Evening star., 1953-06-04
Yanks Routing Rivals
In Determined Drive
For Fifth Pennant
Continued From Page CID

set and when the champs roared
into the Windy City Tuesday
for three-game series they were
ready to make immediate
amends.
Tuesday night they stopped
the White Sox, 4-3. Yesterday
they trampled all over them, 18-
2. in the biggest rout of the sea-
son in either league. Four Chi
cago pitchers were mauled for
19 hits and the New Workers
benefited from nine bases on
balls, a hit batter and three
White Sox errors.
Hold 5H-Game Bulge.
Riding a six-garne winning
streak and holding a fat 512-
game lead over the runnerup
Indians, the Yankees wind up
their business in Chicago today
and move on to st. Louis for
four games, Detroit for three and
Cleveland for four. Their COM
bined record against the three
clubs so far this season is 81.
The Indians slipped another
full notch back last night when
Boston came uD with three runs
in the top of the ninth for a
4-3 decision. Cleveland has
played one game less than New
York and has lost five more.
The Athletics whipped the
hapless Tigers. 1877, dropping
Detroit 20 games behind New
York. A year ago today the
Tigers were in last place but only
111a games behind: They fin
ished the 1852 season As games
out of first place.
Braves Increase Lead.
Milwaukee made it two
straight over Brooklyn on the
Dodgers home grounds, 14-9,
after trailing, To, at the end
Of three innings. The victory
stretched the Braves league lead
to game and a half. Milwau-
kee plays Brooklyn again today
before leaving for Philadelphia
to tangle with the third-place
PhillieS in four games.
The PhilS split a twilight
night double-header with the
Cardinals, winning the second
game, 6-5, after losing the
opener, 5-3. The Giants trounced
Cincinnati, 11-3, and Pittsburgh
moved into sixth place with a
10 decision over Chicago.
The Red Sox triumph over
Cleveland broke their four-game
losing streak. Trailing by two
at the start of the ninth, Boston
put together a pair of singles
and a double by George Kell for
one run and picked up two more
on Sam Whites single.
Slugging Gus Zernial paced
the Philadelphia attack at De-
troit with a pair of home runs,
raising his seasons total to II,
and five runs batted in. The
Tigers haven't won a game in
their last 10 starts.
IL HurIerS Work at Brooklyn.
The MISUNDERSTANDING me-
lee saw IL pitchers in action,
with the hitters treating almost
all of them like batting practice
tosSers. The Dodgers blew leads
of two and five runs and after
they got back in the running in
the seventh they couldn't find a
hurler to halt the blasting Braves.
Andy Pafko and Jim Pendle-
ton, both peddled by Brooklyn
during the winter, homered as
Milwaukee scored five runs in
the eighth.
The Cardinals managed only
six hits off Curt Simmons and
two successors in the first game
at Philadelphia but the blows
included home runs by Steve Bill
ko and Rip Repulski plus a triple
by Repulski and a double by Del
Rice.
In the nightcap Connie Ryan
singled home Tommy Glaviano
with the winning run in the
sighth after Glaviano had tripled.
Ryan struck out with the bases
loaded and two out in the eighth
inning Of the first game.
Hacker Loses Fifth ShutOut.
Warren Hacker. most every
body'S nomination for the hard
luck pitcher of the '53 campaign,
lost his eighth straight at Pitts
burgh. The Chicago right-hand-
er has been on the losing end of
five shutouts in which he allowed
a total of nine runs. He has
lost four games by a single run
and two others by two runs.
Last night he gave up five hits
to seven by Paul LaPalme of
the Pirates, but Pittsburgh got
the only run as Pete CaStiglione
singled home Ralph Kiner in the
fourth.
The Giants victory over Gin
cinnati marked the end of a
four-game losing streak and the
return to action of Rookie Daryl
Spencer. who had been benched
for not hitting. Spencer cele-
brated with two home runs.
Larry Jansen went all the way
for New York, his first COM
plete game since April 20. %.