Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 21 | Joe Dimaggio Hits Circuit in Yankee Win

; ( TZtlv ,v s',au Joe DiMaggio Hits for Circuit in Yankee Win The New York Yankee increased their American league lead to 11 H game Wednesday by nosing out Washington -5. Joe DiMaggio'a thirty-fifth homer won the game in the ninth after Mel Almada's homer with two on in the eighth had tied the score. Bill Dickey also bit a homer No. 24. Paul Andrews, recently claimed by the Yanks on waivers from Cleveland, rescued Pat Malone and received credit for the victory. Vernon Kennedy allowed only four hits as the Chicago Whits Sox woo from Detroit, 8-0. The White Sox bunched five of their seven hits off Auker to score four runs in the third. The Athletics turned on th Red Sox after losing 12 straight to them and scored a 4-2 victory. George Caster held the Bosox to seven hits. Cleveland won th first game of - a double header ram St, I puis Browns, 5-2. Lemon Solters rapped out four hits to lead th Indians' It-hit assault on Hoggsett. Mel Harder gav up nine hits. The Browns won th nightcap, ll- Solters got a homer and a single, driving in three runs in the second. Joe DMaggio...Hls SSth homer wins ball game for Yankee In - srintlt 4BStln .