A Roundup Of The Week's News - 07.18.55

	July 18, 1955 A Roundup Of The Week's News

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (Week Ending July 10)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
1. N.Y. W-3; L-4 Seas.: 55-29 Pct.: .655	Bost. 2-4, 5-10	Balt. 0-4	Wash. 3-0, 4-0 4-6, 8-3
2. Cleve. W-6; L-3 Seas.: 50-34 Pct.: .595	Detr. 6-5, 8-5	K.C. 3-4, 8-4 9-1	Chi. 1-0, 0-6 5-2, 2-4
3. Chi. W-4; L-4 Seas.: 47-33 pct.: .588	K.C. 8-3, 3-4	Detr. 3-5, 12-1	Cleve. 0-1, 6-0 2-5, 4-2
4. Bost. W-6: L-1 Seas.: 48-36 pct.: .571	N.Y. 4-2, 10-5	Wash. 7-5, 6-5	Balt. 3-9, 5-4 10-7
5. Detr. W-3; L-5 Seas.: 41-40 pct.: .506	Cleve. 5-6, 5-8	Chi. 5-3, 1-12	K.C. 11-8, 1-2 5-9, 10-1
6. K.C. W-4; L-5 Seas.: 36-46 pct.: .439	Chi. 3-8, 4-3	Cleve. 4-3, 4-8 1-9	Detr. 8-11, 2-1 9-5, 1-10
7. Wash. W-1; L-6 Seas.: 27-54 pct.: .333	Balt. 2-6	Bost. 5-7, 5-6	N.Y. 0-3, 0-4 6-4, 3-8
8. Balt. W-3; L-2 Seas.: 23-55 pct.: .295	Wash. 6-2	N.Y. 4-0	Bost. 9-3 , 4-5 7-10
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Batting—Al Kaline, Detroit, .371 Runs batted in—Jackie Jensen, Boston, 71 Home runs—Mickey Mantle, New York, 21 Pitching—Dick Donovan, Chicago, 10-2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
1. Bklyn. W-5; L-4 Seas.: 58-26 pct.: .690	Phila. 11-2, 6-3 4-5	Pitts. 10-5, 1-4 4-3	N.Y. 12-8, 2-10 2-3
2. Milw. W-6; L-3 Seas.: 46-37 pct.: .554	St. L. 2-4, 4-5	Chi. 5-1, 3-2	Cinc. 4-2, 5-3 5-2, 7-4 6-7
3. Chi. W-2; L-5 Seas.: 45-40 pct.: .529	Cinc. 3-6, 4-3	Milw. 1-5, 2-3	St. L. 6-4, 2-4 2-7
4. N.Y. W-6; L-2 Seas.: 42-41 pct.: .506	Pitts. 3-4, 5-3 11-1	Phila. 4-2, 8-5	Bklyn. 8-12, 10-2 3-2
5. St. L. W-6; L-2 Seas.: 38-42 pct.: .475	Milw. 4-2, 5-4	Cinc. 4-5, 6-4 9-8	Chi. 4-6, 4-2 7-2
6. Cinc. W-3; L-7 Seas.: 37-43 pct.: .463	Chi. 6-3, 3-4	St. L. 5-4, 4-6 8-9	Milw. 2-4, 3-5 2-5, 4-7 7-6
7. Phila. W-4; L-6 Seas.: 37-47 pct.: .440	Bklyn. 2-11, 3-6 5-4	N.Y. 2-4, 5-8	Pitts. 5-11, 5-1 7-1, 4-1 1-3
8. Pills. W-4; L-7 Seas.: 30-57 pct.: .345	N.Y. 4-3, 3-5 1-11	Bklyn. 5-10, 4-1 3-4	Phila. 11-5, 1-5 1-7, 1-4 3-1
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Batting—Roy Campanella, Brooklyn, .335 Runs batted in—Duke Snider, Brooklyn, 89 Home runs—Ted Kluszewski, Cincinnati, 29 Pitching—Don Newcombe, Brooklyn, 14-1

RECORD BREAKERS

Gordon Pirie , limber-legged British iron man with insatiable desire to break records, ran 1� miles in rapid 6:26, easily surpassed Sandor Iharos' unofficial world mark for distance at London.

Adios Harry, J. Howard Lyons' bargain basement 4-year-old brown stallion pacer, tore off 1:55 2/5 clocking for mile in first heat of $10,000 Thomas P. Gaines Memorial Pace, then stepped 1:56 1/5 in second race for combined time of 3:51 3/5, broke two world race records at Vernon Downs, N.Y.

Bill Tenney, former lumberjack from Dayton, Ohio, powered his souped-up Class B hydroplane at average speed of 66.796 mph over measured mile course in Buggs Island Lake regatta at Clarksville, Va., lowered own world standard by better than 2 mph.

Dave McIntyre, fast-moving North Carolina State AC swimmer, barreled through 165-yard individual medley in 1:44.4; Buddy Baarcke, of Fort Knox, representing Chapel Hill ( N.C.) Swim Club, swam 100-meter butterfly in 1:05.2, for new American long-course marks in Palmetto open championships at Columbia, S.C.

Galina Ermolenko, Russian student teacher, zipped over 80-meter hurdles in 0:10.8, set new world record for women at Leningrad.

BASEBALL

New York Yankees rebounded from four straight losses, took three out of four from Washington Senators as Tommy Byrne and Bob Turley hurled successive shutouts (3-0, 4-0) and powerful Mickey Mantle blasted three home runs. Yankees led Cleveland by five games, Chicago by six as play halted for All-Star Game recess.

Cleveland and Boston made week's biggest gains. Indians moved into second place with four wins in five games with Detroit and Kansas City while Chicago split four with same teams. Cleveland broke even in four-game series with White Sox , winning 1-0, 5-2, losing 6-0, 4-2, held runner-up spot by single game. Surprising Red Sox continued to get good pitching, solid hitting from Ted Williams, Norm Zauchin and Jackie Jensen before bowing to Baltimore. Boston regained stride to beat last-place Orioles 5-4, 10-7, were in fourth place, seven games behind Yanks at week's end. Milwaukee, New York and St. Louis made news in National League although front-running Brooklyn Dodgers , with big Don Newcombe pitching his 14th win against Philadelphia, still held comfortable 11�-game lead. Braves started badly, lost twice to Cardinals, recovered to beat Chicago Cubs 5-1 behind three-hit pitching of lanky Gene Conley and 3-2 on Bobby Thomson's single, took over second place. Milwaukee stretched string to six straight with four wins over Cincinnati before Redlegs managed 7-6 triumph.

Giants , with Willie Mays hitting home runs and Johnny Antonelli and Jim Hearn (who also clubbed two homers in one game) doing some fine pitching, showed signs of awakening from season-long slump, regained fourth place. Leo Durocher's men mowed down Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with loss of only one game, dropped 12-8 slugfest to Brooklyn , stormed back to beat surprised Dodgers two in row 10-2, 3-2.

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