forgot to tell them the Braves
no longer represent Boston. Last
year the Boston Braves were the
real soft touch for Brooklyn,
bowing 18 times in 81 meetings.
The new Braves had split two
games with the Dodgers before
last night.
Roberts Wins Sixth.
While the Braves went down,
the Phillies went up. Robin
Roberts defeated Cincinnati, 6-3,
for his sixth victory against two
defeats.
The Cardinals edged the Pi-
rates. 2-1, and the suddenly i'm
proved Giants won their third
in a row, a Ga decision over the
Cubs in 10 innings.
Hank Bauer homered in the
11th inning with a man on base
to give the Yankees a hard
earned AZ triumph over the
lowly Tigers. while the second
place White Sox lost their second
in a row, a two-hit 81 verdict
to Harry Byrd and the Athletics.
The loss pushed Chicago two
games back of the setting
Yankees.
The Red Sox defeated the
Browns, 4-3. Cleveland's game
at Washington was postponed
because of rain.
Roberts was in trouble in only
one inning at Cincinnati. With
two out in the third. Willard
Marshall smashed a home run
with a man on base and Ted
Kluszewski followed with another
homer. The Redlegs got only
three other hits. Richie Ash
burn and Willie Jones homered
for the Phils.
Tough Loss for Lindell.
Johnny Lindell, the one-time
Yankee outfielder who came back
to the majors this season as a
knuckleball pitcher, gave the
Cardinals only five hits and
struck out eight. Both st. Louis
runs were unearned, coming after
an error by Danny O'Connell,
the Pirates second baSeman. A
fly by Solly Hemus brought
home one run and the other
scored on a double by Stan
Musial. Pittsburgh scored on
two walks, Lindell's double and
a hit batsman.
The Giants came from two
runs behind to tie their game
with the Cubs in the fifth inning.
then caught fire for three more
runs in the 10th to hand Warren
Hacker his sixth loss of the
season. Hacker, who has won
one. is the first major league
pitcher this year to drop six.
Byrd Wins TwO-Htter.
The White Sox managed only
two singles off Byrd. Jim Rivera
singled in the third inning to
drive in Chicago's only run and
Rocky Krsnich got the other
safety in the fourth. Rivera
drove home Minnie Minoso, who
had reached first on a force play,
stolen second and taken third on
a wild pitch. Byrd had won only
two other games this season
while losing four.
A double by Tom Umphlett fol-
lowed by Milt Bolling's single
gave the Red Sox their winning
run in the eighth inning against
the Browns. The hits came of
Satchel Paige, q loser for the
second time in a week. Skinny
Brown. relieved by Ellis Kinder
in the ninth. was the winner.
/ Bauer's blast broke up a pitch
ing duel between Ted Gray, who
suffered his fifth straight loss,
and veteran Johnny Sain. De-
troit had scored q run in the
second and added another in the
fifth on Bob Nieman's home run.
The Yanks got one in the fifth
and tied it in the sixth. Mickey
Mantle collected three doubles