The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-26
REYNOLDS Blanks Indians
For Yanks, Chisox Win
Indians Lead
Cut To Single
Came Friday
BY BEN PHIL EcAR
Ap Sports Writer


AP Sports Writer
Allie Reynolds reluctant decision
to abandon his role as an oil tycoor
with an aching back in favor o.
one more season Of pitching look.
more and more like the key move
In the New York Yankees drive
for their sixth straight pennant.
The Big Chief from Oklahoma
has been magnificent.
When he beat the first place
Cleveland Indians 10 last night Il
marked his ninth straight victory
after losing his first decision. The
third place Yankees moved within
three games Of the Indians and the
second place Chicago White Sox
who defeated Boston "a, climbed
within one.
Reynolds, who had the backache
often in the closing stages of 1853,
was ready to stay on his reserva.
ton with his oil wells unless the
Yanks met his asking price Of
$4,000.
That looked pretty steep for q
36-year-old pitcher in questionable
physical condition, even to a well.
heeled organization like the Yam.
KEGS. They put him on the waiver
list and one spring report, never
confirmed nor denied, said Rey.
nolds, like Vic Raschi, would have
been peddled to the St. Louis Car
dinals il other American League
clubs had allowed It:
Such q deal was blocked and
the Yanks capitulated on the
money. But as late as opening day
Allie was tabled as q bunpen man.
This lasted until May 2. Since then
he's started II times, pitched four
complete games and three shut
outs. His earned run average Of
2.46 is one of the best.
He's the first pitcher this season
10 blank the Indians, who got nine
hits but couldn't bunch them. A
fireball pitcher throughout his ca
reer Reynolds says he's switching
more and more to a sidearm de-
livery.
Reynolds really didn't need q
shutout. His mates clinched the
contest in the third with seven runs.
Elsewhere on the majors all.
night schedule Washington edged
Detroit 4-3 and Baltimore beat
Philadelphia 81 in the American
League. New York whipped Chi
cage 6-2, Brooklyn defeated st.
Louis 81, Milwaukee whitewashed
Philadelphia TO and Cincinnati
thumped Pittsburgh "a in the Ma
tional.
Bob Keegan of the White Soz
became the first American League
pitcher to win II games as he
tanned Boston on eight hits. One
Of the hits was q pinch home run
by Ted williams with a man aboard
In the ninth.
Dean Stone and Camille Pascual
q pair Of rockies, pitched Wash
ington to within a game OF frs,
division by beating fourth-place De
troit. The Senator's got only siz
hits but punched them in the first
and eighth innings. Eddie Yos,
homered- and Pete Runnels drove
in a pair with a double and .
triple.
Baltimore scored four runs II
the first inning against the Ath
letics, who had won 8 of their last
IL. Duane Pillette, won his fifth
game, a sixhitter, while the Birds
battered three Philadelphia pitch
ers for Is hits.
Willie Mays put the Giants OF
the victory train against the Cub:
with two-run inside-the-park HON
er in the second inning. It was hi.
sixth home run in the last siv.
games and his oath of the year
Jim hearn won his fifth straight.
Stan Musial came out of hi.
slump with q home run and a sin
gle but it wasn't enough to bea
Carl Erskine and the Dodgers. Ro,
Campanella singled home two run
off Vic Raschi in the first innin,
for Brooklyn. A third scored on
sacrifice fly by Pee Wee Reese il
the second.
Philadelphia managed only fiv,
hits off Lew Burdette and relin
pushed third place to Milwaukee
Bill Bruton drove in three runs
Eddie Mathews homered for tn
Braves.
Ted Kluszewski hit his 18th an,
18th home runs in Cincinnati's vic
tory over the last place Pirates.