Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-18
New SouthpaW
Gould Take Up
Dodgers Slack
McDevitt Whiffs II
In Dropping Redleg!
To Second Division
By the Associated Press


Brooklyn's pitching staff, trou'
BILE free just a few weeks ago but
a battered bunch of late; may
have found an added starter tx
take up the slack in Danny Nc
Devitt-a kid southpaw whit
couldn't make the grade in Class
A ball a year ago.
The Dodgers, who skiddeC
from the National League leaC
to fifth place while winning only
two of their last 10 games. threw
the 24-year-old lefthande Ell
against Cincinnati last night anC
came of with a To victory a;
they started their second West.
en- invasion of the season.
McDevitt. fresh from st. Paul
struck out IL. spaced seven hits
and had only infrequent trou'
bles while working a complete
game in his major league debut
Reds Fall to Fifth
The victory pushed the Dodgeri
up to fourth place while the
RedlegS slipped from third to
fifth.
The perplexing Pirates de-
feated first-place Milwaukee. Us
with four ninth inning runs in
the only other game scheduled
in the majors.
Milwaukee now has only a
single-game lead over st. Louis
with Philadelphia. Brooklyn and
Cincinnati all two games back
There are gaps Of two percentage
points between the Phillies and
Dodgers. and the Dodgers and
the Redlegs.
McDevitt, a 5-foot-1i, u.s.
FOUNDER born in New York but
now a resident of Greenwood
Miss, started out with Macon
in the Sally League last. season
but was sent down to Cedar Rap
ids of the Class B Three-I League
with a IA record and a TAG
earned-run average. At Cedar
Rapids he was So. with a $3.50
ERA. He had 127 strikeouts for
the year, but walked 1876.
After compiling a GA record
and 1.86 ERA at st. Paul. he
was called up last week end.
The only runs McDevitt al
lowed last night came in the Sec
ond and sixth innings on single.
double combinations. He walked
five but left nine runners
stranded. Apparently he was not
affected by a 70-minute delay
by rain in the fourth inning.
Klippstein Tagged
The Dodgers tagged Johnny
Klippstein for three runs in the
second inning. opened by Ginc
Cimoli's home run and capped
by McDevitt's squeeze bunt
Brooks Lawrence, fourth Redlee
pitcher, was touched for three
runs in the ninth as Cincinnati
continued it's skid with a 18th
defeat in the last Is games. Bot
IPurkey won it in relief.
Gene Freese was 4-for-4 fol
the Pirates and scored the tying
run after seeking his second dou-
BILE to get the ninth-inning rally
under way against Dave Jolly
losing reliever. The Pirates. out
hit 1910. pulled two squeeze
hunts in the inning. Gene Baker
homered for the Pirates.
The seventh-place Pirates had
Just lost three in a row to the
last-place Cubs-after sweeping
four from Cincinnati.
The Braves. who were making
up an earlier rainout with the
Pirates. open a three-game set
with the sixth-place Giants to-
night while Pittsburgh gets
started on a three-game series al
st. Louis. Brooklyn continues al
C Cincinnati and Philadelphia
|plAys-at Chicago.
The American League race
finds the first-place White SoS
carrying their 3l2-game lead
into Baltimore tonight. The
Yankees, who made up a game
and a half on the White SoS
with a ga record on their West
ern trip, are home to the third
place Tigers. Cleveland is at Bos-
ton and Kansas City at Wash
ington.