The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-10

Today's Sport
 Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE .x n c,k.aa ;lavat

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 New York, October 10. = (UP) = Final notes, sweet and blue, on the | World Series: If you are one Of . those persons who can't sleep on ! train, suggest that you always | plan to make the trip with the Yankees when they are returning | from a four-game sweep of the World Series. 4. You'll have plenty of company all during your wakeful hours. ~. The only people who suffered on the Yankee train com- ing from Cincinnati were those un- fortunates who can sleep on trains and wanted to. {. They didn't have any more chance than the Reds did. The return trip was not without its educational advantages, however. It was interesting to see a train taken apart as method ically as that one was. ;. Whatever the Tanks do they do thoroughly, even to celebrating.
 One Good Sport
 The Yankees were high = high in their praises of Paul Derringer, not only as pitcher but as sports man. He alone of all the Reds came in the Yankees dressing room after the last game and congratu- lated and shook hands with each player. .. The umpiring was the best the series has seen in many years, with the Messrs. Reardon, McGowan, Summers and Pinelli do- ing good job that the players didn't get a chance to use half of their fine vocabularies on them. .. It seems to me that the best argu- ment to use against someone who suggests that the Yankees be broken up is that with thousands of teams playing the national game there should be at least one which plays the game as it should be played. The Yankees are that team. Hitting, fielding, running and strategy are all perfect and they should be kept intact if only to serve as model. Come to think of it, how would you go about break ing up the Yankees? =. They ap- parently always have crop of stars ready with which to make replace ments. The loss of Ruth, Lag zeri and Gehrig didn't slow them down. And now you hear, and from expert and unbiased judges, that they have a second baseman named Priddy who is as good as Gordon; a shortstop in Rizzutto who can do all the things that Crosetti can and little more; and that in a youngster named Chartak they have first baseman who fields as well as Dahlgren and who can knock the fences down at the plate. '. It's peculiar, this resentment of the Yankees class. The sports fans don't object to Joe Louis in- vincibility, and they didn't mind Bob Jones running roughshod over the golf field. .. But they seem to get upset by the Yankees dom- finance of baseball. ..
 Hooray For Art!
 The No. unsung hero of the series was Art Fletcher, Yankee third base coach. Art did a mag nificent job of handling the base runners and extracted the last bit of advantage from Cincinnati mis- takes, mental and physical. |. Wonder if Clark Griffith, Washing ton owner, turned off his radio after hearing description of Keller's third home run? |. Griffith secuted Keller when the Killer Diller was star at the University of Maryland, but didn't like his style. The three Reds who fought right down to the last ditch, and showed class while doing it, were Derringer, Werber and McCor- mick. The only really uncom- fortable time the Tanks had dur ing the series was when Joe Di- Maggie made circus try on Hersh- berger's pinch hit to cente rand took a nasty fall. The million dollar
 aby could have broken his neck on that one. Joe Gordon, crack acrobat, thinks acrobatics should be part of the prescribed training for young ballplayers. .. He says there is nothing like it for giving man speed, agility, and balance. If Joe is the result of such training, then I'd say he is right. ..