JONES TOSSES GEM AS CHISOX SNAP 'L' STREAK
Perfect Game Broken Up in 7th
CHICAGO, June 5 (AP) - Sad Sam Jones entered the contest with an 0-6 record and
emerged with what may have been the best-pitched game of the major league
season. The right-hander took a perfect game into the seventh inning and
settled for a two-hit complete game shutout, striking out seven and walking none
as the Chicago White Sox snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory
over the St. Louis Browns in the opening game of a doubleheader at Comiskey
Park.
Jones retired the first 18 Browns batters of the contest before yielding a
lead-off double to Harlond Clift in the top of the seventh. After Sam West
and Jack Burns were retired on a ground ball and fly ball respectively, a wild
pitch moved Clift to third. But Jones kept the shutout intact by fanning
Roy Pepper for the third out of the inning.
The White Sox employed a kind of death-by-a-thousand-cuts approach against St.
Louis starter George Blaeholder, who failed to record a single 1-2-3 inning
before being lifted in the bottom of the eighth. Chicago took a lead they
would never surrender in the bottom of the first when Mule Haas and Zeke Bonura
slapped consecutive singles with one out, putting runners on first and
third. Blaeholder retired Al Simmons on a shallow fly to right and
appeared to avoid any damage when he induced Luke Appling to lift a foul pop to
the left side of the infield but Clift misplayed the ball for an error.
Given new life, Appling laced a single to right, scoring Haas to put the White
Sox ahead 1-0.
The White Sox doubled that lead in the second when Bob Boken led off with a
double and came around to score on Hank Madjeski's base hit.
Chicago made it 3-0 in the fourth when Evar Swenson singled with one out,
advanced to second on Haas' sacrifice, and scored when Bonura doubled to the gap
in left-center.
Jimmy Dykes' solo home run--his third long ball of the year--in the fifth capped
the scoring.
Jones surrendered a one-out double to pinch hitter Bruce Campbell in the top of
the ninth but retired Clift on a grounder to third and West on a fly to left to
close out the game.
The 18 straight batters retired at the outset of the contest is the greatest
total in a game this season. Jones is the sixth big leaguer, and third
American League hurler, to toss a complete game two-hit shutout this year.
6/5/1934, SLA34-ChA34, game 1, Comiskey Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1934 Browns 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 1934 White Sox 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 x 4 14 0 12 0 Browns AB R H BI AVG White Sox AB R H BI AVG Clift 3b 4 0 1 0 .267 Swanson rf 5 1 4 0 .312 West cf 4 0 0 0 .275 Haas cf 2 1 1 0 .247 Burns 1b 3 0 0 0 .278 Bonura 1b 4 0 2 1 .272 Pepper lf 3 0 0 0 .262 Simmons lf 5 0 1 0 .410 Garms rf 3 0 0 0 .333 Appling ss 3 0 2 1 .382 Melillo 2b 3 0 0 0 .207 Dykes 3b 3 1 1 1 .306 Hemsley c 3 0 0 0 .276 Boken 2b 4 1 1 0 .314 Bejma ss 3 0 0 0 .242 Madjeski c 4 0 1 1 .206 Blaeholder p 2 0 0 0 .000 Jones p 3 0 1 0 .174 Knott p 0 0 0 0 .143 33 4 14 4 Campbell ph 1 0 1 0 .256 29 0 2 0 Browns INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Blaeholder L 2-7 7.1 14 4 3 2 1 134 87 6.75 Knott 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 10 6 4.83 8.0 14 4 3 3 1 144 93 White Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Jones W 1-6 9.0 2 0 0 0 7 124 85 4.35 9.0 2 0 0 0 7 124 85 SLA: Campbell batted for Knott in the 9th E-Clift. 2B-Clift(9), Campbell(6), Bonura(13), Boken(5). HR-Dykes(3). RBI-Bonura(35), Appling(34), Dykes(18), Madjeski(6). SB-Simmons(1). K-Clift, Pepper, Garms, Melillo, Hemsley, Bejma, Blaeholder, Simmons. BB-Haas, Bonura, Appling. SH-Haas 2, Dykes, Jones. WP-Jones. GWRBI: Appling Temperature: 81, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 22 MPH. Attendance: N/A Game Time: 2:17