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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1955
Page
8
Rain prevented the NL from setting a new single day home run mark as games across Chicago Philadelphia Cincinnati Brooklyn New York Pittsburgh and St Louis produced multiple homers. The American League saw nine homers with the White Sox Cubs Dodgers and others contributing before rain washed out a Boston Detroit clash.
In the National League Chicago beat Brooklyn 9 2 and New York 8 5 while St Louis fell to 3 6 in a 13 inning second game. Philadelphia topped Cincinnati 12 8 in a game called in the third inning. Pittsburgh was 5 5 with Milwaukee 3 6. In the American League Chicago went 1 8 and Washington 0 4. Cleveland 10 7 beat New York 2 3 and Baltimore shut out Kansas City 7 0. Boston at Detroit was rained out. The only game today was Milwaukee at Cincinnati with no other games scheduled. Tomorrow Brooklyn at Cincinnati Philadelphia at Milwaukee Pittsburgh at St Louis New York at Chicago Cleveland at Washington Chicago at Baltimore Detroit at New York Kansas City at Boston.
In Portland and Portland Ore Johnny Arthur defeated Bob Dunlap in a 10 round bout. Hollywood Rudy Jordan won on points over Art Ramponi in Portland with a 10 round decision.
Bobby Adams homered for the Reds while Del Ennis drove in four Philadelphia runs with a homer and a double. Cleveland broke a scoreless duel with four runs in the sixth and six more in the seventh for Wynn's win. Larry Doby George Strickland Wertz and Wynn had key hits. Irv Noren hit a two run shot in the eighth. Whitey Ford suffered in the nightcap as Wertz homered for Lemon in an eight win.
Umpire Beans Reardon answers questions about a runner scoring on a grounder when not forced, bat weight limits for wooden bats, and scoring a dropped fly ball with a tagged runner. The scorer may rule a sacrifice fly and an error or a time at bat depending on circumstances.
Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella and New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra led early voting as 1950 All Star selections opened. Campanella drew 2406 votes and Berra 1974 with Midwest regions contributing most of the ballots. The NL first base race featured Ted Kluszewski and Stan Musial, with Kluszewski leading 1724 to 1531.
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