Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-25
Looking 10 Williams
For Additional Spark
After Climb 10 Third
By the Associated Press

pennant contenders in the
League.
Certainly, the Red Sox are
burning up the circuit and. with
the Yankees continuing to slip,
they've moved into third place,
seven and one-half games behind
the New Workers.
Williams comes out of the Ma
rines August / and he will be
back with his old club shortly
after that. In his absence a
bunch of youngsters, many of
whom were still in grade school
when the slugger first donned a
Red Sox uniform in 1899. have
caught fire.
Since July 4 they've played at
an 300 pace. Last night they
took a pair from the hapless
Browns, 80 and 60, for their
14th and 18th victories in Is
games.
Yanks Lose Fourth Straight.
The league-leading Yankees
have looked mighty sad recently
and they couldn't do thing
against lefty Billy Hoeft in De-
troit last night as they lost
their fourth straight, ST.. Hoeft
gave up only three hits and
struck out eight in lifting the
Tigers out of last place for the
first time since mid-April.
For the second time this week
the second-place White Sox blew
a chance to gain ground on the
Yankees. Philadelphia caught
the Chicagoans in the ninth in
ming and went on to beat them,
AZ, in IL frames when CaSs
Michaels hit a two-run homer.
Cleveland dropped from third
to fourth, eight games behind
New York, by losing to Wash
ington, GA.
In the National League the
Braves slapped down the first
place Dodgers, lie, cutting the
Dodgers lead to AZ games.
Philadelphia edged st. Louis.
81. on two homers by Granny
Hammer. New York defeated
Cincinnati, 81, and Chicago
thumped Pittsburgh, II.
Handcuff Browns.
Bill Henry and Maury McDer-
mott handcuffed the Browns for
Boston in the twi-night affair at
st. Louis. Henry gave up seven
hits in winning his second game
since being recalled from the
minors. Tom Implicit slammed
a three-run homer in the first
game. one of only three hit in
the five American League games
last night.
The other two circuit blows
were the big ones by Michaels
that broke up the marathon in
Chicago and three-run blast
by big Walt Dropo that gave
the Tigers a lead they never
relinquished against New York.
Michaels also contributed a
single to a ninth-inning Phila-
delphia rally that tied the game
in Chicago. Three other singles
and an error produced two runs.
The White Sox loaded the bases
in the 18th but ancient Bobo
NeWsom came in to retire the
side and stayed through the 18th
to win his first game of the sea-
son. Billy Pierce, who struck out
IL men, suffered his seventh
loss. Pierce has 100 strikeoutS
for the year, tops in the league.
After Dropo's home run, De-
troit added one tally in the sixth
on a double by Johnny Pesky
plus sacrifice and Jim Delsing s
single. Singles by Delsing and
Ray Boone put runners on base
in the eighth and one man came
home on a passed ball and
throwing error by Yogi Berra.
The YankS got their run in the
seventh on singles by Berra and
Hank Bauer and an infield out.
The only other New York hit was
a double by Bauer.
Braves Pour 1t on Dodgers.
Milwaukee poured it on the
Dodgers, running the score to
ILL before the league leaders
made a four-run stand in the
eighth. Eddie Mathews hit his
3Oth home run with one on in
the fifth and Walker Cooper
homered with two on in the
same inning when the Braves
scored seven runS-the most any
club has scored in an inning
against Brooklyn this year.
The Cards-Phillies contest
was a real battle with Harvey
Haddix of the Cards making the
mistake of giving Hammer two
good pitches. Granny parked one
in the second inning and again
in the last of the ninth. The
st. Louis run scored in the
sixth when Stan Musial walked.
moved up on an error and a
wild pitch and then stole home.
The Phils now trail Brooklyn by
62 games.
Ruben Gomez, a pitcher the
Giants tried to farm out in MAY.
won his eighth game for the
New Workers with a three-hitter
over Cincinnati. The only safe
ties of him were a single and a
home run by Ted Kluszewski
and a single by Jim Greengrass.
Hank Thompson and DARYL
Spencer homered for New York.
Ralph Kiner led a nine-hit
Chicago attack against his old
Pittsburgh teammates with three
singles. Six of the Cubs seven
runs came in the third inning
on only two hits. They were
aided by an error, four walks.
a wild pitch, a passed ball and
two sacrifices.
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