The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-17
Cleveland II, Ist
Place In Junior
League Race
BY JACK HAND
AP Sports Writer

Poor old Ted Williams. With q
steel pin IN his left shoulder and
sharp pain torturing his body
every time he swings hard, the
1nly Boston Red Sox slugger Is
lifting only .7e7 after one fun days
work. Wait till be gets This strength
back.
"I've had better days." he said
yesterday after smashing eight
its In nine times at bat in a
,ouble-header at Detroit, a per.
ormance that may well be the big
story Of 1854. SIT hurts like heck
every time / swing"
Although he got in a ball game
at Baltimore Saturday as a pinch
hitter and finished out in left field,
going hitless In two trips, this was
his first real test.
It was q balmy Sunday after
noon at Briggs Stadium when Will
liams started for the first time
this season, almost II weeks since
he broke his conarbone on the first
day Of spring training at Sarasota,
Fla.
Those who watched him clutch
his shoulder In agony that March
day In Florida wondered If he ever
would play again. Those who saw
him hit two homers, a double and
five singles and drive in seven
runs at Detroit wondered how he
did It. Especially when he sat in
the clubhouse after the game and
told how the small steel pin both
cred him.
Fans who always have been crit
icai of Williams were quick to
point out that the Red Sox still
lost both games, rs and SO in
IA innings. But they really couldn't
blame Ted this time for the Boston
pitchers gave up n hits.
In other games, Cleveland seized
the American League lead by 10
percentage points over Chicago by
knocking off Philadelphia twice,
12-7 and go, with Mike Garcia al.
lowing only one hit in the second
game, a fourth-inning single by
Joe DeMaestri.
Chicago slid out of the led by
dividing a pair with Washington,
winning the first 1915 with Minnie
Minoso driving home six runs but
bowng to Washington's capable
Bob Porterfield in the 81 second
game.
Don Larsen, young Baltimore
Highlander, snapped q .six-game
New York Yankee winning streak
with q three-hitter 6-2 in the second
game after Allie Reynolds shut
out Dave Koslo 20, allowing only
three hits in the first game. Larsen
had q no-hitter for Z % innings
until Andy Carey singled with two
gone in the eighth. Hank Bauer's
single and Bob Cerv's pinch homer
broke his Shutout in the ninth.
ALI National League clubs split
double-h headers except the Philles
aud st. Louis Cards, whose second
game was halted by the Philadel.
phia Sunday curfew.
Solly Hemus' pinch triple helped
the Cards beat reliefer Jim Kon-
stanty in the opener. 7-3. The Phils
led e-S when the second was sus-
pended after six innings. It will be
completed today. Rookie Paul
Penson, starting his first major
league game, held the Cards to
four hits in the suspended game.
Brooklyn edged within six points
of the leading Phillies by dividing
two with Cincinnati. Gil Hodges
homer with the bases loaded off
Herm Wehmeier gave Preacher
Roe his first victory ~, but Bud
Podbielan beat Russ Meyer for a
II Cincinnati edge In the second.
Johnny Antonelli faced his old
Milwaukee mates for the first
time since he was traded IN the
Bobby Thomson deal and whipped
the Braves 81 as the New York
Giants bounced back from an
opening-game 80 defeat in 10 In
ninss.
Joe Garagiola led 4 17-hit Chi