Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-20
Bob Lemon Also
Gets 10Th to
Cut Yunks' Lead
BY the Associated Press

victory club IN major league ball.
The stylish SPAIN, coming
through in the clutch, pitched
the Braves back into a two-game
lead in the National League race
yesterday as Milwaukee defeated
Cincinnati, 81. Lemon, who
broke in as an infielder. used a
flve-hitter to get Cleveland
started on a double-header sweep
over the Kansas City Athletics,
So and 81, and keep the In
dams meager flag hopes alive in
the American League race.
1t was the 10Th major league
victory for each of the 35-year-
old veterans.
There are only two active 200
game winners in the business
Itoday-and Cleveland has 'em
both. Bobby Teller, without a
vistory this season, has a 266
total, and Early Wynn, with IA
LIl1S year. IldS z1O.
SPAIN Wins Big One
Spahn's 14th victory of the
year was the big one of the day,
sending the Redlegs back to third
place after they had taken the
first two games Of the important
four-game series at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn's Dodgers reclaimed the
runnerup spot (by seven percent
age points, with a 80 decision
over Philadelphia.
The Braves and Redlegs to-
night wind up their hectic series
things got so tense at one
point that Joe Adcock of Mil
waukee and Birdie Tebbetts of
Cincinnati nearly came to blows
in the only major league game
scheduled. Manager Fred Haney
plans to start Lew Burdette
against the Redlegs' Brooks Law
renee.
hurry Dickson. who'll be 40 to-
morrow, struck out nine and
gave just two hits as the fourth
place Cardinals defeated the Chi
cago Cubs, 60, in a double
header split. The Cubs took the
Inightcap 81. The Giants, SOCK
ing six home runs. took two from
Pittsburgh, To and 3-2.
Yanks and Indians Meet
Cleveland's sweep moved the
Tribe to within 8la games of
| f1rst-place New York as the two
clubs get set for a two-game
series in Yankee Stadium starting
tomorrow night. The Yankees
were trimmed, 80, at Baltimore,
with Mickey Mantle going hitless
again. The White Sox moved
into third place. splitting with
Detroit, while Washington was
taking two from Boston. Chi
cago won, Al, after an thinning
81 defeat; Boston slipped to
fourth on Us and lilo losses.
Hank Aaron's two-run homer
in the eighth beat the Redlegs
as SPAIN kept eight hits--in-
Guiding Ted Kluszewski's 31st
home run-fairly well scattered.
Tom Acker, also giving up Ed
Mathews 9th home run, was the
loser in relief of Joe Nuxhall.
Danny O'Connell's line drive
struck Nuxhall's left knee and
sidelined the southpaw starter
in the first inning. Apparently
he was not badly hurt.
A two-run pinch double by
Charlie Neal in the ninth inning
broke a l-all duel between the
Dodgers Don Newcombe, who
won his 10Th, and the PnIls' Curt
Simmons. who had won seven in
a row. Gil Hodges homered for
the other Brooklyn run. 1t was
his 25th.
Dickson Helps Own Cause
Dickson, driving in two runs
with three hits. retired II in a
row before giving a pinch single
to the Cubs Monte Irwin Den
Kaiser was the loser. Stan
Musial hit his 2lst homer among
the Cards IA hits. Southpaw
Jim Davis and Reliefer Turk
Lown stopped the Cards in the
nightcap except for Rip Re-
pu'ski's pinch homer. The Cubs
got just four hits. but raped
Vinegar Bend Mizell for two
runs in the fourth with Harry
Chiti's bases-loaded infleld hit
getting the deciding marker
home.
Daryl Spencer hit two Of the
Giants homers and Willie Mays
socked his oath. An eighth
inning error enabled the winning
run to score in the opener. in
the second game, Mays brought
the clincher home in the sixth
walking, stealing second and
scoring on an inf1eld out.
Connie johnson held the
Yankees to five hits and struck
out seven. The Highlander also
singled home the winning run
in a three-run seventh against
Johnny Kucks.
Hec Lopez homered for 81
lead against Lemon in the first
game, but the Indians scored
three in the fourth on FIVE singles
Both Tribe runs were unearned
in the nightcap to beat Art Dit
mar. Mike Garcia won it with
relief help for a Gil record
Singles by Charley Maxwell
and AL Kaline beat the White
Sox in the opener as Frank Larry
won his 18th. But Chicago
bounced back to hand Billy
Hoeft his 18th defeat when the
llefthander wild-pitched two run;
home in the first inning. Dicl
Donovan won the nightcap.