Evening star., 1953-07-27
Dodgers Add Six Games to Lead II Days to Rout Opposition
Pitchers Take Over
When SIuggers Fail;
Trucks Gets No. Is
BY the Associaied Press


While all American League
clubs divided double headers
yesterday, the Dodgers continued
their drive to rout all National
League opposition by sweeping
a twin bill from second-place
Milwaukee. So and 2-1.
Brooklyn'S powerful home-run
attack was shelved for the day.
but Charlie Dressen's pitchers.
who used to keep him awake
nights, again displayed their
new-found class as the Braves
were held to a total Of II hits.
Glen Labine and Bud Milliken
teamed up to work q six-hitter
in the opener, while Carl Erskine
scored his 10th victory by fan
ming 10 in a 5-hitter. The largest
Ebbets Field crowd in almost
two years-33, ,421-turned out.
AntOnelli Routed.
Johnny AntonelN held the
Dodgers ScoreleSs on four hits
through seven innings Of the
opener, but he was routed with
a three-run burst in the eighth
on hits by Junior Gillian, Peewee
Reese, Jackie Robinson and Carl
Furillo.
Lew Burdette, winner Of seven
straight without a defeat in re-
lief, made his first start for Mil.
waukee in the nightcap and was
beaten by an unearned run. Billy
Cox singled in the second and
raced to third when Catcher
Walker Cooper threw Erskine's
bunt wildly to first. Cox scored
the winning run when Gillian
forced Erskine.
When play resumed July Is
after the break for the All-Star
game. the Dodgers led the
Braves by only a game and q
half. Since then Brooklyn has
won IL of IA games while Mil
waukee has taken five of IL. Now
the Braves trail by seven and a
half games.
The whole race has opened
since the Dodgers began pulling
away from the pack. On July
Is the birthplace club (New
York; was only six and a half
games back. Now the Cards are
fifth and they are II games
behind.
Bickfield and Logan in Fight.
The Braves, incidentally, dis
closed that Pitcher Vern Bick-
ford and Shortstop Johnny Lo-
gan of the Braves got into a fight
in a Brooklyn grill Saturday
night, but peace was restored
quickly.
Their tempers boiled over
about something and a bit
of a fight started" Manager
Charlie Grimm explained when
asked about a report in a New
York newspaper. But they
shook hands and everything il
all right"
The skirmiSh was said to have
started from a discussion of a
play in Saturdays game at
Ebbets Field, won by Brook
lyn, TO.
The argument grew in inten-
sity, the New York Daily News
reported, until a challenge was
hurled and accepted. Fists
started flying. the paper added.
and the two Braves started
graphing and slugging each
other around the dining room.
The fight continued out on
Forty-second street and then the
battlers moved back into the
restaurant, a half block from the
Braves hotel, until cooler heads
intervened.
The News said Bickford was
so badly beaten that the club
trainer had to be called to patch
up the damage. Grimm refused
to let photographers into the
Milwaukee dressing room yester-
day to take pictures of either
Logan or Bickford.
Trucks Holds Up White Sox.
Meanwhile, the slowed-up White
Sox, despite disappointing
home stand. still represent the
chief threat to the Yankees bid
for fifth straight pennant. And
they owe it largely to one man
Pitcher Virgil Trucks.
Thanks to the 34-year-old right
handlers four-hit, 40 shutout
over Philadelphia after the Ath-
leticS had taken a 4-3 opener
yesterday, the White Sox were
able to keep pace with the
Yankees, who split with De-
troit. Were it not for Trucks
eight straight victories since he
Joined Chicago from st. Louis
June 13, the White Sox would
now be in fourth place instead
OF doggedly hanging on to the
runnerup spot, 51a lengths be-
hind the New Yorkers. Trucks
record is 1874.
Gus zernial's bases-loaded
single with two out in the eighth
(See BASEBALL, Page A-19.)
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