Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-06-10 | Page 20 | Yanks, Tribe in Crucial Set

T y YANKS YANKS' ANKS TRIBE IN CRUCIAL SET Cleveland Club on Spot f f As Baseball Fans Watch For Let Down Expected By GEORGE KIRKSEY t United Press Sports Writer NEW NEW YORK June 10 UP The UP-The The Cleveland Indians into Yankee stadium Friday to battle the world champions in a vita vital vitalS S three-game three series out of which may come the answer to the ques ques- tion Are the Indians on an early season joy ride Cleveland clubs have been out in inS S front at this stage of the race before before be- be fore tore only to wind up down the list The Indians came cameto cameto to town with a game 3 I lead e a d which would be fairly convincing 5 5 if it it belonged to WW any other club but butS t. t S the Tribe The doubters still are waiting to a 3 see e e r mm I II whether the Indians In In- ii P W t I I can knock off the Yanks in it tl f J their yard lw The own Yanks back i i j I have been stumbling stumbling h. h t h bling and fumbling fumbling fum- fum bling recently but but Allen Alien th they y still pack plenty of authority for those crucial S tests After dropping three in a arow arow arow row to the White So Sox they righted themselves on the eve of the imS im- im S Clev Cleveland land series by coming fr from m behind to beat Chicago 5 On On the other hand the Indians dropped their second straight to the Boston Red So Sox 8 Manager Oscar Vitt who fined Johnny Allen Alien for insubordination tion on Tuesday when he walked off the mound after an argument with the umpire over his tattered sweat sweatshirt shirt sleeve nominated Allen to pitch today's series opener Manager Manager Manager Man Man- ager Joe McCarthy chose Lefty Gome Gomez Gomez Go Go- mez me beaten by the Browns in his last start With Bill Dickey back in the lineup the Yanks came to life yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- i i and salvaged the final game from the White Sox Dickeys Dickey's homer with a mate on base tied the score S 3 3 3 and his single started the winning winning winning win win- ning rally Joe Gordon returned to the Yanks' Yanks lineup and drove in the winning tally Grove rove Wins Tenth Lefty Grove scattering nine hits and nd driving in three runs himself blanked the Indians for or his tenth victory The Red Sox pounded Mel Harder for 14 H hits including Jimmy Foxx's eighteenth homer Washington beat the St St. Louis Browns 6 4 behind the hit four-hit i pitching of of Jimmy Deshong and I the Athletics knocked Vernon Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy out of the box to beat the Detroit Tigers 8 Dario gianis giani's homer with the bases loaded i ruined Kennedys Kennedy's bid for his tenth 1 straight I. I f t. t The rhe New York Giants staged J I three-run three rally in the ninth to taki their third straight from the Chicago Chicago Chi Chicago cago Cubs and increase their National National Na National league lead to 1 games Bob Log Logan n walked in the winnin winning run with the bases loaded and Me Otts Ott's single clinched the game wit two additional tallies A total 0 o saw the game four-game series Mace Brown in a relief role hel the Bees Beeg to two hits in seven innings in innings as Pittsburgh beat Boston 5 3 in the only other league game Browns Brown's single the bases loaded drove in the winning winning win winning ning runs