The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-14
Musial Blasts 2lst Homer
In Cards Double Victory
Cleveland Ups
League Lead
As Sor Split
With Yankees
BY JOE REIcHlER
AP Sports Writer

Imagine where the st. Louis
CARDINALS would be today without
The Nan and The Kitten.
The Man, Of course, Is Stan
Musial, the greatest hitter in the
National League. The Kitten is
Harvey Haddix, the best pitcher
in the senior circuit.
Stan the Man and Harvey the Kit
ten combined their talents yester-
day to give the Cardinals their
first double-header victory Of the
season. Haddix hurled his second
straight shutout and his 10th vic
tory as the Cards defeated Pitts
burgh so in the first game. Musial,
who drove in two runs in the open
er with q pair Of singles, snapped
a 3-s tie in the second game with
his 21st home run. The Cards went
on to win So.
The double victory moved the
Cardinals into fifth place but they
still trail the league leaders by GA
games. The Brooklyn Dodgers and
the New York Giants, tied for first
place, swept their double-headers.
Scoring all { heir runs in the
seventh inning, the Dodgers over
came a 40 deficit to edge out Gin
cinnati 6-5 in the opener and came
back to run over the Redlegs 14-2
in the nightcap. The Giants thrash
ed the Cubs 9-3 and "a, breaking
through for six runs in the 18th.
to snap a 3-3 tie in the first game.
The twin triumphs enabled the
Dodgers and Giants to open up a
4la-game~ bulge on their nearest
pursuers-Milwaukee and Philadel-
phia. The Braves tied the Phils
for third place, defeating them 9-5
for Warren Spahn's seventh VIC
tory.
Cleveland used the lowly Boston
Red S0x to boost its American
League lead to ia games over
the Chicago White Sox and 3h
over the New York Yankees. The
Indians Al and 81 triumphs ran
their latest victory string to four
In q row.
After dropping their sixth
straight decision to the Yankees,
az in the opener of a double
header, the White Sox bounced
back and thrashed the world cham
pions 80. Virgil Trucks turned In
his ninth triumph in the nightcap.
The Philadelphia Athletics, who
had been fighting among them
selves, decided to carry some Of 1t
to the opposition and as a result
captured two come-from-behind
victories from the Detroit Tigers
IS and Ga. The double win moved
the Athletics out Of the cellar only
half a game behind the sixth-place
Baltimore Orioles.
Bob Porterfield shut out Balt-
more 40 after the Orioles had
dubbed five Washington pitchers
for IA hits to take the opener GA.
Haddix, the 2S-year-old Cardinal
stopper" struck out 10 Pirates
and permitted only three singles
az he rolled up his eighth straight
victory. The majors biggest win
ner now owns seven complete
games, hall the total Of the entire
Cardinals staff.
Musial, with four hits in nine
times at bat, boosted his batting
mark to $40, second only to Duke
Snider's 1913. Musial leads the
majors with q homers and SO runs
batted In.
Pinch hitter George Shuba's
home run with two men on base
and Gil Hodges three-run homer
accounted for all Brooklyn's runs
after rookie Corky Valentine. had
held them scoreless through six in
nings Of the opener. The Dodgers
.unleashed 17-hit attack in the
finale with Junior Gillian and Pee
Wee Reese collecting four apiece.
NDavey Williams and Don Mueller
paced the Giants 27-hit attack
against six Chicago hurlers. Will
liams batted in six runs in the
double-header and Muelle r
amused six hits and scored five
times.
Andy Pafko and Del Crandall
hit two.run homers to decide the
free-hitting struggle between Mil
waukee and Philadelphia.
Early Wynn won his seventh and
Mike Garcia his eighth in Cleve-
lands sweep. Outfielder Wally
Westlake homered in each game
for the victors.
A three-run homer by Gene
Woodling in the sixth enabled the
Yankees Ed Lopat to register his
seventh triumph Of the year. The
White Sox pounced on starter
Harry Byrd for four runs In the
tirst inning of the nightcap.
Elmer valo, who replaced Gus
1ernial in the Philadelphia out
fieid, drove in four runs with a
bases-loaded triple and single to
provide the AS winning margin in
the second game. Manager Eddie
Joost's benching of the cratic
fielding Zernial had led to q verbal