Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05

n YEW YORK, July 5.--To the New
York base ball patron, the
NJ home.run hit is bigger than
4 the game. At least IL seemed
so yesterday, when half a
dozen circuit drives were made, while
the Yankees were SCATTERING the Ma
tionals' winning streak of 10 games
by taking both ends of the Fourth of
July double-header. l. to l and Il to l
Whenever Il four-hase knock was
made, the 72.641 persons who paid
their way into the Yankee Stadium
to make the holiday crowd the largest
that ever witnessed single diamond
contest. either in a championship sea-
son or world series, arose er maSse
and shrieked to the skies. A home
RIM seemed to be the only thing the
people wanted and every time some
strong-armed athlete hammered the
apple TO point that permitted him
10 circle the bases, the stupendous
steel and concrete structure Col. Jake
Ruppert has reared on the north bank
of the Harlem was shaken to Its
foundation by the roars from the
thousands of cash customers present.
But nothing else aroused the crowd.
Six times it was given a chance TO
cheer itself hoarse. Home-run hitting
began about las o'clock and continued
until SEQ. The Yankees started and
finished this four-base bludgeoning.
but once the Nationals sent up cir
cult clouter.
Collins Homer Is First.
Pat Collins was first to cater to the
public taste, the Yankee catcher lifting
the ball into the left-feld stand in the
second inning Of the initial clash OF the
day.
In the eighth inning of the same en-
gagement, Lou Gehrig, who has been
staging quite race with his team
mate, Babe Ruth. for the honor OF be-
ing base balls leading four-base slam
mer, broke his tie with the Bambino by
pushing the ball high into the right
field bleachers. It was Louis twenty.
seventh home-run effort Of the year.
Each of these first-game homers came
when a Yankee was on the runway.
The second game appeared to be
matter of just one homer after an
other. Sam Rice began the circuit
seeking in the fifth inning, driving
the ball to deepest right center to get
the only four-baser of the day made
within the playing field. and save the
Nationals from shutout. And to the
credit of New York fandom, Rice's
wallop was cheered as Justify as any
of the five made by wearers Of Yankee
uniforms.
Then came trio of Yankee homers
in successive innings. Gehrig. step.
ping to the plate for the second time
in the sixth inning. found the bases
filled. He promptly cleared them with
his twenty-eighth ,four-baser Of the
year and his second of the day. once
more picking the right-field bleachers
as parking place for the badly bat
tered sphere.
Julian Vera. Yankee reserve. step
ped into a fast one in the seventh and
drove it into the left.field stand. Tony
LaZzeri was on the paths when this
hit was made, and in the next round
he socked his eleventh homer of the
campaign, hooking the ball into the
same stand that Vera had found a
handy place. Tony's homer also was
good for two runs, for Cedric burst
was base runner when "Poosh. EN-
Up" connected.
Tanks Get 81 Safeties.
Aside from these homers, the great
crowd seemed to get little out of the
dual sketch, although there was much
else IN both games calculated to en-.
thuse the New York fans. The Yam.
KEGS revealed their tremendous hitting
power in each engagement, getting Is
safeties in the first and 10 in the sec.
ond. Higgins charges did well afield.
too. Ray Morehart making their only
error OF the day when he muffed a
loft from Stuffy Stewards bat in the
iirst inning of the initial encounter.
Hollis Thurston and Walter john
son were the victims Of the Yankee
siuggers in the first part of the bill.
Ihurston started and was nicked for
10 safeties in addition to passing
three men and committing a balk in
four innings. A battle vas in pros
pect until the New Workers punched
SIX hits for five runs in the fourth
frame.
johnson, in his four innings, struck
out seven of the Yanks, but gave
IN eight hifc fa,,r hot~-