Evening star., 1953-08-02
.SouthpaW Posts
Fifth Milwaukee
Shut0utofW Week
Pufko Leeds so Win
Over PhiIs;; Mathews
Hits 33d Home Run
By the Associated Press


MILWAUKEE,, Aug. IAN in
field bounder beaten out by
Richie Ashburn, in the fourth
inning cost Warren SPAIN a per-
feet no-hit game today as the
Braves southpaw tossed his Sec
ond shutout of the week and the
31st of his career to beat Phila-
delphia. SO.
SPAIN walked none and struck
out eight as he faced only %
men in spinning the fifth shut
out of the week by a Milwaukee
pitcher. Ashburn's single. a high
bounder to Shortstop Jim Pen
dleton. was handled cleanly but
the f1ashy Phils' outfielder beat
the throw to first.
The shutout was Spahn's
fourth of the season and his total
of 81 pulled him even with Ken
Raffensberger and Emil (Dutch)
Leonard. the National Leagues
leading active pitcher in total
Shutnuts.
PafkO Drives in Three.
The Braves presented a revised
batting order, with Andy Pafko
in the cleanup slot, in an at
tempt to snap a hitting slump.
The veteran rightfielder came
through with three runs batted
in the first three innings, SPAIN
contributed another himself with
fourth-inning double and Ed
die Mathews, still swinging third,
doomed his 33rd home run of
the year in the eighth.
Jim Konstanty was the vic
tim of the Braves early uprisings
and Karl Drews served the pitch
which Mathews poked into the
Philadelphia Bullpen in center
field, an estimated 410 feet from
the plate
SPAIN, whose fast ball tipped
in and who was breaking off his
curve like a razor, allowed only
six balls to be hit into the out
field. Only Ashburn's speed-he's
recognized as one of the major
leagues fastest men-enabled
him to beat Pendleton's throw
on the slowly hit ground ball in
the fourth. The victory was
Spahn's 14th against four de-
feats.
PendIetOn Scores Twice.
Fendleton, playing short in
place of Johnny Logan. who suf-
fered minor hand injury, sin
gled in the first and came all
the way around on Pafko's dou-
BILE to right.
The Braves jumped on Kon-
stanty in the third for a pair
Bill Bruton singled through the
infield and took third on Pendle-
tons double. Pafko sent both
runners home with a line single
to center, Spahn's double to
right, scored Jack Dittmer in
the fourth.
A crowd of 23,791 watched
Spahn's superlaNve pitching.
raising the paid attendance for
the year here to 1.032,900.
Grimm Halls Best Week
During the celebration in the
Braves clubhouse after the
game, Manager Charlie Grimm,
referring to his clubs five shut
outs in nine games during the
week, shouted:
"If that isn't the best week
of pitching in major league his
tory, my memory is getting aw-
fully poor"
The Braves, who came home
after losing 80 and 81 games
to Brooklyn Sunday. blanked
the Giants, 1870, Monday as
SPAIN worked a seven-hitter.
Bob Buhl beat the Giants Tues
day, 20, on six hits. Max Sur
kont lost Wednesday. 80, but
Lew Burdette shut out the New
Workers, SO, with a siX-hitter
the next afternoon. Robin Rob-
erts won Friday nights opener
from the Braves. 5-1, but in
the nightcap Surkont and Bob
Miller of the Phils went 10
scorelesS innings before rain
halted play.
Ironically. Curt Simmons of
the Phils almost had a perfect
game here May Is. Bruton hit
the first pitch of the game for