Show Riddle Gets Eleventh Straight Win Winn In n Rousing Scrap With New York By y GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK July 18 UP uP- uP They hey stopped Joe DiMaggio but they hey couldn't stop Elmer Riddle While Southpaw Al Smith and Jim Bagby were teaming earning up to end nd Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak at 56 straight games out iut in Cleveland last night Elmer Riddle the Cincinnati Reds Reds' com corn unknown who's developed into nto the pitching sensation of the season eason rode out a storm to defeat the he New York Giants for his eleventh elev elev- nth consecutive victory at the Polo Grounds Riddle is either lucky or good and nd most dugout observers are beginning beginning be- be ginning inning to think that he is both after last nights night's 5 4 triumph over the he Giants Every conceivable jinx and bad break was flung at him Jim and yet he weathered the storm torm storm and protected his perfect record with victory No 11 For example An interviewer chewed his ear off in the dugout before the game asking him how he did it it how long he thought he could keep it up and if he was born under a lucky star and his house down in Columbus Ga was wason wason wason on the left-hand left side of the road and at the correct angle angie to catch the moonbeams at certain periods He had to protect a run one ne ru lead through the last five innings in four of which the Giants had the tying run on base In the eighth and ninth the tying run was on third base To make the law of averages operate tremendously against him Bill Terry brought in as a relief pitcher Fiddler Bill McGee who hasn't won a game for the Giants McGee pitched masterfully while waiting fo for the tying run which was in the offing but never came across Twice Manager Bill McKechnie had a relief pitcher warm up to relieve Riddle Another time Une McKechnie McKechnie McKechnie Mc Mc- Kechnie went out to the mound and conferred with his pitcher One more b bad d pitch and Riddle would have been put out To close out his triumph Riddle showed his his' heart by striking out Pinch Hitter Gabby Hartnett to end the game with the tying run on third base Despite the end of DiMaggio's streak the Yankees put the crusher on the Indians again 4 3 4 before fans largest throng of the baseball season Johnny Murphy came on to relieve Lefty Gomez in the ninth and halt a Cleveland uprising one short of a tie Gomez's surprise single and Red Rolfe's Rolles double double dou dou- ble bie drove in two Yankee runs |