Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1941 — Page 8
SPORTS.
By Eddie Ash
Co right WN ¥ k Ni n Here it is, the ploy 4 thet wrote baseball history. With the score, 4 to 3, in favor of the Dodgers and te strikes Ease Tomy
Henrich whiffs for the final out. But fate had it that the ball should get away from Dodger catcher, Mickey Owens. Here it is rolling away to the Brooklyn dugost, Henrich goes safely to first. After that the deluge of Yankee hits.
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Even Babe Herman Doesn't IRank With This Modern Version of the Great Bums
FERGUSON Sports Editor
The great Joe DiMaggio slides home in the hectic ninth inning ‘of yesterday's Series game, with the run which put the Yankees ahead. Teammate Tommy Henrich y! who scored just ahead of the Yankee outfielder, waves him in. Dodger Catcher Mickey Owen (10) waits for he Seow which was too ote: Umpire Larry Goetz watches the play Shosely. The Yanks won 7 to 4.
Mr. MacPhail The Great
By JOE WILLIAMS ; : Times Special Writer ' NEW YORK, Oct, 6.—The game is over, the fourth game of the World Series, the key game
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What Phantom Rules This Plot of Land, "This Earth, This Brooklyn; What Goes On Here! ?
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United Press Staff Correspondent FANTASY FIELD, Brooklyn, Oct. 6.—This is a y, Disneyesque land where no is real. The third strike for the third out
What baseball needs is fiber helmets for ball players, only they ‘should get them when they are babies to protect their heads when they fall out of high chairs.
think of them | as Destiny's Dopes. Don’t tell me those men. in . white coats are selling ' hot dogs. . I know what they're here
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Yoni: Oct. 8—From now on whien you call ‘em Bums spell it a o“” ” The | Brooklyn Dodgers waited until the fourth game of the World Series to begin living down to their reputation, but once they got started they did it up in 17+jewel, straight eight, a la carte fashion. In five frenzied seconds yesterday they surpassed all the incredible things they |
IN THE long ago, Harry Pulliam, who was president _ of the National League, coined a phrase that aptly covers the situation during the frenzied ninth inning of yesterday’s World Series game . . . “Take nothing for granted
And root up all this marijuana weed that grows around here. If you would loosen this strait jacket I could breathe easier.
Butler Harriers |Outrun. Loyola
Loyola took the first two places
able manner, a thing t hat could only happen in unbelievable Brooklyn. By now
in the ninth inning doesn’t end the ball game here. The Wizard of Oz? This is his home.
They say that on Walpurgis eve the ghosts of old Dodgers
in base In a us game, anything can happen, and usually does, when the stakes are high and the pressure tremendous . .'. and until the last man is out no dyed-in-the-wool fan ever makes a move for ~ an exit, : hs Hero one minute, goat the next . .. or a bum today, hero tomorrow. ...On Saturday, Fred Fitzsimmons, well on the way to baseball’ : pedestal, was tossed aside by fate when a line drive (hit by a pitcher, mind you), lamed him so that he could not continue. And you know how fickle fortune yesterday opened the gates to ~~ Hugh Casey and then slammed them shut when Batterymate Mickey . Owen muffed a third strike that would have been the game-ending out and tied the Series. . . . Any good catcher is going to muff one now and then, but to have it happen in a World Series and against the powerful Yankees is against all the law of averages. ' We picked the Yankees to win the fall classic for two reasons, ~ based on regular season statistics . . . more long-ball hitters and a staggering output of double plays by their infield. . . . But we do think the Yankees got more than their share of the breaks Saturday and Sunday. Our sympathy goes to Mickey Owen, the Dodgers’ catcher whose error cost his club the fourth game ... but it was an honest error committed in the hes of a tense struggle. A
Three Yankees Pace Series Batting
THE COMPOSITE box score of the first four World Series games reveals the Yankees’ club batting average is 259 to .197 for the Dodgers. . . . In base hits the American Leaguers have collected 35
$0 25 by Brooklyn. . . . Three Yankee regulars are batting well over «300, none of the Dodger regulars is at or above that mark. . ; Joe Gordon is swatting 545, Charlie Keller. 467 and Red Rolfe 353. .., , The composite bow, assembled by United: Press;
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Unearned Runs—Yankees 4, Dodgers 2. Earned Runs—Yankees 10, Dodgers : Sturm 1. Double Plays—Yankees: Gordon-Riszuto-Stufm 4, Rolfe-Rissuto, Dickey-Gordon, Rissuto-Sturm; ) Reese-Herman-Camilli, Reese-Camilli. Left on Bases—Yankees 87,
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Bases on Balls ott—Yankess: Ruffing 3, Chandler 2, Murphy 1, Busse 2, anata 3, Bron 1; Dodgers; ‘Divis 3, Allen 8, Wyatt 5, Fitssimmons 3, Higbe 2, Struck: Qut ‘by==Yankees: Ruifing 5, Chandler 2, Murphy 3, Russo 5, mii Dodgers: Davis 1, Wystt 5, Fitssimmons 1, Higbe 1, Casey 1. Hus off—Yankees: “Ruffing 6-9, Chandler 4-5, Murphy 2-6, Russo 4-9, | 8-4, Breuer 3/8; Dodgers: Davis 6-515, Casey 9-515, Allen 1-33, Wyatt ‘4-17, French 0-1, Higbe: 6-635, . Hits by Pitcher—Yankees: Sturm Jews Henrich (by Allen),
Games won—Yankees: Rafting 1, Russo 1, Murphy 1; Dodgers: Wyatt 1. ‘Lost—Yankees: Chi ‘1; Dodgers: Davi: 1, Casey 2. Times of games 2:08; 2a: 2:81; 3d: 8% ‘Ath: 2:54, : ©
» Reasons for Joy in Columbus
SPORTS GOERS. in. Columbus, Ohio, today had two reasons to sp out and make whoopie. . ... Their|{Red Birds won the Little
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ever have done, going all the way back to the glorious days of Babe Herman who used to field flies by letting them hit him on top of the head. The Dodgers may lose the World Series—in fact, they have just about as much chance to win it as Mickey Owen has to get a raise. But their fdme is secure in the annals of baseball. No one ever will equal their feat of yesterday. They became the only team ever to win and lose a World Series game on one pitch. Faithful Ready ™~N For a fragment of a second the Dodgers had defeated the Yankees, 4 to 3, and evened the series at two games each. They were victors long enough for a yell of triumph to go up from the Flatbush Faithful and for police to swarm onto the field to protect the Bums from their frenzied adherents. There were two out in the Yankees’ half of the ninth, the Dodgers were leading by one run and the count on the batter—Tommy Henrich—was three and ‘two. Hugh Casey, Brooklyn pitcher, was” one pitch away from victory. He rared back and gave it all he had. The
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st base he turned and saw ge sight. He saw Mickey Owen, Dodger catcher, clear back by the grangstand just completing a throw to first base. Then he knew why Combs had been so busily wig-wag-him to run. The ball had
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a third strike. By now, of course, you know what happened next. Yankees hit singles. Yankees hit doubles. Yankees received intentional passes and unintentional passes. Yankees poured ‘across the plate with four runs before Casey got the side out. About a half hour later reporters entered the Dodger dréssing room and asked Owen if he would like to make the opening statement for the defense.
One of Those Things
“It was like this,” he said, sitting on the edge of a rubbing table. “I went after it, but the ball hit the ledge of my glove and spun away. By the time I got fairly started
there were policemen all over: the
of Manager Leo Durocher had a briefer, more pungent explanation: “It was all the fault,of them . . cops,” he said, remaining faithful to the Brooklyn idiom in his hour te i te ce ore e rs, playing with a crippled and ovised lineup, had come from behind to
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Not as Bad
NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (U. P.). —There is no precedent in World Series history for what happened to the Brooklyn Dodgers in the first half of the ninth inning yesterday. No team ever lost a game when leading by one run with two out in the ninth on an error by a. catcher. The closest parallel occurred in. the 1907 Series between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs and all the factual detail comes from Jack Doyle, Broadway's . official oddsmaker. It was the first game of the Series and the Tigers, with Wild Bill Donovan on the mound, led going into the ninth, 3-1. But Frank Chance singled and Harry Steinfeldt was hit in the ribs. Johnny. Kling popped out but Bill Coughlin fumbled Jonny Evers’ roller and loaded the bases. Frank = Schulte grounded out, Chance scoring and when DonQvan . worked the count on
balls, he sauntered off the mound and Germany
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dt: “Just hold your glove there and Ill curve over the best SyivS Jou: ever saw to. Snish
But Schmidt missed Je catch and Howard raced firs, Harry Steinfelds. scoring the tying run.. However, the Tigers did not-lose the 0 er aE as with the score 3 to 3.
it when Atley Donald wilted in the suffocating heat, With two out in the fourth Donald walked Mickey
for the injured Billy. Herman at second, and pinch-hitter Jimmy Wasdell doubled into. the left field
-|corner driving them home.
“|ball is a.provision that the batter may run if the catcher fails to hold | Dodgers,
Two. swings in She fifth and the were on top. Dixie Walker, idol of ‘Flatbush fans, whistled a double into left and Pete Reiser hit a homer between the scoreboard and the clock in right-center field. That put the Dodgers. on top, 4-3, and they stayed there until the roof fell in-on them in the fatal ninth Again today the Dodgers are likely to play without Herman at second base. - ae injured his left side swinging in batting practice Saturday. The injury has spread from the area of his kidney up to his shoulder and. diathermy treatments have failed. to improve it. Manager Durocher benched Third Baseman Cookie Lavagetto yesterday in favor of ‘Lew Riggs and midway in: the game put Jimmy Wasdell in- left instead of Joe Medwick. Durocher is apt to throw in everything. but the kitchen stove to stop ‘the Yanks
after it Henrich was on first and| tod,
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you know all, about that. But the game is ovef and we are in the press ; SE room and hi Larry MacPhail is at the bar, as aren't we all at at this. moment. He is surprisingly subdued. His chief concern at the moment seems to be the low, depressed feeling of his chief scout, Ted McGrew, who is actually crying. In such circumstances you would expect MacPhail to be at his roaringest. Instead he is doing the best he can to wrench ‘his old scout, McGrew, out of the doldrums.
“Chin Up, Old Man” «os “We'll get 'em tomorrow,” he is saying. “Don’t be a flat tire. Stick your chin out.” “And with these remarks he keeps on hitting the old scout, hitting him in the body and ' aro! the chin and making you feel sorry for the old
Te came upon the mad MacPhail in the press room after all has happened and except for punching his old scout, McGrew, around he is amazingly normal. . “I just come from the dressing | room,” he tells you. “I just talked with Owen. He says, ‘I do the best I can on that ball but it gets away from me.” There is another 3000 words from
Nobody gave him an argumen t.
| They felt the same way about Owen.
What happened was what could have happened to the greatest catcher that ever lived. A curve ball got away from him, It was his tough luck that it got away from him against a background, a circumstantial pattern, that must make him the goat of all goats in all World Series. But deep down in our unexpert
heart we have nothing but the}
warmest fee for Owen. This is because of what he said to the Mad MacPhail. guess I should have held the fall Tionow 1 should have held the t have I done ‘to other fellows?” fa) Ye
come out on Ebbets Field and play a game of: ball backwards. The pitcher stands at home plate and the batter on the pitcher's mound, they run the bases from
third to first, the umpires are’
always right and the third strike for the third out always starts a batting rally. . There is something sinister about it. What are: they trying to. do to baseball? Was that a spectre stirring up the dust around first base or. just the breeze from Leo Durocher’s coaching box? What phantom rules
_ this plot of land, this earth, this
realm, this Brooklyn? What. goes on here? Look, it stands to’ reason that when a guy has ‘three strikes on him he’s out. Reason has nothing to do with it, sonny.’ I can remember back to Sunday afternoon when two and two made four. Beyond that it’s kind of hazy. I've heard talk ‘about three terms for President. And prohibition. When are they going to enforce it? I'm an old man pow. Old before my -time, ‘and my memory isn’t so good any more. Things are all mixed up. os Heinie Zimmerman chased ‘Eddie Collins across home plate, on That doesn’t seem so long-ago. Just like yesterday.
We were talking about the Dodgers, weren't we? A great ball team. They always come through in the clutch, A ball game isn’t over till the third out in the ninth, they always say. : They say that Stevedore Dally is a ‘great painter. He never painted nothing like this. Let him come out to this ball park, sonny, and we will show him stuff to curdle his color scheme. And if Graucko Marx means it when he says he is quitting the movies, well, here 1s his chance. I have been scouting him for some time now and he is about ripe. When he -gets overripe we will send for him.
What's Roy Riegels doing these days? Of course, he was a football player but’ he had the makin’s, He was brought up wrong. is all. Many a good boy goes wrong and ends up playing the pinball machines when the Dodgers are just starving for material,’ If ‘it was a pinball machine yesterday ali the lights would have flashed, the bells would have rung and then the damn thing would have tilted. Bingo. Take two and hit to right. Old Dodgers never die, they only fade away.
in a cross country meet Saturday to win the meet, 25 to 31.
Rice of Butler finished fifth for his
career,
Capt. Max Lenover and Norb
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