Evening star., 1941-10-07
Their Mistakes
Harass Brooks
From Start
Should Have Carried
Set Beyond 5 Games;
Owen AII-Time Gout
BY BURTON HAWKINS,

NEW YORK Oct. Tt is fashion
able to say the Dodgers didn't belong
on the same field with the Yankees.
now that it's over. In individual
comparisons. the Dodgers suffer
horribly, but the now historic i94i
World Series might have been a
bitter battle with only a few altera-
tions here and there
The series might easily have re-
turned 10 Yankee Stadium today
for sixth game. or even today
Brooklyn coud be recognized as base
balls champion. But the Dodgers
mace the mistake Of making several
mistakes against team that takes
a little break and increases il to the
proportions of the Grand CANYON.
Catcher Mickey Owens error will
make him the all-time World Series
goat, Of course, because he supplied
the wedge that lifted the Yankees
into 81 game lead at a moment
when the Dodgers were preparing
TO celebrate an even break in four
games,
Comparing the Yankees with the
Dooeers as individuals isn't f1atter-
ing to Brooklyn Only Dolph CamiIli.
Pete Reiser and WhitloU WYATT we're
rated polished performers before the
series started and now the field has
shrunk to Relser and Wyatt Camilli.
the National Leagues leading home
run producer and the Dodgers clean
up hitter. was woeful bust.
Dodgers Were Game.
AS team, though, the Dodgers
hung IN there rather nicely hut
they we're hurting themselves when
the Yankees weren't. In the first
game. for instance Manager Leo
Durocher either faied To order NJ
Pinch-Hitter Jimmy Wasdell failed
10 catch a sign to sacrifice. Jimmy
TOOK the blame ANYWAY. for mental
mlscue that could have cost the
Dodgers the opener.
Trailing. 2-3. in the seventh inning
with runners perched on first and
second and none out. Durocher in
serted WaSdell as a pinch-hitter
mere is reason to doubt if Durocher
oroereo sacrifice. for Relief Pitcher
/ Hugh Casey. who was doing verv
nicey' could have bunted and
Durocher still would have had his
oeSt rellef pitcher in the game
WaSdell fouled into doubIe-nIav
with the aid Of Peewee Peesee's
Scatter-brained base running. and
What might have been A game
winning rally was choked.
MaSter-mind Durocher pulled m
great strategic stroke. either. in
leading with Curt Davis Throuyb
a l54-game season, Wyatt had dem
/ onStrated he was the best the
Dodgers could offer and he proved
1t in the second game.
Losers Hurt Themselves.
In the third game Marius Pusso
came up with a brilliant four-hit
brand of pitching. but he was get
tlng no better than a scoreless tie
out OF 1t when he crashed a line
drive off the left knee of sncient
Freddy Fitzsimmons in the seventh
inning.
That forced the exit of f1or,d
FREDDY and the Yankees teed off
on Casey for 81 victory. Du-
rocher previously had ordered Larry
French and Luke Hamlin to warm
up when Fitzsimmons appeared in
trouble earlier, but he sent Casev
to the mound comparatively "coldn
and successive singles by Red Rolfe
. HDnTfNh
and Charley Keller supplied the
winning margain
There isn't an way to come cIoser
to triumph than did the Dodgers ir
the fourth game, but with two out
Catcher Owen permitted the third
strike on Tommy Heinrich to skid
of the heel Of his glove and the
Yankees stepped in and took the
game in one of the wierdest end
ings of all time.
RelSer is no Di Maggie, a creaky
Medwick can't compare with the
crushing Keller and Herman or Cos-
carart can't be mentioned in the
same sentence with Gordon, but
in the final analysis the Dodgers
contributed as much toward their
defeat as the Yankees.
Yanks Winners on Form.
New York won yesterdays game.
however, strictly on form. scoring
two runs in the second and another
In the sixth on Henrichs homer to
offset the Dodgers lone run In the
third and win behind the fine four
hit pitching of big Ernie Bonham
Normally complacent Di Maggie
and Wyatt nearly exchanged blows
after exchanging words In the fifth.
Heinrich had belted his homer to
give the Yankees their game-win-
ming margin of 81, and after Df
Maggie flied deep to Reiser he and
Wyatt nearly had 1t out.
Returning to the Yankee bench
after rounding first base Di Maggie,