New York, June 28.
The New York Yankees set three major league records today, won both ends of a double header over the Philadelphia Athletics and increased their baseball lead in the American League by one full game.
New York sluggers cracked out eight home runs in the opening game to take a 23-2 victory.
4 It was an all time record for circuit blows in a single contest.
Bill dickey started the dais business with a homer in the first inning, George Selkirk, Joe DiMaggio and Babe Dahlgren added theirs in the third. DiMaggio and Joe Gordon cracked out four-baggers in the fourth. Tom Henrich did it in the sixth, and Dahlgren got another in the eighth.
The Yankees 27 hits in the opener totalled 53 bases, compared with their own previous record of 50 for a single club in one game set in 1992, The world champions tallied five runs in the third inning, nine in the fourth and four each in the sixth and seventh.
Joe McCarthy's wonder team slammed out five more homers in the nightcap and took a 10-0 victory behind Lefty Gomez three hit hurling. This gave them 13 hoMers for the day, a record in the major leagues for one club in any two consecutive games. The Yanks held the previous record of 11, set in 1996.
The Yanks collected five runs in the first inning, two in the fifth, one in the eighth and two in the ninth, as though they needed them.
Frank Crossetti and Gordon got homers in the first inning, DiMaggio and Gordon in the fifth and Dahlgren again in the ninth, this gave them 13 homers for the day, breaking the previous record of eleven established by the Yanks of 1936, American League
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