The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Spahn's Return To Form
Was TooLate For Braves
Berra PAGES
Yanks To WIN
Deer Tribe
BY BEN PhLEcAR
AP Sporfs Wrifar

Warren Spahn, whose sensation
al return to form in midseasor
made the National League pennanI
race a three-team affair, still il
firing away with amazing precision
although time probably has run
out for his Milwaukee Braves.
After a mediocre spring and
early summer during which he
lost 10 games, SPAIN hit his win
ming stride July 10. He won his
ninth game that day, beating Pitts.
burgh. Last night, again against
Pittsburgh, he won his 18th. In be.
tween he's gone unbeaten.
With rs games left, a minimum
of five more starts for the 32-year-
old left-hander, SPAIN stands a
good chance ofSwinning at least q
games for the sixth time.
He won e while losing only Z .
year ago, The best of his nine sea-
sons with the Braves. He also won
more than 20 in 1947 and from
1s4s through 1851. His worst big
league season was 1852 when he
was beaten 10 times while win
ming II.
When SPAIN started to win reg.
ularly, so did the Braves. They
jumped from Is games behind in
late July into the thick Of the race
by mid-August.
Spahn's 81 victory over the Pi.
rates moved the Braves within 6l1
lengths of the first-place New York
Giants and within PA Of second.
place Brooklyn, both losers yes
terday.
Cincinnati beat the Giants 81
In a game played under protest
from the third inning on by the
New Workers.. Chicago defeated
Brooklyn 9-5 for its seventh
straight triumph.
Philadelphia replaced st. Louis
in fifth place with q SO victory
over the Cardinals.
The New York Yankees KEEP
their pennant hopes alive with .
Al conquest of Cleveland, cutting
the Indians first-place margin tt
ga games. The Chicago White Sos
split at Boston, losing the day
game 7-2 and winning the night
game 6-3. Washington defeated De
troit Al. Baltimore and Philadel,
phia weren't scheduled.
The Braves scored one run on
three hits and two runs on one hi
in beating Pittsburgh. Three first
inning singles produced the first
run. The other two came on Andy
Pafko's single, a two-base error
by Curt Roberts, q sacrifice and q
wild pitch.
Neither the Giants nor the bod
gers looked good in losing. The
Dodgers committed four errors in
the game, three in one inning and
two on one play and their pitching
was shaky. The bad inning was the
sixth when the Cubs combined
three hits with three errors for
four runs.
The Giants used seven pitchers
in a vain effort to halt the Redlegs.
Ted Kluszewski led the 13-hit Gin.
cinnati assault with four singles
and drove in three runs.
Third base umpire Frank Secory
called back what appeared to be
a Giant run in the third when he
said he had called time before the
play. Manager Leo Durocher i'm.
mediately declared he would fin.
ish the game under protest. Its
doubtful the protest viii stand up
A grand-slam home run by De
Ennis in the first inning paved
the way for the Philfies' victory in
st. Louis.
Yogi Berra and Eddie Lopai
combined their hitting and pitch.
ing talents in the Yankees defea,
of Cleveland. Berra scored one run
then drove in two more with his
18th homer. Lopat rarely has beer
more impressive with his assert
ment of Junk. He gave up nine
hits but only one-Jim Hogan.
triple in the third-figured in the
scoring.
Johnny Schmitz won his ninth
game and pitched his second shut
out in blanking Detroit on sever
hits.
Reserve outfielder Karl Olsor
and rookie pitcher Tom Hurd were
the standouts in Boston's daylight
victory over Chicago. Olson drove
in two runs and scored a third
Hurd, who pitched the last I Is in
nings and allowed only two mel
to reach base, received credit fol
his first major league victory.
Johnny Groth hit a two-rlr
homer and walked with the base.
loaded to force home a third run.
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