Spahn Chills St. Louis on Sparkling 5-Hitter, 10-0
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ri Bamds Pafly THbune Spahn Chills St. Louis on ONST A y TTT i vir~vap«~£ tv « frJEFTTir^fly Sparkling 5-Hitter, 10-0 Second Section Wednesday, August 31,19el By The Associated Press losses, the Braves erupted for 121 AMERICAN LEAGUE Second Half Braves Regain W. t_ Pet. C-B. •• Sox Outduel Nats, 11-10, in hits off three St. Louis pitchers. New York 74 <» .432 — ' Baltimore IS SJ -S** Ui : The biggest blow was a three-run 1 2nd Place by homer by Hank Aaron, his 34th. C!uea$o - 71 54 .571 3 J s Conso Title Aging Spahn Nets which capped the scoring in the Cleveland ~~ 49 44 -48« 1«>J ' Wacky AL Tilt; BoSox Cop 2 Detroit SS 47 .444 17 One Lone Point eighth inning Boston S5 78 .440 20 . Aaron, Adcock Star Kansas City 44 SI -J52 31 ; To Engineers MILWAUKEE (AP) — Tuesday Results ] Runnels Nets ! due! between the White Sox'i the sere in the lOfcb with his 2Jtfc 17th Feels Good' Aaron and Joe Adcock each < Consolidated Softtuti \ Frank Baumacn asd" the Senators'"- home run for Detroit Runoefc (1st same. IS innings; 2nd same, 10 ', The Milwaukee B r a v drove in four runs. Aaron drove tamngs) jj L«*9ue Standings Pedro Ramos. Washington led 1-0"' added three hits in ihe nightcap tie* York 3. Kansas City 2 j 2nd Half 9 Hits; Bucs al ihe end of seven. i to tie Chicago's Al Smith at 3M MILWAUKEE (AP) — Warren —throwing hard and getting my took off on a "make-or- in his first run with a harsh in-J Baltimore 4, Cleveland 1 !! • W. L. Pet. ! Engineers 40 l.OOO Chicago took a 2-1 lead in the'for the batting lead. Spaha, the Milwaukee Braves* old breaking sttiff over." Spaha said break" road trip today. By field single in a four-run seventh. \ Chicago 11, Washington 10, UO in- nings> ' Biron _ _- 4 I .4*7 Shade Dodgers ; eighth m two walks and singles j Charges Beam** warhorse, apparently has found after another "stopper" perform- the time they return to Adcock. who hadn't drhen in a Wednesday Games j Ccnuw«ld 4 1 .447 run since Aug. 17, collected two Kansas City at New York I i by ™ KluszewSki.j tofcese^fcniagrf the Fountain of Youdi. At the age ance which ended a three-game friendly County- Stadium Detroit at Boston {Offices ZHH 2 4 .JM By Tin? Associated Press RBl's with a two-out bases-load-, Cnicaso at Washington N Maintenance ,. ,.. 1 S .167 Machines . * 5 .900 of 39, he's just about the honest t Milwaukee iosaig streak. their fate in the National ed single in the first inning off' Cleveland at Baltimore N American League fans forget S four runs m ite half, three com-' pitcher ia basebalL S "It feels good, ba: I can't help League pennant race prob- starter Ernie Broglio. He walked" NATIONAL LEAGUE Link Hafennann hurled the out in a similar bases-jammed sitaa- = W. L. Pet. Tuesday nigh^ • ing on Jim Lemon's home Spaha registered his sixth ' wondering," he added. "l'\e al- ably will be decided. Pittsburgh 77 4» .611 ! Engineers to the second-half InWaslu^on.the.ewasawild/ru, ***** straight viciorv* and ninth in 10 ways worked hard 21 games, bu! tion to force in another run in Milwaukee •» S4 .561 The Braves headed for the third. St. Louis 70 SS .5*8 • championship in the Consolidated whacky lO-inning spectacular mj MmoM><k 3-Kuo HR ° Los Angeles 44 57 .537 which 'the White Sox and Senators} The White Sox ix>ared back with \ Three ex-Kansas City players decisions since the All-Star game these wins the past few weeks a doubleheader with the Broglio settled down after Uiat. San Francisco 4? 41 .so-i j SofibaH league Tuesday evening have come »oo easy—right in suc- Cincinnati 5* 7: .«l scored 0:10 run beJwven them in'five runs in She ninth. Muioso's. starred in Lie Yankee victory. break by blanking the S. Louis but the Bra\es went to work after .407 * on a 3-hit, 4-3 triumph over Con- wilil score 2 z m cessioa. 1 don": know. I've had pesky Cubs in Chicago after Chicago SO 73 the first seven innings and 20 i three-run homer juvng them a 7-3 ~ • Cardinals 10-0 Tuesday nighi for he left for a pinchhitter in the Philadelphia « 7S .381 mnth Joe one helluva August." regaining their batting eyes Tuesday Results runs us t5se nexi three. Chicago \ lead. Washington ta-d it on Billy - traded by the JXh shutout of his greai ca- sevedi. Chicago S, Cincinnati 4 Tiie Engineers picked up their the A's to the Yankees last win- Ssil! thinking, about his las: re- and belting the St. Louis San Francisco I. Philadelphia 1 won 11-10. ! Gardner's two-run blow. In the reer. Rapped Kline sixth straight decision and quali- ter, singled and was sacrificed to mark. Spahn turned 10 a buddy, Cardinals 104) Tuesday nigh; be- Milwaukee 10. St. Louis 0 In Boston, the Red Sox took \ lOsh. Nellie Fox doubled home two Billy Breton's second of three! Pittsburgh S, Los Angeles i fied as the team to play the first- both ends of a ewi-night double-;runs and Gardner's wild tlirowisecond- Hector Lopez, another ex- The stylish southpaw's five-hit- catcher Del Crandall, and asked: hind the five-hit pitching of War- Wednesday Games nalf champion Electricians ior the ter, coupled with the Braves "Man. you know tha: I haien't singles touched off the attack on, Milwaukee a: Chicago header frm Ctetroil after 7^ • gave Clucugo two more for an 11-7 j Athletic, singled DeMaestn home ren Spahn. Piltsourgh at San Francisco *%() league crown. That game with xtaa C!efa emergence from a prolonged bat- lost a game in August?" Ronnie KJiie. He was sacrificed: Philadelphia at Los Angeles N Hours and 25 innings. Boston won,lead. The Senators bounced backj ^ ' ^S ^ f,_™y* 17ih Victory to second and Eddie Mathews! ! has not \eu been scheduled. tlie opener 5-4 in 15 innings and; with three runs on a double by j er« st"* another o.d KG ling slump, enabled Milwaukee to ''You mean all your life?" re- i The Engineers grabbed a 2-0 regain second place by a fraction plied Crandall ia mock serious- The victory before a crowd of ! walked. the second game 3-2 in 10 innings.'. Bob Allison, a triple by pinch- drove in die fh^t two Yankee ! lead in the first two innings, then of a percentage point. The Braves ness. 24.808 at die -Stadium enabled the! Aaron then singled off the pitch- Pittsburgh for tliree vital meet- Batting Rampage j hitter Julio Becquer and a home runs with a home run, his 12th. i Braves to break even ia the two- er and when the ball eluded tiie fell behind when Consowek! Boston's Pete Rmmek went on j run by Lennie Green, Chuck Estrada, 22, Baltimore's and Cards each trail first place Since the All-Star game break. staged a two-run rally in the Pittsburgh by 6*~ games. Spahn has allowed only 28 earned game set and regain second place : shortstop Bruton came ali thej a batting rampage with nine hits.; Runnels" sixth hit, a double in rookie right-hander, handcuffed ST. LOUIS AB H Rbi ;>i\th. after scoring once in Use While posting his • I7th viciorv runs in 91 2-3 innings. His only by a fraction of a percentage < way around. Wes Covington sin- Grammas ss .- * 1 0 Boston Manager Alike Higgins • the 15th, scored Frank Malzone the Indians with four hits for his 0 fourth. A two-run sixth inning against seven setbacks. Spahn loss was a 3-2 decision to San point over the Cards. However, •gled for another tally^and Ad-j Cunningham rf _, 4 also went wild, charging out to \ with tlie winning run for Boston i 15th victory, White Ib 4 provide*! the winning margin" for closed in on his llth 20-game win- Francisco in !aie July. Pittsburgh defeated Los Angeles . cock then laid down a squeeze 3b 4 the mound to square off with Jim • in its first game. A throwing error Home runs by Roberto Clemente : the Engineer*. and leads Milwaukee and St. Louis t bunt scoring Mathews. Johnny ] Bunning after the Tiger pitcher] by Tiger shortstop Chico.Fernan-jand Dick Groat helped Pitts- ning season. Only Cy Young, During the six-game winning c numnnz! 4 Mvulenbelt and Streb each hon- Christy Maihewson and Walter streak, in which he weni she dis- by 6'.i games. I Logan's hit to right accounted for' Javier 2b 3 had beaaed Don Buddin with a;dez permitted pinch-hitter Tom i burgh's Bob Friend register his I the fourth tally of the inning. 4 ored for the winners, while Kroen- Johnson have won 20 in more sea- tance five times, he has surrend- | While Spahn dazzled the Cards 2 pitch. 1 Brett er to score the winning run [first victory over the Dodgers > A single by Bruton and a semi-. ..sieman ins; hit one for the losers. Perzy since July 23. 1958. A turnout o£ sons. ered just nine earned runs in j for his sixth straight triumph and a was the losing pitcher. In Xew York, a torrential rain in tins 10th inning of the second "I guess I'm pitching real good 52 2-3 innings.