The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-21
Indians Tie J
Red SOr, Yanks
DOsUr, White Sos
BY BEN Pill ECAR
APP Sports Writer

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get into first place in this league?
Casey SteEgel of the New York
Yankees is running the hottest ball
club in the American League. Only
31a games off the pace on July l,
the Yankees have won II out Of 19
games since then.
And they still aren't up on top.
Last night they came within one
putout of reaching their objective.
They fought off birthplace Chicago
handily, winning Al. The huge
scoreboard in Yankee Stadium
showed Boston leading Cleveland
SO after eight innings.
But in the ninth at Boston AL
Smith coaxed Willard Nixon for a
walk with two out and Bobby Avlla
drilled his second home run OF the
contest to tie the score. That's the
way it stayed through seven more
innings. 1t wound up a SIS tie after
16 innings with the league curfew
calling a halt.
You can't start an inning after
1880 am, local time, and it was
1851 am. by the time the last out
was made in the 18th. It will have
to be replayed from the start
sometime later.
So, by four percentage points,
the Indians stayed in first place.
The issue may be settled tenn
porarily this weekend when Cleve-
land invades New York for three
games starting Friday night.
While the American League race
was tightening, the National
League became more lopsided with
the New York Giants stretching
their advantage over Brooklyn to
seven games, their longest lead
of the year.
The Giants won a 13-inning
struggle in Cincinnati 81 and
Brooklyn lost in 10 innings in Chi
cago 81. st. Louis defeated Phila-
delphia AZ in the only other Ma
tional League action. Milwaukee
and Pittsburgh were not scheduled.
Other results in the American
League included a 81 triumph by
Washington over Baltimore and
two more losses by the Philadel-
phia Athletics, their 9th and 10th
in row, this time to Detroit 1870
and As.
The Giants and Dodgers games
both were decided on errors. In
Cincinnati, the New Workers
pushed across the winning run in
the 18th on a single by Bobby Hof-
man followed by two misplayS and
Q sacrifice fly by Whitley Lockman.
Gene Baker scored the winning
run for Chicago against Brooklyn
by scampering home from second
base when pitcher Jim Hughes
dropped an easy toss at first base
that should have been the third
out.
Johnny AntoneTli stayed all the
way for the Giants in winning his
14th game against two losses. The
only run against him was a homer
BY Ted KluszewSki.
Harvey Haddix of the Cards
Joined him as a 14-game winner
after beating the Phils but Haddix
needed ninth-inning help from
Gerry Staley. Four hits climaxed
by a triple by Ray Jablonski pro-
duced all of the st. Louis runs in
the first inning.
The Yankees pinned the fifth loss
on Bob Keegan although they were
Outhit 81. Fine fielding which in
Guided three double plays helped
Whitley Ford to his ninth success.
Detroit scored nine runs in the
first inning of the first game at
Philadelphia in a Splurge which in
cluded double and a grand slam
home run by Harvey Kuenn. In
the nightcap the Tigers rallied for
three runs in the eighth, two of
them on a home run by Bill
futile.
Roy Sievers and Eddie Yost
were the hitting standouts in
Washington'S triumph over Balti-
more. YoSt tripled with the bases
loaded and SieverS hit his 18th
home run.