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Sox Win Seventh Straight On Road; Defeat As 5-2 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 24 UP.— The Chicago White Sox scored their first clean sweep in history along the Atlantic seaboard today by defeating the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-2, for their seventh straight victory. I A childrens day crowd of 15,564, only 1,064 of whom paid, saw Randy Gumpert pitch the White Sox to their precedent-setting triumph. Joe Coleman, charged with his third straight defeat, was the chief victim of the Chicagoans 11-hit attack, which included Eddie Robinsons seventh home run with none aboard in the seventh. The* left-swinging first baseman also doubled off the scoreboard in the ninth. The two-bagger, third of the afternoon for the White Sox, was wasted, but the Windy City crew had clinched the decision long before that. A walk, sandwiched between singles by Al Zarilla and Gus Niarhos, produced- a run in the second, with another pass, a safe bunt by Orestes Minoso, a force-out, and a fly by Zarilla resulting in a run in the third. Two more runs crossed in the fourth when Niarhos walked, Coleman threw wildly oh Gumperts sacrifice and Minoso doubled to center. The score by innings: R. H. E. White Sox Oil 200 100 — 5 11 0 Athletics 000 000 200 — 2 11 1 Gumpert 2-0 and Niarhos; Coleman, Schieb 8 and Murray. Losing pitcher, Coleman 0-3. Home run — Robinson 7th.
