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White Sox Thump Yankees, 5 to 2 Bombers Get Four T ► Blows Off Rogovin j Mize Slams Two. Home Runs, Robinson Hits One; Retake Three and a Half Game Lead By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, N. Y., June 21.— Solid Saul Rogovin, troubled only by Johnny Mize who biffed him for two homers, pitched the Chicago White Sox to a four-hit, 5 to 2 * a triumph over the New York Yankees, en- j abling them to leave town with the same j 3 Vz -game first-place margin they had ] when they arrived. Rogovin, whose one-time sore arm had J been disturbing him again ever since he j had a brief fistic encounter with Elmer Valo of the Athletics in Philadelphia last I Friday night, showed no evidence of the trouble today in a brilliant bear-down per- ! formance. i In winning his fourth game of the sea- 1 son, Rogovin allowed only three other men : besides Mize to reach base, Mickey Mantle i and Gene Woodling on singles and Yogi i Berra on a walk. He retired the first 12 men who faced him, Mize breaking the : "perfect game" spell with his first homer aso lead-off batter in the fifth. Bang Out 13 Hits • Again in the seventh, the Yankee big boy teed off on Rogovins first pitch for a blast into the right field seats, but when he came up in the ninth with Woodling on base after his single, Rogovin worked the count to 3 and 2, then retired him on a ground ball to first baseman Eddie Robinson. The White Sox, in achieving a split in this most important four-game series of ! the season, showed their usual diversity in unloading 13 hits off three Yankee pitchers. . It developed that the first eight Chicago hits were made by as many men. Phil Masi, , usually the teams most dependable hitter • against the Yankee, was the only starter who failed to get a hit, but he, in turn, , touched off one of their scoring forays by T getting hit by a pitched ball. The White Sox made their runs in five I different innings, lashing out a consistent spray of safeties that found one or more i men getting safe blows in every frame but t the sixth. And then, too, they threatened, , but the Yankees, keeping things from being worse than they were with four double - plays, cut off a rally then with one of I them. Chicago lost no time in getting things 3 started, scoring in the first inning when i leadoff man Nelson Fox tripled past Hank : Bauer in left and came home on Eddie ; Stewarts fly. Reckles running on the ; bases cut them down in the second and i third when they got two men aboard in i each inning, but they came through with l another run to make it 2-0 in the fourth on a pair of singles by Eddie Robinson l and Al Zarilla, Robinson scoring when Jim Busby hit into a double play. Mize cut the margin to 2-1 with his first t homer in the fifth, but Chicago stayed I ahead with a run in the seventh as Chico Carrasquel singled and Masi was plunked j by a pitch. Carrasquel was cut down at t third as Rogovin attempted to sacrifice but t Fox drove in Masi with a single. Insurance runs after the second Mize e homer came in the eighth when Eddie e Robinson countered with a long homer to d right, and in the ninth when Rogozin, Fox k and Lenhardt singled successively off reliever - Jack Kramer. The score by innings: R H E 3 White Sox 100 100 111—5 13 0 0 Yankees 000 010 100—2 4 0 0 Rogovin 4-3 and Masi, Niarhos 9; Shea, Kuzava 7 and Kramer 9 and i Berra. Losing pitcher, Shea 2-4. Home e . runs — Mize 2d and 3d, Robinson 14th. .
