Evening star., 1949-06-13
Dodgers on Home Run
.SpIurge, but Give Up
More Than They Hill
BY Ralph Roden
Asseeiatsd Press Sperss Wrisss


Something new has been added
to the Brooklyn Dodgers stock in
trade-s home run punch.
Dodger batters have belted S.
homers in 81 games. Only the
slump-ridden New York Giants
have a higher total. 81. Last
year the Brooks hammered only
81 balls out Of sight in 155 games.
The lone fly In the ointment is
that Dodger pitchers have al
lowed even more home runs than
the Brooks have hit. They've
served up So four r-baggers.
Brooklyn's new-found medium
of winning games played navoc
with Cincinnati over the week end.
The league leaders socked two
homers in a 10-5 win Friday night,
belted three more In q l1-3 VIC
tory Saturday and yesterday ex-
ploded four in a pulverizing 20-7
rout that stretched their unbeaten
streak to seven games. The 20
runs were the most scored In one
game by a major league team this
season.
Hodges on Fire ut Bat.
Gil Hodges and Billy Cox were
the chief noisemakers. Each
slammed a pair of homers. Hodges
drove in eight runs, four with .
grand slam homer. and Cox six
In the 13-hit rampage against
seven red pitchers.
Both the second place st. Louis
Cardinals and the third-place
Boston Braves fell two games back
of the Dodgers as they split dou-
ble-headers.
The Cards divided with the
Philadelphia Phillies, winning the
opener, 7-3, and dropping the
nightcap, s-3. The Braves split
with the Chicago Cubs. coping
the second game. 20, after losing
the first. So.
Harry (the Cat) Brecheen stop
ped the Phils in the first game on
five hits and would have had q
shutout but for Andy Seminick,
who tagged a three-run. first
inning homer.
Seminick carried his home-run
bat into the finale, blasting two
into the seats and driving home
four runs to make Robin Roberts
seventh victory a breeze.
The Cubs combined q five-run
first inning against Johnny Sain
and brilliant pitching by Rookie
Warren Hacker TO upset the Braves
In the first game.
Antonelli Outhurls Leonard.
Hacker allowed only one hit
after taking over from Johnny
Schmitz in the first inning with
none out. -.
Johnny Antonelli. 19-year-old
bonus left handler. outpitched 39-
year-old Dutch Leonard in The
second game. Antonelu permitted
only four singles, famed five and
walked one batter.
Ralph Kiner smashed his 14th
home run Of the season in the
seventh inning to give the Pitts
burgh Pirates 6-5 nod over the
New York Giants.
The World Champion Cleveland
Indians won O twin bill from the
New York Yankees. 60 and 81, at
Cleveland before 77.543 fans.
largest major league crowd OF the
season. The defeats cut the
Yanks' edge over the runner-up
Detroit Tigers to three games.
The Tigers swept a bargain bill
from the Washington Senators,
90 and 6-5.
Bob Lemon shut out the Yanks
on six blows and walloped a two
ran homer in besting Lefty Ed
Lopat in the opener. The white
wash was the first suffered by the
Yanks in 113 games.
Garcia Keen on Hill.
Rookie Mike Garcia came up
with a three-hitter in the night
cap that was called in the Cleve-
land eighth because Of wet
grounds.
Prince Hal Newhouser let the
Senators down with four hits in
turning in his first shutout and
seventh victory OF the year in
the opener at Detroit. The Sec
ond game was squeaker that the
Tigers won in the ninth when
Rookie Johnny Groth slammed a
bases loaded double of Paul Cal
vert.
Boston's Red Sox pulled into a
fourth place tie with the Mats. a
half game back of the third place
Philadelphia Athletics by down.
ing the Chicago White Sox twice,
1873 and Us.
Home runs by Birdie Tebbetts.
vern Stephens and Bobby Doerr
permitted Lefty Mel Parnell to
coast to his eighth triumph In the
first game. Stephens homer was
his 18th, high for both leagues.
The Sox won the second game
with q three-run blast In the
ninth.
Philadelphia split With the last
place st. Louis Browns. taking
the second game, 1910 after los
ing the first, Ga. The AS ham
mered six Brownie pitchers for
10 hits In the finale. 10 Of them
far oyf~o haea~