Show GORDON BATS 11 HOMERS TO PACE TOP HITTERS NEW V YORK April 12 CP Sid Sid Sid Gordon is the lone major league home run hitter living up to his reputation this spring Socking Sidney one of 17 players who hit 20 or more homers last year yeat has belted 11 out of the park for the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Giants in this conditioning period The Giant third baseman who hit 30 home runs last year has hit two for the circuit in one game three times in exhibition games Gordons Gordon's teammate Johnny Mize who tied Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner for the league crown of 40 Sast year has socked five in Grapefruit league competition Mize seldom hits for distance during the training grind He got four last spring pring Kiner has three homers to his credit including a grand- grand slam poke Stan who walloped 39 homers for the St. St Louis Cardinals in 1948 also has hit the jackpot only three times so far Hank Sauer the Cincinnati mauler has slammed three homers quite a drop from his pace of last summer when he connected for 35 Joe DiMaggio who led the American league in home runs with 39 last year still is looking for his first 1949 home run The New York Yankee star however has been shackled with a heel injury and has performed infrequently Cleveland's Joe Gordon up runner-up to DiMaggio in the run home-run derby with 32 has whacked four out of the lot lotin lotin lotin in preseason play Gordons Gordon's teammate Ken Keltner who hit 31 four last year has only two to his credit Boston's Boston's Boston's Bos Bos- tons ton's Ted Williams who produced 25 in 48 also has found the promised land only twice this spring |