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Boston Trounces White Sox 7 to 2 2Henry Henry Allows Losers Only Five Hits in Chalking Up Fourth Straight Victory VictoryBy By JACK FROST FROSTUnited United Press Sports Writer WriterBOSTON BOSTON Mass May 7 With Clyde Vollmer hitting at a 555 clip the Boston Red Sox continued to set the pace in the American League today by beating Chi ¬ cago 72 before 3721 Fenway Park fans fansCoupled Coupled with the Red Sox batting was the excellent pitching of southpaw Bill Henry a rookie up from Shreveport La who was winning his fourth major league game against no losses lossesThe The 24yearold Henry started out as if he had a no hitter going and choked off Chicago until the sixth inning Then he hit Carrasquel got two out but was touched for a runscoring single by Sam Mele Ed Robinson then doubled to score Mele before the rally was shut off offThe The Red Sox scored a run in the first inning when Dom DiMaggio drew the first of three walks and came home on Vollmers double to center In the second Boston drove starting pitcher Ken Holcombe f rcm the mound with three hits that produced four runs Among them was a double by Johnny Pesky that scored two of the runs runsBoston Boston Adds Two More MoreIn In the seventh Boston added two more when Jim Piersall doubled to left Ted Lepcio walked and both came home on Henrys triple to deep center At the time Chuck Stobbs third White Sox pitcher of the game was on the mound In between Bill Kennedy had worked four and one third innings giving up only three hits and allowing no runs runsVollmer Vollmer had two doubles for the after ¬ noon in five appearances at the plate He was hit by Holcombe and walked by Stobbs He f lied out to left field in the sixth inning to end a batting streak that had seen him hit safely seven consecutive times includ ¬ ing three home runs three doubles and a single singleHenry Henry facing the White Sox for the first time in his life issued five walks and had five strikeouts At the plate he walked once and hit safely twice including his triple and scored one of the runs runsScore Score by innings inningsCHICAGO CHICAGO 000 002 000 2 5 0 0BOSTON BOSTON 140 000 20x 7 9 1 1E E Goodman RBI Vollmer Pesky 2 Goodman 2 Mele Robinson Henry 2 2b Vollmer 2 Pesky Robinson Piersall 3b Henry SB White Lepcio DP FoxRob ¬ inson SO Henry 5 Holcombe 1 Ken ¬ nedy 3 Stobbs 2 W Henry 40 L Holcombe 02
