Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-07
'Dodger S|ugger Sets
Mark for Total Bases,
Nears Several Others
By Burton Howkins
Star Sfoff Corrsspondent

0hNOALXN, OCC. Z. - LUKE
Snider was in a position to re-
write the record book today with
a continuation of his great slug
ging in the seventh and deciding
game of the World Series at
Ebbets Field.
Three years ago. in a World
Series against the same Yankees,
Snider struck out eight times,
batted IA, didn't drive across a
run and was regarded with some
disdain by the baseball world.
But look at Snider entering
today's game: Four home runs,
two doubles. three singles. eight
runs batted in and a 800 batting
average. Already he has estab-
liShed a record for total bases
(23), tied a couple of others and
several more are within reach.
Dukes two successive home
runs yesterday against Vic Raschi
weren't enough for Brooklyn as
the Yankees Yogi Berra and
Mantle also crashed
homers in New York's 80 triumph
before a disappointing crowd of
30,037 at Ebbets Field.
New High for Series.
Snider's homers helped set a
new mark Of IA homers in a series,
though. breaking the former rec
ord Of II made by Washington
and Pittsburgh in 1925. With his
pair of clouts over the rightfield
screen, Duke Joined eight others
who have accomplished that feat.
Only two National Leaguers-
Benny Kauff of the 1917 Giants
and Bob Elliott of the 1948 Braves
ever had slammed two homers
in game previously. Babe Ruth
is the only player ever to hit three
home runs in a game. doing it
twice.
Duke has Joined Ruth and Lou
Gehrig as the only players to hit
four home runs in a series. Snider
also has tied Ruth and Pete Fox
of the Detroit Tigers by making
six long hits in a series. Another
Snider home run today would put
Duke in a class by himself in
both those departments. It also
would give him a tie with Gehrig
by hitting four home runs in
three consecutive games.
Duke needed only one more run
batted in to tie Gehrig's record OF
nine. Lou achieved that mark in
a four-game series in 1928 and II
also stands as the record for seven
games.
Three more hits Of any de-
scription and Snider would tie
Sam Rice and three others at IL
the most hits made by a player
in one series.
Hodges Nears Record.
But another record Of less dis
tinction also was within reach
Of one Of the Dodgers. Gil Hodges
threatened to become the first
player in history to play seven
games in World Series and fail
to hit. Hodges. who slammed 80
homers and batted across 1O2
runs during the season. had gone
hitless in Is tries, striking out
six times. He struck out in his
only three appearances yesterday
Snider gave Brooklyn a 10 lead
in the sixth inning yesterday
when he rammed. a Vic Raschi
pitch over the righfield screen,
but Berra opened the seventh in
ming by duplicating the drive of
Billy Loes to tie the score.
Gene Woodling followed Berra's
blast with a single to center and
Loes then made a costly balk,
dropping the ball as he was about
to pitch. Loes. who had held the
Yankees to two hits in the first six
innings, whipped a third strike
past 1rv Noren and got Billy
Martin on a pop fly, but Raschi
bounced a single off Loes' left
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