Evening star., 1939-10-08
Keller Biffs Pair
In RecordFeat
For Rookie
Former Terp Drives
Across Two ToIIies:
Thompson Thumped
BY FRANCIS e. STAN,
Star stan CORRESPONDENT.


Star stan Correspondent.
CINCINNATI, Oct. THE famed
long-range guns of the New York
Yankees thundered along the banks
OF the Rhineland today and for the
first time since the World Series
started the hapless Cincinnati Reds
felt the real might of the baseball
champions.
Four home runs, only one short Of
tying the Yankees own Series rec
ord, virtually blasted all victory
hopes for the Reds as they brought
a third straight triumph for the
American Leaguers by 7-to-3 score
and moved the Yankees to within q
single game of becoming the first
ball team in history to win four
straight world championships.
A partisan. capacity crowd Of
32,723. most of which was viewing
the Yankees for the first time, sat
in stunned silence as Rookie Out
fielder Charley Keller blasted two
homers into the right-field bleach.
ers, Joe Di Maggie drove another
over the centerfield fence and Bill
Dickey completed the orgy with q
blow into the bleachers.
No Yankee Hit Wasted.
The Yankees made only five hits
off 22-year-old Gene (Junior)
Thompson, Lee Grissom and Lloyd
(Whitey) Moore, but four of them
were these home runs which &C.
counted for all of the New York
scores. The odd hit, a single by
Third Baseman Red Rolfe, preceded
keller's second blast and thus not
a Yankee hit was wasted.
The Reds on the other hand made
10 hits off Vernon lefty Gomez
and Irving Bump Hadley but ex-
cept in the first two innings they
went for naught. Eleven Reds were
lett stranded on the bases, as
against only three Yankees left.
Thus have the Reds seen the
versatility OF one of the greatest
ball clubs ever assembled. When
the Yankees defeated the Reds in
the first game in New York, 2 to l.
tney won on superb defensive work,
In winning the second game, 4 to O.
tney won on their two-hit pitching
oi monte Pearson, the moody. oft.
orllllant right handler. And todau
ty .,iey won IN the style for which "
.,ley are most noted-by slugeine
tne ball out of the park.
Keller Prodigious Performer
nero OF the game was thick
Swarthy Keller. only three yeas
OH the University of Marvland
campus and playing his first COO"
soh IN the major league. Keller
"a becoming the only f1rst-vrar
prayer ever to hit two home r,,ns
~ d world Series game, scored three
runs himself and drove across two
olher runners to stage one of the
lilost spectacular individual batting
SHOWS since the heyday of Babe
in the first inning the rookie
swung on the initial pitch thrown
TO him by Thompson allo sent it
on long. high arch halfway IN
tne oleachers. There was a runner
on nrst base, and the hit served
70 give the Yankees a 2-to-O lead
Gomez. who started for the
champions, pitched only one inning
before he was forced to retire When
ne aggravated his sprained right
side. The slim Castilian south
paw, the only pitcher to win six
series games against no defeats.
was trying for his seventh when
ne was forced to leap for a high
oounder by 1val Goodman, third
cincinnati batter. In jumping for
the ball Gomez hurt his side hut
he continued to pitch until he had
retired the side. 1t was plain that
his effectiveness had been impaired
and after taking his batting turn in
the Yankees half of the second
Gomez walked slowly back to the
bench. Hadley, former Washing
ton and st. Louis finger, took over :
the New York pitching and re-
ceived credit for the game, al
though Gomez held 2-to-1 lead at
the time he was forced out.
Derringer Tries Again.
tomorrow the Reds will make
their dying bid to prolong the
series by pitching their ace, Der
ringer, in the fourth game. Derring.
er pitched masterful ball in New
York and had his mates played up
to the hilt he might have won a
1-to-O victory. A bad throw from
the outfield helped the Yankees
to one of their runs in that 2-to-l
game and a long fly by Keller.
which dropped between two Cincin-
natl outfielders for triple, paved
the way for the winning score.
The Yankees who pitched Red
Ruffing against Derringer in New
York, will not come back with the
same pitcher, 1t was indicated to.
night by Manager Joe Mccarthy. =
Instead Mccarthy will employ Oral
Hildebrand- q right-hander who
came to the Yanks last winter in q
trade with the last place st. Louis
Browns. It will be the first time
that Hildebrand ever has appeared
in Series game.
In winning their eighth consecu-
tive World Series game-they took
the last in the 1887 series with
the Giants and defeated the Cubs
four straight in 1938-the Yankees
had a fight on their hands. The
Reds, shaken by Keller's blow off
Thompson, came back against Had
ley in the second inning. and for
the second time, since the Series
started. they held 1-run lead. But,
IN the end, 1t was q futile fight and
the Yankees went ahead to win
their 25th victory In their last 80
Series games.
Streak Started In 1927.
This amazing streak. unparalleled
IN Series annals, started in 1927,
when the Yankees routed the Ply
rates in four straight. It continued
IN 1928 against the Cardinals. In
(see STAN, Page B-loJ