The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-09
ART Fletcher
UNSUNC HERO OF
s39 SERIES
Yankee Coach Helped
Score Three Runs; Ber-
ger the Goat"
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

BY GEOkGE h1NhSEx
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Cincinnati, Oct. 9-(UP)-Pas-
sing out the bouquets and brickbats
for the 1899 World Series:
Hero-Charley Keller, Yankees
freshman outfielder with the Tar
zan-like arms who murdered the
Reds pitching for .438 batting
average. He collected seven hits fol
total of 10 bases. This is pretty
fair country hitting for kid who
only four summers ago was playing
for the University of Maryland. In
comparison, Babe Ruth holds the
record for total bases for four World
Series games-22 bases in the 1925
World Series in which he hit three
homers in one game against the
Cardinals. Keller hit three homers
one triple, one double and two sim
giles. He scored the winning run
in the first game, drove in the win
ming tally in the second, scored
three and drove in two runs in the
third (enough to win, and scored
two and drove in one in the final
game.
Goat--Wally Berger, Reds left
fielder who had everything bad
happen to him. He went to bat Is
times without hit. He knocked
only one ball out of the infield,
famed four times and left six mates
on base. In addition, he made the
rock" of the series by throwing to
the wrong base on Babe Dahlgren's
double in the first game. 1t just
wasn't Berger's turn.
Unsung hero Art Fletcher,
Yanks' third base coach who gave
Yankee runners the green light cor
rectly three times. He waved ole
Gordon home with the tying run
in the first game when Berger
threw to second; otherwise, Paul
Derringer might have beaten the
Yanks, 10. In the final game, he
sent both Keller and DiMaggio
home when the Reds went into
their tenth inning collapse. Thus
Fletcher played the silent role in
having three Yanks score on q sin
gle, including the man who hit it.
Most tragic figure-Paul Derring-
er, who held the Yanks to nine hits
and four runs in 16 innings and yet
didn't win a game. With flawless
support in the opener, Derringer
would have won, 10. In the fourth
game he held the Yanks Scoreless
until the seventh when Keller and
Dickey let go with their one-two
home run punch. He was left trail
ing, 20, but still would have got
credit for a victory If Bucky Wal
tiers and his teammates had pro-
tected the 80 lead which the Reds
piled up in their half Of the seventh
In Derringer's final game, he
pitched his heart out hoping his
mates would get him some runs sc
he wouldn't have to bear down or
every pitch on every Yankee.
Outstanding player In defeat
Frank Mccormick, Reds first base.
man, who led his club in, hitting
with six base hits in 16 times at ba
for an average of 1915. In addition
the Reds sophomore fielded bril-.
liantly, robbing the Yanks Of sew
eral hits. His classic was a sensa
tional one-handed stab of Bill
Dickey's hard-hit grounder to hi
right in the second inning Of tn
final game, on which he threw tn
runner out to Derringer.
Biggest joke-The ailing YANKEE
pitchers. Red Ruffing, with his sor
arm, handcuffed the Reds. Mont
Pearson, with his sore shoulder, 81
fenced the Reds attack to a whis
per. Lefty Gomez, with his pullet
side muscle, lasted only one inning
but he left the game with q
lead. Oral Hildebrand, who starte,
the fourth game, had to retire afte
four innings because of a pain II
his side. At that point the Red
hadn't scored and had made onl
two hits off him. If the Yanks ha,
come into the series with all thei
pitchers in shape, the Reds Nigh
not have lived to tell anybody the
had ever faced the Bronx bombers
Longest hit--Joe DiMaggio's HON
err over the center field wall In tn
third game. Joe, who will MARI
Dorothy Arnold in three weeks, go
ready for that homer by having ]
minutes private batting drill ii
Crosley field the day before tn
game.
Greatest catch Harry Craft
catch of Bill Dickey's long line
back against the right-center fiel,
bleacher wall in the eighth innin
Of the third game.
Strangest play-Ernie Lombard
curled up on the ground with tn
ball only few feet away from hir
as Joe DiMaggio scored in the will
tenth inning of the final. game
Charley Keller, in charging int
lombard. apparently dazed the bi
Cincinnati catcher who lay on tn
ground while DiMaggio raced acros
the plate. lombard finally reache
for the ball when Walters came u
and yelled to him, but 1t was to
late.
Greatest prophet-Bucky Walter.
Reds pitcher who predicted befor
the final game that he'd be In ther
playing as well as every other play
er who could help Cincinnati's caus
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