Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1941 — Page 10

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That: Was Only Human and Across the River They Don’t Like Ballplayers Too Good

So It's Natural to Talk About Brooklyn Losing the Series; That's the Way They Do Things

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Well, the series is over and the Bums lose as practically everybody expects them to except maybe your correspondent who is thinking all the time about the Gods who will come down and help them when they need help and then it turns out that the Gods do nof come down, especially when Mickey Owen misses that ball

SPORTS... ‘By Eddie Ash

. THE WORLD SERIES is over but its memory will ~ linger on through the hot stove league and until spring | training calls the athletes back to the diamond. ... It was that kind of Series . . . brimful of incidents and situations that furnish winter baseball fuel. The entire nation was wrapped up in the outcome of the title play and while the underdog Dodgers lost they made it interesting game-by-game despite the fact the Yankees ended it all in five

“battles. A short Series is tough on the club owners because they don’t

. Rosar,

begin to share in the receipts in a big way until the fifth game but e suppose they're thankful that there was a fifth this time. . .. The ankees, as you have heard, usually go in for grand slams, of four

traight.

Joe Gordon walked off with [the batting honors for regulars by

slamming seven hits in 14 times up for a .500 average. . .. in a World Series. . ..

that’s something! . . . clicking .

Yeah, bo, And three

of his blows were for extra bases, double, triple, homer.

Charlie Keller batted .389 and Red Rofe .300. . . Yankees were alone in the charmed circle for regulars. . . none batted. .300.

regular got more than four hits al

. These three . No Dqdger

~ Yankee pitchers took careful aim when facing Brooklyn’s two best hitters and this strategy stalled’ the Dodgers’ attack. . . . Pete Reiser was held to an average of .200 and Dolph Camilli to .167. In addition, both Pete and Dolph struck out six times.

Young Shortstops Deliver on Defense

* DEFENSIVE PLAY of the young

shortstops stood out. . . . Fresh-

man Phil Rizzuto accepted 30 of 31 chances and Sophomore Peewee

. Reese accepted 27 out of 30. ,

. Rizzuto also figured in six double

plays and Reese in four. . . , Both are American Association graduates, the former from Kansas City, the latter, Louisville,

The runs-batted-in leaders were

Gordon, 6; Keller, 6; Reser, 3.

. Tommy Henrich, yesterday’s home run smacker, is indebted to

Judge K. M. Landis for the young fortune he has accumulated since

joining the Yankees.

Discovered and signed by the Cleveland Indians several years ago, he got a break in Cleveland’s farming-out methods. , . . Judge Landis entered the picture, declared Henrich a free agent and the player promptly received a sugary bonus for signing with the Yankees. The United Press’ composite box score of the five World Series games gives you al the statistics to use in hot stove league sessions,

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Dodgers, 27. 3, C re 2, Murphy 1, Russo 2,

‘Donald 3, Breuer 1, Bonham 2; Dodgers: Davis 3, Allen 3, Wyatt 10, Fitzsimmons 8, Higbe 2, Casey 2. Struck out by—Yankees: Ruffing 5, Chandler 2, Murphy 3,

" Russo 5, Donald 2, Breuer 2, Bonham 2; Dodgers: Wild pitch—Dodgers:

mons 1, Higbe 1, Casey 1.

Davis 1, Wyatt 14, FitzsimWyatt 1.

Hits off Yankees: Ruffing 6-9, Chandler 4-5, Murphy 2-6, Russo 4-9, Done.

-4, Breuer 6-4, Bonham 4-9; Dodgers: Davis 6-513, Ca

9-515, Allen. 13%,

sey aide 15-18, Fitzsimmons 4-7, French 0-1, Higbe 6-235. Hit by pitdher—Yankees:

Sturm and Henrich (by Allen).

Games won—Yankees: Ruffing 1, Russo 1, Murphy 1, Bonham 1; Dodgers:

: Wyatt 1.

_ fifth, 34,073. Total—285,773. s 8 2

. Games lost—Yankees:: Chandler 1; Dodgers: Davis 1, Casey 2, Wyatt 1. Time "of games—{first, 2:08; second, 2:31; third, 2:82; fourth, 2:54; fifth, 2.13, . Attendances—First game, 68,540; second,

66,248; third, 33,100; fourth, 38,513;

One Series oddity: Johnny Sturm, Yankee leadoff man, failed

to score a run , . . But got six hits, far ~ Kansas City, did all right and sewed

better than his season’s average.

batted in two runs and batted . The freshman, up from up his job for next season.

At the start of the 1941 season Sturm was riding the bench, ~ Gordon was playing first base and Jerry Priddy held down the key- ~ stone. . . . Only Hoosiers in the Series player ranks were Billy Her-

man and Fred Fitzsimmons.

‘Johnny Sturm Going Hore To St. Louis fo Be Married

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U. P).— Where * they're going and what they're doing today: us FA YANKEES— ey. and Johnny Murphy EEL Lefty Gonez—Pans = between here and LexJohnny Sturm— ‘to St. ot. Louis ‘to 2% married.

kN 0 Gerry a to California. Phil Rizge down South. Atley ald and Joe Gordon—Home to

California. Buddy Rosar and Manager Joe McCarthy—Home to Buffalo. Tommy Henrich—Tour of New England. THE DODGERS— Manager Leo Purochir-Reium to St. Louis for his daughter’s wedding in mid-October, then to Coast. Larry French, Augie Galan, Fred Fitzsimmons, "Dolph Camilli, Curt Davis and Cookie Lavagetto—All residents of California, plan a |hunting trip in Modoc County, California, within a week. Fitzsimmons returns to Brooklyn in November to open bowling alley.

Wiis Wyatt—Home to Buchanan, a.

| HIGH SCHOOLS

a (Indianapolis), 13; Manual, 0

Cr Attucks, 21; Indiana Boys" School Tainhe lel a)

Champion Beaten

HONOLULU, Oct. 7 (U.P.).—Rush Dalma, clever Filipino bantamweight, won a disputed 10-round decision over Lou Salica, world bantam champion, in a non-title bout here last night.

bus Bulls, 14; New York Amer-

Yankees, coldly-efficient ball players

and the fifth time in six years. Bums of Brooklyn—yeh, Bums is the word—is that they get the chance to spend the winter calling the Yanks “lucky” and a‘lot of other names besides.

A lot the Yanks care what you call them. They have the winner’s share of the World Series, have won more titles than any team in history and Joseph Vincent McCarthy, their Irish leader who rarely pokes his head. out of the dugout, has managed his sixth world’s championship outfit—a record unachieved by Connie Mack, John J. McGraw or any other baseball immortal.

Lost 4; Won 24

The Yanks completed their triumph yesterday by throttling the Dodgers, 3-1, and capturing the series, four games to one. Over the stretch of six winning World Series under McCarthy since 1932 the Yanks have lost just four ball games while winning 24. And when each series was over the opposition went to the wailing: wall and bemoaned the Yanks’ luck. You still can hear the Dodgers and their faithful flock of followers saying: “If Fitzsimmons hadn’t been hit on the leg and forced to retire from Saturday’s game?” “If Mickey Owen had caught the|; third strike on Henrich in Sunday's game?” “If Pete Reiser’s drive for a triple had been a few feet farther in the first inning yesterday?” “If Billy Herman hadn’t hurt his back?” And other alibis and secondguesses.

Yanks Were Better

Added up all they mean is that the Yanks have the best club and deserved to win. The Yanks play the cards as they fall. They take the bad breaks with the good and keep going. “Yankee Luck” is nothing more than putting the pressure on a team and keeping it on until it cracks—nothing more than playing all the percentages and squeezing the last drop from them— nothing more ‘than rising to the occasion in the clutch. The only game the Dodgers won, the Yanks gave them—on an error by Joe Gordon, the World Series hero. With the score tied, 2-2, in the. second game Gordon made one of his rare errors on a ball hit by Dixie Walker, Walker.came round to score what proved to be ¢he winning run of a 3-2 game. But did Gordon alibi his error or fret? If he did, nobody heard about it. He didn't even bother to say that the ball Walker hit took a bad bound at the last second and almost got away from him. He just went back in the third, fourth and fifth games and played like.a man possessed—cutting off base-hits and hammering the ball all over the lot.

Dodgers Outplayed

Any cold analysis of the series must concede that. the . Dodgers, outhit, 'outfielded and outpitched, were very fortunate not ‘to have lost in four straight. The Yanks outhit the Dodgers, 247 to .183, outfielded them 990 to .980, made seven double plays to Dodgers’ five,

and tossed in a couple of magnificently pitched four-hit games by Marius Russo and Ernie Bonham. The Yanks left 43 men on base to the Dodgers’s27, which means the Bronx Bombers were on the march the greater part of the time, storming at the Brooklyn defense until they battered it in. The final game, played before

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The F. act Is, the Bums Were Outhit, Outpitched, Qutplayed

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—Some people call it luck and some cal it just plain murder. But whatever you want to call it, the New Yo

without an ounce of sentiment, keep

on winning and making their opponents moan. The Yanks are champions of the baseball world for the ninth time And all that’s left for those gallant

34,072 highly partisan Dodger fans, was a true yardstick on the clubs’ relative merits. Big Ernie Bonham, a 220-pound former - lumberjack from California, pitched a masterful four-hitter and beat the Dodgers’ best man, Whitlow Wyatt, “the Rock of Chickamauga.” Bonham allowed only two men to reach third and the Dodgers scored their lone run on an outfield fly. Meanwhile the Yanks had their hammers and chisels breaking “The Rock of Chickamauga” up into little pieces. Wyatt threw everything he had at the Yanks—his fast ball, his slider and his slow one,

Even Used Temper

He even tossed in his temper once by’ calling Joe DiMaggio some endearing names. This proved a mistake because DiMaggio stormed out to the box to punch Wyatt when others intervened. Later DiMaggio took revenge by rifling a sizzling single past Wyatt's head. If DiMaggio was aiming at Wyatt, he was way off form. He must have missed him by all of four feet.

The Yanks settled the issue.early, jamming over two runs in the second on a walk to Keller, Dickey’s long single, Wyatt’s wild pitch — which went farther over Owen’s head than DiMaggio’s hit did over Wyatt's bean—and Gordon’s single.

Tommy Henrich hoisted a homer over the right field screen for another one in the fifth. But with Bonham retiring in order 12 of the last 13 men who faced him, Henrich’s hemer was just extra gravy for the big fat turkey the Yanks now will carve.

Kantsky’s Seek Pro Berth

The Indianapolis Kautsky’s basket-

son,

Owner Frank Kautsky and Abe Goldsmigh will go to Chicago to-|U méirow to attend a league meeting.|T They have been assured by Leo Fischer, league president, that their entry will be accepted.

The league will be composed of the Detroit Eagles, world’s pro champions. last year, Oshkosh AllStars, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Sheyboygan- (Wis.) Redskins, Chicago Bruins, Toledo White Huts, Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons and Kaustky'’s. Players signed for this year’s local team are Jewell Young, Purdue; Johnny Sines, Purdue; = Johnny Townsend, Michigan; Bob Dro, Indiana; Bill Menke, Indiana, and Mark "Erte, Notra Dame.

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Big Ernie Bonham (center) bows his head as umpires, police, fans and brother ballplayers crowd around the 220-pound Yankee pitcher after he stood the Bums on their heads with four hits in: the final World Series game.

Bums Loser's Share Largest

NEW YORK, Oct. T (U. P.).—The Brooklyn Dodgers lost the World Series to the New York Yankees but they will draw the largest individual shares of any losing club in history. The Dodgers voted 26% shares and $6000 in gifts as compared with 321% shares and $6000 in presents handed out by the Yankees. After the split, each ' ger drew down $4808 while Yanks collected $5917.31 each, sixth largest purse for the winners. « * Full shares were voted by the Dodgers to 19 regulars, Manager Leo Durocher, Secretary John McDonald and Coaches Chuck Dressen and Red Corriden. Babe Phelps, Angelo Giuliani, Paul Waner, Mace Brown and Alex Kampouris, all Dodger regulars at one time or another this year, were ignored entirely. This division did not include the return from the radio rights.

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‘Same Old Story

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. wo He hits—Wyatt. ase hit—Reiser. . Home run—Renrich. Left on

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Sox Try for Four Straight

CHICAGO, Oct. 7 (U. P.)— Weather permitting, the White Sox will try again tonight in Comiskey Park to make it four straight over the Cubs in Chicago's city series. Heavy rains washed out last night's contest in which Thornton Lee of the Sox was to face Jake Mooty of the Cubs. Lee, who was rained out after three : scoreless innings in the second game of the series last Thursday, is slated to pitch tonight. However Manager Jimmy Wilson said Claude Passeau, refreshed by the added day’s rest, would start for the Cubs. Since the Sox lead three games to none, a victory for them tonight would end the series.

Manual Outruns

Manual High School’s crosscountry squad scored its second straight victory yesterday afternoon between . halves of the RedskinContinental football . game by. beating - Washington, 15-45. Gedrge Stoyonovich and John and Mike Mascdri finished in a triple tie for first place. The trio ran the mile and a half route in

‘|second basemen in the history of

But let’s skip the whole thing and repeat, right from the heart, what our old pal says; there is nothing ficional about Mike the Bite except as how we have described him. There was only one guy on the Yankee team to the Bite and that was Gordon, the second baseman. “Did you notice hdw hump backed he got?” asked the Bite. We hadn't. “How could he miss, carrying all them other Yankee players on his

shoulders? How could he miss? Tell me that.”

Gordon Is Great

It not only startles us but makes us much afraid of the grim reaper when we give it a thought that we have probably seen all the greaty

the game. We have seen Lajoie and Collins and Gehringer—and we have seen Gordon. Of course we personally felt very close to the Bums, We got fat odds and bet on them and we suppose old Judge Landis will call our Boss and try to get us fired because you are not supposed to bet on ball games and if there 1s anybody else next to F. D. R. or Charlie Chaplin who is trying to be a real dictator we don’t know who it is unless it is the Old Judge. This being so— or just assume it is so—you gotta admit he would never understand or appreciate Brooklyn.

Mickey’s Set for Life

For instance he would never understand why the fans cheered every time when Mickey Owen came to bat. All Mickey Oyen did was lose the World Series for the Bums. But. over there, across the bridge, although they’ve waited for 21 years to get into the World Series, and never in their life have they ever won a World Series, they still love Mickey Owen. Why? He’s human. He missed a ball that any other catcher could have missed, but this way it could happen only in Brooklyn; only a Brooklyn catcher could miss a third strike that would, or quite possibly, cost Brooklyn its first World Series. That paradoxically makes Mickey Owen the greatest figure in the World Series. He’s set for life. “They do fot like you over here in our town,” remarked Mr. Garry Schumacker, the - sports writer,

7 minutes and 32 seconds.

you just can’t let“go. ask why. If there is a better all

“unless you do the right thing the wrong way.”

O’Doul Had a Dead Arm When Mr. Schumacker said this

we were sitting alongside a pretty fair ball player, at least he was ¢ pretty fair in his day. He just ea the National League in hitting and the year he does this he is a meme ber of the Bums.

“But they do not like me ‘bew

cause I'm hitting,” admitted Mr, O’Doul. have a dead arm and can’t throw.”

“They .like me because I

“That's what I'm trying to tel}

you,” cuts back Mr. Schumacker,

“This is not a community tha wants perfection. A fellow like Div

Maggio for instance, could never

play for Brooklyn.”

Now that’s the kind of remark You gotta

around ball player in the world than DiMaggio, who is it? So Brooklyn wouldn't want him. Why? What do you think Mr. Schue« macker’s answer is? “He's tog good.” Doesn't Want Perfection |

Don't laugh at that.

Brooklyn is like that. Brookly)

doesn’t want the perfect artists.

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n't kidding when the red Mickey Owen time

after time when he came to bat,

From now on he’s their great heroj

he lost out in a .winning cause,

That’s the kind of town this is, An underdog town that doesn’t mind being the upper dog but some« how is very happy when it doesn’f have to take any bows. We've even got the thought that the Bums liked to lose the Series. It would have been painful explaining how it wag won. It is quite natural today exe plaining how it was lost.

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