Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-15 | Page 6 | Portsmouth Nine Sets Three New Diamonds Records

Portsmouth Nine Sets Three New Diamond Records PORTSMOUTH Va a June 15 I iAP Portsmouth sAP Portsmouth Virginia league club laid claim today to three new professional baseball records as a result of yesterdays yesterday's game with the Kingston N N. C C. team of the same league In pi Ing up tiP a score of 29 to I 2 Portsmouth made eight home runs nine two two base base hits and thirteen singles sIngles singles sin sIn- for tor a total of three sixty-three bases In the fifth inning twenty men came to bat and scored seventeen runs on seventeen hits without the aid of an error or pass Catcher Hilton Brandon was up three times in this Inning and obtained ob obtained obtained ob- ob two home runs and a single scoring three runs himself and driving In three others The seventeen runs In one Inning the total of bases and Brandon's feat were claimed as records