Show I I Yankees Are Ae In hi Phi 1st Bums Tangle Today 1 41 Detroit loses oes Allows N. N Y Y f I J. J To Take F Fg ag NEW V YORK Sept 30 INS INS INS- while the National league penant pen- pen t ant race lace flared into a suddenly ense and desperate thing the Tew ew York Yankees began Satur- Satur ay to count their world orld series one lone f J The National league Ue was thrown Into to ito an uproar when Brooklyn eat t the Boston Braves twice l. l 1 to 5 and 7 to 6 to put the sue ue squarely on two showdown i tames fames ames Saturday and Sunday with Philadelphia The Phils idle Friday still lead ty w two games with two to play Should Brooklyn win both It L force the pennant fight into 1 J three of playoff Meanwhile the Yankees Yankees with with without i out setting foot on the field field field- li clinched the American league I championship as the Detroit Tiers Tigers Til Ti Ti- gers l gers ers bowed before Cleveland 1 12 to 2 Latching onto the flag with I two days to go the go-the the Yanks play playa I i a now inconsequential series in I Boston Saturday and Sunday Sunday- constituted a virtual runaway inthe inthe in m the American league Last year I the Yanks Yank won on the last day dayI I of the season and in m 1948 1918 Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- I land won in a playoff Split the Swag Snap I The Yanks 5 in addition to holdIng holdIng holdIng hold- hold Ing a quiet celebration of their American league pennant 1 and the tenth in the last 15 years i decided how they would split up upI t I their world series swag f I It was a real pity the rules dont don't allow them to give a cut cutto I to Bob Lemon game 23 winning J pitcher of Df the Indians I For it w was as Lemon who throttled the Tigers with six six hits Friday to destroy their last I leal cal tl chance of even tying for the I flag One of the blows was a homer bonier bv by Gerry Priddy A considerably less imposing imposing- effort ellort would have won for Bob for the Tribe belabored Ted Gray Marl Marlin n Stuart Ray Herbert and Paul Calvert Cal of the Tigers for foi 15 5 hits including homers by Jim Began and Dale Mitchell Tremendous Help Looking back it suddenly became became be be- came apparent to the Yanks just how much this fellow Lemon had helped them Bob knocked ed off the Tigers and the Red Sox twice apiece almost single-handedly single eliminating them from the race On the other hand the Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land ace failed five times against the Yanks I By w winning vinning inning their championship championship cham chain the Yankees established a record Previously they had been tied with the Chicago Cubs I although the Cubs won the first of their 16 in m 1876 while the Yancee Yankee Yan- Yan kee cee dynasty didn't begin to roll until 1921 In each game Friday it seemed that hat the Braves would do for the Phill Phillies es what the Indians did for forthe forthe forthe the Yanks Twice Brooklyn was wason wason wason on the ropes but each time the hard die-hard Dodgers rallied They scored five unearned runs after octer two were out in the eighth Inning Inning- of the first game after trailing 5 to 2 2 and in the nightcap night night- cap they overcame a 6 3 deficit In n the sixth then thenon won on on Jackie Robinsons Robinson's lith 1 homer in the seventh e Homo Run RIlls Earlier Roy Campanella belted his tripper round-tripper with on one on Both Preacher Roe of the Doders Doders Dodgers Dod- Dod gers ers and Vern Tern Bickford of the thel l Braves Graves failed in a quest for their f victories Bickford for the sixth time as he was rapped for or all the Dodger runs in the secondI second I game Roe stuck around seven innings in the first game but Dan Bankhead Bankhead Bank Bank- head bead got the decision for one in inning inning in- in ning fling of work after Preacher gave way ay to a pinch hitter In the second contest Mana Manager er i Burt Eurt Shott Shotton on gambled on Rookie Chris Van Cuyk and almost lost Van Cuyk who hadn't started Since July 27 and had pitched only nine innings all together in the interim was belted out in the third Carl Erskine who handcuffed handcuffed handcuffed hand hand- cuffed the Braves in the last three innings was the winner The Braves' Braves double loss dropped them into fourth place behind the New York Giants I Oh yes Vern Vera Stephens' Stephens single and Walt Dropo's triple in the ninth gave the Boston Red Sox a aK 7 K to 6 triumph over Washington And the St St. Louis Cardinals defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de Chicago 5 to 1 |