Show Another Dodger Gamble Profits By Dy CARL LUND LUNDQUIST QUIST NEW YORK July 3 UP UP Kids Kids become veterans In a hurry in the Brooklyn Dodger youth movement movement move move- ment so it wasn't surprising to today today today to- to day that two rookies placed recklessly recklessly recklessly reck reck- lessly into the lineup at critical times Limes a year ear ago were leading them hem in their current pennant drive in which they have regained first place First there was Bruce Edwards Just of a 0 train from Crom Mobile Ala he cau caught hl the first major league game e he ever saw and stuck around to handle the Dodger backstopping backstopping backstopping back- back stopping reins in 92 games missIng missing miss- miss Ing ng less than a dozen after his arrival arrival arrival ar ar- rival and getting general acclaim as the best catcher in the loop Branca Comes In Then there was Ralph Branca He had been out most of the season season season sea sea- son with a sore arm when hen he got gota a starting assignment against the Cardinals with instructions to pitch to one batter The idea was I to him and insert Lefty Vic VIe LombardI Lambardi as a means of countering countering countering coun coun- the left-handed left power Inthe in inthe inthe the St. St Louis lineup But Leo Durocher then the boss saw that Branca was In the gro groove groe e so he daringly let him stay and the young right-hander right came through with a three-hit three shutout Now they are established veterans veterans vet vet- erans crans and it is no gamble with them any more as they perform in the role of at one of the best batteries batteries batteries bat bat- teries In the majors Last night it was the Branca and nd Edwards combination which gave the Dodgers an 11 to 3 victory vIctory victory vic vIc- tory over the Giants at Brooklyn The Giants who usually capitalize on home runs and big innings were beaten at their own game when Edwards hit a n three-run three homer to sp spark rk a run nine-run fourth inning bIg biggest est of ot the season in the National league Branca who would have had a shutout except for homers by Willard Marshall and Lloyd Gearhart struck out 10 batters in scoring his victory The Phils knocked the Braves out of or the lead at Philadelphia winning 6 to 5 in the ninth inning when Skeeter Newsome scored I from third on Phil M Masts Masi's SIs SI's passed ball Boston had a 4 to 1 lead lea until the Phils cut loose with witha a four- four run rally In the eighth in which a triple by Del Ennis W was 5 the big blow Earl Tor eson hit a two-run two homer for the Braves The Reds scored eight runs runs' In Inthe Inthe inthe the fifth firth In which 13 men batted and Babe Young got two hits to defeat the Pirates at Pittsburgh 8 to 6 Eddie Millers Miller's clear base ling king ing double was the big blow off oft oldster Fritz who had pitched one-hit one ball ban until that fr frame rame me but who became nettled when an error started the Red I rally Yanks Hike Lead Lend The Yankees f fat fattened at t ten e ned ed their American f mer c l league ague le lead d to 6 6 gams gam's games s wIth an easy 8 to 1 victory over the he Senators at New York Joe DIMaggio hit his homer and nd a single to pace the hit ll Yankee attack for Allie Reynolds who vho won his seventh game and his sixth at home Stan Spence hit hita a Washington homer The Athletics put on an uphill fight ight to top the Red Sox 7 to 6 at Philadelphia winning when Sam Chapman singled home Barney McCosky in the ninth Ted Wll- Wll lams iams and Bobby Doerr hit Red Sox homers and Pete Suder got one for Philadelphia Hal won his ninth game ame but found little distinction in n it barely outlasting the Indians In n a 6 to 5 Detroit victory at Cleveand Cleveland Cleve- Cleve land and in which he was generally In trouble rouble A run four-run rally in which Eddie Lake hit a homer clinched the victory for Detroit in the first although Cleveland kept hammering hammering hammering ham ham- mering away and nearly tied it up with two runs in the eighth The Browns ended a six-game six losing osing streak at St. St Louis topping the he White Sox 7 to 1 1 as Jack Kramer scored his sixth victory He was supported mainly by Jeff Jef Heath and Walt Judnich who hit homers Heaths Heath's coming with two on base St SL Louis and Chicago had an open date in the National |