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Three Dodger Home Runs Help Sink Redlegs, 9-6 BROOKLYN, N. Y„ June 24 UP.— Home runs by Junior Gilliam, Duke Snider and Roy Campanella accounted for five of the Brooklyn runs today and enabled the Dodgers to down the Cincinnati Redlegs, 9-6, and remain one game behind the league-leading New York Giants. Gilliam slammed Karl Drews first pitch in the first inning for his seventh homer of the season and his fifth off Cincinnati pitching. Snider hit his seventeenth in the third after Pee Wee Reese singled, and in the sixth Campanella crashed his .eighth after Jackie Robinson had walked. Russ Meyer started for the Dodgers, but was removed after the second inning, when the Redlegs tagged him for four runs and four hits. Erv Palica came on and pitched shutout relief ball for five innings, but was tagged for a two-run homer by Ted Kluszewski in the eighth and had to be rescued by-. Jim* Hughes. - -
