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Show Stanford Saves Yanks Before Important Date in Boston y Carl Luadqulst NEW YORK. Sspt 14 (UP) It took a flOO.OOO pitching failure to stop tha Yankees' headlong panic and tha Cardinals were wondering won-dering what they could do to atop their own sudden tailspla Saturday Satur-day aa the major league leaders moved hesitantly into the final 10 daya of nervous bedlam. The Yankees bad dropped two straight to second division clubs, and they lost both the worst kind of wsy in last-inning blowups. Aftar their 10-9 defeat at the handa of tha Whit Sox, they tumbled, 9-8, In 10 Inning Friday to the very aad Senators when pitcher Bid Hudson, with two strikes on him. wsftsd a dinky pop fly alngle that George 8tlrn-weiss 8tlrn-weiss couldn't rescb behind second. sec-ond. The bases were loaded and Eddie Rob In so a could have com horn from third oa turtle-back. Hurls 4-Hlttr That waa where Fred (Porky) Sanford, tha guy whose six previous pre-vious wins had oast tha Yankee management better than 116,000 apiece thia season, came ta the rescue, pitching a four-hit, 7-1 victory la tha seven-Inning second sec-ond game againat Washington. Offhand. Sanford didn't look like a maa to grab a panic by the coatlail, particularly when such more illustrious hurlsrs aa Tommy Byrne, Vio Raschl, Hugh Caaey, and even the mighty Joe Page had failed la the paat two outings. But the guy who was purchased for 100 grand from the Browne last winter became not only a "atopper" but a guy who is te be reckoned with aa th Yankees battle the Red Sox la flv climactl game that will teU th tale. First One Today The tea ma tea off Saturday In the first one at Fenway park with th Yankees still two gamea to th good. But they'll have ta face Boston' beat la th two gam t Boston Ellis Kinder with 23 wins and five defeata Saturday, and Pall Mel Parnell with 24 and seven on Sunday. To counter that, tha Yankees will have to go with leftiea Ed Lopat (15-8) and Byrne (13-7) Sunday If his shoulder shoul-der gets unkinked. What hurta tha Yankees the most, even though old rellsble Tommy Henrich and -young reliable re-liable Yogt Berra are back ia there swinging for the fences, is that Joltin' Joe DiMaggto, tha Incomparable In-comparable Yankee clipper, will be out of the two gamea In Boston Bos-ton maybe all of the rest of th club will have te play. Henrich and Berra bopped homers Friday In the lost cause opener, but Di-Maggio Di-Maggio I the club e Mr. Big particularly la Boston. Phil Are Tough The Cardinal who blew 6-0 and 19-4 decisions to th Dodgers snd saw their National league lead shaved to half a game after winning the opener of the "little world series," still have to stop their descent They had at least the consolation of losing to a respectable re-spectable opponent and may be able to do a little better Saturday Satur-day sight when they take oa th last-place Chicago Cub while the Dodgers must play th first of four gamea with th Philadelphia Phils. What hurt th Dodgers surprisingly is thst 010 playing play-ing at Ebbeta field. Ordinarily that would be fin except that th Phil have taken over that gandVA little Dodger acreage aa if they owned it, with seven victories out of nine there thl season. Brooklyn must face Philiys best. Ken Heintxelman, the srlsaled old lefty who haa won IT and lost eight The Phlla will be facing Brooklyn's best, rookie Don Neweombe. |