Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-12
Brewer Equals
Victory Total Of
Red Sox' Big3
Forgotten HurIer
Becomes Stoff Ace;
Cords Miss Chance
ny the Associated Press


Tom Brewer, 24-year-old
highlander, was almost forgot
ten in preseason talk of Bos-
tons pennant potential, but now
he's the only American League
pitcher with nine victories and
is the ace of the Red Sox staff
In early spring the North Car
Gilman was mentioned only as
the fourth man in Boston's pitch
ing picture. Frank Sullivan,
Bob Porterfield and Willard
Nixon were the big guns-but
now they can only count nine
successes among them and they
have a total of 10 defeats. Brew
er's only loss was to the Yankees.
An lilo record last season
and a 1919 mark in 1854 put
Brewer in the shadows. He was
0-6 at one point last year, and
didn't win his ninth until Au-
gust %.
Has Indians in Pocket
Now he's sailing free and easy,
with a neat 2.38 earned-run
average, eight straight victories.
and six complete games in his
IL starts. What's more, he has
the Cleveland Indians stuffed in
his hip pocket.
Brewer set down the second
place Tribe, ST., on three hits
last night for his seventh
straight verdict over the Indians
and the third this season. He
didn't give a hit after a fourth
inning double by Vic Wertz as
the Red Sox salvaged a split in
their day-night double header.
Porterfield gave up only four
hits in the day game. but three
lof them were home runs and
Cleveland took it, Al.
The split left the Tribe 3la
games behind the idle Yankees
whose pitchers the Indians
had tagged for 38 hits in three
games last week. Baltimore re-
placed Detroit in fifth place by
one point. edging the Tigers. Sd,
while the Senators held seventh
over Kansas City, winning 4-3,
then losing 6-3.
Dodgers Reach Fourth
st. Louis blew a chance for the
National League lead, losing to
Brooklyn, 8-6, as the Dodgers
moved into fourth place, while
Milwaukee slumped to fifth in a
1872 defeat by Philadelphia. st.
Louis fell from second to third
behind Cincinnati and Pitts
burgh, idle along with New York
and Chicago. The Dodgers now
are only a game and a half out
lof the lead.
Brewer has been a one-man
gang for the fourth-place Red
Sox. He's had II hits in his last
I29 at bats for a .379 average and
has handled 90 fielding chances
without an error. He had two
singles and drove in the deciding
run last night against Mike
Garcia after Jackie Jensen had
tied it, 1-all, with his sixth
homer. Ted Williams had two
doubles in Boston's 10 hits. The
loss was Garcia's sixth in 10
decisions.
4 AL Smith, Chico Carrasquel and
Al Rosen homered off Porterfield,
now Us, in the day game. Ray
Narleski pitched 31s innings of
one-hit relief to save Cal Nc
LiSh's second victory.
No. 3 for NewcOmbe
The Cardinals Clipped in
three unearned runs - they've
donated IL unearned markers in
their last three games with
Brooklyn and have lost 'em all
as the Dodgers scored four in
the eighth and then iced it with
Randy Jackson'S two-run double
in the ninth. Tom Poholsky lost
his fourth straight while Don
Newcombe won his ninth with
Glenn Labine's relief. Bobby
Morgan lined a three-run pinch
double of Labine in the ninth,
but the Cardinal rally ended
there. Duke Snider had two
homerS and a single to drive in
three runs for the Dodgers.
Wally Moon and Hank Sauer
Ihomered for the Cards.
1 While the Dogers. who benched
slump-ridden Roy Campanella,
were making it seven victories in
nine games. the Braves were
; dropping their ninth decision
in the last 12-all at home. Stu
Miller, the ex-Card, lifted his
lifetime mark to 30 against Mil
waukee while Gene Conley lost
his third. The Phils packed it
away with three in the fifth on
four singles and Gran Hammers
double.
Frank Larry, the youngster who
beats the Yankees, was bopped
for three Baltimore runs in the
first and the clinching markers
in the fifth on Bob Nieman's two
run homer. Nieman drove in
three runs and Gus Triandos the
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