European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The Sims and Al mrs. Berning Lead to 4 in not since the Bard of Avon carved his Niche in the literary Dnn in Aeo and devoted an entire play to i annals nearly 400 years ago lots Sisr rss is x Houston s Astrodome while their cohorts wills Mestar game wthrlnp1 aaren1tenmawa?s the defending world Champion St i of s Cardinal and the Detroit tigers bidding for their firs title in m Vea rare making in the National and american league Pennant races respectively have been big news. However the biggest thing in the first half of the season has been the number of Goose eggs popping up on All the scoreboard s throughout the realm of major league games of june 30 no less than 159 shutouts have been registered in the big leagues. In Inanc in the National league with the los Angeles Tiou Gers now York acts full and St. Louis cardinals 11 setting the Pate with a total of 35 whitewashing leads with 81 the american league paced by Cleveland s major league total of 1bahck in01904 Guy Doc White hurled five consecutive shut outs for he Chicago White sox. This remarkable feat stood for64years and was threatened in 1913 by Walter Johnson who ran straight whitewashing and a series of reef suite into 56 consecutive scoreless innings and Carl Hubbell who compiled a both of these achievements appeared untouchable. After ail Many outstanding pitchers had toed the rubber in the intervene Reading a. A tiny mrs. Susie Maxwell Bering in creased her Lead to four strokes after 38 holes of the 16th annual . Women s open Golf championship Friday despite a falter ing finish in which she bodied the final three holes. Mrs. Berning a 113-Pound package of concentration shot Atwo Over Par 36-3773 for a two round total of 142, four strokes better than mrs. Murle Lindstrom a 29-year-old Mother of two who won the 1962 open. The 5-foot-3-Inch mrs. Bern ing appeared ready to pull away from the Field of 57 profession als and 41 amateurs when she obviously tired under a warm Sun and slow 4-hour round she three putted the 16th, dubbed a Sand shot at the 17thand blew a four foot putt on the final . Berning however could t even give away her Lead Ashe Long playing Tricky 6 232-Yard Moselem Spring Golf club course took its foil on the nation s Best women golfers and defending Champion Cathy Piarre Torfs or lifts botox Over twin sin to fourth Boston a the Boston red sox powered by Ken har Relson s three run Homer in the first inning streaked to their fifth straight Victory and move ahead of Minnesota into fourth place in the american league Friday night with a 4-2 Victory Over the twins Harrelson the american Drysdale Gibson Cronin Giles ing time and the one Man who might have been accorded a Hance in recent years the dodgers Sandy Koufax had re tire but it was t too Long before Doc White s name began to appear in sports stories. First Luis Tiant of the Cleveland indians made a run at the record. He notched four straight shut outs but was foiled in his attempt to tie White s Don Drysdale of the dodgers achieved the impossible " he ran up six straight shutouts and erased Johnson consecutive inning scoreless Standard from the logs by going 58 2-3 frames before finally yielding a run to the Philadelphia Phillies on june 8.,. Naturally this spectacular feat was duly recorded m base. Ball s myriad of records and sports writers covering the major leagues speculated that the new Mark certainly would stand for a Long Long time. Tit is still standing but the St. Louis cardinals great Bob Gibson made a determined run at Drysdale s Zero hard throwing right hander hardly gave the Ink on Drys Dale s entry time to dry before he began stringing a Bunch of zeroes at the opposition. He went through five games before his skein was snapped. Ironically Gibson s bid for supremacy was brought to a skid Din halt by the los Angeles dodgers on his own wild pitch Las monday and making the termination doubly ironic was the fact that Drysdale was the opposing Mounds Man. Gibson lost the s that the if esd ales Gibsons giants Juan Marichal Etc. Have been throwing shutouts and Low hit games in t too disturbing because they have been doing that for years. Drysdale m fact leads All Active major league pitchers in career shutouts with 47.what does have the major league moguls concerned is that practically everyone is getting int9 the act. Pitchers who have had trouble going three or five innings in the past All of league batting Leader unloaded his 17th Homer giving him 60 runs batted in. Up a notch Minnesota Bost Nab r h by a r h by Tovar 3b 4121 Andrews 2b 1100uhlaendr of 3000 Jones in 4110 Killebrew in 401 0 Scott in 00004010 str ski if 3111 4110 Harrelson it 4 1 1 34010 a Saith of 2000 4020 petrol it a 30104021 Foy 3b 3000 1000 Gibson e 40000000 Ellsworth n 3000 1000 stance p 0000 Oliva Rallison if Qulici a Carew 2b Roseboro Perry p Miller p Rollins Shworth gun p 0000 Kostro pm 1000 Pernoski p 0000 the blow off Minnesota starter Jim Perry was All the red sox needed As Dick Ellsworth and reliever Lee Stange protected the Lead. Mike Andrews led off the bos ton first with the first of his three walks. Dalton Jones forced Andrews but Carl Yastrzemski followed with a ground Rule double before Harrelson s twins picked up a run on singles by Bob Allison fran Quilici and John Roseboro in the second and Cesar. Tovar sixth inning Homer. The red sox scored once in the third Ona walk a single by Jones and an error. Lacoste from Lacoste skied to a seven Over Par 38-4078 Over the Par 36-3571 course for a Hole total of 152, 10 strokes of the Pace. Also a casualty of the Hil layout in the Pennsylvania dutch country was Long nitty Mickey Wright who after Trail ing by one in the first of the
