Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1941 — Page 8
KIRBY HIGBE
All Right, Dodgers, Start Out-thinking hem Home Runs!
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
BASEBALL'S annual fall show was scheduled to get under way today and it’s always interesting to know the statistical size-up of the contenders over the regular sea~son’s play . . . and to note how the players perform in the World Series compared to said regular season. On the slugging side Joe DiMaggio paced the New York Yankees during the American League pennant race and Dolph Camilli filled a similar role for the Brooklyn Dodgers. . . . However, in club batting (percentage only), the Dodgers carried an average of 272 into the Series to 269 for the Yankees. But the Yankees were superior in the “long hit” department,
runs scored and runs batted in,
.-In other words, the Bronx
Bombers had another one of nels r power years | featured by “big in-
nings.”
In a short series ball 1 clubs don’t always live up to their longroute records but fans like to mull over figures and these are the Brooklyn-New York statistics for the 1941 campaign, the Dodgers
playing 157 games, the Yankees 156 (including ties).
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‘It’s Been a Beautiful Dream,
But Hard Times Are Knockin’
When the Blue Chips Are Down, the Yanks, Those Business Boys, Are Ferguson’s Choice
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—Ever since April the Brooklyn Dodgers have been supermen. They have been rich, beautiful, inspired, strong and glorious. They have been dwelling in marble halls, eating off dishes
of solid gold and lighting 75-cent cigars with hundred dollar bills.
But, as they say in that lovely old folksong of the south, “By and
by hard times comes a-knockin’ at the door,” so .. .
Back to your shack on the other side of the railroad tracks, you bums. The clock has struck midnight for the Cinderella boys.
I'll take the Yankees in six games.
I'll take ’em and feel like a man with money in the bank. When the going gets tough, when the blue chips are down, when every pitch is weighted with gold and freighted with glory—they’re the guys for me. They don’t talk much, they don’t fight with umpires and. about the only . noise .they make is: the crash of base hits against the fence and the thump of a high hard one into Bill Dickey’s big glove. They don’t go in for secrecy. They tell you who's going to pitch next day and make you like it. They're business-
“|men and their business is baseball.
Durocher Plays Hunches
Leo the Lip Durocher is what the boys call a “hunch manager” as opposed to a “percentage manager.” He likes to try daring experiments. He likes to keep quiet about who his pitcher will be as he is doing today. He likes to spring surprises. His assistants are that way, too. Charlie Dressen, one of his coaches, is the best signal stealer in the game. He can coach at third base for a few innings and start calling the kind of stuff the pitcher is going to throw before the ball ever starts for the plate.
Yes, there is ‘some furious thinking and scheming going on in the
|ranks of the Beloved Bums today.
But an immortal philosopher known to all of us as Babe Ruth once
coined a golden phrase on this issue
of Power vs. Thinking. “Out-Think That Homer”
“I don’t see,” said the Babe with simple dignity, “how anybody can out-think a ball that is sailing over the fence for a home run.”
‘That was the lesson and the moral that could be learned by anyone who watched the two teams take their final workouts at Yankee Stadium yesterday. Bang, bang, bang. The Yankees sent baseballs rocketing into the stands when they took their batting practice. DiMaggio, Keller, Dickey, Gordon, Henrich—they just swung nice and easy and the batting practice pitcher called for another ball. Then the Beloved Bums took their turn. After considerable straining, Ducky . Medwick finally pumped one into the seats, but no other Dodgers was able. to do it. Leo the Lip concentrated and thought as hard as he could, but he couldn’t think a baseball into the stands.
The Yankees start this series with two cripples. Charlie Keller is just recovering from a Iractured ankle
CIGARETTE BURNS
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Leo . . . the Lip.
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and Red Rolfe still is underweight from a long illness. But that won't come near to evening things up. To get things on an even basis you would have to make Joe DiMaggio bat blind-folded, compel Joe Gordon to field his position with his back to the batter and bar Joe McCarthy from the ball park between the hours of 1:30 and 4 p. m. daily.
Harder Gets Chip Taken From Elbow
CLEVELAND, Oct. 1 (U. P.).— Mel Harder, former star pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, who underwent an operation yesterday for removal of a bone chip from his right elbow, will be confined to Lakeside Hospital for several days, his physician, Dr. Wallace Duncan, said teday. Harder, who was given his unconditional release by the Indians several weeks ago because he had been unable to overcome the ailment which had weakened his pitching ability, has said he hoped such an operation would restore his arm’s old time power. Hospital attendants said the player's condition was “good.”
Birds Even
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 1 (U. P.).— With the little World Series all even t8day at two games apiece, the Co-
lumbus Red Birds and. the Montreal
named
roles in the fifth game tonight. B i g Johnny
hurled the American Association pennant winners to their first victory in the second game of the series will open for Columbus against ; Max Macon who stopped the Red Birds in the series opener at Montreal. Max Marshall's .iriple which scored Lou Klein was the deciding blow last .night as the Red Birds evened the series, 5 to 4, before 9517 fans. The winning blow came in the last of the eighth off relief hurler Ed Head who replaced the 35-year-old Frank Pearce in the seventh inning. Murray Dickson went the route for Columbus and allowed only eight scattered hits. Harry Walker homered for Columbus with one on in the fifth inning.
Murry Dickson
Sergeant Bob
Halts Brody
Sergeant Bob XKenaston, former Marine non-com from ° Chicago, snapped the local winning streak of Steve Brody here at the Armory when the big ex-leatherneck took main event honors at the weekly wrestling program. Brody had won eight straight mat tussles in Indianapolis. Kenaston lost the first fall in 36 minutes when Brody clamped on a reverse body scissors and press, but came back to win the next two sessions, the second going 17 minutes and the final canto lasting but four. Both grapplers fell out of the ring to climax the second fall and Brody managed to climb back into the ring, althugh he sustained a shoulder injury. Kenaston applied an arm breaker and ended the bout with the same hold. The Holyoke matman never had a chance after his tumble over the top rope. The semi-final tussle was captured
by Coach Billy Thom, of Blooming- | ‘ton, Ind., who made Charlie Lay, of
Nashville, Tenn., give up to a stepover toe" hold in 14° minutes. Carlos Freeman, young Indianapolis wrestler making his second professional start, was the victor over Joe Wolf, of Cleveland, O., in the opening fracas. Freeman used a series of punishing headlocks to win in 16 minutes.’
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By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—The fact
‘ that the American League entry
in the series is not entirely unsupported by sentiment and sympa-
thy may come as a great shock to the casual reader of baseball
items. Our phone rang the other day. “This is Dr. So and So,” the voice at the other end of the phone announced. “Do you really mean to say you think the Bums will beat the Yankees?” There was a mixture of shame and scorn and apprehension in the doctor’s voice, an old friend—both the docter and the voice. ] “Well, I didn’t say they were the better team. I merely said so many things seemed .to break in 'their
if they won. I traveled with them
on that fantastic Western trip and|"
it seemed to me they had Heaven on their side, if you'll pardon my irreverence.” “Well, all T have to say,” snapped the doctor, “is that' they'll need Heaven,” and he hung up.
‘Whimsical, Weren't You?’
. Some hours before a young writer had phoned us, “that was one’ of your whimsical pieces, wasn’t it,
that one about the Bums beating
the Yankees?” he asked. There was an amused, good natured appreciation of the absurd in his voice. We
favor that it wouldn't surprise me| |
Big Noise
BROOKLYN, N. Y.; Oct. 1.— The law got all mixed up in the Series, too. S. Sidney Levine, a Brooklyn newsstand proprietor and Dodger fan, was hailed before Magistrate James A. Blanchfield on a charge of creating unnecessary" noise on the afternoon of Sept. 13 while the Dodgers were engaged with a crucial series in St. Louis.
It turned out that Mr. Levine had disturbed the peace of mind of Patrolman James J. Monahan by operating a ra- | dio at his newsstand for the { information of patrons. Mr. Levine’s defense was that there was a’ radio set tuned to the ball game on every corner in Brooklyn. Magistrate Blanchfield agreed. " “You could walk along the street and keep a box score,” he said. “I remember that ball game very well. I was playing golf and we hired a caddy to carry a portable radio around so we could listen to the game as we played. I find you not guilty.”
most the same words we were later to use with such disturbing results on the doctor. “Are you on the level with this?” We timidly admitted we were. . “Well, I don’t know what to say —but if you want to make a fool
explained our - attitude, using al-
When Keller Kisses One Into the Stands Those Yankee Fans’ll Just Sit Calmly
out of yourself as a sports writer, go ahead.” Rolling the matter over in: oun bean, we thought we hit on a plause ible explanation. The Yankee Ian belongs to a different cult. Unlike the Giant fan, for example, his loyalty isn’t based on romantic, nostalgic memories of McGraw apd Matty; he doesn’t keep up his: ate tendance dreaming of the past. And unlike the Dodger fan—but, then, . how could any fan be like a ‘Doltigey fan?
Yankee Fan Is Sound
It seems to us your Yankee fan is a sound, reserved, substantial gent and something of an introvert. He has a deep but restrained admirae
tion for the DiMaggs, the: Ruffings and the Gordons, and the precise, expert and smart way they -play the
|game.
About as far as he will go in pube lic manifestation of his idolatry is to shyly ask one of his heroes to autograph a baseball. If gently chided by an even more reserved Yankee fan, he will smile off his embarrassment by explaining “the boy asked me to get it for him.” And he prefers to sit calmly in his seat and watch the runners pa= rade around the bases when Kelleg kisses one into the stands.
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Pro-Am Tourney,
A -pro-amateur golf tourney wil} be held over the Highland Golf and Country Club course Monday. starting at 12:30 a. m. A P. G. A} meeting will be held at nights
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