Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-24
Threaten
AL Record for
Gopher Balls
Five Homers Give
Indians Sweep and
Bring TotuI to II
BY BURTON HAWKINS

can League record last season by
allowing l72 home runs. missing
the mark by only four. and
they're going to be sturdy con-
tenders again this year.
Washingtbn's pitching star al
ready has permitted II homers in
81 games In q mad rush that
might eclipse the mark Of IT'S set
by Kansas City's 1855 pitchers.
The Senators could surpass the
major league standard Of 1855
established by the Cardinals the
same year.
The gopher-ball pace is enough
to make Manager Cookie Lava
getto tear his hair. Opponents
have hit ~ homers in the last
is games. with the Indians COL
|lecting five yesterday as they
swept q deuble-header, 14-2 and
7-5. before $3.50 fans at Grifhth
stadium.
Sluggers who step to the plate
against the Senators make La
Ivagetto quake, and Cookie gets
no breathing spell even against
the leagues lightly regarded hit
tiers.
Even Narleski Connects
Ray Narleski,A for instance,
didn't have q hit this season
when he batted with two aboard
in the eighth inning Of the Sec
Iond game. He pumped o home
run off Russ Kemmerer into the
Indians bullpen. In the same
game AL Smith cracked two sue
cessive homers. He has only i've
for the year.
Vic Wertz. who banged three
Of his IL homers against WASH
ington, and Gene Woodling. who
has accounted for two of his
three against the Senators, hit
home runs in the FIRST game as
the Indians mauled Ted Aber-
nathy, Bud Byerly. Evelio Her.
nandez and Dick Hyde for Is
hits. a Cleveland high for the
year. as were the IL runs.
The Indians also packed eight
doubles into the opener, with
Woodling contributing two
doubles and single and walking
once for a most enjoyable
time. Gene also had a triple and
a single in the second game. in
which the Indians compiled IL
hits.
Wynn Breezes to Ninth
Washington was in contention
only briefly in the first game
against Early Wynn, who
notched his ninth win. They
scored twice in the third inning,
when Byerly tripled for his FIRST
hit OF the year and the first
extra-base blow of his major
league career.
That little rally sliced Cleve-
lands advantage to AZ, but not
for long. The Indians clipped
Byerly for two runs in the NTH
and pounded him and Herman
DEE for five more in the sixth.
Wynn restricted the Senators to
eight hits.
Mike Garcia won his third
decision in the second game, al
though requiring aid from Mar
leski and Bud Daley. Jim Lemon
got the Senator's OF in front
with a two-run homer, his 18th,
in the FIRST inning.
Smith Dashed his first homer
In the fifth with none aboard
and the Indians tied 1t in the
sixth when Chico Carrasquel
doubled across Dick, Williams
Smiths second clout gave the
Indians q 3-2 lead in the
seventh.
Gift From Lemon
That margin mounted to ia
in the eighth. After Narleski's
three-run homer. Lemon pre-
sented the Indians a run. Smith
walked and was of and running
on George Strickland's single to
right. Lemon lobbed the ball
into second base and Smith
simply kept on speeding toward
the plate and made. it easily.
The Senators stirred I'D three
runs in the same inning after
Art Schult singled and Faye
Throneberry was hit by a pitch.
Julio Becquer supplied q pinch
double to score Schult and Lou
Berberet's pinch sacrice fiy
scored Throneberry. Becouer
who moved TO third on Berber.
cts fly. scored on Herb Plews
sacrifice fly.
Lemon opened the ninth will
a single and Courtney was hi
g. Sr~,Ano-S