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Hodges Needs 3 Homers to Pass Kiner

By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 3—Hoosier Gil Hodges had the opportunity today to Ralph Kiner's stranglehold as boss of major league home runs. The National League playoff games are figured as re ular season contests, but Hodges would have to unload three roundtrippers today to pass Kiner’s mark of 42. Kiner has led the National League six straight years and the major leagues five years in a Tow. Hodges came out of his batting slump yesterday Brooklyn's 10-to-0 victory over the Giants

with his 40th home run in the gixth inning. It was one of four homers banged out by the

Dodgers off three Giant hurlers.

= ” EJ SLOPPY. play in the field also led to the Giants’ downfall as they committed five errors to allow three unearned runs to score. Jackie Robinson's 19th. home run of the season got Brooklyn off to a 2-to-0 lead in the first inning after Pee Wee Reese had singled.

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Sheldon Jones, staggered through

the second inning, invifing trou-

throw to first base on Billy Cox’ sacrifice. After getting Reese out in the third inning and walking Snider and giving up a single t6 Robinson, Jones gave way to re-

Hever George Spencer,

5 ” » ROBINSON continued the monopoly of runs-batted-in in the fifth frame singling in Duke Snider, who had doubled... Disaster struck the. Giants in the sixth, Field lights had to be turned on. Hodges slammed his home run. Cox got on base via Robby Thompsen's error and scored later after a run-down when Spencer dropped the ball after tagging Cox. Clem Labine walked and Carl Furillo flied out just before rain interrupted play. When play was resumed, Reese singled Labine to third and Labine scored on Snider's sharp hit to right field.

‘un ” ” ANDY PAFKO'S homer, a walk to Hodges, a single by Rube Walker, which was played into a

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made it 8 to 0 in the sevent After Cox walked. in the ninth, Walker ‘lined a, four-bagger into the right field stands to make it 10 to 0.

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(Cox scored on Spencer's error in 6th), Snider, (Hodges scored on Mays error in Tthi, Walker 2. Two-Base Hits Thomsen, Snider. Home Runs—Robinson, Hodges. Patko, Walker. Sacrifice—Cox Left on Baser—Brogklyn 8, New York 10. Bases on Balls—Off Jones -1,, Labine 3. Spencer 1, Corwin 2° Struck Out--By Jones 2, Labine 3. Corwin 2. Hits and Runs Off—Jones 4 and 2 in 214 innings; Spencer 6 and 4 in 3%: Corwin 3 and 4 In 3. Double-Plav— Thomson-Stanky-Lockman. Winning Piicher—Labine (5-1). Losing Pitcher—Jones (6-11), Umpires—Larry Goetz, plate: Lou

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NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFF | Brooklyn at New York. LITTLE WORLD SERIES Montreal at Milwaukee (night). DIXIE SERIES (No Game Scheduled)

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Jungle Boy Wrestles |

Pair to a Draw When George Dusetie couldn't] wrestle because of an injury, this is how the cast doubled up at the Armory last night. Steve Nenoff defeated Logger T.arsen\in the opening bout. Larry

.Chene and Sheke Araby groaned!

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Seem Wrong

By CARL LUNDQUIST

United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 3—Baseball's first subway playoff series brought out the big-

gest crop of second guessers in history today. For a 10-cent

beer and a free lunch it was easy to prove in spots from Manhattan to Flatbush that Leo Durocher and Chuck Dressen need a lot of help. !

No matter what they're wrong. At least the opinion of some million or nore video viewers, who have yeen getting all of the down-to-sarth details in their favorite corer emporiums, Dodger Boss Dressen won yes: erday, but he still was wrong. Jiant Manager Durocher lost and ne was on the pan because he started the wrong pitcher.

YOU WOULD think that no :own could have happier citizens at this mad interlude in the basesall season. There is the perfect windup. The Giant and Dodger tars, who have hated each other authentically for years, now have Acme Telephoto 'N€ Pepa TSce Ine Lig “at ought to be handled by the 1 Wes Wes. ook vars instead of the Brooklyn's Gil Hodges scored in ports writers, because it isn't a

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_ Wrong 820 9 LAST WEEK - : 11 . j 2 Gambling, like crime, doesn’t pay. Muncie Central 19, Tech 26. : Deaf School 14, Beech Grove 31. . THIS WEEK ; Tomorrow : Cathedral over Crispus Attucks at CYO—No. 4. Friday

Warren Central over Beech Grove—Could be. Howe over Broad Ripple—I wonder, Howe. . ‘Decatur Central over Brownsburg—Who's next? Washington (Ind.) over Lawrence Central—Hatchet-

that is men.

‘Manual over Noblesville—Well, I declage. Pike Township over Deaf School—Changing my luck. Tech over Jefi—Lafayette, we are here. Washington over Terre Haute Wiley—Who's scouting

Gerstmeyer?

Southport over Seymour—I should Séymour on this one.

Speedway over Ben Davis—It's a fast track. (Note: Home team in bold face.)

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MERE MORTALS think of retirement at 67 years. But not so a football series. Take Wabash and Butler, for instance.

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You'll Be All Right

(Clem Labine, Brooklyn's 25-year-old rookie, pitched the Dodgers to a playoff tie with the Giants by beating them, 10 to 0, yesterday on six hits. In the following dispatch, he tells how he did it.)

By CLEM LABINE s Told to the United Press

NEW YORK, Oct. - 1 felt those fences crowding me in all day.

They are so close together at the Polo Grounds that you almost can reach out and touch 'em both at the same time from the pitchers’ mound. .

= = ” THAT'S the thought that ran through my mind all day. T kept throwing my sinker, hoping they would hit it into the dirt. I was lucky because most of the time they did. 1 guess the toughest spot 1 Unbeaten Cards Face Seymour Undeicated Southport looked forward to its South Central Conference “must” game at Seymour Friday night. : The Cards® well-played, 28 to 7 victory at Shelbyville last night gave Southport a 2-0 slate in its first year of SCC play. Southport has won five straight this year after winning the last three in 1950. Jim Baker scored two touchdowns off-tackle, going 18 and 3 yards in“the second period ‘for the Cards. In the third, Carl Lasiter swept end for seven yards, but the Bears’ Steve Davis banged 13 yards in the third. Roger Black made Southport's fourth-period score after intercepting' a pass on the Bears’ 23. Phil George converted all four placements. Decatur Central downed Franklin Township in a county game, 19 to ‘0, as Virgil Yancey scored twice. Harold Holderfield accounted for the Hawks’ third TD. Yancey converted once.

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Brewers Win, 4-2, Tie Series 2-All

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3 (UP)— The Milwaukee Brewers may’ not have the same comeback powers as the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they boasted a similar clean slate today in their own do-or-die battle the Little World Series. The American Association champs tied the best-of-seven series at two-all last night by whipping the Montreal Royals, 4 to 2, behind the six-hit pitching of Dick Donovan and the booming bat of Shortstop Buz Clarkson. Clarkson accounted for all four Milwaukee runs with his fourthinning double and a 380-foot| homer over the centerfield fence in the fifth. Centerfielder Jim Basso’s double drove Clarkson in| in the fourth and the shortstop’s homer found Donovan and Third! Baseman Gene Mauch on base.

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in came in the third inning when the Giants filled the bases and Bobby Thomson came up. I worked on him carefully and tried not .to think about. those frightening fences. - Just get him out. I said to myself, and you'll be all right.

” = MY CATCHER, Rube Walker, taught me to give myself a pep talk in the second inning when they had two men on. “Just take it easy, Clem, and we'll be all right,” Rube said to me. And it turned out to be just like he said. I took a big breath, forgot about the excitement for a second, pitched and retired the side. I still wasn't sure I'd pitch yesterday after we lost to the Giants in the first game. Charley Dressen told me it would be either Carl Erskine or me.

= =u ” I TRIED not to think about the game too much the night before. 1 listened to the. radio. read a book, and went to sleep early. When I got to the ball park yesterday, I got the news. Boy, that was a mighty strange feeling when Pee Wee Reese threw out Alvin Dark to end the game. It's one of those things I couldn't put down on a piece of

paper if I was the smartest writer

in the world and frankly, writing isn't .my business. “

Lee Wallard

3 v8 Leaves Hospital ALBANY, Oct. 3 (UP) — Lee Wallard, winner of the 500-Mile Indianapolis Speedway race Memorial Day; was discharged from Albany Hospital yesterdav after 37 skin grafting operations and four months recuperation from serious burns. Wallard is going to hig home in nearby Altamont for a ‘long rest,” hospital attendants said. Wallard suffered 56 burns on his body during a race following his Indianapolis victory.

Has 169 Average, Rolls Big 704

It isn’t always a high-average bowler that rolls a 700. . Joe Giovanoni, a 169-avers~c pin-spiller this year, dropped 704 pins last night for Hornaday Milk in the East Side Chevrolet League at P-H-O. : After .a 237 opening game, Gio: vanoni came. back with 257 and 210 games on alleys 19 and 20. Only other bowler to top 650 was Jim Johnson, 682, for Conkle Funeral Home in the West Side

“SO WHAT happens? The Brooklyn fans-are unhappy with Dressen—the Giants fans think Durocher iz a guy who should be paying 75¢ to see the windup from the center field bleachers. .

And what is wrong with a 10 to 0 Brooklvn victory and a sixhit pitching masterpiece by Rookie Clem Labine? Nothing was wrong yesterday, but the Brookl!yn second guessers, who got a “blur-by-blur” television account of it all in the little gin mill under the elevated train girder in canarsie, said—"so why did he save the uy this long—why didn’t he use him sooner and we don't have to worry about all of this playoff business?”

They reason that the raw-boned Rhode Island kid, who'll be known as “Main Stem Clem” from here on, should not have been saved for such a last-chance situation. After all, coming in as a greenhorn from St. Paul, he won four games and lost but one in the mad stretch run, even though he didn't get to start a game after Sept. 21 when the Phillies beat him, 4 to 1, after he had turned in 6-1, 7-0, 7-2, and 3-1 victories in his first four starts, never allowing more than seven hits in any game? Pretty good second guessing at that? = » ” AS FOR Durocher. they kept saying: “Why, oh, why, did he start old blow-up Sheldon Jones, when he could have wrapped things up with Sal Maglie?” To be sure, Maglie would have had to pitch better than shut-out ball to beat Labine yesterday and that is something not even Sal the Barber has done vet. But they argued that with Maglie out there, Labine might have cracked up under the strain. And they kept saying that the old Durocher, the gambling, swashbuckling. shoot-the-works guy they used to know, never would have been thinking about tomorrow's pitcher. They remember games in bygone days when he would have used six starting pitchers in two innings if it had meant winning, and on the next day maybe even the batboy could go a few innings.

But with television a new era

= in the making in which »leacher fans stretch from Skownegan, Me. to Walla Walla, Wash., and from San Ysidro, Cal., to Key Largo, Fla. And no matter what a manager does he's wrong.

FANCY PASSING

Classic. Women bowlers were ©

paced by Vi Blackwell's 589.

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The Bulldogs and the Little Giants met for the first

time in 1884. Wabash won that one. 4-0. Saturday the two old rivals go at it again in Crawfordsville,. Wabash is favored. The tradition-fillsl game is known as the Iror® ey battle. The Key made its bow in 1933. Since the advent of the Key as a symbol of triumph. Butler has won 10 games and Wabash two. There have been three ties. In the over-all series since 18%R4, Butler has won 22, lost 14 and tied four times. = = = > EXPERIENCE ‘and a 34-19 pasting of Ball State have established the Little Giants as

longest reported In the slate to date. . . . Longest touchdown run with an interception was Dudley Moore's 75yard canter for Earlham in

. . Ace Ft. Wayne Sportscaster Hilliard Gates will handle the Purdue-lowa game over WIBC Saturday. . . . Towa will start its 51st Big Ten season when it meets Purdue.

Salute of the Week

HERE'S TO Coach Walt Bartkiewicz and Indiana Central eleven. The Grevhounds,

favorites Saturday. But But- 27 strong. are still among the ler isn't having any. The Bull- undefeated. untied after two dogs have shown great im- games. Only six points have provement in the last two been scored against them. weeks. They bounced back Walt has proven. that it takes

from an opening game 41:to-7 more than platoons to win.

the 13-0 win over Rose Poly. =

WEDNESDAY,

Stan the Man Says—

| Labine Had : : A Lot of Nerve

By STAN MUSIAL

(Baseball's Greatest Player) Copyright, 1951, by New York World-Telegram Corp

NEW YORK, Oct. 3— Th#Fe wasn’t much inside baseball to the second playoff game. Brooklyn just started hitting. They had pitching, too. That kid got in and out of jams the first few innings “and that was about it. After that he got rolling along pretty good, this kid. 1 think I've hit against him, but I wouldn't swear to it. It seems to me he pitched against us an inning or two

' some time or other. Anyway when I was watching him

on television yesterday his motion looked familiar.

HE LOOKED real good against the Giants. He threw a curve to Thomson with three and two, with bases loaded, and you know he’s a pitcher when he'll do that. Especially the way Thomson's been hitting lately. A kid has to have a lot of nerve to trust his curve ball in a spot like that.

» » Nd » SO FAR I've been watching the games on television in St. Louis. It's been vegyfklear, but, of course, you don’t get everything. There were four home runs yesterday, but Robinson's was the only one I saw all the way. [ couldn't follow the ball on the others. I could tell that they. were well hit, though. Robinson's was hit really solid. Any time you hit a line drive into the lower deck at the Polo Grounds, it's The Polo Grounds is a funny park. When you first ¢ome there, it throws you off stride. You try to pull that ball for the short fences, but they're pitching outside to vou and if you still try to pull you wind up hitting big outs to center field. It's an easy park for a home run if you get an inside pitch, but that’s just what they're trying not 0 give you: ¥ 8 : . | THOUGHT Goetz made the right call on the play at the plate. On television, it looked to me as if Snider didn’t reach home. | could see Westrum had the plate blocked, and then I saw Westrum lift Snider's foot with his own foot after the play. That's a good little trick the catchers use to try to show the umpire that the man didn’t get to the plate.” But Goetr didn’t need any help. He's a good umpire, and he was right on top of i,

» - " » BOTH THE managers had tough decisions to make. Dressen had to decide whether or not to use Campanella, and Durocher had a choice between pitching Maglie or saving him. Durocher gambled with Jones. I'd have done the same thing. Jones is an in and out pitcher, but he can come through with a good game, and if he does you have Maglie to open the World Series. Or if Jones fails, vou give Maglie more rest for the next day. It must have been tough for Dressen. 1 know Campanella hurt us more than anybody else did on Brooklyn this year, and you don't want him out of the lineup if there's a chance he can help you.. But Af his leg is bad, you're not sacrificing too much by benching him because a man with a bad leg not only can't run, but it hurts his hitting. He can't stride right. - And Walker ir not that bad a ballplayer that he'll get you in trouble. He's a good receiver and a dangerous hitter. He's not a consistent hitter, but he has power. You'd rather have him than Campanella if Campanella can't move.

loss to Valparaiso and took It also takes what is called touted Western Reserve, 7-8, “intestinal fortitude” in polite last week. circles. Butler has the experts on — mm ——— the ropes. The Bulldogs’

greatest weakness, a predomination of freshmen, has turned out td be their greatest asset. Frosh have strengthened Butler's pass defense, filled out a thin line and supplied the spur to keep the upperclassmen on their toes. = = 5 THE LITTLE GIANTS have: not won a Key game since 1942, Last year's tilt was a 7-T deadlock. That means that Frazier can make his series debut in style. A win would put him one-up on his predecessor, Glen Harmeson, now at Purdue. Harmeson came up with -some of Wabhash's finest teams, but was never able to retire the Key.

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VALPO'S Joe Pahr is leading the state college touchdown derby. Joe has five | touchdowns in two games. Teammate, Norm Arnold, has booted nine PAT's to lead his department. . . . Jerry Klaybor’s 95-yard touchdown run against DePauw is the

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