Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-09
Reds Solving
Braves Jinx
AtLOnu Last

~ the Associated Press
It's beginning TO look as II
the Reds are at last catching
UP with the Braves.
The Braves have beaten a
path to a pair Of National
League pennants by trampling
the Reds the past two years.
In 1857. Milwaukee won Is Of
its % games with Cincinnati.
Last season 1t was II Of %.
Now the Reds have taken
three of FIVE decisions this sea-
son, winning three in a row
from the Braves for the first
time since 1856. And they've
done it the hard way-beating
Warren SPAIN and Lew Bur-
dette.
Burdette's Streak Gone
They junked Burdette's win
ming streak at nine-flve this
season-with a 80 victory at
Milwaukee last night that
gained a virtual first-place tie
with the Braves. Going into
today's game-another run-in
with Spahn-the Reds are Sec
ond by a mere 900 percentage
point margin.
San Francisco also closed in,
replacing Los Angeles in third,
just a half-game behind the
leaders, by whipping the Dodg-
ers, 9-3. The Cubs are ~ games
back after a 10-inning, 80
victory at st. Louis. Philadel-
phia regained a sixth-place tie
with Pittsburgh by beating the
Pirates, 81.
Burdette, who had won 10
straight in Milwaukee's County
Stadium since last July, gave up
four of the Reds seven hits and
all of their runs in the first
inning. A two-run double by
Frank Robinson and a triple
by Frank Thomas did the dam
age.
Mathews, Tore Homer
The Braves had IL hits, but
didn't break through against
Brooks Lawrence (3-D until
the eighth inning. when Ed
Mathews and Frank Tore
homered. Lawrence, winning
only his second complete game
since blanking the Braves, 10,
last July 2, finally put it away
by tanning Mathews, the major
league leader with his 10 home
runs, with two men on base in
the ninth.
Southpaw Johnny Antonelli,
who had lost two in a row. won
his fourth for the Giants after
giving UP the Dodger runs on
five hits in the second inning.
He BANKED them on five hits
the rest Of the way. Daryl
Spencer was 4-for-4 and drove
in three runs for the Giants,
who chased Danny McDevitt
Old in a three-run sixth for
a 4-3 lead. Willie Mays and
Jackie Brandt added solo
homerS in the eighth.
The Dodgers suffered another
loss before the game. They
Learned that Outf1elder Carl
Furillo will be out for at least
three weeks. He suffered a
cracked rib when he was hit by
one of Ryne Duren's fast balls
in the Campanella benefit game
with the Yankees Thursday
night.
Jackson Triples
Randy Jackson. just returned
to the Cubs by way of a trade
with Cleveland, tripled in the
10th after a two-out single by
Bill Henry GID, the winning
reliever. Jackson, who last
played for the Cubs in 1855,
also was credited with the tying
run when he got a bases-loaded
walk as a pinch-hitter in the
eighth.
Jim BroSnan (0-3) was the
loser in relief for the Cards,
who were shut out after the
third. Henry, who replaced Bob
Anderson in the eighth, al
lowed only two hits and struck
out five. 1t was the Cardinals
eighth consecutive one-run de-
cision. They've lost five of
them.
Gene Conley, the ex-Brave,
gained his first victory since
1857 in his first start for the
Phils. He had to leave in the
ninth, however, when a line
drive by Smoky Burgess nicked
a pitching-hand finger. George
Witt (0-4 lost it, giving way in
a three-run fourth.