The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-02
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(Unlted Press sports EdltOr)
 New York, Oct. 2.-(Up)-Joe Di Maggie swung his big bat, there was a crash like the crack of doom and a ball scared through the sunlight.
 All of a sudden there were 26 men, a middle-aged lady in blue felt hat and a 13-year- -old boy playing out field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 T got it." all of them yelled at once, cupping their hands.
 It looked like one of them was going to get 1t, all right--either in their hands or on top of the head. For they were seated in the lower left field stands and every person in the ball park-except one-thought the ball was going to plop down among them for home run.
 The lone dissenter was Ducky Medwick, left fielder for the beloved Buns.
 He turned his broad back on home plate as soon as he peered through the sun and saw the arc of the ball. Ducky is not guy who will ever imperil the world record for the l00-yard dash, but nobody ever saw him leg 1t faster than he did striaght for the yard-high green fence that bounds the lower grand- stand in left field.
 When he got there, he whirled and searched in the sun for the ball again. It was beginning to come down now, and Brooklyn's auxiliary outfelders in the stands were screaming T got it, I got it."
 "Sure" Homer
 Di Maggie rounded first fast and then slowed down to the dog.trot that ball players use for locomotion when they know they have belted one out of the reach of any man on the field. Back behind home plate the crowd was yelling a salute to DiMag for getting one of his and-a-yard-wide home runs.
 Medwick's back was right against the fence now. Down, down, down came the ball. It looked like 1t was going to land in about the fifth row of the stands and the lady in the blue felt hat was an even-money bet to make the catch.
 Medwick crouched and then made mighty leap into the air. High above his head he thrust Q brown glove. He must have been at least three feet of the ground, for when he came down he came down hard
 He rolled over on one shoulder, turned neat somersault and thrust his glove up from the ~' und for four umpires and 68,540 persons to see. Tucked inside that glove was a white baseball that a few seconds before had home run" written all over 1t.
 It was one of the great fielding plays of all time.
 It will go down in song and story with Bill Wambsganss unaSsisted triple play and all the other miracles that have been performed in the long history of the world series.
 Expensive Lemon?
 The Dodgers paid approximately $100,000 to the St. Louis Cardinals last year for Medwick. There have been many times since then that Ducky has looked like @ lemon ir the orchard of baseball. E1c didn't hit like he used to hit for the Car. dinals and time is slowing him dowr and dulling batting eye.
 Many times the Dodger fans re- ferred to him as a bum and they didn't mean a beloved bum, either But yesterday il. the fourth inning before the greatest crowd ever tc see a world series game, Medwicl gave the Dodger fans and manage. ment value received with accumu. lated interest for their $l00.000. As a matter of fact-who called that Brooklyn bum bumf