Evening star., 1957-08-31
Senators Aiming for Split
On Season With Yankees
ByerIy Again
Helps to Stop
League Leaders
BY BURTON HAWKINS
Star stan Correspondent

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joy their most successful sea-
son against the Yankees in
many years and instrumental
in their fine behavior against
the front-runners has been
Bud Byerly, who will celebrate
his 37th birthday in October.
Washington has whipped the
Yankees the last three times
they've met, accomplishing a
Al victory yesterday before
9,235 customers as Byerly res
cued Chuck Stobbs and pre-
served a triumph for the left
handler by restricting New York
to a pair Of singles in the last
313 innings.
Bud accents control. having
permitted only 10 bases on
balls in 81 innings, and his
sharpness has been particularly
keen against the Yankees. In
his last three outings against
them he has pitched ga in
nings, allowed only four hits,
no runs and hasn't yielded
walk.
Run Average Is Good
His season labor against the
top team has been highly e{-
fective. He has moved into
action against them six times
and displays a 2.08 earned run
average, winning two and los
ing one-the loss coming after
a passed ball immersed him in
trouble.
The Senators are nursing
ambitions of a split in their
season series with the Yankees.
They're ITO at the moment
with five games to go, so they'll
be forced to capture four OF
the remaining contests to full
NIL their aspirations.
Russ Kemmerer, a 6-l win
ner over the Yankees and Art
Ditmar August 8, will have a
chance to duplicate that effort
tonight. Russ will be seeking
an eighth win, while Ditmar
will be striving for No. 9. The
clubs will clash again tomor-
row.
Mickey Mantle got the best
of it in head-to-head dueling
with Roy Sievers yesterday.
cracking his 34th homer to
break a triple tie for the Amer
ican League lead in which
Sievers and Ted Williams were
involved.
But Sievers remained locked
with Mickey for runs -batted-in
supremacy with 80 each. Hby
thumped across a run with
sacrifice fly in the fourth in
ming to score Ed Yost, who had
tripled. Mantle's homer in the
same inning Offset it. Mickey
also contributed two singles
and elevated his average three
points TO 1916.
Three Doubles Help
The Senators splashed fer
three runs of Bobby Shantz in
the fifth and that. it developed.
was the ball game. Ed Fitz-
Gerald's single. plus doubles by
Milt Boiling. Rocky Bridges
and YoSt. shelled Shantz.
The Yankees got their other
run in the sixth on singles by
Mantle. Bill Skowron and
Harry Simpson. Byerly came
along to put out the fire.
NOTES: Six Of the Senators
nine hits were extra-base blows.
Skowron. like Mantle, OBJ
tained three of the Yankees
10 hits. e. The Yankees home
attendance has passed the
100000 mark. At home
and on the road the champs
have played before 2,90l .4O5
fans-more than three times
as many as have seen the
Senators.
Bridges made the play OF the
day in the ninth when he
rambled back of second base
to spear Simpsons bounder
with a leap. then whipped him
out. He was aided by Julio
Becquer's adept stretching for
the throw. Hank Bauer
Jammed a thumb sliding into
second base in the second in
ming. was replaced later and
probably will miss tonight's
game. The win was Stobbs
first of the year over thf
Yankees. who had beaten him
four times.