Evening star., 1953-09-04
357,476 More
Needed in Z
Playing Dates
Milwaukee Stadium
Already Sold for 9;
Mathews Hits 44th
BY the Assoeluted Press

last season IN Boston where
they had the poorest attendance
in the majors, have an excel
lent chance of cracking the Ma
tional League attendance record
IN their first season at Mil
Waukee.
The Braves must average 29,-
100 for their remaining IL home
dates. That's a formidable fig
ure. but all except three of
their games are complete SELL
outs already except for the
bleachers. County Stadium seats
36,011 and more than 1000
standees can be accommodated.
Brooklyn set the league rec
ord in 1947 by attracting 1907
526 to Ebbets Field. The Braves
need 357.476 more customers to
break that mark and believe
they'll do it. On their last home
stand they averaged better than
10000 fans a game.
Cardinals Good Draw.
The Cardinals, who drew 105,-
627 in three-day series the last
time they visited Milwaukee,
open a four-game series at Mil
waukee tonight, with an after
noon game tomorrow and double
header Sunday. Demand for
tickets has been great an6 it's a
refreshing change for a team
that drew only 281,27S last year
in Boston.
The home stand which will
tell the story has two interrupt
tions. The Braves go to Chicago
for a Labor Day double header
with the Cubs after the series
with st. Louis. They come back
home the next night to entertain
the Eastern clubs for eight
games through September Is,
relax for two open dates and
wind things up against Cin~
cinnati September 10 and 20.
Only rain somewhere along
the line can keep the story from
reaching a spectacular climax
the all-time top attendance in
National League history in a city
where the circuit didn't even
have a team six months ago.
The Braves are going to need
lots of help to get anywhere
really close to the front-running
Dodgers. With only 81 games to
play, Milwaukee trails by nine.
Even 81 consecutive victories
wouldn't guarantee the pennant
unless the Dodgers were beaten
at least 10 more times.
Take Series in Brooklyn.
Success sounds impossible. But
then year ago anybody pre-
dieting that Milwaukee would
be contender for the 1853 pen
nant in either major league
would have been hurried off to
the nearest doctor.
The Braves gained one dis
tinction over the Dodgers yes
terday. They beat them. 6-1.
and ended their visits to Brook
lyn with a 6-5 record, the only
team in the league to gain the
upper hand over the Dodgers at
Ebbets Field.
Eddie Mathews broke IL tie
with his 44th home run in the
eighth. It came with two aboard.
Later in the same inning, Jim
Pendleton belted an inside-the-
park blast that scored two more.
Lew Burdette won his 14th game
against three losses, best record
in the league.
In other games, Philadelphia
shaded the Cardinals, 2-1 and
Cincinnati thumped New York,
90.
In the American League the
Yankees whipped the st. Louis
Browns, 8-5, Cleveland climbed
into a second-place tie with Chi
cago by beating Philadelphia,
ga, as the White Sox lost to
Washington, 5-1, Detroit edged
Boston, 5-4.
The Yankees lead now is 1012
games over Cleveland and Chi
go with % to play.
Catcher Knocked Over.
The Phils' winning run against
the Cardinals came in the eighth
inning when Granny Hammer
tripled and then scored as he
knocked over Catcher Del Rice
during an attempted rundown.
Curt Simmons bested Harvey
Haddix.
Ted Kluszewski of Cincinnati
broke his batting slump with his
38th homer, a double and two
singles in the Redlegs' victory
over the Giants. Larry Jansen,
(See BASEBALL, Page C-50