European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              1968 the stars and stripes Page 19 cards9 Carlt ii halts phils in 7-Iiiiiiiig till Philadelphia a left hander Steve Carlton gave up Only two fourth inning hits As he pitched the St. Louis cardinals past the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 thursday night in a game halted by rain with one out in the eighth inning. Carlton 11-5, gave up his first hit when Johnny Callison hit his Lith Homer of the season to tie the score. Two outs later Don lock singled but Carlton then streaking cubs chop Houston near 2nd place blanked the Phillies the rest of the  was the cardinals fourth straight Victory and the fifth loss in a Row for the . Louis broke the tie against Larry Jackson 10-13, in the sixth when Curt flood singled and moved to third on Roger Maris single. Flood then scored when Orlando Cepeda Bouncel into a double  had doubled in the first card run in the third after Lou Brock walked and stole second. Brock tripled with one out inthe eighth before the Rains came and the game was called after a wait of 1 hour 11 minutes. St. Louit 001 001 02 5 0 Philadelphia 00010001 2 0 Carlton and Mccarr l. La a on Ryan. A Carlton 11-5. . A 10-13. Or a . In i or. N real cards with a lengthy Lead and a shortening season the National league leading St. Louis cardinals have time for extracurricular activities. Catcher Tim Mccarver above right applies the hot foot to a unsuspecting photographer talk ing to Bobby Tolan. Dapper Bob Gibson right who has won 12 straight games and has u 15-5 record this season signs autographs for kids outside a new York hotel. Apt i bucs pin reds 6-1, on Homer Cincinnati up Willie Stargell blasted a three run Homer and ageless Elroy face choked off a ninth inning rally thursday night to Pace the Pitts Burgh pirates to a 6-1 Victory Over the Cincinnati reds. Stargell s Homer his 19th of the season came in the fourth inning off Jim Maloney after a single by Matty Alou and an error by Tommy Helm on Roberto Clemente s grounder. I the pirates had scored once. In the first when Maury wills i singled stole second took third on Catcher Johnny Bench s wild throw and came Home when Center Fiedler Vada Pinson Al Lowed the Ball to get past him for another error. Up Lead the pirates made it 6-0 in the fifth by bunching singles by wills and Alou with a pair of walks and a sacrifice Fly by Cione Alley. Tommy Sisk went 8 1-3 innings to notch his fifth Victory in eight decisions but needed help from the 40-year-old face when the hails put runners on first and second with one out in the ninth.  May singled and Bench is hit by i pitch with one out am face was summoned from lie bullpen. He retired Tony Ivre and Helms on infield1 oui ulers to end the game. T Ines Miami s Only run came in lie is in on a Homer by Pinson. Chicago up Ron Santo delivered a pair of clutch singles j and Don Kessinger slammed out three hits and scored twice thursday to Pace the streaking Chicago cubs to a 4-1 Victory Over the Houston astros. The Triumph was the cubs 20th in their last 27 games an moved them to within one game of second place in the National  stroked a two out single in the first inning to score Kes Singer. Who had led off with triple and slapped a one out sin i Gle to score Kessinger again in the seventh after the cub Short Stop had singled and moved to second on a sacrifice. \ Kessinger drove Home the cubs final run in the eighth with a single following a double by Jim Hickman. Randy Hund Ley accounted for the cubs other run with his fourth Homer of the year in the second inning. Joe Niekro worked seven innings for the cubs and w a a credited with his Lith Victory against six losses. He was touched for a run in the sixth inning on a double by Norm Mil Ler and a single by Hector Torres and was replaced in the Emuth by Phil Regan who made his 4sth Yankees Bahnsen tip botox 8- w Nuino Upshaw braves Cheek Meis 4-2100 320 0006 4 0 000 001 0001 6 3 l Ami May Mulbury  Anil it Vicli a i i tit. New York up Cecil Upshaw relieved in the first in Ning after starter Jim Britto failed to retire a Batter and Al Lowed Only four hits the rest of the Way thursday while pitching the Atlanta braves to a 4-2 Vic tory Over the now York , who had not pitched nine innings in a game this  the game after but Toni walked Jerry Buchuck and Larr Stahl and surrendered successive singles to Cleon Jones and kit Kranepool in the first  retired the Side Putli tit allowing any More runs an retired the last 10 men m a Row in the game i gain his seventh Triumph against four losses the braves who tallied twice in the first inning on an Fiield out by Hank Aaron and a run scoring single by Joe Torre scored the decisive runs in the second wild pitch by Don card n Marty Marline led off the in Ning w Ith a single and went to third As Felipe Alou lashed his second straight double. Cardwell then uncorked a wild pitch to score Marline and move Alou to third. Alou scored on a v n e Causey s sacrifice Al the braves two first inning runs came on a double by  wild Pilch by Cardwell Aaron s urdu Dulout. An error by Kevi Collins and Torres single. A1n.ti 2-� 0 4 f � new York \. Zoo .-v6,.,1 Ernie Lopez scores welterweight Victory i a vegas. Nev. Up Ernie Indian red Lopez 151.los Angeles scored a unanimous but hard earned 10-round Victory Over Polo Corona 152. I mex Iliili mex., in the Maini event at the Silver Slipper ballroom wednesday night. All three judges had the fourth ranked contender for the 1 world welterweight Champion 1 ship a big Winner on Points. However. Corona kept pitching to the bitter end and received Al rousing ovation from the capacity crowd at the finish.1 Ope in winning his until pro Start in m fights was  the inner by shutout scores Oiful-40 by judges Hill Kipp and Harold Buck. The third  Mosa. Had the us Lini Iii in front by 40-42. Not l Ai a aide named  York Vul Bob Wil Liams who captained nov w k University s l9 2- i i team has been Nan Distant to Basket .11 Rossini at Nyu. Boston a Stan Bahnsen hurled a three hitter besting Dave Morehead in a Brilliant pitching Duel thursday night anew York edged Boston 1-0.n Bill Robinson s run scoring single in the seventh  set Down the first to red sox batters in order before George Scott broke up his perfect game bid with a single just Pas the outstretched Glove of Short Stop Tom Tresh leading off the  stole second and third while the next two batters were being retired but was stranded when Mike Andrew lined out o end the  then beat out a Drar bunt leading off the Yankee seventh stole second and raced Home with the game s Only run As Robinson drilled an n-2 pitch cleanly into . Who struck out 12. Did t allow a walk and hiked his record to 10-7.morehead, making his urst Start of the year after spending the first half of the season a Toronto was almost As effective. 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