| Show 1 Aces Ace's 1 Check I i iI Bat Stars I By GEORGE KIRKSEY I NEW YORK May tay 26 UP UPI UP- UP I The pitchers are beginning to toI I catch up with the hitters in the major leagues The last hitter I has passed out of the picture Inthe in inthe the averages and acid its it's getting more difficult with the passing of each day to get a base hit The pitchers were bearing down Monday and came off with most of of the honors The returns show Only one team scored In double figures The Cardinals with 10 runs Only Four Homers Only four homers were hit In eight games two in each league Only three teams hit in double figures The Cards got 13 hits the White Sox how did they do don dot 4 n t 19 12 on 1 tV th Oh TCo 10 All ih he the rest were ep pretty retty much ch under nd the thc pitchers pitcher's thumb Curt Davis Dodger veteran fashioned the best pitching performance per per- a a a two-hit two 3 0 shutout over the Phils Four other clubs were held to one run The Yankees did themselves the most good by increasing their American league lead to three and anda a half games with a 3 1 triumph over the Red Sox while the Indians were flopping flip-flopping for their fifth firth straight loss Spud Chandler gave up seven hits ills and was aided by three Yankee Yankee Yan Yan- kee double plays making the worlds world's champs' champs total 50 In 34 games Joe Gordon hit safely in indis his dis tenth straight game and Buddy Hassett drove in two runs and scored the other Beat Dean Chubby Dean Indians' Indians lefty and Bill Dietrich White Sox bespectacled bespectacled bespectacled right-hander right were locked in a 1 pitching duel until the ninth when Dean faltered The White Sox cracked out four hits and scored four runs winning 5 Sid Hudson Phil Marchildon Marchildon Marchildon Mar- Mar Monday night before at Philadelphia as the Senators beat the Athletics 5 Hudson gave jave up nine hits but had the As A's blanked until the eighth when he enjoyed a run five lead Marchildon's Marchildon's Marchildon's Marchil- Marchil dons don's wildness and poor support contributed to his defeat The St. St Louis Browns nosed out Detroit 3 2 on a costly Tiger error in the ninth Hal held the Browns to four hits until the eighth Bob Moncrief allowed only four hits in the eight innings he le worked but two of them were homers by Jimmy Bloodworth and Pinky Higgins Dodgers Coast In Brooklyn coasted to a 3 0 victory vic vie tory over the Phils in a twilight game in which Curt Davis came close to a no hitter One of the two hits off him was of the infield variety and Dixie Walker just missed catching the other Mickey Mickey Mick Mick- ey Owens Owen's triple drove in two runs The Braves subdued the Giants 3 1 in 11 innings when Max West hit a homer off Bill Lohrman with witha a mate on Lou Dry was the winning pitcher allowing only eight hits Lohrman also allowed eight hits but from the fifth until th the eleventh was invincible Cincinnati moved into fourth place Monday night by downing Pittsburgh 6 1 behind Paul Derringers Derringer's Derringers Derringer's Derringers Derringer's Der Der- ringers ringer's six-hit six pitching A crowd of saw the he first night game at Cincinnati Derringer got a single and double to help win hi his own game his game his first victory thi this season Frank McCormick Reds' Reds first baseman broke his string of consecutive games when he didn't play because of a lame back Rookie Hank Hanle him The Cardinals raked five Cub pitchers for 13 hits and notched a 2 10 victory behind Ernie Whites White's easy fasy hit eight-hit pitching Terry Moore banged out three hits |
