The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-29
NIGHT BASEBALL. ONLY OBSTACLE. TO N. Y. YANKEES
Game Under Lights Is Lowering Standard of
 Play-Hit l3 Homers,
By GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press stan Correspondentl

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, June 29. (UP)-Night baseball today was under serious indictment by the New York Yankees.
 Beaten on Monday night under the lights, the Tanks came back in the daylight yesterday to slug the Athletics to defeat twice, 23-2 and 10-0. The same club that could make only four hits off 8 Pitcher (Henry Pippen) who had never be- fore won an American league game collected 33 runs, 43 hits for total of 8 bases and cracked two all-time major league records and one American league mark in the bar gain.
 The fans had a right to ask, what kind of business is this night baseball?" There can't be that much difference in the Tanks from one game to the next so the answer must be the difference in night and day ball. Some of the oldtimers and richards have felt for some time that night baseball had no place in the majors, and there was some definite evidence at hand today that the encroachments it's making are lowering the standard of play.
 Against It
 The Tanks have never wanted night ball and don't want 1t now. They spoke their resentment with their bats yesterday.
 By hitting eight home runs in the first game, the Tanks smashed the record of seven set by Detroit in 1886 and equaled six times, (once last June 6 by the Giants).
 By adding five more homers III the nightcap, the Tanks set a new mark of 13 homers in two con- ecutive games, breaking the old record of Il which they made in 1886.
 By making in the first game 27 hits which totaled 53 bases, they set a new American league mark, surpassing the old figure of 50 which the Tanks set in 1882.
 The homers were divided this way: first game-DiMaggio 2, Dahl gren 2, Dickey, Selkirk, Gordon, Henrich-8. Second game: Gordon 2, Crosetti, DiMaggio, Dahlgren.
 Behind such slugging the Yankee pitchers had a picnic. Monte Pear son won the opener, giving up seven hits and Lefty Gomez grabbed the second, yielding a mere three. It was No. for Pearson and No. 6 for Gomez. The As hurlers in the first game were Nelson, Beckman and Joyce. The sufferers in the night cap were Caster and Dean.
 The "patched-up" Giants moved into second place by scoring their fifth straight victory, 7-I, over the Phillies, who the past two days have looked ike the worst major league team in the last 10 years. Unable ot make simple, ordinary plays like forcing man at second, or throwing out a base runner, the Phils folded up in the first three frames and lost interest in the game after that. Bill Lohrman gave up only six hits in winning his sixth victory.
 "Diz" Driven
 Dizzy Dean, making his first start in St. Louis since the Cardinals traded him to the Cubs, was com plete flop and didn't last the first inning, but Chicago came on to win, 8-4. Three singles, two doubles and a sacrifice fly drove Dizzy to cover. Larry French, who came in the seventh, was credited with the victory. Gabby Hartnett's homer in the eighth proved to be the win ming run. The Cubs rapped Cooper, Bowman and McGee for IS hits.
 After their 23-inning marathon of the day before, Brooklyn re- turned to normal and beat the Bees, 6-1, in normal time. Luke Hamlin allowed only seven bingles in win ming No. 2. Singles by Phelps, More, Hudson, Coscarart and Ham, lin. and a wild pitch gave the Dodgers big inning of four runs.
 YESTERDAYS HEROES-The entire Yankee ball club who wrote three more records into the books with their big bats.