Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-13
Senator'S Glad
To See Last Of
Lopez Today
Homer by Hector
Scuttles Ramos;
Sievers Hits 37th
BY BURTON HAWKINS
star stan Writer

star Stan Writer
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 49,
The Senators will take their
last glimpse Of the Athletics
to-day and it's Of supreme sat
Iisfaction that they won't see
any more of Hector Lopez until
next spring. Kansas City's
second baseman has performed
a one-man wrecking job on
1.-The Senators.
Lopez is 1852 hitter for the
year. but against the Senators
he has failed away at a .342
|clip. He has beited Is home
runs and half have been at
Washington's expense. 'He
clubbed one off Pedro Ramos
last night as the AS won their
sixth straight, 4-3, before 9,548
fans and it developed to be
the decisive blow.
This clinched the season Sc
ries for the AS, who carry a
1873 record against Washing
ton into their meeting today,
with Vito Valentinetti due to
fire against Jack Urban. The
latter owns a 80 mark against
the Senators.
Sievers Hits No. 81
The Senators accumulated II
hits of Ray Herbert and Dick
Tomanek, including Roy Sic
vers' 37th homer. as Ramos
record was leveled at 14-14.
Sievers needs five homers and
IL runs batted in to match his
fine output in 1857, when he
led the league with AZ, homers
and ia RBI.
Kansas City is making a de-
termined effort to wind up in
the first division. The AS, only
a game and half back of the
fourth place Tigers, moved into
sixth place last night ahead of
the slumping Orioles.
Manager Harry Craft set a
preseason goal of 10 victories
for the AS. AS late as 10 days
ago that seemed unlikely to be
achieved, but his club currently
is only three games shy of that
figure.
Bob Gerry. crashing his 34th
homer, boosted the AS into a
10 lead in the second inning
Cerv's clout was one of the
more majestic of the season, a
booming shot which caromed
of the leftfield light tower
about so feet up and was still
rising as it sailed out at the
350-foot mark.
Cerv Drops to .318
Cerv was restricted to that
lone hit, however, and dropped
a point to 1913 in his quest for
the American League batting
championship. Ted Williams
and Pete Runnels of the Red
Sox are locked for the lead at
800.
Doubles by Sievers and Jim
Lemon and Clint Courtney's
single projected the Senators
into a 81 lead against Herbert
in the fourth, but the AS, re-
bounded with a pair of runs in
the same inning when Harry
Chit singled. Joe DeMaestri
doubled and Herbert singled.
Lopez's homer in the fifth
nudged the AS into a Az lead,
but Sievers trimmed the margin
with his blast over the CENTER
field fence in the eighth. To-
manek then got the last five
batters in order. 1t was Siever's
sixth homer here this season
and left him three behind the
league-leading Mickey Mantle.
NOTES: Ramos and Courtney
showed up in full cowboy regalia
after a shopping spree here. .
Pedro went all out with a black
and white outfit, including spurs
on his boots and a whip, while
Courtney went for a more con-
sentative blend in brown.
Rocky Bridges has dropped
"a points since returning to the
lineup following regeneration
from his broken jaw. Lemon
accounted for three of the Sen
ators' II hits with a double and
two singles, while Preston Ward
and DeMaestri each got two for
the AS. 1t will be Bill
Fisher, acquired from the
Tigers Thursday, and Russ
Kemmerer in a double-header
against the White Sox tomorrow