The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-24
Americans Help Make June 2 Baseball History
 Making Day: Win 8=4
Long Hitting as Common as Home Runs In Yankee Game. Skiff and Lai Lead In Slam banging.

MONDAY, June 23, will go down into
 isA baseball history as a day of long hitting and record smashing feats
 While the Yankees were establish ing the seasons home-run record for a single game, knocking off five cir cut drlves for an 11-4 win over the Crippled Athletics---Roger Pecking- paugh making two himself the Americans In their windup game with the Worcester Boosters were slam
 ming out triples with as much ease and simplicity as they would in count ing thousand ten-dollar bezeks While Ed Charity, the Washinetos, catcher, was making two home runs.
 two two-baggers and a single in five times up against the Red Sox and While Happy F'elsch caught eleven
 ules---a feat believed to be a worlds reeor'd---for the White Sox in the Cleveland game. Bill Tai and Back stop Bill Skif of tfte Americans were pounding out two three-baggers each Just as tue majors were on the up- and-up yesterday, so the Americans
 found themselves in a mood of great activity.
 They defeated the enemy, but as Providence, too, wop itse game over Springfield. 3 to 2, the Americans made no progress in the merry march to the championship. The locals won yesterday, to 4, and today they en- tertain hope that they will make it
 three straight victories by pulling the New Haveners down to defeat. But whether they can remains to be seen, although Manager Grimes is resting his strong hopes on either Marty Walsh or Jack Leonard.
 1 Hits were numerous in yesterdays Clash Tannpr hits r1a f,I1 nd came in timely. Ray Grimes was an- other contributor to the Distinguished 1 Order of Manufacturers of Three-bag-
 gers. George Braun and Hank
 Bracket each injected a double apiece
 in the game. As a matter of fact, every Bridgeporter got to first on
 clean hitting.
 1 It was Eddie Lennon who was se- l lected to toss 'em over for the Bridge
 porters and he did comparatively well
 when the bombardment of the New Haven deliveries is taken into consid-
 eration. Eddie was given fairly good
 support, but most of the efforts of the l locals seemed to be in fattening their batting record. Twenty -four bases were secured on hits obtained -a, | But it WIS Worcester's delegation
 which started all the trouble In the
 very first inning Potteiger tripled and | Ne'1AIS iloIIlt Oll IoIA 1dl error or
 Johnson's offer But soon the hurler quieted down and although he was hit
 here and there he managed to keep
 the visitors where they could do the l least harm.
 i Braun doubled in the first and scored on Bill Lai's triple. But it was
 in the third that victory came certain Lennon famed in that inning but Hank Bracket doubled. Braun's foul | fly was brought in and he lost out. Bill Lai made it two triples in as
 many times up, Hankus coming home. Ray Grimes hit, but Johnson 1uggled
 the elusive sphere and Lai walked
 along the homeward path unmolested.
 Grimes took second on the tumble and
 came home when Baker singled i Bill Skiff added another three-bag-
 ger to the days list, but Martin re-
 tired the side by taking three healthy | swings.
 Bill Skiff's second triple, Lemons s ] base on balls and a delayed double
 steal with Tyler's wide tossing helped , the Bridgeporters score their sixth | tally. Martin scored the seventh l tally on a hit, stolen base, Kelly's err
 TOT and neat blunt by Grimes The latter tallied' with the eighth run in
 the same inning on a bunt, a batter hit by a pitched ball, single and sacrifice | fly