Show Fireman Pushes Club ClubBy further Ahead By CARL LUNDQUIST NEW V YORK May 22 UP UP UP-Tn In Inthe the tho midst of early season prosperity prosperity prosperity pros pros- and a permanent boom Earl Johnson of the Red Sox Ison ison is ison on relief and Manager Joe Cronin isn't the least bit interested in doIng doing do- do do ing anything about it That may be bo no way to treat a returned war var hero who was wac com corn commissioned commissioned a lieutenant on the field of battle In France for extraordinary ex ex- ex- ex valor but his is no hardship case Instead it is the hitters who swing against the nerveless year old let left hander from Redmond d. d Wash who are about destitute There Is virtual bankruptcy in the hitting department department depart depart- ment whenever Johnson Johnon takes the mound Because a top flight relief relict pitcher is one of the main assets of ot a contending club Johnson is beginning to rank as one of ot the most valuable players in the Red Sox pennant picture Ho He has established himself as the only first class cIaS'S relief pitcher in the American league thus far and the only reason that he hasn't been busier is because the tho Boston starters have gotten by without much help Has lIas Won Von Three He has made three relief appearances ap ap- to date and in each case he has emerged the winning pitcher Moreover during his chores as a fireman he has given up only one run and just four hits in 15 3 1 innings Johnson ran his string of scoreless scoreless score score- less innings to 10 yesterday when he came in and pitched five hitless frames to beat the Tigers at Dc De troit troll 6 to 4 He was behind when ho he entered the game as a successor successor sor or to Jim Bagby but ho he made up for that at the plate with two timely doubles His first in the seventh enabled him to score the th tying rUn run and in the eighth he drove in the tho deciding tallies The Tigers took a 4 to 0 lead in the first two innings when the Red Sox made four tour errors George got one of ot the tallies back with a homer in the third off Virgil Trucks who was driven to cover er when Boston made four tour straight singles in a two-run two fifth Feller FeUer Stops Yanks Yanks' The Red Sox increased their lead to six full games when Bob Feller of Cleveland topped the Yankees 7 to 2 on a hit five-hit job It n was his first appearance against New York since he lie pitched a no no- hit run no-run game at Yankee stadium stadium sta eta April 30 He pitched a hitless hitless hitless hit- hit less game for four and two-thirds two innings until Bill Dickey tagged him for tor a clean single in the fifth That ran his string against the Yankees to 13 3 2 innings After Arter Dickeys Dickey's hit ho he cased up slightly and Tom Torn Henrich hit a homer inthe inthe in inthe the sixth A walk to Charley Chancy Keller followed by singles by Joe Gordon and Joe DIMaggio gave New York its other run The In Indians Indians In- In diane made four runs in the first inning off Floyd Bevens three 01 ot of them on Frankie Hayes' Hayes grand granc slam slain double Pulls Phils Beat Bea t Cards The Phils Phil handed the Cardinals their first run one-run defeat of ot the season at Philadelphia 4 to 3 with a three-run three rally in the sixth that overcame an early St St. Louis lead George Kurowski hit a two- two run St. St Louis homer and Ron Northey started the Phils' Phils rally with a homer Al Jurisich Cardinal Cardinal Cardinal Cardi Cardi- nal castoff beat his mates ex-mates for tor forMs his Ms third win The defeat dropped St. St Louis into a first place tie with Brooklyn The Cards previously previously pre pro had won five games by a run one-run margin Jack Kramer won his third straight game for the Browns topping topping topping top top- ping Philadelphia 4 to 3 in a a. night game jame at St. St Louis A three-run three rally raIly in which Walt Judnich's single single sin- sin gle jle with the bases full was the key ey blow gave the Browns the margin they needed in the sixth Pittsburgh at New York and Cincinnati at Brooklyn were postponed postponed postponed post post- because of rain in the National National Na- Na and there were no other American league games scheduled |