Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-21

Red Sox Pitcher Hurt
In Trying 10 Stretch
Game-Winning Blow
BY The A.sseiessd Press

6dme- winning Blow
BY the Asseeiassd Press
willard Nixon. Red Sox right
handler with q flery temper and
q flare for whipping the New
York Yankees. stood alone today
as the only pitcher TO defeat the
champions four times this sea-
son.
And therein lies q tale Of APP
piled psychology. Manager Lou
Boudreau. a master in that di-
rection. perhaps decided a touch
of the needle might be Just what
the Boston pitcher needed
recently after failing for the
fifth time to notch his ninth
victory.
Boudreau limited broadly to
sports writer's that maybe Will
lard needed a reSt-that maybe
his stuff was slipping away from
him.
That did it.
Bats In Winning Run.
Nixon let it be known that
Boudreau was talking through
his hat and last night, with the
redhot Yankees after their 18th
straight, Nixon got the starting
call.
He gave up only four hits and
banged in the winning run with
a two-out double against Rookie
Bob Grim for a AS victory that
broke the Yanks' streak.
Nixon had to give way to
Sid Hudson after suffering a
bad shaking up while trying UNI
successfully to stretch his eighth
inning, game-winning double
into a triple. The pitcher landed
heavily on his head and should
er, twisting his neck, in a fran
tic lunge for third base. He
somersaulted right over the bag
and was tagged for the third
out.
But he kept his perfect rec
ord intact against the cham
pionS and wasn't injured seri-
ously
Ted Williams beat out hunt
and added a double and single
IN three official times at bat.
White Sox Beat Detroit.
Meanwhile. the White Sox
8-2 victory in Detroit gave the
Chicago club its eighth victory
in 10 starts for a highly respec-
table .642 percentage.
Virgil Trucks struck out six
and scattered nine hits in be-
coming the first American
League pitcher to win Is games.
Minnie Minoso moved within
five points Of the league batting
lead with a run-scoring triple
that raised his average to 1871.
Cleveland defeated Baltimore,
To, and gained a full game on
the Yankees.
Milwaukee slipped another full
length behind New York and
Brooklyn in the National League.
The Braves were beaten for the
third time in four games, 81,
by Chicago. New York defeated
Pittsburgh, 40. and Brooklyn
whipped Philadelphia, GA. The
Giants lead the Dodgers by two
games and Milwaukee by 6h,
pending today's action.
Cincinnati took over fourth
place in the National League
by shading st. Louis, 81, despite
six double plays by the Cardi-
nails.
R0sen Gets 21st Homer.
AL Rosen hit his 21st home
run and Larry Dolby delivered
a three-run triple as the In
dians scored six runs in the
first two innings at Baltimore.
There had been doubt that AL
would make the "trip because he
had reinjured his broken finger.
The Giants scored all of their
runs against Pittsburgh on a
grand slam home run by Don
Mueller in the fifth inning. It
was the second baSes-loaded
homer Of his career for Mueller,
who specializes in hitting singles.
Don Liddle, who came to the
Giants from Milwaukee with
Johnny Antonelli during the
winter, allowed only three hits,
all singles. Liddle has pitched
three complete games, a f1ve-hit,
shutout, four-hit victory and
last nights three-hitter.
Brooklyn found the home-run
range against Ropln RoDerCS OF
the Phils and handed the strong
armed right-hander his 18th de-
feat. Duke Snider hit his 30th
with man on in the first. Carl
Furillo found the seats, again
with a man on, in the second,
and Sandy Amoros homered with
the bases empty in the sixth.
The Braves scored a run in
the first inning against Bob
Rush, but left eight runners
stranded in the next eight in
nings as Rush went on to his
eighth victory. Bob Talbot, a
reserve outfielder. scored all
three Chicago runs and slammed
a double and two singles.