| Show Tigers Find Soft Touch Briggs By 83 Too Toe A Associated s Sports rit Writer riter r Detroit owns one of the mo most t tI I beautiful baseball parks in the i country but the Tigers Tig would just justas as 35 soon play elsewhere I The reason The Tigers have been almost unbeatable on foreign fields In n contrast they've they played I under ball in Brings Briggs stadium Manager Red Rolfe is at a loss losso to o explain the surprising turn of events e but as ns long as the keep winning away from home he doesn't care The Thc thatched red d pilot ilot is confident his charges will willind find ind the winning combination on home soil before belore long Drop Senators Senator The Tigers whipped the Senators Senators Senators Sena Sena- tors in Washington ashington 7 1 Monday night for their l th triumph in 22 games away from home That's an amazing percentage and andar far ar better than the running front-running New York Yankees' Yankees fine Cine record of 14 14 1 on the road A At t home Detroit has won only eight while losing osing nine Mondays Monday's triumph coupled with New Mew Yorks York's 3 2 defeat by Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land pushed the up runner-up Tigers up within a game and a half of the Yankees Boston's third-place third I IRed IRed Red Sox buried the Chicago White I Sox under a n 12 0 shellacking to I climb within thin four games of the top Brooklyn's Dodgers gained Undisputed undisputed undisputed un un- disputed possession of oC first place in the thc National league vanquishing the Chicago Cubs 13 1 in the only afternoon game while the Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Phils shaded the St. St Louis Cardinals 6 65 In the only other league game the New York Giants edged out the Pittsburgh Pira Pirates es 5 1 in 10 innings Half Game The Dodgers now enjoy a half half- game ed ede e on the Phils who swept past the Cards by a half length on the strength of their victory Outstanding in Mondays doings was the of George Ke Kell Kelland Kelland and Hoot Evers of the Tigers Vern Vem Stephens and Ted Williams Red Sox Bob Kennedy Indians Del Ennis Phillies Bob Morgan Dodgers and Cam Calderone Giants Other noteworthy achievements I were the pitching of Cle Cleeland's elands eland's Bobby Feller Boston's MaUry Mallry McDermott McDermott Mc- Mc Dermott Brooklyn's Preacher Roe Philadelphia's Robin Roberts and the New York Giants' Giants And Andy Han- Han sen Kell Ecu American leagues league's champion champion champion cham cham- pion batter last season moved mo into a tie with Cleveland's Larry Doby for the batting batting- leadership at by rapping four straight singles Evers made only two hits hit but one was a homer and the other a triple to U drive in five runs Trout Wins in Dizzy Trout went the distance for his third triumph without a loss and the Tigers' Tigers sixth in suc sue cession The defeat was Wash ash ington's sixth straight Stephens clouted his homer and a double to drive in four runs as the Red Sox rang up a four-day four total of 51 runs on 57 hits against 18 pitchers They've won all four Williams collected two hits for a game four-game total of nine in 18 IS times at bat since the Red Sox returned home Wins VIns I McDermott who replaced starter start start- er or Ellis Kinder with one out and two on in the first inning when Kinder complained of a kink in his left shoulder yielded only four hits in getting credit for the shutout shut shut- out It was his fourth triumph against one loss Kennedy scored two of Cleeland's Cleveland's Cleve e lands land's three runs against starter Allie Reynolds and Joe Page via a inning first single and anda a sixth-inning sixth home run Feller allowed five hits in registering registering- his fourth triumph The former strikeout king had a three-hit three shutout going into the thc ninth However a walk and a double by Cliff Mapes following Joe Joc Di DiMaggio's rag rag-gio's eighth home run game the Yankees two runs after one out A i |
