Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1942 — Page 18
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THE 1942 world series probably set a record for the number of experts that were forced to eat humble pie. . . .
The Cardinals not only beat the haughty Yankees «+ « -
* they rubbed it in by trouncing the American leaguers three straight on their home grounds. ak A strong supporter of the Yanks since the days of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, this department remained on their bandwagon this year and was caught under the Cardinal landslide. ~ Once over the first-game jitters, the spirited - National league champs turned the tables and made the Yanks look bad. . . . The St. Louis outfielders made circus catches that you used to read about only in fiction. . .. ° : Accustomed to being front runners, the Yanks lost poise, after the hungry Cardinals snatched the second game and were not’ equal to the pressure applied by their younger rivals. More rare feats were accomplished in the series than in any of recent years and it was St. Louis that produced them... . Give . them an inch and they'll take a mile is only half of it. . . .. The
Oards take two miles. . . , This hell-for-leather team was underrated, the Yanks were overrated on past performances.
‘Terry Moore, the Cardinals’ captain, said it in a nutshell, “The trouble with most National league teams in the past was the fact that they were satisfled merely to enter the world series with the Yanks. Our boys weren't satisfied. They wanted the title and -the extra $2500 or more that goes to each player on the series-winning team.”
It’s Ford Frick’s Turn fo Gloat Jr
OUTSIDE of the Cardinal organization, the happiest man in baseball is Ford Frick, ye olde Hoosier of DePauw, the president of the National league. . . . The American league forced him to “sing”
_ g@-plenty during his tenure in office and now it’s his turn to gloat.
« +. G0 to it, Ford, and make it loud. It was a Cardinal year. . .. In other words, it was in the cards for the Cards. . . . The Cardinal organization’s Columbus American association club also won the little world series, you will recall. . . . For some reason the Dixie series escaped the St. Louis influence. Last year Card Manager Billy Southworth was voted the “manager of the year” in the majors. . . . Repeat the order, please. . . .
Manager Southworth’s son, former outfielder with the Toronto In-
ternationals, now is Lieut. William Southworth Jr. of the army air force 1s a full-fledged flier. ;
1911 Series Lasted Until Oct. 26 "ONCE the Cardinals shook off the Yankee “awe” in the ninth
i inning of the first game, they played to their pennant stride and took
charge. . . . Oct. 5 is a rather early date to end it all, but the series got a good weather break and there was only one off-day for travel. . . . The Cards took care of the speed-up.’ In 1011 the world series lasted until Oct. 26. . . . Play didn't open until Oct. 14, the Giants beating the Athletics in the lid-lifter. .. . There was no game the next day, but on the 16th and 17th the
: Athletics took a two-games-to-one edge. . . . Then rain set in and
7 didn’t play for six days, from the 18th until the 24th. . . . The Athletics finally prevailed, four games to two.
they
EARLIEST start and finish was in 1018, the world war 1 era. :
+... The Red Sox and Cubs opened Sept. 5 and were through on the 11th. . . . That season the government ordered the majors to close their regular seasons ahead of schedule. : * Except for 1918, the earliest the series ever ended was Oct. 2, 1032, when play opened on Sept. 28 and ended Oct. 2 as the Yan-
_kees downed the Chicago Cubs in four straight.
Veteran Bowler of 20 Years Smashes Pins for 300 Game
Fred Tegeler, 1040 Hervey st., has waited 20 years to’ bowl a perfect
e. Last night the State Life formed Church league at Pritchett’s, game for & “300.”
Insurance Co. employee, rolling in the Rehit the pocket 12 times in his first
He followed with games of 247 and 202 for a 749 total
that led all bowlers in the city. Tegeler’s first game was the fourth made
Bowling Scores "Al Holman, Indiana Bell "Carrol Walker, N. S. Businessmen ....
league at Pritchett’s.
Herschel Livingston, Indpls. Church... : h
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ul Teams to Play Tilt i Canceled in 1918
GREAT LAKES, Ill, Oct. 6.— The Great Lakes naval training station football team travels to
in the city this year. He is a member of the Immanuel No. 2 team and also competes in the Universal
‘His last turn.of the first game was a “Brooklyn,” the ball crossed mid-alley and clipped the head-
518| Cleveland next Saturday to meet s00| the University of Pittsburgh in a
game postponed for 24 years.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6—Secretary John McDonald is expected to succeed Lieut. Col. Larry MacPhail as and general manager of! the Brooklyn Baseball club,
' the game.
During the undefeated Great Lakes season of 1918, the Bluejackets went all the way to Pittsburgh to play the Panthers before being advised.an influenza epi‘demic had forced cancellation of
‘|championship ball player.
{was killed in a mine accident.
| Club. and league shares. $278,135.92
‘worth was roughed up and the
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Rookie’s Ninth Inning Homer Beats Yanks By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 6—The world series post-mortems will carry countless reasons for the failure of the New York Yankees and the
sensational success of the St. Louis
Cardinals. But they hardly are necessary. All that is needed is a quick look at the career of George (Whitey) Kurowski, the hero of the fifth game, for he {typifies the
Kurowski, whose ninth-inning homer with one on provided the Cardinals with their fourth victory and the baseball championship of the world at Yankee stadium yesterday, symbolizes the indomitable, never-say-die spirit of the Red Birds. A quick look at his record makes the St. Louis triumph easily understood. Hit by Line Drive
Marked by mishaps and hampered by hard luck—that’s the story of Pennsylvania's potent Polish performer in capsule. Too, it's the story of the Cardinals, At the age of eight, Whitey fell off a fence into some broken glass and came up with osteomyelitis. This necessitated removal of a large piece of bone from his forearm, just above the wrist. In 1937, before he Jeft home to play ball, his brother
Reporting to the Cards for his first big league shot this spring, Whitey had to supplant the high-ly-regarded Creepy Crespi. Then he was hit in the face by a linedrive during practice. Later, he suffered several strained ligaments in a Dodger-Card game. And that’s not all,
Official figure for five’ world series games: Total attendance ........ 276,717 Total receipts ........$1,105,249.00 Players’ share ........54237,57941
Commissioners’ share ..$85,299.60 USO Share «...........$362,926.56 United Service Organizations ‘ receives entire $100,000 from sale of radio rights, 49 per cent of receipts from third and fourth games and would have received entire receipts from sixth and seventh games if played.
Whitey suffers from insomnia while traveling. He has to catch his sleep after the team makes its Yes, Hike the rest of his teammates, who overcame a 10% -game Brooklyn lead in their now-historic September surge to the National league flag, Whitey is hard to discourage. ' Happy Youngsters
“Kurowski was one of the central figures in the pandemonium that reigned in the Cards’ dressing room after the championship was clinched yesterday. : Laughing, singing, kissing, crying and screaming with joy, the Cards were just a bunch of deliriously happy youngsters who héisted the venerable Kenesaw Mountain Landis onto their shoulders and paraded him around the clubhouse. Kurowski shared the center of the swirling, mauling through with dark-haired Johnny Beazley, the Nashville, Tenn., lad who turned back the Yankees twice. South-
whole crew piled on top of Kurowski and Beazley. “How'd you like that one, fellows?” Kurowski screamed, blond hair hanging over his eyes, “Old Whitey pulled that one out of the hat for you bums!”
«Congratulations, Billy*
General Manager Branch Rickey appeared, had his hat pulled down over his eyes and was hoisted up on the team’s shoulders, alongside of National league president Ford Frick and the apprehensive Landis. “I never saw anything like this,” the commissioner said. “Let me out of here.”
ground for a while and then shook hands with Southworth. .
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“It was a great series, Joe,” Billy “I'm proud ve, beat a ball club like yours.”
Limits Ceremonies For Cardinals
world-champion St. Louis Cardinals they return home today, but Presi-
Joe McCarthy, the Yankee man-|7 ager, stood quietly in the back- |S
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NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (U. P.). ~The New York Yankees lost the 1942 world series to the St. Louis Cardinals but set more records than the new champions. Attendance at the Yankee stadium bettered the former standards of 68,540 fans and $265,396 receipts. All three games here went over that mark but Sunday’s figure of 69,902 and $269,408 was tops. The total five-game attendance of 266,717 was a new mark, and total receipts of $1,105,240 set a new high for & series in which the $100,000 radio receipts were not included. Yankee pitcher Charley Ruffing hung up three marks. He was best in winning his seventh game, fanning a seven-game total of 61 and hurling 72-3 innings of hitless ball, and tied Waite Hoyt's record by pitching in his seventh series. Dickey Séts Record
Shortstop Phil Rizsuto of the vanks garnered these marks: three assists in one inning, seven putouts in one game and 15 for the five-game set. His leadoff homer was the only other since 1917, when Buck Weaver walloped one for the Chicago White Sox against the New York Giants. : Yankee Outficlder Joe DiMaggio hung up a record with 20 putouts for the series and equaled a mark he made last year with a total of 20 chances. Catcher Bill Dickey registered a new figure by catching 33 series games. Other five-game series standards included Charley . Keller's two homers, the Yanks’ 18 runs--most for a loser—their failure to hit one triple, their 178 at-bats and their use of 20 different players. For the Cards, Outflelder Stan Musial tied a mark by hitting twice in one inning and Max Lenier’s two errors in one inning equaled the record for pitchers.
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will captain the Butler university cross-country team Saturday in its dual meet with Illinois Normal on the Fairview campus. Butler runners have won 22 of their last 24 duel cross-country engagements.
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Yankees Could} Give Runs And Come Back Laughing
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 6—It was strange watching the Yankees in this .series. They just didn’t seem to be the Yankees. Very likely they weren't . . . not the Yankees we used to know, anyway. Guys who could give the other guys runs and come back and laugh. This a .... Yankee team couldn't come back. The best they ; could do was draw even and then they couldn't stay even. They were beaten by a better ball club. They didn’t get any the best of the breaks, but they didn’t deserve to do any better than they did. They didn't hustle, they didn’t play heads up baseball and only . at scattered intervals did they show that quality which has always made them stand out , , . the quality of supreme personal superiority. They probably started out that way; they probably said to themselves this is just another National league team. All of a sudden they found themselves losing, presently they found themselves hanging on the ropes and then it turned out they couldn’t do anything about it. For the first time since 1926 . , . the year they were last beaten in a world series . . , they discovered their mental balance and mechanical balance was susceptible to flaws. At this point they became just another ball club. They even started pulling boners and going to sleep on the bases and in the dugout. # o 2 8 . t J
Not the Yankees We Knew
IT MAY BE THAT at no time were they more than just another ball club. This recalls a discussion we had with Mr. Venerable, alias Cornelius McGillicuddy, who said: Not the Yankee teams we used to know. enough to win in our league, but you wouldn them in the same terms as we used to talk about some o Yankee teams of the past.” , : Well, suppose this isn’t one of the old-time Yankee teams? Who can say for sure that one of the good Yankee teams could have beaten these Cardinals, Connie Mack calls them the most interesting and exciting team he has seen since 1906. , , . “They play the game the way the old timers did but it better.” , . . So when Mr. McGillicudy tells you about that . . . and a National league team, too . . . you don’t want to underrate the ball players who compose the new world champions. We think we hit the spike on the fright wig yesterday when we pointed out there is a difference and a distinction between National league champions and St. Louis champions. The former is always cut from a scrambled patch work pattern. The Brooklyns of last year, for one. The Hermans, the Camillis, the Medwicks and the. scattering of youngsters. Plainly a team put together with money and for one year only. The Cardinals roll their own. So do the Yankees, - It's farm system against farm system, £3
St. Louis Teams Are Different THIS WAS THE YEAR the Cardinals had
tly such an attitude toward N. L. clubs. / dead in these things, you know. But St.
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'41 Series Star Is ’42 Goat
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—In cleaning up the press box after the world series, we discovered that: Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto of the Yanks, smallest player in the classic, walked off with the biggest batting average, 381. We hope he bats that well against the Japs after joining the navy soon. . . . Meanwhile Joe “Flash” Gordon, star of the 1941 Dodgers-Yanks series, became the goat in this one, getting only two hits in 21 trips to the
plate, and being thrown out in cost
ly fashion in the ninth inning of
the final contest. Casey Stengel of the Braves Insists the Cards are a “track team,” not a ball club. He says they're so bloomin’ fast on the bases that, one day at Braves fleld, Johnny Hopp walked and when the pitcher pulled his cap a bit tighter “and looked up to watch Hopp, he learned to his dismay that Johnny
team every to win the. series and, likely, the lowest-salaried outfit to turn the trick in 20 years. It is reported that no player on the club gets more than $10,000 a year and that most of them get less than half that. To some of those “chaingangers,” the $2841 difference between a winning player’s share and a loser’s cut looked almost like a year's salary. No wonder the money-hungry lads were inspired. Al Schacht, clown prince of baseasked, “What's wrong with in this series?” Schacht
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Winning Habit Broken
The Yankees, scattering to their homes as the Cardinals were rolling West today, still couldn't figure out what hit them. Neither could many baseball fans, for winning had bee come such a habit with ‘the Bronx Bombers, : But no team is good enough to win all the time. The law of averages and a better ball club finally caught up with them. The war may change the baseball picture next year, although there is every indication that the game will go on under a slightly different pattern. They either will have to get along with kids under draft age—and. there are few of them of major league caliber—or the older players. Thus, .it isn't likely that there will be another team like the Cardinals for a long
time, Sloppy Fielding
The series finish yesterday couldn't have been more dramatic. The never-say-die Cinderella - boys twice came from behind, fought off four bad errors and won out in the ninth inning on a home run by George Kurowski, the rookie third baseman. Kurowski took care of the hitting and another rookie star, Johnny Beazley, took care of the pitching. He held the Yankees to seven hits as he won, 4 to 2, and had to bear down all the way because of sloppy * fielding. It made the final standing of this first wartime series since 1918 four games to one. The Yankees won ° the first game behind Big Red Ruffing and lost the last four.
Farewell Present
It was more than a victory which gave the Cardinals the world’s title so far as Beazley was concerned. It was his last ball game for the duration as he is entering the mae rines soon. “It was a nice farewell present,” he cocky kid from Nashville, Tenn, It was a heartening ®ictory for the National league. The circuit's world series victories have been few and far betwedn. To make matters worse from the National league viewpoint the American league had thumped the senior circuit representatives soundly in a majority of the all-star games.
‘No Wheels
SOUTH BEND, Oct. 6 (U. P.) —South Bend Central today became the first Hoosier high school football team victimized by wartime transportation difficulties. : Central school officials said the game scheduled Saturday night with Wright high school of Dayton, O., was cancelled when the Ohio school was une.
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