Evening star., 1955-06-13
Yanks SaddestSundayin 9Months
Aqain Turns Race Into Battle ROYAL
Wynn, Lemon
Match Jobs in
"a Showdown
BY the Associated Press

The pennant race in the Ma
tional League may be all over
except for the shouting, but it's
"a new battle royal in the Amer
ican League after the Yankees
gloomiest Sunday since last Sep
tember IL.
Casey Stengel's crew moved
into Cleveland Friday with q
chance to bury the Indians for
good. but they broke their SHOW
els yesterday when their aces.
Bob Turley and Whitley Ford.
were racked up. 1912 and 7-3.
Coupled with the White Sox'
10 and 8-4 triumphs over the
Senators, the double setback left
the New Yorkers only 21a games
ahead of the White Sox and 31a
ahead of the Indians. Only a
few days ago the Yanks were
5h games out front. Now they
are actually game behind Chi
cago on the losing side Of the
ledger, having played seven more
games than the Sox.
Nine months ago yesterday
the Indians took the Yanks out
of the '54 pennant fight with q
double victory behind Early
Wynn and Bob Lemon at Cleve-
land. The same two hurlers
came through yesterday, all
though Lemon needed help from
Mike Garcia in the ninth.
Gang Up on Turley
A season-record crowd of &c..
532 saw the Tribe break loose
with four runs in the sixth and
six more in the seventh to hand
Turley his fifth loss in 13 de-
cisions and lift Wynn's record
to 81. Larry Dolby started the
first rally with a homer which
was quickly followed by two
run blast by Vic Wertz. In the
six-run inning, George Strick-
land homered and Wynn also
put one over the fence before
Turley departed. Irv Noren's
homer in the ninth deprived
Wynn of a shutout.
The Yanks tied the second
game at 3-3 in the sixth but
Ford, who relieved Bob Grim.
was tagged for four runs In the
seventh. two of them on Wertz'
second homer of the day. The
Indians got only five hits in the
Inightcap but were aided by II
walks.
Thus the Tribe, which had
lost three out of four to the SEN
Iators ard three straight to the
Red Sox, wound up with three
out of four over the Yanks and
Ia 6-2 season edge over the
Bombers.
you never can tell when
you'll hit bottom and start to
bounce" Manager AL Lopez said
afterward. He decided the bounce
came in Saturdays game, when
the Tribe won, 7-6, after spot
ting the Yanks SO lead in the
first inning.
Richest Road Trip
The three-day series at Cleve-
land drew total of 128,559 GUS
toners and capped the richest
road trip in the Yanks' history.
They played before 440,035 fans
Ion the 20-game journey and, as
far as their league lead is con-
Icerned, wound up right where
they started.
The first White Sox victory
came over Bob Porterfield on an
Iunearned run. They had no
trouble in routing Johnny
ISchmitz in the nightcap.
The Orioles beat the Ath.
letics, To, in the opener, with
Hal Smiths homer the big
punch, but Art Ceccarelli turned
in a three-hit, 80 shutout for
the AS in the second game. The
lBoston-Detroit twin bill was
Irained out.
Rain Bars Homer Mark
Meanwhile, only rain kept the
National League from tying the
record of IS homers in a single
day. Twenty-three were poled
and two more-by Andy Semin-
lex of the Phils and Wally Post
Iof the Reds-were washed of
the boards when the weather
halted the second game at Phila-
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