The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-15
Reynolds Is
Key As Yanks
Fight For Top
BY 20 coRRIcAN
AP SporfS Writer

The hapless, hitless and practi-
cally helpless Baltimore Orioles In
wade Yankee Stadium and the Phil
adelphia AS, equally futile, enter
tain the Cleveland Indians In what
you might call the openers OF the
''new" American League pennant
race.
Prof. Casey Stengel's Yankees,
who spent the first half Of the sea-
son Hopping and houndering, have
a nine-game winning streak going
and are now just half game be-
hind the Indians, whose latest
work included dropping four
games to the Chicago White Sox.
The consensus around the league
is that the Yanks nave the upper
hand now with one big eff" He is
Allie Reynolds, who missed the
All-Star Game because If a mus
Gle pull in his left hip.
The ailment is a chronic one,
but if it bothers him too much he
may be forced back to the bull
pen. Stengel has no abundance of
pitchers so that could spell the diff
ference between first and second
place.
"My back, left leg and left hip
pain when I try to PITCH" said
Allie. 1--WE had it since June 20
when I felt it in Chicago. It's both
cred me ever since. That's the
reason I've had trouble holding
those big leads. I try to throw a
fast ball, but the pain goes through
the leg and the ball doesn't go very
fast. Lately, it's been coming back
much faster"
Trainer Gus Mauch of the Bomb
ers also is somewhat puzzled.
81 don't think there's any cure
but rest" he opined. That's ma
lures way. If he doesn't try to
pitch or run for a week, it may
get better"
Cleveland Manager AL Lopez,
says he is not particularly worried
over the events of the past week.
He has one point namely, the
Indians are not the kind of club
that will be held to five runs in
four games as they were against
the White Sox last weekend.
"A RoSen and Bob Avila have
been in batting slumps since their
injuries" he said. They're just in
slumps that every player has to
fight his way out of sometimes.
They'll snap out of 1t and we'll be
more dangerous than ever"
The White Sox, for their part,
are three games off the pace and
the way their pitching has come
around, could make things uncom-
Portable for all concerned. Mana
ger Paul Richards will send Bon
Keegan against the Washington
Senator'S tonight.
In the National League, the New
York Giants start a Western trip
with a five-game bulge over the
Brooklyn Dodgers, who whipped
the Milwaukee Braves 2-1 in IL
innings last night in the only major
league game played.
The Brooklyn victory came the
hard way before a>crowd of IS, 470,
which boosted the Milwaukee at
tendance over the million mark.
Duke Snider batted in the runs in
the first and final innings on sac
rifice flies. Jim Hughes who took
over for Russ Meyer in the ninth,
was the winner.
The Dodger runs came in virtu-
ally Identical situations. Both Jun
Tor Gillian and Pee Wee Reese
singled in the first and Snider sent
the former home with a towering
fly to left field. In the 18th again
Gillian singled and was followed
by another hit from Reese'S bat.
Again Snider blasted a high fly
to left, >Sending Gillian home.
Bobby Thomson made his first
National League appearance for
the Braves in the 18th with two
out and drew a walk. Lew Bur-
dette took the loss.