The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
35 Honers Mark Major
League Action Monday
AntOneIIi
Gains 18th
VictoryFor
Giant Team
By JOE REIcHLER
APP Sports Writer

Big league ballplayers cele-
brated independence Day with a
home run barrage that rocked
eight baseball stadiums from dug
out to bullpen and sent the har-
ried, defenseleSs pitchers running
to cover.
The day of double headers re-
sounded with IS. home run blasts,
onlylfive short of the major league
record for most homers in one day
A total of 315 hits were peppered
about the parks and Is pitchers
were used. That's an average of
almost 20 hits and more than Az
pitchers game.
Cleveland'S Bill Glynn was the
merriest celebrant. The normally
light hitting first baseman ex-
ploded three home runs in the 1916
opening victory over Detroit and
drove in eight runs. Ray Boone
and Wayne Belardi homered for
Detroit. Glynn's bat, along with
the rest of the Indians, was 81
fenced in the second game, which
went to Detroit 10 in II innings.
Three Others-the New York
Yankees Irv Noren, Milwaukee's
Eddie Mathews and the Chicago
Cubs Randy JackSon-walloped
two homers in one game. Dusty
Rhodes of the New York Giants
and Ted Lepcio of Boston also hit
two homers, one in each game.
Glynn, Lepcio and Roy Sievers of
Washington had grand-SlammerS.
Only nine of the 80 starting pitch
ers went the distance with four of
them turning in ShutoutS. The
Hashiest performance was exhib-
tied by George Zuverink of the
Tigers. A member of the Indians
in 1851, Zuverink blanked his for
mer teammates with three hits
and was rewarded with the victory
when Tiger Shortstop Harvey
Kuenn homered off rookie Don
Mossi to break up the game.
The split, which snapped an
eight-game winning streak for the
Indians, cost them a full game
to the Yankees and trimmed their
first-place American League lead
to 3l4 games.
The Yankees trimmed the Phil.
adelphia Athletics twice, IA and
11-2, to win their first double
header in almost a year. They
had split the last three twin bills
in 1858 and their first 10 this sea-
son. Successive homers by Joe Col
Inns and Mickey Mantle and a run
scoring double by Gene Woodling
provided the margin of victory in
the opener. Noren drove in five
runs with his two homers in the
nightcap. Bill Wilson hit Philadel-
phia's only homer.
The Giants and Dodgers swept
double-headerS leaving the Nation
al League-leading Giants still 31a
lengths in front of Brooklyn. The
two rivals begin three-game set
at Ebbets Field tonight.
Johnny Antoneli won his 18th
game with three-hit, 100 shut
out over the Philadelphia Phillies
in the opener. Rhodes, subbing for
Monte Irwin in left field, homered
and doubled in the first game. In
the second game, he hit two sin
giles and homer with two mates
aboard to give the Giants an uphill
IS triumph.
Rookie Walter Moryn, playing in
place of the slumping Jackie Rob-
inson, cracked four hits, including
a homer, to help Brooklyn down
Pittsburgh S-6 in the first game.
Duke Snider banged his goth four
Dagger in that game too. Junior
Gillian homered for the Dodgers
in the second game but it was
Carl Furillo who drive in five runs
to account for the To victory.
Milwaukee won two smuggling
from the St. Louis Car
dinals 8-6 and 1914 as each team
Slugged four homers. Besides
pair, Bill Bruton and Del
Crandal homered for the Braves
while the Cardinal homerS were
hit by Solly Hemus, Rip RepulSki,
Ray Jablonski and rookie Joe
Cunningham.
Cincinnati's Redlegs defeated
Chicago 6-5 in the opener despite
two homers by Jackson of the
Cubs. Bobby Adams drove in the
winning run in the 10th with
single. The Reds also took the
81 on Hobie Landrith's
home run. Cincinnati'S Ted Klus-
zewski hit his 21st homer in the
first game.
Boston'S Red Sox and Washing
ton divided twin bill. Boston won
the first game 14-O behind Willard
Nixon's six-hitter as Lepcio bat
ted in five runs with a triple and
single besides his grand-Slammer
Jack Jensen also homered for
Boston.
Washington took the second II
behind Chuck Stobb's five-hitter.
Sievers' four-run wallop offset a
10 Red Sox lead provided by
Lepcio's second homer.
Only one homer was hit in the
Chicago Baltimore double-header,
won by the White Sox 80 and 81.