The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-07
MCCARTHY NOW GREATER THAN MACK, M'GRAW?
DOdegrs Lucky to Escape Four Straight Defeats;
 Gordon Great
By GEORGE KIRKsEY (UnIsed Press Stan COrrespOndent)

New York, Oct. 7.--(UP)-Some people call 1t luck and some call 1t just plain murder, But what ever you want to call 1t, the New York Yankees, coldly- -efncient ball players without an ounce of selti- ment, keep on winning and making their opponents moan.
 The Tanks are champions of the baseball world for the ninth time and the fifth time in six years. And all that's left for those gallant buns of Brooklyn-yeh, buns is the word --is that they get the chance to spend the winter calling the Tanks "lucky" and 8 lot of other names besides
 A lot of the Tanks care what you call them. They have the winners share of the world series, have won more titles than any team in his- tory and Joseph Vincent Mccarthy. their Irish leader who rarely pokes his head out Of the dugout, has managed his sixth worlds cham. pionship outfit-a record unachiev- ed by Connie Mack, John J. M:. Graw or any other baseball iinmor- tai.
 Won 20 of 2A
 The Yanks completed their trl- umph yesterday by throttling the Dodgers, 3-i, and capturing the series, four games to one. Over the stretch of six winning world series under Mccarthy since 1882 the Tanks have lost just four ball games while winning 24. And when each series was over the opposition went to the wailing wall and be. moaned the YankS' luck,
 You still can hear the Dodgers and their faithful flock of followers saying:
 "If Fitzslmmons hadn't been hit on the leg and forced to retire from Saturdays gamer"
 "If Mickey owen had caught the third strike on Henrtch in Sundays gamer"
 If Pete Relser's drive for triple had been few feet farther in the first inning yegterday2"
 "If Billy Herman hadn't hurt his back?"
 And other aubis and second-. gueESeS
 Added up ell they mean Is that the Yanks have the best club and deserved to win. The Yanks play the cards as they fall. They take the bad breaks with the good and keep going. "YankGe luck" is noth- ing more than putting the pressure on team and keeping 1t on until 1t cracks-nothing more than play Ing all the percentages and squeez- Ing the last drop fsonl them-noth" ing more than rising to the occa- sion in the clutch.
 Misplay Did It
 The only game the Dodgers won the YankS gave theni-o1 an error by Joe Gordon, the world series hero. With the score tied, ga, in the second game Gordon made one of hig rare errors on ball hit by Dixie Walker. Walker came round to score what proved to be the win- ming run of 6 3-2 game.
 But did Gordon alibi his error or fret7 If he did, nobody heard about It. He didn't even bother to say that the ball Walker hit took c bad bound at the last second and almost got away from him. He Just went back in the thi;(,, fourth and fifth games and played like 6 man possesgsd- cutting of base-hits and hammer Ing the ball all over the lot.
 Any cold analysis of the series must concede that the Dodgers, out hIt a,,kAaiSAA and a1ikVNifnhAd uAFa very fortunate not to have lost in four straight. The Tanks outhit the Dodgers, PAT to .l83, outfielded them, .ee0 to .980; made seven dou- ble plays to Dodgers five, scored IT runs to the Dodgers Ii and toss- ed a couple of magnthcently pitch. cd four-hit games by Marius Russo and Ernie Bonham.
 The Yanks left 43 men on base to the Dodgers 27 which means the Bronx bomherS were on the march the greater part of the time, storm ing at the Brooklyn defense until they battered 1t in.
 The final game, played before S4,- 072 highly partisan Dodger fans, was 6 true yardStick on the clubs relative merits. Big Ernie Bonham, a 22G-pOund former lumherjaek from California, pitched @ master ful four hitter and beat the Dodg- CTS best man, Whitlow Wyatt, ''The Rock of Chickamauga." Bonham allowed only two men to reach third and the Dodgers scored their lone run on an outfield fly.
 Meanwhile the Tanks had their hammers and chisels breaking 'The Rock of Chickamauga" up into ltt- tie pieces. Wyatt threw everything he had at the Yanks-his fast ball, his slider and his slow one. He even tossed in his temper once by calling Joe DiAlaggio some endear- ing names. This proved mistake because DiNaggio stormed out to the box and was ready to punch Wyatt when others intervened. Later DiAAaggio took revenge by rifi- ing e sizzling single past Wyatt's head. If DiNaggio was aiming at Wyatt. he was way of form. He must have missed him by all of four feet.
 The Yanks settled the issue early, iamming over two runs in the sec ond on a walk to Keller. Diekey's long single, Wyatt's wild pitch which went farther over Owens head than DiMaggl0's hit did ever Wyatt's bean-and 0ordon's single. Tommy Henrich hoasted a homer over the right field screen for an. other run in the fifth. But with Bonham retiring in order i2 of the last i3 men wIio faced him, Her- riehs homer was just extra gravy for tho big fat turkey the Yanhs now will carve.
 The Dodgers waited 2i years only to get tangled up with the Yanks. "Wosi what & tragedy"