The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02
Giant HurIer
Gains 10th
Victory Sun.
BY JACK HAND
AP Sports Writer

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Although they traded away the
young lefty who has turned out to
be the top winner in the majors
with a gaudy 1862 record the slug
ging Braves are a positive factor
In the National League race.
ALI that hitting, and Antonelli
too, might very well have meant
a sure-fire pennant in Milwaukee
this season. Of course, they may
make it anyhow, the way they've
been going on their 1O-game win
ming streak.
The Braves can't be criticized
too harshly for they felt they
needed long-distance power in the
outfield and could afford to sacri-
flee front-line pitcher. How did
they know that Bobby Thomson
would break his ankle in spring
training and be lost for most of
the season?
Yesterday, Antonelli ran his win
ming streak to IL, longest of the
season in either league, as the
New York Giants roughed up Gin
cinnati "a in the first game of a
double-header. The Giants also won
the second game so on Jim
Hearn's six-hitter to pull 51a
games ahead of Brooklyn.
Milwaukee put the slug on Dodg-
er pitching for their second 19-hit
day in succession and 14-6 romp,
moving within four games of
Brooklyn.
Joe Adcock, who hit four hon.
ers Saturday at Brooklyn, was hit
on the head by reliefer Glenn La
bine in the fourth inning after be-
ing knocked down by Russ Meyer
earlier in the game. He was not
seriously injured because he wore
a metal protector inside his cap.
The three top teams in the Amer
lean League Cleveland, New York
and Chicago - kept in step by
winning double-headers. Con-
sequently, the end of the day
found them in the same position,
the Indians leading the Yankees by
21a games and Chicago by seven.
Cleveland knocked over Washing
ton 81, for Early Wynn's 18th vic
tory, and 5-4 on Hal Newhouser's
decisive single. The Yanks had
trouble in Baltimore but won S-6
and 2-1, using a total of seven
pitchers, including Eddie Lopat
and Allie Reynolds on relief. Chi
cago swept pair from the feeble
Philadelphia AS 6..-5 and 12-1 with
Virgil Trucks winning No. IS in
the finale.
Ted Williams who hit a single,
420-foot double and his 18th homer
in Boston's 1913 victory over De-
troit.
Curt Simmons boosted the Phil
lies within half a game of the first
division in the National with an
8-3 triumph over St. Louis. Richie
AShburn Clipped in with two sin
giles and a double as the Pills
chased Ralph Beard and piled up
a IL early lead.
Pittsburgh managed its first
shutout of the year when Dick Lit
tIefield blanked Chicago on three
hits 20. The Cubs came back to
win the second game 1872. Dave
Cole threw a two-hitter.
In Brooklyn, after Adcock had
been hit, Jackie Robinson was
knocked down by Gene Conley'S
first pitch in the sixth and Duke
Snider was hit by pitched ball in
the seventh.
Mathews hit his 18th homer and
Bill Bruton and Del Crandall also
homered for the Braves. Gil
Hodges, Sni der and Robinson
homered for Brooklyn.
Dusty Rhodes again came to the
rescue of the Giants when he bat
ted for Ant0ne'li with the score
tied at 3-3 in the seventh inning
of the opener and hit a two-run
homer. His triple helped the Giants
score three in the first inning of
the second game to give Hearn a
cushion.
Wynn struck out nine for Cleve-
land while winning his fifth
straight but Mike Garcia needed
help in the second. Newhouser's
single off Bob Porterfield won the
game after Vic Wertz' homer tied
the score.
Tom Morgan and Johnny Sain
had all they could do to hold off
Baltimore after Harry Byrd was
knocked out in the first Yankee
game. Yogi Berra had four hits
and Gene Woodling his third hon.
er. Ralph Branca, Brooklyn and
Detroit castoff, made his first
start for New York in the second,
retiring because of wildness in the
fifth. Marlin Stuart won on relief
with Lopat and Reynolds to mop
up.
Marion Fricano of the AS baked
threw wild and hit a batSman as
Chicago scored three runs in the
seventh inning of the first game
at Chicago. The second was easy
with Trucks pitching three-hit ball