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Giants Win, Lead Bums by One Game Mays Two Homers Big Blows As New Yorkers Belt Cards, 8-5; Hearn7 Staley Routed By FRED DOWN United-Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, N. Y., "~June 21.— Willie Mays two home runs boosted his season total to 20 today and provided the big blows of a 12-hit attack that carried the New York Giants to an 8-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The triumph restored the Giants National League lead over the idle Brooklyn Dodgers to one game. The red-hqt Giants have won three straight games, nine of 10, and 24 of their last 30. Jim • Hearn, who received cerdit for his fourth victory, was in constant trouble before he was relieved after Harry Lowrey opened the seventh inning with a triple. He managed to limit the Cardinals to only two runs in the first six innings by the curious method of making the great Stan Musial his "out man." Musial hit into a double play in the first inning and ended budding rallies with -two mates aboard in both the third and fifth innings, leaving a total of five runners aboard. Musial Walks in Seventh Musial walked in the seventh inning and was thrown out on an easy trickier in front of the plate in the ninth, to complete one of the worst days at the plate this season. Mays, whose 20 homers in 62 games equalled his entire output as a rookie in 1951, hit number 19 in the second inning off Gerry Staley and .greeted Royce Lint with number 20 in the fifth. Mays went into a tie with Hank Sauer of the Cubs for second place in the National League home run race, two behind Musial. Staley, who hasnt won a game since May 18, yielded single runs in the first and second innings, and the Giants then exploded for five in the fourth. Singles by Mays and Wes Westrum and a walk to Hearn filled the bases. Davey Williams double, a, triple fy Alvin Dark and Whitey Lockmans bunt single completed the rally. Windy McCall replaced Hearn after Lowreys triple opened the seventh. But the Giants did not get out of the inning until Marv Grissdm replaced McCall and retired Ray Jaglonski and Tom Alston after three runs were in.
