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Cub Homers Trounce Phillies, 18-9 Leonard Gets First Victory of Season Jackson, Cusick and Sauer Account for Circuit Blows; North Siders Blast 17 Hits By the United Press The Cubs battered * four Philadelphia pitchers for 17 hits and a one-sided 18 to 9 triumph yesterday before 7,564 fans in Wrigley Field to come within a half game of the National League leading Brooklyn Dodgers. The Cubs run total was only one shy of the previous team record, set five years ago on the same day of May in 1946 against the New York Giants. Then, the Cubs took a 19 to 3 decision. The Cubs power, evident only in the last three days, came through with five runs on six hits in the first inning, not quite enough to win. Wayne Terwilliger, Frank Baum-holtz, Hank Sauer and Al Walker collected doubles in the splurge while Ransom Jackson and Dee Fondy added singles. Two runs counted in the second on Jacksons fourth home run of the season and fourth in three games. Three tallied in the third on a walk to Fondy, singles by Walker and Bob Schultz and another double by Terwilliger. Score Seven in Fourth But the Cubs saved the big power for a seven run fourth when Sauer collected his seventh homer of the year. Andy Pafko singled, Fondy doubled, Walker walked and Cusick drove four in with ah inside- the-park home run, his second the season. Two more counted as Terwilliger and Jackson walked and scored on Baumholtz double. The Phils also had a big inning with six in the fourth on singles by Gran Hamner, Milo Candini and Richie Ashburn sandwiched " around walks to Mike Goliat and Eddie Waitkus and followed by Willie Jones seventh home run. Leo Cristante, the Phils starting hurler, was charged with the defeat, first of the year against one win, but Bob Miller, Candini and Ken Johnson also toiled on the mound. Dutch Leonard, the third Cub hurler, was credited with the win, first of the season, against no defeats. Bob Schultz started, but was relieved in the fourth by Omar Lown, who went out in the sixth. The score by innings: R H E Phillies 010 611 000— 9 10 1 Cubs 523 700 lOx— 18 17 1 Cristate, Miller 1, Candini 3, Johnson 4 and Seminick, Wilber. Schultz, Lown 4, Leonard 6 and Walker. Winning pitcher, Leonard 1-0. Losing pitcher, Cristante 1-1. Home runs — Seminick 3d, Jackson 4th, Jones 7th, Sauer 8th, Cusick 2d.
