Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1939 — Page 6

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NAMES KELLER HERO, BERGER GOAT OF SERIES Sports Writer Notes Some Highlight* Os 193 V World Series By George Kirksey, iL’P. Stat Correspondent) Ciactaas'l. Ort. 9.—mW—Passing out th» bouquets and hrickban for the 1939 world series Hero Charley Keller. Tanker* freshman outfielder with the Tartan Ilka arms who murdered the - Reda' pitchina tor a 43» batting avsragw. He collected seven hila tor a total of 1* bases Thia la pretty fair country hitting for a kid who only four summer* ago waa playing for the University of Maryland In comparison Italic Ruth bolds the record for total baaea for four world serie* tame* -22 baaea tn the 192* world aerlea In whi<h he hit three homera Hi one game agalnat the Cardinala (yellas hit three homera. one triple, ear doflM- and two alnglea He •••red the winning run In the flrat game, drove tn the winning tally in the' kPcond. scored three and drve in two run* In the third ■ enough to win), and scored two and drove in one in the final game Goat: Wally Berger. Reda left fielder who had everything bad happen to him He went to bat IS times without a hit. He knocked only one ball out of the Infield, fawned flour times and left all mates on base In addition, he made the "rock" of the aeries by tk-owing to the wrong baae on Ila be Dahlgren's double In the first tame It just wasn't Berger a tarn j Insung hero: Art Fletcher. Tanks’ th'd baae coach who gave Tankee runners the green light correctly three times. He waved Joe (Jordon home with the tying run in the first game when Berger threw to second otherwise Paul Derringer might have beaten the Tanka. 14. hi the final game, he sent both Keller and DlMaggiu home when the Reds went Into their tenth inning collapse Thus

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, Fletcher played the silent role In having three Yanka score on a single. Including the man who hit It. Moat tragic figure- Paul Derringer. who held the Yanka to nine hits and four runs in IC innings and yet didn't win a game With flawless support In the opener. Derringer would have won. 14. In the fourth same he held the Yanka scoreless until the seventh when Keller and Dickey let go with their one-two home run punch He left trailing. 24. but Mill would have got credit for a victory If Bucky Walters and his teammates had protected the 3-2 lead which the Reda piled up in their half of the seventh In Derringer's final game, he pitched hla heart out hoping hla mates would get some runs so hr-wouldn't have to bear down on every pitch ■•a every Yankee Outstanding player In defeat: Frank McCormick. Reds' first baseman. who led his club In hitting with sig baae hits tn IS times at bat for an average of .375. In addition. the Reds' sophomore fielded brilliantly, robbing the Yanks of several hits. Biggest Joke: The ailing Yankee pitchers Red Ruffing, with his aore arm. handcuffed the Reda Monte Pearson, with hla sore shoulder, silenced the Reds' attack to a whisper Lefty Gomer, with hla pulle dslde muscle, lasted only I , one inning, but he left the game with a 2-1 lead Oral Hildebrand, who started the fourth game, had to retire after tour innings because lof a pain in his side At that point : the Reda hadn't scored and had < made only two hits off him Strangest play Ernie Ixtmbardi curled up on the ground with the hall only a few feet away from him as Joe DiMaggio scored In the wild tenth Inning of the final game Charley Keller. In charging into Lombardi, apparently dated the | big Cincinnati catcher who lay on | the ground while DiMaggio raced ■ across the plate Lombardi finally reached for the ball when Walters came up and yelled to him. but It ' 1 waa too late. o Sport Parade 1| By Henry McLemore Cincinnati. 0.. Oct S (UJD Psrfsctl*. Is very expensive The New York Yankees have proved that. Their victory over the Clmluuati Reds yesterday. which gave them the world's series and the championship of the world in four straight games, cost the owners of the team a pretty penny aud I mean a very pretty penny. Had the aeries gone seven games the New York club would have profited to the tune of 1300.UV0 because each garni- after four has been played is worth roughly. 1100. Ode Few persons know It. but the owners of a club that sweeps a world series lose money on the event The owners get nothing until four games have been played Up until that point the swag goes to the players in the main, with a small amount being sidetracked Into Judge Landis' office. No one has ever explained this division, but it Is understood that It was adopted aa a guarantee that the players would be honest and give their level best to win aa quickly as possible You get what I mean if the players shared In all the games some black sheep might attempt to make the series go the entire route. In the past 12 years the Yankees have been in seven world aeries, or a possible 49 games Bu In those series they played but 31 games They swept the

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series in 1927. IMS. and 1922.1 They played six in 1934. five In' 1»37. and only eight in 1939 and' 1939 That means that by their super-1 owners something dose to 12.009.lority the Yankees have cost their I 000 since 1927, Two million dol l lars is not hay; as a matter of fact, it is not alfalfa, clover, ot i even wheat It is money, big I money; such big money that event a club aa rich aa the Yankees' could use It. But to the credit ot the Tati keen, there Isn't a man in the vast j organisation that would have it otherwise When Colonel Jake Ruppert was alive he led the cheering for a dean sweep of a series. He resented any and all Yankee defeats, ven though many of them were worth a small for tune to him. His successors have ; Inherited his attitude. Ed Bar-1 row wants the Yanka to win as quickly aa possible. So ’does George Weiss and all the other executives. The team wants victories, too and just at fast as they can get, them. They know that the big blue flag with "world champions" lettered on It means more to the men who pay them than a few hundred thousand dollars Their spirit is that of a college team, a. ■ emarkahle fact when you remem ber that each and every Yankee la . a business man. working at base-! ball just as tankers work at j banking, farmers at farming, and i shoe clerks al shoe-clerking It's a living to them, but they work at It as if they were playing a game Before writing this story we talked to Ed Barrow about It. and the president of the Yankees agreed with all the points but suggested that we add this tact: By winning in four straight so many times, and by overwhelming the opposition, the Yankees saved something like STS a series on balls batted Into the grandstand in practice drills Each ball costs

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UPSETS MARK GRID BATTLES Northwestern, .Minnesota, Wisconsin Are I pnet Victims Chicago. Oct. ». — tu.R) — Disasirous reverses against aggressive opponents from the southwest and big six conference has realigned I I the balance of power or lack of it In the big ten and the real firing hasn't even started. Ohio State replaced Northwestigna and Michigan, itself, dropped i ’ I western as co-tavorite with Michigan and Michigan Itself, dropped <a peg In title conaideralion. North- ' western, badly outscored by Okla i homa. now is only a darkhorue along with Minnesota and Purdue More shuffling is due next week- ’ end In ike first important Satur- ’ day «f the conference acaaoa. Pur due will travel to Mtnueaota and Northwestern will play at Ohio Slate. Two hlg teams will be forced to give ground In their first j skirmish of the campaign. I Also scheduled Saturday are lowa at Michigan. Indiana at Wisconsin. Harvard at Chicago and Illinois at Southern California. In | the mld-weat'a headliner outside , the big ten. Notre Dame and Southern Methodist, both undefeated although Oklahoma tied 8. M U.. j clash at South Bend. Ind. Northwestern's collapse Saturday against Oklahoma. 23 to «. was more of a shock to the big ten ithaa Minnesota's « to o defeat at Nebraska and Texas' 17 to 7 vicI tory over Wisconsin. a dollar or thereabouts And the Yanks average some IS balls Into the stands a practice drill. You figure It out.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Notre Dame 17. Georgia Tech li lowa 32 Indiana 29. Oklahoma 23. Northwestern 0 Nebraska fi. Minnesota 0. Texaa 17. Wisconsin 7. Michigan 2C. Michigan State 13. Chicago 12. Wabash 2. Ohio State 19. Missouri 0. Battle State C. St. Joseph's 0. Butler 34. Indiana State •. Duke 37. Colgate 9. Carnegie Tech fi. Temple 0. Alabama 7, Fordham C. Army 9. Centre C. Ixmtsiana State 3fi. Holy Cross 7. Yale 10. Columbia 7. Navy 14. Virginia 12. - oWorld Series Worth Over $5,000 To Yank Cincinnati, Oct «t iu,p) Eaeh member of the New York Yankees entitled to a full share of the world seri<>s money received M.«14.2< Each member nf the Clnrlarat. Reds entitled io ■ fuii share of the loser's money got 14.2M.M1 The Yankees voted JS.tHNt In cash to various members of their organisation and gave two men S of a share each. They voted 30 full shares The Reds voted 26 full shares, four » shares and ot.e i t share o Joe DiMaggio Will Wed In Three Weeks Cincinnati Oct. 9 - (UJU—Joe DIMaggio will be a bridegroom In three weeks. The Yankees' star outfielder announced at the end of the world series yesterday that he plans to spend two or three days In New York and then return to his San Francisco restaurant and his fiancee. Miss Dorothy Arnold. The wedding will take place In about three weeks, he said

TANKEESTAKE FOURTH IN ROW TO WIN SERIES Retain World's Championship With Fourth In Row Over Reds By Harry Ferguson * I United Press Sports Editor I Cincinnati. Oct. »- <UPJ The - New York Yankees, world ck.tmI pions of baseball tor the fourth ' consecutive year and victors in j four straight games for the last two seasons, will let you name i vour own game and then beat you fit ft ’***'s<■*■■■ Tnere can't be much dou | mure, as Cincinnati went Into mourning for the Reds, that the Yankees of I9M-39 are one of the i greatest ball teams ever put tol gelher. No one doubts that (hey are the most versatile If you want to play close, heads |up baa,- ba 11 behind a classy pitchI »r. they will beat you at that. If you want to risk everything on de- | fenae. they will surpass you afield I And if you want to slug with them well, that la like drawing a sharp, new rasur across your thnmt. The remarkable thing in the ■ wrlea that just ended Is the way ■ | the Yankees can adapt themselves 1 I to any situation. In the first gamej ' in New York, the Reds came up, ' with Paul Delh-ringer. who did a | , outrageous Job of pitching. He . I pitched well enough to Win five <>t any seven ball games whether I 'they were played In the world | i series or not. But Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yankees called I<m Rufus the Red Ruffing with > the result that the Reds looked at j high class pitching such as they > seldom see In the National league It was the same story tn the' second game. Bucky Walters. | ; with a baffling sinker ball. Ggurejl i to be a tough man fur the Yanks i to beat .McCarthy knew he tras ' t going to have to get good pitching |so he trotted out Monte Pearson.' ’ a frail sort of fellow who has a I . great knack of coming through, • when the chips are down I’ewrj sou subdued the Reds with a two ' hitter the beat pitched game at I the series. Then the series shifted to the west and the Reds were on home ' I grounds where they figured to hit 'better. And they did. but the| | Yankees rose up aud luau ued and' i ouuuaicteed al tile slugging McI Carthy unveiled his super-special ■ \ Tor 1939 -a swarthy kid named i Charlie Keller who is only one I year out of the minor leagues. Keller had given some Indication of whai might happen when |he smote a mighty triple In the Drat game In New York. But that was mild compared to what he did out here Two years ago home plate In Crosley Field was moved closer to the right field bleachers in the hope that Ival Goodman would drop home runs in there. Keller, also a left handed hitter, took one look at that set up and decided it was hla dish On Saturday he broke out with two homers ana yesterday he got another If you are looking for a hero of this series take Mr Keller. You won't find any better one. But he didn't have to carry the whole burden when It became a slugging match. Those tried and true home run veterans. Joe Di Maggio and Bill Dickey, had the range, too, and It became downright dangerous to occupy a seat In the bleachers when the Yankees were at bat. Saturday for Instance, the Yankeea got only five hlta. but four of them were home runs Yesterday Keller helded himself ■ to another homer and Dickey got I <me. too. just to keep In practice for the start of the 1940 season

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Hailing World Series ]| J ■ iZFI K I ueki w || Monte Pearvoa and Jos McCarthy K Big hero of the world aeries. Monte Pearsor left r-r, jrw •>» Jt gratulations of Manager Joe McCarthy of the New Yort Via.iK Us stel'ar two-hit pitching performs:.., agairat U,

The pay-off on Yankee power really came yesterday They were faced by the two best pitch era of the Cincinnati club—-Paul Derringer and Bucky Walters, perhaps the two best pitchers In the National leagde But they whaled away at Walters and D-r ringer as though they were a pair of kids, fresh out o< the bushes the Yankees are strongest where they need to be strong- right down the middle of the diamond Gordon and Cro settl are the finest double play team In the game and Cincinnati fans gasped at the effortless way in which the boys sponged up ' ard chances Back of them was th. beet centerflelder in the busl ness. Joe IM Maggio wbo put on the act yesterday by racing to the center field fence, spinning suddenly and catching a ball that had "double" written all over It The Reds seemed to have a chance for a while yesterday, but they finally went down In the [ tenth Inning aud lost. J tn 4 Their defense collapsed and Derringer. after working well for six innings, finally got touched for a < ouple of home runs There was i no alibi for the Reda they were out fielded, out pitched and i | i*utthought. The Yankees' opponents usually ' are. Cubs, White Sox To Battle Tonight CWcago. Oct 9 Charley Root, veteran right-hander of the Chicago Cuba, goes -to the mound tonight In an attempt to put the city series with the White Box on

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