The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
DUROCHER MAY GIVE 40 YEAR
 F|TzA CHANGE
KnuckIe-BaII Veteran May Oppose Alley Donald
 of Yankees
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY Limited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, Oct. 4 --(UP)- Rain, stay away from my door.
 That was the battlecry from Red Hook to Greenpernt and through out the highways and by-ways of fabulous Flatbush today as the Dodgers and the Yankees prepared again to play the third game of the world series at Ebhets field.
 After waiting 21 years for, the world series to come to Brooklyn, the Flatbush faithful had to wait another 24 hours because old Jupi- ter Pluvius spoiled The Buns com- ing out party yesterday.
 Showers were forecast again this morning but there was good chance that the game might be played because the weather man predicted that Old Sol would shine in the afternoon.
 With the shift from Yankee sta- dium to Ebbets field, the series will take on an entirely different com- plexion. The huge, well-behaved throngs at Yankee stadium will give way to the intimate, rowdy and sometimes slap-happy inmates of Ebbets field. Even the players are likely to enter into the spirit of things.
 Hard on Threats
 Thousands of Flatbush fans sat in on the first two games at Yan- kee stadium but the vastness of the giant Bronx area gobbsed them up and left their vocal efforts hardly more than faint voices in the wild erness but it'll be different at Eb- bets field, where the jernt. as they say on Flatbush avenue, seats only 33,000 and temporary box seats bring the crowd right to whispering range of the first and third base men. Verify, it'll be different the next three days at Ebbets field.
 The pitching choices remained the same for the third-either Kirby Higbe, the $100,0o0 beauty from Philiy, or Fat Freddy Fitzsimmons. the 40-year-old master of the knuckleball, for the Dodgers, and either Marius Russo, the raven- haired, sad-eyed southpaw who was born in Brooklyn (Yeh, a traitor, the bum), or Alley Donald, the ex- grocery clerk, who hitch-hiked from Louisiana to Florida to get his first chance with the Tanks.
 The experts think Manager Leo Durocher will settle for Fitzsimmons and that Manager Joe Mccarthy will nominate Donald. FitZ is the only one of the four who's ever pitched in the world series and one of the most ancient pitchers ever to get into the October classic. Walter Johnson was considered Methuse- lah when he pitched his swan song for the Senators in the 1925 world series against the Pirates, but he was only 37.
 Higbe Should Go
 If Fitz goes he must be rated a hunch choice just as Curt Davis was in the opening game. Higbe, the 22-game winner and strong arm boy of the Dodger staff, seems to be the logical choice just as was Whi. Wyatt for the opener. But Duro- cher has been gambling and taking chances throughout the first two games and is likely to continue trying to outguess Mccarthy.
 whether it's Russo or Donald for the Tanks is likely to hinge on how Russo feels. He's been bothered by stomach ailment the last few days and his physical condition will de. termine whether he starts. Donald is an overland fast ball pitcher He looks awkward and has rather ungainly delivery but he was highly effective in many clu:ch games, in two of which he beat Bob Teller.