Evening star., 1941-10-05
Russo Claims Dickey's S
Heady Catching Won
For New Workers
Both Clubs Sympothize
With Fitz; Casey Put
On Pan by Durocher

By the Associated Press.
EBBETS FIELD, Brooklyn, Oct.
Coach Art Fletcher led a trium
phart crew of Yankees off the fielt
after their 2-to-1 victory over Brook
lyn today, but there was no cele
bration in the clubhouse.
The mighty Bronx Bombers arr
so accustomed to victory that an
other one apparently means les.
than nothing to them. They
svarmed into the locker room
quickly shed their uniforms ane
made for the showers.
Marius Russo, the victorious pitch.
er, gave credit to Catcher Bill
Dickey, but Dickey refused to accept
it. Russo said Dickey kept the bat
tiers off balance and whenever they
got set for a fast ball Dickey would
call for a curve.
Dickey laughed at this.
HE done the pitchin'," he said
I didn't. And he pitched HI o
a ball game.
"And don't forget that FitzSim-
mons. He pitched HI of a game
too
Russo had good stuff and fine con.
troll. He mixed them up, switching
his fast ball with curves. I was
glad he took his time out there and
didn't get bit excited in his first
series game
Dodgers Good, Mccarthy Admits.
Manager Joe Mccarthy was hap
py over the victory, but not bit
excited He praised the pitching
performances Of both Russo and
Fitzsimmons. Somebody asked him
If he was playing Brooklyn the way
he had planned.
He looked up disguised.
THE Dodgers are real ball club y
he said. ANY club that wins 100
games must be good. Today's game
was a real ball game. I was sorry
to see Fitzsimmons go out that way
He sure pitched a great game If
he could have stayed in there the
result might have been different"
Mccarthy said Alley Donald, win.
ner OF nine games in IA starts thi;
season, would be his pitching choice
In the fourth game of the serie;
tomorrow.
In the Dodger dressing room the
gloom was as thick as pea soup, no
only for the defeat, but also for the
series jinX and heartbreak, which
has dogged one of the grandes
guys in the game, Freddie Fitz'
simmons.
Casey Gets Tongues Lashing.
Manager Leo Durocher spent sew
eral minutes giving relief Pitcher
Hugh Casey a red-hot tongue lash
ing for his failure to cover first baSt
on play which might have killeo
the Yankees winning rally in the
eighth. And Billy Herman's pulled
side muscle drew considerable at
tention. But Fritz tough luck was
the big thing, and every player on
the club came over with a pat on
the back and a tough going, kid,
for the 40-year-old veteran Of the
knuckle-bau
In great pain from the liner of
Yankee Hurler RusSo's bat which
struck his left leg just above the
knee in the seventh inning, Fitz said
through gritted teeth that he was
going to the New York Hospital fol-
an X-ray examination. There was
q red bruise and a slight swelling
I've never beefed about losing in
my life" Fitz mourned, almost ir
tears. But to have a shutou
within grasp and then to have Il
go out of game that way. That!
HI.
Russo got the meat of the ba
on a curve ball I saw it coming
but I couldn't get out of the way
That's the second time this yea
this has happened to me. Earlier
this summer I had shutout goins
In Pittsburgh and Bob Elliott hi
me on the wrist with a liner anc
7 had to quit.
Hard Luck Pursues Fitz.
"Gosh-darn it, if I wasn't so old
I'd start all over again and learr
how to duck. When I was a younl
fellow they always told me, the.
can't kill you; they only bruise you
I believed it, and now look wha
happened. A lot of pitchers will fal
down or get out of the way of thos,
kind, but I charge right into EN-"
It was the third time hard lucl
landed on Fitz in World Series. II
1893, while with the Giants, h,
pitched a marvellous game and los
to Earl Whitehill and Washington
40. In 1886, still with the Giants
the Yanks beat him 2-1 because
still trying for the hard ones, HI
went after a little roller, couldn'
make play, and let in the winning
run.
Durocher blamed the defeat or
lack of hitting when the chance
were there" but 1t was learned tina
before admitting baseball writer's II
the dressing room, he had WORKED
out sharply and thoroughly OF
Casey.
"Ill pitch Kirby Higbe tomorrow,
he said. "and I hope we can hit be
hind him. We must have had g
chances today, but couldn't do any
thing. I still think we'd have won
10, if Fitz had stayed in there"
Herman Is Uncertainty.
That last remark was as close a
he came to blaming Casey in public
The play involved came in tn
eighth inning, when, with one ou
and one on, Yankee Tommy Hen
rich sent bounder between secont
and first, for which both Secont
Sacker Pete Coscarart and Firs
Baseman Dolph Camilli tried T.
field. Coscarart came up with tn
ball, but Casey had stood f1at-foote,
on the mound until 1t was much to-
late to get over to cover first for tn
play. Afterward. Joe Di Maggie an,