Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-25
WATKINS PUNCHES
THREE HOME RUNS
Equals Record to Give Cards
WCtory-Red Sox Garden
Without Putout.
BY GAYLE TALBOT, JR.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


n TOT many times in the course
M of a season will major
4 Y league fans see an after
noon more crammed with
sparkling base ball than was
served up in yesterdays program
Of IL games. There was little
of everything, including prodigious
feats at bat and afield.
Outstanding in the list Of the
days achievements was that of
George Watkins, right fielder Of
the st. Louis Cardinals, who tied
the modern record for home runs
in single game when he parked
three in the second game of a
double-header against the Phillies
Watkins three blows. one with man
On base, gave the leaders a 4-to-2 VIC
tory and clean sweep for the day.
They took the first by the same score
when they knocked Ray Benge from
the hill in the ninth and scored three
runs.
Wiley Moore, veteran Boston Red Sox
Highlander, gave the days second re-
markable performance in beating thu
Cleveland Indians. to g. So well did
Moore have the Indians in hand that
not a single chance was handled by the
Sox outfielders. Bill Sweeney on first
base came within one chance of tying
the all-time big league record when he
made Fl putouts.
Watkins Feat Timely.
Watkins three homers proved O big
help to the Cardinals The double vic
tory at Philadelphia enabled them to
increase their lead ever the field by a
full game as the Giants and Cubs
broke even at the Polo Grounds. Carl
Hubbell set the Hornsby nine down with
two hits and BANKED lem, to 0, in
the first game, but Chicago came back
to slug out a 14-to-l0 victory in the
ninth. They jumped on Joe Heving and
Bill Walker for six runs in the ninth.
The Brooklyn Robins surprised their
constituents by taking a pair from
Pittsburgh. 6 to and 5 to g. and run
ming their winning streak to five
straight The double triumph put
Brooklyn into the first division for the
first time this season, supplanting Bos-
ton in fourth place. Mickey Firms
batting proved the deciding factor in
both games. Both Shaute and Heimach
went the route for the winners.
After dropping their third straight
to Cincinnati, to S, the Boston Braves
came back to win the second half Of
their double header, IL to 6. 81 john
son pitched his seventh victory of the
year for the Reds in the first tilt, his
mates knocking Lefty Brandt from the
hill N the fifth. Tom Zachary stopped
Col. Howleys men in the second hold
ing them to one hit the first five in
ningS.
HILBERT Beats AS Again.
The Philadelphia Athletics ran into
Wallace Hebert, rookie Southpaw, out
at st. Louis and took another beating
from the Louisiana youngster, this time
by score Of to 5. He licked them
in his first big league start two weeks
ago. Goose Goslin helped him along
with a pair of home runs off RUDE
Walberg. who was charged with his
third defeat
The less failed to cut down the Ath-
letics' lead, as Washington was losing
to Detroit, Z to 5. The Tigers won
with a four-run rally that drove Lloyd
Brown from the box in the eighth.
Babe Ruth raped his fifteenth
homer of the campaign to help the
Yankees take their sixth straight from
the Chicago White Sox, 10 to 3. Char
ley Ruffing had the Sox blanked until
the ninth, when they punched half Of
their eight hits.