The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-01
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BY HARRY FERGUSON
 (Reg. U. S. Pat. Oif.) lRJnited Press Sports EditOr)

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 New York, oct. 1.-tUPl-Ever ] since April the Brooklyn Dodgers have been supermen. They have been rich, beautiful, inspired, strong and glorious. They have been dwell- ang in marble halls, eating of dishes Of solid gold and lighting 75-ee0t cigars with hundred dollar bills.
 But, as they say in that lovely old folksong of the south, By and by hard times comes a-knockin' at the door," so ...
 Back to your shack on the other side of the railroad tracks, you buns, The clock has struck mid night for the Cinderella boys. i I'll take the Yankees in six games. l I'll take 'em and feel like a man 1 with money in the bank. When the going gets tough, when the blue chips are down, when every pitch as weighted with gold and freighted with glory they're the guys for 1 me.
 They don't talk much. they don't ] 1iRht with umpires and about the only noise they make is the crash of base hits against the fence and the thump of a high hard one into !. Bill Dickey's big glove. They don't go in for secrecy. They tell you who's going to pitch next day and make you like it. They're business men end their business is baseball.
 'Tunch" Player
 Leo the Lip Durocher is what the boys call 'hunch manager as op- posed to a percentage manager" He likes to try daring experiments, he likes to keep quiet about who his pitcher will be as he is doing today. He likes to spring surprises.
 His assistants are that way, too. Charlie Dresen, one of hi coaches, is the best signal stealer in the game. He can coach at third base for a few innings and start calling the kind of stuff the pitcher is go- Ing to throw before the ball ever Dtarts for the plate.
 Xes, there Is some furious think fng and scheming going on in the ranks of the beloved buns today But on immortal philosopher known tO all of us as Babe Ruth once coined @ golden phrase on this Issue VA ROWGA t9s OAAAAAhAAlks
 q don't see," said the Babe with simple dignity, "how anybody can og1t-think ball that is sailing over the fence for home run"
 That was the lesson and the moral that could be learned by any one who watched the two teams take their final workouts at Yankee Stadium yesterday. Bang, bang, bang. The Yankees sent baseballs rucketing into the stands when they took their batting practice. DiMag- gio, Keller, Dickey, Gordon, Hen Tich-they just swung nice and easy and the batting practice pitcher called for another ball.
 Not So Easy
 Then the beloved buns took their ka1rn. After considerable straining, Ducky Medwick finally pumped one into the seats, but no other Dodger was able to do 1t. Leo the Lip con- centrated and thought as hard as he could, but he couldn't think Q baseball into the stands.
 The Yankees start this series with two crippleS. Charlie Keller is just recovering from fractured ankle md Red Rolfe still Is underweight from c long illness. But that won't come near to evening things up. To get things on an even basis you would have to make Joe DiMaggio bat blind-folded, compel Joe Gordon to field his position with his back to Che batter and bar Joe Mccarthy from the ball park between the hours of 1:30 and p. m. daily.
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