Evening star., 1955-06-18
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Sox Tougher
Than Indians
Weak Sister Club
Now Threatening
To Capture Leud
BY the Associated Press

Those Chicago White Sox
leave a pretty strong impression
for a club that was supposed to
be a weak sister.
Manager Marty Marion's ath-
letes have generally been disre-
garded as a threat by f1rst-place
New York. but aftersspilling the
Yanks. 81, last night the White
Sox are just two percentage
points shy of the lead.
Cleveland, the team the Yanks
figured they have to beat, is two
and one-half games back. beat
ing Boston, 80. after losing,
I6-5, in the afternoon portion of
the day-night twin bill.
Fourth-place Detroit was beat
EN-, 80. in II innings by Balti-
more and Kansas City defeated
Washington, Az.
Brooklyn Extends Lead
Brooklyn extended its National
League lead to II u games again,
breaking a two-game losing
streak by walloping st. Louis,
Il2-1, as Don Newcombe won his
ll1th. The runnerup Chicago
Cubs were spilled by Philadel-
phia, 80, while Milwaukee
moved to within a game of third
place New York by defeating the
Giants 5-4, in 10 innings.
And Cincinnati, after beating
Brooklyn two straight, lost to
'tail-end Pittsburgh, 81.
Righthander Dick Donovan
who was sent packing by the old
Boston Braves and Detroit Tigers
in previous attempts at the big
time, won his eighth against two
defeats for the White Sox and
drove the Yanks crazy with slow,
breaking stuff. He had a two
hitter and a 10 lead until
Mickey Mantle belted his 18th
homer to tie it in the eighth.
KeIl's Single Wins Game
Then George Kell, the third
baseman with the back miseries,
fouled off Whitley Ford's attempt
to give him an intentional pass
on a 81 count and followed with
a single that scored Nellie Fox
with the winning run in the
ninth.
Fox had gotten the fourth hit
off Ford C7-3) to run his con-
secutive game streak to l3.
Marion then called in Sandy
Consuegra, who has relieved in
four of the Sox' last five games,
to wrap it up after Irv Noren
singled to open the Yank ninth.
Some 33,744 fans sat in on the
Yankee Stadium thriller-just a
few more than the 1904 who
watched Cleveland's Ray Mar
leski hold the Red Sox to one
hit after Norb Zauchin's two-run
double in the first.
Billy Klaus homered aid got
three singles to drive in five runs
as Boston made it nine out of
10 in the day game.
Newcombe Gets Fifth Homer
Newcombe, only once beaten
this season. added his fifth
homer to the 16-hit Brooklyn
attack that gave the Dodgers
their first success of the season
in St. Louis.
The Giants caught up with
the Braves with three runs in the
eighth and made it "A in the
ninth after Milwaukee regained
the lead with a run in their half
Iof the eighth. Danny O'Connell' S
single after George Groves dou-
BILE finally won it for the Braves,
1t was a single and double
combination that won in extra
Innings for Baltimore, too. Chuck
IDiering thumped the scoring
punch after Reliefer Art Shall
lock had singled for the fifth hit
off Loser Steve Gromek. The
Tiger veteran had famed 10 and
walked just one.
Another oldtimer, Max Sur
kont, had better luck, blanking
Cincinnati until Gus Bells sixth
inning homer and then winning
his sixth as Ramon Mejias
doubled home the lead marker
lin a two-run Pirate seventh.
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