Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-10
Pieree's Salvage Job
Top Feat in Big Day
For Baseball Names
BY the Assoeie+ed Pres.

By +hs Associe+sd Press
Whether Chicago's Billy Pierce
is the best left-handed pitcher
in baseball is open 10 argum ent,
but there is no doubt where
the White Sox would De today
without him.
The 25-year old ace. sore arm
and all, shut out tie Yankee
yesterday, SO, to keep alive the
flag hopes Of the IUnneltlp White
Sox, The victory left Chicago
seven games behind New Ior..
with ~ left TO play.
Sunday proved a great Gay
for the big names Ted VII
liams, making only hi second
appearance at bat for Hostor
since his return from K0rca,
smashed a towering 420-loot
home run into tho celitertie d
bleachers at Fenway Park. Will
IamS was serving as rinCn
hitter against .Cleve.and's Nike
Garcia in the seventh innin~.
Despite Teds 325th-round
tripper Of his career, the Red
SoX bowed to Cleveland as
Garcia coasted to his 14th VIC
tory, 9-3
MuSial Hits 18th.
Stan MuSiaI raped his nth
home run with temmatc on
base in the seventh to help The
Cardinals defeat the Giants. 6-2,
for d sweep Of the tl>ree-eau c
series.
Ralph kinGG blasted his 26tn
round tripper to lead the CUBS
to 6-5 victory after the 7hi!iicS
had won the opener, 10.
Duke SnideI cloutcd his 2}d
four-bagger with Inc bo SEES
loaded as the Dodgers crushed
Cincinnati 81.
Eddie Mathews, National
League home gun 'eo der.
smacked his 36th as the Braves
swept both ends of cioublc-
header from Pittsburgh, Ia ana
1913.
Zcrnial Takes Lead.
Philadelphia's GUS ZoInial
took over The American League
home run LEAD, hitting his 28th
and 29th as the Athletic de-
feated and Lied the Tigers. d-3
and 8-8. Each game went 20
innings. ZCrnial'S homer in The
second game was u grand slam
rcr in pinc!l-hit IoiC. He had
to leave the Opener with 4 RULED
achilles tendon in his left heel.
The Browns beat trc Mats.
80, but Washington walked OH
with the second same, 1872.
Pierce's brilliant pitching was
a life-saVer for the White So,-,
whose pernant hopes all but
vanished when the Yarnces
whipped them in the first three
of the vital four-game series.
To make ms tiers worse. Mar
ager Paul Richards Lao an
nounced Saturday thai Pierce
might rot he available TO- he
final game. The Little south-
paws arm WIS stiGf and sore, he
explained, as result Of Il .cOrn-
less ga inning relief job WcHnes-
day after pitching line innings
OF S)lutout Dall Monday night.
i can hardly raise Ivy arm %
comb NY hair" Pierce told Il re-
porter N the visitors Gugout at
Yankee Stadium before Satlr-
| days double-Lcaoer.
Now Has 13T StrikeoutS.
All overnight miracle must
have occurred beCau'e Pierce not
only pitched a slutout bat per-
mItted only three widely scat
tered his and famed eight to
run his league-leadiIlg total to
1877 strikeou 1t was his 18th
victory and hi fifth shutout. He
now owns a consecutive sccrelcss
inning streak of @42a ard an
earned run averaeC of 241. He
! has pitched one one-hitter. two
| tWo-LittcrS and three thrre hit
, terS.
Rookie Fir, t Ba.enan Bob
Boyd playing il place OF the
injured Ferris Fain, smashed
three hits including his first
major league home run to pace
a 10hit attack against Vic
Raschi and two successors. 1t
WIS Boyd Who ruined Bob
Kuzava's no-hi hid Saturday
with n.nth-innin" double.
Boyd's homer came on the first
pitch 81 The game to snap a
sting of Is cons lcutive score
less innings by Chicago.
Showing no signs of folding,
the Braves pounded cut 26 hits
in their double victory over
Pittsburgh to cut Brooklyn's
f. st-place margin to seven
games. INDY Pafko slammed a
oair of homers il the nignvCap
to enable jim Wilson 20 coast
to his fourth triumph.
Fuss Meyer thew a three
Continued or P2ge A-19, Col. A.