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Cubs Victors Over Braves, 7 to 2 Turk Lown Holds Boston in Check Sauer and Hermanski Lead Attack for North Siders With Three Safeties Each By the United Press The Chicago Cubs blasted four Boston pitchers for 12 hits, including four doubles and Gene Hermanskis second home run, to win 7 to 2 yesterday as Turk Lown allowed only four hits. It was Lowns second victory against the same number of defeats. He held the Braves to one hit, a scratch single by Bob Thorpe which dribbled past the pitchers mound, in the first six innings. In the seventh, Ed Mathews beat out an infield grounder for a single, advanced on Sid Gordons single and a wild pitch and scored after Walker Coopers long fly. * Mathews hit his ninth home run of the year over the right field wall in the* last inning Tor Bostons second run. Fans Three Lown, a 28-year-old righthander in his second year with the Cubs, struck out three and walked two. He worked slowly during the second best game he has hurled this season. Earlier, he held Brooklyn hitless for eight innings, but gave up three hits in the ninth inning and lost the game, 3 to 1. The defeat was charged to Vern Bick-ford, the Boston starter who earlier had been tripped twice by the Cubs by scores of 3 to 0 and 2 to 0. He lasted less than three innings as he suffered his sixth loss and when he was relieved by Sheldon Jones, I Boston was behind, 5 to 0. Dave Cole and ■ Dick Donovan also pitched for Boston. The Cubs garnered three markers in the second on a single by Toby Atwell, a double by Dee Fondy, a walk to Bill Serena and Roy Smalleys two-base hit. Two more tallies came in the third on Prank Baumholtz double and Hermanskis four bagger. The final Cubs runs were in the seventh on a walk to Baumholtz, Hermanskis single, a passed ball and Hank Sauers single. Sauer and Hermanski each had three hits in four times at bat, and Sauer increased his league leading batting average to .350. His two runs batted in raised his total to 50, also best in the circuit. •Score by innings: BOSTON 000 000 101 — 2 4 0 CHICAGO 032 002 OOx— 7 12 0 Bickford, Jones 3, Cole 6, Donovan 8 and Cooper, St. Claire 8 ; Lown 2-2 and Atwell, Pramesa 7k Home Runs— Hermanski ,2nd and Mathews 9th . Losing pitcher — Bickford 1-6. GENE HERMANSKI — Came through with a home run and two singles to help the Chicago Cubs defeat the Boston Braves at Wrigley Field yesterday by a score of 7 to 2. I
