The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-28
Giants Keep
Natl Lead
With Victory
Over Cubs
BY JOE REIcHLER
AP 8perfs Writer


Five teams are waging . bitter
battle for first place by the Fourth
of July - the date that tradition
has marked as Championship
Day"
Since the turn Of the century ap-
proximately seven out Of every 10
major league leaders on July I
have gone on to win the pennant.
With only a week to 60, no team
q assured Of the top spot on the
midseason holiday. The New York
Giants lead Brooklyn by one game
today but the National League
pace-setters face crucial" three
game series with the Dodgers at
the Polo Grounds starting to-
morrow.
Cleveland sports a 1h.game ad-
vantage over Chicago in the Amer
lean League but the White Sox can
dislodge the indians with = sweep
Of their four-game series in Cleve-
land next weekend. A letdown by
each could pave the way for the
New York Yankees to bypass both
Of them. While the Indians and
White Sox are at each others
Threats, the Yankees win engage
the second division Washington
Senator'S in q four-game set at
Yankee Stadium.
The Indians widened their lead
10 a game and a hah yesterday,
salvaging the last of a three-game
series from the Yankees as while
Chicago was held to a split by
Boston's Red Sox. Beaten 2-1 in
the opener, the White Sox bounced
back to trounce Boston 81 In the
second game of their double-head-
er. The loss widened the Yankees
deficit to three games.
New York's sizzling Giants main
tanned their one-game advantage
over the Dodgers with an uphill 81
victory over the Chicago Cubs in
10 innings. Banked by Warren
Tacker with two hits through eight
innings, the Giants tied the score
at % when Whitley Lockman hit
q two-run homer with two out In
the ninth and won In the 10th when
Willie Mays doubled. stole third
and scored on pinch hitter Bobby
Hofman's single off loser Hal JEFF.
coat. It was the Giants 21st vic.
tory in rs games.
The Dodgers equaled . team rec.
ord by blasting five home runs To
polish off the st. Louis Cardinals
SO for q sweep Of their three-game
series. Gil Hodges drove in -four
runs with his 10th and 10th homeri
and Jackie Robinson, Roy Cam.
PAMELA and Junior Gillian each
had one. ...
Harvey Haddix, the Redbirds'
Brilliant left-hander, was the vie
tim Of all the home run blasts
They ended his 10-game winning
streak. Preacher Roe failed to last
the eight but was credited witt
his third triumph.
Granny Hammer was the often
sive star a. the Philadelphia Phil
lies swept q twin bill from Mil
waukee IS and 2-1. The leading
second base candidate for the ALI
Star team banged three-run HON
er to give Curt Simmons hi
seventh victory in the opener
Hammer tripled with one out in thu
ninth, driving in both runs In thu
nighteap.
Frank Thomas ninth-inning sin
gle gave Pittsburgh 4.s victor!
after the Cincinnati Reds had VOL
the opener 90 behind Corky Valen
tines five-hit pitching. Ted Klus
zewski drove In two Redleg run
with q double and two singles.
First baseman Dick Kryhosk
drove in the winning runs in eacl
game as the Baltimore Orioles de
feated the Philadelphia Athletic
IS and SO and climbed into sixtl
place. The double win gave t.
Orioles five straight following
nine-game losing streak.
Kryhoski, who extended his hit
ting streak through IS straigh
games, singled in Bobby YounI
from second with the winning M
in the 18th inning of the opener
His winning single in the secon'
game came In the ninth and score'
pitcher Joe Coleman, who regis
tered his eighth triumph.
Bob Porterfield, backed up b
the homer hitting of Eddie Yost
Pete Runnels and Mickey Vernon
coasted to his ninth victory a
Washington walloped Detroit 80 t
move within a game of the fourth
place Tigers.
Homers by Dave Philley an
Wally Westlake and four-hit relic
pitching by Hal Newhouser throug
six innings gave the Indians thei
hardfought triumph over White
Ford and the Yankees.
Held to five hits by young Tor
Brewer in the opener. the Whit