Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-01
Dolby and RoseIl
Slug Shea With
Hon1ers in First
Tribe Holds Margin
By Ticking 18th Win
Over Washington
By Burton Howkins
BIZ d Star Ssuff CORRESPONDENT

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CLEVELAND, July 31.The
Senators continued their con-
tributions toward ending the
long reign Of the Yankees In the
American League today when
they submitted meekly to the
accomplished Ehree-l1it pitching
Of C1evelands Bob Lemon and
lost to the Indians for the
eighth straight time at Mann
moth Municipal Stadium, 60. N
II the Indians break the YAM
KEGS stranglehold on pennants.
a large measure of their success
will be achieved over the dead
bodies Of the Senator's, who have
lost 10 Of 16 games to the league
leaders. Cleveland retained its
2Ea game margin over New York
as the Yankees defeated Balti-
more.
Still searching for their first
victory Of the season here, the
Senators virtually were assured
at the outset that they'd be
forced to postpone their hunt
until tomorrow. Larry Dolby
cracked Q two-run homer of
Spec Shea In the first inning and
Al Rosen promptly followed with
another to give Lemon a 30
lead.
ROsen Boosts Average.
Rosen. who paced the Indians
10-hit attack with his 18th
homer and two singles. boosted
his season average against
Washington pitching to .425.
Dolby. who belted his 22d
homer, IS q .344 hitter against
the Senators. The Indians pay
of pair has seven homers and
seven doubles against the Sena-
tors and 81 runs batted in, de-
spite the fact Rosen missed sew
eral games with a broken finger.
Shea who has won only one of
10 decisions this year. walked
Bobby Aviia with one down
In the FIRST inning and Dolby
pumped the Indians into 20
command with 3 blast into the
rightf1eld seats. Rosen followed
with q smash over the leftfield
fence and Lemon took it from
there to register his 18th win
against i've losses.
Shea Shelled In Second.
Cleveland boosted its lead to
SO in the second inning, when
it disposed Of Shea. With one
out Jim Hogan walked and
Lemon drilled a single to center.
Dave Pope's single to right
scored Hogan from second base
and brought on Gus Keriazakos,
who walked Avila to jam the
bases.
Lemon scored when Keriaza-
kos retrieved Doby's tap down
the first-base line and threw
him out. but Gus averted more
trouble by whipping q third strike
past Rosen.
The Indians got their final run
of Keriazakos in the fourth
when Hogan singled. went to
third on Pope's single and scored
on another single by Avila.
One Runner Reaches Second.
Lemon permitted only one rum
ner to reach second base. He
issued his lone base on balls to
jerry Snyder and Ed FitzGerald
singled to center with two out.
Pete Runnels batted for Keriaza-
kos and grounded to Avila.
+ Otherwise the Senator's as
lsatlt consisted Of Jim Busby's
single in the second inning and
Mickey vernon's single in the
fourth.
NOTES: Early Wynn (14-7)
and Mike Garcia t12-5) will start
for the Indians in tomorrow's
double header. with Bob Porter
field t10-8) and Johnny Schmitz
(5-6) slated to pitch for the Sem
ators. The Senators shift to
Detroit for a four game series
starting Monday night.
They've lost four Of i've games
on their trip thus far.
Runnels had the stitches re-
moved from MS gashed left leg
today BY Trainer George Lentz
and there's q possibility the wiry
(See SENATORS, Page B-3)