Evening star., 1955-07-23
White Sox OweHearty Thank You
To Relief Pitchers for Climb to Top
Crew in BuIlpen
Called On Aeoin
To Stop Boston
By the Associated Press


If the White Sox are here to
stay, Manager Marty Marion
can bow low to his relief pitch
ling. The Chicago club seldom
has had it SO good.
Twelve victories in the last 16
games have got the go-go Sox
going, yet Marty's starters have
managed only four complete
games In the surge.
It's been the bullpen boys who
have kept Chicago within reach
for late rallies-and who have
made early leads stand up.
It was that way again last
might when the Sox thumped
Boston, 1877, and took the Amer
Iican League lead by two per-
lcentage points over the Yankees.
The Yanks were made fully
aware of their plight by losing to
Kansas City, 81. after the AS
had lost 10 straight. =.
Dropo Big Man
The White Sox belted Boston
for five runs in the first and
five in the third. Still. Marion
had to go to the relief staff. call
ing in Mike Fornieles and Sandy
Consuegra and finally Morrie
Martin to pull it off. Martin re-,
ceived credit for the victory by
checking the Red Sox on one hit
over the last three innings.
Fornieles did all right after
replacing Jack Harshman when
Boston scored three in the third.
until the Red Sox mustered four
in the seventh. Consuegra mis-
fired for a change, too, but Ma
rion is knee-deep in relievers.
Walt Dropo was the big man
for Chicago, which moved back
into first place after a 24-hour
stay June Is. He doubled for
two runs in the first and lined
a two-run single in the third.
After the third, Chicago didn't
get a hit. 1t was the big early
innings and Martin that pro-
Ivided the difference. Tom
Brewer, Boston starter, was the
loser.
| Elsewhere in the league Cleve-
land stayed two games behind
the leaders with a 20 decision
over Baltimore and Detroit
Iplastered Washington, 11-3.
Brooklyn Boosts Lead
Brooklyn upped its National
: siLeague lead to 1412 games with
an 8-4 romp over runnerup Mil
waukee; the Giants defeated
Cincinnati, 6-3, in the 14th in
ming; Pittsburgh drubbed Chi
; Icago, 81, and st. Louis stopped
Philadelphia, 81, after the Phils
'Ihad made it II in a row by win
ming the first game OF the twi-
night tW1nbill, 6-3.
The Yanks, who had led the
American League since May 81
except for Chicago's teaser in
June, were knocked over by a
!. pair of former mates Vic
| Raschi and Tom German. Raschi
! won his third, giving 10 hits but
]. stranding 10 in eight innings.
t German gave hit but no runs
e in the ninth. Joe Astroth
i squeezed in the winning run in
j. the sixth. Enos Slaughter, an
. other recent Yank, scored the
t first run and had two-for-three.
New York now has lost IL of
\ the last II games.
o Cleveland got just four hits off
e Baltimore's Jim Wilson, but took
, it anyway on AL Smiths fourth
a inning homer and a sacrifice fly
! by Hank Foiles in the seventh
4 after singles by AL Rosen and
Ferris Fain. Herb Score won his
= sixth, with relief. and famed
five to run his No. / struckout
. total to lat.
The Cardinals scored three
times in the third inning to take
the nightcap after the Phils had
= matched Brooklyn's 11-game
} Istring-longest in the majors
this season. Red Schoendienst
It drove in three of the Cards
t runs in the second game, won
= by Harvey Haddix. Bobby Nor
: gan's three-run homer topped
: a six-run rally in the fifth inning
of the opener.
5. It was Peewee Reese night at