The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-06
Giants WGIIOp
Dodgers 200 For
Worst Beating
In Many Years
~ JACK HAND
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Bob POrteriield and Johnny Sch
mitz are the new idols Of Il hate
the Yankee clubs from coast TO
coast And Jerry Snyder must be
81 least an honorary vice president.
The trio 81 ex-Yanks, traded out
Of the New York organization dur
Ing the regime il Manager Casey
Stengel, teamed up to help wash
ington sweep I :iouble-header from
the Yanks yesterday, 20 and 81.
It was the Yanks' first double loss
'of the year.
Porterfield, shunted to Washing
ton In the Bob KuzavS deal in 1851,
shut out New York with five hits
and allowed only one man to reach
second base In the opener. Schmitz,
cut loose this spring, mopped m
with Z fine relief job in the second
game. Snyder, who toiied on the
Yankee farms until he was tossed
into the Jackie Jensen-Irv NOren
swap last spring, came through
with three hits, drove In two runs
and scored another Ii the 12-hit
attack on Kuzava.
Chicago and Cleveland both gain
ed 4 full game on the Yanks by
splitting two At Cleveland. South
paw Billy Pierce BANKED the In
dians, 90, on five hits 70 keep the
White Sox In second place after
Cleveland came from behind to
beat reiiefer Harry Dorish Ii The
opener, 10.
Boston scored eight IN the first
Inning 10 give Mel ParneIi i lO-2
rOmp over philadelphia. Detroit,
for the first time al season, took
both ends of = double from 81.
Louis, lot and N. II also was the
first time the Tigers had beaten
the Browns al year.
As Z result Of the days action.
the Yanks lead Chicago BY si1 and
Cleveland By six games.
Brooklyn's National League ad-
vantage shrank TO IA games when
they absorbed ! 20-s drubhing from
The New York Giants, their worst
defeat IN many seasons. Hank
Thompson bit twu homers, one
with The bases full Of Ralph
BEanca, and drove In seven runs
to let Sal Maglie ease home.
The Phillies picked up 4 fun
game On Brooklyn BY nipping Pitts
hurgh, 20. h 10 innings IS Robin
Roberts started the winning rally
with Z double.
The Sunday surfew saved the
phillies 1 likely defeat h the
second game for they traiIed 10
after SIX innings when the game
was stopped. Il goes as 4 suspend
ed game to Be completed from
point 81 interruption before an
AUG. II night game.
Chicago and Cincinnati divided 4
pair Of free-hitting games on
Dutch Leonard Day" at Wrigley
Field. Dutch saw action In both
games and received an air-condi-
toned Cadillac between games.
Hank Sauer hit two doubles and q
single to run his string 70 six
straight hits In helping win the
first game, "a, but Ne was stopped
By Clyde King In the second game.
Ralph Kiner bit his nth and 18th
hOmers and Hank Sauer and Bin
Serena also homered but they
weren't enough to save the second
game, won BY Cincinnati, &C.
The Yanks' troubles at Wash
ingtcn started early when Allie
Reynolds was chased in the second
inning Of the first game. after CIV
ing up three runs in the first.
Schnitx, third Washington pit
cher ID the second. thrilled the
largest Griffith Stadium crowd Of
the year, 2I,6S5, b. holding the
Yanks to five hits and one run IN
the final six innings.
Bob EIIiott's bat backed up
Pieree's pitching in the second
game against Cleveland. The We
teran third baseman singled to
drive IN the first run and hit his
seventh homer In the sixth. The
Indians scored four in the seventh
to pun out the opener.
Thirteen men went to bat for
the Red Sox In the first inning and
six Of them hit safely against Carl
Seheib, Marion Fricano and Joe
Coleman. Billy Goodman and Dick
CeFnert each had q Hnuble and
single in the inning. GerneEt hit
his 18th homer later wniie Parnen
bree1ed along with . six-hitter.
The Tigers finally caught up with
the Browns after losing seven
straight to them and pulled within
one game Of seventh place. Johnny
Bucha led the Tigers with . perfect
S-for-a In the opener and Ike Boone
had three hits. Ted Gray held 81
Louis % four hits ii the second
game, the only run coming On Don
Lenhardt.s homer.
Sal Maglie, Who has whipped
Brooklyn Is ont Of = through the
years. had an easy afternoon. scat