YANKEE LEAD BACK TO 'NORMAL# gfaf Averages and Kaline • \ Pierce• and Friend to Start• Catch Up With Sox PORTS By till Associated Press , Giants.had belted seven home SI** The law of averages, the Tigers i runs—one shy of the major A-14 THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. league record—to MONDAY. JULY 9. 1950 and A1 Kaline have caught up win the All-Star Game Tomorrow with the White Sox, and the opener', 11-1. American League pennant racei | Kaline,» the young All-Star Mantle Expects ij Is back to “normal " today—the j joutfielder who' was hitting .371 Yankees lead it by 6'i games. at this stage a year ago, moved To Play; AL May Chicago had closed to within I up to a .282 mark with his - I'a games of New York just a !surge1 against the White Sox. Use 3 Southpaws WIN, LOSE OR week-and-a-half ago, winning 12 His 12th homer came in a i |jj|f of 14 on a home stand. But two-run second inning as the By BURTON HAWKINS since then the White Sox have Tigers scored 14 runs off Wilson Casey Stengel. American By (11-5 > DRAW FRANCIS STANN | lost eight of 14. in three innings of the League manager, may employ After only five victories in 22 opener. Paul Foytack won it. three lefthanded pitchers against !' games and with an 0-6 record In the nightcap, Pierce (13-3) the National League in the All- * I against Chicago, the Tigers stayed around until a two-run Star game at Griffith Stadium : banged 17 hits to beat the White sixth inning when singles by tomorrow, starting at 1 o’clock. The Magic Touch Sox. 12-8. Saturday and then Harvey Kuenn and Kaline Stengel announced today that IF LEFTY GOMEZ was not the greatest of all pitchers. ipeppered All-Star Pitchers Jim knocked him out. Frank Lary he will start Billy Pierce, White 1 Wilson Billy his with relief help. he had to be one of the winningest chips and Pierce in a won sixth Sox lefthander, and may follow when the blue j 36-hit doubleheader sweep yes- Bill Skowron, Gil McDougald with Whitey Ford of New York were on the table. Tomorrow’s All-Star Game | inspires this terday, 17-5 and 8-6. and Hank Bauer, who hit two. and Herb Score of Cleveland. bright observation. Has it occurred to you recently that Kaline. the league's batting had homers for the Yankees, Bob Friend, Pittsburgh right- Lefty is the only pitcher to win more than one of these star- ¦champion of 1955 who has been who have won 12 of their last hander who was treated for a spangled picnics? around tthe .250 mark, was 9 for 14. Johnny Kucks won it in sore throat over the week end Gomez is credited with having won three, against one 13 in the three games, getting relief for an 11-4 record. but who declared himself physi- a home triple and four Busby walloped a three- loss. Os course they only three-inning stints, per run. Jim cally fit today, will start for the were as singles yesterday to drive sixth for the League. the rules, in i run homer in the National and he was looked upon favorably by Marse Joe seven runs. Indians and then they packed Mickey Mantle, the Yankees' McCarthy, who managed so many American League teams away runs in the popular slugger injured Tribe Nears Second it with 11 who his and liked the idea of starting his own boy. Lefty was lucky, seventh. Pitcher Bob Lemon The Yankees padded their lead too, because in the early All-Star years he had Ruth. Sim- hit a two-run pinch homer in with an 8-2 job on Washington eighth, 500 SRO TICKETS mons, Gehrig, Cronin, Foxx and other sluggers to get him the then finished up that swept the three-game sot. Early Wynn’s 10th victory. off to a lead. Mickey Mantle returned to the ON SALE TOMORROW He won the first All-Star Game in 1933. He also won in lineup and singled once in three Ted Drives In Five Five hundred standing- '35 and ’37, finally lost in '3B. He had a magic touch, appar- trips. Williams, who drove in five room tickets for the All-Star ently, especially when it came to the spectaculars. He has a Cleveland edged within two 1 runs for the day. became the Game will go on sale at percentage points of Chicago, 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, offi- 6-0 record in World Series competition, which nobody else 12th player ever to bat home thumping Kansas City, 17-3. 1,500 pop fly cials announced today. has matched. Red Ruffing, a contemporary, and Allie Reyn- runs when he hit a And Boston, with Ted Williams single that started Boston The tickets will be priced Hoyt on olds won seven but were twice beaten. Waite and socking his 399th home run and the job of overhauling a 4-0 ht $2.50 and there will be a Chief Bender won six, but each lost four times. gaining his 1,500th run batted Baltimore lead in the second limit of two to a customer. ** * * in. took two from Baltimore, 9-0 game. George Kell hit two Buyers will be required to IT IS POSSIBLE for Warren Spahn of the Braves to and 8-4. homers for the Oriole runs. use the ramp to the upper In the National League the stands along the rightfleld become the only other winner of two All-Star affairs to- Williams—batting .368—got his Redlegs were outhit, 12-4, but homer, double, single line. morrow. stylish southpaw won in ’53. Here and a a and a since the beat the Cards, 3-2. That boosted bases-loaded walk in the open- pitchers victory— right Wednesday there are scattered a few active with one the Redlegs lead to lVi games er as Frank Sullivan won his knee last was Feller, Dean Stone, Trucks, Maglie and Rush—but none was as Monte Irvin’s ninth-inning eighth and his first shutout of named tentatively by Stengel to picked for the Griffith Stadium classic. A peculiar require- grand-slam homer gave the Cubs the season. start, but Casey reiterated that a second-place he would make up his mind ment is that one must be an All-Star to pitch, bat or ride 10-6 decision over through Milwaukee. The Reds came when definitely only after watching the bench in an All-Star Game. three walks loaded the bases in Mantle pre-game prac- Brooklyn split two with Phila- Wally run in Could be that Gomez will be among the spectators ( the seventh. Post’s two- MICKEY S KNEE tice. If Mantle is unable to play, delphia, winning 9-2 as Don single tied it and Gus Bell LOOKS OKAY—Mickey Mantle, the Yankees’ slugging cen- tomorrow. If McCarthy still were managing the Yankees gained run terfielder, he will be replaced in center- Newcombe his 10th vic- drove in the clincher with an got back into action against the Senators here yesterday and looked (and the All-Stars, naturally* he start El for tory, losing, 3-2. field by Jim Piersall of the Red might Goof then Pitts- infield Nuxhall pretty good after missing four games because of strained ligaments in his right burgh out. Joe won Sox. old time’s sake and off his reputation. Imagine a 9-1 record i moved to within one help. knee. Mantle got one hit in three times at leaving Louis) his sixth with relief Herm bat before the game after in combined World Series and All-Star play! But Casey point of fourth-place St. Wehmeier lost relief. the fourth inning. won, 8-2 Mickey Has No Doubts beating New York, 5-2, in the it in The Yankees —AP Photo. Stengel is the present-day McCarthy and there is no record The Cubs scored five in the Mantle himself had no doubts 1 second of two games after the of Casey’s having the same deep attachment to Gomez as , ninth to beat the Braves, with about the matter. old Marse Joe. Irvin’s fourth grand-slammer "I’llplay,” he said following a In fact the story is told—and well, too, because Tom handing Gene Conley the de- Sweep of Griffs Nashua 129, Needles 117 four-inning appearance against feat in relief. Gene Baker and the Senators here yesterday as spins 1943, Sagging White Sox Meany it—that in the spring of when Gomez was Hobie Landrith also homered; the Yankees got four home runs finished as a Yankee, he met up with Stengel. It was during Buy for the Cubs, while Ed Mathews; en route to an 8-2 victory. "I pre-season training in Connecticut and Casey was managing Jim McDonald and Joe Adcock, who hit two, In Saturday's Monmouth left the game because the brace CHICAGO, July 9 i/P).—The Puts was on my homered for Milwaukee. Re- Yankees too tight leg.” the old Boston Braves.. seeking OCEANPORT, N. J.. July 9 • Mrs. John W. Galbreath’s Stengel thought to ask his new pitcher, sore-armed White Sox. to bolster liefer Turk Lown won it. Sum- If Mickey is fit. he'll bat in the their sagging pitcher staff, have Newcombe 20 a iTPi —Nashua was assigned 129 mer Tan all got 116 pounds, cleanup spot. Stengle said that Gomez, for an opinion—National League versus American.