The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-01

gushing Ithe reVltallZed Senators |
back into the American League |
pennant race as a possible new |
challenged to the New York Yam
KEGS bid.for a fifth straight cham
pionship.t
Three Of the senior members of |
the "old guard" - 35-year-old
Micky Vernon, 31-year-old Clyde |
Vollmer and 30-year-old Frank |
Ehea-boamed the three-gun salute |
yesterday as the Senators roared |
DlSt Boston into Tho fhN division
with pair of victories over the
Red sox,, So and 40.
Vollmer, a Red Sox castoH, sin
Eled home the winning run in the
ninth inning. against his former
mates. Vernon, the leagues lead
Ing hitter, drove in a run, set up
the tying run and scored the win
ming run as the Mats came from
behind with two tallieS in the ninth.
Shea, shunted off by the Yankees
last year, spun a nine-hit shutout
in the nightcap for his fourth tri-
umph without d defeat.
Washington, winner of four of its
last five, still trails the league
leading Yankees by ga games, but
Is only twp lengths away from Sec
ond.place Cleveland.
The Yankees trounced Philadel-
phia's Athletics, I'll, concentrating
their attack on Alex Kellner, who
had shut them out in his two pre-
vious starts against them. New
York Tailed twice in the second In
ming to snap the southpaw's score
less streak of 20 innings against
them. They banged him out in the
sixth with four-run uprising fea-
tured by pinch-hitter Gene Wood
ling's twotrun double.
Cleveland swept past Chicago
into second place with an 81 tri-
umph over Detroit. The White Sox
were held to a split In their double
header with the Browns. st. Louis
took the tightcap, IA, after the
White Sox. had won the opener by
the same score.
Brooklyn's blazing Dodgers
zoomed info first place in the Ma
tional League, winning their ninth
and tenth in row at the expense
of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Dod-
gers made 1t eight out of eight
over Pittsburgh, 4-3 and Al, to
plunge the Bucs into the base
ment. 4 Ne
Brooklyn needed help from Gin
cinnati to take over first place by
half game over Milwaukee. The
Redlegs snapped SO decisions with
the Braves, winning the opener to
shove Milwaukee out of the lead.
st. Louis stubborn Cardinals re-
bounded from Saturdays double
setback, whipping the Chicago
Cubs, 6.2, to remain 2Ia games off
the pace. Rain washed out the
New York Giants and Philadelphia
Phillies for the second straight
day.
KelIner's bid to become the only
pitcher besides Walter Johnson to
hurl three successive shutoutS
against the Yankees was short
lived. He. was scored on in the
third inning and shelled in the
sixth to join II other hurlers who
have failed to duplicate Sir Wal
ter's 1908 performance.
Bob Lemon hurled an eight-hitter
20 hand the Tigers their seventh
successive loss. Homers by Bill
Glynn and Larry Dolby fastened
Art Houtteinan's fourth loss.
Billy Hunter. Brownie shortstop,
enjoyed the best batting day Of
his career banging out seven sin
gles against the White Sox, His
four hits ii the night cap led to
two runs hatted in and two runs
for himself to provide the margin
of victory for rookie Mike Blyzka.
Minnie Minoso, with three hits and
two RIBS, paced the White Sox to
victory in Abe. opener.
Gil Hodges and Jackie Robinson
were the big guns in the Dodger
attack. Hodges, continuing to slug
his way out flf a near-disastrous
batting slump. drove in two runs
in the firsI game with a pair of
singles. Robinson had five straight
hits. The nightcap was called after
Ga innings because Of darkness.
Sophomore Eddie Mathews OF
Milwaukee and rookie Jim Green
grass Of Cincinnati WED for hitting
honors in toe Braves-Redlegs split.
Each banged two homers, one in
each game Each drove in three
runs. GreehgrasS also had double
and three singles. Mathews had
double and sone single.
Harvey haddix. the Cardinals
rookie Soukpaw, was the whole
show as he spun a slx-hitter over
the Cubs Etr his sixth victory. He
cracked two Of st. Louis seven
hits off loRr TURK Lown and his
successors and famed 10.
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